KBOO Election Campiagns Derailed Amid Accusations of Malfese
Aug 22, 2013 18:13:14 GMT -8
Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2013 18:13:14 GMT -8
Mid to late June the backlash against Theresa Mitchell's smear campaign against Fitch is in full swing. Mitchell goes silent or near silent for over a month, and the Inner Party goes underground to work on bringing transparency to KBOO through a small group of Inner Party members working in secret. Uh huh. When it comes down to it these people can dish it out but the can't take it.
The main subject is Lisa Loving on a paranoid rampage, accusing anyone she doesn't like of being behind the Yellow Blog. Surprisingly this article has not been composted:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423827.shtml
24.Jun.2013 09:39
alternative media
KBOO Election Campiagns Derailed Amid Accusations of Malfesence by Board Members
author: supporter
In the wake of scandalous events a larger space to accommodate has been reserved for concerned parties, including members, staff, local media and possibly representatives from regulatory agencies: The KBOO Board of Director's Meeting will be held Monday, June 24th at 6:00 PM. The location will be held at the "Dream Box" meeting space at the Jupitor Hotel. The Jupitor Hotel is located at 800 E Burnside St Portland, OR
From a release to news agencies as reported here on Indymedia: portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml
From: Hadrian Micciche [mailto: hmicciche@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:02 PM
To: newsroom@oregonian.com; bwalth@wweek.com; news@portlandmercury.com; News; pmnews@kboo.org; Cc: editor@theportlandalliance.org; ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com; njaquiss@wweek.com; amesh@wweek.com; adamewood@wweek.com; stevelaw@portlandtribune.com; jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Subject: The disintegration of the KBOO Board.
I'm a Board member of the KBOO Foundation. I invite you to attend the next KBOO Board meeting, where we will be discussing:
1. A Board member soliciting people to engage in illegal behavior.
2. A Board member who had no authorization to spend Foundations funds, yet did so, and wastefully.
3. A Board member who seeks to toss out all of the work done by consultants to KBOO, paid for by a foundation grant, which, if this is done, will put every granting organization on notice that KBOO will likely make poor use of any additional funding. So much for grants to help pay for items called for in the KBOO Strategic Plan, such as the Media Center. That's $35,000 wasted on consultants and how much wasted on an unrealizable Strategic Plan?
4. A report from the Finance Committee that the Board is neglecting its fiduciary responsibilities.
5. A report that KBOO is on track to lossing its broadcasting license for failure to have a Community Advisory Board, as the FCC and our By-laws require, and that this failure of KBOO to follow its By-laws has been reported to the state's Attorney Generals office.
Plus, you can witness the disruption of the Board's business by a small number of disaffected members, should that happen again, as it did at our last meeting. In addition, you may see people supposedly seeking to protect KBOO values again engage in name-calling, belittling, as well as a general failure by members to carry out their responsibility to let each other know when some are doing harm to another person or a group of people with such behavior, as well as the failure of the Board to ask such people to stop that behavior or leave, all in violation of the "KBOO philosophy.
The meeting is Monday, June 24th at 6pm (arrive early as the meeting may be standing room only). KBOO is located at 20 SE 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 9721
Please contact me if you would like to see the Board agenda and related supporting documents, as well as background information about current events at KBOO, and the long standing disfunction of the KBOO Board.
Hadrian Micciche
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A follow up on some of these issues was released concerning misappropriated funds:
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Subject: KBOO Agenda Item To Remove Board President For Mis-Use of Funds.
To: newsroom@oregonian.com, bwalth@wweek.com, news@portlandmercury.com, pmnews@kboo.org, editor@theportlandalliance.org, ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com, njaquiss@wweek.com, amesh@wweek.com, adamewood@wweek.com, stevelaw@portlandtribune.com, jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Cc:
After KBOO's last Board election last September, KBOO's Board President had some serious concerns and, without the required authorization from the Board, contacted Sussman Shanks to request he be faxed confidential and privileged information which he had no right to ask for, or to have. I have 3rd party information (and am waiting on written confirmation) that a lawyer at firm stated that the Board President has violated attorney/client privilege by acting without the Board's authorization.
The Board President made no effort to ask for Board authorization. If he had, he would have learned that the Executive Director had already discussed the matter the Board President was concerned about had already been discussed with a lawyer at the firm and she had been advised to do nothing. Instead, the Board President, acting on his own, obtained confidential, privileged information, without authorization, and presented it to the Board. The Board, wisely, took no action on the Board President's concerns.
Acting on the concerns of almost half of the Board about the actions of the Board President, the Board's Governance Committee looked into this matter and found that as well as acting without authorization, the Board President mis-used KBOO Foundation funds by spending them unnecessarily. A report to this effect was presented to the board in closed session at a prior meeting, to allow the Board to fully discuss the circumstances behind the Board President improperly obtaining privileged and confidential information. However, this is an official report to the Board from a Board committee, discussed in open sessions of the Committee and part of the public record of those Committee meetings. It contains no confidential information. It will be presented at an open session of the Board and made a part of the legal record of the corporation, as required by state law. The Board President has directed Board members to not release this already public report to anyone. I've informed him that there will be no cover-up of his mis-use of KBOO funds. The report is attached.
