Esquivel's deposition

APS School Board President and Defendant Esquivel arrived at his deposition 45 minutes late and disheveled.  He spent a lot of the day with his head in his hands, eyes closed, or gazing out the windows at the mountains.  His hands trembled visibly most most of the morning.  He brought nothing with him to write on and ended up taking notes on what appeared to be a motel courtesy note pad.

There were three lawyers on his side of the table, taxpayers paid for two and the third was there on his own dime.  For what its worth they seem like decent men, a big step up from my experience with APS/Modrall.

I think its fair to say that Esquivel did not respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to legitimate questions about his public service.  The transcripts will be published at the earliest opportunity.  We all watched together, video tapes of my "misconduct".  It is difficult to imagine how these men can show these videos, paint them as disruptive to a point beyond the protection of the First Amendment,  and keep a straight face.  I can't wait.

Esquivel first responses allowed him to express his contempt for me as a journalist.  His contempt dripped from every word.  Apparently he is practicing soundbites in hope the he can make them sound convincing - so far, not so much.

For the record, I have never claimed to be a journalist.  There are probably as many definitions for "journalist" as there are for "ethics".  At the very least I think, a "journalist" holds himself accountable to a recognized journalists code of ethics.  I don't; not that I have a problem with their code; frankly I've never really studied it; it's not what I'm doing.

I claim protection under the First Amendment as a member of the press.  "Journalists" are not mentioned in the First Amendment; the "press" are.

The same press, a political pamphleteer, the First amendment was written to protect.  Esquivel shares the view of the privileged class; "the press" are their establishment reporters, period.  And to think he is the Vice President of the NM Foundation for Open Government and transparency.

Esquivel objected to the banning letter being called a banning letter.  He got quite testy when my lawyer insisted upon calling it one.

For the record, the man who co-signed the life time ban on my free exercise of Constitutionally protected human rights, calls it a "ban letter", link.

I would argue, if the guy who commands their Praetorian Guard; their publicly funded private police force,  APS Police Chief Steve Tellez says it's a banning letter, and if he willing to commit sworn officers to enforce it, it's a banning letter.

Apparently Esquivel is leading people to believe that I am capable of bringing a gun to a school board meeting and shooting them all.  When asked how keeping me out of school board meetings would keep me from shooting them anywhere else, he could come up with a good answer.  Apparently, it's only when I am standing up at public forum asking them for;

• an independent standards and accountability audit,  or for
• an honest answer as to why they are not accountable as role models of student standards of conduct, or 
• why they have yet to surrender to the DA, evidence of felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators,

that I am likely to pull out a gun and shoot them.

He testified about my conduct during the August 25, 2010 Audit Committee Meeting.  He testified about my conduct before the meeting began.  He said my behavior before the meeting was part of his justification for banning me for life from school board meetings.

He did not arrive at the meeting until it had already adjourned into executive session.  He could not have seen anything that happened before the meeting; he wasn't there.

He testified about a number of other things I allegedly did during the meeting.  We watched a video that directly contradicts his testimony.

He let us know that APS Foundation Director and lifelong friend of Esquivel's, Phill Casaus is helping spread the rumor that I might someday "shoot up the place".

Esquivel claimed he lost faith in me when I asked him to help me revisit a previous settlement I made with APS.  It is an absolute lie; a complete fabrication.  I never asked for his help with respect to resolving any problems with either of my two settlements with APS.

What I did ask from Esquivel, and from then APS School Board Member, now NM Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela,  was that one make, and the other second, a motion to put an independent standards and accountability audit of the leadership of the APS, on the table for open and honest public discussion.  They would not, link.

The proof that the senior-most role model in the entire APS, of student standards of conduct, APS School Board President Marty Esquivel will not hold himself honestly accountable to the same standards of conduct he establishes and enforces upon students, is the fact that he has not.

He cannot point the system over which he has no undue influence and powerful enough to hold him accountable even against his will, to the Pillars of Character Counts!, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct, and most importantly, APS student standards of conduct, and he cannot.

He can point to a few times when my eyes wet as I tried to convince them that, if we really want students to grow into adults who embrace character and courage and honor, someone has to show them what it looks like.

