[Kzyxtalk] marco vote of no confidence.

[Doug McKenty]

Tim,

Thanks for the CC of Stuart's reply. I think the more public information is, the less the "haters" have to be frustrated about. Most of these people actually have valid points. Sakowitz is frustrated because the current board is not following protocols established by past boards. This IS a valid point. Marco is frustrated because the decision not to air his show was made privately, without input from a currently required Programmers Advisory Board. Personally, I was frustrated about not knowing the ballot situation. Just posting this information, that 17 ballots were reported missing and properly dealt with by Stuart, helped assuage these frustrations.  Just shining the light on these situations and letting us know that what should be fixed, is getting fixed, helps all of us get along. 

Doug

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 23, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Tim Gregory <tgregory at saber.net> wrote:
> 
> thanks for personal reply, stuart...
> 
> as i said, these haters are just gonna keep hating, never mind they're smart enough
> to know better...i still don't see their 'mythos', but it sure comes with a lot of
> rhetoric, we might agree...
> ---
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Since he aired this so publicly, I'll tell you that Marco is
> misrepresenting things. I communicated to him almost two weeks ago that
> if he wanted to assure getting a ballot and voting we would have to work
> out physically getting it to him, as I have done with others. He opted
> to do it by mail, knowing it would present timing problems--I have the
> email "paper" trail to prove this. He doesn't say any of that, nor that
> his being out of town a lot complicates things.
> 
> Only seventeen people have told us they did not receive ballots, less
> than 1% (.008) of all sent. All have been logged and dealt with
> responsibly and fairly. Some had ballots returned as undeliverable by
> the post office, one found hers later, some weren't members in good
> standing, etc.
> 
> Marco is also making a false implication about the voting in the last
> election. It was not that a third of members' votes weren't counted.
> Approximately only 25% of members voted, and all who voted were counted.
> The reform candidate did not lose because votes weren't counted. He lost
> because an insufficient number of members voted for him.
> 
> BTW, I've communicated all this to him directly as well.
> 
> Stuart
> 
>> On Monday/03/23/15 3:47 PM, Tim Gregory wrote:
>> haters gonna hate...seems your disaffection is equally as complete as sako's. too
>> much brilliance in service of wounded egos, to me, however real your demons turn
>> out
>> to be...
>> 
>> can't say as i blame you for speculating about yr missing ballot, though...
>> 
>> perhaps, marco, if you could ameliorate it with something brilliant about what you
>> love about the station, over and above, or transcending disagreements.
>>   ---
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/station-business/contact-the-board
>> 
>>      No KZYX board election ballot yet in my p.o. box, despite my having
>> called the station weeks ago because others told me they got theirs, and despite
>> my
>> having written, communicated with Stuart Campbell, got via email a form to fill
>> out
>> and filled it out and signed it to swear, as requested, that if I got a ballot
>> beyond the one I didn't get but might get I'd destroy it, and physically mailing
>> that form to the address provided on it by the "election coordinator". And a full
>> week after that, after checking my p.o. box again, I'm out of town, as I said I
>> would be, and won't get to my box now until the night of Saturday the 28th, a
>> single
>> post-office day before the election deadline.
>> 
>>      I'm beginning to think somebody up there (at KZYX) doesn't like me.
>> Also, given how the board and management have behaved so far in other areas, this
>> doesn't inspire confidence in the election process. I wonder how many other
>> members
>> didn't get their ballot; and how would it even be possible to find out?
>> 
>>      In the previous election less than a third of the members' votes
>> were even counted and, given that, a reform candidate lost by a handful of  votes.
>> 
>>      And in case this is the only chance I get to officially say so,
>> which it looks like it is, if I had not been prevented from voting I would have
>> voted for Dennis O'Brien and Doug McKenty, based on their candidate statements,
>> their writing to kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org, and their comments at the single short
>> farce of an on-air forum.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Kzyxtalk mailing list
> Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk