http://wbai-nowthen.blogspot.com/2019/02/is-it-cricket.html#comment-form
[and is being copied here, only slightly edited for readability/format, names deliberately deleted out of courtesy only,leaving initials instead & no other content changed ! ]
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
"Two
pieces of election news, courtesy of a coalition website (pejoratively,
faction), the Grassroots Community Radio Coalition, which supported the
candidature of Bill E____,
who died in December.
1) The NES declared the day after polls closed that "[w]e have met quorum across the 5 stations". The GCRC's homepage used the same formulation: "[t]he election is over and all five Pacifica stations achieved quorom [sic]!".
1) The NES declared the day after polls closed that "[w]e have met quorum across the 5 stations". The GCRC's homepage used the same formulation: "[t]he election is over and all five Pacifica stations achieved quorom [sic]!".
But what the NES said doesn't *necessarily* mean what one may think at
first glance: re-read the NES' words: she didn't say 'quorum was met in
all nine elections' (listener, staff – no WPFW listener election) – so
what she said admits the possibility that one station, or more, may have
met one quorum but failed another.
http://gcrc-socal.org/content/menu/2018_election/election_news.htm
http://gcrc-socal.org/index.htm
2) The site also has documentation on the firing of the second NES, A____ V_____, on Sa5Jan, the day after she had sent a revised timeline to the ED & PNB, made to protect, in her judgment, the integrity of the pseudo-election, thereby discharging her prime duty on behalf of the Pacifica membership.
Ms V____ says she needed the membership lists to
be improved, & for the whole pseudo-election process to be
protected from the persistent political pressure of well-placed
candidates: "[m]y 'faults' were to try to resist interference and
directives on how to conduct the 2018 elections from individual
directors (who are also nominees/candidates)". (She was also fired as
the KPFT LES on 15Jan.)
On 3Jan she obviously upset the ED &, especially, director G A_____ by announcing to them that she was revising the pseudo-election timeline, basing herself on the by-laws & "the advice of the Pacifica Counsel, Mr. F G____".
On 3Jan she obviously upset the ED &, especially, director G A_____ by announcing to them that she was revising the pseudo-election timeline, basing herself on the by-laws & "the advice of the Pacifica Counsel, Mr. F G____".
The next
day she sent the revised timeline to the ED, the PNB, & Mr G____.
The day after, fired. Makes sense, really. After all, director G____
A____ seems to be acting as de facto Executive Director, even to the
point of running that conversation when the ED called NES Viscarra two
days before her firing.
http://gcrc-socal.org/content/menu/2018_election
At the crucial moments, again & again, ...[exec dir] M____ III takes the path of least resistance, towing the line of the ____ faction. The other week he provided a Stalinesque public denunciation, rubbishing A____during a recorded Pacifica meeting, it now enshrined in the Short Course as his 'AWOL' speech.
No-one stays long as a virgin in PacificaWorld.
No wonder WPFW couldn't even find four more listener candidates to slide
straight into those empty LSB seats."
and
Jara Handala Wednesday, March 06, 2019 wrote"
Monday's
PNB Audit Cttee had a surprise: the CFO seems to have walked out into
the ocean. Everyone else was there: the National Office
bookkeeper/accountant, the ED, NETA, & the auditor. But not Larry D____. Not even mentioned. In fact he's never attended a recorded
Pacifica meeting.
https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/audit/190304/audit190304a.mp3 (two other files too: 'b' & 'c')
The disappearing D_____. The 6Dec PNB private session statement disclosed his appointment: "the Pacifica National Board hired an interim CFO, Larry D______ as a Pacifica employee".
The final words are there to
make explicit what had been said at a meeting now in the archive: he's
seconded from NETA. The meetings archive also says he's there for three
months – so expiring today. Oh.
But maybe there's been an extension, as
might also have happened c. 1Oct2018 to the six-month waiver granted by
FJC at the very start of the loan (ED L_____ email, c. early April
2018).
https://pacifica.org/documents/pnb_exec_181206.pdf
As Larry's been seconded from NETA it's rather odd that, according to the (poorly worded) PNB statement, he was instructed by the PNB to negotiate a contract with . . . NETA:
"[the PNB] authorized him, in conjunction
with our Pacifica ED and NETA, to negotiate and submit a modified
agreement with NETA to the PNB that includes hands[-] on staff to address
deficiencies in our financial accounting at the station level and
throughout our network."
NETA's website still lists him as in the second
highest stratum in the hierarchy, a Senior Controller, immediately
below Anita from NETA. But no doubt NETA can be trusted to maintain that
wall to prevent a conflict of interest, especially concerning Larry's
career prospects within NETA.
After all, they keep telling us they are
full of Southern hospitality. (M____ also had a dig at G_____: he said
she was largely responsible for the content of the NETA contract: a lot
has been spent, for not that much.)
http://www.netaonline.org/Contact-Us
Even odder than the prima facie conflict of interest, & perhaps more important in the long run, some guys from the Kalahari seem to have got onto the call. It must be said that recording quality has deteriorated markedly over the last few months."
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noticing how long the KPFK demands for More Money has been running since February and ongoing to date, there is hardly anyone able to listen or even check-in to see when , if ever that plea - bargaining might end, if ever ??? one programmer noted that their "goal" was not met -
duh, so many outside of that secretive clan - inside the radio station's physical quarters - are again.....wondering ??? if that meant that when the management, as it is or acts, must not be able to calculate REALISTICALLY or based on how the station may also be losing listeners, thus potential donors too.
sadly, the continuous ANGER OUTRAGING that has permeated throughout sounds like the offically-USA-elected-president-and-adm-style that KPFK claims to disdain and wants to replace. But acting-0ut-on-KPFK-radio-airwaves are the same voices, with their volume harsh & loud shouting, and continuing same repeated 'hate 'em' messages. Same just in another opposing color ? Plus the KPFK lack of honest accountability, also financially, to any already-paid-up DONORS leads to more distancing of any or all who previously 'listened' ....
so -between contribution-$$$$ and wishing for what was the previously vital radio station, that was then = sharing ALL KINDS OF ALTERNATIVE thought-ful views, opinions - that's gone ... vs. now only racist-promoting venting with biased spun versions are in 1 extreme: the politically liberalist, leftist-only! To be heard are : tropes, mottos, msgs and mantras of a 1 extreme prejudice with no balancing, fuller or whole understandings added. Sad.
foto courtesy of www.askideas.com/25-most-funniest-sad-face-pictures-that-will-make-you-laugh
(c) RR 2019 for only parts outside of quoted material above.