He counts each tear as evidence of the likelihood that I might one day shoot him.  It really is impossible to underestimate Esquivel's character.

For the record, there is still no evidence that there is any oversight whatsoever over Brooks' and Esquivel's spending in their own defense.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation expenses will be approved by subordinates.  Subordinate oversight is oxymoronic.

No case analysis has ever been presented to the school board as a whole, for their approval. The entire school board is complicit or complacent.  Though it can't be proved they know what's going on because they won't meet for that purpose, they remain at best, deliberately ignorant.




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NM FOG elects Executive Committee - badly

Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Officer Terri Cole has been elected FOG's (interim?) President.

The election of the Executive Committee normally takes place in October.  This one took place "earlier this month".  Another election is scheduled for the fall. 

"Administrator 2" informed me that "there were some delays and the board had not met since October", and, "there was a vote for a slate of board members and executive committee and both were approved unanimously".

Cole and I have history, link. She, and the Chamber of Commerce, were huge supporters of Character Counts! in the APS.  Huge.

Naturally, when I found the leadership of the APS had abdicated as the senior most role models of the Pillars of Characters Counts! which were and are still, the APS student standards of conduct, I went to Cole and Chamber.  When I asked Cole for help in exposing the abdication of the entire leadership of the APS as role models of the Pillars of Character Counts!, she sided with Paula Maes and the rest of her cronies in the leadership of the APS.

A disappointing pick for President if you ask me.

But then, at least she was willing to serve.  My impression was that people weren't exactly lining up for the opportunity to serve, if you know what I mean.  Cole may well have just picked the short straw.

More disappointing still;

APS School Board President Marty Esquivel received the Board's unanimous approval as FOG Vice President.   It's a step down in his aspirations, Esquivel was once on tap to be FOG's President.  At least that's what he was telling people when he interviewed them for their Dixon Awards in 2010; that he was interviewing them in the capacity of the next FOG President.

A wrench was thrown in the works when I stood in front of the FOG Board of Directors and told them about Esquivel's complicity in a cover up of felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force.

I told them Esquivel was giving at least tacit approval to hiding public records of findings of at least three investigations into public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

I told the Board how ridiculous it was for Marty Esquivel and the newly unanimously re-elected, apparently perpetual NM FOG Secretary, Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz, to have bamboozled them into giving APS Supt Winston Brooks a Dixon Award, link, in the middle of his fight to hide public records of public corruption and incompetence in blatant violation of the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act; records the FOG itself had argued belong to the people.

So here we are;

• the players are largely the same, (link), 
• the facts are the same, and
• those facts have not been refuted, rebutted or even acknowledged by Esquivel or Walz, and
• they are both still covering up the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

And Cole, who was at that meeting in 2010, Esquivel, and Walz have all been selected "unanimously" to "lead" the FOG.

Wow, what do you do with that?





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Marty Esquivel bad lawyer or bad liar?

The Journal covered the story when my complaints were filed in federal court.  I use the term "cover" loosely. Journal editors Kent Walz and Charlie Moore knowingly permitted or negligently allowed reporter Hailey Heinz to pen one sided coverage amounting to journalistic malpractice, link.

In her "investigation and report"; she quoted School Board President Marty Esquivel profusely.

She didn't even bother to contact me, much less quote me.

About him she wrote;

Esquivel, an attorney specializing in First Amendment issues, said he is confident the board has not unfairly limited MacQuigg’s free speech rights. (emphasis added)

Quoting him she wrote;

“I’m very sensitive to how the law should work in terms of people having a right to express themselves, and I have absolutely no reservations about doing what we did as it pertains to Mr. MacQuigg.”

Heinz added;

Esquivel wrote an initial letter to MacQuigg in November 2009, outlining problems with his behavior.

Well it turns out that all the "problems' were videotaped. APS has produced those videotapes, link, link, as evidence against me.

We of course, point to those tapes as constitutionally protected behavior; could not have said it better ourselves.

Heinz argued on Esquivel's behalf;

Board member Martin Esquivel said he imposed the ban on MacQuigg two years ago when he was school board president because of MacQuigg’s conduct, not the content of his speech.

