KOAT survey; no extension for Brooks

KOAT TV is running a survey, link, asking viewers whether
APS Supt Winston Brooks' contract should (have been) extended.

Though the poll is unscientific, the results are staggering,
85% of nearly 700 respondents would not have extended
his contract.

Board President Marty Esquivel said, after his re-election,
that APS needed to pay more attention to public opinion.
And then he went ahead, behind the people's back, and
extended Brooks' contract anyway. The contract is extended
even beyond the election of a majority of board seats in 2013.

KOAT TV's news director Sue Stephens is part of a cover up
of corruption in the leadership of the APS. She is responsible
for the fact that an expose of Esquivel's denial of due process
to hundreds of whistle blower complaints never aired.

Had she run the story, Esquivel would never have been
re-elected and the board likely would not have given Brooks
an extension he has not earned and did not deserve.

The same can be said for Kent Walz and his Journal.
Had he and they told the truth about the corruption and
incompetence in the leadership of the APS, Esquivel would
not have been re-elected, the contract would not have been
extended, and he and the other editors would not have had
to write an editorial complaining about the extension.

Good job Sue Stephens. Good job Kent Walz, Ellen Marks
and D'Val Westphal.