For Official
Release 12/12/2017:
David Bellow files to
run for District Attorney against DA who Falsely Charged Him
Hopes to Draw Attention
to Corruption Within Current Jefferson County DA’s Office
Yesterday I filed to run for Criminal
District Attorney of Jefferson County, Texas. The chances of me winning are
admittedly not very high, but that is not why I decided to run. I decided to run to give the people a
choice and force the issues of corruption and illegal activity within the
Current DA’s office to be addressed. I have filed today in hopes that, at the
very least, a contested race will give the people a voice and a choice, and the
issues will have to be addressed and fixed. The people of Jefferson County deserve
a fair and just criminal judicial system.
Contested
elections are an important part of democracy. Unopposed candidates are never
held accountable and never have to address the issues and problems facing the
people they serve. The Current District Attorney was supposed to be the
“anti-corruption DA” but instead, he just ushered in a new era of corruption. There are currently state investigations
against Bob Wortham or his staff in the District Attorney’s office. Bob
Wortham should be held accountable for engaging in or at least allowing and
protecting criminal activity within his own office. He turned his back on the
people he is elected to serve by over prosecuting or falsely prosecuting
innocent people, and he turned his back on law enforcement and victims who came
to him with legitimate concerns and allegations of criminal activity only to be
dismissed.
For
instance, a current lawsuit filed by former deputy chief of the Port Arthur
Police Department alleges that this police officer went to Bob Wortham about
Criminal activity within the District Attorney Office but Bob Wortham refused
to prosecute and told the Deputy Chief, “That’s my Boy.” This deputy chief was
then retaliated against by Bob Wortham and forced to retire, according to the
lawsuit.
This
allegation of criminal activity being allowed or covered up by the current DA
is one of many from many different people from all different ethnic backgrounds
and walks of life from Republican to Democrat. My story is one of them too.
Two years
ago, I blew the whistle on the lead criminal investigator for Jefferson County District
Attorney Bob Wortham. This investigator,
Marcelo Molfino, had been taking money to do illegal work. As more research was
done into this investigator, multiple other violations of law and the
Constitution were discovered such as falsifying a government document and use
of his power to oppress those who opposed him or those he was paid to
investigate and charge. After I blew the whistle on this criminal activity, the
Texas State DPS Investigator determined that this DA investigator did in fact
violate the law. The current DA refused to prosecute his own investigator, and
instead put this investigator directly in charge of bringing false charges
against me as retaliation and as an attempt to discredit the state
investigations against him that I blew the whistle on. The bogus Felony Stalking
charge brought against me was dismissed, but the damage that this false charge
had done was enormous and life changing.
Unfortunately,
many people are not as lucky as me. They either do not have the ability to
speak up and fight back, or they are afraid to.
These
innocent victims, of the crime and corruption that has been allowed by the
current DA, deserve a voice. This campaign for District Attorney against Bob
Wortham will give them a voice. It will give them a vehicle in which to come
forward and tell their story. It will give the people a voice to express the
issues and demand that the Current DA address the problems and clean up the
corruption.
So even if
the chances are slim that I actually win the race, I have filed yesterday for Criminal District Attorney in hopes that, at
the very least, a contested race will give the people a voice and a choice, and
the issues will have to be addressed and fixed. The people of Jefferson County
deserve a fair and just criminal judicial system.
Sincerely,
David Bellow
Candidate for Criminal District
Attorney of Jefferson County, TX
Contact
Number: 409 656 5128
Question: Do
you live in Jefferson County?
Answer: Yes,
I have lived in southeast Texas my entire life and currently live in Jefferson
County.
Question:
Are you an Attorney? Do you have to be an Attorney to run for office?
Answer: No,
but I do have a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a master’s degree
and extensive studies in law. You do not have to be an attorney to be eligible
to run and eligible to hold office in Texas, according to the Texas Constitution.
To be eligible for and qualified for are two different things. Eligibility to be
elected and hold office and eligibility to run in Texas require you to be over
18, live in Texas, not have been convicted of a felony, etc. I meet those
requirements and am eligible to be a candidate and hold office in Texas. If I
win, I would however need to be qualified and meet the qualifications of the office
before being able to exercise the duties of the office, such as getting my
Attorney’s license. Running for the office alone even without winning will
bring about awareness and hopefully a fix to the issues within the current
District Attorney’s office, and if by God’s grace the people vote to elect me,
the Texas Constitution simply says the current DA continues until his successor
is qualified. So I would have time to become qualified and the current DA would
continue to be in office until I got my attorney’s license, or possibly I could
utilize the licensed assistant district attorneys in the office to perform the
prosecuting attorney work until I obtain my Attorney’s license. This is similar
to a recent constable election in Jefferson County Texas where the person
elected, Nick Saleme, was eligible to run and hold office, but was not
qualified to perform the duties of the position until he got his peace officer
license.
picture below: David Bellow and Family
