She's so special.

This is Beth Everitt. She is special. She is the senior administrator in the administration of a billion tax dollars a year.

She is a public servant. She has a responsibility to the public. She has a responsibility to tell the truth in response to legitimate questions.

Stonewalling is not an acceptable term of her public service.

The terms of her public service are the prerogative of the public; and the public has not given her permission to stonewall.

• Will you furnish an honest accounting of the spending at the Uptown Administrative Complex?
• Will you surrender the truth about the principal shuffle?
• Will you surrender the truth about the scandal in the APS police department?
• Will you surrender the truth about the scandal in APS finances?
• Will you surrender the truth about the gradegate scandal?
• Did you trade your silent resignation for a promise that your would not be evaluated by the board this year; as was required by board policy?
• Will you surrender your administration to an immediate, full scale forensic audit of the conduct of those under your supervision and within your responsibility?
• Will you surrender the truth about the APS/Modrall relationship and the nature of the million dollar a year litigation done on the behalf of the leadership of the APS and Board President Paula Maes?

These are all legitimate questions.

Our expectation that Superintendent Everitt respond to them candidly, forthrightly, and honestly, is legitimate.

She was paid a quarter of a million dollars a year to protect public power and resources from waste. And because waste is the sum incompetence and corruption; her job was to establish a meaningful standard of conduct, and then enforce that standard consistently.

She did neither.

Her job was to eliminate corruption and incompetence through honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct.

She did not.

Beth Everitt cannot be made to explain, defend, or even acknowledge what appears to be an egregious betrayal of the public interest.

Because she's so special,

special at least to Phill and Kent. (link)


(photo by Mark G. Bralley)