WIGHTMAN FIGHTS PROXY WAR AGAINST YOLANDA BEGUM

There is a saying in Spanish that says "la defensa es permitida," which translates roughly to self defense is permissible. After having watched our friends and community mauled by rogue blogger Robert Wightman – a disbarred attorney from Dallas – we have decided that perhaps our fellow residents may want to know a little more about this actor. Toward that end we have started an informational blog that you can access by simply clicking on the sixth graphic from the top at right [The Wightman Contra-Intelligence Files]. Periodically, we will add more. Happy reading!) 




By Juan Montoya
Having lost on just about every political fray he has entered locally, blogger Robert Wightman – a disbarred attorney who left Dallas on a legal rail – has now launched a jihad against JP 2-2 runoff candidate Yolanda Begum.
Wightman, whose horse in that race, Erin Garcia Hernadez – was ingloriously rejected by the voters in the Democratic Party primary this past March – has now made it his mission in life to destroy the Begums.
Toward that end he has championed the cause of one Josephine Fisher Canales and her son Michael Begum III and has taken to issue bombastic pronouncements about supposed U.S. Department of Justice investigation into alleged bribery by Alex Begum of Cameron County District Attorney Luis Sanez for investigating a complaint against the woman after she had posted derogatory comments about Yolanda Begum during her race for JP.
We are no strangers to the threats and grand pronouncements by Wightman. He has also posted that we form a cabal of conspirators for pay who are aligned in some way or another with Saenz, Alex Dominguez, Zeke Silva, Mary JP 2-3 runoff candidate Esther Garcia, Luis Sorola, and the Begums against all that is good and holy in his wacko parallel universe. Of course, the FBI is on our tracks based on his scurrilous charges. Yeah, sure.
This time His Gay Rotundness has pulled out all the stops and dug up a charge Alex begum received in San Antonio some 18 years ago. The initial charge of deadly conduct was reduced to reckless driving (Begum was caught drag racing on I-410 with another driver and no accident was involved). He paid his fine, complied with the court and later had his record expunged, as many professional people do. He is now an immensely successful attorney enjoying his first taste of fatherhood.
From this, Wightman is now casting aspersions against Yolanda Begum and questioning her qualifications for justice of the peace, womanhood, and motherhood in general . In a classic class-warfare slur, Wightman charges that the Begum's wealth played some role in the court proceedings that allowed Alex Begum to face and resolve the charges and continue his life.
Now Wightman wants the Texas Department of Public Safety to conveniently do his dirty work and move to nullify the expungement.
He is not a respecter of people, values, or things.
Using the book written by Yolanda's grandson as an excuse, he repeats the unprovable charge mouthed by his mother Canales that his grandmother threw him – a severely disabled youth – into the street after his father died. The truth – and he and Josefina know it – is nowhere near that since Michael III was living with his late father's wife and after his father died, Josefina reappeared on the scene after having left with someone else. Why the vitriol and pretense to slur a candidate that had nothing to do with that?
More and more it appears that Wightman is exhibiting poor-men's envy when he exploits a handicapped man's personal story and sentiments to slur the Begums.
This comes from a blogger whose past is clouded with instances of avoiding responsibility for his acts and claiming penury to avoid his bills. He was disbarred for a reason.

We have documented a few his severe delusions in the past. If you have the stomach, click on the icon on the right (sixth from the top) labeled "The Wightman Files: The Evolution of a Criminal Mind." A word of warning: pinch your nose to avoid the stench.
Take for instance, his claim in a lawsuit he filed in 2008 against U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings claiming she had violated his constitutional rights because her department had rejected his application to have his student loans forgiven because he claimed penury and total disability.
Dept. of Education rules stated that if the plaintiff earned more than the poverty level, he was not entitled to have the loans discharged.
"To put this in focus," Wightman wrote, "if a veteran returning from Iraq with a permanent disability earned one penny over the poverty level on the day of his qualifying disability, he would not be entitled to discharge his student loans."
Of course, Wightman is no Iraq veteran. In fact, he served in peacetime and never left the country for one and  half years at most and was given an  honorable discharge because of psychiatric reasons. But that doesn't stop him from covering himself with the disabled veteran's mantle to elicit the sympathy he so badly craves.
He claimed in is petition to file the lawsuit without having to pay the filing fee ( (In Forma Pauperis) that he had "no regular employer for 18 years" even though he was a practicing attorney in Dallas before he was disbarred.
Of course, Wightman is no Iraq veteran. In fact, he served in peacetime and never left the country for one and  half years at most and was given an  honorable discharge because of psychiatric reasons. But that doesn't stop him from covering himself with the disabled veteran's mantle to elicit the sympathy he so badly craves.
A loan analyst with the Dept. of Education said Wightman's earnings disqualified him from having his loans discharged, which triggered the lawsuit. According to Delfin Reyes, Wightman owed the government $40,340 at the time he filed the lawsuit claiming disability and asking to have his loans forgiven even though he earned $17,053 in 2003, which exceeded the poverty guidelines of $12,120.
Nonetheless, Wightman persisted and after more than a year of threats and litigation, the U.S. Dept. of Education threw up its hands and agreed to discharge the $40,000 in student loans.
While in the service, Wightman's last base commander accused him of being a malingerer, that is, feigning illness in order to shirk his duties and avoid pulling his weight. That base commander will never know how much Wightman has finessed his tactics over time.
Now this disbarred attorney is waging a war against a candidate whose son has overcome his youthful indiscretions and runs an immensely  successful practice and employs scores of lawyers, paralegals, investigators and support staff.
Is the green-eyed devil at work here?