Journal caps cover up with an endorsement

The School Board race saw the Journal continue to cover up the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS. They never investigated and reported upon

• Marty Esquivel's part in the cover up of the corruption in the APS Police Department that allowed senior APS administrators to elude prosecution for felony criminal misconduct, link,
• Esquivel's part in denying due process to more than 300 whistleblower complaints against administrators, and
• Esquivel's abdication from senior role model of the APS Student Standards of Conduct.
• Esquivel's illegal restraining order banning me from exercising my constitutionally protected human rights to free speech and to petition my government at board meetings. Esquivel lied to a local blogger about the ban and was exposed when I published the restraining order, link, that he denied having written.
  

No one, not in APS and not at the Journal, has denied even one of the allegations. They would if they could. The Journal has endorsed Esquivel despite overwhelming evidence of his corruption. The truth will come out eventually on the treachery; Esquivel and the Journal will be exposed.

Journal editors Kent Walz, Ellen Marks, and D'Val Westphal each have personal knowledge of the allegation that they are part of a cover up for Esquivel's sake, and refuse to answer any questions about their betrayal of their readers trust.

The endorsement from the editorial staff did not disclose their intimate relationship with Esquivel. I was mentioned tangentially in the endorsement; the editors praised Esquivel on the fact that he is not a "gadfly".

In a first in my experience, the editors claimed they "had no time" to actually interview candidates in person before making their endorsement; not that it would have made any difference. I would have used my interview to ask them a question; is there any good and ethical reason that the Journal has not investigated and reported upon credible allegations of public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS? I would have published their answer of course, and that is why they won't provide one.

I just got my third or fourth political mailer from Esquivel; that and a robo-call. It would appear that Esquivel is on his way toward spending more money than has ever been spent on a school board run; more in fact, than the job pays.

Esquivel intends to extend Winston Brooks golden parachute to three years.

APS, it appears, will continue along it present path without so much as a hiccup. This entire exercise has been all for naught.