Tuesday, September 25, 2007

"Savage told her not to tell APS police and not to seek an internal audit," according to the lawsuit filed against the district.

Another calamity in the leadership of the APS. Another department under the supervision of Tom Savage, in chaos.

You will remember that when the shit hit the fan over the corruption in the leadership of the APS Police Department, one of the first things Savage did was order employees to keep their mouths shut.

Now here is another scandal, and the whistle blower says Savage told her to keep her mouth shut. Is there a pattern of misconduct? How many scandals must there be before the community outrage is awakened?

Robert Lucero, of course, has offered his two cents worth;"This is not a Gil situation," board member Robert Lucero said of the accounting department. "I'm not worried about it, yet. I know the district is working on it, and we'll get some answers pretty quickly."

You will remember that the first thing Lucero did when the scandal in the APS PD became public, was to get on TV and proclaim that Gil Lovato was innocent and only the victim of lies made up by a "disgruntled former employee". It turned out of course that Lucero was talking out of his ass. He has never retracted his slander against the former employee who blew the whistle on Gil Lovato. That lie is still on Lucero's record.

And another APS whistle blower bites the benouche.

I hope someone starts paying attention to the APS ethics and accountability scandal before we run out of whistle blowers altogether.

How many scandals must unfold before Journal editor Charlie Moore thinks that the story has unfolded enough to assign a reporter to investigate and report upon the APS ethics and accountability scandal? The longer the Journal refuses to print the truth; the more obvious it is that they are deliberately hiding the truth from the community.

Read this article in the Tribune.
Demand an immediate and impartial full scale forensic audit of the leadership of the APS.


Before its too late.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doesn't the Tribune get credit for running this story at the top of the front page today? It also shows that New Mexico needs an Whistleblower law:
"And another APS whistle blower bites the benouche" What's a benouche, anyway?

ched macquigg said...

Biting the benouche; and I have no idea if that is even the correct spelling; might be an invention of a friend of mine. Kind of like kicking the bucket, or or a final curtain.

Yes the Trib gets credit for running the story. I cannot for the life of me understand why they won't connect the dots. These are not individual and unrelated scandals; they are the result of a system that has no accountability for conduct or competence; especially for administrators and board members.

Most of all I cannot understand, or forgive, their failure to tell readers about the accountability audit. If Marty Esquivel has to carry the load on an audit by himself, he will get buried by all of the administrators and board members who will fight an audit like their jobs depended on it.

Mr. Esquivel needs and deserves the support of the community,which he would have if not for the fact that the audit is being deliberately kept secret by the Journal and the Trib; for unknown but undoubtedly nefarious reasons.

Anonymous said...

And this is the same Tom Savage that is on someone's short list for next superintendent! He is the poster boy for exactly what we don't want in the top job.

Anonymous said...

WHOOSH!
This pile of crap gets deeper by the day. WTH is going on in this district?
I think it's time for the state to step in and clean house. Geeze, maybe if we had a Governor he could step up and stop this train wreck by ordering a full scale audit.