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Doing Damage Control For KPFA Management?
KPFA LSB member and Concerned listener supporter Lawyer Sherry Gendelman and KPFA
reporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue KPFA and Pacifica Foundation unless
the recent election is certified.
reporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue KPFA and Pacifica Foundation unless
the recent election is certified.
KPFA LSB member and Concerned listener supporter Lawyer Sherry Gendelman and KPFA
reporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue KPFA and Pacifica Foundation unless
the recent election is certified. They are intent on covering up the violations of bylaws and
election procedures so they do not become public even if it means a lawsuit against KPFA and
Pacifica. The same Brian Edwards-Tiekert is surprise, surprise doing the KPFA news stories on Nicole Sawaya quiting
her position as ED. Isn't this a conflict of interest and an ethical issue. You are doing news on
a story you are personally involved in? Maybe our independent management at KPFA can look
into this questionable journalistic practice?
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=12-18-07&storyID=28751
DOING DAMAGE CONTROL FOR KPFA MANAGEMENT?
Editors, Daily Planet:
In a Dec. 11 letter by KPFA Concerned Listeners (CL) Mary and Jon
Fromer, Warren Mar, Susan McDonough, PhoeBe Sorgen, John VanEyck, Sherry
Gendelman and Conn Hallinan complain that a challenge to the
certification of the recent board elections by candidate Steve Zeltzer
is wrong and damaging to KPFA.
The statement is factually wrong on many counts.
1. The petition to the National Election Supervisor (NES) Casey Peters
has 25 people including members of all three independent slates.
Targeting one of the signers is a personal attack not only against
Zeltzer but all the “losing” candidates.
2. The challenge calls for the (NES) to remedy the violation of bylaws
and election rules include using foundation resources for partisan
intervention in the election most openly by Pacifica Counsel Dan Siegel
and programmer Larry Bensky.
3. The (NES) is blamed for being partisan however CL candidates were
unfairly supported by the management. Radio carts were not played in a
fair manner and only after the election was nearly over and the web site
prevented links from going out by the Voices For Justice slate.
http://voicesforjusticeradio.googlepages.com/
Management has also thwarted the efforts of the unpaid staff
organization UPSO to participate in staff elections.
4. NES actions to remedy these violations were taken but i
gnored in part
by KPFA management. Obstruction of NES rulings by CL management
supporters is itself an election violation and puts the election in
jeopardy.
5. Signers charge Peoples Radio (PR)
http://www.peoplesradio.net ballot statements are “personal
attacks” but providing written facts about the record of CL supporters
maybe uncomfortable but is essential information for an informed electorate.
6. The election did not have “record listener turnout.” It dropped 500
votes from the last election.
7. Concerned Listeners want the election “certified rather than going to
the expense of another election, which has cost the station $70,000 of
the listeners’ money,” yet the same Gendelman and CL/programmer
supporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue Pacifica unless
the election is certified. (Letter from attorney Pyle, former colleague
of Dan Siegel and president of N.CA NLG.)
Doing damage control for management by CL in this election seems to be
more important than “saving money” at KPFA/Pacifica. The election mess
and lawsuit threat maybe one reason, Nicole Sawaya, Pacifica ED has
recently quit after only weeks on the job. This interim management/CL
nexus at KPFA/Pacifica have created an untenable situation even for
people they consider their own.
Bob English, Steve Zeltzer, Linda Hewitt, Mara Rivera, Maxine Doogan,
Joseph Wanzala, Carl Bryant, Stan Woods
reporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue KPFA and Pacifica Foundation unless
the recent election is certified. They are intent on covering up the violations of bylaws and
election procedures so they do not become public even if it means a lawsuit against KPFA and
Pacifica. The same Brian Edwards-Tiekert is surprise, surprise doing the KPFA news stories on Nicole Sawaya quiting
her position as ED. Isn't this a conflict of interest and an ethical issue. You are doing news on
a story you are personally involved in? Maybe our independent management at KPFA can look
into this questionable journalistic practice?
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=12-18-07&storyID=28751
DOING DAMAGE CONTROL FOR KPFA MANAGEMENT?
