APS School Board President and Defendant Marty Esquivel can't stand that I don't respect him; not personally, not as the School Board President, and most especially, I do not respect him as the district's senior most role model of the Pillars of Character Counts!
If you ask him if he takes personal offense, if it upsets him when I point to his cowardice and corruption, he will tell you no. "Consider the source" I believe, are his exact words.
Clearly it does bother him that I do not respect him as a School Board President. No where, any where, does it say that the people have to respect politicians and public servants. Our rights do not hinge on our willingness to kiss a ring before we exercise them.
There is, "respect for the office". Respect for the office is manifest in the laws that govern the conduct of the people in the presence of their servants. Respect for the office allows bona fide police officers to arrest anyone for an unlawful expression of their disrespect.
Esquivel, self proclaimed First Amendment authority, admitted in his deposition, that I have never broken the law.
He would like to hold me accountable to higher standards of conduct than the law, co-incidentally the very same thing I am trying to do to him. There is a difference, the higher standards he has in mind for me, are whatever he would like them to be. The higher standards I have in mind for him are the Pillars of Character Counts!; a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct; and most importantly, the same standards of conduct Esquivel et al, established and enforce upon students.
"Students will model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!"Esquivel imagines himself a judge, sitting high above a courtroom, giving orders that no one questions. In particular, he imagines the power to "send someone to jail" for having the temerity to stand up and say, you can't do that.
Having no courtroom to rule over, he imagines the John Milne boardroom is a court room. He imagines he can have people arrested for standing up and saying, you can't do that.
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| Esquivel losing it; I was photographing him while he was videotaping us. |
He imagines, he is going to get away with it.
That's not going to happen; I will accept
- his confession,
- his conviction, or
- his resignation
The APS board is hiding from a presentation of a "case analysis" of my suit against them and the district. The board doesn't want to know the truth.
Why not, except to provide plausible deniability, wikilink;
they just "didn't know" that Esquivel and Brooks and Armenta and Tellez were spending operational dollars, dollars which could and should be spent in classrooms instead, trying to litigate against the public interests and at great taxpayer expense.
Taxpayers are not outraged, because Journal Editor Kent Walz has decided to not tell them the truth about what's going on in APS' City Center.He has decided to not investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in leadership of the APS.
He, is by the way, a "Journalist".
And a damn fine one, by Esquivel's estimation.
photos Mark Bralley
3 comments:
About 4 years ago, Charactor Counts! organization and APS had an official parting of the ways. CC! even removed them thereafter as a subscriber.
Principals were quietly told to create their own CC!-like programs in each school, but NOT to use the CC! resources, because I believe it is an infringement on copyright if you are not a subscriber.
I saw the CC! district resources all piled up in a closet at the towers and I asked about it. The office that was storing them said they were no longer to be used.
As far as I know, neither the board, nor APS HQ will give a reason why we broke w/ CC!
Do you know anything about that?
Of course I do. They secretly renounced CC! when the Domenici money ran out. That and when it finally dawned on them that they had obligated themselves as role models of higher standards of conduct than the law. In particular, they don't want to be accountable to any standard of conduct that requires them to tell the truth in response to a legitimate question like; how much money have they spent at 6400 Uptown Blvd?
even CC! organization lacked character when I simply asked them if APS was no longer part of their organization, as they were no longer on the CC! national roster.
"No comment" was basically their response.
Not a big sin, but still, but they could have been clear bout the status.
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