KPFA listeners file complaint with Attorney General’s office against Pacifica management

Margy Wilkinson, daughter of former Northern California Communist Party chair and rapist of Bettina Aptheker, Mickey Lima, is apparently leading the latest charge in destroying Pacifica by filing false charges with the Democratic Party's Attorney General, Kamala Harris. The story on Lima's rapist activities may be found in Bettina's autobiography, Intimate Politics, a must read. This is the same Margy Wilkinson who bragged on this website that she did not see anything wrong with Republican Party attorneys, Dhillon & Smith, representing Plaintiffs Brian Edwards Tiekert, Mitch Jeserich and Lewis Sawyer who sued Pacifica over a staff election of some 200 people to the Local Station Board which if there were a problem could simply have been solved by redoing the election. Harmeet Dhillon is chairperson of the San Francisco Republican Party.

It was Wilkinson's government operation that rejected the first supervisor of the election. Since no impartial person can be found, there can be no election. Attorney General Kamala Harris needs votes which means she needs to drop this hot potato as it is a liability to her career. She may want to run for governor some day.

For more information on this expensive and phony recall, see
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/
Please endorse at:
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=25
and/or contribute by clicking on the yellow Donate button on the right.

Hopefully, after this September's local station board elections, we will have a majority in opposition to this government operation that will repeal all recall provisions to the Bylaws as we have enough expensive elections to this Local Station Board. There will be one this year and one in September 2013. Almost every year, there is a Local Station Board election; we only skipped it in 2011 as no terms expired last year. These September elections give plenty of opportunity to air grievances and select candidates, and there are always plenty of candidates, and we use ranked choice voting.

The finances of this charity, Pacifica Foundation, are very shaky in this Great Depression of the 21st Century. A charity by definition is a non-profit. Most of the 200 KPFA employees are volunteers; perhaps 20 are paid. There is no need for any recall as Tracy Rosenberg did nothing wrong. The charges are all concerning the changes which were needed to save Pacifica and KPFA from the obvious goal of bankruptcy by this government operation of the Hate Pacifica Gang, commonly known as SaveKPFA or Concerned Listeners, both names being the opposite of what they are.

We all have the expensive slick mailer sent by this gang, received on or about December 31, 2011, so we know who these government operatives are as they proudly listed their names.

The leading light of this government operation is Larry Bensky, a former KPFA programmer and former editor of the CIA's Paris Review. Here is more:
1. His attacks to callers on air:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/25/18659813.php

2. Supporters of Pat Scott Gang and union busters American Consulting:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/21/18659436.php

3. More horrors of supporting Concerned Listeners gang:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626386.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/15/18472757.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/29/18324348.php

4. His opposition to Peace & Freedom and Green Parties:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/27/18495315.php

5. His use of name lists in violation of Pacifica election rules:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/21/18462672.php

6. His opposition to the 9/11 Truth Movement
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/10/18459899.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/15/18311830.php

7. His anti-labor outlook on labor programming:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/14/18154241.php

8. His contempt for free speech:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/13/17051361.php

9. His attack on William Blum's book exposing the CIA and a reminder that Bensky was editor of the CIA front, the Paris Review, at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/27/17498851.php

10. His ridicule of the fact of history that Nazis influenced the anti-Communist witchhunts of the 1940s-1950s as of course they were first and foremost anti-communist:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/16762211.php

I'm not going to comment here on whether or not Tracy Rosenberg's actions on the KPFA Local Station Board and Pacifica National Board are or are not bad for KPFA and Pacifica Radio. The recall proponents say why they are bad at the website linked to from the main post, and the recall opponents say why they are not bad at their website "http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/".

Instead, I want to talk about how the whole idea of a recall under the current rules is unfair, because it allows the majority to take away the minority's representation on a body on which both are supposed to be represented.

KPFA and the other Pacifica stations use proportional representation to elect their Local Station Boards (LSBs). The details can be a little complicated, but the purpose is that all significant groups of voters (both in the listener-member and staff parts of the elections) are represented on the board in proportion to their votes in the election.

For example, if in an election for 9 LSB members at KPFO (the Pacifica station in Oz), the "Whistle a Happy Tune" slate gets 54% of the vote, the "Freedom of Speeches" slate gets 33% of the vote, and the "Shout Down the State" slate gets 11% of the vote, and other slates and independent candidates get a total of 2% of the vote, then 5 LSB members would be elected from the WaHT slate, 3 from the FoS slate and 1 from SDtS slate. The majority gets a majority of the seats, but not all of them, and the significant minorities get a minority of the seats, but not none of them.

