[Kzyxtalk] Further about no-confidence in KZYX elections.

[Marco McClean]

     Marco here. Okay, Stuart Campbell, "board liaison" for MCPB (KZYX) 
wrote me back nearly instantly to say the following. I'll address what 
he wrote, my interspersed comments clearly marked as mine.

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 >Stuart Campbell wrote: Marco,Your affidavit was received on Thursday, 
3-19, and a new ballot sent Friday, 3-20. I told you the turnaround 
would be tight when we first communicated about this two weeks ago. You 
opted to use the mail and not meet physically, and it is disingenuous of 
you to not include that in what you have sent. I have both our emails to 
prove all this.

Marco writes: Stuart, I have all the emails too. I declined to meet you 
at some unspecified place and time and day an hour's round-trip drive 
away from my work in favor of your just mailing me another ballot, which 
you waited to do until you got my signed form, which I had to sign and 
send because you never sent me a ballot in the first place.

 >Stuart Campbell wrote: I have no control over either the post office 
delivery or your access to your post office box. There is no attempt to 
keep you from voting here. I repeat, there is no attempt to keep you 
from voting; quite the contrary. Your statement that "In the previous 
election less than a third of the members' votes were even counted" is 
false in its implication. It would be accurate to say that approximately 
only 25% of members voted, and all that voted were counted.

Marco writes: So, in fact, I was wrong when I said that less than a 
third of the members' votes were even counted. I should have said that 
only a quarter of the members' votes were even counted. I stand corrected.

 >Stuart Campbell wrote: All members whose ballots are received by next 
Tuesday will be counted this time as well. The reform candidate did not 
lose because we did not count ballots, another false implication.

Marco writes: What a horrible little man you are. You can't be that 
stupid nor expect others to be. You must be trolling me.

 >Stuart Campbell wrote: Seventeen people have contacted us saying they 
did not receive ballots. Of those, some turned out not to be members in 
good standing, for some we had incorrect addresses, one found it later, 
etc. All have been logged and dealt with according to our procedures. By 
the way, this is less than 1% (.008) of the total number of ballots sent.

Marco writes: I just don't trust you. Neither you nor anyone else at 
KZYX has given me a reason to trust you. You refused to release the 
email addresses of the board members nor the email addresses of the 
candidates to the operators of a candidates' forum not under your 
control (I'm speaking of MendocinoTV). When I've written multiple times 
to the board members /through you, Stuart/, and eventually got a single 
inadequate reply /from you/, you told me that all the board members but 
one had agreed on the reply you should send. I'm not sure if you realize 
it, but that's an example of the MCPB boardmembers meeting unposted to 
conduct station business. It's against the law --I mean, if you really 
did pass along my emails and meet and agree. It wouldn't be against the 
law if you really just replied to me and /only said/ the others got my 
emails and agreed on your collective response. That would be just be 
another example of your untrustworthiness.

 >Stuart Campbell wrote: Other members have notified me that you sent 
this out to a couple of listservs. Will you correct your false 
implications just as publicly?

Marco writes: Sure: I never got a ballot. Instead, I got the runaround. 
In the last election only about 25% of the ballots sent out were 
counted. I said it was less than a third. That's a noticeable 
difference. I'll be more careful next time. But I'll only send this to 
the AVA, the Discussion list and the kzyxtalk list, not the Announce 
list, because I see this is kind of turning into a discussion and that's 
frowned upon in Announce, which is mainly for announcements.

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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com