The Campaign season has revved up and as a result I have had less time to devote to my blog. I want to give you some updates:
-I have received several campaign contributions in the mail recently from people I have never met. To me, this means that the word is getting out that I am running and there are those in the community who desperately want a change and believe in me and my message. Thank you everyone for spreading the word.

-The message I am getting from the voter on the street is that Esparza has been in office too long. When you are passing the word around that I am running you may want to mention that Esparza has, to date, been in office 15 years. Now he wants to be in office for at least twenty years.–Also mention that when he first ran 16 years ago, his campaign platform was “No more than Two Terms.” What happened?

-In the last two weeks, I have had three attorneys tell me that they have gotten some heat for contributing to my campaign. Two of them said they will now be giving me yet another contribution because they do not appreciate the strong arm tactics. Good for them! And very telling about the other camp.

-One week ago, the El Paso Bar Association put out their October journal. In it is a feature on me. Attorney Stephanie Townsend-Allala wrote the article. It is a positive piece and I want to thank Ms. Allala for calling me and asking for an interview and for recognizing the importance of my candidacy for District Attorney. I encourage you to read it if you can get a hold of a copy. If you call my office I will fax/mail you a copy (565-3550).

-Also last week, NewspaperTree reporter Sito Negron called and asked for an interview. Despite my long standing policy of not interviewing with Mr. Negron, I did grant him an interview this time. Mr. Negron’s questions seemed focused on trying to draw some nefarious connection between me and members of the Builder’s Association who have been active in politics and have long taken the position that taxes are out of control and the Government should not seize private property and turn it over to PRIVATE interests. Two premises I strongly believe in and have advocated for by the way. Mr. Negron also wanted to focus on the FBI Probe and my father.

I asked Mr. Negron to consider redirecting his questions to the actual issues of the race which is why I am running and what I have been bringing to the fore for years now: police corruption, police rape of female citizens, police killings of citizens, police and District Attorney abuse of the mentally ill, District Attorney collusion with Police and Covering Up of the corruption, not following the law, disregarding the constitution, arrests without warrants, searches without warrants, wrongful convictions and prison sentences, abuse of the Grand Jury, hiding and destruction of evidence, perjury, destruction of the courts, obliterating checks and balances crucial to our democracy… I did not make these issues up. You the People brought them to me and into the public light.–Although Mr. Negron did acknowledge that I had brought up the above and did allude in passing to the Nancy Hollebeke case, he did not appear interested in any of it. He seemed more focused on my father, my position on city politics and the FBI probe. Let’s hope Negron grilled Esparza, who is and has been the sitting DA for 15 years while all of the corruption I have just noted and know about has been going on and while the corruption the FBI is focused on has been going on? Remember Esparza sits one entire floor below commissioner’s court and not one peep out of Esparza on the FBI probe.

Mr. Negron did ask me if I thought, “the press should be as hard on me as I thought it should be on my opponent?” I told Mr. Negron in so many words that the press should always act as a watchdog on those in government and should scrutinize those who seek power. I also told him that in the 15 years Esparza has been in office I had not seen one single article written by him on my opponent or on any of the numerous scandals associated with him.—So my question is, who is Mr. Negron going to scrutinize now and why?

To Mr. Negron’s credit, after I explained to him the seriousness of Esparza’s abuse of the Grand Jury, he offered to meet me so that I could take him for a little tour of the County and Federal Court Houses and point some things out to him. We did meet the next day but I am not sure in the end if Mr. Negron understood the import of having the grand jury separated from the prosecutor’s office (Esparza keeps the grand jury tightly tucked up inside of his offices. The Feds keep the grand jury a building away from the prosecutor). Mr. Negron’s response/question was, don’t other prosecutors in Texas do the same thing? It is very difficult to try and bring out the issues with this kind of mindset. Texas is also known for lynching blacks, having bad law enforcement labs that either make up evidence or don’t properly test it and sending innocents to prison and to their deaths. (There is, as I write, an entire national focus on Texas and the outrageous behavior of Texas Court of Appeal Justice Sharon Keller, Esparza’s ally- but that is another issue. Look it up.) So what do you say to this kind of question? Well I guess since other jurisdictions do bad things we should too? I mean isn’t everyone doing it? What do you tell your children when they come home with, “well everyone at school is doing it?” Oh well, ok since, everyone else is doing it go ahead?–My platform is about making things better for the People and not maintaining a corrupt status quo.

Mr. Negron told me that his deadline was last Friday, but to date there has been no article. There have been articles on candidates seeking the Sheriff’s Office but 8 months after I announced my candidacy for DA, put up a huge billboard on the side of the freeway, written dozens of blogs, appeared on radio shows, been interviewed by NPR in Austin, TX, been written up in the Spanish language newspaper El Diario, still no word in the El Paso Times and the NewspaperTree on me, my platform and the historical importance of this race. Why? What don’t they want you to know?

I hope that Mr. Negron is able to set aside his biases regarding me and runs an informative article on the many pressing issues in this race and properly informs the public as to what has gone on and what is going on in the District Attorney’s office. Although Mr. Negron has never, to my knowledge, covered even one time the blatant corruption in the El Paso District Attorney’s Office, despite the fact that there has been a widespread community outcry against it, despite the fact that it is right under his nose and despite the fact that it has garnered national attention, it is never too late to hold out hope. Let’s see what Mr. Negron does.