KPFO elects three LSB members to represent it on the Pacifica National Board (PNB), also using proportional representation, and because the KPFO LSB is divided, so are its PNB representatives, with two from WaHT and one from FoS.

Let's suppose that FoS member Toni Robertson, though in a minority on the KPFO LSB, allies with PNB members from other stations to be part of a majority there and to help implement policies at the national level that WaHT really doesn't like.

Should WaHT's current local majority be able to recall Robertson and replace her on the KPFO LSB and on the PNB, even if her FoS supporters overwhelmingly still support her?

At best, if WaHT is able to remove her and replace her with another FoS supporter, that would turn minority representation into tokenism. When a minority is to be represented on a board, it should be by a representative of their own choice, not only by a representative acceptable to the majority.

It's even worse if WaHT is able to remove her and replace her with one of their own supporters. In that case, the majority uses its narrow advantage to increase its own representation and disenfranchise the minority.

It's my understanding that the procedures for filling vacancies on LSBs and on the PNB are such that real life is closer to the worst case than the best case.

A vacancy on the LSB is filled by the eligible defeated candidate who was next in order of finish in the election where the departing member was elected, who may or may not be the next choice of the voters who chose the representative who is departing. That's why deciding whether to remove someone who has stopped showing up at LSB meetings or has changed status (from listener-member to staff or vice versa) is controversial at KPFA, because they may be replaced by someone from the other faction (or, if not, move someone from the other faction up in line to fill the next vacancy). I'm not sure who is next in line to fill a vacancy on the KPFA LSB and whether he or she is someone who would be supported by the same voters who put Tracy Rosenberg on the LSB or by those who put the current majority on the LSB. The Pacifica bylaws ought to be changed so that a replacement for a departing LSB member (whether the departure is by resignation, by recall or by removal for cause) represents the voters who chose that LSB member. That's the only fair way to maintain proportional representation (and, as a bonus, eliminate one way in which the factionalism at KPFA is reflected, which as a consequence leaves non-participating members on the LSB). I won't go into details here, but there are obvious ways to do this that are used in Australia and Ireland, two countries that use a similar proportional representation method for their public elections.

My understanding is that the LSB fills a vacancy on the PNB by electing (by majority vote) a new PNB representative. If the vacancy was created by the departure of someone representing the majority faction, it isn't that much of a problem to let the majority choose another representative, but if the departure was of someone representing the minority faction it is. If there is to be a new election to fill the remainder of the term of a departing PNB member, it should be of all the PNB representatives elected in the same election, not just to fill a single vacancy, so that the representation of different groups on the PNB would change only if the representation of those groups on the LSB has changed significantly.

Finally, I'd suggest that the recall of a representative elected in a proportional representation election either should require a supermajority (fewer votes against a recall than the threshold for election when the representative was elected) or result in a new election for all of the seats filled in the same election as the member who was the subject of the recall. Neither of these seem particularly attractive, so if someone else has some better ideas about how to prevent recall elections from being used to allow the majority to veto the minority's representatives, I'd like to see them.

See http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/23/18708017.php for refutations of their claims

Among the comments:
"With an annual payroll of $780.000 at 7 different divisions at 5 different radio stations across the country, 4 manual payroll checks totaling about $2,000 bounced when funds were transferred out of a payroll account by an employee who forgot to check for 4 outlier manual checks.
It was a clerical error. Employees have all been fully reimbursed including bank fees."

For more on the recall:
<a href="">archive.constantcontact.com/fs088/1105302426303/archive/1109028276976.html
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/

This is not "legal". . The complaint will be ignored.

Here is a communication forwarded to some (including Ms. Wilkinson) by the chair of the Pacifica National Board in response to the latest let's-bankrupt-the-network terror whipped up by Ms. Wilkinson and her allies.

I also hope readers realize that most of those opposed to the FAKESAVEKPFA whipper-uppers never-the-less feel huge distance from the senseless personal parts of the comment here by the "stop hate pacifica gang" which otherwise happens to have some useful information.

From: Summer Reese, Pacifica
Date: Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: KPFA Recall Election
To: Margy Wilkinson
Cc: PNB [Pacifica National Board]

Dear Margy:

There is a PNB meeting Wednesday evening, I will give a report in open
session on the status of the recall at that time. Thank you, and my
sincere apology for not communicating with you sooner.

