Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:45 PM
This motion was just passed by the National Election Committee
of the PNB:
> "The National Election Committee of the PNB strongly
recommends to the National Election Supervisor that the 2010 KPFA staff
election uncertified results be invalidated
due to gross and repeated violations of the Fair Campaign Provisions
and the election
redone prior to November 15, 2010."
The staff election was clearly impacted by the misinformation
spread by programmers starting on 9/28 and CL/SK candidates on air
starting on 9/29, I believe, about staff cuts by KPFA PNB members.
One anti-democratic candidate won by one vote, and we know that staff
were greatly affected by
the false allegations of a "purge",
and that 25 staff ballots were delivered after the allegations.
{You can listen to the candidate forums from links on this page.
However, KPFA regular programs from 9/21 on were not archived,
or not posted,
or evenings & weekends
not archived! }
9/27 & 9/28 forums were timed out, after having remained
unposted for a while; on air election violations
around
those dates may be available; we do have downloaded audios plus transcritions
of them in any case;
they may have been edited out of the KPFA archival versions; they are
not on this page at present.
Explanations given have been: "Audio
presented during KPFA Fund Drives often originates elsewhere and therefore
is not posted." - from Against the Grain website
"The server is down - The physical machine that is the
archive server is broken and is in the process of being repaired/replaced."
by Chris Stehlik of KPFA -Tuesday Oct 12th, 2010 12:06 PM
Coincidentally, the pacificaelections2010 website was also out of commission
briefly, having been attacked, and has lost some of
its content.
Also, Tracy Rosenberg is being attacked on a dedicated Facebook
page, and there is a campaign to remove her from her leadership of the
Media Alliance.
If anyone should have audio archives or transcripts of these, please
contact
Chandra Hauptman at chcats(at)lmi.net } {note: we may have them all
by now}
There were other violations and it remains to be seen if and
how they will be handled.
Message from the Fair Elections list regarding the preliminary
election results ,
and an action for you to take
The
preliminary results from the election vote count are now in.
They are :
Preliminary
(unofficial) returns for KPFA delegate election 2010
Listener Representatives
1 Mal Burnstein CL/SaveKPFA - the most unpleasant of the candidates
2 Tracy Rosenberg ICR - head of Media Alliance, under attack by opposition
now
3 Jack Kurzweil CL/SK
4 Margy Wilkinson CL/SK
5 Hyun-Mi Kim ICR - People's Radio's #1 choice
6 Cynthia Johnson ICR
7 Matthew Hallinan CL/SK
8 David Saldana CL/SK
9 Tanya Russell CL/SK
First Runner up:
10 Suzie Goldmacher CL/SK
Second Runner up:
11 Kate Tanaka ICR
Staff Representatives:
1 Shahram Aghamir ICR
2 David Gans CL affiliated
3 Lewis Sawyer CL affiliated
Also, the 2nd runner up from last year, Richard Phelps formerly of People's
Radio,
may be seated, to replace Banafsheh Akhlaghi of ICR
This
is not good, as the CL would have a clear majority on the LSB.
However, there were numerous campaign violations on the part of CL/ICR
which may be addressed before certifying the election, and require remedies.
Therefore the results may change slightly.
The last violation is the false report of 3 ICR members, delegates from
KPFA to
the Pacifica National Board, sponsoring a hit attack upon popular staff
and
programs at KPFA, to remove paid staff in a politically motivated way.
This campaign went on air first in the last 2 candidate forums,and then
by CL
supporting programmers.
It was totally false and possibly contrived as a last minute election
ploy, by the CL.
It was a clear campaign violation, and may have altered the vote in
the staff election.
There are further explanations of this among the recent Fair Elections
KPFA messages.
So we are urging the National Election Supervisor not to certify the
election until
these violations are dealt with.
Please help! Here is a message from Richard Phelps:
Everyone needs to write or call Renee the NES
and ask her not to Certify the KPFA election
until we get a chance to study the returns, given the gross on-air violations
committed by CL.
