When we go to the voting booth - IF we go - we assume that the person we are voting for will provide us, our children, and our community with the services and resources we were promised in the campaign. That's why we vote, isn't it?

Right on why we vote, wrong on the assumption that the elected person will do anything to help us achieve anything.

New York State has one of the highest taxes of any state in the nation, and more people, in percent of state population, working for the government ("The Corporation") than people who do not. We cannot impeach or recall any elected official. It's against the law. Also, there is no easily accessible data on the voting in the subcommittees and on the floor of our NY State Assembly or Senate, which means that we dont have any way of holding our elected officials accountable to what they said we elected them to do!

With so many people working for the government in various official and non-official positions, it seems plausible that voting against The Corporation just will not happen. Therefore our members of the State Assembly and Senate are all in their positions pretty much for life, unless they decide they've had enough, or, unless someone exposes a skeleton in the closet which proves wrong-doing and the media picks up the story so that the taxpaying public knows about it. Unfortunately the media often have supported one or more politicians, and it is always embarrassing to say "sorry, we picked the wrong candidate" or admit that the skeleton dangling in the closet was known to the people who manage the medium but they did nothing about it for political reasons.

Thus we are stuck with whomever we elect, or whomever the media - the Editors, Producers and Publishers of our local and national newspapers, TV and radio stations - support and promote, and therefore pick for us. Most of the American public believes that the media are non-partisan channels of information dedicated to getting the facts together for us readers/watchers/listeners/citizens. This, sadly, is incorrect, as the New York Times' Jayson Blair story showed, among others. The media protects their own, in most cases. A reporter/editor/producer can make anyone look supportive of any issue simply by editing this person's statements, acts, or written documents and letters in a creative way. Media education on dissecting info-mercials and advertisements have been around for years, but the dissection of political acts and promises as well as holding politicians accountable by accessing information on the Internet is new. This electronic documentation, or "e-accountability" is gathering momentum as more and more people across the nation and around the world realize that their anger and frustration with the politico-educational -corporate complex is, indeed, global and that they can have a voice in changing the status quo. The stories of ENRON and of WorldCom, of corporate raiders in People magazine or in the Drudge Report, and even the questions surrounding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are just some examples of "ordinary" citizens taking a good look at possible corruption, fraud and theft as it is taken apart and analyzed.

The internet will forever change the political accountability factor of our elected officials, corporate leaders, and anyone else who says, does, or writes anything. If there is an unfortunate side to this information gold rush it is that there is too much information, and we all must become our own editors, which is not an easy task. We must trust someone. But who?

We hope that one of the trusted sources of information will be "ParentAdvocates.org". Parentadvocates.org is the DBA of The E-Accountability Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the non-partisan communication of information on who did what to whom. We are journalists, politicians, parents, citizens and non-citizens, rich and poor people who are fed up with the misappropriation of the money and resources we, our children, and/or our communities need for our health, welfare and safety, businesses, schools, homes, and jobs. We hold our public servants - the President, Vice-President, Judges of our Courts, legislators at the national, state, and local level, Corporate CEOs and all our Editors/Publishers/Producers of our media - accountable for everything they say, write, or do. To many officials this is frightening, and it is meant to be. As readers of the information in this website will see, we have collected information on fraud, corruption and theft starting in New York City's public school system (certainly not limited to this city or state) for more than two years and we have been attacked by The Corporation, our children have been hurt or harassed, and, in my case, the Mayor and Chancellor took taxpayer money to pay the Corporation Counsel lawyers to defend the silencing/abuse. We must not be deterred from exposing this kind of retaliation.

Parentadvocates.org was not created as a personal indictment of the politico-educational complex, but as a service for anyone who needs information on special or general education and the politics behind the failure of public schools in this country. We are providing this service to help us all figure out how to put our children first, to educate us all in grass-roots democracy, and to establish an open, transparent government truly for us and by us, the global citizen.