Mayor Martin Chavez Must Stand to be Counted

Recently, on his radio talk show, Martin Chavez said that he is in support of Marty Esquivel's proposed APS administrative accountability audit.

He also said the Journal and Trib will not report upon his support.

There is at least one way to determine the validity of both representations.

If he is really willing to stand up to Paula Maes and the Modrall Law Firm, et al, in their efforts to exclude administrators from an administrative audit;

if he is really willing to stand up for honest accountability for public servants in the public schools;

if he is really willing to stand up for an honest and impartial audit of the public interests in the public schools;

if he is really willing to stand in defense of the Pillars of Character Counts as an entirely appropriate and necessary standard of conduct for the senior role models for 90,000 of our sons and daughters; students who are themselves accountable to that very standard;

then he must stand up to be counted.

There is no equivalent gesture.


If he stands in defense of his beliefs during the public forum of the board meeting tomorrow afternoon;

and if the Journal and the Trib continue to refuse to report upon the ethics and accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS, and upon his support of honest accountability in the leadership of the APS, then;


Mayor Martin Chavez' commitment to APS accountability,
and the Journal and Trib's commitment to hiding the truth from stakeholders, are both proved.


...and beyond reasonable doubt.