I am told Renee doesn't often answer her phone, too busy, so leave a
message or better still
TEXT her. 510 230-9860
Also e-mail her at NES@ Pacifica.org. Better yet do all three.
We
may produce a letter for you to sign, shortly.
But don't wait - contact her now if you can.
And we'll have an election analysis for you soon.
In the meantime, you can see a letter from a CLer and comments at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/12/18661146.php?show_comments=1#18661191
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People's
Radio's ranked voting recommendations
Most of us believe that a unified voting order is the most likely to
gain
seats for our side, so please observe this voting order.
Vote for any number you prefer. See note below about voting for more.
We recommend that you don't vote for ANY "Save
KPFA" candidates!
"Save KPFA" is the new name for the Concerned
Listeners!
There are many articles about this stolen name on the web, such as this
one:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/24/18651752.php
or http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/28/18660117.php
This slate promotes a corporate station model, more moderate
programming,
and
have been responsible for gross financial mismanagement which has endangered
the station and network.
Our candidate recommendations are drawn from the Independents
for Community Radio (ICR),
Voices For Justice Radio (VFJR) slates and the unaffiliated candidates.
1 Hyun-Mi Kim
Impressed us with her intelligent approach, stands
for youth
and
diversity; even though not currently knowledgeable about
station,
is learning
2 Felipe Messina
New to station but very knowledgeable, organized,
and energetic,
devoted, and connects well
3 Kate Tanaka
Long time listener, knowledgeable about
station issues
4 Cynthia Johnson
Long time listener,familiar with station history, should
be able
to
come up to speed on station issues
5 Steve Zeltzer
Very strong voice for justice with a broad view of the movement,
but tends to attack his allies as much as our
enemies; little sense of
strategy
6 Stephan Astourian New
to station but good understanding of our goals and
generally knowledgeable
7 Sureya Sayadi A
strong ally but doesn’t always adhere to rules of LSB
meeting
discourse, which can disorganize meetings.
8 Ivar Diehl
New; has not taken a stand in governance issues, but
seems open
& a quick study
9 Tracy Rosenberg
The most knowledgeable about KPFA/Pacifica affairs and a
powerful
voice for progressive governance; strong concerns within
our
group that she has an autocratic management style; has refused
to work
in coalition with us and others;
as an incumbent, has a good chance of winning
10 Aaron Aarons
His main issue is promoting socialism, does not align with others,
but he understands
the governance issues at the station as well
11 Gina Szeto
A voice for diversity and youth but very new to KPFA and has not
been participating much in election events; might not have
the
consistent attendance our side needs
12 Janet Kobren
Has participated in KPFA democratic governance groups for a few
years but untried in leadership
role
> There are more detailed evaluations below
on these candidates <
less recommended:
Jaime Cader Has run for LSB for 2 years in a row but still
not very
knowledgeable about station issues
Georgia Frazier Has a corporate approach, though other good
ideas
Monadel Herzallah Involved in working against the National
Union of Healthcare Workers
in their struggle with the SEIU; has not been participating
in the forums
Naeem Deskins Has not been participating
in the forums, so is unknown to us
Stuart Steinhardt The
same as the above
Our
criteria: We arrived at this ranking through a democratic vote
of our members, combining many opinions.
Some of our criteria were support of democratic governance, knowledge
of station history & current politics,
ability to work & organize with People’s Radio and other community
radio & listener democracy movement groups,
community activist/leadership experience, sense/knowledge of the KPFA
community/communities served
and community program needs; board experience, skills/qualifications;
involvement in listener democracy movement,
opposition to the KPFA status quo regime and anti-democratic reform
supporters/slates
You
may rank more candidates if you wish – the 5 “less
recommended ” - as some believe this will increase the
chances of a win for all your choices (as long as you don’t vote
for any of the 10 “Save KPFA”/CL candidates:
Kurzweil, Burnstein, Wilkinson, Hernandez, Hallinan, S.Goldmacher, Russell,
Doran, Saldana, D.Goldmacher).
