Hey John, Tiffany Cabán here.

As you probably know, my new role at the Working Families Party is all about electing decarceral District Attorneys across the country. And today, I'm so excited to announce our first endorsements of 2020: José Garza and Audia Jones, who are running for DA seats in Travis County and Harris County, Texas.

These two counties in Texas have the potential to be models of decarceration on a national scale. That’s why I’m so excited to be sitting down with both José Garza and Audia Jones for a dialogue on what a more equitable criminal justice system could look like — and the type of District Attorneys we need to elect nationwide to make it happen.

Can you join me this weekend for live online conversations with WFP District Attorney candidates José Garza and Audia Jones? RSVP to join us here:

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If we want to overhaul the criminal legal system, the most powerful local elected officials we can vote for are District Attorneys. As opposed to most legislators, DAs occupy an executive position that can create and implement policy on day one, creating an immediate impact on people’s lives. There isn’t any other local office with greater power toward transformational change — and that’s why we need DAs who finally feel accountable to the people who are most directly impacted by the system.

José is an Austin-based labor and immigrant rights attorney and former federal public defender who has pledged to end money bail and nonviolent drug prosecutions. Audia is running on a platform of investing in communities, education, healthcare, and housing instead of putting more people in jail.

Both José and Audia have seen the devastating effect our punitive system has on families — that’s why they are committed to divesting from a cycle of mass incarceration and instead investing in communities.

And that’s what a decarceral DA does — they work to shrink mass incarceration and mass criminalization. They do it through community based solutions that have been proven to achieve the best public health and public safety outcomes.

For too long, our criminal legal system has held people of color to one standard — and wealthy, white folks to another. When I ran for District Attorney in Queens, New York, I pledged to use the DA’s office to fight for racial, social, and economic justice, to show that fairness and equity does not have to come at the expense of safety — it is the source of safety.

DAs like José and Audia will continue to fight — and win — for Black and brown working people, and will use the power of their office to fight our prison-industrial complex. RSVP to hear more from José and Audia this weekend and let us know that you’re ready to elect DAs like them in every county in America and transform our criminal justice system.

In solidarity,

Tiffany

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