La. BESE Member Kira Orange Jones: Sloppy at Best; Deceptive at Worst.
On August 11, 2019, I posted about Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) District 2 member, Teach for America executive director, Kira Orange-Jones, who does not file timely annual disclosure reports with Louisiana’s ethics board.
As of my August 11, 2019, writing, Orange-Jones had yet to file annual disclosures for 2017 and 2018. Too, her physical residence was in question, and she has been chronically absent from BESE meetings, missing 38 percent of the time since January 2016.
Since Orange-Jones declared her intention to run for a third BESE term, she had to file her extremely delinquent annual forms (due May 15th of subsequent year), which she did on August 12, 2019.
In filing her annual financial disclosures long after they were due, Orange-Jones is at best sloppy and at worst, deceptive, for her delinquent filings serve to keep the public in the dark regarding her physical address (a qualifying factor for her BESE seat) and any connections that she might have with other organizations and that could pose conflicts of interest.
Let’s consider Orange-Jones’ physical address, which she has inconsistently reported.
When viewing Orange-Jones’ most recent campaign finance filings (dated February and July 2019 and going back to 2016), one sees that Orange-Jones reports the same Laurel Street address from 2016 and right up to April 05, 2019, with the latest usage of the Laurel Street address being on a filing dated April 15, 2019.
Then, for the most recent campaign finance report as of this writing, covering CONTINUE READING: La. BESE Member Kira Orange Jones: Sloppy at Best; Deceptive at Worst. | deutsch29
