The reason why the leaderhip of the APS will not engage

in a candid, forthright, and honest discussion of;

1. administrative role modeling of the student standard of conduct.
2. administrative standards of conduct, competency, and accountability
3. the need for an immediate aggressive forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS

is because the inevitable outcome of such discussions would be;

1. Administrators would find themselves honestly accountable as role models of the standards of conduct and competence that they enforce upon students and staff; and,
2. There would be meaningful standards of conduct and competence, and those standards would be enforced by a system powerful enough to hold them accountable even against their will; and,
3. There would be an immediate audit that would identify by name, every administrator and board member who had betrayed the public trust with their corruption and their incompetence.

They are permitted the luxury of refusing to entertain a candid, forthright and honest discussion of legitimate issues by;

1. their arrogance, and by
2. the failure of stakeholders to rise in opposition, and by
3. the media*, which is keeping the story from stakeholders.

I blame the leadership of the APS for their arrogance, and for their abuse and betrayal of the public trust;

I blame the local media for the fact that so few stakeholders know the truth, and are thereby denied their right to defend their interests in their public schools.

In particular, I blame;

* Thomas J Lang,
Kent Walz,
Michelle Donaldson,
Mary Lynn Roper, and
Rhonda Aubrey

What NM1 Congressional Candidate Darren White is not telling voters, is;

The truth about his response to the criminal abuse of the
NCIC data base on his watch.

It is a legitimate question because his response was
as a public servant; within public service.

And voters have a right to know what he did,
and didn't.

He had an obligation to the public, to respond in their interests.

I am alleging that instead, he responded in his own interests
and in the interests of the leadership of the APS.

I am alleging that he is part of a cover up of felony criminal misconduct.

Misconduct which to this day, has not resulted in criminal indictment, prosecution, or even honest acquittal.

I am a voter stakeholder.

I have a right to ask a legitimate questions about the use and
abuse of power and resources that belong fundamentally to me
(and every other stakeholder).

Darren White has a responsibility to answer.
He has every obligation to answer.

And the only reason he won't is because
he is damned by the truth.

As are District Attorney Kari Brandenburg,
School Board honcha Paula Maes, the Modrall Law Firm,
and most of the senior leadership of the APS;
including sitting school board members.


So Darren White and they, will continue to stonewall.

And media will continue to cover his ass, and theirs.

Monica Armenta can't spin the facts

Winston Brooks will not engage in a candid, forthright, and
honest discussion of

• administrative role modeling, or of
  
• administrative ethics and accountability, or of
  
• an immediate full scale forensic audit.

because he has no intention of;

• being honestly accountable as a role model, or of
  
• participating in an honest discussion of administrative ethics and accountability, or of
• conducting an immediate forensic audit.
  

Monica Armenta can't spin the truth,
because the truth is worse than the deception,
and there just isn't any way to spin it any differently.

If anyone could, she could.

Isn't that why they're are paying her $400 a day to be the
APS Executive Director of Communications?

Instead;

Her only hope is to keep it secret from stakeholders;

an interest that is shared by Paula Maes' and Armenta's
buddies in the media;

Thomas J Lang, Kent Walz, Mary Lynn Roper,
Michelle Donaldson, and Rhonda Aubrey.

... a conspiracy theory that I find ridiculous ..."

That's what Mario Burgos thinks of my "theory".

• The leadership of the APS handles a billion dollars a year without rules, without accountability and without keeping records. (Meyners Audit)
• Neither APS nor Meyners will affirm that any evidence of criminal misconduct has been, or will be, forwarded to law enforcement for prosecution.
  
• The APS Finance Division is now headed by an employee who had guilty knowledge of the problems in the division and did not report them.
• The new Director of the Internal Audit Division is an employee who had guilty knowledge of the problems in the division, and did not report them.
• They refuse to disclose the amount of money that they have spent at 6400 Uptown Blvd. The especially will not surrender an honest accounting of the money they spend building a board room instead of fire proofing classrooms.
• They refuse to disclose the amount of money that Modrall makes off taxpayers and the APS; even in violation of the law. The amount is so large, that it precipitated an increase in the premiums paid by the APS for their insurance.
• They have deliberately and methodically rewritten board policy in order that they are no longer accountable to any standard of conduct other than the law; abdicating as the senior most role models of the student standard of ethical conduct.
• They struck from their own code of conduct;

  "In no case shall the standards of conduct for adults be lower than the standard for students."

