More false testimony from Marty Esquivel

False testimony; a crime that occurs when an individual willfully makes a false statement during a judicial proceeding, after he or she has taken an oath to speak the truth.

APS School Board President Marty Esquivel took an oath before he testified. He may or may not have a specific recollection of doing it, he looked "under the weather" at the time, but it is a matter of record.

He testified that the performing arts center at Eldorado High School was full during the gubernatorial debate in Aug 2010. In fact, there were a number of empty seats; his testimony is simply false.  To imply that the area reserved for the press "pen" was full, is simply false.

Esquivel, recording the evidence against him.

Esquivel swore that he hadn't prepared himself for his deposition by reviewing the evidence against him.

He hadn't even, he said, looked at the videotapes of the misconduct he claims drove him to banning me for life.

He hadn't reviewed even, the videotape he personally recorded at the Audit Committee ejection; a recording that contradicted his previous testimony and recollection of events.

So why would Esquivel claim the room was full if it wasn't?  He hadn't even been asked a question to which that information was an appropriate response.  It came out of left field (which was where Esquivel was playing from during most of his deposition).  I am astonished when people lie about little things in grave circumstances, and especially when the controverting truth is so easily accessible.  Does Esquivel really suppose that no photographs were taken of the room, that there is no controverting testimony from reliable witnesses?

I expect he thought he was helping out APS Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta.  Armenta is the subject of a complaint that she denied me her press "credentials" because I am "a longtime APS critic".  She will have the judge and jury believe that when she told me the reason I couldn't have her "credentials", it really was because the press "pen" was full.
The record reads otherwise, definitively.

Armenta giving me the "APS" thumb, ejecting me from the debate.

In any event, Esquivel was trying to shore up Armenta's indefensible position.

But because he didn't study for his deposition, he has done more harm than good.  Apparently he doesn't realize I wasn't ejected from the debate because I didn't have a trinket, bauble or badge from Armenta.  I was holding a bona fide ticket, I owned a seat.  It doesn't make any difference whether the place was going to be full or not; If it was full, it was because I held a seat.

As false testimony goes, lying about the size of a crowd might seem inconsequential.

Because Esquivel has not studied the standards for which he is the senior most role model in the entire APS, the Pillars of Character Counts!, link, he isn't aware that he expects students to pay attention to the little things, lest the little things grow into greater things.

"I see MacQuigg has found the food."

Esquivel, by and through the likes of APS Supt Winston Brooks, tells children to;

Trust that man in nothing who has not a Conscience in everything. L Sterne
And then shows them by their own personal example, why not.

Even the worst role models are still role models.

And before we go, one more "little" false testimony from Esquivel.  He testified that I have said that all APS administrators are corrupt.  I hear the same accusation a lot.

If you search the well over 5,000 posts on this blog for "all administrators are corrupt" you will find exactly zero occasions where I have averred such a ridiculous idea.

What I have said is, there are only two kinds of administrators and school board members;

1. the corrupt and the incompetent, and
2. those with guilty knowledge of incompetence and corruption.

I stand by that still.

There are good and decent people in the APS administration.  They are victims of a system that enables the abuse of power, that retaliates against anyone who says you can't do that to any one of the good ol' boys.

Though none has stood up as said as much, there might even be some who are willing, for the few hours a day they expect students to model and promote the Pillars of Character Counts!, to hold themselves honestly accountable to them as well.

I accuse Kent Walz and rest of the establishment media, of helping Esquivel and Brooks cover up an on going, deeply rooted and widespread ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS

... still  ...again.




photos Mark Bralley
"APS thumb" ched macquigg