[From nobody Sun Oct 7 19:23:48 2018 Return-Path: <gregjan4@yahoo.com> Received: from rly-db09.mx.aol.com (rly-db09.mail.aol.com [172.19.130.84]) by air-db02.mail.aol.com (v120.9) with ESMTP id MAILINDB021-ae34726c2723c5; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:35:01 -0400 Received: from web50804.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50804.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.113]) by rly-db09.mx.aol.com (v120.9) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINDB091-ae34726c2723c5; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:34:42 -0400 Received: (qmail 60014 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Oct 2007 05:34:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=uchy5GlJWi5L9PndX0smCJp58cRpYlt6iewKf3mbvwtMxzewswRuBr1Y9o0udqLinl87rSvrJaRQxI79jX7DX+/6MYjAiSlLvrmp70TKbuPlCK8j0ZH/gOayxMm4X0PQjQsI6GoJMCZiVnhsLxg5NrR+X/7GNQLbdShsu98j1lg=; X-YMail-OSG: Gm.PmNEVM1kJJbBmGKWePbnd.0bCPBJmTkyxbd6qHLfc0WzR_psVSaeXzMLdVktxXEcmXeDsLek.7Fx9vHY8ejAM7naQbtMn0qdpLVVShBcmdI2wXaygzXbNd9h.BlNkMfWfs8g3fi4- Received: from [63.193.235.141] by web50804.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:34:41 PDT Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:34:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Jan <gregjan4@yahoo.com> Subject: Please forward to Greens in your county ASAP!: Please mail in your KPFA (LSB) Ballot -- Very Soon! To: sanda@greensolutions.org, sanda@greens.org, cat801@mindspring.com, revdecker@msn.com, WB4D23@aol.com, Larry.Cafiero@santacruzgreenparty.org, prisonpedagogy@comcast.net, jimdorenkott2@yahoo.com, amtelwest@earthlink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1051525170-1193722481=:59664" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <143338.59664.qm@web50804.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-AOL-IP: 206.190.38.113 X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_helo : X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: listenair ; SPF_822_from : X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) --0-1051525170-1193722481=:59664 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Greens, Thanks for forwarding our previous message about the KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections. The elections will soon be ending, and we now want to make sure that all Green Party KPFA members do remember to vote on time, so we'd appreciate it if you could send the follow-up message below to your county Green Party listserves and e-mail lists as soon as possible! As before, please get back to me by email of by phone (510-444-7336) to confirm that you have received this message, or if you have any questions. And thanks again (in advance) for your help with this! Sincerely, Greg Jan County Council member, Green Party of Alameda County [[ Subject line: Please mail in your KPFA (LSB) Ballot -- Very Soon! ]] Dear Greens, The KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections will be ending soon -- ballots must be received (not postmarked) by November 15! We therefore urge you to mail in your ballot as soon as possible This Week, in order to be sure that your vote will count! As we explained in our original message (copied below), this is a very important election for Greens, so please be sure to vote -- soon! Below, in addition to our original message, we have also included a message from highly-respected KPFA activist Carol Spooner, which explains some of the issues involved in the election (and whose endorsements differ only slightly from our own). Endorsements from the Green Party of Alameda County: * Rankings #1 through #6 (listed in alphabetical order, please choose your own order): Steve Conley, Chandra Hauptman, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy, Tracy Rosenberg, and Joe Wanzala * Rankings #7 through #12 (listed in alphabetical order, please choose your own order): C C Campbell-Rock, Bob English, Richard Phelps, Mara Rivera, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods Thank you in advance for voting in the KPFA LSB election!, The Green Party of Alameda County [Our original message, "KPFA LSB Election Recommendations, from the Green Party of Alameda County":] Dear Greens, The Green Party of Alameda County has made endorsements for the month-long KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections, which begins on October 15. Because this is an important election for Greens, and because many of you are members of KPFA, we are sending this message to you. The LSB elections are important not only because the board members oversee the operations of KPFA, but also because four of the board members are then selected for the Pacifica National Board that oversees the operation of the entire Pacifica Network. In this time when the corporations have taken over the two major political parties and the media, it is critical for the Greens to help strengthen KPFA, since the Greens and KPFA share several common goals, such as promoting progressive politics and the fact that neither of us takes corporate money. Because KPFA is one of the most important media resources for activists in Northern California, as Greens, we need to have people on the Board who will work with the staff to strengthen and grow the KPFA community and encourage KPFA to give the Green Party (and other third parties) the chance to be heard. We also need to have people on the Board who will help KPFA, as a non-commercial station, set an example of how an election should be conducted without requiring candidates to raise and spend large amounts of money in order to publicize their positions -- that is, KPFA should provide ample airtime as well as public forums for the candidates, so that listeners can make informed decisions about whom to vote for. The Green