At the PNB meeting, I did say at least a couple of weeks, not exactly
a couple of weeks. I have to weigh and balance various factors in
filling this position, including cost to the Foundation, in addition
to not selecting anyone with perceived factional ties.

It is my desire to dispense with all matters of organizational
conflict as expeditiously as possible, so that the many dedicated
members of the Pacifica family, despite differences of opinion or
philosophical outlook, may focus on serving the public through
excellent, alternative and socially conscious broadcast and digital
media.

Sincerely,

Summer Reese
Chair of the Board
The Pacifica Foundation

So "Wendy" - you claim distance from the "senseless personal parts" of Stop Hate KPFA or whatever he calls himself, while you go about calling your fellow listeners "terrorists."

You pro-Rosenberg people are all nuts, and nasty. Please leave KPFA alone. You've wrecked its programming, destroyed its budget, and can't refrain from personal attacks.

It's time to clean house at Pacifica - let's start at the top with Summer Reese, who is now protecting Tracy Rosenberg.

Put it up to a vote. You anti-KPFA people don't stand a chance in a fair vote.

First, watch the video of the Marin Peace & Justice Coalition of the forum where Tracy Rosenberg, Henry Norr, Margy Wilkinson and Brian Edwards Tiekert spoke on Feburary 6, 2012 at
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?p=709
What is notable to this viewer is the maturity and knowledge of Tracy Rosenberg and the immaturity, hysterics and hystrionics of Brian Edwards Tiekert, although they are closer in age to each other than to Norr and Wilkinson, who are closer to this writer's age. It is very obvious that Wilkinson's every single word was staged including her phony "off the cuff" remark on the Email, which was not illegal at all and does not justify any recall. It is very obvious from Wilkinson's opening statement that she is a very experienced liar. We hope that after this September's election, we have an anti-recall majority so that we can eliminate all recall provisions as we have enough expensive elections to air grievances.

People are known by the company they keep. Please take note of who is on the anti-recall list of endorsers below and vote No on the Recall. From http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=25&cpage=5#comment-294
HERE IS THE HONOR ROLL:
Shahram Aghamir – Co-Producer, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa.

Nick Alexander - longtime reporter, producer; member of API (Asian Pacific Islander) Specials radio collective.

Joseph Anderson - KPFA Listener.

David Barsamian – Founder, director, host, Alternative Radio. His latest books are How the World Works and What We Say Goes (both with Noam Chomsky) and Targeting Iran. David’s interviews and articles appear in The Progressive, Z and other publications.

Khalil Bendib - political cartoonist and co-host of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa.

Mary Berg – Producer & Host, A Musical Offering, former Secretary of the PNB and KPFA LSB, and member of the Program Council, among many other things.

Rivian Berlin - former producer Women’s Magazine, Listener.

Dennis Bernstein – Executive Producer of Flashpoints.

Max J. Blanchet – Former KPFA Local Advisory Board (LAB) and Local Station Board (LSB) Member.

Jeff Blankfort - co-founder of the original SaveKPFA in 1993 and of Take Back KPFA in 1995.

Gail Blasie - former KPFA LSB member.

Bonnie Bone – Early Morning Music Host, programmer, engineer.

Tanya Brannan - KPFA Listener.

Eric Brooks – Environmental, social justice, consumer, and global justice movement activist since 1985; currently Sustainability Chair – San Francisco Green Party.

Carol Brouillet – Community Currency.org, and Co-Founder, International Media Project.

Virginia Browning – KPFA Listener.

Linda Champagne – KPFA Listener.

Richard Clifford – KPFA Listener.

Coalition for a democratic Pacifica

George Coates – Producer, Twit Wit Radio.

Mitchel Cohen – Chair, WBAI Local Station Board, Brooklyn Greens.

Michael Costello – North Bay for KPFA Folio in Exile 2000.

Vicente R. Cruz II – Oakland Green Party Outreach Committee.

Gavin Dahl – KPFA Listener/supporter, Board Member community radio advocate and activist engineering outfit Common Frequency, News Director of Pacifica Affiliate Station KYRS in Spokane.

Susan da Silva - Former Chair KPFA LSB.

Justine Daniel - Social Justice Center of Marin.

Lisa Dettmer – Women’s Magazine KPFA.

Barbara and Barry Deutsch – KPFA/Pacifica subscribers since 1963.

Ivar Diehl – KPFA Listener, Occupier, Business Owner.

Ariel Dougherty - KPFA Listener.

