Zsombor Peter lets APS' Brad Winter slide on the truth

APS Chief Operations Officer Brad Winter has a secret;
the true extent of the squandering of the public trust and
treasure at 6400 Uptown Blvd; the endlessly renovated
APS Uptown Administrative Complex.

Before the center was purchased, taxpayers were promised
that an economy would result; that despite its high initial
cost, taxpayers would save money in the end.

Among other assurances, taxpayers were told that
APS administrators would occupy only half the building,
and the other half would be rented out to cover expenses.

A quick tour of the building reveals that APS administrators
and their entourage have instead,
filled every nook and cranny.

There has not been a single day, apparently, that renovation
has not been underway. As far as taxpayers are concerned,
APS Uptown Center is a money pit.

Every dollar that flows into that money pit,
is a dollar that cannot be spent improving the lives of
students and staff at more remote locations; like classrooms.

While Brad Winter was signing checks to build a fancy
new board room; an utterly unjustifiable extravagance,
students at Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School
were being rained on, in portable classrooms being used to
twice their life expectancy.

While Tom Ryan's techno toy chest was being filled with
state of the art electronic gadgetry, Brad Winter was
involved in suspending fire safety inspections in schools
to save money to pay for it.

Brad Winter is justifiably ashamed of the amount of money,
read tax dollars, that have been squandered there.

He is so ashamed, that when asked for a candid, forthright
and honest accounting of spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd;
he can only stonewall in response to the question.

At least, he can stonewall my question.

My belief is that he could not so easily stonewall the
Albuquerque Journal. If he did, and they reported same
to stakeholder taxpayers, the public outrage would end
the arrogance that allows the leadership of the APS to
simply ignore the legitimate questions of stakeholders.

But the fact is, Zsombor Peter, Journal education reporter,
will not ask the question;

Brad Winter,
Will you surrender a candid, forthright and honest
accounting of all of the spending at the
Uptown Administrative Complex?

Zsombor Peter will not ask the question, and report upon
the response, for one or more of only a few reasons;

• the story is not newsworthy; and/or,
• the story is newsworthy, but he cannot see it; and/or,
• he is being prevented from asking the question by Kent Walz, or someone of his ilk, who is superordinate to the young reporter; and/or,
• he is afraid to stand toe to toe with the leadership of the APS and ask them tough questions; and/or,
• he is corrupt; he is not telling the story as part of a deliberate effort to continue to deceive stakeholders.

If the story were in fact, un-newsworthy, it would mean that the facts are not of sufficient interest or importance to the public to warrant reporting in the media. The story is not one
that reader stakeholders must know, or need to know, or should know, will want to know, or would be interested to know. And it is less newsworthy than any other story that Zsombor Peter has written about the APS.

Perhaps we can agree that the story is newsworthy.

Zsombor Peter himself, denies superordinate pressure.

Which leaves us with; incompetence, cowardice, and/or
corruption.

Offered an opportunity to clear up the issue;
if only by an anonymous comment;

Zsombor Peter (and the Journal) have nothing to say.

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