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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Well, Beth, to clarify:</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Here's my original response to John Sakowitz;</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">FOLLOWED by Sheila's (complete) reply.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">SD and I are not of the same mind, or body</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">as your (mashed together) post might suggest.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Never even met her. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">If I had, I might have encouraged her</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">to "hold off" and see what </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">more community involvement</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">and a change</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">of Board membership might accomplish—</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">rather than go straight to the FCC, et al.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Saco appears to be a tar-baby . . </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">now, King rides in to save us</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">from all the discord? </font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">All this reminds me</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">of very bad election campaigns</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">and Rovian monkey-wrenching.</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Altho, if I could, I would support</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Doug McKenty. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C06FD"><<a href="http://mendocinotv.com/2014/02/10/the-shift-interviews-community-organizer-and-educator-paul-cienfuegos">http://mendocinotv.com/2014/02/10/the-shift-interviews-community-organizer-and-educator-paul-cienfuegos</a>></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">I always learn something new from his interviews.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Reminds me of Norm deVall, "back in the day".</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Hey Norm - where's the ACCESS program?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">Why not interview John Coate & Mary Ainger?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F407F">~C.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:cswan@willitsonline.com">cswan@willitsonline.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] <a href="mailto:Saco4@comcast.net">Saco4@comcast.net</a></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 11, 2014 1:40:01 PM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:announce@lists.mcn.org">announce@lists.mcn.org</a>, <a href="mailto:discussion@lists.mcn.org">discussion@lists.mcn.org</a></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeWvf-nfpA"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: #0000f0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeWvf-nfpA</font></a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(1, 64, 128); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; ">In my mind, public radio is about </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">encouraging/expanding creative opportunities</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">for positive, community-building dialogue.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">Whether via music, poetry, stories, interviews . . .</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">folks can share insights and perspectives.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">Taking direct action to threaten the license</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">(i.e. control of the airwaves)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">PRIOR to allowing </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">your community of listeners</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">to participate in the (albeit slow) democratic process</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">of upcoming elections, (and subsequent decisions</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">made on behalf of those they represent)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">. . . appears to be the antithesis of the above</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">With all due respect, John,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">It's difficult to "trust" someone wielding </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">a bully club.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; ">~C.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:sheila.dawn50@yahoo.com">sheila.dawn50@yahoo.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] <a href="mailto:Saco4@comcast.net">Saco4@comcast.net</a></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">February 12, 2014 10:30:52 PM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:announce@lists.mcn.org">announce@lists.mcn.org</a>, <a href="mailto:discussion@lists.mcn.org">discussion@lists.mcn.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a></font></div></div></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">Cindy,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">I want to respond that the station itself aired the announcement that the FCC was asking for input on how the station did or did not meet the needs of its community.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">Having reported on the KZYX Board for almost three years and read their Bylaws & Board Policies thoroughly, I would point out to the Board when I found they were out of compliance. Not only were all my efforts in vain, I was routinely ignored and then blackballed from volunteering at the station altogether.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">I encouraged people to write to the FCC, not with the purpose of having the license revoked but as a public service to right a listing ship.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">There are a lot of good programs on KZYX but the mgmt. and Bd. are not following the mission statement to allow the community to be active participants in the decision making process. Some obvious areas the community is not being served is in children's programming and in having some programming targeted for the Native American & Hispanic population.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">There is an atmosphere of disrespect for anyone who doesn't agree with the programming decisions made by the General Manager and the Program Director More importantly, there is a chilling attempt to silence any opposition that threatens to diversify the control now consolidated in the hands of the few. The station gets federal money to ensure that the station exists for the good of the community and not for the interests of a power elite as in private corporations.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">What many who are trying to create change peaceably through the rights established in the station's Bylaws are fighting for is the simple right of the members to communicate with each other. This threatens mgmt. because if the members continue to be ignored or sidelined from participating in influencing programming & policy decisions, they have the right to hold a membership meeting. If a certain percentage agree, the Bylaws give the members the right to establish binding new law-- that is a democratic option of management from the bottom up instead of the top down.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">This is meant to be used as a protection to the community nature of a public radio station. Needless to say,it has never been tested.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">Management is currently withholding the membership list under a provision in State Corporate law that says they may provide other options so they are telling us they will send out our message but at our expense. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">This may well end up in court but it is the least desire able outcome.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">The General Mgr. at KMUD told me that if the membership wanted to hold a meeting, her job would be to facilitate it. Instead what we have at KZYX is a deliberate intent to obstruct.