Fundamental to government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is people running for office; people running for seats on the school board. If "people" aren't elected to fill the seats, the seats will be filled instead by personal and political interests. The people's interest, the public interests will find them themselves second interests.
The "press" has a part to play in democracies and democratic republics.
Part of their part is to engage potential candidates. There has to be enough information out there before an election, to stimulate the thinking processes that culminate in everyday people stepping up to serve.
It's more than a day too late for the Journal to publish any information that anyone can act on before filing day. I find it disappointing, but not surprising. I would encourage you to visit the Journal's website and review their coverage of past school board elections. You'll find a lot of editorial hand-wringing and chastisement of voters who didn't turn out, and very little encouragement for them to have done so.
Never mind that Journal is not only not covering the elections,
they're part of a cover up of a scandal that would change the election's outcome.
As many as four sitting board members are running for election at the same time they're covering up the scandal that will compel their immediate resignations. David Robbins, Paula Maes, Lorenzo Garcia, and David Peercy are complicit in the effort to hide from prosecutors, evidence of criminal misconduct by senior APS administrators.
They and their publicly funded, private police force, are the only people who have ever seen the evidence of the misappropriation of funds and the harassment of whistleblowers, link, that constitute felony criminal misconduct. The illegal NCIC criminal background checks broke federal felony statutes.
Clearly the Journal knows about the felony misconduct. And they know no one was ever held accountable; no one ever stood before a judge, no prosecutor was ever given incontrovertible evidence of criminal misconduct. They know that these four board members and the rest, are hiding the findings of as many of three investigations into the public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS. They know the findings, the Caswell Report in particular, name the names of the people who committed felonies. They know the board and administration won't produce those findings for public inspection according to the NM Inspection of Public Records Act.
The Journal has never asked APS for those findings.
Either that, or they never reported that APS refused to produce them.
Either way, though the Journal is affecting the outcome of the elections, it's not in the good way.
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