• They have removed the public forum from the public record;
• after having falsified the public record of board meetings broadcast to the community
• There is credible evidence of felony criminal misuse of Darren White's NCIC data base by members of the leadership of the APS.
• The evidence has been hidden from public knowledge by Darren White and the leadership of the APS; both of whom refuse to surrender as much of the truth as the law allows; and honest accountability to any standard of ethical conduct requires.
• The board recently rewrote its Code of Ethics. It does not contain the word ethics, except in the title. It is by their own admission, completely unenforceable.
• They cannot fire a senior administrators without giving them a few hundred thousand dollars in hush money. Sam Bregman and Gil Lovato said if the truth about the leadership of the APS was ever made public, there would not be a single senior administrator left standing.
• An investigation of the corruption in the APS Police Department was performed by an impartial private investigator. There is every reason to believe that the report would have included felony criminal misconduct, public corruption and criminal conspiracy.
• That report was given to District Attorney Kari Brandenburg. I say that, despite the fact that neither APS nor Brandenburg will confirm or deny that the report was surrendered to law enforcement.
• Brandenburg has been sitting on the evidence for more than a year. All she had to do was read it and determine if the criminal misconduct warranted prosecution. Brandenburg has steadfastly refused to surrender what truth the law allows. She refuses even to cite the "billable hours" in her "investigation".
• They refuse a forensic audit. (Paula Maes, on the record)
• The local media will cover none of this. Coincidently, Paula Maes is the President of the New Mexico Broadcasters Association.

And there you have it; my "conspiracy theory."

I think all of this warrants
an aggressive full scale forensic audit
of the entire leadership of the APS.

Mario Burgos thinks I wrap my head with tinfoil.

After an exchange of emails with Mario Burgos

I have come to the conclusion that he is not much bothered
by stonewalling.

He finds it acceptable that when Darren White is asked for
the truth about the APS BCSO scandal;

White's response is to stonewall; to pretend that he
hasn't heard the question.

I can't help but wonder how different things might be,
if only stonewalling was not acceptable;

if public servants had to actually respond to legitimate
questions about their public service;

candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.


Remember when they used to slam the door in Larry Barker's
face rather than answer his questions.

Remember when that's what they had to do?
Now he doesn't even ask.

When APS administrators used BCSO resources to harass whistle blowers

the buck stopped on Darren White's desk.

He is not honest enough,
to admit even that much.

Darren White's dishonesty remains unchallenged by his opponents

No one seems to be too worked up over the fact that
Darren White will not respond honestly to questions about
his conduct and competence as a public servant.

Which makes one wonder, are they as unwilling as he
to agree to be candid, forthright, and honest in their
responses to legitimate questions about their conduct and
competence as public servants?

Is there no candidate in any party who will step up and
respond honestly to any/all legitimate questions?

What more proof do voters need, that they have lost control
over power and resources that are fundamentally their own,

than public servants who refuse to answer questions about
the fate of that power and of those resources?

What more proof do you need, that
Darren White is untrustworthy,
than his no comment.

"Ethical reform" is nonsense

in the absence of an agreed upon Code of Ethics,
and honest accountability to that standard.

Anything less, is a baby step in the right direction.

Public servants are supposed to be accountable to
a "higher standard of conduct".

In truth, they are not even accountable to the law;
the lowest standard of acceptable conduct.

Joe Carraro; "guilty" of too much disclosure

Kent Walz, in a Journal editorial, joined Mario Burgos
in pointing out that Carraro created a paper trail of his
dealings with Real Turf, easily available to stakeholders.

And therefore must be guilty of "something".

Darren White, in stark contrast, is doing everything he can
to keep the paper trail of the APS BCSO corruption hidden
from voter stakeholders.