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">I hope this clarifies the position of KZYX Members for Change which is not always in sync with individual actions.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">I do support Sakowicz in his efforts to bring attention to the numerous deliberate discriminations of mgmt. to selected individuals especially in light of the fact that he is an elected Executive Officer of the Bd.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">with responsibility to oversee station finances and is being prevented from exercising his responsibility by the actions of the General Manager.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">The station has had ample opportunity to balance the power struggle that now threatens FCC intervention. It is no ones fault but their own that they have chosen to sit by idly, if not with complicity, to foul their own nest.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">Respectfully,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000df" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000df">Sheila Dawn Tracy</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">FROM: John Sakowizc</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Feb 11, 2014, at 11:03 AM, <a href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net">sako4@comcast.net</a> [2] wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">With all due respect, Tim, it is central to my duties as a Board</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">member to report what I perceive to be violations of the law. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Board Directors at what the FCC calls a "non-commercial" station are</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sworn to uphold the highest standards for corporate governance, which</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">include: accounting and audit oversight (including bank borrowings and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">other off-balance-sheet transactions); board independence; corporate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">responsibility; internal controls assuring participation of the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">public in both management decisions and programming decisions;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">restoring and maintaining public confidence in station management;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">maintaining the tower, repeaters and all other equipment; compliance</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with all federal regulations (including EEO compliance and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">diversity); meeting all public interest obligations and obligations</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for localism; and assuring protection for programmers and news</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reporters from all forms of censorship and interference while</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">providing protections for investigative journalists and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">whistle-blowers.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">These are my legal duties, and I can be held criminally and civilly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">liable for failing to uphold these duties as a Board Director.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On all boards and commissions on which I serve, my personal style is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to be aggressive about inspecting all records, policing the conduct</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of management, assuring quality control of services, and enforcing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">compliance with the law, corporate by-laws, and other specific</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mandates. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In the past and by way of example, I helped identify an improper</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">diversion of $9.6 million in county contributions at the county</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">retirement system. The retirement system could have lost its</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tax-exempt status. Fortunately, we're in discussions and negotiations</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with the IRS for a Voluntary Correction Program (VCP).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was also involved in the Ukiah Sanitation District's $28 million</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">lawsuit against the City of Ukiah for breach of contract and breach</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of fiduciary duty. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm also all over the City of Ukiah's sweetheart contract with >The</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">people trust us -- the people trust us, especially the voiceless.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Public radio gives them a voice.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Never forget that. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">FROM: Tim Bray</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: "Tim Bray"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">TO: <a href="mailto:kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a> [4]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SENT: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:25:10 AM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SUBJECT: Re: [Kzyxtalk] full text of my complaint to the FCC</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John, this was irresponsible and a direct contravention of your</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">duties as a Board member. You should be ashamed of yourself.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's purely grandstanding, as you well know the FCC is not going to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reach down and pluck John Coate out of his position. (If you really</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thought they would, then you aren't as smart as I think you are.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By asking them to suspend the station's license, you have</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">deliberately risked the existence of community radio in Mendocino</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">County. You're willing to take away the station so many people have</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">come to depend upon, just because you don't like the way it is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">managed. That is a shocking level of hubris and self-righteousness.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You are on a Board of Directors. We elected you to help keep the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">station going, not to tear it down You are supposed to be working</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with the other Directors to accomplish the positive changes many of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">us would like to see, but it seems you have not been able to do</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that. It's one thing to put up a slate of candidates to change the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Board, it's something else entirely to monkey-wrench the licensing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">process. By doing so you have lost my respect, and diminished</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">support for those associated with you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sincerely,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tim Bray</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Oak & Thorn [5]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Facebook: Oak and Thorn</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></blockquote></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#0000ff" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><i>NOTICE: This e-mail mesage is intended only for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. 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