Families United for Education to hold candidate forum unbeknownst to voters.

It's not the Families United for Education are doing anything to hide the forum.  The only reason I know anything about it at all, is because it was mentioned tangentially in a letter to the editors, link, written by one Tony Watkins, identified as one of their members.  According to Watkins, On Jan. 10 at 6 p.m., Families United for Education will be hosting a candidates forum for District 5 Candidates, at the Ladera Golf Course (3401 Ladera Dr. NW).  There is only one candidate in the race for the District 5 seat; the newly created west-side district.

APS claims no knowledge of the forum, they have, they say, asked candidates to keep the board office informed of any candidate forums they learn of.

This typical Journal coverage; the editors will spend more ink in one editorial chastising apathetic voters the day after the election, than they will spend during the whole election trying to interest voters in an election where APS' philosophical direction and more than a third of a billion dollars are at stake.

You would think a newspaper looking for newsworthy stories, would have a reporter sniffing around to see if anything was going on in the election that voters might want to know about - like candidate forums.  They might want to know about some of the issues in the election.

APS has their own forum scheduled,  – 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2013.  Details TBA.

It will be held in their castle keep where their publicly funded private police force can keep dissidence and dissidents in check, or, deny them entrance entirely.

If anyone knows of other forums, let me know, I'll publish them.