{"article":{"id":211090,"heading":"VOTE FOR WARREN AND WENGER FOR KPFK BOARD","author":"Mike Wyman","created":"2007-12-05 02:15:59","modified":"2013-11-11 00:50:28","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:50:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><html><body><p>Dear KPFK members, <br><br> It is regretable that some Greens have attempted to bring internal Green Party conflicts into the KPFK election. It is unfortunate enough that our party has such problems, without having Green Party members bringing our internal disputes into an election as important as the election to the KPFK board. <br><br> The charges made in this letter are, of course, completely without foundation.  <br><br> You may be unaware, but the Green Party of Los Angeles County has been involved in a years-long struggle over internal democracy, democratic accountability, political and financial ethics, and the future of Green Politics. <br><br> Donna Warren and John Wenger have been in the forefront of the struggle by the majority of Los Angeles County Greens to preserve and protect grassroots democracy, and high standards of ethical behavior and democratic process in the Green Party both locally and statewide.  <br><br> Because of the stands they have taken to protect, preserve and promote all that is decent and honorable in the Green Party today, they have angered those Green Party members who feel threatened by any semblance of rank and file democracy or political morality in our party.  <br><br> The struggle Donna Warren and John Wenger and others have waged in our party to preserve, enhance and protect the values of our party has been nothing short of heroic, and demonstrates precisely the strength of character KPFK needs on its board. <br><br> Please vote for Donna and John with an open heart and a clear conscience. You will be voting for the best the Green Party has, and you will never regret it. <br><br> Signed, <br><br> -Peter Camejo - Green Party Candidate for Governor.   <br><br> -Nativo. V. Lopez &ndash; National President, Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) and Hermanidad Mexicana Latinoamericana;  <br><br> -Ceil Sorenson - Female Co-Coordinator (with John Wenger, Male Co-Coordinator) of the County Council of the Green Party of Los Angeles County; <br><br> -Ellen Maisen &ndash; At-Large Representative to the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of California; Member, County Council of the Green Party of Los Angeles County <br><br> -Jim Odling - County Councilor of the Green Party of Los Angeles County and Green Party of California Regional Representative, Los Angeles County; <br><br> -Will Yeager &ndash; Green Party of California Regional Representative, Los Angeles County; Green Party Nominee 38th Congressional District, 1996; Treasurer, Southern California Green Assembly, 1988-1989; Corresponding Secretary, Green Party of Los Angeles County County Council, 1992-1994;  <br><br> -Matt Leslie &ndash; County Council of the Green Party of Orange County, Former Regional Representative for Orange County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County, Green Party of California State Coordinating Committee;  <br><br> -Lynda A. Hernandez - Chair, Green Party of Orange County 2002 Council member and Treasurer 2003-2004;  <br><br> -Todd Van Etten - County Council of the Green Party of Orange County;  <br><br> -Mike Wyman - Former Treasurer, Green Party of California; Candidate for Attorney General of California; Second Alternate for North Bay Region, Green Party of California State Coordinating Committee;  <br><br> -Shane Que Hee - LA County Green and Co-Coordinator, Green Party of California Platform Committee  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> - Carole and Andre LaFlamme &ndash; Member and Supporter of Women in Black <br><br> -------------------------------- <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"mswyman@comcast.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"415-785-3448","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Supporters of Donna Warren and John Wenger for KPFK Board Reply to Swiftboating Attack on their Candidacies","numcomment":8,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/12\/211090.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":211091,"heading":"Correction","article":"Correction: Carole LaFlamme should be identified as a KPFK Listener and Nader\/Camejo supporter - Author.","author":"Mike Wyman","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-05 02:35:59","modified":"2007-12-05 02:35:59","fileurl":""},{"id":211097,"heading":"Green Party Association Makes Case to Look Elsewhere for Effective Leaders","article":"What has the Green Party done?\r\n\r\nWhat has the Green Party accomplished?\r\n\r\nHas the Green Party shown any concern with the interests of ordinary working Americans?\r\n\r\nHas the Green Party presented any challenge whatsoever to the ruling class of America and its one party two wing system?\r\n\r\nHas it done anything to oppose the war?\r\n\r\nAs far as I know, the answer to all these questions is nothing and no.  If it has done anything, it has done a good job of keeping quiet.