Party of Alameda County recommends the election of the following six candidates. (Note: Chandra Haupman, Dave Heller and Attila Nagy are Green Party members). The candidates below are listed in alphabetical order. Please rank them in whatever order you prefer, as your top six choices: - Steve Conley, former LSB member, and KPFA staffer - Chandra Hauptman, current LSB member, human activist - Dave Heller, IRV advocate - Attila Nagy, current LSB member - Tracy Rosenberg, Programming Council, and last year's LSB election supervisor - Joe Wanzala- current LSB member, good working contact with national board. In addition to the above six candidates, the Green Party of Alameda County also endorses the following candidates. - C C Campbell-Rock, Hurricane Katrina survivor and Gulf Coast justice activist - Bob English, KPFA Outreach Committee member - Richard Phelps, current LSB member, arbitration lawyer - Mara Rivera, KPFA Outreach Committee member - Gerald Sanders, former LSB member - Stan Woods, current LSB member, Labor activist Thank you for voting in this year's KPFA LSB elections! The Green Party of Alameda County +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [From Carol Spooner:] PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD Hello Again, You know I try to keep my cool -- but sometimes I just have to let loose. We fought a long hard fight to win democratic elections for KPFA's station board. One of the most important reasons for that was so that listeners could be informed by the candidates of the issues and problems and their proposed solutions. Imagine, if back in 1999 we had had the ability to communicate with all the members and to elect -- and recall -- the board of directors (through our elected delegates on the LSB). In 1999 Pacifica silenced its critics, fired them, took them off the air, arrested them, put in armed guards at KPFA, boarded up the station and piped in music from Houston. Today, supposedly, the candidate's have the right to lay it out as they see it, and the voters have the ability to contact the candidates (those who give contact information) and ask questions and make up their minds who to vote for. This isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot more than we had back in 1999 when we had to ask the California Attorney General for permission to sue to remove the Pacifica board of directors. I say supposedly because Pacifica's current interim Executive Director is now trying to silence a group of candidates for the KPFA LSB and to prejudice the election against them for their revelation of certain issues of real interest to the KPFA membership. Based on complaints from KPFA's interim management and members of the "Concerned Listeners" slate of candidates for the KPFA LSB, all of the KPFA listener candidates' statements have been removed from the "official" Pacifica elections web page at www.pacificaelections.org. [I have just learned that they will soon be reposted with the names of persons mentioned in the statements deleted. That will certainly make them far less helpful to voters in deciding how to vote.] In addition, the interim Executive Director has posted an "Open Letter to the Pacifica Community" on the KPFA Elections web page at http://lsb.kpfa.org/lsb-elections/2007-lsb-elections/lsb-elections-2007 in which he characterizes as "abusive" and "hateful speech" the statements of "a group of candidates running for the KPFA local board" whose statements, Siegel says, "contain little more than personal attacks on their opponents and station staff." He has also conflated the KPFA "Peoples Radio" candidates statements with a racially inflammatory statement made by a WBAI candidate, and has wrapped them all up in the same stinky fish-wrap. [In addition, and on a related note, the interim Executive Director has delayed a mailer from going out in support of a group of candidates at WBAI in New York so that the mailing will not reach the voters until a week after the ballots have arrived -- contrary to the requirements of California non-profit law that the Foundation must make the mailing list available in a timely manner for such communications with the membership.] First, Pacifica management and staff are not permitted to make prejudicial statements about the candidates. They are not permitted to use Pacifica resources (including web pages) to the advantage or disadvantage of any candidate or group of candidates. Secondly, the "Peoples" Radio" slate candidates' statements cannot by any standard be characterized as "hate speech" or "abusive" or "personal attacks." They are not attacks on anyone's character. They are factual assertions and strong arguments concerning the positions and actions of other candidates and the station manager and program director with regard to the station and the LSB. Vigorous debate about these things is a proper purpose of the elections forum, so that the membership can make informed decisions when you vote. It is true that in September 2005 Brian Edwards-Tiekert (a staff LSB member currently running for reelection) sent an email to a group of people to schedule a meeting to discuss, among other things, "dismantling the LSB." Among those people was Sherry Gendleman (a listener LSB member currently running for re-election on the "Concerned Listeners" slate), Lemlem Rijio (who was then KPFA's Development Director and is now KPFA's interim Station Manager), Sasha Lilley (who was then a producer for "Against The Grain" and is now KPFA's interim Program Director), and Bonnie Simmons (who is a staff LSB member, the current LSB Chair, and an endorser of the "Concerned Listeners" slate of candidates). This is a matter that should be of concern to the voters. Dismantling the LSB is not the way to get good governance for KPFA and Pacifica. I am glad that