Paula Maes Modrall, school board president and president of the nm broadcasters association

lead the school board in pushing the public forum off of the public record to dodge honest accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct.

the district's lawyers; your lawyers, from her husband's law firm, and a few members of her publicly funded, private police force were there to help.

a dozen or so falsified records were then broadcast to stakeholders.

You still haven't read about it in the Journal or the Tribune,
and you haven't seen it on the news.

self exception from accountability

is the bedrock privilege of the privileged class.

It is the privilege that enables all privileges.

they will fight against transparency and accountability in public service

they do not want to undergo the paradigm shift. our power and resources will no longer be at their personal disposal.

they will become public servants again.

an honest audit of anyone

will be opposed by everyone,
who will not be audited themselves.

aps tax would go for repairs

aps argued through its media friends at the Journal.

the public trust and treasure will not be squandered as usual.
aps' Brad Winter says that public interests are protected by an advisory committee that can actually suggest ways in which the District can (some day) be transparent.

Not included in the article was whether or not that committee advised the leadership of the aps to squander a million (?) dollars on the Susie Rayos Marmon Throne Room.

character counts

if we really believe that;

if we want students to embrace character and honor and courage;

we have to show them what they look like.
we need to lead by our personal example.

the flow of power and resources

Power and resources flow from the public to the board, from the board to the administration, and from the administration to the educational interface; the place where the student and the service meet face to face.

In a model where there is no administrative accountability; the eventual result is that each layer of administration will gorge itself at the flow of power and resources.

By the time the river reaches the classroom it has diminished to a trickle.

In a model with accountability, each layer of administration consumes as little power and resources as necessary to do their job, and to protect the power and resources from waste; corruption, incompetence, and the practices that enable them.

Leaving a river of power and resources to nourish
the delta at the educational interface.

kids need something to do after school

it really doesn't matter what
as long as it's good for them.

why not have the best history teachers

teaching the history students
who most want to learn history?

When Phill Casaus endorsed Marty Esquivel;

did he tell us the truth?

Do he and Esquivel have an undisclosed personal relationship? Is there a reason Phill's paper has given Marty's campaign extraordinarily good coverage on two occasions; while the other candidates' campaigns have yet to see the light of day?

Both Casaus and Esquivel knew that their relationship should have been disclosed before Casaus endorsed him.

yet it was not disclosed at all.

This throws a shadow of doubt on every endorsement the trib editors hav ever made, and upon every endorsement that they will ever make.

I cc'd this post to Casaus and Esquivel

Causus's response was

Mr. MacQuigg
As a matter of fact, I recused myself in our editorial board vote on District 4. In fact, your presentation was the only one I attended of the many candidates in the race. The reason: I just wanted to hear what you had to say about the race and the issues
-- which,I've got to believe, is the point of the whole thing.
You also managed to misidentify me in a previous posting.
My name is Phill,not Paul. Paul would be my brother.
Thanks you.
Phill Casaus

"...the point of the whole thing."

I had told him and two other editors; was that the leadership of the aps is corrupt and incompetent; that they would fail an administrative accountability audit; miserably.

I told them that there was a cover up of an ethics and accountability scandal in the aps. And that their paper is part of the coverup.

Which is pretty much proved by Casaus' response to this post, but not to the post where I asked him to take a stand publicly, on the record about the interests of the public and about whether they would or would not be served by an aps administrative accountability audit.

He should take a stand as well; on the right of voters to know the truth before the election; and upon his obligation as a journalist to see that they get it.

He chose not address the issues of disparate coverage, or the fact the others candidates are being denied any meaningful exposure at all.

it is worth noting:

It is proved that Phill Casaus heard the question and did not answer it.

Are the public interests served by an administrative accountability audit?


And if the public interests are served, are you not obligated to inform them that they have the right and the opportunity to hold aps leadership accountable at the polls?



I regret my error in your name. It was an honest mistake and totally inadvertent;

I apologize, sir.

if mayor chavez usurps control of the schools

will he embrace the role of senior role model for 98,000 of our sons and daughters?

will he hold himself honestly accountable to the student standard of conduct?

or will he, like the leadership of the aps did, simply self-except himself from that obligation?

and if he does, will the "news" people cover that up as well?

the privileged class cannot be beaten

in their courts, in their media, or at their polls.
it takes a vast sea of the unwashed;
armed with pitchforks and torches.
it has before, apparently it will again.

I am not saying that these people are evil

but when burke wrote, all that is necessary for evil to prevail in the world is for good men to do nothing;

this is exactly what he was writing about

think of it as a bold experiment

in walking our talk

how do you expose a conspiracy

without sounding like a conspiracy nut?

The conspiracy involves the leadership of the APS and the media.

