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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">I just read an interesting article about 'The Farm'. It's titled,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">''Holy Hippies' Tells Story Of Pot-Fueled Spiritual Bus Caravan":</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">It's based on an interview with a fellow named Melvyn </span><font face="Courier New, monospace">Stiriss. Do</font><br>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">you remember him? According to Mr. Stiriss, several people went to</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">One of them was Stephen Gaskin, 'The Farm's charismatic leader. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I also read your personal account here:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Including the part where you handed a pound of weed to a cop and got </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">away without </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">being charged. Wow, Mr. Coate! That's charisma!!!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Mr. Stiriss was asked if he'd learned any lessons from 'The Farm'.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Sure enough, he did. 'I say avoid having a charismatic leader' His </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">exact words. How do you feel about that, Mr. Coate?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">I wasn't raised with a silver spoon. My daddy wasn't a politician</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">like yours. I grew up three miles from the town of Mendocino. My </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">father worked in the local sawmill. My mother was an accountant.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">They taught me to </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">speak plainly about 'charismatic leaders'. In </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">our house, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">people like that</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"> were
known as bullshit artists.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">After you took over as General Manager at KZYX, three-quarters of</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">its net worth went bye-bye. You said it was the other way around.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">In your resume right here:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Okay. Look at your Form 990s for the past seven years. Right here:</span><br>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Plus the audit that got done right after you left. Right here:</font><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><a href="http://kzyx.org/Board/audits/MCPB-Audit-Report6-30-15.pdf" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk193026">http://kzyx.org/Board/audits/MCPB-Audit-Report6-30-15.pdf</a></span><a href="http://kzyx.org/Board/audits/MCPB-Audit-Report6-30-15.pdf" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk193026"></a><font face="Courier New, monospace"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Bullshit only goes so far in my neck of the woods, Mr. Coate. So</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">do artists in that particular media. Which seems to be something</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">you're very talented at -- bullshit artistry. You got a lot of</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">good people lapping it up. Some of them even went to bat for you.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Well, they've gotten a little quieter lately. And they're looking</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">at what you _actually_ did. Instead of the bullshit. So are the</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">major donors. Like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">don't appreciate bullshit art, Mr. Coate. In fact, they hate it.<br>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">So KZYX may actually lose all of its CPB funding. Over bullshit.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Or charisma. Whichever word you prefer. So now it's on the staff's</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">shoulders. To find minor donors. Or any donors. To pick up the </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">slack. It's also on the board of directors' shoulders. Who think</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">that finding major donors is _their_ responsibility. Thanks to</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">your buddy, Stuart Campbell. Another 'charismatic leader'. Who's</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">now on the board. So it's his responsibility now.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">The 'language' you believed was easier to digest was charm, Mr.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Coate. Pure and simple. You were bankrupting KZYX. While you told</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">the Board it was the other way around. Look at the Form 990s. And</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">the June 30, 2015 audit. You did that for seven years.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">You deserve public recognition for your contributions here, Mr.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Coate. All of them. So allow me to spread the word. About who you</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">are. And what you did. To KZYX. So let me come clean about this. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I'm not fishing, Mr. Coate. I've got your number now. Just like</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Scott M. Peterson</font></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">>If you think that line from the auditor constituted a “policy” then I imagine it was a standard statement pertaining
to his audit, not other MCPB policies. As for me, I didn’t think about it much one way or another because the goals of such scrutiny were served in other ways. If the Board asked for it, I gave it. But even when they didn’t ask me for information, I supplied
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I still think you are fishing for something you aren’t coming clean about. And by the logic you supplied, one could surmise that the EFF does better than MCPB because they appoint, rather than elect, their Board members.</div>
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