Neil Dunaetz - KPFA Listener.

Laurie Edwards – KPFA Listener, Educator.

Bob English – Pacfica/KPFA Listener from the ’60s, active in the Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), Peoples’ Radio, KPFA Election Committee. UFW San Francisco Support Committee, SEIU 790 elected chapter rep/negotiation team, Public Employees for a Democratic Union 2006.

Carolyn Epple - Retired Professor, Sonoma State University.

Bonnie Faulkner - Producer, Guns & Butter.

Jane Fehlberg – KPFA Listener.

Denise Ferry – KPFA Listener since 1982.

Anthony Fest – Producer, KPFA Weekend News, KPFA Local Station Board Staff Representative.

Vickie M. Fouts – KFCF board member.

Peter Franck – Former President of the Pacifica Foundation (1980-1984).

Ann Garrison - Reporter KPFA Weekend News and Host, producer, WBAI Afrobeat Radio.

James P. Geraghty - Marin Peace and Justice Coalition.

Maria Gilardin - Producer, TUC Radio.

Pam Gill – KPFA Listener.

Steve Gilmartin - KPFA Listener.

Terry Goodman – KPFK Listener/former LSB Member.

David Greene – First KPFA Elections Coordinator.

Noelle Hanrahan – Producer, Prison Radio.

Michael Hardesty – KPFA Listener

Roger D. Harris – Vice President, Task Force on the Americas.

Carol Harvey – KPFA Listener.

John Harwayne – KPFA Member.

Rose Hauer – KPFA Listener.

Chandra Hauptman – Former KPFA LSB and Pacifica National Board listener-representative.

Dave Heller - KPFA Listener.

Jack Heyman – Former Executive Board Member ILWU Local 10, longtime labor activist.

Linda Hewitt – KPFA/Pacifica Listener since 1968; active in Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP) and Peoples’ Radio.

Kane Hoffman – KPFA Listener.

Valerie Hood - KPFA Listener and phone room volunteer.


Mickey Huff – Associate Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, director of Project Censored, Co-Host with Dr. Peter Phillips of the Project Censored Show.

April Hurley – Listener, MD for the uninsured in Santa Rosa.

Mesha Irizarry - Executive Director, Idriss Stelley Foundation to Combat Police Violene, Co-Director, Education Not Incarceration, and Online Admin, Occupy Da’ Hood SF.

Jon Jackson – KPFA Listener.

Cynthia Johnson – KPFA Local Station Board member, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Ecumenical Peace Institute.

Kahlil Karn - KPFA listener.

Jena Katz – KPFA Listener, left activist.

Kim Kaufman – KPFK Local Station Board Treasurer, member Pacifica National Finance Committee.

Carolyn Keddy – KPFA Listener.

Dorothy Kidd - Professor, Dept of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, and long-time community radio producer and advocate.

Alice Diane Kisch – KPFA Listener.

Robert Knight – Anchor, Five O’Clock Shadow investigative newsmagazine on WBAI; Correspondent, “The Knight Report” on Flashpoints.

Janet Kobren – KPFA LSB Listener Member, activist around the Occupy movement, Palestine, democratic media, election integrity, environment, housing justice, and other issues.

Monique Koller - KPFA Listener.

Marilyn Langlois - KPFA Listener, Richmond Progressive Alliance Steering Committee, Haiti Action Committee.

Adrienne Lauby - Host/producer, Pushing Limits, KPFA unpaid staff.

Clay Leander – Unpaid Staff Program Council Representative.

Kenya Lewis – Save KUSF volunteer.

Barbara Lubin – Executive Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance; Friends of Free Speech Radio (1999-2001).

Laura MacDougall – KPFA Listener from the South Bay.

Neil Maclean – KPFA Listener.

Neal Madnick - KPFA Listener.

Abby Martin – Founder & Editor in Chief of Media Roots.

Signe Mattson – KPFA Listener since 1957, former outreach and frequent phone volunteer.

Cynthia McKinney – Green Party Candidate for President (2008); 6-term member of the US House of Representatives.

Barbara Michel – KPFA Listener since 1972.

Adam David Miller - African-American poet, writer, publisher, and radio programmer and producer.

Jenny Miller – KPFA Listener.

Nicole Milner – KPFA Listener, Coalition for a democratic Pacifica.

Evangeline Mix – KPFA Volunteer receptionist for the past 4 months.

Stephanie K. Miyashiro - KPFA Listener.

