Friday, August 01, 2008

Kari Brandenburg cannot be re-elected.

Once upon a time;

There was some "alleged" corruption in the administrative
leadership of the APS.

The school board hired (with tax dollars) an independent
private investigator. The private investigator compiled a
written document detailing what he found.

Undoubtedly, names were named.

The leadership of the APS/Modrall says that it doesn't
have to surrender this public record to public knowledge.

They claim to be protected from the requirements of the
New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act,
by loopholes and technicalities in the language in the Act.

They claim to be able to hide the entire report under
"personnel protections" read "good ol' boy protections".

They promised to hand the report over to District Attorney Kari Brandenburg for investigation. Brandenburg's charge was to determine whether or not criminal behavior had taken place; and whether or not to prosecute criminal charges.

It is now going on two years.

Brandenburg says; the investigation is complicated and will take a really long time.

Although, it would appear, all she has to do is read the report
of the imminently acceptable independent private investigator.

Brandenburg has also claimed to be "too busy".

Although, at the same time, she has enough free time
to invite her radio talk show listeners to call her on her office
phone, to clear up any boggle the might have about
the cookie recipe Brandengburg had just shared with her
listeners.

I would like to know;

  • what is in the report, and
  • whether or not the leadership of the APS actually turned
    the document over to Kari Brandenburg or not; and
  • if senior APS administrators were involved in criminal misconduct; or not, and
  • if criminal charges will be filed, and
  • I would like to know if there is a cover up
  • and if Congressional Candidate Darren White is implicated in the misconduct and in the cover up.
I would like to know what District Attorney Kari Brandenburg
is going to do about credible allegations of felony criminal
misconduct.

District Attorney Kari Brandenburg will not answer
legitimate questions about the betrayal of the public trust
by public servants, within their public service.

Neither will Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White.

Redaction is the process by which public records are groomed
before their surrender to public knowledge. Used correctly,
it protects people's rights under the process.

According to Juris Mustelidae, legal weaselry,
redaction means;
blacken every word except the ones
specifically and individually protected by the law.

and allow them only after exhausting every method
of appeal, and

only upon the order of a judge.

Win, win at any cost. Cost is no object.


According to ethical standards; redaction means;
leaving as many words as possible
without clear and incontrovertible violation of the law;

every effort to surrender as many words as possible.

Ethical redaction of public records is a reasonable expectation of a senior public servant responding to a bona fide request for public records.

Legal redaction is required only by the lowest acceptable standard of conduct; the law.

Stonewalling is worse still.

It is silence telling a lie.

Kari Brandenburg is lying to the people of Bernalillo County.

And at the same time, running for re-election as
the senior most law enforcement officer
in the Rio Grande Valley.

Bernalillo County Sheriff, Darren White is lying the people
in the 1st Congressional District, while running for congress.


And the Journal can't seem to find a reason to bring this all up.

Nor can the news directors at; KOB, KOAT, KKOB, and KRQE.


wtf

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

NCLB test scores are in the updated journal online. Not looking too good!


http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8155&Itemid=2

Unknown said...

As to time it takes and what cases are chosen for prosecution -

I think it takes both a good case and the willingness of an ADA to get behind it, to be willing to take the scorn and flames of the GOBs that are allied with the person being indicted.

There are SO many cases, white collar is understaffed for real. In the DAs office, in the Police offices, you name it, white collar has staffing issues. What gets prosecuted is a miracle.

I have my heroes in school government, ethical men and ladies who did right - Al Wesson, "Bullet" Bob Casey, James Dorn, Steve Tellez, Al Prezbelinski, Robin Hammer.

The trick is getting all of those people lined up in other situations, the equivilants of all those good people doing the right thing in their turn to get a school crook prosecuted EVERY TIME.

Anonymous said...

There's got to be some personal link between Brandenburg and Modrall. Or perhaps, a favor owed, perhaps a distant family connection?
Of course lawyers are like mafia, they stick together.
She'll sit on it until it expires.
either way she's not doing her job and violating public trust.