Dead Man Endorses SaveKPFA

Among SaveKPFA's most distinguished endorsers is Walter Johnson. According to an obituary in the SF Chronicle, the late Mr. Johnson was for many years the Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Labor Council. He died on January 12, 2012. Obituaries in several newspapers, and also the Labor Council's website, confirm that reports of his death were not exaggerated. The man is dead. He's been dead for over two and a half years.

Dead men may tell no tales, but in Chicago they've been known to vote, and here at KPFA we find them endorsing candidates. Miracles happen, not just in Chicago, and at KPFA, but elsewhere as well. I'm reminded of a small precinct in Ohio where George W. Bush received 4,258 votes out of the 638 votes cast. Bush won that election because so many people loved him and trusted him and voted for him. -- not because he cheated. Bush wouldn't cheat.

Members of the SaveKPFA slate, which represents KPFA's status quo and gatekeeper clique, win votes because the station's listeners love and trust them -- not because they cheat. SaveKPFA wouldn't ever cheat. Well, maybe just a wee tiny bit, but only on rare occasions -- such as during every single KPFA board election of the last ten years: two of the best documented examples are the elections of 2007 and 2010. There's also their decade-long history of financial irresponsibility which has pushed the station to the edge of bankruptcy, and before that, their participation in the pre-1999 hijacker regime. Their very name "SaveKPFA" is one they stole from their opposites, a group of people who worked for listener democracy at the station. So yes, SaveKPFA does have some very minor flaws, but other than their very consistent track record of over a decade, they are really very good, which must be why even the dead are rising up to endorse them.

DANIEL BORGSTRÖM
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/

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KPFA'S ELECTION OF 2007
Open Letter from the Committee on Fair Elections
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2007/12/open-letter-from-committee-on-fair.html


excerpts from FINAL REPORT on the Pacifica 2007 Elections
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2009/02/dan-siegel-at-pacifica-radio.html


PACIFICA ELECTION 2010 REPORT
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2011/01/pacifica-election-2010-report.html


A GLIMPSE at KPFA financial history:
the Minority Report of September 17, 2005
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/12/bad-budget.html


A DECADE OF BUILDING FINANCIAL DISASTER
Save KPFA's Grover Norquist Solution
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2011/01/grover-norquist-solution-at-kpfa.html


LOOKING AT PRE-1999
The Old Regime's Legacy at KPFA
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2004/08/old-regimes-legacy-at-kpfa.html


IDENTITY THEFT
Stealing Save KPFA: erasing history
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/stealing-save-kpfa.html