The length of a news cycle approximates the attention span of the public.
The editorial (link, sub req) about hiding the truth at Madison Middle School will be forgotten by the next editorial. It will not be added to the other parts;
which themselves have not been added together.
People forget that the truth hiding at Madison, followed the truth hiding in the APS Finance Department, the truth hiding in grade gate, the truth hiding in the APS Police Department scandal, the truth hiding in Micheal Vigil's drunk driving arrest, and the truth hiding about every other senior administrator who was given a few hundred thousand tax dollars along with their discharge; which followed the truth hiding in the M&O scandal (which cost taxpayers as much as a half million dollars),
which accompanies the truth hiding about spending at the Uptown Administrative Complex.
It would appear that unless all of the parts appear in one news cycle;
unless either the Journal, the Trib, or TV news investigates and reports upon the widespread and deeply embedded suppression of the truth by the leadership of the APS; (an investigation which would reveal far more examples than are served by my poor memory);
stakeholders will never assemble the parts into a sum
greater than the parts; the sum conclusion that;
the leadership of the APS cannot be trusted
to tell the truth.
And if the leadership of the APS can not be trusted
to tell stakeholders the un-spun and honest truth,
Is it not time for a full scale forensic audit
of accountability in the administration of the public
trust, and power, and resources, in the APS?
Is it not time to replace the leadership of the APS
with people that the community can trust?
Monday, October 29, 2007
the whole, is greater than the sum of the parts
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Open government group names DeLayo as new executive director
Associated Press - October 29, 2007 5:25 PM ET
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A veteran New Mexico attorney and former school board president has been named executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.
Leonard DeLayo Jr. succeeds Robert Johnson, a longtime journalist and Associated Press executive who helped start the foundation in the late 1980s.
Johnson guided FOG as its executive director for several years, until his death in August.
FYI - From channel 13
DeLayo was appointed (Friday) by FOG's board of directors.
He spent 20 years on the Albuquerque Board of Education and his law career spans 30 years.
He says he's honored by his appointment and hopes to continue the dedication to good government established by Johnson.
Among his top priorities is expanding FOG's membership base and its support in the community.
Personally, I can not think of a worse person for the job.
DeLayo, while on the board, assisted in the demise of a motion that would have required board members and administrators to tell the truth in response to legitimate questions.
He voted with the majority in every board action that excepted the board from accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct.
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