I will offer what I represent to be "evidence" of a conspiracy,

you will either find it credible or that

I am a conspiracy nut.

There has been no substantive coverage of:

*the school board race, or of the mill levy election.

Despite a need that requires neither explanation or defense.

*the publicly financed, private police force that has been used to

create a "culture" of fear of retribution and retaliation

among employees in the APS

*the fact that the school board removed the public forum

from the public record.

*the fact that public now has no forum at all in which to

petition their government.

on the record.

*the actual cost of the Susie Rayos Marmon Boardroom,

a major Achilles blown off leg for the leadership of the APS

*the fact that the leadership of the APS

will not answer any questions

about the actual cost

of anything.

*the fact that when the leadership answered questions

about their real accountability;

on live radio

they did not respond

to those questions

by telling the "truth".

*the fact that the leadership of the APS has refused on the record

to hold themselves honestly accountable

to any standard of conduct at all.

more than a dozen times

on the record.


*the fact no board supported candidate

has spoken on the record about an

APS Administrative Accountability Audit.

much less demanded one



sometimes you seem like a nut

sometimes you're not.

Marty Esquivel and Paula Maes shared a long hug

before the school board candidates orientation.

He is the designated successor to Leonard DeLayo in APS BOE District 4.

Will that school board candidate support the
APS Administrative Accountability Audit?
So far, he isn't saying.

If a candidate will not even talk on the record
about doing a critical performance review,
even now now when it is so obviously necessary;
what makes you think s/he will conduct one later
when their own character and competence are
being critically and impartically evaluated?

School Board President, Paula Maes is as responsible
as any person in the APS for the fact that
if the audit ever happens, the leadership of the aps,
her leadership, will come up far short.

She can relax, he can relax
there will be no audit
there will be no accountability
there will be no transparency

there will be business as usual in the APS.

living the privileged life

on the banks of the Rio Grande.

is "what" a child learns, an overriding consideration?

is there harm, at least in the short term,

if we starting teaching children

the way you herd kittens

by following them

and keeping them

out of trouble.

charter school kids

are the ones who got kicked out of the clubhouse
because they they wouldn't play follow the leadership
of the albuquerque public schools

why does a governor get to speed?

because of his privilege.

if politicians routinely excuse other polititians

from honest accountability;

why in the world would you think

they would not excuse themselves as well?

as is the time honored custom

of those of privilege.

in this election

as in life;
you can vote for "good"
you can vote for "evil"
or you can not vote at all
which counts as one vote for "evil"


you pick a side
when you don't pick a side

it will be interesting to see

if the dollars that are promoting passage of the mill levy

have been promoting public involvement

in the board election as well.

in particular as it pertains to

absolute transparency and honest accountability

in vendor contracts with the

leadership of the aps.

this really is all about

the privileged class
and their fundamental disrespect
for the great unwashed.

you be the judge, please

If your son or daughter is among the 98,000 students in the APS;

they are taught this about lying.

In essence, they are taught that if you try to deliberately deceive someone; you are a liar.

Even if in your attempt to deceive them; what you said was "legally" true.

It is "legally, technically, weasel through the loopholey" true that APS board members are currently sitting in small, plain offices on borrowed furniture.

But is it an honest answer to a talk show caller's question;

Is it true that the board is spending $80,000 on new furniture
for themselves?

the system is broken

you cannot solve the problems

without first fixing the system.

If the system was capable of solving the problems

the problems would not remain unsolved.

Talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

if your candidate

will not demand an APS Accountability Audit now;

you must begin wondering; will they demand one later

when the audit will investige their own performance;

as stewards of the public trust and treasure

as role models for 98,000 of our children

and as your public servant?

If they will not now stand

in support of transparency and

honest accountability in character and competence;

what makes you think that they will stand up ever?

an APS Administrative Accountability Audit

when it is conducted; will produce an honest and accurate picture

of the quality of the public service on our behalf in the APS.

Voters have a right to know the truth; whatever it is.

They have a right to know the truth before they vote.

There is only one reason to resist an immediate audit

and that is to continue to hide the awful truth.

If there is another reason, then advance it

instead of stonewalling the question.

There is only one reason to resist

an accountability audit;

to dodge accountability.

Every candidate should explain

why they will or will not support

an impartial audit before the election.

Please ask your candidate a question

Will you demand an immediate Audit?

before you vote for them.


No accountability
No transparency

No support at the ballot box

The Journal has just announced

that despite the fact that the candidates were promised

that their unedited responses to the candidate questionaire

would be posted in full in the Journal's online edition;

they decided to edit them in that venue as well.

You have no way of knowing how the candidates

actually answered the questions.

