Armenta goes into hiding

APS Communications Director Monica Armenta was scheduled, in a regular board meeting last Wednesday, to present and defend her part and progress in meeting the third of the district's four goals; establishing communication between APS and the community it serves.

Had she presented last Wednesday,

1. there would have been a public forum, 
2. her presentation would have been videotaped and most importantly, 
3. it would have been (supposedly) live streamed and then archived for stakeholders.

At the last minute, the plan changed.
The change order, link, is missing a few signatures.

The new plan provides for her to make her presentation during a Special Board Meeting early Friday morning.

Nobody will attend or pay any attention to the Special Board Meeting except the inner circle.  There will be no media coverage.

No videotape will be made.

There is no good and ethical reason to not videotape;
it's just not the way they roll.

An audiotape will be made, for whatever that's worth;
unless they decide to adjourn into an in secret meeting,
and then no record at all, will be made or preserved.

Not surprisingly, the agenda, link, for the special meeting includes no public forum;
no where, where a stakeholder can stand up and ask;

Ms Armenta, why, after this exhaustive attempt to establish communications between APS and the community, is there still no public forum where questions are allowed? 

Why is there no public forum where interest holders can exercise their constitutionally protected human right to petition their government, by means of asking legitimate questions about the public interests and their public service; questions about the wielding of power and the spending of resources that belong fundamentally to the people?.

Why is there still no venue for open and honest public discussion between the leadership of the APS and the community members they serve?

Armenta, and co-incidentally the board and senior administration, have dodged the question for now.

She, and they, will be asked that question in the near future.

The questioning follow the raising of their right hands and their solemn affirmation, they will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in their deposition regarding complaints of civil rights violations they committed individually and in conspiracy with their co-defendants.

I'll let you know what they say.  I'm still trying to find a way to videotape Armenta's deposition.

Nothing in the Journal, nothing on TV

Count on the establishment media to continue to not cover relentless efforts on the part of the senior- most leadership of the APS, to escape open and honest public discussions and their consequent honest accountability for their conduct and competence.

Count on the Journal's continued complicity in efforts to avoid any public discussion of their honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

Count on KRQE's, KOAT's and KOB TV's continued aid and abet in that same endeavor.




photo Mark Bralley

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Armenta "loses" key evidence against her; imagine that.

When APS'  Executive Director of Communications and Defendant in a federal complaint, Monica Armenta was asked, who keeps track of APS when it shows up on media and social networks, she, by and through her lawyers who are charging taxpayers God only knows how much, wrote among other things, Defendant Armenta objects to the request because it seeks information about APS students.

Say what? Are students being use to help Armenta keep tabs on her friends in the media and her not so friends in the blogosphere?

When asked for any documents relating to how they keep track of their friends in the media and their not so friends in the blogosphere, again, Defendant Armenta objects because we've asked for information about APS students.

When asked to identify everyone who had asked for press credentials to the APS District Relations Committee Meeting slash Gubernatorial debate, Armenta, by and through her lawyers who are charging taxpayers God only knows how much, wrote, Defendant Armenta has been unable to locate documents responsive to the request.

Has she lost the records of the most important undertaking she ever undertook?

When asked to identify herself as a person who has ever claimed to be afraid of me, Armenta, by and through her lawyers who are being paid God only knows how much, wrote that I had followed her around on a number of occasions and that on one occasion, I waited for her in a parking lot.

My habit is to stay well away from Monica Armenta, link, for very good reasons.

She claims as well, that I hang around her a lot, at close range and take her photograph.  She overestimates my interest in any more closeups of her.  You should see the ones that don't get used.

This is about as close as I ever got; and plenty close enough.

Armenta, ordering the Praetorian Guard to bounce me from her Great Debate.

I await her production of one iota of evidence that I have taken a photograph from any closer than this, ever.


In reply to a request for any documents she might have regarding the decision to deny me press credentials, she wrote, by and through her lawyers,  Defendant Armenta has been unable to locate any responsive documents.  They are apparently lost, stolen by North Korean hackers, or perhaps, deliberately deleted.

When asked to produce any background documents she might have, regarding complaints I've filed against board members and administrators, she wrote, by and through her lawyers ..., they're in the process of locating them, and will produce them shortly.  May I suggest they look in the enormous file they keep under my name?

When asked for any documents of any communications with regard to my complaints, that she might have had on her own behalf or on the behalf of any of the other defendants with any news organizations; she wrote by and though her lawyers who are charging taxpayers God only knows how much, she is not aware of any documents responsive to the request.  If she is to be believed, the establishment media isn't asking her any questions about the lawsuit she and they are buried in, up to their eyeballs.

This once, she is to be believed.




photo Mark Bralley
photo ched macquigg

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