The Journal reports this morning, link, that the leadership of the UNM is not going to answer any more questions about the latest Locksley dust up.
UNM Athletics Vice President denied that UNM Head Football Coach Michael Locksley ever told Journal reporter Greg Archuleta that he would be the only member of the media who would be allowed to watch a videotape of the incident between Locksley and a Daily Lobo reporter.
"We are emphatic that we didn't say that," UNM Athletics Vice President Paul Krebs said ..."Except that, Archuleta has a digital recording of the interview with Locksley confirming that is exactly what Locksley said.
The recording reveals that Locksley also boasted that his friend, the own of the bar where the incident took place, "... ain't givin' it to nobody else."
Now the UNM, backed into a corner, has taken the same position it took to end Locksleygate Part 1, they refuse to answer any more questions.
UNM President David Schmidly has managed to stay out of the affray so far; conspicuously absent at a time when in a "the buck stops here" kind of a way, he should be stepping up to make sure the truth is told. He still has not responded to requests for an impartial investigation of his handling of Locksleygate 1, which included a referendum by the Graduate and Professional Students Association demanding same.
UNM has disposed of the videotape; a public record. Despite the contrary opinion offered by NM Foundation for Open Government Director Sarah Welsh there may well be a violation of the law concerning the retention of public records.
We will never know, I suppose, because these particular public servants think they can get away with refusing to answer legitimate questions about their public service and about the spending of the people's power and resource.
The sick truth is; they can.
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