Over on Jaime Abeytia's end of the internet he has a piece on Ysleta ISD Trustee Marty Reyes decision not to seek re-election, where he states:
But you know what else is true? The fact that she was the loudest voice at YISD against having transparency with campaign financial reporting.
This is the first election cycle for her that candidates for school boards will have to file financial reports.
And she's not running.
You do the math.
"She" of course is Marty Reyes.
Campaign financial reporting?
I think what my friend Jaime was trying to say was personal financial statements.
Yeah, that's the thing State Representative Marisa Marquez passed in the last legislative session - requiring school board trustees in El Paso County to file personal financial reports.
That's the thing that Canutillo ISD Trustee Armando Rodriguez showed up drunk - quite naturally - on Xtra to debate against this effort by Marquez.
So because of Marquez and her interest in transparency we can blame her for Marty Reyes decision NOT to run.
Ysleta ISD totally got hosed by losing someone not into the whole transparency thing like Marty Reyes....for shame.
But because Jaime is too scared to blame Marquez, well, I am here to do it.
I blame Marisa "Meanie" Marquez.