[Kzyxtalk] Former board member resonds_Re: Hopmann, Miksak, McClure, Grady, Futcher & History of KZYX

[King Collins]

Eric Enriquez was a KZYX board member from 2006 and during the time when the Grady member-participation committees were established, He responded on Facebook to my discussion of how the liberal (somewhat) pro democracy board members managed to take control of the board

Enriquez: ....How, exactly are you figuring where I fell and/ or whose 'slate' I represented? These board members all worked together in a great spirit and on our own time/dime to help the staff as best we could. I imagine that the board continues in this spirit. This incessant conspiracy garbage is just that. Perhaps gardening would be a better way to pass your time? In any event, just be sure to never call me a capital D democrat and we can stay peaceable. I wish you health and internal peace.

Collins: Thanks for your input, Eric. Were you a member of the board when the Grady committees were abandoned? Or did that happen after you left?
July 16 at 12:12am · Like
	
Enriquez: I relocated to Sacramento for work/home buying purposes during the time in question. I suppose that could be seen as 'dropping the ball' and facilitating any such changes. I do know, though, that changes were always made with great consideration by those depicted as being on either side as described by you. My experience was good, though. Decent people volunteering, and working diligently for the good of the station. Any of my fellow board members are welcome to call on me at any time as I found them all to be respectable Mendonesians. I bristle at depictions of factions and secret agendas. I wish only the best for all involved.
	
Collins The Grady committees were an important step toward (small d) democracy, making it possible for KZYX members to actually participate with the board. Evidently you you were there when they were established. So thanks for helping with that. And I agree that everyone involved, even those who don't give a damn about democracy, are nice people. I think of them all as friends, even if some of them are not political friends. 

--king

On Jul 15, 2014, at 12:37 PM, King Collins wrote:
 
> Regarding David Hopmann, Tony Miksak,  Lynda McClure, Mike Grady, Jane Futcher and the History of KZYX.
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> To my right at the July 2014 Board meeting was Dave Hopmann. He's been there at all the meetings over the last year. Reputed to be a partner in a SF legal firm, he is surely part of the KZYX legal team. So far that team has spent over $10,000 to deal with the five complaints that triggered the FCC investigation and the delay in renewing the KZYX license. 
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> It is significant that lawyer David Hopmann was president of the board when the Grady committees were scuttled. (See The Case of the Missing Committees at  http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/Issue11/1106.html) Grady's reforms required the board to operate more openly and in particular to hold regular committee meetings which were open to the participation of KZYX members. After Grady's departure, David Hopmann promoted the notion that the committees and public input are an incumbrance to efficient management and fund raising. He pointed out that there is no legal requirement to follow previously established board procedures. He had the willing ear of the new corporate-minded general manager John Coate Together they simply ignored and did not implement the reforms of the liberal democratic wing of the board. 
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> Some KZYX History: How the liberals briefly won control of the board. 
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> In 2006, board member Lynda McClure masterminded an electoral victory for the liberal wing of the board (Grady, Futcher, et. al.) over the hardline centrists (Tony Miksak, Johanna Cummings). (http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/BoardMeetings/BM_5-15-06.html)
> Tony Miksak had been president of the board and achieved some bad publicity by among other things, helping to stifle the movement for a Ukiah studio in 2005.  After the elections of 2006, McClure introduced a slate of candidates in the internal board election. It was McClure's slate of Grady, Futcher, Hockberg and Enriquez that won. The narrow victory of Mike Grady for board president over Tony Miksak marked the beginning of the short reign of the liberal democrats. 
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