Our vote could be more effective if people vote
in the above ranking order.
We need to reach quorum – 10% of listener members
voting – for the election to be valid – and we need a
better majority
of pro-democratic board members – more than the precarious 1 vote
majority we now have, in order to have a board which
can ensure the financial viability and intelligent,
representative governance of the station, so it will continue as an
all too rare source for the truth and a voice for the communities.
So please vote!
From
our new leaflet:
Who
is People’s Radio?
We are former KPFA Station Board members
and candidates who starting in 2004 formed a slate dedicated to democratic
governance
at KPFA and Pacifica as mandated in the Bylaws, and to the KPFA mission
statement, which is a part of the Bylaws.
We’ve been long time listeners and activists with KPFA, some with
Free Pacifica/KPFA (1999-2002), the Coalition for a democratic Pacifica
and the original Save KPFA – not to be confused with the anti–democratic
slate (formerly the Concerned Listeners and also KPFA Forward)
which has now taken its name (reference below)*
– and active in other progressive movements, union organizing
and democracy,
Black and other community struggles.
This year, due to the influence of “big”(for us) money and
big party politics imported to the KPFA elections, by the expensive
mailings used by
“Save KPFA”/Concerned
Listeners and ICR slates, who won all 9 listener seats in the 2009 election,
we were unable to compete in the election, and for the second year,
were unable to persuade some of our independent colleagues and the ICR
leaders to form a coalition of pro-democratic forces in order to unify
our campaign efforts, offer pro-democracy, progressive members a clear
choice and concentrate their votes.
Some of us joined the KPFA Election Committee in order to promote this
election, as we have previously. This has been a major activity for
some of our members this year, and so we’ve been less active in
our usual article writing and organizing issue based forums, challenging
attempts at repression of democratic governance and a wide spectrum
in programming content (from programming by diverse communities around
the bay, to a broad range of information and opinions on the Left).
*For the
actual history and democratic objectives of the original 1990s listener
activist groups/movement Save KPFA and Take Back KPFA, and their objections
to the misappropriation of the name by this anti-democratic reform slate,
see http://sites.google.com/site/therealsavekpfa
Who
Are Our Opponents? – “Save KPFA”/Concerned Listeners
and beyond
This group formed in 2006 to oppose the
power of the Local Station Board with its 18 listener and 6 staff
representatives to have a role in KPFA/Pacifica governance, policy and
program decision making. It was instigated by a small clique core of
mostly paid "core staff" and members of the Wellstone Democratic
Club, which including leftists who believed the salvation of progressivism
in the US lies in moving the Democratic Party to the left and that to
do this, KPFA should pitch itself to the more “moderate”
progressives, and remove more radical programming which offends them.
Their stance at KPFA has been that the core staff are the workers who
should run the station, along with management, and that the listeners
are their uninformed bosses who should be passive supporters but are
trying to meddle and repress them - by participating and sharing decision
making in station affairs.
These positions and opinions, have resulted in the following ( partial
list):
•A financial meltdown which threatens KPFA – a million dollar
surplus wiped out by failure to reduce paid staff which was first expanded
in the 2000s, then during the Lemlem Rijio and CL supported management
group period 2004-09; paid staffing increased 50% while the subscriber
base decreased over 20%. Pacifica required paid staff cuts but were
ignored by the CL for over a year (in the name of not interfering with
professional management) and when staff cuts were finally made by the
current interim GM, were made to fall disproportionately on popular
radical programs Flashpoints & Hard Knock Radio, and Full Circle.
•Further malfeasance by the Rijio management, drawn from their
faction, in failing to deposit a $375,000 foundation check to the station,
until discovered by the Pacific Chief Financial Officer after one year
and the check had expired.
