Domenici Endorses Scofflaw Darren White

Senator Pete Domenici feels that Darren White would make a good congressman despite White's egregious disregard for open government laws. White is currently hiding public records of the criminal misuse of the BCSO NCIC criminal background check system.

As a native New Mexican, I have witnessed first hand the service of Pete Domenici. I have been more than satisfied with his service, and I have voted for him repeatedly.

Until he betrayed Character Counts.

Domenici is a founding father of Character Counts!. He sat with the others in Aspen Colorado, in 1993, and created a model for character education that remains one of the most respected and widely recognized programs in the country.

He was asked personally to intervene when the leadership of the APS renounced the student standard of conduct, the Pillars of Character Counts, as the standard for their own conduct.

Domenici refused to defend Character Counts against the leadership of the APS, who wants to be held accountable to no standards at all.

In fairness, my communications with the Senator were likely interfered with by the Senator's assistant Lisa Breeden. As a member of APS Character Counts Leadership Council, she refused to intervene when APS abandoned Character Counts. She refused to carry my message to the leadership council, whose membership is a closely guarded secret. (link)

I would not be surprised to find she hid the problem from the Senator.

In which case, he could now stand on the record, and challenge the school board on their abdication as role models of the student standard of conduct, and their renunciation of the Pillars of Character Counts as their standard of conduct.

This would address the concern that what he and Darren White have in common, is a willingness to betray their principles, in order to protect other good ole boys from the consequences of their incompetence and corruption.