And receives no attention to his stonewalling from Walz or
Burgos.

Apparently, in New Mexico, honesty is a political liability,
which goes a long way toward explaining why our
government is so corrupt.


No one, not Darren White, not Kent Walz, and not Burgos
can articulate any defense White's hiding of the ethically
redacted truth.

Which is apparently OK, because in New Mexico elections
honesty doesn't really play.


And people wonder why we are 49th in everything.


PS the Journal did not print Carraro's response to the front page article, which cast doubt on his integrity, but never identified anything that he had actually done that was illegal, or even unethical.

Meyners + Co reads D6

Meyners + Co prepared the Meyners Audit.

That was the audit that revealed that all of the tax dollars
that flow through the APS each year;
more than a billion in number;

were spent by a Finances Division that never

• had written and financially sound policies and procedures, and
• who didn't enforce what procedures they did have, and
• did business with vendors who benefited from this arrangement so lucratively, that they were able to pop for the administrative soirée at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.

oh, and

• they didn't keep adequate records of any of it.

With a billion three lying on the table relatively unguarded
it is a safe bet that some went missing.

And an aggressive forensic audit would identify by name,
those who took advantage of the public trust.

Oh, but,

• Paula Maes and the Modrall say that there's no way that they will stand for an honest audit.

Meyners + Co prepared the audit for the leadership of the APS;

an audit that revealed corruption and incompetence,
but not one single name to be held accountable.

They are to be paid a great deal of money to fix the damage that is done. They will do it without naming the name of any of the good ol' boys.

Meyners + Co are not working for the public,
they report directly to the people who's corruption and
incompetence is under "scrutiny".

Still,
no one from the leadership of the APS, or from Meyners + Co,
has admitted to any legal obligation
to report criminal misconduct to anyone except the criminals;

and Modrall.

"Should there be an aggressive forensic audit of the APS" would be the best show Jim Villanucci ever had

He could, if he chose to,

arrange to have a few thousand people to show up at a board meeting, and not leave until an aggressive forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS is under way.


Thereby ending corruption and incompetence in the
administration of the public trust and treasure in the APS
for ever.


Imagine the tax savings.

Imagine the test scores.

Imagine the graduation rates.

Imagine public trust and confidence in the leadership of the APS restored.



If you think the show will ever air,
you can imagine as well that
there actually are eight servings in a bag of mint milanos.

Diogenes' six is coming up on 25,000 hits

Not many in the overall scheme of things. But hey.

I get around a hundred hits a day.

A lot are from California and places distant.

I figure about half of them are somebody or the others'
lawyers; who together, give the other 1/2% of lawyers
a really bad name.

Some are local stakeholders, who seem to appreciate.

Sometimes it feels like we are getting close;

the rest of the time I feel like the dumb ass farmer,

inexplicably bound

to take the leadership of the APS to meet their
3:10 to "accountability".

District Attorney Kari Brandenburg will see some scrutiny, as well.

Kari Brandenburg is another who is running for re-election.

Another who is covering up for the leadership of the APS.

She is sitting on evidence of criminal misconduct involving
senior APS administrators and Darren White's criminal
data base.

It works to Darren White's advantage if Kari Brandenburg
can keep the truth from voter stakeholders until
after his election.

Because she has been sitting on the evidence for so long,

her interests are served by sitting on it for ever.

At the very minimum; through her re-election.

Oh, and,

Paula Maes will be up for re-election soon.

Is that a hoot, or what?

With school ending, this is the last of my weekly messages.

APS Superintendent Linda Sink.

Bummer. Her weekly messages were always
more informative than Monica Armenta's weekly messages.
(Don't search, I was kidding; there really is no such thing)


Bummer also,
that she thinks the only interest that stakeholders have
in the APS is her upbeat review of some real
accomplishments here or there.

Which bets a question;
Will Winston Brooks do anything in the way of a weekly
communication with stakeholders?

I'm thinkin' I doubt it.

I have been accused of being a Joe Carraro "supporter"

I believe that my record does not reflect my endorsement of Joe Carraro.

