Loweree Lying?

So things are getting ugly at EPISD over the congressional race and now an appointed member of the EPISD Board of Trustees is weighing in on the endorsement process of the American Federation of Teachers.

Suddenly Trustees Loweree and Hatch are saying they were unaware of Susie Byrd's involvement with Veronica Escobar's campaign. But interestingly, it was not so long ago that EPISD School Board President Trent Hatch had a much different tone.

Here's his quote in an article from last year in the El Paso Times:

"Understood, this is the last thing we need on the board is to start political wars in the media with members of the board," Hatch replied. "I will tell Dori and Juan the same thing."

Byrd then sent Hatch a link to the El Paso Times article about the conversation between Cabrera and Haggerty.

"This is not impressive at all and only brings a black eye to EPISD and the board," Hatch replied.

This was an article about Juan Cabrera, who is now in a meeting to discuss his future with EPISD, and his allegation that Dori Fenenbock was talking about her congressional campaign at board meetings.

So last year the "last thing" the EPISD board of trustees needed was "to start political wars in the media with members of the board" and literally says it brings a "black eye to EPISD and the board".

But now its okay when he and Loweree do it?

Can we just talk about the ninja-level hypocrisy going on here? Hatch is board president now because Fenenbock screwed over Al Velarde who was in line to be the next board president, in favor of Hatch. Fenenbock and Cabrera got a lot of heat for how close they were and the fact that Cabrera was attending partisan political events with Fenenbock and allegedly soliciting campaign donations on her behalf.

Now Fenenbock's ally Cabrera is under fire and Hatch completely flips his position? Loweree was Fenenbock's hand-picked successor and she's the patsy that is being used to raise this issue.

But seriously, what issue is she actually even raising? The AFT endorsement was last month. Hell Fenenbock's supporters were claiming to have it in the bag, so I don't understand the effort to now act like the endorsement came because Susie Byrd made it happen. Have y'all actually spoke to any of the members of AFT?

They are vehemently anti-Fenenbock. Not because of Susie Byrd, but because of Dori Fenenbock's ever-evolving position on charter schools.

I interviewed Fenenbock in 2015 when she was a candidate for EPISD. I asked her about charter schools. Here's the interview. You can hear her answer in 2015. That is why the unions don't like her.



This is obviously a political move on the part of Loweree and Hatch because they probably don't like the fact that Byrd has been calling for a reexamination of Cabrera's contract with EPISD. But the center of it all is what appears to be a bid-rigging scheme that Fenenbock voted for, that allowed a particular vendor to get a contract with EPISD.

Why do I say is obviously a political move? Well I'm glad you asked.

First, where is there any requirement to disclose your political participation in a non-partisan school board? See thats the dirty little secret of this alleged story here. No one is alleging a policy, rule, law, or even an unspoken rule, was violated.

But both are pretending they didn't know Susie Byrd's connection to Escobar's campaign for congress. Seriously, that is their entire premise. They were completely unaware that Susie Byrd was running Escobar's campaign.

Well if there's two things I like to do here on the LSB its quote rap lyrics, and Sir William Shakespeare. As Hamlet says, "the Lady doth protest too much..."

Here's a screen shot of Loweree's Facebook page. Look who we have in common as friends?

And since I quoted Sir William, I shall now quote Sticky Fingas from Onyx - "but, but, but, wait it gets worse..."

Look who else I'm not friends with but is friends with Susie Byrd on Facebook...



That's right, Trent Hatch. Oh wait, is he friends with Veronica Escobar too?

Well thats embarrassing.

So both pretending they don't know about Susie's involvement with Escobar is flat out ridiculous. Especially coming from Fenenbock's hand-picked successor as president and hand-picked successor as trustee.

Also, seriously KVIA, what the hell? Of all the things to cover at EPISD, and there are a lot of big things, you run on story on this - but there was no mention of the special meeting this morning about the future of the embattled Superintendent? Come on, he's your anchor's brother, you know you guys gotta walk the straight and narrow when it comes to not reporting on Cabrera!

Seriously people, go to KVIA's website right now, not one thing about the Cabrera meeting happing this morning.