As a character reference. Pete Domenici leaves a lot to be desired.

Pete Domenici has stepped up as a character reference for
NM 1 Congressional Candidate Darren White in a speech in
Los Ranchos (Albuquerque, NM).

The immediate problem is that Senator Pete Domenici's
own character has been called in question; a question that
he continues to duck.

There has been apparent corruption in an Albuquerque
Public Schools, Character Counts! Leadership Council.

It has become readily apparent that the local council was
formed for the purpose of securing a federal grant of some
$50K.

The apparent corruption stems from the fact that all of the
pertinent details of the council and the grant are being kept
secret from stakeholders;

• the names of the council members have been kept secret
• the details of the grant have been kept secret
• the President of the Character Counts! Leadership Council, one Paula Maes has publicly excepted herself from actual accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts, despite the fact that as the President of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education, she was the senior most role model of the Pillars, which represent the student standard of conduct in the APS
• Carole Smith, paid to administer the Character Counts!program in the Albuquerque Public Schools has refused to answer any questions about the Council, about the grant money, where it went, and how it was spent.
  

When Senator Domenici is asked, repeatedly, to respond to the allegations of Character Counts! corruption, he simply ignores the requests.

Senator Domenici is a bona fide founding father of
Character Counts!; albeit a dead beat founding father.

What good and ethical reason would there be for him to
ignore the allegations, except that they are true?

In the end, there is really only one reason to hide the truth.

In the end, it would appear that Darren White does not gain
much in a way of character reference from a man lacking the
character to shine any light at all on the dealings of the local
Character Counts! Leadership Council and the circumstances
under which they got their hands on 50K tax dollars.

Darren White and Pete Domenici are birds of a feather;

birds sans the character or the courage to tell the truth.