Your protest is correctly lodged

with the Journal

it is at least interesting that

candidates for the school board must
answer questions from the public
and after they get elected
they no longer have to.

privilege; as practiced here in river city.

your public servants in santa fe

are trying to decide if the public should be allowed

to watch public servants conduct the public's business.

beside the fact that the answer is so stunningly obvious;

why are they being allowed to make such a decision?

who writes the rules of public inservitude,

the servant or the master?

perhaps they can't hear you.

a settlement offer

the lawyers from modrall will prepare a draft of your settlement offer.

They will attach their honor and yours to the first draft.

It will be submitted to a principled resolution

and to the public record simultaneously.

and in short order.

as proof of their

committment to

honest acccountability

for their conduct on your behalf.

blogs are where

the pen is mightier
than the press
apparently

Promised accountability

will consider forming a task force to look into the possibility of

building a deadly autonomous accountability robot.

honest accountability will reach out

and turn the sumbitch on.

No accountability?
No transparency?

Get out of our house

three days ago

I told an editor of the Journal; "You cannot find out how much the board spent on their new board room. You cannot find out the name(s) of those who are responsible for spending money on an unnecessary renovation of an unnecessary new board room; while ignoring the needs of students and staff."

Three days later, voters still don't know the truth. Either

APS leaders won't tell the the truth to the Journal,

or the Journal won't tell the truth to voters.

Either way, the message to voters is the same.

APS leaders are not accountable to the public.

Voters must be prepared to just say no.



no accountability

no transparency

no mill levy

APS Board Could Grow

an article in the journal this morning.

There is no point. The premise is that, if people have more people on the board,who claim to represent their interests, then their interests will have attention paid to them.

The problem is a board whose members represent special interests at all.

If the system allows every stakeholder access to all information, power, and resources; and provides them with a seat at the table where decisions are made: the representation of special interests, even our own, will be eliminated;

in everyone's best interests.

In truth, the folks in the heights have no real interest in stealing power or resources from the kids in the valley;

for a number of very good reasons.

Question: which APS administrators

passed last year's accountability audit?

Answer: all of them

(they decided not to have one)


no accountability
no transparency

no mill levy

the one that really got me

was when the leadership of the APS
lowered their own standard of conduct.

They changed the employee code of conduct. It used to say.

...in no case shall the standard for adults be
lower than the standard for students...

And now it is. You didn't know that.

Because the Journal and Trib

and the leaders of the aps

decided not to tell you.

the best thing about stonewalling

is, it gives you

a lot of time to clear up "accounting issues"

before the first annual APS election time

Administrative Accountability Audit.

if there was a good reason

not to conduct an APS Administrative Accountability Audit

before it is too late for voters to know its results

someone could suggest it.

they haven't.

so why is it up to me

to prove somehow that we obviously need one?

the public servant

will not tell the public
about the spending of public resources
in unnecessarily renovating a public facility
in order dodge accountability to the public
in the upcoming public elections.

and they couldn't do it without
the Journal and the Trib

no accountability
no transparency

no mill levy

the end of special interest representation

on the school board
begins with not expecting it for yourself.

A candidate who promises to you
special representation of your interests
has not guaranteed that you will get it.

only that someone will.

if elected, I promise not to represent you

You will represent yourself. You will sit together at a round table with all of the other stakeholders and all of the power, and all of the resources; making decisions yourselves.

I will be watching over your power and your resources by providing absolute transparency of your public interests; and by providing for your public servants, honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct.

I also promise not spend your money wisely.

recite after me

no accountability
no transparency

no mill levy


repeat until the desired effect is achieved

on what day?

Powerful people in the leadership of the media and in the APS are conspiring to cover up their scandal through an election.
They are fixing an election.

It is proved prima facie

on what day? February 7th?

The leadership of the APS

>lowered its own standard of conduct.
>refused to be held honestly accountable
to any meaningful standard of conduct at all.
>removed the public forum from the public record.
as witnessed, but not reported by, the media, repeatedly.
>deliberately and repeatedly falsified the public record
and then broadcast it to the community as the "truth".
>maintains a publicly financed, private police force
used to silence personal and political opposition
by creating a "culture" of fear of retaliation
in plain view of the media; without any report.

no accountability
no transparency

no mill levy


pass it on

an issue is only on the ballot

if voters know that it is on the ballot.

If voters knew that within Public Service;

absolute transparency and honest accountability

were on the ballot, wouldn't we be seeing some excitement?

Wouldn't voters finally be excited to vote again?

So why isn't there a lot of talk about it?

Why isn't there any reporting about it?

Please don't tell me that

no one really cares.

if you need proof

that you have no control what so ever

over your power and your resources;

try to find out how much

the Susie Rayos Marmon Boardroom

is going to cost you;

before the elections.

voters have not read about

our opposition to taxation without representation.

It is reported that we are not serious

and that we are not organized

and we can be ignored.

