Discharging ethically, the high responsibilities of public office.

Albuquerque State Senator Tim Eichenberg's recently passed
legislation, places APS' School Board under the auspices of the
Governmental Conduct Act, link.

Tomorrow morning the Policy Committee will meet, link, to figure out how to minimize their actual accountability under the Act.

I cannot go to the meeting to protest what they will do,
because School Board President Paula Maes, ex-School Board
President Marty Esquivel, and the Chief of the APS Police
Department Steve Tellez, will have me arrested if I do. They
will employ their publicly funded private police force; their
Praetorian Guard, to stifle my dissent by enforcing Esquivel's
utterly illegal restraining order, link.

According to the Governmental Conduct Act; under "Ethical Principles of Public Service

"A legislator, public officer or employee shall conduct himself in a manner that justifies the confidence placed in him by the people, at all times maintaining the integrity and discharging ethically the high responsibilities of public service."(emphasis added)

It stands to reason, in order to behave ethically one must adhere to ethical standards of conduct. One cannot claim to be accountable to a code of ethics if in truth, they are only accountable to the law; a lower standard of conduct.

The School Board will discuss and deal with their compliance with the requirements of the law, without ever identifying any ethical code of conduct as their standards, and without establishing any real and honest accountability to them even if they did exist.

The School Board has a Code of Ethics. By their own admission
it is absolutely unenforceable; there is no place to file a
complaint that they have failed to meed ethical standards.
You cannot, for example, take them to court for their
abandonment of ethical standards and of any real accountability to them.

That the board will conduct this discussion without discussing
ethics or accountability is a manifest example of failing to
discharge their responsibilities ethically.

They will get away with it because there is no place to file a
complaint over their failure.

That and the fact that, the Journal and the rest of the establishment media don't think any of this is "newsworthy" enough to investigate and report upon.