Honesty is fundamental.

I promise to tell you the truth
about the public interests and
about my public service.

Or I will resign.

Honesty in government
could not possibly be more
fundamental.

How can you have government
of the people, by the people and
for the people, if the government is not honest with the people? The truth about how our power and resources are spent belongs to us.

If there is any confusion at all about where the line is, between the truth we should be told and the truth that we should not be told, that confusion must end now.

However transparent government will ever be,
is how transparent government should be right now.

However accountable to the people, politicians and public
servants will ever be, is how accountable they should be
right now.

However high the standards of conduct and competence
will ever be, is how high they should be right now.

Why make one more decision, why spend one more dime,
before government is made as open and accountable as
it will ever be?

However meaningful the participation of teachers and parents
in the decision making process, is how meaningful their
participation should be right now.

There is no one of us more qualified to fix our schools
than all of us. In particular, the 100,000 years of teaching
experience in the APS have a right to a seat at the table
where decisions are made.

The people have a seat at that table as well.

Voters in APS District 4, have a rather unique opportunity to
regain control over power and resources that are fundamentally their own.

All they have to do is demand the truth.

When the question is will you tell the truth?
any answer except yes means no.

Demand that candidates look you in the eye, raise their right arm and promise to tell the truth about the public interests and about their public service.

I offer my public service, every thing that I can do,
to carry these issues the table. There will be open and
honest public discussions of standards and accountability,
transparency and role modeling.

We will decide as a community whether or not
character counts.

... if you can manage to elect me to your seat on the APS
Board of Education in District 4.

"The right time
to do the right thing,
is always right now."

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photo Mark Bralley