In circumstances where I felt I knew enough to venture an opinion, I found myself applauding Joe Carraro's efforts to get the truth, or a debate, on the record;

in opposition to someone else; usually Darren White,
who was trying to keep truth and debate off of the record.

I expect that Joe Carraro will be the only candidate on
the ballot who has any real record
of trying to lay the inconvenient truth on the table.

In which case, I will vote for him without reservation.

Mario Burgos gets same offer as Frank

I'll send twenty dollars to the charity of Mario Burgos' choice;

if he can articulate even one good and ethical reason that
Darren White should not respond candidly, forthrightly, and
honestly to the following circumstances;

• Darren White watches over an NCIC data base. There are very strict rules and laws about who gets to use it and why; and
• those rules and laws were violated by senior APS administrators in an effort to harass whistle blowers and to do criminal background checks on among others, Tom Savage's girl friend; and
  
• though there were thorough investigations done; the results of those investigations have been kept unjustifiably secret by among others; Darren White, in order to protect the crimes and identities of a number of senior APS administrators.

Darren White has not, and will not offer an ethically redacted
truth to stakeholders and voters.

And my challenge to Darren White supporter and blogger,
Mario Burgos, is that he offer even one good and ethical
reason why Darren White should not have to
explain these circumstances to voters

... candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.

Spoken language was invented to articulate the rules

and for as long as human beings have been talking
they have been talking about the rules.

The one thing that they never really established
was that they would actually have to obey the rules.

The first rule is;

you have to obey the rules.

The next development in human communication
following immediately upon the positing of the first rule, was
legal weaselry.

Legal weaselry;

the mechanism by which powerful people self except
themselves from accountability to the rules.

... even for the eight measly hours a day that they are
public servants, and entrusted with control over
all of our power and resources.



Why not;

meaningful standards of conduct and competence
enforceable even against the will of even the most
powerful and corrupt public servants?

Why not? ??


The question is not rhetorical.

Why NOT root out public corruption with aggressive forensic auditing?

Except to protect those who's criminal misconduct will be
exposed by such an audit.

Cost; $120K

Downside; 0


... except for the criminals in the senior leadership
of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

If the FBI cannot trust Darren White, why should we?

The integrity of NM1 Candidate Joe Carraro
stands in stark contrast to candidate Darren White's
lack thereof.

There is the question of the propriety of Joe Carraro's
involvement it the artificial turf business.

Carraro's response was to lay the entire record on the table.

The lack of evidence that Carraro did anything wrong,
is compensated for by Darren White blind followers like
Mario Burgos who is writes that;
Joe Carraro is probably corrupt because he created a
paper trail.

"It sure would seem to that Senator Joe Cararro
took great pains to leave a paper trail that would give
the appearance that everything was on the up and up."

Burgos, and other White supporters, are willing to give
Darren White a bye on the issue of allegations of felony
public corruption involving the secure NCIC data base
entrusted to Darren White's supervision by the FBI,.

A trust he then violated.

White has a record of covering up the scandal.

The Attorney General's Office found that Darren White,
personally, had broken the law, the NMIPRA,
in his effort to suppress the truth.

Darren White is doing every thing he can to suppress
the paper trail; to keep voter stakeholders in the dark.

Two candidates;

• one doing everything he can to lay the issues on the table, and
• the other who is doing everything he can to hide evidence.

And we are supposed to

• trust the candidate who is hiding the truth, and
• mistrust the candidate who is telling too much of the truth?

Did I miss the change in venue of this election from
New Mexico to the planet Crack?



Darren White is a "politician" in the worst sense of the word.

He is incapable of candor, forthrightness, and honesty.

The FBI now knows that they cannot trust Darren White
with their NCIC data base because he let some APS senior
administrators play with it in their effort to harass and
intimidate whistle blowers and do background checks on
their girlfriends.

If the FBI can't trust Darren White, why should we?


If this allegation were crap; Darren White would say so.
He is stonewalling because he has no other choice.
It is the only defense of an indefensible position.

If the truth comes out, he looses this election.

If the truth remains hidden, he wins a seat in congress.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,

that I wish it to be always kept alive.

