This will be the newcomer post; a synopsis of the situation. Returning readers please play through

At issue is the power that public servants wield. At issue is stakeholders regaining control over power that is fundamentally their own. At issue is ending the abuse of that power that enables corruption and incompetence in public service.

The goal is to eliminate corruption and incompetence by raising the standard of conduct for public servants. More importantly there will be honest accountability to that standard; accountability even for the most powerful and influential of public servants.

The immediate objective is to establish a precedent. The best place to start is at an Achilles heel. One can’t expect to go directly to the President and demand honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct.

There is an elected seven member board of education. They are on the record; flatly refusing to be held accountable; not as role models, not as stewards of the public trust and treasure, and not as public servants. Their position is categorically indefensible.

As individuals and as a board they are influential. And they are lawyered up like you wouldn’t believe. They and their lawyers have a large bore pipeline to taxpayer support of education.

For as long as they can keep this situation secret; they will prevail. At such time as their position becomes widely known; their house of cards will collapse.

The local media refuse to investigate or report upon the issue. Voters have been, and will be denied pertinent and important information.

If the word is to be spread; it will spread by you.

The enabling objective it to get two hundred people to go to the December 6th meeting of the APS Board of Education. There they will stand in support of the principle that public servants are accountable to the public and to a meaningful standard of conduct.

If you cannot attend the meeting, your responsibility is to spread the word. Contact the local newspapers and demand that they investigate and report upon the APS ethics scandal. Demand that they do it in time for voters to make use of the information. The filing date, the last day to stand personally in opposition to the board’s position, is December 19th.

This is the last board meeting before the filing date for candidates for the school board. If on the filing date, the scandal is still secret, those who would have stood in opposition by becoming a candidate will have been denied the opportunity to make that decision them self.

You pick a side when you don’t pick a side.

Pick a side. Cowboy up.