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      <title><![CDATA[Ashlie Hardway, Reporter from KVIA, Violates Court Order to appear in court]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today Ashlie Hardway, channel seven reporter, was subpoenaed to appear in the 346th Judicial District Court at 11:00 to testify.  She was personally served yesterday and the return is on file with the court.  A subpoena is a court order demanding the presence of a person.  When a person is subpoenaed he/she must appear.  A person may not just NOT show up.

Ashlie Hardway did not appear in court as ordered.  She therefore violated a lawful court order.  She did however send her attorney Luther Jones.  Sending your attorney is never a proper alternative to appearing, that is unless you fall into special citizen, exempt from the law category.  Notable is that Luther Jones stated in court that he had never met Ashlie Hardway.  Did KVIA hire Jones to represent Hardway?  Interesting choice for an attorney.

Luther Jones went into the hallway and made a call.  He could be heard saying that Hardway needed to come to court as she had been subpoenaed.  Jones told the court at 11:20 that Hardway was coming. However, ten more minutes went by and she still was not there.   The court order was for 11:00.  By the conclusion of the hearing today, Hardway still had not shown up.

Rules of procedure dictate that when a person is served to appear in court, the party requesting the subpoena must pay the witness $11.00.  Hardway took the check for $11.00 when she received her subpoena and still did not show up.  Is she planning on keeping the money or giving it back?

Why did Ms. Hardway not obey the court order to appear?  This is contemptuous behavior toward the court and can result in jail and or a fine. Do you readers feel free to disobey court orders?  What do you think Ms. Hardway and channel 7 are so afraid of that she would rather violate a court order than show up and tell the truth about her actions?

Consider the hypocrisy of Ms. Hardway's flagrant disregard for the law and the rules that apply to the rest of us next time you see her on tv doing a story on the legal ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/127/Ashlie-Hardway-Reporter-from-KVIA-Violates-Court-Order-to-appear-in-court</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Post, Post Election]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, 

I know you are hungry for news and I do have a lot to share with you.  I have hit the ground running and I have done a tremendous amount of work, not only catching up with my court cases but dealing with Jaime Esparza and his dishonest, vindictive use of the legal system, the police department, etc.  I will be writing a blog next week on theresacaballero.com informing you on what has gone on.  My webmaster, Martin Paredes, will link the campaign blog/archives, webpage to the new blog site.

Thank you for waiting and yes, I am doing great.

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      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/126/New-Post-Post-Election</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scott Ferguson and Esparza's &quot;Friends&quot;]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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, &quot;I have no choice.&quot;  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 &quot;no choice.&quot; 

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 &quot;no choice.&quot;  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 ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/125/Scott-Ferguson-and-Esparzas-Friends</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Last Update: Esparza Violates Gag Order; KVIA and EP Times Lie by Ommission]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the last two weeks my volunteers and I have been fighting side by side in hand to hand combat with the forces of evil at the polls and at debates.  The race is on and Esparza has not been able to hold his own in public.  Here are some updates.


EPCC debate: EPCC had a debate about a week ago.  Esparza could not answer why he had not prosecuted public corruption. PERIOD.  He was on stage literally stammering. After I finished discussing his record of jailing the innocent and whistleblowers and improperly trying the Renteria case, the audience itself finished him off. Two members of the audience asked him about his record of letting the priviliged off on crimes and he could do nothing but attack the questioners. His closing remarks were punctuated with booing from the audience.  When I walked off stage, 20 members of the audience followed me out and wanted to know how they could help me.  Esparza left with the four people he came with.

UTEP debate:  Last Thursday UTEP held a debate.  Again Esparza could not answer the questions other than to say how he was proud of his 16 years and the State Bar of Texas had named him prosecutor of the year.  (We now know about that award.  See front page of my site for the documents that it was not the state bar that named him that but rather his friends in the District and County Attorney's Association, a private group of which he is a member).  He also tried to explain how he didn't really lie to the jury in the Renteria case but in fact admitted that he left the jury with a false impression.

Esparza is under a court gag order not to discuss the Renteria case.  We have him discussing the Renteria case in front of the entire audience at UTEP in violation of this gag order on VIDEO tape which we will tender to the defense and make available on the internet.  This is how sloppy and dishonest Esparza is.  He violates a gag order in front of a room full of people thinking no one will do anything about it. He is jeopardzing ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/124/Last-Update-Esparza-Violates-Gag-Order-KVIA-and-EP-Times-Lie-by-Ommission</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Letter to Esparza re: His campaign literature not being in compliance]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[THERESA CABALLERO
Attorney at Law
300 E. MAIN ST., Suite 1136
El Paso, TX 79901
915.565.3550
915.562.5250 fax




February 29, 2008


Mr. Jaime Esparza
500 E. San Antonio St.
El Paso, TX, 79901


	Re: Esparza campaign literature not in compliance with state law

Dear Mr. Esparza:

Elderly voters are being bussed to the polls and emerging from rented vans (your campaign finance report indicates that you paid over $900 to “get out the Vote” which includes this “service.”) with a professionally printed card, very official looking telling the card holder which candidates to vote for.  The card looks like official democratic party literature which it is NOT.  However, an elderly person could easily be duped into thinking that it was. Your name appears on the card as a person to vote for. 