•Support and collaboration with an anti-democratic, thuggish faction
at the NY station WBAI which was mismanaging NY station WBAI/Pacifica
finances to a point which jeopardized the network.
• Management to de-recognition of the Unpaid Staff Organization,
which represents 75% of KPFA programmers.
• Management to deactivation of the semi-democratic Program Council,
with the interim Program Director (a CL ally) empowered to make all
programming decisions, including new program selections.
•Denying and obstructing LSB governance by filibustering, manipulating
parliamentary rules, defeating or ignoring positive reform resolutions,
cutting the yearly meetings from 12 to 6, deactivating committees, etc.
One of the CL/SK candidates recently admitted in a forum, and can be
heard on the video tape, explaining that they failed to accomplish their
supposed fund raising goals because they were focused on obstructing
the independent and pro-democracy representatives from "trying
to take over the station," that is from accomplishing governance
functions (such as monitoring the budget, which they introduced without
a chance for prior study) and sharing in station policy and decision
making - see video question segment #17 of of http://videoactionnetwork.ning.com/video/video/listForContributor?screenName=3udrr8x093f91&page=1
More detail on the candidates and
why we chose them
Our candidate ranking assessment:
We arrived at this ranking through
a democratic vote of our members, combining diverse opinions and assessments.
Some of our endorsement and ranking criteria are: support of democratic
governance, knowledge of station history and current politics, ability
to work with colleagues and to organize in coalition with Peoples Radio
and other community radio and listener democracy movement groups, community
activist/leadership experience, sense/knowledge of the KPFA community/communities
served and community program needs; board experience, skills/qualifications;
involvement in listener democracy movement, opposition to the KPFA status
quo regime and anti-democratic reform supporters/slates.
We are most impressed by the fresh,
energetic, intelligent, articulate voices and approaches, the knowledge
and sense of KPFA community and issues demonstrated by the higher ranked
candidates in the campaign forums and debates, (#1- #3): Hyun-Mi
Kim (ICR), Felipe Messina (VFJR) and Kate Tanaka (ICR).
Although not previously involved with KPFA listener activist groups
or in station governance, Hyun-Mi is the kind of community
based activist needed to represent diverse listeners on the LSB. She
takes a strong stand for youth and communities of color, articulates
a clear and unique understanding and definition of the communities served
by KPFA and their programming needs and understands the need for a thorough
review and shake up of the program grid. Since she already knowledgable
of program issues, we are confident that she is quickly learning
listener movement history and station governance and policy issues.
Felipe is also relatively new to LSB politics but has
a history of involvement with the listener movement and LSB election
assistance, attending and video-taping LSB meetings. Although he may
lack long term experience and activism with community organizations,
in the community and on-air forms he stands out as very knowledgeable,
organized, energetic, devoted to the station and representative of youth
and communities, connecting well with listeners; he has clearly articulated
a strong understanding of the issues and opposition to the station status
quo, anti-reform slates and their supporters.
Kate is long time listener, Green Party activist, very
thoughtful, knowledgeable and sharp on local community and political
issues, as well as station and governance issues through her husband
Aki Tanaka (LSB incumbent and Secretary). In spite of a related, potential
concern over a represenation issue(see more below), we know she would
make a fine productive addition to the LSB and will strive to work collaboratively
with all Board members.
The candidates ranked #4 and #5,
Cynthia Johnson (ICR) and Steve Zeltzer (VFJR), are
veteran community-labor activists with long experience and strong involvement
with the KPFA community and democracy movement but with contrasting
styles in political and organizational approach and working relations.
We know Cynthia and her late husband Hal as directors
of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists which hosted the
weekly and sometimes tumultuous meetings of the Coalition for a democratic
Pacifica (CdP), both arrested twice in the 1999 Pacifica/KPFA struggle.
She engages and works well with people, has served on several boards,
is familiar with the movement and station history. Despite some lapses
and tentative positions and answers in the forums, and an apparent preference
for conflict avoidance and resolution with the anti-reform, status quo
opposition, we think she is coming up to speed on station governance,
policy and program issues and would work effectively and peacefully
with all Board members.