the "Peoples Radio" slate chose to publish it in their joint candidates' statements. That email was widely circulated among those close to the station when it first came out, and the fact that it is now a campaign issue should be a surprise to nobody. It is an outrage that the interim Executive Director is issuing prejudicial statements and taking candidates' statements off the web page. (Apparently he didn't know what was in the candidates' statements before the voter-pamphlets were mailed or he would presumably have tried to censor them and embroiled Pacifica in a costly legal battle that it would have lost). So, while I believe more strongly than ever that it is essential that the "I-Team" candidates be elected to serve as a core of civility and sanity on the LSB and a "buffer zone" between the opposing factions, I also believe it is important to rebuke the Executive Director for his outrageous acts. That can be done by ranking Peoples' Radio slate members after the "I-Team" candidates. This will also preserve some balance on the LSB, as the "Concerned Listeners" hold a majority of the seats that were filled last year and are not up for re-election this year. Here is my recommended order of ranking: #1- #4 - listed in alphabetical order - you choose your order of preference Steve Conley, Chandra Hauptman, Tracy Rosenberg, and Joe Wanzala and #5 - #11 - listed in alphabetical order - you choose your order of preference Bob English, Dave Heller, Atilla Nagy, Richard Phelps, Mara Rivera, Gerald Sanders, and Stan Woods No matter how you vote, please do be sure to vote so the election makes its 10% quorum. The ballots must be received (not postmarked) by November 15th. Thanks, and best regards, Carol Spooner KPFA Local Board Member (March 2000-March 2005 Pacifica National Board Member (January 2002-January 2005) Lead Plaintiff - Listeners Lawsuit to remove the old Pacifica Board (1999-December 2001) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1051525170-1193722481=:59664 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <div>Dear Greens,</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for forwarding our previous message about the KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections.  The elections will soon be ending, and we now want to make sure that all Green Party KPFA members do remember to vote on time, so we'd appreciate it if you could send the follow-up message below to your county Green Party listserves and e-mail lists as soon as possible!</div> <div> </div> <div>As before, please get back to me by email of by phone (510-444-7336) to confirm that you have received this message, or if you have any questions.  And thanks again (in advance) for your help with this! </div> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>                 Sincerely,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>                 Greg Jan</DIV> <DIV>                 County Council member,</DIV> <DIV>                 Green Party of Alameda County</DIV></DIV> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <DIV>[[ Subject line:<BR>Please mail in your KPFA (LSB) Ballot -- Very Soon!  ]]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dear Greens,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections will be ending soon -- ballots must be received (not postmarked) by November 15!  We therefore urge you to mail in your ballot as soon as possible This Week, in order to be sure that your vote will count!  As we explained in our original message (copied below), this is a very important election for Greens, so please be sure to vote -- soon!  Below, in addition to our original message, we have also included a message from highly-respected KPFA activist Carol Spooner, which explains some of the issues involved in the election (and whose endorsements differ only slightly from our own).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Endorsements from the Green Party of Alameda County:</DIV> <DIV>* Rankings #1 through #6 (listed in alphabetical order, please choose your own order):  </DIV> <DIV>Steve Conley, Chandra Hauptman, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy, Tracy Rosenberg, and Joe Wanzala</DIV> <DIV>* Rankings #7 through #12 (listed in alphabetical order, please choose your own order):  </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>C C Campbell-Rock, Bob English, Richard Phelps, Mara Rivera, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods</DIV></DIV> <DIV><B></B> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you in advance for voting in the KPFA LSB election!,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Green Party of Alameda County</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>[Our original message, "KPFA LSB Election Recommendations, from the Green Party of Alameda County":] </DIV> <DIV><BR>Dear Greens,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Green Party of Alameda County has made endorsements for the month-long KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) elections, which begins on October 15.  Because this is an important election for Greens, and because many of you are members of KPFA, we are sending this message to you.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The LSB elections are important not only because the board members oversee the operations of KPFA, but also because four of the board members are then selected for the Pacifica National Board that oversees the operation of the entire Pacifica Network.<BR>   </DIV> <DIV>In this time when the corporations have taken over the two major political parties and the media, it is critical for the Greens to help strengthen KPFA, since the Greens and KPFA share several common goals, such as promoting progressive politics and the fact that neither of us takes corporate money.     </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Because KPFA is one of the most important media resources for activists in Northern California, as Greens, we need to have people on the Board who will work with the staff to strengthen and grow the KPFA community and encourage KPFA to give the Green Party (and other third parties) the chance to be heard.  We also need to have people on the Board who will help KPFA, as a non-commercial station, set an example of how an election should be conducted without requiring candidates to raise and spend large amounts of money in order to publicize their positions -- that is, KPFA should provide ample airtime as well as public forums for the candidates, so that listeners can make informed decisions about whom to vote for. </DIV> <DIV>   </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Green Party of Alameda County recommends the election of the following six candidates.  (Note:  Chandra Haupman, Dave Heller and Attila Nagy are Green Party members).  The candidates below are listed in alphabetical order.  Please rank them in whatever order you prefer, as your top six choices:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Steve Conley, former LSB member, and KPFA staffer<BR>- Chandra Hauptman, current LSB member, human activist<BR>- Dave Heller, IRV advocate<BR>- Attila Nagy, current LSB member <BR>- Tracy Rosenberg, Programming Council, and last year's LSB election supervisor<BR>- Joe Wanzala- current LSB member, good working contact with national board.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>In addition to the above six candidates, the Green Party of Alameda County also endorses the following candidates.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- C C Campbell-Rock, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193611549_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193684068_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193721160_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Hurricane Katrina</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> survivor and Gulf Coast justice activist<BR>- Bob English, KPFA Outreach Committee member<BR>- Richard Phelps, current LSB member, arbitration lawyer<BR>- Mara Rivera, KPFA Outreach Committee member<BR>- Gerald Sanders, former LSB member <BR>- Stan Woods, current LSB member, Labor activist</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>Thank you for voting in this year's KPFA LSB elections!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Green Party of Alameda County </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>[From Carol Spooner:]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><U>PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD<BR></U></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><U></U></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><U> </DIV> <DIV><BR></U>Hello Again,<BR><BR>You know I try to keep my cool -- but sometimes I just have to let loose.  We fought a long hard fight to win democratic elections for KPFA's station board.  One of the most important reasons for that was so that listeners could be informed by the candidates of the issues and problems and their proposed solutions.  Imagine, if back in 1999 we had had the ability to communicate with all the members and to elect -- and recall -- the board of directors (through our elected delegates on the LSB).<BR><BR>In 1999 Pacifica silenced its critics, fired them, took them off the air, arrested them, put in armed guards at KPFA, boarded up the station and piped in music from <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193487545_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Houston</SPAN>.<BR><BR>Today, <STRONG><U>supposedly</U></STRONG>, the candidate's have the right to lay it out as they see it, and the voters have the ability to contact the candidates (those who give contact information) and ask questions and make up their minds who to vote for.  This isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot more than we had back in 1999 when we had to ask the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193684068_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">California</SPAN> Attorney General for permission to sue to remove the Pacifica board of directors.<BR><BR>I say <STRONG><U>supposedly</U></STRONG> because Pacifica's current interim Executive Director is now trying to silence a group of candidates for the KPFA LSB and to prejudice the election against them for their revelation of certain issues of real interest to the KPFA membership.  Based on complaints from KPFA's interim management and members of the "Concerned Listeners" slate of candidates for the KPFA LSB, all of the KPFA listener candidates' statements have been removed from the "official" Pacifica elections web page at </FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.pacificaelections.org. /" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face=Arial size=3><FONT color=#003399><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193487545_1>www.pacificaelections.org.</SPAN> </FONT></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=3>  [I have just learned that they will soon be reposted with the names of persons mentioned in the statements deleted.  That will certainly make them far less helpful to voters in deciding how to vote.]  In addition, the interim Executive Director has posted an "Open Letter to the Pacifica Community" on the KPFA Elections web page at </FONT><A rel=nofollow><FONT face=Arial color=#003399 size=3>http://lsb.kpfa.org/lsb-elections/2007-lsb-elections/lsb-elections-2007</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=3> in which he characterizes as "abusive" and "hateful speech" the statements of "a group of candidates running for the KPFA local board" whose statements, Siegel says, "contain little more than personal attacks on their opponents and station staff."  