The obvious problem, obvious to anyone who actually watches the record, is not my conduct.  My conduct is well within the limits of the constitutionally protected human to petition one's government.

Also obvious to anyone who actually watches the record, Esquivel's professed confidence that (he) has not acted unfairly is patently unwarranted.

And as obvious to anyone who actually watches the record, Esquivel's "sensitivity" to how the law should work in terms of people having a right to express themselves, is woefully inadequate.  The first amendment specialist is practicing beyond his expertise.

Any lawyer with any sense would have "reservations" in the face of over whelming evidence of his blatant violations of my civil rights.

But not Marty Esquivel.

The problem, obvious to anyone who actually watches the record, is the content of my speech; a relentless effort to hold them honestly accountable for their conduct and competence.  The problem is my standing up at public forums and calling public attention to issues to which they would rather attention not be paid;

• the coverup of corruption in the leadership of their police force,
• the denial of due process to hundreds of whistleblowers,
• the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, and
• their abdication as role models of the student standards of conduct.

The problem is my relentless insistence that they respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to legitimate questions about the public interests and about their public service.

Who are you going to believe, Marty Esquivel or your lyin eyes?




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Esquivel and his lawyers didn't answer the question.

I'm trying to find out if APS School Board President Marty Esquivel enjoys any oversight in his spending of  tax dollars on his own legal defense.  He doesn't appear to be following the applicable rules, link; rules that appear to apply to everyone else but Esquivel.  There is the appearance of a conflict of interests.

I would like to know if he and the other defendants in the complaints I've filed, enjoy any oversight at all, in the spending of tax dollars in their own defense.

When I asked the board and APS' Director of Communications Rigo Chavez a couple of basic questions, link, those legitimate questions became the subject of letter from Esquivel, by and through his lawyers who are making God only knows how much money litigating against the public interests, to me and mine.  The gist of the letter was; because I am suing public servants, I am no longer entitled to their public service.  I continue to help pay the salaries of information officers and I cannot ask them for anymore information.  Really?!

My questions, they say, will be handled promptly and appropriately through the "formal discovery process".  Trust me; there is nothing "prompt" about the "formal discovery process".

In any case, they didn't answer the question;
do Marty Esquivel and the rest of the defendants in my complaints, enjoy any oversight over their unbridled spending in their own defense?

The dollars they're burning, are "operational funds"; funds which if they weren't being spent litigating exception from the law, would be spent in classrooms and on students.  Are they entitled to a "cost is no object" defense no matter how guilty they are?
 
The appearance of a conflict of interests could not be more obvious.

The appropriate response to the appearance of a conflict of interests, according to any standards of conduct higher than the law, is to acknowledge and defend it; candidly, forthrightly and honestly.  That according to the standards of conduct that Esquivel establishes and enforces upon students, but not on himself.

I can't get APS to tell the truth about the oversight over spending of public power and resources.

Maybe the establishment media could, but they won't. I have asked the Journal, I've asked KRQE, KOAT and KOB to ask the question and they won't.

They. following the example set for them by the leadership of the APS have not offered to defend, deny, or even acknowledge the basis for their relentless refusal to ask a legitimate question about the public interests.

They offer no explanation other than my surmise; the leadership of the APS and the establishment media are in cahoots.




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Defendant Esquivel co-leading FOG seminar on public records and open meetings laws.

The NM FOG invites you, link, to find out about the latest developments in public records and open meetings from FOG Hotline attorneys Martin R. Esquivel, Charles R. Peifer, Charles "Kip" Purcell, Robert M. White, Gregory P. Williams and Dan Yohalem, and Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz.

I call your attention to two of the leaders of the seminar, Defendant Marty Esquivel and Kent Walz.

Esquivel has been tapped as a presenter, presumably because he is a role model in the "open government" community.  I presume Walz was tapped for the same reason.

As Esquivel sits at the dais, sharing his wit and wisdom about open meetings, he is simultaneously ordering APS' publicly funded, private police force to enforce an unlawful restraining order that he wrote and had the chief of APS' Praetorian Guard, Steve Tellez, co-sign.