It will often be exercised when wrong,
but better so than not to be exercised at all.

I like a little rebellion now and then.
It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

Thomas Jefferson

and

"Most codes extend their definitions of treason
to acts not really against one's country.

They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government.

The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." Thomas Jefferson

"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted

when permitted freely to be expressed.
The agitation it produces
must be submitted to." Thomas Jefferson

By which he meant;

if enough people demonstrate at a board meeting

the agitation that that demonstration produces,
will require even Paula Maes and the Modrall
to submit to a full scale forensic audit of the entire
leadership of the APS.

Seriously,
that is exactly what he meant.


And when Edmund Burke wrote:

All that is necessary for evil to prevail in the world
is for good men to do nothing.

This is what he was writing about as well.

"Whenever the affairs of government go obviously wrong,

the good sense of the people will interpose and
set them to rights."

Thomas Jefferson 1789 (derived)


If only.


It could, but it doesn't.


People could go to the next board meeting and
demand an audit that will set right
an oligarchy gone obviously wrong;

but they won't.


Mr. Jefferson I suspect,
would be deeply disappointed;

considering what he and his friends went through
to end a government gone obviously wrong.

From the Character Counts! Website

According to; John Adams, American Founding Father and
second U.S. president (1735-1826)

"The people have a right,
an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right

to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge

I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

LINK to Character Counts! collection of quotations
a great reference.

Carraro "scandal" hits Journal front page.

I am not a stupid man. I read the article link sub req
and cannot say for certain whether or not Carraro acquitted
himself or not. It seems so, but the tone of the article was
too accusatory to dismiss.

Which means the Journal introduced lingering doubt about
the character of Joe Carraro.

At the same time, the Journal will offer no coverage of the
very real scandal involving Darren White and the illegal use
of public resources on his watch.

Giving White a political advantage over Carraro.

Deliberately creating no doubt about the character
of Darren White.

And of Thomas J Lang, and of Kent Walz.

Darren White lacks the character and the courage

to be candid, forthright and honest,

about his involvement in the public corruption and criminal
conspiracy involving the leadership of
the Albuquerque Public Schools and their criminal misuse of
the NCIC data base under Darren White supervision.

And he deserves to be disqualified as a public servant
and more importantly as a candidate for the
United States Congress.

Darren White is either guilty or innocent.

He is either covering up criminal misconduct by senior APS
administrators, or not.

His guilt or innocence begs a question;

Does it make any difference?

Is the cover up of the criminal abuse of the secure data
base entrusted to Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White,
important enough to pay attention to?

Is the cover up of the criminal abuse of power,
in order to harass and intimidate whistle blowers,

important enough to pay attention to?


They say you get the government you deserve.

I say, we deserve candid, forthright and honest representation in congress.


The government we get, is the government we are willing to fight for.

More than a few union members are wondering

The union has been conspicuously absent in the
administrative ethics and accountability debate.

Ellen Bernstein once told me that Character Counts!
was Don Whatley's baby.

Don Whatley was the President of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, when the union led the effort to establish the Pillars of Character Counts! as the actual standard of conduct for students and for their role models.

Don Whatley is a founding father of Character Counts!.
He had it kicked out of him by administrators like
Peter "you can't just tell the truth" Horoscak.


I have always argued that, if the leadership of the APS
was actually accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts!,
teachers would be treated a whole lot better.

So where is the union on the concept of honest
administrative accountability to meaningful standards of
conduct and competence for eight measly hours a day?

Why is it OK with them that the senior role models of the
student standard of conduct, are not actually accountable
to that standard of conduct;
to the obvious disadvantage of teachers?

... and students, and every other APS stakeholder
except the good ol' boys that run the APS.

And is that a make or break issue for union membership?

I guess we'll see.

Good questions. Expect few answers.

Bake sale ? to fund audit.

Maybe, APS stakeholders could gather together $120K and
pay for our own forensic audit of the entire APS leadership.

or maybe,
we could slip a hundred twenty five large under the table
to New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas,
and he would do one.

