Even if Chris Daly told me to do something, it would have to pass through my personal filter.
Are we mounting a fucking serious campaign against Ed Lee, or not?
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 12:35 AM, Justin A Ryan <bitmonk(a)icloud.com> wrote:
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> I will only ever act on my own behalf wrt Francisco's campaign.
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> Still happy to help coordinate volunteers. :)
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> JR
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>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 11:53 PM, A.A. Nagy <zenekar(a)comcast.net> wrote:
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>> OK, back to Francisco’s campaign. Just be leery of Dan Siegel’s actions. I also witnessed the way he operates when I was on the KPFA Local Station Board.
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>> Peace.
>> Attila
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>>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 10:41 PM, Justin A Ryan <bitmonk(a)icloud.com> wrote:
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>>> Thanks, as someone who worked directly with Dan, I am certainly interested in information on how he sits in the community as a whole.
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>>> I have personal respect for him based on our interactions, but there’s noone I wouldn’t question based on credible political affiliations or endeavors.
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>>> Anyway, I’m eager to see Francisco’s campaign thrive.
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>>> The visceral part of me that is encouraged by allegations against Mayor Ed Lee is reminded that I don’t think the FBI’s conduct in the Leland Yee / Shrimp Boy investigation has been any more admirable than the over 50% of domestic terror plots hatched by FBI informants.
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>>> When I read the transcripts, I only saw Yee and Shrimp Boy _constantly_ refusing to participate in these nefarious dealings, while an FBI agent _intentionally_ leveraging them politically for funding of community organizations constantly demanded they participate.
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>>> I have no respect for Mayor Lee, but I have no time for any more transcripts from that investigation. Tony Serra is a saint.
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>>> Best!
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>>> JR
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>>>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 10:33 PM, A.A. Nagy <zenekar(a)comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>> Sorry to interject this somewhat off-topic information but I felt that you should know about Dan Siegel’s involvement at Pacifica/KPFA.
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>>>> The following is the result from the Pacifica National Board meeting which already occurred — where the motion was made about Siegel’s clandestine registering of a nonprofit “KPFA Foundation.” The current majority of the Pacifica Board with Siegel as Attorney, has the intent of breaking up the Pacifica Foundation.
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>>>> For Immediate Release
>>>> August 6 2015
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>>>> Majority on Pacifica Board Refuse To Discuss Secret Corporation to Acquire KPFA Broadcast License
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>>>> Berkeley - In a shameful display, the majority on the Pacifica National Board refused to discuss the public matter of the 2013 secret incorporation of the KPFA Foundation by Margy Wilkinson and Dan Siegel for the purpose of acquiring KPFA's broadcast license.
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>>>> Addressing first a motion to censure Margy Wilkinson for the creation of secret incorporation she did not disclose for the past 22 months, majority members voted as a block not to move the item up on the agenda with WPFW board member Benito Diaz stating that the issue was "not timely and pie in the sky".
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>>>> The second motion, to immediately sever legal representation of the Pacifica Foundation by Siegel and Yee, including representation in front of California's Attorney General that specifically addresses Pacifica's noncompliance with state nonprofit law and could result in the loss of Pacifica's nonprofit status, was also jettisoned.
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>>>> Chair Brazon insisted the matter would only be discussed in an executive session closed to foundation members and referred to mysterious "contracts" with Siegel and Yee unknown to the rest of the board of directors. Wilkinson was allowed to vote on the matter despite her obvious involvement in it.
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>>>> The indifference of the Board of Directors compares unfavorably with the outpouring of distress from the network's members who have objected to members of the board and attorneys representing the Foundation making preparations to acquire Foundation assets without notifying the board, the executive director, the corporate counsel and the Registry of Charitable Trusts.
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>>>> A late motion to ask ED John Proffitt to "investigate" the incorporation of the KPFA Foundation was, again, voted down by the board after chair Brazon broke a 7-7 tie by voting no.
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>>>> The failure to disclose constitutes a breach of the duty of loyalty by Wilkinson and a violation of the California State Bar Code of Professional Conduct by Siegel.
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>>>> The board spent their open meeting time expanding the bylaws amendment notice period by 8 days.
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>>>> Board chair Lydia Brazon proposed canceling the upcoming board election by not mailing ballots until October, which would render the elections invalid per California Corporations Code which requires election ballots to be mailed no less than 60 days after the published date of record (July 14), which is September 14, 2015.
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>>>> (c) The bylaws may provide or, in the absence of such provision, the board may fix, in advance, a date as the record date for the purpose of determining the members entitled to cast written ballots (Section 5513). Such record date shall not be more than 60 days before the day on which the first written ballot is mailed or solicited.
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>>>> Contact the Pacifica National Board with your concerns: pnb(a)pacifica.org.
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>>>> Started in 1946 by conscientious objector Lew Hill, Pacifica's storied history includes impounded program tapes for a 1954 on-air discussion of marijuana, broadcasting the Seymour Hersh revelations of the My Lai massacre, bombings by the Ku Klux Klan, going to jail rather than turning over the Patty Hearst tapes to the FBI, and Supreme Court cases including the 1984 decision that noncommercial broadcasters have the constitutional right to editorialize, and the Seven Dirty Words ruling following George Carlin's incendiary performances on WBAI. Pacifica Foundation Radio operates noncommercial radio stations in New York, Washington, Houston, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and syndicates content to over 180 affiliates. It invented listener-supported radio.
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