Update on the update. Esparza has many of his attorney/employees working the polls. My question is, why aren't they at work? How are they getting paid? The other problem is that Esparza has hired some 2-faced attorneys to work for him and he should find out what they say about him behind his back as they hold his signs at the polls.
Assistant DA Scott Ferguson has been on Esparza's payroll for quite a few years. Stuart and I have been guests at his home. Not only do we socialize, but Scott refers to Esparza in the lowest, meanest of terms. Scott is aware of who and what he works for. Today I went to the polling station at the El Paso Tennis Club, and who was there holding an Esparza sign? None other than Scott Ferguson in the middle of a work day. To say I was disgusted does not do justice to how I felt. After I was finished telling Scott to his face what I thought of him, he told me, "I have no choice." I asked him, who in their right mind gave him a law license. How does someone with such a weak mind hold so many people's fates in his cowardly hands? Esparza should know what Scott says about him behind his back, and that he has "no choice."
Am I angry and hurt?--you bet. When I see my volunteers, who range from attorneys to students to hair dressers out taking a stand for me and taking a hit in their pockets working for free I have no respect for a licensed attorney at the government trough whining that he has "no choice." What to think of a man who believes or at least says he believes that Esparza is bad for the community and then who goes out and tells the community that he supports Esparza and they should to? I am so glad I will never know what it feels like to need a job so badly that I would sell my soul and my honor and be so willing to hurt my neighbor in the process all for the sake of a pay check.
In addition to the questions I pose above, questions all El Pasoans should be asking in the midst of the public corruption scandal that hangs over our community's head are: How is it that the DA has employees whose salaries are paid with your tax dollars out working polls for his campaign during working hours? Are these public employees being paid for their time at the polls with tax dollars? Is this an illegal campaign violation? Is the FBI watching this happen in our city and if so, what will the ramifications be?
Assistant DA Scott Ferguson has been on Esparza's payroll for quite a few years. Stuart and I have been guests at his home. Not only do we socialize, but Scott refers to Esparza in the lowest, meanest of terms. Scott is aware of who and what he works for. Today I went to the polling station at the El Paso Tennis Club, and who was there holding an Esparza sign? None other than Scott Ferguson in the middle of a work day. To say I was disgusted does not do justice to how I felt. After I was finished telling Scott to his face what I thought of him, he told me, "I have no choice." I asked him, who in their right mind gave him a law license. How does someone with such a weak mind hold so many people's fates in his cowardly hands? Esparza should know what Scott says about him behind his back, and that he has "no choice."
Am I angry and hurt?--you bet. When I see my volunteers, who range from attorneys to students to hair dressers out taking a stand for me and taking a hit in their pockets working for free I have no respect for a licensed attorney at the government trough whining that he has "no choice." What to think of a man who believes or at least says he believes that Esparza is bad for the community and then who goes out and tells the community that he supports Esparza and they should to? I am so glad I will never know what it feels like to need a job so badly that I would sell my soul and my honor and be so willing to hurt my neighbor in the process all for the sake of a pay check.
In addition to the questions I pose above, questions all El Pasoans should be asking in the midst of the public corruption scandal that hangs over our community's head are: How is it that the DA has employees whose salaries are paid with your tax dollars out working polls for his campaign during working hours? Are these public employees being paid for their time at the polls with tax dollars? Is this an illegal campaign violation? Is the FBI watching this happen in our city and if so, what will the ramifications be?
on March 4, 2008, 1:17 pm
I must say this is brilliant. For new voters, young voters, voters not really knowledgable about the justice system, your flash and rhetoric is exciting and to be honest a step away from becoming the Jerry Springer show.
Be be very honest, I am a Esparza supporter who wanted to open my ears to what you were saying, your ideas, etc. That's why I've been reading your blog...that and the fact that it has become as entertaining as a Reality TV Show--, okay an interesting Reality TV Show--which many unexperienced voters will relate to.
But I still end up having one question or concern about you working as DA.
If everyone, and that is the way you paint it, is against you whether it is the press, other attorneys, law enforcement, etc. how is it that you plan on building bridges to these individuals and agencies to make yourself a successful DA and to make El Paso a safe community for all of us.
How do you plan on showing teamwork and community building when you have called everyone out? And would the communty you built with your plan be an El Paso far worse than the one you have painted to voters.
It seems that you going to tear everything up (Esparza's current running of the DAO) and find a away to put it back together. That is a difficult job for anyone...but how about with someone other agencies see as a person who wants to divide and not unite.
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on March 4, 2008, 5:59 pm
"I must say this is brilliant. For new voters, young voters, voters not really knowledgable about the justice system, your flash and rhetoric is exciting and to be honest a step away from becoming the Jerry Springer show."
You're arrogant and pompous. You probably don't understand anything you read on this blog because it all too human. If you're having a hard time digesting remarks, I pity you. It's pretty darn simple. We all get it and we come from every walk of life. What's wrong with you?
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