For the blog readers who skip the home page, be sure to visit the the home page because I put up a new video yesterday. I also want to thank the people who have contacted my office to express their enthusiasm over my new billboard on I-10 which is in Spanish. The Spanish billboard message is the first that I have seen by a politician. I doubt that any prior candidate for D.A. has ever invested the money in a Spanish language billboard much less thought of it.
On another front today, my opponent appeared as a guest on the Paul Strelzin radio show. You should know some of the background to all of this. I sued Paul Strelzin for slander a few years ago. Months after I filed my lawsuit against him, management got rid of the show and with it, Paul Strelzin. Paul Strelzin now has another show on another station. Since I announced my candidacy in February, Strelzin has invited my opponent to appear on his show on a regular basis. This is the same Paul Strelzin who used his old radio show to promote his friends in power on the then city council to impose an 11.89% tax hike on the whole city while he happened to owe years worth of property taxes on his own home. He was on the radio day after day, month after month, bleating that we had to have this tax hike and if we opposed it we were against progress. When called to answer for his own tax deadbeat status, he just whined that he had to send kids to college. How would you describe the integrity of a tax deadbeat who promotes a tax hike on the rest of us who happen to pay our taxes? Esparza appears on Strelzin's show. Birds of a feather flock together.
Despite the screening process that one has to navigate to place a call to Esparza on the Strelzin show, which includes stating what you want to ask and having to call back, etc., people who monitored today's show called me and said that the first three callers out of the shoot were anti-Esparza. One person who monitored the show said that one of the first callers was an El Pasoan attending law school in Houston who called and tried to ask about how many terms Esparza had served. The listener said the caller touched a nerve in Strelzin because right away Strelzin went ballistic on the caller who was obviously taken aback at Strelzin's unwarranted vitriol. He said Strelzin was attacking the kid as being a set up call and really didn't let Esparza answer his question.
Another person who monitored the show said Esparza's voice sounded very shaaaaakkkkkkyyyyyy when answering a caller why he didn't prosecute Joe Wardy for having a loaded gun at the airport and why he is telling people that Wardy's case is a federal case when he has prosecuted others for the same thing. When asked about who sets the bond on DIMS cases, Esparza was clear in stating that "it is not the assistant D.A. who sets the bond." (Esparza's own written policies and procedures betray him. His written instructions to his staff clearly state that the assistant D.A. is to set the bond). The listener said that after that response the "rest of his answer was so convoluted you could not make heads or tails of it." The listener said "Esparza just went ramblng on and one wonders who he thought he was talking to."
According to another listener, a man called in complaining that Esparza had not responded to his several letters or calls regarding his son's case. The father was angry and upset and no amount of placating by Strelzin could get him off course. Strelzin told the father that he should leave his son's name with someone off the air so that Esparza could look into his son's case. The father said that Esparza should know who his son is since his son had to sue him in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Through his non-answers today, Esparza also tried to leave the public with the impression that the federal courts had ruled that DIMS is legal. The federal courts declined to rule on the legality of DIMS so don't be tricked by Esparza's word smithing.
One of the people who listened said that it was clear that the questions were directed at Esparza but answered by Strelzin who is not a lawyer or the D.A. People need to ask Esparza why he doesn't answer the questions. The general assessment was that there are some angry people out there and Strelzin was running cover for Esparza and that Esparza was hiding under the studio table watching Strelzin run rough shod over the public just for him. This is typical of Esparza.
The listeners said it was very entertaining listening to Eparza face the public and listening to Strelzin get hot under the caller watching his screening mechanism be blown to pieces by the Truth. Let's hope Esparza goes on the Strelzin show some more. Esparza needs to face some more angry parents and to face our questions. The public knows when someone is running. Let Esparza evade the questions. Let Strelzin do Esparza's dirty work. People aren't blind.