Miguel Gavilan Molina - Producer/Host La Onda Bajita; Flashpoints Roving Producer & Producer of Flashpoints En Espanol.

Aimee Murray - KPFA Listener.

Jonathan Nack – Veteran activist and journalist based in Oakland.

Attila Nagy – North Bay for KPFA, Santa Rosa Occupy, former KPFA Local Station Board member.

Marilyn Naparst - Long-time listener.

Henry Norr – Retired journalist, member of the KPFA LSB since 2006, activist around Palestine, torture, ending wars, labor solidarity, and other issues.

Oakland Greens – See statement.

Lucienne O’Keefe – Long-time Listener and supporter.

Robbie Osman - Host, Across the Great Divide.

Michael Parenti – Author & Lecturer.

Jean Pauline - KPFA activist listener since 1959. Bound Together Bookstore
Collective member.

Peace and Freedom Party of Alameda County

Ed Pearl - Founder/Operator of the Ash Grove in LA, organizer with the “Take Back KPFK” Campaign, served two terms on KPFK’s first elected board.

Gail Penso, RN – KPFA Listener, BFUU, Bach, Earth.

David Peterson - Writer, Chicago.

Richard Phelps – Chair, KPFA LSB 2005-2006.

Peter Phillips - Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, former Director of Project Censored, Co-Producer of Project Censored heard Friday mornings on The Morning Mix.

Thomas Plagemann – Save KUSF, Plagemann Design & Building.

Paul Platt – SF Green Party County Council, long-time KPFA listener/supporter.

Stevyn Polk – KUSF in Exile Program Director.

Andrea Prichett – LSB Current Listener Representative, teacher and co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch.

Mary Prophet - Listener, Steering Committee USLAW, member Alameda Co. Central Labor Council, & co-chair California Teachers Assoc, Peace & Justice Caucus.

Fran Rachel - KPFA Listener.

Les Radke – Co-Host Bill Mandel’s Soviet Union Program, Vice President Richmond Federation of Teachers for several years, Member of the Contra Costa Labor Council for several years, Co-Founder of Coalition for a democratic Pacifica, Education Chair of KPFA’s former Education Collective, Member of Californians for Electoral Reform for 10 years, KPFA Local Election Supervisor for 2003, Pacifica National Election Supervisor for 2006 & 2009.

Mary Ratcliff – Listener and San Francisco Bayview Editor.

Willie Ratcliff – Publisher, San Francisco Bayview, Former member for six years of the KPFA Local Advisory Board and Local Station Board.

Malihe Razazan – Co-host & Producer, Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, and Producer of Your Call on KALW.

Aaron Reaven – KPFA Listener.

Mara Rivera – KPFA Listener-supporter since 1962.

Lillith Rogers – KPFA Listener.

Colleeen Rose - Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas.

San Francisco Green Party

Jan Santos – KPFA listener, former Pushing Limits collective member.

Marc Sapir, MD, MPH, public sector primary care doc and “Mad as Hell Doctors for Medicare for All” activist.

Oriana Saportas – Community Organizer with ACCE in Oakland, former KPFA Local Election Supervisor (2010).

Michael-David Sasson – Union Steward, CUE-IBT Local 2010 (former president of the Berkeley chapter).

Art Sato – Host, In Your Ear.

Doyle Saylor – KPFA Listener, former host & producer, Pushing Limits.

David Schonbrunn - Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund (TRANSDEF).

Wendy Schroell — Pacifica National Board Member 2004-2005, 2007-2009; KPFT Local Station Board 2004-2009.

Sharon M. Scott – President, WRVU Friends & Family.

Shelly Scribner - KPFA Listener.

John Sheridan – KPFA Listener.

Ruthanne Shpiner – Unpaid staff KPFA Weekend News Reporter.

Keith Harmon Snow – KPFA Listener.

Sally Sommer – Active with KPFA/Pacifica since 1999 with the Coalition for a democratic Pacifica. Served on the KPFA elections committees over the years since then.

Carol Spooner - Former PNB member (Jan 2002-Jan 2005), former KPFA LSB member (Apr 2000-Apr 2005), former lead plaintiff in the “listeners’ lawsuit to remove the old Pacifica Board (1999-2001).

Rick Sterling – KPFA Listener.

Roger Stoll – Secretary, Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas.

Irwin Swirnoff – Spokesperson, Save KUSF

B. Emily Sykes – KPFA Listener, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition.


Akio Tanaka – KPFA Local Station Board member.

Kate Tanaka – KPFA Local Station Board member.

