VICTIMS VS. D.A. LUIS SAENZ DEFENDERS IN PRIMARY

By Juan Montoya
The battle has been joined.
While Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz and his supporters claim that victims' rights under his tenure have been enhanced, here comes along a group calling itself the Victims United For Justice that gives lie to that claim.
In fact, the group has already established a website (www.victimsunited.org) and a FB page calling attention and documenting specific cases where Saenz's FB page and election campaign website where he makes his claims.
The mailer pictured here has been sent countywide to voters to offset the billboards, campaign signs and newspaper ads of the Saenz campaign.
And sure enough, the response from the Saenz camp was not late in coming.
Perhaps the most damaging charges against Saenz was the somewhat lax prosecution of his political niece and nephew Victor and Kacie Garcia which the mailer claims were given a slap in the hand with probation after they had run over a victim and left him for dead on the freeway. (See graphic below under "Favoritism.")
In response, the siblings' mother – and Saenz's sister-in-l;aw, created a FB page (The Truth) to rebut the charges in the mailer. In it, Diana Gonzalez (related to former District Clerk Aurora De la Garza, nee Gonzalez) said the kids made "a mistake" and left the scene because they were "young and scared."
We have no idea who is putting out the mailer, but there is no mention of Saenz's challenger Carlos Masso in the mailer although Gonzalez calls them "mud slinging push cards that Masso sent out."
Unlike the mailer, which documents the cases it contains, Gonzalez makes no reference to documents that would associate it with Saenz's challenger.