Elsy Fierro Speaks Out

It was during the public forum of the school board meeting.

APS Administrator Elsy Fierro confronted the leadership
of the APS over her scapegoating by Beth Everitt,
Nelinda Venegas, and Susie Peck.

Speaking after Ms. Fierro; her attorney Gail Stewart.

Unfortunately neither was allowed to speak on the record.

As a result, the version of the board meeting that
will be broadcast to the community will not contain
the allegations damning the leadership of the APS,
and the NMPED.

There was a KRQE cameraman at the meeting; I never saw a reporter.

KRQE has tape of both presentations.

I cannot locate a link to the video on the KRQE website;
perhaps it isn't up yet;
perhaps they don't intend to put it up at all.


Also not reported on their website;

any record of a protester standing in the back of the room
wearing an elephant head.

He was apparently protesting APS' elephant in the room;

the continuing refusal of the leadership of the APS
to explain, defend, or even acknowledge that they have
deliberately and methodically excepted themselves
from honest accountability to any standard of conduct
and competence at all, even the law.

When asked if he had made any record at all of the protest;
the reporter replied that it might be in a wide shot
but not in a close up.

Certainly not close enough to read "Peanut Butter Gate"
written on the elephant's forehead.

As soon as Monica Armenta spotted elephant man,
she made a bee line over to the reporter.

The reporter/cameraman claimed, twice,
that no one told him to ignore the protester.

Does School Board President Paula Maes,
President and CEO of the NM Broadcasters Assoc.
carry enough weight, that she can tell KRQE's
Michelle Donaldson how to shape the news?

If else, then;

All we have to believe, is that the reporter sent to report on
the dull old school board meeting,
didn't think that it was newsworthy,
or even in the least bit interesting,

that a protester was standing in the back of the board room
wearing an elephant head.

I'm not buying it. Are you?