Last week attorney Marlene Gonzalez asked you about the card and you told her that you had approved of your name being on it and that there was nothing wrong with it.  Two days ago you also discussed the card with attorney Lyda Ness Garcia.  State law dictates that when you become aware, as the candidate, that campaign literature is being distributed on your behalf, you must immediately make sure that it carries the political advertising disclosure that it is paid for by your campaign.  You have known about this card for at least a week and that it carries no such disclosure.

This card which you approved does not carry the required disclosure and you are therefore not in compliance with the law.  According to state law once you become aware of the violation you must remedy the matter by either ceasing to distribute the illegal literature or by adding the required disclosure.

As the District Attorney and 16 year incumbent why would you approve and allow literature to be passed out without being in compliance with the law?  The law exists to prevent just this kind of chicanery.

Please remedy this matter immediately.  

Sincerely,



Theresa  ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/123/Letter-to-Esparza-re-His-campaign-literature-not-being-in-compliance</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Theresa Caballero's Campaign Platform: Prosecuting Health Insurance Fraud ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Prosecuting insurance companies who commit fraud has long been a cornerstone of Theresa Caballero's Campaign for District Attorney. This is a huge problem in El Paso County and Nationwide with insurance companies selling policies and then cutting people off when they get sick.

People are being struck down and left to die in the middle of their illnesses and the insurance companies are giving bonuses to their employees for disqualifying the sick people. This is called stealing and fraud and the consequences are the ultimate: death!

The current District Attorney has done absolutely nothing about this for 16 years. It is time for a positive change. When there was hue and cry against Young Insurance Company and Access Health Care, he did nothing. 

Theresa Caballero, on the other hand, will form a Financial Crimes Unit (she has been talking about this for a year) and will investigate and prosecute this high level and most vicious form of theft.      


It was reported yesterday, February 23, 2008, on page C-2 of the San Francisco Chronicle, under the headline: &quot;Insurer must pay $9 million for canceling policy; Health Net dropped coverage for woman undergoing cancer treatment&quot;, that: (selected exerpts from Chronicle Staff and News Services follow)

&quot;A Southern California woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer was awarded more than $9 million Friday in a case against one of California's largest health insurers.&quot;

...

&quot;...arbitration judge Sam Cianchetti ordered Health Net to pay her medical bills, plus $8.4 million in punitive damages and $750,000.00 for emotional distress.&quot;

...

&quot;Health insurers have come under fire from state regulators, attorneys and advocates for using mistakes or omissions in a member's application to justify canceling coverage after a policy holder becomes ill.&quot;

...

&quot;Friday's award marked the first punitive damages ordered by a judge in a case against an insurer for  ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/122/Theresa-Caballeros-Campaign-Platform-Prosecuting-Health-Insurance-Fraud</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[El Paso Times Poll, The Reuel Group, and Feed Back from the Voters]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been out campaiging all day and just got back from a forum in Fabens where the AUDIENCE wiped up the floor with Esparza.  He got to confront a whole room of people, mostly the poor and middle class farmers whom he had wrongfully prosecuted and who were eventually found not guilty.  They spent fortunes proving their innocence.  It was an ugly sight for Esparza coming face to face with his handiwork.  THEY LET ESPARZA HAVE IT.

On the Times' poll.  Here is what one person just e-mailed me regarding the veracity of the polls generated by the Reuel Polling Group and published by the paper.  It is obvious the paper does not want change in this community.  They endorsed almost every incumbent.  Do not let them fool you.

Here is what one person who e-mailed wrote:

&quot;Dear Theresa,

&quot;I just read the trash article/poll in the slimes.  Don't be discouraged, this was posted on a blog about the Margo-Haggerty race: 
 
 'Campaign Polling Numbers
 
Show Pat Haggerty in Lead to Win Reelection
 
Tom Craddick Has 4:1 Negative Name ID
 
El PASO – Internal campaign polling numbers from the State Representative Pat Haggerty campaign paint a very different picture than those released by the autodial survey conducted by the El Paso Times/News Channel 9 and reported on Sunday. Haggerty campaign surveys have used “live interviews” instead of the machine-automated surveying done by the El Paso Times/News Channel 9, which may account for the newspaper poll’s unusually high percentage of undecided voters.
 
Haggerty’s numbers showed him ahead 46% - 37% among Republican Primary voters with only 17% undecided on a poll conducted in December.  And on a February tracking poll Haggerty continued to lead 48% to 42% even after his opponent, Dee Margo, had spent over $200,000 on a massive TV, radio and mail campaign.'
 
 The slimes has and agenda and they tell the Reuel Group what answer they want.  I've had the conversation with a partner in the Reuel group and h ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/121/El-Paso-Times-Poll-The-Reuel-Group-and-Feed-Back-from-the-Voters</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Campaign Updates]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been out in the community campaigning hard.

