February 21, 2019 Hilda Pedraza el CITY OF PHARR y ADMINISTRATION 118 South Cage Blvd PHARR, TEXAS Pharr, Texas 78577 BALLOT APPLICATION CHALLENGE; HAND DELIVERED. City Secretary Pedraza: Per state law, I challenge Mayor Ambrosio Hernandez’s ballot application for content per Election Code Sec. 141.034. LIMITATION ON CHALLENGE OF APPLICATION, and seek that you reject his ballot application and formally declare him ineligible for office for violating city charter and state law, facts that can be established by public records, under Election Code. Sec. 145.003. ADMINISTRATIVE DECLARATION OF INELIGIBILITY. I hereby challenge ballot application on content. Mayor Hemandez has violated his oath of office dating back to when he first ran for office and filed. He has continued to violate his oath by failing to come forward as a witness to the City of Pharr’s violation of state and federal election laws. He has participated in violating state election law, the City of Pharr’s election laws and ordinances, and he has assisted the City Secretary Hilda Pedraza in violating federal, state, and local election laws, ‘The two share a quid pro quo relationship that is contrary to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Texas, and the laws they were sworn to defend as public servants. Mayor Hemandez and City Secretary Pedraza both have public records and personal knowledge of criminal activity and violations of city election ordinances. ‘The two are active in organized criminal activity against me for filing to run for public office in the City of Pharr and for the Pharr- San Juan-Alamo Independent School District. ‘On July 1, 2015, the Pharr City Commission voted to approve my recommendation to hire Dykema Cox Smith as an outside investigator into allegations of criminal activity against me by members of Pharr Police Department (see attached documents). In the fall of 2015, I worked closely with the law firm, providing documents and reviewing City of Pharr police records, including polygraph results, internal affairs investigations, memos from Phart Chief of Police to the Hidalgo County District Attomey’s Office, Pharr PD investigator logs and communications with D.A. personnel, the G-file for K9 Officer Jose Tamez, and other police documents vital to my pursuit of justice for trumped up police charges of evading arrest while running for the PSJA ISD school board.Mayor Hemandez and the City of Pharr possess evidence that City Attorney Patricia Rigney, the Pharr Civil Service Law Firm of Denton Navarro, former Pharr Chief of Police Ruben Villescas, and several high ranking officials, worked with Hidalgo County Assistant District Attorney Joaquin Zamora, also presently a McAllen City Commissioner, and his superior, ADA Joseph Orendain, to suppress evidence of my innocence during post appellate relief. These allegations are supported by the unreleased investigative report submitted by Dykema Cox Smith to the City of Pharr, and documents provided in this challenge to Mayor Hernandez ballot application. As per state election law, public records conclusively establish these facts and therefore Mayor Hernandez should be ruled ineligible for a place on the 2019 General Election Ballot. Mayor Hemandez is a licensed physician in the State of Texas and practices at Doctor’s Hospital at Renaissance. Should he suspect that one of his patients is the victim of child abuse, he is obligated to report his suspicions to local law enforcement. It would also be very unlikely that Mayor Hernandez is unfamiliar with the basics of our federal constitution and its protections of life and liberty. Moreover, Mayor Hemandez has received training as an elected official. There should be no excuse for Mayor Hernandez to withhold evidence of a crime. He is aware that our election administrator, City Secretary Pedraza, violated federal, state, and local election law. Constitutional law provides fair trials and due process. By having city officials withhold evidence to correct a miscarriage of justice, Mayor Hemandez is condoning illegal police actions against innocent people like me and my neighbor Eloy Alcala, who also had evidence withheld in his criminal appeals and trials. He is also aware that the City of Pharr and its police department participated in organized criminal activity against me while a candidate for public office. By withholding the City of Pharr's findings of abuse, he has violated hiis oath and has sworn falsely on his current application, Mayor Hernandez is aware that City Secretary Pedraza falsely notarized and submitted Commissioner Mario Bracamontes ballot application on February 25, 2015. These actions should have resulted in her termination in 2015. Mayor Hernandez and the city commission were provided documentation of this fraudulent activity by Pharr resident Raul Gonzalez. The city cd to act on his recommendations. City Secretary Pedraza filed in her log that she knew Commissioner Bracamontes personally and accepted his ballot application with glaring falsehoods. Com. Bracamontes filed that he lived at 222 W. El Rancho Blanco Road continuously for 30 years. However, City Secretary Pedraza knew that Com. Bracamontes lived outside of Pharr within the 12-month residency requirement. Com. Bracamontes’ Planning and Zoning Commission Hearing Request filed on October 10, 2013 indicates that he didn’t live in Pharr continuously as indicated on his ballot application. Additionally, City Secretary Pedraza personally knew that Com. Bracamontes moved to Pharr from McAllen in 2015. Tax appraisal records also indicate the ballot application is a fraudulent record accepted by election officials.This is not the first time that Pharr elected officials have looked the other way when City Secretary Pedraza tampered with government records and filed false records. On May 27, 2010, as part of her quid pro quo arrangement with elected officials, City Secretary Pedraza doctored the official record of my illegal arrest at a Pharr city meeting. Several city employees file affidavits with the police department detailing the events on May 27, 2010. I’ve included statements filed by Roy Garcia, former Public Works Director, Frank Marin, former Parks and Recreation Director, and Pharr PD Officer Jose Cantu, the arresting officer. They paint a different picture than what the official minute’s list as “a small disturbance in the audience.” Im total there are 22 witnesses present and of those, Pharr Commissioner Bobby Carrillo, former commissioner Oscar Elizondo, former Mayor Leopoldo Palacios, and Gary Rodriguez also file false affidavits regarding my arrest. Despite all these witnesses, the Pharr City Prosecutor dismisses charges of Disrupting Meeting or Procession charges in CT006464 on September 24, 2012. The minutes of the May 27, 2010 city meeting are a public record that establishes facts that Mayor Hernandez has not upheld his oath and that there is a quid pro quo arrangement that City Secretary Pedraza must accept his ballot application or face termination, or worse, criminal charges for part in election fraud. Mayor Hernandez is also aware of police abuses against me. Mayor Hernandez and his stafThelped secure police video of my arrest for possession of a controlled substance after Pharr PD claimed no more copies existed. Mike Robledo and I met with local attorney Javier Pena, who assisted in having the video released from CR-4428-09-D from the Hidalgo County District Clerk’s Office in 2015. I have attached several public records that establish facts which should require your office to declare Mayor Hemandez ineligible for a spot on the 2019 General Election Ballot. ‘Thank you for your time. Lupe Chavez, Jr. 321 Jean Drive Pharr, Texas 78577 enclosures