ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Albuquerque’s school board wants to remove the name of a disgraced politician from a school library.
The district board voted Wednesday night to remove former state legislator Manny M. Aragon’s name from the library at Lowell Elementary School.
KRQE-TV (https://bit.ly/1oPXI04 ) reports that the 4-2 vote was preliminary and subject to another vote by the board next week.
Aragon secured state funding to build the library but he later was convicted of pocketing more than $600,000 during the construction of an Albuquerque courthouse.
School board President Esquivel says Aragon did a lot for the community and the state but that it’s now inappropriate to have his name on the library.
Aragon spent over four years in prison but is now finishing his term in his Albuquerque-area home.
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