Question Twenty: What question(s) would you pose to your fellow candidates?

KPFA Listener-Sponsor candidates

Carl Bryant -

Steven Conley –

Bob English - Do you support a folio that listeners can interact with?

Dianne Enriquez - What do you intend to achieve for KPFA during you time on the board?
What are your motives for running?
What is your proudest accomplishment, both personally and professionally?

Sherry Gendelman - Do you have a political agenda different from the Mission of Pacifica?

Mathew Hallinan –

Chandra Hauptman –

• Do they have the time available to fully participate as a member of the LSB?

• Will they commit to attending meetings and become familiar with the all sides of the issues prior to voting?

• Will they do the committee work this is needed? (i.e. the real work of the Board)

• Ask all candidates to give examples of types of committee(s)/committee work they would perform.

David Heller – If you could have dinner with any one person in the world that you would normally not have access to, from history or from contemporary times, who would it be?

Warren Mar – What can we do to build the station? As I said in the opening question, we need KPFA in the U.S. now more than ever. In spite of our criticisms of the station, we need to have in our mind why we think it is important to build it, and what we can do in that endeavor. I also don’t agree with candidates who want to chop up air time to appease every political tendency in the Bay Area, regardless of whether it is good radio journalism. I would ask them how they would build this station if we don’t deal with bad or goofy programs that turn people off.

Susan McDonough – What are your ideas for fundraising, increasing our visibility and outreach?
How can we make our LSB board meetings more fun, productive and positive?

Antonio Medrano -

Attila Nagy – As Listener Rep., how will you represent KPFA listener/supporters’ interests? How will you ensure a more democratic and transparent KPFA/Pacifica?

Richard Phelps – Which do you think is primary, the Mission or fundraising?

Do you think the use of subscribers’ money by elected representatives is a public or private issue? (Transparency and accountability)

Mara Rivera - Do you support a strong LSB which is involved in its duty of overseeing that programming fulfils our mission?
Do you support listener involvement in KPFA governance through the LSB and other bodies?
Are you familiar with KPFA governance, its issues? Have you attended LSB meetings?

Paul Robins –

CC Campbell Rock –

Tracy Rosenberg – Are you willing to pledge to fall back on Robert’s Rules only when talking to each other first doesn’t work?

Gerald Sanders – How can we work together productively?

Sureya Sayadi - What they are doing and will do to prevent and eliminate Racism, Sexism, Classism and all the Wars US creates against other countries.

John Van Eyck - This makes me think of the presidential debates. I'm not running against anyone. I hope that all of our candidates believe in the greatness of KPFA as much as I.

Joe Wanzala – None in particular, I would mainly be interested in getting to know them at a personal level.

Jim Weber - All LSB candidates should pass the “democracy” test, which includes demonstrating friendliness, mutual respect, compassion, trust, and kindness, with no cowardly blind obedience to authoritarian controls, as we have seen in the past. Today’s LSB candidates should not resemble frightened Hitler youth.

Stan Woods – To the ‘’Concerned Listeners‘’ candidates –
Have you attended KPFA Local station meetings in the last two years?
If so how many? If not why not?
Have you tried to educate yourself on the various issues in dispute?
Do you know the voting records of the board members?
Before you agreed to run on your slate did you attempt to talk to people that disagree with the ‘’Concerned Listeners“’?
To all the above questions if not why not?

Steve Zeltzer - I will let them speak for themselves.

KPFA Staff candidates

Shahram Aghmir –

Mary Berg - Two questions would be vitally important to me to find out from every candidate – and every board member:   1)  We are (or should be) all quite familiar with the Pacifica Mission and believe we fully support it. But what specifically do you understand by each of these four paragraphs; and what do they each mean to you?     2)  To what extent are you willing and able to consider the points of  others (including those you may have defined as "opponents") solely on the merits of the points made, without any speculations on the possible motives of the people making them?

Chris Brown – Are you going to tackle the issue of racism and sexism as it pertains to the problems of progressive movements?

Brian Edwards-Tiekert – Why can't we all just get along?

Jeannine Etter - What about you makes you an interesting candidate to want to get to know?

Mary Tilson – How do you manage and deal with difference in opinion?