Editors, Daily Planet:
In a Dec. 11 letter by KPFA Concerned Listeners (CL) Mary and Jon
Fromer, Warren Mar, Susan McDonough, PhoeBe Sorgen, John VanEyck, Sherry
Gendelman and Conn Hallinan complain that a challenge to the
certification of the recent board elections by candidate Steve Zeltzer
is wrong and damaging to KPFA.
The statement is factually wrong on many counts.
1. The petition to the National Election Supervisor (NES) Casey Peters
has 25 people including members of all three independent slates.
Targeting one of the signers is a personal attack not only against
Zeltzer but all the “losing” candidates.
2. The challenge calls for the (NES) to remedy the violation of bylaws
and election rules include using foundation resources for partisan
intervention in the election most openly by Pacifica Counsel Dan Siegel
and programmer Larry Bensky.
3. The (NES) is blamed for being partisan however CL candidates were
unfairly supported by the management. Radio carts were not played in a
fair manner and only after the election was nearly over and the web site
prevented links from going out by the Voices For Justice slate.
http://voicesforjusticeradio.googlepages.com/
Management has also thwarted the efforts of the unpaid staff
organization UPSO to participate in staff elections.
4. NES actions to remedy these violations were taken but i
gnored in part
by KPFA management. Obstruction of NES rulings by CL management
supporters is itself an election violation and puts the election in
jeopardy.
5. Signers charge Peoples Radio (PR)
http://www.peoplesradio.net ballot statements are “personal
attacks” but providing written facts about the record of CL supporters
maybe uncomfortable but is essential information for an informed electorate.
6. The election did not have “record listener turnout.” It dropped 500
votes from the last election.
7. Concerned Listeners want the election “certified rather than going to
the expense of another election, which has cost the station $70,000 of
the listeners’ money,” yet the same Gendelman and CL/programmer
supporter Brian Edwards-Tiekert have threatened to sue Pacifica unless
the election is certified. (Letter from attorney Pyle, former colleague
of Dan Siegel and president of N.CA NLG.)
Doing damage control for management by CL in this election seems to be
more important than “saving money” at KPFA/Pacifica. The election mess
and lawsuit threat maybe one reason, Nicole Sawaya, Pacifica ED has
recently quit after only weeks on the job. This interim management/CL
nexus at KPFA/Pacifica have created an untenable situation even for
people they consider their own.
Bob English, Steve Zeltzer, Linda Hewitt, Mara Rivera, Maxine Doogan,
Joseph Wanzala, Carl Bryant, Stan Woods
For more information:
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article...
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I'm not debating there's been plenty of incompetence in how things have been done - obviously - but c'mon.
The rabid folks over at People's Radio seem intent in costing the station and network as much money as possible, all while subverting the will of the voting members.
Meanwhile, national elections supervisor Casey Peters leeches more foundation money by postponing certification. Does this guy's job not have an end date? If you were faced with the choice to become unemployed or to make 'rulings' that guarantee your employment for another week or month, only honesty and ethics would stop you. Peters is apparently short on honesty and ethics. Just like the folks at People's Radio, hmmmm.....
This on top of being flooded with poorly written and poorly reasoned letters and 'articles' like the one above.
Bring on the law suit and end this madness!!!
Yet more shady political propaganda from the Peoples Radio junta.
And as usual anonymous posters supporting the CL line have little or nothing to say about the substance of the issues raised or the lies exposed (CL letter to BDP of Dec 11). Except that they support certifying a corrupt election (the kind of fixed election that Pacifica radio condemns, as long as their guys win) – and see nothing wrong with CL candidates Gendelman et. al. (5) suing the foundation to intimidate the election supervisor to certify a corrupt election and uncompleted vote count - without any of the following normally required by due process for democratic election results: a) investigation and resolution of myriad documented campaign practices violation complaints; b) execution of remedies ordered for an established primary violation involving use of Pacifica resources for endorsement of the CL slate; c) a final vote count including the write-in ballots that could not be processed by software and which potentially effect the outcome of close count 8th, 9th and runner –up ranks; d) publication/posting of the certification with round by round results on Pacifica/KPFA websites; e) signature and name of the election supervisor.
As noted by others, this is the kind of manipulated, phony election that Pacifica radio exposes and condemns. What does that say about the sorry state of Pacifica democracy, particularly about the officers, pundits and news writers who made the CL endorser/supporter who’s who line up for the election report spin on the Dec 21 Evening News?