<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Scott,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Are you or do you plan to make this information known to the appropriate entities such as the CPB? Have you already forwarded other facts and findings to the same entities? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Those of us who made attempts to let this information be known we're labeled as haters and destroyers of the station. Many board members and staff such as Mary Aigner and John Coate believed that Coate knew how to serve as a GM. In hindsight, nothing could be further from the truth. Your findings based on the paperwork filed, hidden filings or displaced filings has shown otherwise. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">When a sitting board member tried to make sense of what was going on, albeit with incomplete information held back by Coate and Stuart Campbell, he was "shunned" like he was a fallen member of the "farm". Much like Coate was shunned when he was a member of that community. I maintain that the "farm" is the business model Coate implemented as this is the model he learned beginning at age 19 according to his own writings. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Serious errors have been made throughout Coate's tenure despite legal counsel being available in Richard Hopmann and Eliane Hering, both who served as President of the Board. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I hope Ms Courtney is taking steps to investigate what actually happened during Coate's tenure or she, along with the current Board. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">m</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jul 14, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Scott Peterson <<a href="mailto:scottmartinpeterson@hotmail.com">scottmartinpeterson@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">There's a good article from GuideStar here:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">It's titled, 'Top Strategic Mistakes Nonprofits Make'. The article</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">nonprofit. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">Making all of them can kill it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">The first one listed is 'Failing to help people find you online.'</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="3">People </font><font face="Courier New, monospace">can find KZYX online in lots of places. Especially in online</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">newspapers. Like the Ukiah Daily Journal. And the Anderson Valley</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Advertiser. Most of it's not very flattering.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">The KZYX website has conflicting financial information. Annual </font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">penalty of perjury. By a General Manager who should've had a</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">bio on the KZYX website. But didn't. That's John Coate. He's got</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">a website: </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;"><a href="http://johncoate.com" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk280758">http://johncoate.com</a>. Where he claims to have cut</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">KZYX's debt by 93%. That contradicts the financial statements</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">He also claims a tenure of 'unprecedented stability' at KZYX.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">Something contradicted by a mountain of legal bills. And the</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">unprecedented loss of 75% of KZYX's net worth. Not to mention</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">all the great programmers and good employees who got fired.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Then there's the matter of finding you online, Ms. Courtney.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Your email address appears in only one place: The Anderson</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">that looks like continuing legal bills. Right here:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">has published several </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">editorials. In the Ukiah Daily Journal </span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I responded to your latest editorial here:</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">The point of my editorial was simple: "What's the reason for</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">KZYX policy?" The one where Mr. Coate was able to keep Form 990s </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">away </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12pt;">from KZYX board members. There's a comment section at the</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;">end of every UDJ editorial section, Ms. Courtney. You didn't use</span></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">I'm sure there's a reason for that policy, Ms. Courtney. And it's</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">then publish it. Where everyone can find it -- online.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New, monospace">Sincerely,</font></p>
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