It's time, I think

to wet some tea.



no transparency
no accountabilty

no mill levy

a new order of business?

protect the power from abuse

decide how decisions will be made

enable meaningful participation by stakeholders


The rest works itself out.

I can't do yard signs

or fancy flyers, or ad space.

I need you to do that for me

help kick the ball onto the field

you will actually enjoy showing people

a real chance to make a difference

all we need is a lot of people.

in fact, the only thing

that will work.

The APS Gazette

an informal, hard to find, and honestly,

a notoriously unreliable source of the truth

will be the only source of the truth

for voters in the February 6th school board and mill levy elections

apparently


these are links, use them, please

KKOB KOB KOAT KRQE Journal Tribune

you don't need no "stinkin" leadership on the Board of Education

There is no person smarter than all of us. There is no person more expert than all of us. There is no person more experienced than all of us. There is no person with better ideas than all of us.

You need boardmembers who will enable you to do with your power and your resources as you see fit.

You need people who will protect your power from abuse; and who will protect your resouces from waste through incompetence and corruption; by means of absolute transparency and honest accountability.

on Breaking APS into smaller districts

the need to break the APS into smaller pieces flows from the same frustration the drives the need for Charter schools.

Stakeholders in neighborhood schools do not believe that they have any real control over their schools.

The solution is Site Based Decision Making.

If stakeholders have the capacity to wield power and spend resources that are fundamentally their own to begin with;
the frustration is mitigated; and the need for succession evaporates.

a week before the elections

we seek to be the stewards of the public trust and treasure, role models for 98,000 of your sons and daughters, and your public servants. We are asking you to tax yourselves.

Still, not one substantive issue has seen the light of day. Voters have no information to discuss; no reason to care about the election.

Coverage will be limited, apparently, to an obligatory post election piece on what a shame it is that no one votes in school board elections.

KKOB KOB KOAT KRQE Journal Tribune

disclosure:

A possible conflict of interest has occured to me.

At the instant that the leadership of the APS is held honestly accountable for their conduct; you will he held accountable for their conduct as well.

You are responsible for the misconduct of of your servants.

I expect that there will be a principled resolution of my complaints against your servants. It means, in all likelihood

you are liable for damages.

I will defend my right to a principled resolution of the issue of the indebtedness.

It is my hope that a principled resolution suits your interests as well.

or, there will be a conflict of interests.

on a lighter note, I'm trying as hard as I can to make sure that

this will never happen to you again.

meaningful participation

is routinely denied to stakeholders; those whose interests are affected by a decision;

because the privileged class has a fundamental disrespect for the
great unwashed; their expertise, their experience, their interests.

or they would not be members of a privileged class to begin with.

Neither the leaders of the APS, nor the lawyers of Modrall, nor the moguls of the media;

have offered any evidence that I have ever betrayed public trust.

it is time for them to admit that, on the record

or prove otherwise.

It is unethical to deny me a rebuttal

The Journal ran an article about my campaign that misrepresented the truth.

They also refuse to publish my blog address

my only means of rebuttal.

a very disturbing article in today's Journal

about why John Dendahl is leaving New Mexico.

The article is worth reading in its entirety.

He alleges unchecked corruption in state government.

The Governor's team responds to his specific allegations

by attacking the messenger; or

business as usual.


If you know John Dendahl, tell him about our agenda.

Maybe he can get it some press.

it is increasingly important

that the word be spread quickly

What you need in a school board candidate

Stakeholders require two things from me;

1) A seat at the table where the decisions are made.

2) And protection for your power and resources though transparency, and honest accountability.

protect the power from abuse

decide how decisions will be made

enable meaningful participation by stakeholders

The rest works itself out.

February 7th is the day after

the last day your help will be of any use.

what if a guy threw a revolution,

and nobody came.

the hardest part of standing alone
is the wondering why.

Highland High School

Wednesday night

all of us.

we have to prepare to vote no

On February 6th, the leadership of the APS will ask voters to trust them with one hundred and sixty eight million dollars.

At the same time they will not promise absolute transparency in their stewardship of the public trust. They will not agree to honest accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct.

They have not earned the public trust.

If before February 6th they have not;

1) completed an impartial Administrative Accountability Audit,
2) assured absolute transparency, and
3) implemented honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct;

we must be prepared to just vote no.

all of us.

No administrative accountability audit?
No transparency?
No accountability?

No mill levy!

Pre-election audit?

There is an accountability crisis in the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

It has been acknowledged by the Governor who speaks of a statewide earned reputation for dodging accountability.

It has been acknowledged by the Mayor who finds APS accountability so out of control as to warrant his usurping the public’s control over their public schools.

If elected to the school board I will address the issue of accountability head on. I will do so by restoring to the public, their authority over public servants in their public service.