You should also know that David K has a talk show right after the Strelzin show from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., 1650 AM. I have been on David's show twice and he does not screen his calls. The calls come in and they are passed on to the host automatically. When I was on the David K show I answered all the callers and e-mails that came in. Real candidates for D.A. who don't need to hide behind screeners go on real not rigged talk radio which in this town would be the David K show.
On another front today, my opponent appeared as a guest on the Paul Strelzin radio show. You should know some of the background to all of this. I sued Paul Strelzin for slander a few years ago. Months after I filed my lawsuit against him, management got rid of the show and with it, Paul Strelzin. Paul Strelzin now has another show on another station. Since I announced my candidacy in February, Strelzin has invited my opponent to appear on his show on a regular basis. This is the same Paul Strelzin who used his old radio show to promote his friends in power on the then city council to impose an 11.89% tax hike on the whole city while he happened to owe years worth of property taxes on his own home. He was on the radio day after day, month after month, bleating that we had to have this tax hike and if we opposed it we were against progress. When called to answer for his own tax deadbeat status, he just whined that he had to send kids to college. How would you describe the integrity of a tax deadbeat who promotes a tax hike on the rest of us who happen to pay our taxes? Esparza appears on Strelzin's show. Birds of a feather flock together.
Despite the screening process that one has to navigate to place a call to Esparza on the Strelzin show, which includes stating what you want to ask and having to call back, etc., people who monitored today's show called me and said that the first three callers out of the shoot were anti-Esparza. One person who monitored the show said that one of the first callers was an El Pasoan attending law school in Houston who called and tried to ask about how many terms Esparza had served. The listener said the caller touched a nerve in Strelzin because right away Strelzin went ballistic on the caller who was obviously taken aback at Strelzin's unwarranted vitriol. He said Strelzin was attacking the kid as being a set up call and really didn't let Esparza answer his question.
Another person who monitored the show said Esparza's voice sounded very shaaaaakkkkkkyyyyyy when answering a caller why he didn't prosecute Joe Wardy for having a loaded gun at the airport and why he is telling people that Wardy's case is a federal case when he has prosecuted others for the same thing. When asked about who sets the bond on DIMS cases, Esparza was clear in stating that "it is not the assistant D.A. who sets the bond." (Esparza's own written policies and procedures betray him. His written instructions to his staff clearly state that the assistant D.A. is to set the bond). The listener said that after that response the "rest of his answer was so convoluted you could not make heads or tails of it." The listener said "Esparza just went ramblng on and one wonders who he thought he was talking to."
According to another listener, a man called in complaining that Esparza had not responded to his several letters or calls regarding his son's case. The father was angry and upset and no amount of placating by Strelzin could get him off course. Strelzin told the father that he should leave his son's name with someone off the air so that Esparza could look into his son's case. The father said that Esparza should know who his son is since his son had to sue him in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Through his non-answers today, Esparza also tried to leave the public with the impression that the federal courts had ruled that DIMS is legal. The federal courts declined to rule on the legality of DIMS so don't be tricked by Esparza's word smithing.
One of the people who listened said that it was clear that the questions were directed at Esparza but answered by Strelzin who is not a lawyer or the D.A. People need to ask Esparza why he doesn't answer the questions. The general assessment was that there are some angry people out there and Strelzin was running cover for Esparza and that Esparza was hiding under the studio table watching Strelzin run rough shod over the public just for him. This is typical of Esparza.
The listeners said it was very entertaining listening to Eparza face the public and listening to Strelzin get hot under the caller watching his screening mechanism be blown to pieces by the Truth. Let's hope Esparza goes on the Strelzin show some more. Esparza needs to face some more angry parents and to face our questions. The public knows when someone is running. Let Esparza evade the questions. Let Strelzin do Esparza's dirty work. People aren't blind.
You should also know that David K has a talk show right after the Strelzin show from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., 1650 AM. I have been on David's show twice and he does not screen his calls. The calls come in and they are passed on to the host automatically. When I was on the David K show I answered all the callers and e-mails that came in. Real candidates for D.A. who don't need to hide behind screeners go on real not rigged talk radio which in this town would be the David K show.