He has also conflated the KPFA "Peoples Radio" candidates statements with a racially inflammatory statement made by a WBAI candidate, and has wrapped them all up in the same stinky fish-wrap. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT face=Arial>[In addition, and on a related note, the interim Executive Director has delayed a mailer from going out in support of a group of candidates at WBAI in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193487545_2 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193612189_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193684068_2 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193721160_2 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">New York</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> so that the mailing will not reach the voters until a week after the ballots have arrived -- contrary to the requirements of California non-profit law that the Foundation must make the mailing list available in a timely manner for such communications with the membership.]<BR><BR><STRONG><U>First</U></STRONG>, Pacifica management and staff are not permitted to make prejudicial statements about the candidates.  They are not permitted to use Pacifica resources (including web pages) to the advantage or disadvantage of any candidate or group of candidates.<BR><BR><U><STRONG>Secondly</STRONG></U>, the "Peoples" Radio" slate candidates' statements cannot by any standard be characterized as "hate speech" or "abusive" or "personal attacks."  They are not attacks on anyone's character.  They are factual assertions and strong arguments concerning the positions and actions of other candidates and the station manager and program director with regard to the station and the LSB.  Vigorous debate about these things is a proper purpose of the elections forum, so that the membership can make informed decisions when you vote.<BR><BR>It is true that in September 2005 Brian Edwards-Tiekert (a staff LSB member currently running for reelection) sent an email to a group of people to schedule a meeting to discuss, among other things, <B><U>"dismantling the LSB."</U></B>  Among those people was Sherry Gendleman (a listener LSB member currently running for re-election on the "Concerned Listeners" slate), Lemlem Rijio (who was then KPFA's Development Director and is now KPFA's interim Station Manager), Sasha Lilley (who was then a producer for "Against The Grain" and is now KPFA's interim Program Director), and Bonnie Simmons (who is a staff LSB member, the current LSB Chair, and an endorser of the "Concerned Listeners" slate of candidates).<BR><BR>This is a matter that should be of concern to the voters.  Dismantling the LSB is not the way to get good governance for KPFA and <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193487545_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193612189_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193684068_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1193721160_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Pacifica</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>.  I am glad that the "Peoples Radio" slate chose to publish it in their joint candidates' statements.  That email was widely circulated among those close to the station when it first came out, and the fact that it is now a campaign issue should be a surprise to nobody.<BR><BR>It is an outrage that the interim Executive Director is issuing prejudicial statements and taking candidates' statements off the web page.  (Apparently he didn't know what was in the candidates' statements before the voter-pamphlets were mailed or he would presumably have tried to censor them and embroiled Pacifica in a costly legal battle that it would have lost).<BR><BR>So, while <STRONG><U>I believe more strongly than ever that it is essential that the "I-Team" candidates be elected to serve as a core of civility and sanity on the LSB and a "buffer zone" between the opposing factions</U></STRONG>, I also believe it is important to rebuke the Executive Director for his outrageous acts.  That can be done by ranking Peoples' Radio slate members after the "I-Team" candidates.  This will also preserve some balance on the LSB, as the "Concerned Listeners" hold a majority of the seats that were filled last year and are not up for re-election this year.<BR><BR>Here is my recommended order of ranking:</FONT><BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV align=center><FONT size=4><B>#1- #4  - listed in alphabetical order - you choose your order of preference<BR></FONT><FONT size=5>Steve Conley, Chandra Hauptman, Tracy Rosenberg, and Joe Wanzala <BR><BR></FONT><FONT size=4>and #5 - #11 - listed in alphabetical order - you choose your order of preference<BR></FONT><FONT size=5>Bob English, Dave Heller, Atilla Nagy, Richard Phelps, <BR>Mara Rivera, Gerald Sanders, and Stan Woods<BR><BR></B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>No matter how you vote, please do be sure to vote so the election makes its 10% quorum.  The ballots must be received (not postmarked) by November 15th.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3> </DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT size=3><BR>Thanks, and best regards,<BR><BR>Carol Spooner<BR>KPFA Local Board Member (March 2000-March 2005<BR>Pacifica National Board Member (January 2002-January 2005)<BR>Lead Plaintiff - Listeners Lawsuit to remove the old Pacifica Board (1999-December 2001)</FONT></DIV></FONT> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? 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