Korte pops her cork. Again.

APS School Board Member Kathy Korte is nothing if not willing to speak her mind.

Korte does nothing, if not let people know how she feels;

Korte, moments after attacking photojournalist Mark Bralley, link.

In general, speaking ones mind is a good thing.

I have fought long and hard for the right of the people to speak their minds, in particular at public fora.

But there are limits.

If an issue is legitimate, there is an opportunity for civil discussion of it.  Legitimate issues need civil discussion if they are to be resolved.

If one is a public servant like Korte is, there is an obligation to provide open, honest and civil public discussion of important issues.

As one of the very senior most role models of student standards of conduct in the entire APS, Kathy Korte has a responsibility to show students what civil discussion of important issues looks like.

One of the single best tools to use to enable civil discussion is a competent facilitator.  Korte has made it clear she has no need for facilitation either, link.

Korte's actual record is of opposing open and honest public discussions of any issues, link, and link.

On top of everything else, Korte is a bit of a hypocrite.

While proclaiming on TV; APS doesn't have a penny to waste,
I would bet dollars to donuts that Korte was voting in favor of
not settling the complaints we have made against them in federal court.

Her actual vote on the issue is a secret of course, just like everything else they do in their in secret meetings to decide how our power and resources will be spent defending administrators and school board members who have broken the law from the law and from the consequences of breaking the law.

Esquivel one-upped Korte on hypocrisy, the Journal reporting;

Esquivel said it’s ironic that Korte chairs the board’s community relations committee because her “slash-and-burn” rhetoric discourages people with differing viewpoints from communicating with the board.

Ironic because his banning people for communicating those different viewpoints to the board face to face, has the same effect; discouraging open and honest two-way communication between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve.

At one point, Esquivel's arrogance in banning me for life from school board meetings, would have cost taxpayers only around twenty thousand dollars to settle several complaints of his violations of my civil rights.

Because they can, the leadership of the APS chose to not settle, and has spent already; three quarters of a million dollars in what can only be described as a cost is no object defense of Marty Esquivel's ego.

I think it is fair to say that they are spending without meaningful oversight.

In especially, by the "credentialed" press;
the Journal, KRQE, KOAT and KOB TV.




photo Mark Bralley