Paula Maes' behavior is disgraceful

APS School Board President Paula Maes is the very senior-most role model in the entire APS.

She once said, in an open meeting and on the record, that she would never agree to any audit that individually identified corrupt or incompetent administrators.

Since then, she, the rest of the board and senior administration have been hiding the Caswell Report; the final report on an investigation into felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators; a report that names the names of senior administrators and describes the felonies they committed.  When, if, the establishment's media ever investigates and reports upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools, "there won't be a single senior administrator (or board member) left standing."

Nor will Paula Maes be left standing.

I have for some time, been pointing to Maes', other board members' and administrators' conduct as role models for students, employees and community members.  In particular, I have been riding the establishment's media for their failure to step up with the truth.  Their relentless refusal to investigate and report upon credible allegations and evidence of the ethics and accountability scandal, is obvious.  I don't have to prove they're part of the cover up, it is self evident.

I have been told, that in her capacity as the New Mexico Broadcasters Association President and CEO, link,  she is telling people I am a pedophile; a completely, utterly unwarranted accusation, unsupported by even one iota of truth.

An accusation unsubstantiated by any evidence or testimony.  An accusation which would have been proven ten times over if there was any way in the world the leadership of the APS and all of their unscrupulous lawyers best efforts could prove anything at all, except that her accusation is made maliciously, and in retaliation for my efforts to hold her personally accountable as a role model of the standards she establishes and enforces upon students.

I took photographs of students sagging.  If you search Google images for sagging, you will find nine and half million photos like the ones I took.  The real problem with the photographs was that they documented the principals incompetence; they proved he routinely permitted prohibited behavior.  Saggers were in charge at Hoover Middle School.

Paula Maes held in her hand, or willfully ignored, a polygraph test proving false, that and all of a number of other allegations made by, or on behalf of, a principal and his assistant, both of whom were described by a former New Mexico State Supreme Court Chief Justice as "lacking credibility in the face of contradictory testimony from any other witness."

It is only the latest attempt to destroy my credibility and my reputation in retribution and retaliation, first for my efforts to hold my corrupt and incompetent principal accountable for his conduct and competence, and ultimately, for my efforts to hold a much longer list of senior administrators and board members accountable for their failure to hold him and themselves accountable; honestly accountable as a role model of the APS Student Standards of Conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct.


When her corruption and incompetence becomes known, Maes will be compelled to resign in disgrace.  Her only defense against legitimate allegations of corruption and incompetence at the highest levels of the leadership of the APS, is to destroy the messenger; me.

Assume everything she accuses me of is true; imagine I have no reason at all to point to credible evidence and testimony of their corruption except that I want to "get even with them"; so what?

School board enforcer Marty Esquivel

Assume everything that Marty Esquivel has called me;
a personal and professional failure, obsessed, a crybaby, unhealthy, unproductive, a gadfly, a critic, a liar, gutless, lacking integrity, misleading and, a nutcase, is true; so what?

So what?  The pile of evidence and testimony is still sitting there.  It doesn't make any difference who brought it or why.  My credibility is irrelevant; the evidence stands on its own.  I am not the story.

Meanwhile, Paula Maes cronies in the NM Broadcasters Association, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB, are ignoring the pile according to her interests.

The Journal, City Editor Charlie Moore, is ignoring credible evidence and testimony of an ethics and accountability scandal on the school board and in the senior administration of the APS, according to the interests of board members and senior administrators.

All any of them have to do to respond to any of these allegations, is to respond to the allegations.   Simply explain why the findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators are still secret from public knowledge; even as statutes of limitation expire on their felony criminal misconduct.

Or why hundreds of legitimate complaints against administrators are being denied the due process promised in School Board Policy.

Or why the truth about student discipline, bullying, and criminal statistics, is being manipulated or outright hidden.

Or why the APS Police; a publicly funded private police force, is the only agency of law enforcement to investigate felony criminal misconduct in their own leadership.

Or why their Praetorian Guard, is being used to enforce Esquivel's utterly unlawful restraining order.  The order barring me from asking legitimate questions at public forums; a Constitutionally protected human right to assemble freely in front of, speak freely to and about, and to petition my government in any manner consistent with the law and the Pillars of Character Counts!.

Or that the entire "leadership" of the APS is derelict in their duty to lead by their personal example, to step up as role models of honest accountability to higher standards of conduct than the law.

And none of it is newsworthy.




photos Mark Bralley