Below is the text of an e-mail message sent by Debra Pearson, a member of the Governing Board of Maricopa Community Colleges, to other board members and the system's chancellor. (See related article.)

 
From: Debra Pearson
Date: September 26, 2009 12:07:50 PM
To: Colleen Clark, Randolph Lumm, Don Campbell, Jerry Walker, Rufus Glasper
Subject: I call you out, LIES DO NOT BUILD TRUST!
 
Dear Ms. Clark,

I have cried out for those who cannot and tried to rebuke the practice of manipulations, abuses and lies that you insist on engaging in that are putting the people of this District through HELL!  Your inability to stop, even with this most current example of what is destroying the ability for respect and trust to exist has done nothing to drive the devil out of the way that you conduct yourself.

I just got off the phone with a person who has validated that you have lied again! I have trusted you in the past and even defended you to Mr. Lumm when he knew the truth about your flagrant misrepresentation of the work that you mislead us to believe you had to done to negotiate your "Servant Leadership" policy. I believed you and I trusted you and you betrayed that trust and stomped truth into the ground.

NOW, I verify and validate because I do not believe a word you say! I am so grateful that I have for I must protect myself from ever falling victim of lies in my effort to represent this District and the people of this District. You have to know that every time you do this, I am going to check into what you say.

I rebuke you in the name of God, who abhors a liar! C.S. Lewis has commented that evil is often a perversion of something good that God has created. Satan is the master of mixing good with evil. In "Principlizing" we are to protect truth from those who profess to be of God while their hearts and deeds are far from Him. You cannot lead this District to a victory for good using manipulations and lies to justify your means. This serves that which is not for good! I cannot believe in light of all that you want to be believed about your humility that you would not see that your behavior is exposing truth. I so wanted to believe that just maybe you had changed! I am so incredibly crushed that even that was a manipulative lie. You leave me no other thing to believe when you bold faced lied to me AGAIN Tuesday night! GOD HELP YOU!

Please read Lev. 10 before you pretend further to be about the work of God and further continue to abuse this District in self righteousness, self-will as Nadab and Abihu did pretending to be doing so for a reason that was good. Do not continue to deceive yourself and attempt to deceive this District. I will continue to call your lies out and in the name of God I beg you to stop!

We must heal this District, we must protect and preserve all that this establishment represents and is here to accomplish! We must bring a peace and a strength that lies, no matter the motive, will destroy. I am so angry that you would, again, try to deceive me on matters of such importance to this District. Leadership and liarship are not the same. I will not tolerate being lied to, please stop trying to wear me down with more lies and the energy it takes to call you out over and over again.

Those I do not call out, it is not because I do not know, it is just that it is exhausting and nauseating to have to continuously do so.

I reached my hand out in an effort to find a way to trust that humility had found you, only to be fooled again.

Led me not into temptation of your deceptions again. Speak truth, with integrity or do not speak again.

Do not deliver any of your manipulative, backhanded, pathetic apologies that are more abusive than your lies. I am hurt and I am angry and disappointed in me, that I would actually hold out hope that what you said Tuesday night was true.

I will pray for you. But more I pray for this District and the people that you hurt and I commit to continue with every fiber of my being to protect them.

Always,
Debra