DA Esparza Can Kiss Congress Good-Bye

District Attorney Jaime Esparza has long been rumored to be next in line for the congressional seat in El Paso. Well, that was then, and this is now.

After the year he’s had, he can forget about it.

Theresa Caballero has been wearing the vato down with a constant barrage about a rumored love child, without ever having proof by the way, and he’s suffered several defeats in court that will have long-lingering affects.

First he loses the Marmolejo case, which was a huge loss. That was a very high profile case that he had personal capital invested in. Its a case that had people in this town on the edge of their seat.

Then he was able to get a win on the second go around, but he had to have the case in San Antonio to do it.

Then along comes the Arditti case and his nemesis Theresa Caballero. Esparza should’ve sent in his varsity team to try the case. Arditti was found not guilty on all the charges and Esparza ended up with another high-profile loss.

The really bad thing for Esparza is that he lost to Caballero in a really high-profile case. You can bet money she will run against him in the next election, which by the way, isn’t so far off. The filing deadline will be over before the end of the year.

Esparza hasn’t shown any indication that he will run again. I seriously doubt that the will not run for re-election if Caballero throws her hat in the ring. I think the last thing Esparza wants is Caballero in charge of the District Attorney’s office. So unless another worthy candidate steps up, he will be forced to run again.

That means more of an onslaught of Caballero’s allegations. That has to be hard on the family life and everyone has their breaking point.

At this point Esparza’s job may be in jeopardy. There’s no way he wins a congressional race if he loses to Caballero.