Here is a report:

I was at the Senior community center, Hilos de Plata, this week speaking and passing out Alberto Ocgueda's arrest warrant as an example of Esparza's two El Pasos.  Esparza, according to reports, went to that same location on another day to say that it was not true.  What is not true I am not sure.  He is spending his time now refuting that his overpaid secretary's brother was never prosecuted on child molestation of a six-year old girl charges.

I was at the Transmountain Apartments northeast El Paso group on Thursday night , Valentine's day.  I  spoke there and passed out more of the official records regarding Ocegueda's case.  Esparza lost his temper in front of the whole room and actually stood up and called the arrest warrant on Ocegueda &quot;trash.&quot;  FYI: Esparza prosecutes people every day life on just such documents.  They are El Paso County Sheriff's Department and El Paso Police Department official documents that a judge reviewed and approved. When it concerns his overpaid (with taxpayer money) secretary, Amy Ocegueda Lujan's brother, Alberto Ocegueda these same documents are now &quot;trash.&quot;  A member of the audience called my campaign and said that &quot;if Esparza thinks anyone in the room that night believed him, he is crazy. He's a liar.&quot;

My phone rings off the hook every time Esparza runs one of his very strange TV ads, (he features people who appear to be on the verge of tears saying to vote for him because it is &quot;the right thing to do&quot;).  The callers want signs for their front yards after seeing his commercials.  It appears that the more ads he runs the more calls of support I get.

I was on the Barbara Perez show on Monday and then on the Bishop Washington show on Thursday.  During the Bishop show Esparza had some of his people call in and try and attack me on non DA race issues.  I handled all calls. He has nothing.  I got several e-mails afterwards from people I have never met s ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/120/Campaign-Updates</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Letter from a Supporter, This is the Stuff El Pasoans are MADE of]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Note:  What follows is a letter that I received from a supporter.  I have left his name off as I do not want to subject him to the vindictiveness of the other side. The letter is beautifully written and it contains pearls of wisdom.   I will frame this letter and hang it in my office as a reminder of the good, brave and generous people out there who were willing to take a stand for this community and do the right thing by their own families and by people they have never met.  I have a campaign volunteer who is married, taking 17 hours at UTEP and has five children.  She and her family have been banging in signs and pounding the pavement for me for days.  Then there is Clint Huffman (who has written publicly here) who has done the herculean task of walking neighborhhoods and parking lots all over the eastside.  There is the tireless work of Mr. Valenzuela and Mr. Hernandez, Mr. Artalejo,  Mr. Medina and lawyer, Stuart Leeds, his mother and father Sonia and Malkiel Leeds, James (Jim) Terrell, James (Jim) Adelstein, and lawyers Sam Snoddy, Mickey Milligan, Mike (Miguelito) Pariente, James Lucas, Felipe Millan, Gary Hill, and Roger Montoya.  Then there are Major Mark Bittakis, Lorenza, Arlene, Hortencia and her daughter, Irma and Rudy, UTEP students, EPISD and SISD teachers, the Hollebeke family and retired deputy police chief George DeAngelis, and many others who have helped me.  Then there are those whose names are on my contributor list.  Not least, there is my dear mother, Dorothy McGill who paid to educate me and made me the lawyer that I am and who is my volunteer coordinator (566-0229) and my biggest contributor.  There are my intelligent, strong and beautiful sisters who are all accomplished lawyers, Jennifer, Deborah and Elizabeth and my brother who is a dedicated intra-city teacher, Raymond (Papo) who have pounded the doors for me and given to me. Then there are the many whose names I do not mention whom I have met at their doors and on the street who are pass ..]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/119/Letter-from-a-Supporter-This-is-the-Stuff-El-Pasoans-are-MADE-of</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Esparza's People Out Committing Theft at Six AM]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Esparza's people have literally been out stealing my signs for a few weeks now.  At six this morning, a man in a white Blazer was seen taking down my $130 banner at El Paso Tile on Montana Ave.  There is a man who lives on the premises at El Paso Tile and when he came out of his trailer to see what was going on, the thief jumped in his white Trail blazer and headed east.  We will make a police report.  The man who lives there has been provided with a camera.  A new banner will be put up today.  There has been systematic stealing and destroying of my signs by Esparza's people.

What does this tell you about him and his followers?  Desperate and unethical and so brazen.

Mrs. Leeds, Stuart Leeds' mother, had her sign stolen within two days of it being put up.  She made a police report.  Several signs were stolen from Pipo's barber shop.  My sign at Doris Sipes' law office was stolen.  These signs are located on busy streets.  Another supporter found her sign torn to shreds in her front yard.They don't care who sees them stealing.  Who is going to prosecute them? 

One of my campaign workers two weeks ago actually caught red handed two guys taking out one of my signs at a location on Montana.  They said they worked for Jaime Esparza.  

These signs were purchased with your money.  Behold the thieves.  Take pictures get plate numbers and I will expose them here on my website.  As for the thief this morning, we have a description of him and his car.]]></description>
      <link>http://elpasoda.org/blog/post/index/118/Esparzas-People-Out-Committing-Theft-at-Six-AM</link>
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