Last night on Channel 7-KVIA, Theresa Caballero won the first television debate against Esparza. If you missed it, don't despair as you can still view it on line in its entirety at KVIA.com. She not only looked more "prosecutorial" than he did but she also spoke better, told the truth and proved herself to be the much better candidate by far. It was obvious that Esparza has been in office way too long. His canned responses were laughable.
Esparza got caught not telling the truth to us about what the Federal courts said about DIMS. When Theresa pulled out the actual court opinion and read from the Federal court's Terrell opinion on live TV Esparza was shown to be not telling the truth on that point. He looked real bad when he kept saying look at page 10, look at page 10. After all, Theresa was reading the actual holding of the court in that case. He looked like he did not know what he was talking about. In comparison, Theresa looked well prepared and had the documentation with her to support her position like she always does. That is what you want in a lawyer and a District Attorney!
Gary Warner did an excellent job. His questions were knowledge-based and probing on the issues. Theresa did a great job as well. Her demeanor was very Madam District Attorney-like. She spoke well, knew all the issues, was never stumped for an answer like Esparza was. Esparza was choppy, defensive and evasive. He could not and did not answer Theresa's question about how in the world he could be cooperating with the Feds on the public corruption investigation (as he stated that he was at a forum last week) when he is both accepting and giving money to the major targets of that investigation within the last 14 month. Go read his campaign finance reports from the last few years. They are very telling as to who gives him money and who he gives his campaign money to and go a long way in explaining why HE did not do anything about public corruption in this county.
Esparza floundered around on why he did not know of or investigate the public corruption himself; he had excuse after excuse (none plausible) as to why he didn't. Theresa then pointed out that he must be either incompetent or people are afraid to report corruption to him because of his history of arresting whistle-blowers. She cited as only two examples former number two El Paso Police Officer George DeAngelis and Nancy Hollebeke, two people who reported corruption to him and who he then turned around and had arrested, indicted and prosecuted. The City ended up having to pay Mr. DeAngelis a nice, hefty sum of our taxpayer money to compensate him for what Esparza did to him. In the case of Ms. Hollebeke the last word in that case was Esparza's own attorney, The El Paso County Attorney's Office, admitting in a court document in the expunction case that Esparza set her up from the very beginning and that she should never have been arrested or charged in the first place.
Esparza claims to be proud of his 16 years in office. Experience only counts, however, if it works well for the community. After 16 years one would think Esparza would know how to try a case, get a conviction and make it stick. But, alas, that, too, is not the case because interestingly enough, and also on KVIA-7 last night at 10:00 p.m. was a story about the Capital Murder case of David Renteria. Gary Warner told us on the air, how the Court of Appeals threw out Renteria's conviction because Esparza himself (yes, he tried the case himself; he was the trial attorney) misled the jury and left them with a false impression. Shame on him. He should know better after 16 years! But he doesn't. Because of his misconduct the case has to be re-tried. This will cost the County of El Paso untold thousands of dollars in costs to re-try it and will cause the Flores family additional unecessary anguish as the issue is still unresolved. Also interestingly enough, Esparza is not even fixing his own mistake and re-trying the case himself but sending someone else in to re-try it for him. Theresa is an experienced former prosecutor and trial attorney, She knows how to try a case and make it stick. 16 years is more than enough of Esparza. It is high time for a change. He has fooled the people for 16 years and imposed this bad, terrible system of DIMS on us for years. Do not be fooled any longer.
Theresa also pointed out how under Esparza's DIMS system it delays the police getting back out on the street after they arrest someone as now, because of Esparza, they have to make two stops (one to Esparza's office and one to the judge) instead of only one to the judge as is true in every other county in Texas and how he has created two El Pasos. One El Paso is for his friends and connected people and one El Paso is for the rest of us. She pointed out how there are exceptions to DIMS by Esparza's very own written policies on it: Esparza and all members of his office and all public officials are NOT subject to DIMS (THEY get to go before a judge like the law mandates). Only the rest of us are subject to DIMS.
Theresa will make a wonderful District Attorney for this community. She will clean up this town. She will do away with DIMS as her first act in office. This will result in a cost saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of this community who are bleeding and will result in the re-imposition of a fair justice system in this County where all people are treated fairly and according to the law and the U.S. Constitution and not just Esparza, all his employees and public officials! That is why I am proud to support her. Please join me in voting for her on March 4, 2008!
