When you make bad decisions, blame everyone else

When you are a public official or run, let's say, a school district, you are going to be open to criticism. But in yesterday's board meeting, Dr. Thomas seemed to think the media is to blame and that people are happy with what he's doing, it's just the media who is spreading lies. See story and video here.

It's the media's JOB to make sure that government and educational agencies are held accountable for what they have said and are saying. If Woodward and Bernstein only reported "positive" news. Nixon would have remained in office and a president may have easily been involved in a break-in scandal with no accountability or repercussions for his actions.

The same applies here. They have people ON TAPE or on the record saying one thing months ago and saying something else later.

If you make decisions that people think or in poor or ill judgement, people are going to talk.

If you ignore the taxpayers, they are going to talk.

If you keep changing your mind and give out random facts that don't add up, guess what? People are going to talk.

And eventually as bad choices are continuously made, they will get angry and take action.

So let's say we spend $900,000 more for a SCOREBOARD. Last night, the board approved a $1 million scoreboard for the stadium that will be one of the largest in the state. Only $100,000 was budgeted, but they expect that ad revenue will pay for it. In the latest figures on an Enterprise poll, 78 percent said it was not necessary.

What do you think? That is $1 million coming out of the BOND money not from advertisers. When the advertising money does come in, where will it go? To buy books and computers? To build playgrounds at the schools? When the money goes toward something that we don't approve of and the media reports it, how much you want to bet instead of taking a look at what BISD is doing wrong, the leaders will blame the public and the media?