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?