1) There will be absolute transparency of the public interests in the public schools. All accounting will be immediately available to the public. There will be a good faith response to any legitimate question regarding public interests.

2) There will be honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct for public servants. Within their public service, they will be accountable for their character and their competence.

Accountability will be guaranteed by a system that is impartial, fair, and beyond the undue influence of even the most powerful public servant.

The competence and character of the Leadership of the APS will measured by means of an impartial annual Administrative Accountability Audit.

The Administrative Superintendent will be held accountable for the results of that audit.

The School Board is accountable to voters for the Superintendent's performance.

It is important that the first audit be completed in time for voters to hold current APS leadership accountable at the polls.

my smiling face

I wasn't entirely comfortable with it,

kind of like leaving a message on a voicemail,

but hey, it is what it is.

school board candidate video clips from the trib.

please LINK

Connecting the dots

There was a school board candidate forum on Tuesday night. It took place on school board property.

There is a forum scheduled for next Wednesday at Highland High School; also school board property.

The candidate who is the most vocal critic of the lack of accountability in the leadership of the APS was not invited to the first forum, UPDATE IN COMMENT

The Journal wrote one article on one of the three forums, a day too late.

The Tribune has written nothing about any forum.

Wondering why voter interest in school board elections is lagging;
.
.

the results of an annual APS Administrative Accountability Audit

should affect the compensation paid to the Administrative Superintendent and other senior Administrators.

I think

alrighty then, the final draft. Please help me distribute it

Ched MacQuigg

Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education, District 4

Within my public service on the board of education, I will hold myself honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. I will stand on the Pillars of Character Counts. It is a widely recognized, accepted, and respected code of ethics. Most importantly, it is the standard of conduct to which students are held accountable.

I warrantee my promise with a signed resignation.

Our agenda:
1. Build a reputation for the leadership of the APS of character and competence; a reputation worthy of the public trust.
2. Create absolute transparency in the public interests in their public schools. Illuminate waste, corruption and incompetence with the light of day.
3. Enable site based management and decision making. Support stakeholders with facilitators and compliance experts; and a full measure of their power and resources.
4. Education in the classroom is an art. Education outside the classroom is a business, a business whose business it is, to support the art that goes on in classrooms. The business of the leadership of the APS is to consume as little as possible of insufficient resources as they are allocated and to protect them from abuse.
5. To restore the authority of adults over students in schools
6. To restore to the employee code of conduct, the expectation that the standard for adults will never be lower than the standard for students.
7. Leadership in the APS will be by personal example.
8. For every public servant in the Albuquerque Public Schools; honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct.

Help me get this on the ballot February 6th.

For public servants, within their public service, absolute transparency and honest accountability for their character and for their competence; and even against their will.



You can help from anywhere
You can help even if you can’t vote.

Go to my blog. Involve other people. This is a real opportunity to make a real difference.

February 7th, 2006 is the day after the last day your help will be of any use.



http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/ Diogenes’six

The Susie Rayos Marmon Boardroom

Will not be visible to stakeholders tonight at the school board candidate forum.

Somebody might get hurt.

Therefore, the public will be protected by two veils:
one for secrecy, and the other for our “safety”.

Our safety will be further guaranteed by the presence of a publicly funded, private police force, who help us find our direction.

Film at 10:00?

KOB KOAT KRQE

If Mayor Chavez successfully usurps control

over the leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools;

will he hold them honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct?

Will he insist upon transparent accountability?

Will he lead by by his own personal example?

Could the administration of city government pass an unbiased
Administrative Accountability Audit?

APS Board Must Answer To More Than Minority

Wrote the media mogals through their Journal editorial.

Since when is the privileged class not a minority?

They will have the board and our schools under the control of a minority of one; who will be representing the interests of the privileged class.

Isn’t this where the great unwashed are supposed to rise up together and say

over our dead bodies.

It was like that once. And they really meant it.

in fact

they proved it.

It is time to think about

those who do not want transparency and honest accountability in public service on the ballot.

Who they are, whose interests they are representing,

and what you can do, personally, to stop them.

Courage in accountability

is not so obvious at the moment of truth.

When the speeding bus is four inches from your face;
everyone is looking for a way out.

The courage in accountability is in making sure that there is a bus,
on time, at speed.

Governor Bill Richardson, Mayor Marty Chavez, and I

Are all saying exactly the same thing; there is an accountability issue in the leadership of the APS. My allegations are every bit as credible as are theirs. Mine are in fact more credible, in that I have offered incontrovertible evidence of ethical and criminal misconduct by senior administrators and board members.

I am a pariah in the discussion because I offer an unacceptable solution to the fundamental problems of waste, corruption, and incompetence in public service in the APS. My unexceptable solution is absolute transparency and honest accountability in the leadership and administration of the public schools.

