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Senator Caballero,

Salinas is adrift and facing multiple @FBI corruption probes. Why haven't you addressed this as a local resident and powerful local politician?

@LAist, @LaurelRosenhall , and apparently @GavinNewsom consider you good choice for the most powerful State AG

https://twitter.com/casencaballero/status/1360286535698968578

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office.

Apparently, it's up to us, the people who know you best, to ask actual difficult questions.

What is your relationship with Ray Padilla Jr., @LULAC Chris Padilla's grandson - or Mario Chavarria, his other grandson?

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When your son Miguel Uranga was arrested for armed robbery by @SalinasPD the two local newspapers overlooked the arrest until a watchful blog poster mentioned it on the @salnews message board (now non-existent). You were quick to address the scandal by clarifying "my adopted

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son". Do you regret throwing your son under the bus like that by distancing your biological connection to the former foster child?

Has Hugh Bikle the Morgan Hill / Hollister based Creekbridge developer ever improperly and illegally given you a thing of value?

Are you aware

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that over 20 years ago Bikle's construction manager claimed that you were "given" a house in San Benito county and that not only did you not live in your Salinas home most of the time, your son had parties there where associates of the Nuestra Familia were in attendance?

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How exactly did you land your Executive Director position with Partners for Peace?

Why, just as you were coming on, did @juliepackard foundation put $1,000,000 into the account of @SVMHS (the newly created fiscal agent for PFP) did the board of PFP hire you as ED at

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nearly $100,000 per year when the Packard grant covered approx $350,000 per year over 3 years -
making your ED salary an over the line salary per @IRS_CI laws and regs on "excessive compensation" for non-profit executive directors?

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What is your relationship with Mike Hackett, the cocaine trafficker and marijuana entrepreneur who is bragging about bribing your nemesis @SupervisorAlejo (who incidentally recently called our mutual friend @JoeLivernois a racist)?

In detail?

What about Hackett assoc.?

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Speaking of the Fox Theater in Oldtown Salinas - and since this is about your pitching yourself to @GavinNewsom to replace @AGBecerra (who Brown appt. after @KamalaHarris became a US Senator) - what can you tell the community & the state, and the nation, what you know about

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the federal criminal fraud that took place to bilk Cedar Funding investors of their hard earned money, while rewarding Anthony or Frankie Lane and Dave Drew - as alleged to in a 2016 MoCo civil suit filed by atty. Hugo Gerstl?

(these are issues a person positioning

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themselves for Attorney General of California should address)

You were an investor in the @CityofSalinas deferred compensation fund - a fund I exposed for criminal fraud and public corruption (though never prosecuted) - and this federally insured 457(b) plan was used

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as a slush fund by wealthy / politically connected donors of yours like Eddie DeCarli and Basil Mills.

The fund was run as a Ponzi Scheme out of City Hall with Gabilan Mortgage acting as the licensed RE broker on the trust deed investments of "protected" public employee

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money.

What was your detailed knowledge of this criminal fraud that took place through your terms as Salinas Mayor?

What did you do to stop it?

(@USAO_LosAngeles, @USAO_NDCA , @FBISanFrancisco @FBISacramento)

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Pause at 14 for your answers. Seems appropriate.

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