Shapleigh asked Obama for help shedding light on Bowie Plan

the president of the united states to do something about it: 1:00 – 1:16 “it was ver difficult to make things happen. i went to jaime esparza, he didn’t do anything. i went to the tea, they didn’t do anything. i finally went to barack obama and wrote him a letter. and it took that letter and the department of justice getting involved, which got the fbi involved, which made everything happen.” i called a spokeswoman for district attorney jamie esparza to get his reaction to what shapleigh just said. i’ve not yet received a call back. and estela, you actually sat down with shapleigh today. yes, bob, i went to his office early this afternoon, because he was the driving force behind this scandal coming to light. i had a lot of questions for the former state senator … a lot of them were about the students whose lives will never be the same. students shapleigh says have no future thanks to dr. lorenzo garcia and those arrested today: what happened to 352 austin panthers? six years ago, then texas state senator eliot shapleigh said he had a “hunch” th students at austin high school were disappearing. “what we’re seein is a systematic removal of these students at the high school level so that when they’re tested, someone can go brag – i got these taks scores and get a bonus out of it.” in the 2007 -20008 school year, 639 freshmen started class. the folowoing year only 348 of them were enrolled as sophomores in the fall, 287 by spring. cheating? no. john tanner was then principal at austin high school. he explained those “disappeared” panthers eithe dropped out of school, transferred or were held back because they couldn’t meet academic requirements, like algebra. he’s now under inditctment. about john tanner 2:21 “john tanner was in my senate office saying there was no cheating, the very day we were announcing that. and i think time has proven him wrong. i think he was one of the major actors in this at austin high. austin was only second to bowie.” another major actor, shapleigh says — damon murphy, the man overseeing the district’s priority schools division. about damon murphy at 1:47: he was like the quarterback of all this stuff. it was his job to disappear kids. and then of all things, he went to canutillo and started doing the same thing over there. damon murphy is like the quarterback of this whole scandal.” damon