In the Albuquerque Journal this morning,

you will find no mention of the fact that today is filing day
in the APS school board election.

The Journal actually told me once, when I was looking for exposure for my campaign in their pages, they "don't start covering the election until after filing day."

If you go to the Journal website and search for "2013 aps school board election" link, you will find no evidence that the Journal is about generating any interest in the February election; a turning point election in the course and success of the APS.  You will find no editorial interest; you will find no investigative interest.  You will find school menus (oddly, in the paper, but not on their website).

Understanding that the Journal's underlying interest is to sell advertising, and not necessarily to see to our need for information in order to vote next February, I would argue that an investigative report on credible evidence of an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS would sell as many newspapers as school lunch menus.

It's not that the Journal won't publish my allegation that the APS school board and administration is hiding evidence from the District Attorney.  It is that they won't even ask the board and supt to turn over the public records that settle the allegation once and for all.  Either the Caswell Report and findings of at least two other investigations into the corruption contain evidence of felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators, or they do not.

If they don't hold evidence of criminal misconduct, there's no reason to be hiding them, even in violation of the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act.  If they do hold evidence of criminal misconduct, they should have been turned over to the DA long ago - they haven't.

Either the Journal, meaning; Tommy Lang, Kent Walz, Charlie Moore, Karen Moses, whomever, won't ask to see the Caswell Report, or they won't report to voters, that they asked for it and were denied even a redacted copy.  They won't report that public records of public corruption in APS are being hidden from their inspection.

How do they explain that?  How do they justify it?  They don't.  They won't, even as the fourth school board election since I began asking the Journal to investigate and report upon the cover up of felony criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators, comes and goes.

Why?

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