More Montenegro news, from El Paso

Click here to read about the $6,000 in HOPE Foundation honorariums the former Arlington superintendent accepted while working in the Ysleta school district. His attorney, Neal Adams, is quoted as saying state law is confusing about when superintendents can accept outside pay from organizations that do business with their districts.

- Kristin Sullivan

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[My Property Taxes Pay For This!]

The state law is not confusing. Even a common person like me gets it. There is a conflict of interest when a Superintendent gets money from a VENDOR (and these groups ARE vendors) who is trying to do business with a school district - any school district. That was why the law was put forth. The law is clear.

Montenegro is an idiot if he thought that anyone in Arlington was going to fall for that line . . . the law is confusing. It wasn't confusing to the attorneys - his own attorney - they were advising him from the beginning that it was wrong and he continued.

That part in the El Paso story about the two HOPE presentations were "scheduled" before the law was enacted is laughable. Not even a first year law student would come up with that one as an excuse.

Star-Telegram: Can we get a story which lists every single speaking engagement that Montenegro attended and received payment since February. That would include the travel expenses that the taxpayers covered. Some poster listed it on the blogs. If a blogger can come up with this information, I would thing you might be able to do the same in your newspaper. This would be good information for the citizens of Arlington. Actually, we needed it a couple of weeks back, but you were too busy getting quotes from LULAC and preachers from Fort Worth.