Theresa Caballero's Campaign Pledges

Well here we are just a few months from the primary and I would like to recap what I stand for and how I am different from my opponent:

-I promise I will treat all the same under the law.
-I promise I will not let my friends go when they get caught with a loaded gun at the airport when I prosecute others for the same offense; See Joe Wardy case/blog.
-I promise that I will defend the Constitution and uphold its tenets at all times; See Dims blogs.
-I promise I will not set up illegal, parallel legal systems like DIMS where people are thrown in jail without going before a judge and then ask you to pay for it; See Dims blogs.
-I promise that as my first act in office I will do away with DIMS with the stroke of a pen;
-I promise that I will not hide evidence that proves that an individual is innocent; See Brandon Moon case where Esparza is being sued for this very thing as we speak.
-I promise that I will not let someone rot in prison for 17 years or even one day who is innocent; See Brandon Moon case.
-I promise that I will not throw women in jail for reporting that they have been raped by someone let alone two police officers (Jose Garcia and Albert Machorro, Jr.) and especially when one of them has a father (Albert Machorro, Sr,) who works for me; See Nancy Hollobeke case/blogs and NY Times 6-4-04.
- I promise not to fly to the other side of the state to attend a party instead of obeying a subpoenae to testify in federal court; see Esparza's trip during Nancy Hollobeke's federal civil rights trial.
-I Promise I will not jail and prosecute people who report drug corruption in the police department: See George Deangelis case/blogs;
-I promise to fiercely protect freedom of speech and not stamp it out; See Dangelis editorials and cartoons in Times regarding Esparza's vendetta prosecution and gagging of Deangelis by having him arrested for whistleblowing.
-I promise to prosecute police officers who shove nightsticks up people's rectums: See where Esparza let police go on nightstick up the rectum case reported in NY Times.
-I promise I will not abuse the grand jury; See Hollobeke and Moon cases, rectum case and hundreds of others;
-I promise I will not charge and jail someone for murder without any evidence; See William Ferguson case/blog;
- I Promise I will not use a Medical Examiner who falsifies his credentials; See Dr. Paul Shrode blog.
-I promise that if I do find out that the med examiner has falsified his credentials, I will see to it that he is immediately fired before harm to us is done instead of saying, "If you want cadilllac service you have to pay for cadillac service." See Esparza's comments to KVIA 11-13-07.
- I promise I will not fail to notify defense council of exculpatory evidence as required by Brady V. Maryland; See Dean Kinder case.
-I promise I will not lie to the People through press conferences or directly to the El Paso Northeast Demo forum about Judicial decisions; See blog on Esparza’s lying about Fed decisions on DIMS.
-I promise I will not falsely accuse people of food stamp fraud especially to collect a fee from the State; See Tampering cases and Esparza's money contract with State and his "cut."
-I promise I will maintain a healthy relationship with law enforcement so as to properly oversee their activities: See DIMS contract where Esparza collects legal fees directly from the police department thereby compromising his neutrality and prosecutor's role.
-I promise that I will prosecute all people who wrongfully attack members of the public: See where Esparza covers for police abuse perpetrated on the public.
- I promise I will not prosecute cases where law enforcement has broken into people’s homes without consent or a search warrant; See James Terrell case;
-I promise not to feign ignorance regarding corruption going on right under my nose at the court house.
- I promise I will not authorize the illegal arrest of innocent citizens; See Major Mark Bittakis case chained to a pipe at airport and jailed for 10 days for having a bag of laundry soap;
- I promise I will not bill the Federal Government for cases I am not entitled to bill on to the tune of $3-6 Million or even one cent. See recent and ongoing Federal audit of Esparza.
-I promise I will not use taxpayer/public money to augment my secretary’s salary to the tune of $45,000 to put it up to $80,000 plus, nor will I take her on out of country trips with me at taxpayer expense. See Amy Ocegueda Lujan blogs.
-I promise I will not sit on allegations of child molestation lodged against my secretary’s brother; See Albert Ocegueda case/blogs.
-I promise I will not dismiss strong DWI cases against the sons of wealthy car dealers; See Dick Poe case/blog.
-I promise I will not employ sleazy, sloppy tactics in trial to win a case and then have to retry it because I couldn’t do it right the first time; See Renteria capital muder case blog (Alejandra Flores murder) where Esparza personally tried it and his sleazy comments got the case reversed. They started picking a jury a while ago and then mysteriously stopped.
-I promise I will not use drug forfeiture money to funnel to courts thereby compromising the neutrality of the courts and the judges; See Esparza’s asset forfeiture money going to DWI courts.
- I promise I will not stay in office for more than two terms and I promise to keep that promise. See Esparza’s early broken campaign promise to stay in office only for two terms and now he is seeking a fifth. He is on his 16th year and he wants 4 more.
- I promise to establish a professionally staffed mental health unit to properly handle cases involving the mentally ill instead of simply criminalizing all of them without regard to retardation or illness as does Esparza.

I promise that I will prosecute the guilty within the parameters of the law even when the corrupt and compromised press is against me.

I promise that I will restore dignity to the District Attorney’s Office by not doing the above which my opponent has done for years and years and years.

I promise that I will continue to stand for what I have always stood for which is the law and justice even in the face of ill informed mobs being led around by the nose of an ill informed and dishonest press.

I promise to represent the People of the State of Texas with the same zeal, knowledge and preparedness as I have done for my clients as a criminal defense attorney and as I did when I was a prosecutor EVEN in the face of adversity and criticism.

I promise NEVER to back down from doing what is right whatever the pressure.

I promise that I will acquit my duties as a prosecutor and as a lawyer guided only by the law and what is right without regard to personal gain or popularity.

What do I ask of you? I ask you to look at all the horrible, cruel things that my opponent has inflicted on our community and the national embarrassment he has caused us. I ask you to weigh that against the very worst thing that a most compromised press has had to say about me and that is I have defended a woman accused of forgery who came to me and asked me to help her in my capacity as a defense attorney. See who comes up positive on the balance sheet between Esparza and me.

I ask you not to be misled or tricked by a Newspaper and its progeny TV stations that receives the bulk of its income from the City of El Paso and the politicians who run it. These are the very politicians who are afraid of my anti-corruption stance.

I ask you to use your mind and question what you hear and read from this same corrupted press. I ask you to question your government, most especially Jaime Esparza on all of the things I have listed and the many, many more I have not and the many more I do not know about it. YOU must do it because the Peter Dauts and Sito Negrons and Darren Hunts and Dionicio Flores of the world are not going to. And how do you know? Because they haven't yet.

Then I ask you to make this a better place, a place where people are not afraid of their police department or the DA’s office or the City. I ask you to make El Paso a place where people believe, and in fact it is true, that everyone is treated the same under the eyes of the law, a place where people can once again put their trust in their courts and judges.

I ask you to then go vote for me, Theresa Caballero.