His purpose in violating of my civil rights? to prevent me from standing up at a public forum at a school board meeting, and asking him a legitimate question;

Why are the ethically redacted findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of the APS (police force), being hidden from public knowledge?  "Why?" mind you, not "how?"

He wants so much, to not be asked that question in public, he will use his Praetorian Guard to stand between me and the asking.

He couldn't get away with it, with out the aide and abet of the establishment's media; including but not limited to, the Journal; including but not limited to Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz.

When I was running for the school board, Esquivel's unlawful restraining order kept me from campaigning for standards and accountability at public forums.  Walz steadfastly refused to investigate and report upon the blatant violation of my civil rights to speak freely, assemble freely, and to petition my government, and the subsequent lack of due process for resisting the unlawful order.

A bona fide candidate for the school board was having his civil rights violated in plain sight, and Walz found it completely not newsworthy; by what reasonable standard?

Clearly, the Journal knows about the felony criminal misconduct in APS; it was they who exposed it, link.  Clearly they know about the cover up; or remain deliberately ignorant.

Kent Walz, knows that none of the findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct were ever turned over to District Attorney for prosecution.  Walz knows, or remains deliberately ignorant; a handful of the leadership of the APS took it upon themselves to decide that the felony criminal misconduct in this case, did not warrant prosecution.  He knows, or should know, it's not their decision to make.

District Attorney Kari Brandenburg claims she can't do anything about it.  "Claimed" actually, link, link, link, link; statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct have expired long since.






In any case, while all this is going on, and while APS, under Supt Winston Brooks, is refusing to produce an ethically redacted version of any of the investigations,  Defendant Esquivel and Walz bamboozled the NM FOG into giving Brooks the FOG's most prestigious recognition for heroes of transparency.

Esquivel himself, is a FOG hero of transparency.  If Walz isn't, he probably will be someday.

What perspective can these two heroes; Esquivel and Walz, bring to a seminar on open government? 

It certainly won't be one of candor, forthrightness and honesty.  It won't be one of character and courage and honor.  So why are they there?

Maybe the audience would be better served by hearing from the screw-ees rather than the screw-ers when it comes to developments in public records and open meetings.




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APS Open Meetings Resolution tabled.

The APS School Board met last light.  Their agenda, link, was to pass an open meetings resolution that provided only 24 hours notice on public meeting agendas.  It is fair to wonder, why?  Why stand in front of an idea whose time has clearly come; there will be 72 hours notice given for public meetings in the State of New Mexico.

The likely to be signed into law, HB21, link, ends the APS board's past practice of providing only 24 hours and about ten minutes notice for every meeting they ever had.

Even if the APS School Board could hang on on to their advantage for a few months longer, why, at such a ridiculously high cost?  I mean, it looks bad; very, very bad, even to be considering policy that flies in the face of new law.  How far out of the loop are these folks?

There seems to be some confusion over the videotape records of school board meetings.  Some people think that links are posted on APS' award-winning website, that will allow visitors to watch archived board meetings.  If you go their "meetings, minutes and archives" page, link, and scan down the list, you will find a stray link that reads; video.  Click on it, and theoretically, you can watch the meeting.  I say theoretically, only because I have so much trouble personally, to get any APS video records to play reliably.

In any case, I can't wait to see the videotape of  the board discussing and finally tabling the resolution.

Speaking of watching APS video play reliably.  I tried everything I could last night, including reloading Microsoft Silverlight, the program APS uses to stream their live cast, in a futile effort to watch the live stream of the board meetings.  The most I could get it to do, was to play for a second, pause for a few, play for one, pause for a few and then lock up.  Sounds like a buffering problem, but then I'm not a computer expert.  I asked APS if anyone else was having trouble, and haven't heard back.

From what I could barely make out from the fractured stream; it seemed like open government lawyer, school board enforcer and defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit, and recently again elected APS School Board President Marty Esquivel was trying to pass the resolution in spite of its disregard of the public interests.  Nobody ever said "open government lawyer", meant working on the side that's trying to open it up more.  I mean, the people trying to shut down transparent accountability in government, need all the lawyers they can get.  That's how you keep the lights from actually being turned on.

