KPFA election results for Local Station Board

KPFA at 94.1 FM, a listener sponsored station, has elected a Local Station Board. It is not clear how many voted as there seems to be no published showing of the numbers of voters. The results seems to show that the radical candidates barely won, which means again not enough people voted.

The main problem is lack of programming and if this Board refuses to make the programming more local and more radical, KPFA is gone. For example, the UC Berkeley and SF State student strikes, and all other student/worker strikes in the Bay Area, should be covered LIVE as they happen. Instead, KPFA is currently giving us the sorry old past called archives! This does not build a listening audience among the young, who are the future. As to those of us who remember the horrible past, we do not need it and are not listening to the archives. Just file it and broadcast the present AS IT HAPPENS, WITH LIVE INTERVIEWS FROM THE PICKETLINES AND SIT-INS OF ALL PARTICIPANTS.

For results, see:
http://www.peoplesradio.net/election2009.htm
and here
Election results:

Listener vote count is completed!
For the results see also:
http://kpfaelection2009.blogspot.com/2009/10/kpfa-listener-election-preliminary.html
To see the initial count click on 1 for Round 1.
{To see candidate's slate affiliations go to this list on Events page}

ICR=Independents for Community Radio CL=Concerned Listeners PR=Peoples Radio VJ=Voices for Justice Radio
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SUMMARY of results: (Runner up = alternate)
New/reelected Listener Reps = 5 from ICR; 4 from CL (1st alternate = CL)
New/reelected Staff Reps = 2 from ICR; 1 from CL (1st alternate = CL)

New/re-elected LSB members = 7 ICR and 5 CL
All continuing incumbents= 6 ICR and 6 CL
KFCF continuing rep = 1 CL aligned

Analysis: There was a gain of one pro-democracy listener board member over the previous board!
There was a also one gain in the Staff election; see below.
There are now 13 pro-democracy reps and 12 anti-democracy reps.
This bare majority may or may not be significant, depending on attendance of pro-democratic members, unity of these members, & dropping out of any members.
So far there are potential problems in all these areas, so we can only hope for the best!

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All Listener Candidate Rankings: at 28th round
9 elected:
1. Banafsheh Akhlaghi ICR
2. Dan Siegel CL
3. Conn Hallinan CL
4. Henry Norr ICR
5. Andrea Prichett ICR
6. Akio Tanaka ICR
7. Sasha Futran ICR (?)
8. Andrea Turner CL
9. Pamela Drake CL

10. (1st runner up) John Van Eyck CL
11. (2nd runner up) Richard Phelps PR
12. (3d) Rahman Jamaal McCreadie ICR
13. (4th) Donald Goldmacher CL
Richard Phelps of People's Radio is the 2nd alternate in this latest count,
meaning he has a chance of being seated if/when 2 listener representatives withdraw during their term.
Usually 1 or 2 alternates are seated in this way.
14. Lara Kiswani ICR
15. Jack Kurzweil CL
16. Ann Hallatt ICR
17. Steve Zeltzer VJ
18. Virginia Rodriguez CL
19. Adam Hudson ICR
20. Mike Smith CL
21. Stan Woods PR
22. Shara Esbenshade ICR
23. Jim Curtis PR
24. Gerald Sanders PR
25. Mark Hernandez CL
26. Judith Gips ind.
27. Jaime Cader VJ
28. Jim Weber ind.
29. Write-In
Mary Prophet - ICR - resigned prior to ballot submission
Evelyn Sanchez - ICR - disqualified

The staff election (completed 10/18)
There was a gain of one pro-democracy board member from the staff, over the previous board
The results: D= pro-democratic A= anti-democratic
1. Anthony Fest D
2. Renee Geesler D
3. Laura Prives A
Alternates:- (The next to be seated if any of the above 3 drops
out of the LSB during their term)
Antonio Ortiz A
David Gans A
Emiliano Echeverria D

Here are the slate affiliations from http://www.peoplesradio.net/events.htm#slates:
Candidates' slate affiliations (alphabetical order by first name)
Adam Hudson Independents for Community Radio (ICR)
Akio Tanaka ICR
Andrea Pritchett ICR
Andrea Turner Concerned Listeners (CL)
Ann Hallatt ICR
Banafsheh Akhlaghi ICR
Conn Hallinan CL
Dan Siegel CL
Donald Goldmacher CL
[Evelyn Sanchez ICR] [disqualified]
Gerald Sanders People's Radio (PR)
Henry Norr ICR
Jack Kurzweil CL
Jaime Cader Voices for Justice Radio (VFJ)
Jim Curtis PR
Jim Weber unaligned
John Van Eyck CL
Judith Gips unaligned
Lara Kiswani ICR
Mark Hernandez CL
[Mary Prophet ICR] [withdrew]
Mike Smith CL
Pamela Drake CL
Rahman Jamaal McCreadie ICR
Richard Phelps PR
Sasha Futran ICR
Shara Esbenshade ICR
Stan Woods PR
Steve Zeltzer VFJ
Virginia Rodriguez CL

KPFA's website at http://www.pacifica.org/documents/results2009.php just has the list of winners. They are:
KPFA
Listener Members
Banafsheh Akhlaghi
Dan Siegel
Conn Hallinan
Henry Norr
Andrea Prichett
Akio Tanaka
Sasha Futran
Andrea Turner
Pamela Drake

Staff Members
Anthony Fest
Renee Yang Geesler
Laura Prives