If you need any proof that you have lost your control over power that is fundamentally yours; what more proof could you need than the fact that, it is the public servant who determines when and if questions about their public inservitude will be answered.

Governor, running for President Richardson can not be compelled to answers questions about his public service. Neither can Mayor, running for Governor Chavez.

It is a privilege of the privileged class not to entertain questions; except from other members of the privileged class. Under no circumstances will they respond to a question from one of the great unwashed. It is a rule.

Their privilege exists because they are in control of a great deal of power; power they have usurped from the people.

They will not be compelled to relinquish control over our power by any system that they control. They control the government, the legal system, the media, and this election.

There is one way to revoke this kind of privilege.

The only thing that they cannot control is the right to assemble. If enough people assemble to revoke the privilege of the leadership of the APS; their privilege will be revoked.

They say that there is no stopping and idea whose time has come.

A principle is under attack. The worth of a principle is manifest by the commitment to it, the apparent willingness of people to defend it. The currency of commitment is sacrifice

You have to stand up for what you believe in. You have to go to the candidate forum and demand absolute transparency and honest accountability in public service in the public schools.

There is no equivalent gesture.

At the same time the Trib is promoting the APS Stealth Mill Levy

they are hiding from stakeholders the true over all cost of the new Susie Rayos Marmon Boardroom.

in whose interests?

How’s this for a stratagy to pass a mill levy?

You “discreetly” promote the election to people you know, and then you hope no one shows up to vote against you.

You suppress "unorganized" oppositon, you marginalize it, you deliberately distort the truth.

The guys with the papers help.

Regardless of whether or not they get away with it;

Is this really the kind of leadership you want for the APS?

Are these really the people you want to trust with your money? and 98,000 of our sons and daughters?

Isn't this kind of why the mill levy is in trouble
in the first place?

it has been about two weeks

since I and other candidates were asked to furnish responses to candidate questionnaires. The answers are yet to be published.

Candidates rely on the newspapers to inform voters.

Hundreds of votes have already been cast, and still the newspapers refuse to publish our resumes.

Perhaps it will be too late to get an absentee ballot before they are pubished.

Who knows, maybe they won’t publish them at all.

Trib headline; "APS discreetly promotes mill levy"

In other words don’t be expecting any coverage of the truth by the Trib. They have just told you why you won't be seeing any coverage of the mill issue or the board election in the trib. They also won't be printing anything about the APS ethics and accountability scandal. Even though their ethical obligation to voters clearly requires otherwise. Not one word about the candidate forum. So much for Journalistic Ethics.

No where will they print that the stewards of mill levy are not honestly accountable to any meaningful standard of conduct as they spend it. Or that they have refused to accept honest accountability a dozen times, and falsified public records to cover it up.

No where will the Tribune allow voters to decide for themselves if that is a risk worth taking.

Perhaps voters might want to hold the APS Leadership accountable for placing them in a position of having to accept their waste, and corruption, and incompetence, in order to keep their childrens’ heads dry.

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the mission: honesty accountability in public service

a goal: increased public awareness

the enabling objective: overwhelming attendance at the candidate forum

Grassroots movement: a cause that inspires support that doesn't require support.

Everybody just does what needs to be done, out of commitment and self discipline.

You involve as many people as you can, you make sure that they understand how important it is that they pick a side, that they stand up for what they believe in,

that they attend the candidate forum.

Stakeholder involvement in government; the terms of public service.

1. The terms of public service are up to the public;
not the public servant.
2. Public servants are accountable to the public,
in the most transparent and direct manner.
3. Within their public service, public servants will hold themselves honestly accountable to a standard of conduct that reflects and protects the public interests; absolutely.

and anything else that the public decides to add.

You pick a side when you don’t pick a side

On the one side; the privileged class, living high on the hog, exempt from accountability to mortal law; accountable only to other members of the privileged class; and beyond having to justify or even acknowledge their membership.

On the other side, the great unwashed.

It works well, don't you think?

It will be reported eventually

I was removed, against my will, from four board meetings in a row, by members of the APS Police Department.

They and the Leadership of the APS will say that I was properly removed because I was deliberately and illegitimately disruptive of the public interest.

I say that I was exercising my parliamentary, legal, civil, and human rights to resist the deliberate dis-involvement of stakeholders in decisions that affect them. I say that I was removed illegally, by members of a publicly financed private police force, at the behest of school board members protecting their own political and self interests.

I say that the public interest has been betrayed;
not by me,but by the leadership of the APS.

The truth, most of it, is a matter of public record. I will stand on the evidence and hold myself accountable for my conduct.

It remains to be seen how the media will report it.

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The room only holds 60 people to begin with

It is the smallest room they have.