Steve is a former KPFA volunteer staff with the KPFA
Labor Collective, which previously produced special labor programs;
a very strong, experienced local and international labor organizer,
activist and voice of justice for workers. Besides his work with Labor
Video Project and Labor Fest and advocating for public employees and
union democracy reform, he a long view and involvement with the KPFA
democracy movement and has been one of the most knowledgable, forceful
and passionate candidates speaking on KPFA program and governance issues.
Some of our members have reservations and concerns that in his conviction,
principled stance and preference for direct action, he sometimes can
be too combative, uncompromising or unable to ally and work well and
strategically in coalition or on the Board with pro-democracy allies.
However Steve was involved with and open to democracy movement unity
slates or coalition approaches in a previous election and the 2010 election,
while other candidates and allies were not.
Our #6 and #7 ranked choices Stephan
Astourian (ICR) and Sureya Sayadi (VFJR) also offer similarities
and contrasts in KPFA experience, movement history, community representation,
political knowledge, and communication and styles.
Stephan is new to station governance and politics but
is a UC Berkeley professor who brings a refreshing academic refinement
and reasoned approach, as demonstrated in the on-air forums. He has
a good understanding of listener movement goals, is generally knowledgeable
and representative on KPFA and community issues. We expect he would
be a quick study and rational, moderating and effective contributor
on the Board.
We know Sureya as an
LSB incumbent elected in 2007 and a strong, passionate, principled activist
and democratic reform ally. She is an MD and a Kurdish woman from a
refugee family, and previously a KPFA collective member contributing
to Voices of the Middle East.
Some of us are concerned about her occasionally
being too outspoken, untimely, undisciplined
in terms of adhering to meeting discourse rules, agenda items and leadership.
However, as a KPFA caucus formerly with both minority and majority representatives
on the LSB, People's Radio also understands her unique and sometimes
difficult position working on the Board with the ICR and CL groupings
as the sole elected representative affiliated with VFJR
Our # 8 and # 10 rankings go to two independent candidates ,
Ivar Diehl and Aaron Aarons, and here we have
few similarities and interesting contrasts of personality, experience,
style and positions. While we like them generally and think they could
contribute useful elements to the Board's mix, we have a reservation
about unaffiliated candidates in the current contentious and alignment
driven political environment and reality which, for better or worse,
has made slates and LSB alignments inevitable and at least temporarily
necessary.
Ivar is new to KPFA politics and governance but has
participated in nearly all community and on-air forums and has done
well in developing knowledge and stands on many governance issues during
the campaign. He is intelligent, insightful and articulates the perspective,
interests, program and access needs of younger listeners. Ivar seems
to be an open, quick study and receptive to supporting and working for
effective listener representation.
Aaron is a long term activist and a familiar presence
in the KPFA scene and speaks fairly well for many listeners who are
concerned with retaining and promoting a radical socialist edge and
content in programming and opposing the forces and influence toward
more mainstream, liberal orientated programing and so called professionalism.
While he understands governance issues, he has not been interested or
able to align politically and work collaboratively with others.
.# 9 Tracy Rosenberg (ICR)
is an LSB incumbent with long and exceptional experience, activity,
knowledge and leadership with the KPFA listener movement, and currently
serves as a PNB director from KPFA. In some important respects we regret
not being able to rank her much higher, as some of us prefer and as
some LSB/election observers and activists might expect. She has worked
as the Media Alliance Administrative and Executive Director, that organization
having taken an effective, although not uncontroversial or flawless,
leadership role in the 1999 uprising. She has chaired the Program Council
and worked as the Local Election Supervisor and with the CdP.
In her various positions and roles, on the LSB and in the candidate
forums, she is arguably the candidate most knowledgeable about KPFA/Pacifica
affairs and a powerful voice for progressive, representative governance.
