There were at least two african american women in the room, Paula and Deena, and both asked questions.
Oh Look! Here we are two years later and ALL of the people that Deena supposedly harassed are no longer with the Station. John Mackey was a terrible Engineer:
As for John Mackey, he did indeed spend several years as the Chief Engineer for KBOO, as he pointed out in his candidate statement. However, the majority of his time was spent on continual probationary status, after years of abysmal performance reviews failed to produce any improvement in his work habits. He was eventually dismissed (for cause) from his position at the station. Again, these facts can be found in the public record.
During John's tenure as Chief Engineer, complaints about the working order of station equipment routinely went unanswered or were brushed off. Listener complaints about the quality of KBOO's air signal spiked toward the end of John's tenure. In just one recurring example, the air room CD players frequently malfunctioned, causing broadcasts to be interrupted. Calls for replacement CD players from programmers were ignored. It was only after John's dismissal that three brand new CD players he had ordered were discovered in storage; it is still unclear how many weeks or months they had been left in storage, but their presence there had apparently not even been reported by John to other KBOO staff.
Since his dismissal, John's name (and occasionally his pseudonyms) have been recorded on numerous sites, where negative rumors and opinions meant to undermine KBOO have been posted. In June of 2011, John was listed as attending a meeting of KBOO.info, a group of KBOO detractors where the following statement was made: "We agreed it would be useful to sabotage the pledge drive, although it wasn't determined whether we would make it obvious, or 'accidental.'"
Whoa you mean after that staff person was fired for poor job performance (scores of new equipment bought but never used, in fact stored away) he runs for the board?!? Man- this ... THIS is what was killing KBOO- people who were working not to build up this wonderful station but to tear it down- AND YOUR GONE! Guess what?? KBOO has been moving like a well oiled machine with our new co station managers and it's mainly because you are not a part of it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!!- XOXO Deena
Hmmm... weird that Lisa didn't get them in the shot. Oh welp.
Was going to ask what happened to crazy ass Deena. Is there a page on Deena here? If there isn't, there should be. Sure you all are familiar with this Indy article:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/07/400845.shtml?discussAnother, a little tl;dr
portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/07/401031.shtml?discuss