Esparza got caught not telling the truth to us about what the Federal courts said about DIMS. When Theresa pulled out the actual court opinion and read from the Federal court's Terrell opinion on live TV Esparza was shown to be not telling the truth on that point. He looked real bad when he kept saying look at page 10, look at page 10. After all, Theresa was reading the actual holding of the court in that case. He looked like he did not know what he was talking about. In comparison, Theresa looked well prepared and had the documentation with her to support her position like she always does. That is what you want in a lawyer and a District Attorney!
Gary Warner did an excellent job. His questions were knowledge-based and probing on the issues. Theresa did a great job as well. Her demeanor was very Madam District Attorney-like. She spoke well, knew all the issues, was never stumped for an answer like Esparza was. Esparza was choppy, defensive and evasive. He could not and did not answer Theresa's question about how in the world he could be cooperating with the Feds on the public corruption investigation (as he stated that he was at a forum last week) when he is both accepting and giving money to the major targets of that investigation within the last 14 month. Go read his campaign finance reports from the last few years. They are very telling as to who gives him money and who he gives his campaign money to and go a long way in explaining why HE did not do anything about public corruption in this county.
Esparza floundered around on why he did not know of or investigate the public corruption himself; he had excuse after excuse (none plausible) as to why he didn't. Theresa then pointed out that he must be either incompetent or people are afraid to report corruption to him because of his history of arresting whistle-blowers. She cited as only two examples former number two El Paso Police Officer George DeAngelis and Nancy Hollebeke, two people who reported corruption to him and who he then turned around and had arrested, indicted and prosecuted. The City ended up having to pay Mr. DeAngelis a nice, hefty sum of our taxpayer money to compensate him for what Esparza did to him. In the case of Ms. Hollebeke the last word in that case was Esparza's own attorney, The El Paso County Attorney's Office, admitting in a court document in the expunction case that Esparza set her up from the very beginning and that she should never have been arrested or charged in the first place.
Esparza claims to be proud of his 16 years in office. Experience only counts, however, if it works well for the community. After 16 years one would think Esparza would know how to try a case, get a conviction and make it stick. But, alas, that, too, is not the case because interestingly enough, and also on KVIA-7 last night at 10:00 p.m. was a story about the Capital Murder case of David Renteria. Gary Warner told us on the air, how the Court of Appeals threw out Renteria's conviction because Esparza himself (yes, he tried the case himself; he was the trial attorney) misled the jury and left them with a false impression. Shame on him. He should know better after 16 years! But he doesn't. Because of his misconduct the case has to be re-tried. This will cost the County of El Paso untold thousands of dollars in costs to re-try it and will cause the Flores family additional unecessary anguish as the issue is still unresolved. Also interestingly enough, Esparza is not even fixing his own mistake and re-trying the case himself but sending someone else in to re-try it for him. Theresa is an experienced former prosecutor and trial attorney, She knows how to try a case and make it stick. 16 years is more than enough of Esparza. It is high time for a change. He has fooled the people for 16 years and imposed this bad, terrible system of DIMS on us for years. Do not be fooled any longer.
Theresa also pointed out how under Esparza's DIMS system it delays the police getting back out on the street after they arrest someone as now, because of Esparza, they have to make two stops (one to Esparza's office and one to the judge) instead of only one to the judge as is true in every other county in Texas and how he has created two El Pasos. One El Paso is for his friends and connected people and one El Paso is for the rest of us. She pointed out how there are exceptions to DIMS by Esparza's very own written policies on it: Esparza and all members of his office and all public officials are NOT subject to DIMS (THEY get to go before a judge like the law mandates). Only the rest of us are subject to DIMS.
Theresa will make a wonderful District Attorney for this community. She will clean up this town. She will do away with DIMS as her first act in office. This will result in a cost saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of this community who are bleeding and will result in the re-imposition of a fair justice system in this County where all people are treated fairly and according to the law and the U.S. Constitution and not just Esparza, all his employees and public officials! That is why I am proud to support her. Please join me in voting for her on March 4, 2008!
on January 29, 2008, 7:28 am
In 1999 the EPPD arrested Steven Young for bilking the City the County EPISD and YISD out of 3.7 million dollars the police had strong evidence and a solid case against Young he owned Access Health which is now at the heart of this investigation Esparza refused to indict Young and as we all know Access Health was purchased by Bob Jones the main target of the corruption investigation so why is he lying? is he a target himself? bottom line is that he had knowledge and lied about it.
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