TURDS HAVE FEET AND THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO LAND ON THEM REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY ARE INVOLVED IN. ONLY IN NM!

Once again, in true New Mexico Patrone government fashion, we here at the Eye have been told about a scheme in the works, to land a former Albuquerque Police Department employee another employment position, by way of handing it to him.

Over a year ago, we read about how mayor Berry attempted to lock in the civilian in charge of the real time crime center with a permanent, untouchable position before he left. Well... that didn’t work.

The former employee we are talking about was Ray Schultz’s head of the APD Real Time Crime Center.
That employee, Todd Wilham, was let go by the Keller administration.

Anyone who knows this guy’s history with APD, knows his hands have been in every controversy, where employees have been railroaded over the last 15 years, among many other things. He was Schultz’s “in“ in the media, and he was in the inner circle of scum who lied, and spinned facts, like it was their hobby. He was tight with the likes of former assistant city attorney Kathryn Levy, DCOP Paul Feist, DCOP Allen Banks, and the rest of the filth who were responsible for ruining this place, and he did their dirt for them.

He caused problems in high profile cases, like the Mary Han crime scene, where he trampled the scene, among other things... to the Dear case, where he was heard talking about how officers have to be scapegoated. You can read all about him here, by just searching.

What is really disturbing, is that TJ Wilham is in the running for a position as the Director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. Folks, that is like putting OJ Simpson in charge of a women’s domestic violence support group.

The problem here is that TJ Wilham used to work for the Albuquerque Journal, and the managing editor of the Journal, Karen Moses is the president of the board of the NM Foundation of Open Government.

We all know the Journal, or as we call it... the Urinal has been the propaganda arm of the corrupt within this city for years, and has carried their water religiously and devotedly.

We all know how these vile vultures of a feather flock together, and take care of each other. We know how more qualified candidates, who actually represent justice, fairness, and transparency get passed over, walked on, or sabotaged here, in order to reward the malfeasant who are politically connected, so let’s keep an eye on this, and see how it goes. We know the Journal’s twisted connection to the command staff of the previous administration, and the lies they told for them.

We here at the Eye believe we already know where this is going, but we advise all candidates for this position to keep their eyes peeled for any and all chicanery.

Some parasites just keep on parasiting.

Not on our watch!

Adios M@+#5}Fv<#3R!

Today, the blog New Mexico Politics with Joe Monaghan reported that TJ Wilham was fired from his Albuquerque Police Department real time crime center position. You can read Monahan’s Blog by clicking on the banner on the right side of our front page. 

For years Wilham has been the go between for Schultz and the media when Schultz needed a reliable source to spin his propaganda and deflection to the public as he used everything in his way to enrich himself while destroying the place, then fleeing like the punk he is. We bet TJ is wondering where his boy Schultz is now. Probably wondering if Kathy Levy can help him too. That answer is no. 

You can read all about Wilham’s antics here by searching his name in the upper right search tool ot clicking the links at the bottom of this article. 

This was a long time coming.

This move by the Keller administration was one of the top 10 moves they could have made. It shows that there may be slow progress, but progress is coming. Now for the proving of worthiness of the current commanders.

Over the years this person has showed up at crime scenes, fouling them up. He was in Ray Schultz and Kathryn Levy’s inner circle of jerks, and has had his filthy hands in every controversial political firing that was justified and unjustified.  We are not going to beat a dead Hippopotamus over this, so we will just say this. Thank you to the current administration for taking a positive step towards righting wrongs, and denying access to the past filth responsible for the ruination of a city and police department, and thanks to Joe Monaghan for being on top of it, and getting it out there.

We wonder how Kent Walz over at the Albuquerque Urinal feels about losing his inside boy.
Well... no actually we don’t.

Karma really is a kick in the pants.

Cheers,
The Eye

Advance Notice

Sunday's Albuquerque Journal featured an above the fold special report by reporter T.J. Wilham with the bold headline "Contempt of Cop" (subscription). The story, no doubt inspired by the recent clash between KOB TV photographer Rick Foley and APD Officer Daniel Guzman, focuses on City Ordinance 12-2-19 - Resisting, Obstructing, or Refusing to Obey an Officer.

Oddly enough, this post has very little to do with the content of the Journal's story which could be boiled down to police officers have the authority to give you a lawful order and you are compelled to do so. Sometimes officers misuse the authority, often the charges are coupled with other charges, many times there is a plea bargain or the charges are dismissed outright. There's really not much of a story there but it did have an almost immediate effect - at least on Officer Daniel Guzman.

Our Eyes tell us that Saturday night before Wilham's story ran - Officer Guzman was relieved of duty shortly after he arrived for his shift. Some of you may be thinking "good he got what he deserved" which may or may not be true. Our problem is that no one has made a determination as to whether or not Officer Guzman had given the KOB TV photographer a lawful order - not a judge, not the IRO, no one.

Nothing had changed with regard to Guzman's case or the story itself except that the Journal was getting ready to run a front page story Sunday morning. The move by the 5th floor to suspend Guzman smacks of advance notice by the Journal or its reporter T.J. Wilham, and a preemptive strike by Chief Schultz and company - which makes us wonder who's really running APD.

It strikes us that the APD brass is acting as rashly and precipitously as Officer Guzman appears to be on tape. Making the decision to suspend an officer based on a news story (which is how this looks to us) is reactive and irresponsible.

Perhaps the 5th floor should consider some leadership training as organizations tend to take on the attributes of their leaders for good or ill. If officers are getting into trouble, if officers are showing a lack of patience when dealing with the public, the blame rests squarely with their leaders. Those leaders reside on both the 5th and 11th floors.

Funny Business

We normally don't talk about stuff like this. In fact, we've only mentioned it once that we can remember. Last time - coincidentally just about a year ago - we were just a little miffed to say the least (read it here). This time we think it's hilarious.

According to our Eyes the boys up on the 5th floor have asked Journal Reporter T.J. Wilham for a bit of a favor. They would like him to use his investigative prowess to find your ever lovable Eye. Yep, T.J. is on the case and looking for yours truly.

Why do we think it's funny this time? Well, last time they were using department personnel and resources to seek out our identity in what could only be deemed an illegal investigation of a private citizen exercising their First Amendment rights. That's a big no-no folks that can land someone in the clink. This time they're so desperate that they've called in Wilham to try to accomplish what they have thus far failed to do - get a look at The Eye.

Wilham is a reporter working for a private company. If the Journal wants to pay him to seek us out they've got every right to do so. But somehow we can't imagine T.J.'s bosses caring much about the likes of us, so this is probably more along the lines of a personal favor. Perhaps it's even a form of repayment for getting some exclusive stories out of the folks on the fifth floor.

Who knows... T.J. might even be successful in tracking us down as we lurk the halls of power and spy on the very public business that goes on down at city hall. There is one thing that's sure though - after all this time they still don't know who we are.

Don't worry - we won't let it go to our head. We talk about far too many serious things to take ourself (or is it ourselves) too seriously.