APS' Phill Casaus' libel

Phill Casaus was for a time, the editor of the Albuquerque Tribune. As such, he, and his paper took a lot of heat from me over their complicity or complacency in the cover up of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators, link.

As a reward for his complicity, I argued, link,  he was given membership in APS' good ol' boys club; a highly paid slot in APS as the Director of the APS Foundation, link.

The first time the Foundation drew my attention was when I found out that they had taken money they has solicited in the name of students, and spent instead on an administrative soiree at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, link.  At the time, Monica Armenta was the highly paid Director.  Now she is an even more highly paid Executive Director elsewhere in the APS.

In any case, Casaus apparently stumbled upon a story about a guy who carried a knife into a board meeting of some kind, link. Casaus copied the link and sent it to APS Supt Winston Brooks along with a message;

TUSD examining security at board meetings after knife incident

Brooks replied in manifest astonishment;

WOW! !!!

To which, Casaus replied;

Next time someine (sic) wants to know why ched can't come, show them this.

Brooks thought that was a great idea;

yep

I consider Casaus' efforts to be libelous, and  Brooks' agreement scandalous.

This isn't the first time Brooks has been party to a conversation about inappropriate weapons use.  Remember him telling School Board Member Robert Lucero to use a pistol to "take me out", link.

So really, same old, same old.




photo Mark Bralley