Esquivel continues to hide emails

NM FOG Vice President and Defendant Marty Esquivel continues to refuse to produce the email record surrounding his decision to write a letter banning me from school board meetings for life.

Among the emails Esquivel won't produce are exchanges between Esquivel and the district's lawyers.  He claims they are protected by attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine.

Let's begin by pointing out that attorney-client "protection" belongs to the client.  It is Esquivel's decision alone, whether to take advantage of it. It is his decision to hide behind the shield, rather than accept the consequences of his incompetence and his corruption.

Esquivel is the senior most role model of a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts, link.

He doesn't want to be a role for a number of reasons.  Not the least of them is the obligation to role model for students, staff and community, the willingness to do

more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Maybe the law allows Esquivel all manner of loopholes, technicalities and legal weaselry, but honest accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts! do not.  Esquivel chose to make himself a role model for nearly 90,000 of this community's sons and daughters.  No one forced him to run for the school board. 
He ran, he was elected, he became a role model.

Nothing changes that; nothing.



photo Mark Bralley