NM FOG credibility wound self-inflicted

The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, link, has had more than enough time to cleanse its Board of Directors, link, of a few bad apples;

• Vice President Terri Cole, President and CEO, Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce
• Secretary Kent Walz Editor, Albuquerque Journal
• Treasurer Patrick J. Rogers, Shareholder, Modrall Sperling Roehl Harris & Sisk
• Martin Esquivel, APS School Board
• Iain Munro, News Director, KRQE News 13/KASA Fox 2

Each of these people has in there own way, aided and abetted the cover up of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

Patrick J Rogers is included, not because of anything he has done personally, but as the face of Modrall Law. They make a killing every year with their legal weaselry and unlimited budget, litigating exception to the (open government) law for senior administrators and board members.

While law firms can represent whomever they want in whatever manner they want; if they are about hiding government from the people, they probably should not have a seat on the executive board of a foundation for open government.

Birds of a feather flock together.
everybody's mother

Terri Cole betrayed her commitment
to Character Counts! when she
refused to stand up in protest when
the entire leadership of the APS
renounced their accountability as
role models, to that nationally
recognized, accepted and respected
code of ethical conduct.





Kent Walz is up to his eyeballs in the cover up of the cover up of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators and their publicly funded private police force.

He and Marty Esquivel bamboozled the rest of the board into giving APS Supt Winston Brooks a Dixon Award for hiding public records of the public corruption in the APS Police Department.


There was a time when Marty Esquivel was the senior-most role model of the student standards of conduct, in the entire APS.

Yet he will not look you in the eye and tell you why he will not hold himself actually and honestly accountable as a role model by holding himself accountable to the same standards of conduct he established and enforces upon APS students.

He will not look you in the eye and tell you why he abandoned his support of the need for an independent district wide standards and accountability audit.

He will not look you in the eye and tell you why he and the board reneged on their promise to address the conflict of interests when administrators adjudicate whistleblower complaints against other administrators, by having the board individually review and approve the handling of any complaints.

He will not look you in the eye and tell you why evidence of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators is being kept from the district attorney despite, or perhaps because of, expiring statutes of limitation.

Iain Munro, news director, could assign a competent reporter to investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS. But he has not, and there is no indication that he ever will.

He could assign a competent reporter to investigate and report upon the secret hiring of a Chief of Police willing to cover up the cover up of felony criminal misconduct in the APS Police Department. But he won't.


NM FOG may have a new look on its website;
but the look on the board hasn't changed.




photos Mark Bralley