Especially as an incumbent, with name recognition, she has a good chance
of winning.
However, we are somewhat divided within our group in our overall assessment
and ranking; we have strong reservations about her insider orientation,
and what often presents as a detached, dismissive and often autocratic,
even arrogant management and leadership style, as well as her political
and movement judgments, motivations and ambitions. While such characteristics
are not unique in Pacifica/KPFA leaders and managers, as an ICR slate
leader she has not conducted or respected a democratic group meeting
or decision process with the candidates. The ICR leaders have recruited
a mixed batch of candidates from diverse and some under-represented
communities, some whom we endorse highly, others who are no-show candidates
or even not supportive of the pro-democracy side, making the ICR
appear in part hollow and not fully credible as a community radio slate.
Yet in their 2010 candidate outreach and selections, she and ICR co-leaders
rejected our group's one prospective LSB candidate for their slate (even
though he is an experienced labor and KPFA activist and a well qualified,
former LSB member) in favor of some candidates with little KPFA background
who have minimally (or not at all) participated in the campaign.
While we worked collaboratively with Tracy and other allies/groups in
the Fair Election Committee after the 2007 election, we had a different
experience in the 2009 and 2010 elections. Tracy and the ICR co-leaders
have repeatedly blocked and abandoned unity initiatives and talks and
have refused to work in coalition with us and others. We find it difficult
at best to recommend a candidate who has worked actively in many ways
to undermine and marginalize Peoples Radio as a caucus and LSB slate.
Most recently she and her co-leaders rejected our group's one prospective
LSB candidate for their slate, even though he is an experienced labor
and KPFA activist and a well qualified, former LSB member (in favor
of some candidates with little KPFA background who have minimally, or
not at all, participated in the campaign).
We also note with concern that Tracy a) with the ICR leadership has
contributed to the corrupting and undemocratic, exclusionary influence
of big money in LSB elections by admittedly adopting and imitating the
CL campaign model included the expensive slate mailer; and b) voted
on the PNB to withhold candidate information booklets from the LSB election
ballot mailings, probably as a cost saving measure, yet hardly a democratic
stance for many members without ready internet access (thus inconsistent
with her advocacy for the same class rights in a recent Huffing Post
commentary) - and actually adding to the election expenses when the
PNB reversed its decision and decided to send the booklets in a subsequent
separate mailing. PNB later reversed its decision and decided to send
the booklets in a separate mailing.
# 11 Gina Szeto (ICR) is another community based activist
and potential fresh voice for diversity and youth. However she is unknown
to us and KPFA governance and has not participated enough in election
events including the rounds of on-air and local area community forums
to develop and fill out clear positions on governance, programming and
other issues. There may be a concern with her reliability for the consistent
LSB meeting attendance needed for representation, alignment and voting
support the democratic reform program.
# 12 Janet Kobren (ICR) is a long time activist and
KPFA listener, who has worked in KPFA coalition groups for the last
few years. We admire and applaud her recent, well known and courageous
international commitment and direct activism with the Freedom Flotilla
to Gaza. She is intelligent, knowledgeable, well organized with practical
experience and skills, and like several candidates untried in a KPFA
leadership role, potentially an effective listener democracy representative.
As with Tracy, and for some similar reasons, we would like to but can't
improve her ranking. She has been sometimes hostile, dismissive and
not collaborative with Peoples Radio members and leaders, including
an instance of circulating inaccurate and harmful information about
one of our 2009 candidates. As an ICR candidate pick she was apparently
not interested or receptive to our recent campaign unity proposals.
Our impression is that Janet would be reliable to support and follow
the lead of the ICR, not a completely positive prospect.
