Apparently, Mayor Marty Chavez is Corrupt.

Were he not; he would defend his apparently corrupt conduct.

If the subject of an APS Administrative Accountability Audit were publicly discussed; there would either be an audit; or the reason(s) not to conduct an audit would prevail after full and honest discourse.

There is no ethical reason not to conduct an audit. For more than a year, I have been demanding an honest and impartial accountability audit of the leadership of the APS. For as long a time, I have invited anyone, including Marty Chavez, to come up with even one good and ethical reason not to conduct the audit.

None has been broached; not one.

There is no good and ethical reason not to conduct an audit. The only argument at all would be the cost; but if it cost a million dollars; it would still be a bargain.

The only reason not to begin the audit, is to protect the incompetent and corrupt whose careers would end with the audit. There is no other reason.

Marty Chavez has a moral obligation to speak out on the audit. He acquired that obligation with his repeated and public attacks on the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS. When it came time to put up or shut up; he crawled under a rock and has been hiding there ever since.

I suspect that his own administration, if audited, would come up far short. An audit of the administration of city government would likely reveal the same level of corruption and incompetence that permeates the leadership of the APS. It is the natural consequence of the lack of accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, for public servants.

He would not be successful in keeping the subject, of accountability audits of public service, out of the public discourse of elections without the help of the media. If the Journal and the Trib, and KOB, KOAT, and KRQE were not in cahoots (questionable collaboration; secret partnership) with corrupt public servants; this subject would not have been kept deliberately secret though the last three elections.

Even as a bonafide candidate for the school board; I was not permitted to argue for an audit in either the Journal or the Trib. Despite their editorials encouraging voters to participate in the board elections, neither paper can produce a record of having covered a single relevant issue in the election.

This community is being betrayed by corrupt and incompetent public servants and by the media who enables their corruption and incompetence. If it were not true; someone would argue otherwise. They don't of course, because they cannot. There is no argument that can withstand any scrutiny at all.

Instead, they all just stonewall;
a coward's defense of an indefensible position.