By Tracy Dingmann
Sometimes you write a blog post just for the headline. This isn’t necessarily one of those times.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the baffling failure of Mayor Marty Chavez’s administration to respond to a public information request from a local resident about what exactly happened to some $750,000 apparently raised by the mayor’s charity balls in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
I classified it as a ABQJournalWatch topic because the resident wrote about her quest for public information in a letter to the editor of the Journal. I wanted to know why Journal readers had to read about this serious issue in a mere letter to the editor, and not in a big fat story by the Journal’s investigative reporters.
Today blogger Barb Wold (once again) does my job, writing a post about what actually happened to the money raised by the 2009 ball.
Wold writes that, according to release from the mayor’s office today, the mayor has distributed the proceeds from the 2009 Mayor’s Charity Ball thusly:
- $75,000 to the Center for Developmental Disabilities (CDD) Autism Center
- $21,000 to the Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center
- $15,000 to the NM BioPark Society
Well, that accounts for one year, I guess.
But I’m still wondering why the Journal isn’t digging into the rest of this particular story, which would normally seem to be just its cup of tea.
abqjournalwatch.wordpress.com 
“Journal’s investigative reporters.”
Kind of an oxymoron isn’t it?
did you ask Democrat Attorney General Gary King if he exercised his duty to enforce the inspection of public records act in this matter? If not, why not?