Steve Taylor-Ramirez – KPFA Listener.

Richard Uzzell – Former KPFT LSB and Pacifica National Board listener-representative.

JR Valrey – Host/Producer the Morning Mix & Block Report Radio.

Marsha Vas Dupre, Ph.D. - City Councilwoman Santa Rosa, CA.

Lindsay Vurek – KPFA Listener.

Joe Wanzala – Former KPFA LSB and Pacifica National Board member.

Elaine Wellin – Sonoma State Univ./Media Freedom Foundation.

Laura Wells - Green Party candidate for the 2010 California Governor’s race.

Dave Welsh - Labor organizer, journalist, musician, letter carrier, S.F. Labor Council delegate. Member of Occupy Oakland, Freedom Song Network, Haiti Action Committee.

Sue Wilson – Producer, Broadcast Blues.

Candace Wolf – Pacifica listener, storyteller, Washington, DC.

Betsy Wolf-Graves – KPFA Listener.

Gregory Wonderwheel – KPFA Listener.

Stan Woods - former KPFA LSB member, Member Occupy Oakland/Labor Solidarity Committee.

Steve Zeltzer – Labor journalist

Here is how you define destroying a budget.

2009 FY - Edwards-Tiekert budget - Save KPFA Local Board
Overestimated listener donations by $600,000
Lost $585,000

2010 FY - Edwards-Tiekert budget - Save KPFA Local Board
Overestimated listener donations by $525,000
Lost $575.000

2011 FY - Rosenberg budget - ICR Local Board
Overestimated listener donations by $80,000
Lost $39,000

Improved financial results by over half a million dollars.

If you recall Rosenberg, KPFA likely has less than 2 years to live. The pro-recall folks are incompetent.

Recall Rosenberg! Recall Reese! Fire Engelhardt! Fire Williams! Kill all the Morning Mix volunteers!

It's just a radio station. Calm down.

Methinks you need to get a life.

Your "jokes" aren't funny, Tracy. They just show how anti-democratic you are.

Listeners who fund KPFA and Pacifica have a right to vote on -- and recall -- their representatives. Welcome to the real world.

And they will ... your ICR (Incompetents for Crackpop Radio) slate is in the same historical category as Mary Francis Berry's. Dustbin of history. Very soon.

The response by the lunatics to the obvious attempt to lighten things up by "Iamanut" is a clear demonstration that the recall gang is clearly a mix of CIA fronts (Larry Bensky, the leading light), pathological liars (Margy Wilkinson) and lunatics. The endorsers, who are far less than the people who originally supported SaveKPFA/Concerned Listeners are listed at
http://recalltracyrosenberg.org/endorsers/

One notable thing about the Recall website is that it has a Follow feature, clearly keeping track of who reads their website. That is the police state mentality that we do not need or want at Pacifica/KPFA. We do not get that act at the Stop Recall site at:
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=25&cpage=5#comment-294

When you view the video at
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?p=709
you see an old woman, Margy Wilkinson, who clearly has spent her life giving these kinds of speeches she gave at the beginning, comprised of statements that twist everything to a lie. She has achieved nothing and neither has the list of endorsers. They are the heirs to the tradition of Mary Francis Berry, Democratic Pres Clinton's darling. These endorsers are all proud Democrats, and some like Wilkinson, do not hesitate to run to Republicans to sue Pacifica.

It is also clear that the people who wrote the Bylaws were not addressing the reality of the backward USA, where people do not vote and do not put their money where their mouth is. As I type this, Democracy Now is discussing the fact that the US Senate is debating, in 2012, whether or not birth control should be available. And we still do not have socialized medicine, as exists in the rest of the industrialized world, with our tax dollars paying for all medical and dental care, drugs and related medical services to all on demand, from cradle to grave. Germany had socialized medicine since 1883, as well as old age pensions and unemployment insurance, the latter 2 won by American workers in 1935, and being systematically destroyed today by Democrat Obama, and his Republican friends. We have a charity, Pacifica, that has a chronic funds shortage, subject to almost annual elections to Local Station Boards. When that is the case, there is no need for any recall. The current recall is a deliberate, malicious money drain of Pacifica, as were all the phony NLRB charges, and they were all phony.

If we find this recall ballot in our mailbox, we are all voting No, and we are all voting.

Sounds kind've adventurous. Like Noisepop.

Exactly how much credence is one supposed to put in someone who is trying to say crackpot and can't?

Must be that senior memory kicking in.