Tom Savage was not retired because he was corrupt or incompetent

He was kicked out of their club because he wasn't able to
keep it secret.

Ergo; Winston Brooks is Corrupt

Ergo; word meaning;

" therefore, hence, or consequently,
usually used to show a logical conclusion"

Winston Brooks promoted "Boardroom Brad" Winter after
Brad "Hey we never burned a kid" Winter built a boardroom
instead of identifying and correcting fire code violations in
student classrooms.

Winston Brooks promoted Brad Winter because Brad Winter
still refuses to offer stakeholders a candid, forthright, and
honest accounting of spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd.

Winston Brooks promoted Brad Winter because Brad Winter
got on the Jim Villanucci and together with Beth Everitt
lied to voters about their intentions with respect to
transparency in their Finances Division,
a division we now find in inexcusable disarray.

Winston Brooks promoted Brad Winter because
Brad Winter is willing to lie to stakeholders.

Winston Brooks promoted Brad Winter because
Brad Winter will not be candid, forthright and honest.

He promoted Brad Winter because he believes that
Brad Winter will prevent an impartial forensic audit
of the entire leadership of the APS.

Not only that, but

Winston Brooks refuses to participate in a candid, forthright and honest discussion of ethics and accountability in the leadership of the APS, himself. He refuses even to acknowledge the invite.

Winston Brooks refuses to hold himself honestly accountable as a role model of the student standard of conduct. He refuses to explain, defend, or even acknowledge his position.

Winston Brooks refuses to hold himself,
or any of the good ol' boys, honestly accountable to
meaningful standards of conduct and competence,

by an impartial system powerful enough to hold them
accountable even against their will. And he refuses
to explain, defend, or even acknowledge his position.

Winston Brooks has not begun a full scale forensic audit
of the public interests in the public schools.

Ergo,

Winston Brooks is corrupt.

Jessica Garate has not reported on the scandal.

Ergo,

Michelle Donaldson is corrupt. And
Mary Lynn Roper and Rhonda Aubrey.

Zsombor Peter has not written about the forensic audit,
and it's potential to end corruption and incompetence
in the leadership of the APS, immediately and for ever.

Ergo,

Thomas J Lang and Kent Walz are corrupt

as well.

The chief qualifications for a Chief Operating Officer

One should assume that, for Brad Winter to be promoted
to APS Chief Operating Officer; he met some qualifications

According to the Council of the Great City Schools Audit,
those qualifications would have been subjective, and
unrelated to his promotion.

I suggest that those qualifications are two;

1. Brad Winter is willing to steadfastly refuse to have a town hall meeting, where he will sit and respond candidly, forthrightly, and honestly to legitimate questions from stakeholders, and further
2. Brad Winter is willing to do everything he can
   to prevent a full scale forensic audit of the non-instructional side of the APS.

Those are the standards of conduct and competence that
Winston Brooks requires in a Chief Operating Officer.

I would suggest that Brad Winter disqualified himself for
promotion when he sat at a table with other senior
administrators and board members(?),

and decided to save some money by ending fire safety
inspections in schools.

And then decided to spend the money they saved
on a board room they still cannot justify.

Were that not enough to disqualify Mr. Winter,
I would suggest that the fact that his steadfast refusal
to offer a candid, forthright, and honest accounting
of the tax dollars spent at 6400 Uptown Blvd,
should.

Brad Winter had guilty knowledge of the corruption and
incompetence in the leadership of the APS
(Police Department and Financial Division)
and did not blow the whistle.

And now he is promoted.

Gina Hickman had guilty knowledge of the corruption and
incompetence in the APS Financial Division,
and did not blow the whistle.

She is now the APS Chief Financial Officer;
and in a perfect position to continue to hide the evidence of
corruption and incompetence in the APS Finance Division.

Michael Kimbrell had guilty knowledge of the irregularities
and did not blow the whistle.

He now is their APS Internal Audit Director.


If you were Paula Maes and Modrall,
and your interest was in covering up evidence
of corruption and incompetence,

who would you put in charge of it,
except those who are as damned by that evidence
as are you?