The League of Women Voters, Candidate Forum could be held in the new board room; but that would make it impossibly hard to hide its egregious opulence until after the election.

If you make room for 10 candidates, their families and supporters, the media’s disingenuous appearance, several members of a publicly funded, private police force "just in case", and a lawyer or two from Modrall;

That leaves exactly how many seats for people who want to look into APS BOE Member Robert Lucero’s eyes when he refuses explain why there is no APS policy that requires him, or any other senior administrator or board member, to answer questions by telling the truth?

Another perspective on “the elephant” in this election

Mario Burgos two years ago.

nothing has changed.

Bill Richardson's refusal to acknowledge on the record that, the Leadership of the APS has excepted itself from honest accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct; is the reason the Journal and Tribune won't investigate and report upon the truth of the allegation of an ethics and accountability scandal.

A reputation as a slayer of elephants is inconsistent with running for President of the United States; apparently.

The problem isn't going away by itself. It needs a push.

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it is ironic

that the same folks that are cramming no child left behind, down our throats,

are the ones who are holding us accountable for the kids who drop out of school.

The next Superintendent of the APS

will be able to pass an accountability audit.

The responsibility for waste, incompetence, corruption, and the practices that enable them, falls squarely upon the District’s chief executive officer; the superintendent.

The job of everyone outside of the classroom is support everything that goes on inside the classroom.

The superintendent’s responsibility is to run the business of education ethically, efficiently, and productively;

without waste, corruption, incompetence, or the practices that enable them.

Why are you doing this?

Amy Miller asked me for her next article.

I told her, "because I taught about 5,000 children to stand up for what they believed in."

I would now add to my response that, you can't very well tell a child to stand up for what they believe in, and not obligate yourself to create a world that will respect their stand.

As Character Counts Trainers, we would give child graduates of our training a tee shirt that on its front and back read,

Stand up for what you believe in...

Even if you are standing alone.

If you tell a child that their character counts, and that their character depends on standing up for what they believe in; you owe that child something more than to stand there doing nothing while he gets his ass kicked.

A child standing up for what s/he believes in, should never stand alone.

There should be an adult behind them offering support,
an adult beside them sharing the sacrifice,
and an adult in front of them leading by their example.

Albuquerque Public Schools Administrative Accountability Audit

An impartial audit of the leadership of the APS, targeted at uncovering waste, corruption, incompetence, and the practices that enable them; will be vigorously resisted, off the record, by the Leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

They will enjoy the support of those in the privileged class who recognize absolute transparency in public service, and honest accountability for their misconduct, as threats to their existence.

You have to wonder why no one, not the governor, not the mayor, not the city council, not the Chamber of Commerce, not the Character Counts Leadership Council, and not the APS Education Foundation, will stand up on the record and say;

Let’s conduct an impartial audit of the leadership and administration of the APS. Let’s find out about the stewardship of over a half a billion tax dollars a year. Let’s examine the conduct of the senior role models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters. Let’s let the sun shine on public service in the public schools.

Superintendent Beth Everitt is responsible for the results of the audit. The School Board is responsible for the Superintendent's performance.

Governor Bill Richardson

admitted an accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS.

He promised a debate on the issues of accountability before the next election, this one, and then reneged on his promise.

Mayor Martin Chavez recognizes the lack of accountability in the APS, and promises to fix the problem by taking personal control of our school board.

They both get lots of press, all the press they want.

I point out that there is an accountability crisis in the APS and offer a concrete and doable solution; and the papers won’t give me the time of day.

I advocate instituting a system that first exposes corruption and incompetence through absolute transparency in public service, and then eliminates them by holding public servants honestly accountable for their corruption and/or incompetence.

No one argues that my plan won’t or can’t work. No one argues. It is like I don’t exist.

It is like they really don’t want the problem fixed; like they really don't want accountability after all. It’s like all they really want to do is protect each other from the consequences of their misconduct.

Yeah, it’s like that.

To hold a public servant honestly accountable requires;

the institution of a system under which all allegations will be adjudged.

It will be free of the undue influence of even the most powerful public servant. It will be an impartial consideration of the whole truth. The consideration will be made according to agreed upon principles. There will be no retribution; there will be no retaliation. There will be no cover up.

There will be accountability in a manner that inspires our children to accountability in their own lives.

Children learn about honest accountability by the example that is set for them; and only by the example that is set for them. It seems that every generation expects the next generation to be the first to hold itself honestly accountable to a higher standard of conduct.

For the most, children fall short of the standard that we set for them. Rarely do they fall short of the example that we set for them.

Someone else first wrote that, we should not be so worried that our children are not listening to us; as we should be worried that they are watching us.

That kind of accountability. And to a meaningful standard of conduct.

