Open Letter to "Outsider" Candidates for APS Superintendent

As you may not, but should know.

The APS is run by a good ol' boys club,
and has been for generations.

The good ol' boys in the APS are currently led by
Paula Maes and her husband's law firm, the Modrall.

Modrall has made millions of tax dollars
off unwitting taxpayers, litigating exception to the law
for the good ol' boys in the APS.

And, in the absence of any honest accountability to any
meaningful standards of conduct or competence,
the good ol' boys have made a real mess of things,
it's been one scandal after another.

The public records of which,
APS and Modrall continues to keep secret from stakeholders,
taxpayers and voters.

At huge tax payer expense.

It is part of an ongoing conspiracy to cover up
felony criminal misconduct, and it involves;

the current leadership of the APS, and

the District Attorney, Kare Brandenburg
who continues to hide evidence from stakeholders
of felony criminal misconduct.

and

Local sheriff and congressional candidate Darren White,
who's resources were used in the criminal activity,
and who has his own cover up going on.

You can not count on the local media,
who have kept the ethics and accountability scandal
in the leadership of the APS,
secret from stakeholders through at least three elections.

If one scours their coverage of the last three APS
elections; one school board, one mill levy, and one
bond issue; totaling a half a billion dollars,

one will find no mention of accountability issues or
the crushing need for an impartial full scale
accountability audit.

Against the public interest, they will not
carry the issue to their readers and viewers;
for no other apparent reason than to cover the asses
of Paula Maes, Modrall, and the rest of the members
of the APS good ol' boys club.

Even though;

The Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson
admits that the leadership of the APS has an
"... earned statewide reputation for its lack of accountability..."

and

The Mayor of Albuquerque, Marty Chavez,
argued that the lack of accountability in the leadership
of the APS, including on the school board,
warranted a mayor take over of the school board.

and

The President of the Greater Albuquerque
Chamber of Commerce, Terri Cole, agreed with him.



The media has not, and will not investigate and
report upon the self evident lack of administrative
accountability in the APS.



The most egregious lack of accountability that they have
hidden from stakeholders is the the abdication by
the leadership of the APS of all of their obligations
as role models of the student standard of conduct.

The entire senior leadership of the APS
has deliberately and methodically excepted itself
from honest accountability to any meaningful standard
of conduct and competence at all, as public servants.


They have been tested, and they failed.

Should an outsider have the perquisite character and courage,
they may try to pull the sword from the stone.

The test question;

As the senior most administrative role model
of the student standard of conduct;
will you hold yourself honestly accountable to
the student standard of conduct;
the Pillars of Character Counts!

The good ol' boys that run the APS
were asked the question, and they are still stonewalling
to this day.

They have failed their test,
and now they want to make sure that the outsiders
will not have the opportunity to pass the test
that they failed, so miserably.

Were an outsider given the opportunity,
and if they had the necessary character and courage

to establish meaningful standards
of conduct and competence for public servants
in the leadership of the APS

and honest accountability to those standards.

That candidate would have the immediate and full support of
stakeholders, who are anxious to end the corruption
and incompetence that good ol' boys tolerate
from each other.

Paula Maes, Modrall and the good ol' boys would
play hell trying to hire Linda, or Dickie,
or one of the other of you who is a good ol' boy
looking for a good ol' superintendency to slip into.

The Pillars of Character Counts!
prohibit corruption and unmitigated incompetence.

They prohibit hiding corruption and incompetence.

There are no meaningful standards of
conduct or competence for the leadership of the APS.

The Council of the Great City Schools wrote,

"... administrative evaluations are subjective and
unrelated to promotion or step placement..." and
"... the culture of the leadership of the APS is one
of fear of retribution and retaliation ..." and
"... the leadership of the APS routinely hides the
truth in a deliberate effort to mislead stakeholders ..."

Believe that Paula Maes and Modrall will do everything
in their power to avoid the circumstance where you will be
asked, on the record, to explain and defend your intentions
with respect to the first
APS' Administrative Accountability Audit.

Believe that I will do everything in my power
to create the circumstance where you will have ample
opportunity at your moment of truth about the audit,
to manifest your courage and your character in public
and on the record.



Any answer except yes
... is no.