A plague on both their houses

As a former KPFK Staff Rep on the PNB for 2 years, I want all to know that I do not support SaveKPFA and I believe they should be investigated by the Attorney General's office for their apparent theft (by conversion) of approximately $60,000 dollars that should have gone directly to KPFA instead of SaveKPFA's website.

However, I have no sympathy for Tracy Rosenberg, because she and Carol Spooner empowered and elected these yahoos by running roughshod over our last elections and manipulating the current ED of Pacifica to choose a totally incompetent National Election Supervisor, who then went on to pick a bunch of Local Election Supervisors -- 4 out of 5 of which had no previous experience running elections -- and thus the election process was less than optimum and the results of both Listener and Staff elections are highly suspect.

Highly suspect because at every level we had incompetents in charge. All with the full support of Tracy Rosenberg and Carol Spooner.

For this disastrous election, the fruits of which are now recalling Tracy, we spent somewhere in the neighborhood $200,000 dollars of subscriber's money.

Tracy was responsible for this travesty and she has no one to blame but herself for the predicament she now finds herself in.

I say recall her and then the wiser minds of of KPFA should start asking Save KPFA: What happened to all that money they wrongly solicited through their website?

If they have not returned the money to KPFA proper, these same wise people should insist that Pacifica's CFO initiate discussions with the CA. Attorney General's office regarding all this.

A prerogative that the last PNB gave her -- I know, I brought the motion and it passed overwhelmingly.

As for Tracy and SaveKPFA - a plague on both their houses! Tracy should be recalled and SaveKPFA should be investigated, if, the listeners of KPFA ever want to clean up the mess that is our sister station in Berkeley.

Finally, no one should give Carol Spooner any credibility. It is she, who, as the Chair of the committee which wrote our terribly crafted bylaws, foisted this silly, anti-democratic governance system on us. A system which not only eats up hundreds of thousands of dollars of subscriber's money 2 out of every 3 years, but ensures the obstruction and constant in-fighting which are the hallmark of Pacifica governance. To say nothing of the fact that our election process is so convoluted that it takes a priesthood to divine the actual election results.

Truth be told, none of this expensive, narcissistic, silliness will end until we have a By-Laws Convention and write new, easy to understand by-laws. Bylaws that mandate elections where our own empirical senses tell us who won and who lost.

As the present situation demonstrates, this cannot happen soon enough.