The meaning of, a meaningful standard of conduct, will be the expressed will of stakeholders. The terms of public service are the prerogative of the public; and not of the public servant.

In form at least, it must be unequivocal. It will mean what it means. There will be no technicalities, no loopholes, and there will be no legal weaselry.

In essence; any public servant is accountable to the public; honestly accountable. They are accountable to the standard of conduct that the public determines. Within their public service, they will use our power and resources in the public interest, and with absolute transparency. They will create a system under which it is impossible to conceal incompetence and corruption.

There will be no self exception from the rules.

There will be no privileged class.

So how is that a bad thing?

You can't say no, if you can't say why.

It is no surprise

that the videotape of the last board meeting, containing incontrovertible proof of APS board members illegally using their publicly funded, private police force to silence political opposition,

was not broadcast as scheduled.

From the Gettysburg Address

…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Public servants and their public service are a manifestation of that government.

The people cannot easily wield their power or spend their resources; except through public servants. It is their responsibility to spend our power and resources in our interests.

The people’s power and resources in the APS are not being used in the public interest. Instead they have accumulated at the top of a buraucracy. They are now being used to dodge accountability for the failure to protect the public interests from incompetence and corruption there; and for betraying the public trust.

Your power will be used to see that the allegation is ignored. There never will be an impartial audit of the character and competence of the leadership of the APS.

They are stonewalling because the only defense for an indefensible position is to hide it. The truth is their Achilles’ heel. They can protect themselves only by suppressing the truth.

As you can see by the record, the failure to investigate or report upon a single substantive election issue, APS leadership has friends in those who control the media. They cannot deny it, they are damned by the record.

Their effort to obfuscate legitimate discourse during an election is wrong. It violates any meaningful standard of conduct.

One day, it will be too late

to begin a meaningful discourse of relevant issues before the February 6th school board and school tax elections.

February 7th is one such day.

The chicken or the egg

Voters are not given enough interesting information about the school board elections to involve them.

The news media will not present interesting information to people who are apparently uninvolved.

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I appear angry, apparently

I am; sometimes; and with good reason.

But is not the only thing I am. If I am elected I will serve the public interests extraordinarily well. Far better than they have been served heretofore.

My service is and will be at the absolute discretion of the stakeholders in my public service. It is guaranteed.

This is about the message, it is not about the messenger's anger; at best a convenient red herring.

Those of privilege, are afraid of bad publicity

because it can attract large crowds of people who do not recognize their privilege. If the crowd is large enough, their priviledge can be revoked.

And by no other method, so far as I can see.

A demonstration would be a superb place to walk your talk.

Privacy

is among rights that were described by our founding fathers as inalienable, human rights.

They saw fit to protect the right to privacy with the constitution and with laws.

One cannot break those laws without a warrant.

Celebrity, does not constitute a warrant to invade personal privacy; nor does prurient interest; nor does an offer to serve publicly.

The supposed need and warrant to invade the privacy of a public servant is driven by an imagined need to create or destroy trustworthiness.

Trustworthiness does not play in transparent public service. It does not play because there is no opportunity to betray trust.

Trustworthiness is a poor substitute for honest accountability.

My public service will be absolutely transparent and honestly accountable.

Given the opportunity, I believe voters will choose honest accountability in their boardroom, over any supposed right to invade my bedroom.

If they won't, then I am not their candidate.

Candidate for the Board of Education, Robert Lucero

is personally responsible for the demise of a motion that would have ultimately required him to answer questions about his public service, by telling the truth.

He is however, not personally accountable for that act.

Is it at all unreasonable?

For us to expect that before anyone can report credibly on ethics and accountability in the leadership of our public schools

that they will first report credibly on their failure to report credibly on those issues, until now.

Dear Mr. MacQuigg:

Because you are a school board candidate, I am writing a story about your recent conflicts with the school board and your having been escorted out of several board meetings in recent weeks for what the board says is disruptive behavior. I will be including information obtained from law suits you filed in both district and federal courts. I would like to get your comments today for the story and have not been able to reach you by telephone. Please contact me at XXX-XXXX today.

Thank you,
Amy Miller

After years, literally, the story is to be written. It is to be written apparently at the behest of the leadership of the APS. I suspect that they have furnished the newspaper with “evidence”.

I suspect that considerable thought has been put into what was released, and into what will continue to be suppressed.

Fair, impartial, accurate and honest reporting on half of the truth, is still only half of the truth.

"A half truth is a whole lie"

From the first, I have insisted upon a principled resolution of the allegations that I have made, and of those that have been made against me by APS administrators and board members. A principled resolution depends upon an impartial consideration of the whole truth guided by a previously accepted set of principles.

I will stand on the truth and hold myself accountable to a principled resolution of every allegation.

I will continue to resist consideration only of, half truths and whole lies.