\r\n\r\nI won't get started on the record of the Green Party in government in Germany, especially in the Berlin state government.  I fear that little difference exists between the parties here and there.\r\n\r\nThe association of Donna Warren and John Wenger with such an ineffective group that has gone nowhere and done little but fight among themselves makes a case to look elsewhere for effective leadership.\r\n","author":"John","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-05 06:10:08","modified":"2007-12-05 06:10:08","fileurl":""},{"id":211176,"heading":"Ignore the Green Party","article":"The Green Party is just as screwed up as Pacifica, and can't help.","author":"Aaron Fan","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-06 06:06:28","modified":"2007-12-06 06:06:28","fileurl":""},{"id":211177,"heading":"Ignore the Green Party","article":"The Green Party is just as screwed up as Pacifica, and can't help.","author":"Aaron Fan","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-06 06:06:54","modified":"2007-12-06 06:06:54","fileurl":""},{"id":211188,"heading":"Another Green Weighs In ....","article":"Dear KPFK Listeners,\r\n\r\nDonna Warren has been an extremely important, honest and committed fighter for the democratization of Pacifica. As a member of the Pacifica National Board, she stood up to the race-baiters and opportunists that are destroying the network piece by piece.\r\n\r\nCurrently, the Pacifica network is in a life and death struggle to survive -- financially, yes, but also in a battle for its soul. The disinformation and smear campaign put out against some of our finest candidates at each of the stations smacks of the typical COINTELPRO operations that we've seen for years, and that have decimated our movements for social justice. Don't buy it!\r\n\r\nI first met Donna at a Green national convention when she was a candidate for Lt. Governor of California. I met her again, later, when as Chair of the National Black Caucus of the Green Party she played an extremely constructive role in uniting ALL Greens. Even when we've disagreed, in my experience Donna Warren always did so in a principled manner. I've admired Donna Warren's work from afar for a long time, both inside and outside of the Greens.\r\n\r\nAs an organizer with the Green Party in New York, and as an elected member of the WBAI Local Station Board, I heartily endorse Donna Warren and John Wenger as candidates to the KPFK Local Station Board and urge KPFK voters to place them #1 and #2 on their lists.\r\n\r\nMitchel Cohen\r\nBrooklyn Greens \/ Green Party, and\r\nelected listener delegate to the WBAI Local Station Board\r\n","author":"Mitchel Cohen","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-06 12:30:01","modified":"2007-12-06 12:30:01","fileurl":""},{"id":211240,"heading":"Mitchell, do you know anything about the local situation in LA?","article":"In support of these two candidates, do you claim to know anything about the local situation in LA and the problems that have arisen here in connection with the election and the slate mailers?\r\n\r\nDo you know who funded them?  Where did the money come from?  Who has incentive to put money into the KPFK election?","author":"John","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-07 11:09:20","modified":"2007-12-07 11:09:20","fileurl":""},{"id":211241,"heading":"Mitchell, do you know anything about the local situation in LA?","article":"In support of these two candidates, do you claim to know anything about the local situation in LA and the problems that have arisen here in connection with the election and the slate mailers?\r\n\r\nDo you know who funded them?  Where did the money come from?  Who has incentive to put money into the KPFK election?","author":"John","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-07 11:13:53","modified":"2007-12-07 11:13:53","fileurl":""},{"id":211397,"heading":"Don't vote for these 2 - THIS IS NOT A GREEN PARTY ISSUE","article":"This is not a Green Party issue.\r\n\r\nThe question is whether these people would be good for KPFK.\r\n\r\nBoth have long standing affiliations with the feds.\r\n\r\nWARREN worked for the DEFENSE DEPT auditing  US WEAPONS DELIVERIES TO ISRAEL. Although she is Black, she has long aligned herself in KPFK with opponents of the interests of peoples of color, like the &quot;Committee to 'Strengthen' KPFK. This is a woman who has little to no credibility in the LA Black left, and who, as a result, has found her home in the Green Party, where she has served in  rather prominent ways as a token\r\n\r\nWenger worked for Northrop Grumman Corporation, a $30 billion global defense and technology company  in artificial intelligence.\r\n\r\nHe calls KPFK Public affairs programming &quot;Misery Radio,&quot;\r\nand he seems to have bought hook, line ans sinker the lies told by the &quot;COmmittee to 'Strengthen KPFK, that, as he put it, the &quot;most pressing obvious problem facing KPFK is financial: declining revenues and increasing costs&quot;\r\n\r\nKPFK Interim general manager Jim Lafferty recently refuted these false claims in a statement published on LA Indymedia","author":"To the Left of that","parent_id":211090,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-12-11 05:31:31","modified":"2007-12-11 05:31:31","fileurl":""}]}