As far as I can tell, the Journal didn't report upon the stalling effort they almost passed.  It isn't even reported on Journal education reporter Hailey Heinz' blog.

But then the Journal really doesn't investigate and report upon Esquivel's deviousness.

Esquivel thought he was being sneaky; ended up creating more evidence.

I have long argued that the reason the Journal won't investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, is because Esquivel and Journal editor Kent Walz are cronies.

They once teamed up to get the NM FOG to give APS Supt Winston Brooks, their Dixon Award for heroes of transparency, while the three of them together hid, or abetted the hiding, of public records, of felony corruption in the leadership of the APS police force (the Caswell Report and the findings of at least two other investigations), from public knowledge.

If there is another explanation for the Journal's apparent complicity in, or complacency about the cover up of a cover up; in particular, a good and ethical explanation, for the Journal's ongoing failure to investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS,

I cannot imagine it.

And anybody else, is yet to suggest it.




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Defendent Esquivel, senior-most role model in the APS?

Everyone is a role model; 

a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by young people.

The Josephson Institute offers access, link, to their library of aphorisms related to character education, including a section on role models.

A handful of them on point and on,

the need for role models;

• Example has more followers than reason. Bovee 


• Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing. Schweitzer


• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.  Goldsmith


• Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you. Fulghum


• The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like? Bettelheim

the timing;

• The right time, to do the right thing, is always right now. unk


• The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born. — William R. Inge,

the importance;

• If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.  Bennett


• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.  Bennett

the qualifications of role models;

• If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.  Jung


• You must be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi

Whatever else they thought they were doing when the APS School Board elected Marty Esquivel to be their President, they elected him to the position of senior-most role model of the standards of conduct that the school board establishes and then has the administration enforce upon students.

Enforcer/new President Marty Esquivel

Esquivel, by any reasonable moral and ethical argument, is a role model for students.  He has inescapable obligations as the senior-most role model of personal accountability to the Pillars of Character Counts!, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct, link.

Anyone who would like to weigh in on the propriety of the Pillars as the standards for students missed the boat - it sailed nearly twenty years ago when the School Board voted unanimously to adopt the Pillars as the APS student standards of conduct.

Their resolution, as old as it is, is still binding.  They have to honor the promise they made, or formally rescind it. As much as they would like to pretend it has, it doesn't just fade away.

If one could get Esquivel to speak candidly, forthrightly and honestly about his impression of his obligation as a board member and role model, he will deny that he is a role model for students.  He once told me, he's a school board member, "not an educator".

There are two reasons that someone like Esquivel does not step up to accountability to ethical standards of conduct; corruption and cowardice.

If one makes a conscious decision to reject certain standards of conduct, one is corrupt with respect to those standards.  Commonly, people who reject the law as their standard of conduct are considered corrupt.  Those who reject ethical standards of conduct are ethically corrupt.

If one acknowledges that certain standards of conduct apply to them; such as the School Board adopting the Pillars of Character Counts!, and then cannot summon the courage to hold them self accountable to them, one is a coward.

It is the whole point in telling the fable about George Washington owning up to chopping down the cherry tree.  We have to rely on the telling of the tale because we don't have enough living role models to point to.

Reciting fables isn't enough.  If we really want students to grow into adults who embrace character and courage and honor, someone has to show them what it looks like.  Character is taught by personal example; not by storytelling.

There is no other explanation for the failure of the leadership of the APS to step up as role models of accountability to  the Pillars of Character Counts! except cowardice and corruption.

Proof of these allegations lies in front of your eyes and in the absence of any evidence at all, to the contrary.

APS Board VP Korte

If either Esquivel or the new Board Vice President Kathy Korte. can be held honestly accountable to higher standards of conduct than the law, the lowest standard of conduct, they would be able to point to place where that accountability can be found.

They can't.

There is no place where an allegation of their failure to live up to standards, will see due process.  There is no venue in the APS, beyond their undue influence, impartial, principled, and powerful enough to hold them accountable even against their will.  It doesn't exist.

Maybe the legislature could hold us accountable to our own code of ethics! former School Board Member Robert Lucero once offered.