Related Board diversity/representation
issue:
Finally the subject of nepotism and representation
diversity involving spouses, relatives and co-workers serving
concurrently on the LSB has been raised as an election issue and so
far has applied in multiple cases to the CL and "Save KPFA"
representatives and candidates. As a matter of principle, policy and
best practice, we and other democracy groups have been critical of their
candidate selections which limit community representation by concentrating
board seats in the same household, family or business. Our #1 selection
Hung-Mi best articulated the issue in a candidate forum by noting the
limited number of Board representatives available for the vast diversity
of KPFA served communities and questioning the prevalent and continuing
practice.
However as noted in our assessment Kate Tanaka of ICR is also running
as the spouse of a continuing Board member elected to a three year term
through 2012. While we are concerned and prepared to reassess rather
than avoid the issue or apply an inconsistent or double standard, the
question has not been been addressed or resolved by Pacifica in the
by-laws or Fair Campaign Practice provisions, there is currently no
restriction on spouses serving concurrently on the Board, and in this
case there is a single instance rather than serial slate abuse. Although
Kate's ranking may have been somewhat affected by this concern, as a
group we agree she is a well qualified and skilled candidate who deserves
our high recommendation and support.
This
year there is a very active election site at -
http://pacificaelections2010.org , which has made election information
available, plus:
* an active and knowledgeable National Election Supervisor, Renee Asteria,
nes@pacifica.org , who was our Local Election Supervisor last year,
* a very active Local Election Supervisor, Oriana Saportas,
les_kpfa@pacifica.org , (510) 250-2471, well supported by Renee and
by
* an active Election Committee which has been planning
* on air candidate forums and local community candidate forums, listed
here
* on air short candidate statements
* on air election announcements, which programmers have in part been
more cooperative in announcing & promoting the election than usual
(with some exceptions, of course)
On the downside, print booklets of the candidate statements were mailed
out very late, while the "Save KPFA" mailer arrived at the
same time as the ballots.
*KPFA
LSB ELECTION *
*IN-PERSON & ON-AIR COMMUNITY FORUMS:*
>
*ON AIR FORUMS:*
all archived at http://kpfa.org/programs/specialbroadcasts
( see also http://pacificaelections2010.org/?page_id=1517
)
Candidate affiliations:
pro-democratic:
ICR=Independents for Community Radio
VJR=Voices for Justice Radio
anti-democratic:
SK="Save KPFA"
non-aligned: Ind.=independent
Call in to ask the candidates
a question: (510) 848-4425
> *First Round Forums:*
> Tuesday, August 31 2-3 pm
2-3 pm Dave Saldana-SK, Margy Wilkinson-SK,
Tracy Rosenberg-ICR, Aaron Aarons-Ind
3- 4pm Sureya Sayadi-VJR,
Cynthia Johnson-ICR, Terry Doran-SK
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100831-Tue1400.mp3 3
> Wednesday, Sept.1
2-3pm Tanya Russell-SK, Stephan
Astourian-ICR, Felipe Messina-VJR, Janet Kobren-ICR
3-4 pm Mal Burnstein-SK, Ivar
Diehl-IND, Steve Zeltzer-VJR
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100901-Wed1400.mp3
> Thursday, Sept.2nd: 2-4pm
2-3pm Donald Goldmache-SK, Jaime
Cader-VJR, Kate Tanaka-ICR, Mark Hernandez-SK
3-4 pm Hyun-Mi Kim -ICR,
Suzi Goldmacher-SK, Georgia Frazer-ICR,
Jack Kurzwell-SK
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100902-Thu1400.mp3
> *Second Round Forums:*
Friday Sept.10 7-8pm
Aaron
Aarons-Ind, Jaime Cader-VJR, Kate Tanaka-ICR
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100910-Fri2000.mp3
Saturday Sept. 11
9-10pm Sureya
Sayadi-VJR, Cynthia Johnson-ICR
10-11pm Steve Zeltzer-VJR,
Tanya Russell-SK,
Stephan Astourian-ICR
11pm-noon Felipe Messina-VJR,
Mal Burnstein-SK, Donald Goldmacher-SK [No ICR]
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100911-Sat0900.mp3
