This is a piece of information you MUST have when you go to vote in the next election for the 65th Judicial District Court. The judge of that court is Yahara Lisa Gutierrez. This information will not appear in the El Paso Times which has an agenda of supporting all Eliot Shapleigh, Jose Rodriguez, and Ray Caballero candidates. Yahara Lisa Gutierrez is one of five candidates since 2008 to run while continuing to draw a paycheck and benefits from the County Attorney’s office.
Gutierrez lied to the voters when she ran for office. She said that the family law docket of the 65th had been neglected by her opponent, Judge Alfredo Chavez, and that she would fix that problem, that she would tend to that docket. She went around town to forums whining how litigants weren’t getting temporary child support, how custody matters were languishing on the docket, how families were being hurt by Judge Chavez, yarah, yarah, yarah.
Gutierrez took office on January 2, 2009. She signed an order affective January 2, 2009, her very first day in office, ORDERING the District Clerk to transfer all of her family law cases except those with protective orders to the 171st. She abandoned all those families she used in her campaign and dumped them on a busy court. She dramatically lightened her load while drawing the same paycheck from the voters and providing them with fewer services. In a word, she tricked the voters to get elected. Her courtroom is empty most of the time. I urge you to go by and look.
Attached below is Gutierrez’ order dumping her cases on the 171st.
Thank God for the judge of the 171st, Judge Bonnie Rangel, who is now working overtime for us with three full dockets, criminal, family and civil. Rangel is a Stanford graduate. She speaks and writes beautiful English and Spanish. Both the Prosecution and the Defense love her. Why? Because she will give you a fair trial. Judge Gutierrez’ English leaves much to be desired. I will be posting something she wrote in a future blog and you will be amazed as you see for yourself what we are electing to the bench. If Gutierrez is going to play judge and write for public consumption, then she should really look into an English language class. They offer many of them in the ESL department at El Paso Community College. Worse yet, bad English or not, Gutierrez poses illogical legal analyses and, as I have shown, she has issues with telling the truth. Nothing like having a judge who has bad English, bad ethics and a bad legal “mind.” What more could we ask for? Charlie Edgren at the Times endorsed her. –Don’t forget, Gutierrez was arrested for drunken driving also while continuing to draw a paycheck and benefits from the County Attorney’s office. See earlier blog.