The Meyners Audit was commissioned by the very people
whose incompetence and corruption has been identified,
and is still secret from stakeholders.

Meyners reports to them, not to the public interest.

Under the conditions identified by the audit,
it is ridiculous to assume that no money has been wasted
or stolen.

It was there for the taking.

Always.

And if Meyners found evidence of criminal misconduct,
what have they done with it?

Did they put it in the hands of the criminals and
their lawyers?


Paula Maes and Modrall make millions off the APS.

She says there is no way that she and Modrall will be
audited.

The media won't touch her.


All of which is OK with State Auditor Hector Balderas.

All of which begs the question;
wtf ? ??

Good ol' boy accountability for Brad Winter

Brad Winter made some bad decisions.

He and others sat around a table and made the decisions
that resulted in the building of a new and completely
unjustifiable board room;

while at the same time, saving money by
avoiding remediation of real violations of the fire code.

He refuses to explain, defend or even acknowledge
that betrayal of stakeholder trust.


Accordingly, Winston Brooks has held him accountable
by means of a promotion and a raise.

Neither, will permit a full scale forensic audit
of the leadership of the APS.

Neither, will utter the words aloud.

Jessica Garate is pushing the envelope.

I don't pretend to know what goes on in the KRQE newsroom.

But I suspect that reporters like Jessica Garate and the
Journal's Zsombor Peter, do not get to decide what to investigate and report upon.

That at some point, someone like Michelle Donaldson or Kent Walz says; you will not write about this story.

I expect that as journalists, and young journalists at that,
they still dream of breaking a Watergate.

So you know they want to write about the fact that the leadership of the APS refuses to answer any legitimate questions about ethics and accountability.

You know that either would love to be the one who covers the forensic audit "debate".

But they don't.

So either Michelle Donaldson, Kent Walz, or some one else has told them not to.


But back to Jessica Garate. In her report last night link *
she made reference to the fact that Tom Savage is retiring
for a reason.

She mentioned the scandal in the APS Police Department.
She mentioned the current ongoing problems in the
APS Finance Division, and the fact the Tom Savage oversaw
both divisions.

What she didn't say was that there are administrators and board members more senior than Tom Savage, who had as much, or more, responsibility for the public corruption and incompetence in those divisions.

She didn't mention the fact that

• Paula Maes and her Modrall are making a killing off the complete lack of standards or accountability for senior public servants in the APS.
• there is not a single senior administrator or board member who is honestly accountable as a role model for students and staff.
• Winston Brooks is on record refusing to hold himself honestly accountable as a role model, and
• refusing to cite even one meaningful standard of conduct or competence, to which he will be held honestly accountable.
• Paula Maes stood on the record, and said, she will never allow a forensic audit of her stewardship of the public trust and treasure in the APS.
• the entire school board is backing Maes by not insisting upon a full scale forensic audit of the entire leadership of the APS, including Maes and Modrall.

Neither will report to voter stakeholders, that although
board members have a clear obligation to their constituents
and to the public interest, they are doing nothing.

Neither will report that Bernalillo County Sheriff, and
Congressional Candidate, Darren White is deeply implicated
in the cover up of the public corruption and criminal
conspiracy in the APS Police Department.

Neither will report that the District Attorney,
Kari Brandenburg, who is also running for election,
has been accused of covering up of the Peanut Butter Gate
scandal, as well.


Something is holding Jessica and Zsombor back.

And I don't think it is their unwillingness
to investigate and report upon ethics and accountability
in the leadership of the APS.


Oh, and,

Jessica reported that Winston Brooks thanked Tom Savage
for his 27 years of service, and then added,

"he had heard nothing but great things
about Tom's leadership."

wow, and

how disturbing is that? and


I guess he's not reading this blog.



* curiously, the powers that be at KRQE have provided no link.

Brad Winter's promotion bodes well for his wife's lawfirm.

I doubt that we will ever know how many APS administrators are married to law firms that do business with the APS.

Paula Maes and Modrall of course, are setting the standard
for milking tax payers.

But Brad Winter's wife's law firm does business with the APS as well; a relationship that her law firm chose