So far they haven't.  Not that any APS lobbyists have actually asked them to.

All of this will go unnoticed by the community that entrusts nearly 90,000 of their sons and daughters to the care and guidance of the APS.  It will go unnoticed because the establishment media is the establishment's media, and the establishment does not want to talk about duel standards of conduct in the APS; one for students and a far lower one for them.

Duel standards were made "legal" when the board removed from their own code of conduct, the words;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

Without so much as a by your leave, the leadership of the APS abdicated from their obligations and responsibilities as role models.

Journal Editor Kent Walz

An abomination that to this day, has gone unreported by Esquivel's crony Kent Walz and the Journal.




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APS School Board enforcer tells union leader to shut up

Those weren't APS School Board enforcer Marty Esquivel's actual words. His actual words are difficult to discern because once again, our investment in at least two warm bodies and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of recording equipment has failed to produce a legible record of an APS School Board meeting.

Once again, the recording of a school board member embarrassing them self has been somehow been corrupted or lost. APS no longer allows links to specific board meetings, so you will have to go to, link, and then scroll down to the August 15, 2012 meeting. Click on "video".

Fast forward to 3:14:4?, where Esquivel's antics begin.

He is upset because Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein had pointed out that the board's decision making process (surrounding the policy changed that prevents APS employees from getting paid to serve in the legislature) manifest "bad faith" in so much as the board changed the terms of the contract without stakeholders representation in negotiations over the change.

Esquivel began with a PowerPoint presentation a la APS; too many words, too small a font, which he then read for us, over and over.

About 12 minutes later, he starts pointing his finger at Bernstein and taking a tone with her. Later he complains that he is a victim of her disrespect. She was in fact, giving him quite a spanking; but it was with logic and facts, not her demeanor. She remained in control of her temper even as he progressively lost his control over his own. Or, maybe he just thinks bullying is alright if you've been "elected". It could be one or both; in no case is it excusable or even acceptable.

At 3:43ish, Esquivel starts going off on Bernstein for suggesting that he was being disrespectful. "I'm not asking you for a comment" were the exact words, as nearly as I can make out, that he used to tell her to shut up when she tried to respond to his attack on her.

That the whole exchange is not intelligible could be the result of some technical glitch; although they have so many conveniently timed glitches that the odds they're honest glitches are astronomical. That leaves incompetence, always a possibility, or corruption; they're editing in obfuscation and editing out the truth.

Esquivel is a thug and a bully. He claims he has struggled for five years on behalf of teachers, and yet they still have no seat at the table where decisions are made. He is a hypocrite. He is dishonest.

There's a reason he won't hold himself accountable as a role model of any standard of conduct higher than the law, not even the APS Student Standards of Conduct, the Pillars of Character Counts!, link, a nationally recognized, accepted and respected code of ethical conduct.

None of Esquivel's constituents know how he treats citizens who show up at public forums. Scroll further down the list of board meetings until you can click on "show all past meetings". Scroll down to Nov 4, 2009; click on video. Fast forward to 42:00 and watch how Esquivel behaves when I attempt to ask legitimate questions, link.

Esquivel used my behavior that night, to justify the writing of an utterly unlawful restraining order, link, he calls it a banning letter, ordering a publicly funded private police force, which is not supposed to be taking orders from him in the first place, to deny me the free exercise of my Constitutionally protected human rights to speak freely and petition my government at school board meetings.

Of note; none of this was reported in the Journal, is being reported by the Journal, or ever will be reported by the Journal, because Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz is a crony of Esquivel's and has joined with him and APS Supt Winston Brooks to cover up the cover up of felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators.

All any of them has to do controvert the allegation, is to explain why APS won't surrender the findings of at least three investigations into the felony criminal misconduct; two internal investigations, one by APS personnel and the other by the same police force whose corruption and incompetence were investigated, and one by private investigator Robert Caswell. His report names the names of APS senior administrators and the felonies the participated in.

All Walz has to do, is to explain why the hiding of the corruption and incompetence his paper first reported, link, and the fact that evidence of felony criminal misconduct was turned over to the District Attorney, is not newsworthy. So far, he has not responded, link.




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