The Board President has repeatedly said in his defense that KBOO has money in the budget for legal fees. That is true. However, these funds are not his to spend without Board authorization. Also, the budget has no money allocated for wasteful spending.
There is a motion of the agenda of the KBOO Board meeting on Monday to require the Board President to repay the amount he caused KBOO to be billed without authorization and unnecessarily. I now have 3rd party information (and am waiting on written confirmation) that as a result, the Board President once again contacted Sussman Shanks and requested they fax him a copy of what KBOO was billed for his use of the firms time. The lawyer at the firm is reported to have been puzzled by this request, as KBOO has already been billed and the information can be had by asking the Executive Director, Lynn Fitch. Ms. Fitch has stated the amount billed to KBOO due to the Board President's unauthorized actions totaled $1500.
Had the firm had responded to the Board President's request for a copy of this bill, KBOO would incurred additional charges -- another wasteful and unauthorized expenditure. For these reason, I will move that the Board President be removed from the Board for his repeated violations of Board policy and his mis-use of KBOO funds.
The KBOO Board meeting is at 6pm on Monday June 24th. Normally held at KBOO, the meeting will be held this month at the Jupiter Hotel at 800 E. Burnside, in the Dream Box room.
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Yet another accusation by Board member Lisa Loviing who has hired a lawyer to defend her on possible felony charges:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lisa Loving
Date: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM
Subject: The harassing "satire" website
To:
Ben look, I know it's fun to troll around, but as I start drilling down into this Save KBOO from Save KBOO site -- I came to it late -- I can't help noticing that at the very top it references Happy Valley, as in"Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY."
Ben, YOU live in Happy Valley. Is this your site? It has numerous links to your writings and your other websites posted in the blogroll, implying that you condone this harassment. I have an attorney and I am actively looking into whoever is defaming me in this matter. I am turning all your materials over to my attorney who is empowered to use law enforcement to look up IP addresses--now that's something civilians are not really able to do but the law can do it if a complaint is filed.
Now it's true that "hacking" as a term is debated, but it is not actually illegal, (what is illegal is 'cracking' but I'm just going to let you look that up). If "hacking" were strictly illegal then tens of thousands of people would be imprisoned including all the people who go to respected conferences every year like this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference. It just happens that source codes for websites are in fact open for anyone to look at and people do it all the time; there is info in the source code that IDs in one way or another who runs the site.
Ben, you have a job and a family. Hadrian is a crazy doosh but don't you understand that people like you are the ones who really get burned in situations like this? I mean come on. I am going to stop scratching into this because I do not see any value in harming your life career or ability to make a living. But if the harassment continues I will proceed with legal action.
www.wired.com/business/2011/11/goog-analytics-anony-bloggers/all/
The other thing, and I want to be clear here because I think you are young and ignorant, is that it is possible -- completely legally -- to suss out the ID of bloggers across platforms where they have multiple sites or administer them, such as all the blog links you have on the dreadful yellow on white type site, and whichever computers you have at YOUR JOB. Dude use your common sense. I am not a hacker but eventually you will piss off someone who is if you don't stop. You understand that right? And once the curtains are opened you can say, It was satire, but that will NOT IMPRESS YOUR BOSSES AT WORK. Right?
This has happened before in the history of KBOO in a staff harassment incident BY A FORMER BOARD MEMBER in which that former board member created a fake email and harassed the staff, was ID'd AT WORK through the IP address she used to send the emails. She was convicted of a felony and lost her job.
Dude I don't dislike you but you are being used like a stooge right now and you are in over your head. The fact that all your links are listed on the blogroll shows you support the harassment of innocent people. What would your bosses think of that? Your job is political -- MAN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?
Thank you.
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It's shaping up to be one of the more exciting board meetings in recent KBOO history and that's saying something. Tensions are clearly running high. Increased press coverage and the expected involvement of law enforcement and regulatory agencies could be a recipe for an implosion in the alternative radio scene that could be the destruction of KBOO.
Whatever happens tonight, there's unlikely to be any winners.
The main subject is Lisa Loving on a paranoid rampage, accusing anyone she doesn't like of being behind the Yellow Blog. Surprisingly this article has not been composted:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423827.shtml
24.Jun.2013 09:39
alternative media
KBOO Election Campiagns Derailed Amid Accusations of Malfesence by Board Members
author: supporter
In the wake of scandalous events a larger space to accommodate has been reserved for concerned parties, including members, staff, local media and possibly representatives from regulatory agencies: The KBOO Board of Director's Meeting will be held Monday, June 24th at 6:00 PM. The location will be held at the "Dream Box" meeting space at the Jupitor Hotel. The Jupitor Hotel is located at 800 E Burnside St Portland, OR
From a release to news agencies as reported here on Indymedia: portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml
From: Hadrian Micciche [mailto: hmicciche@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:02 PM
To: newsroom@oregonian.com; bwalth@wweek.com; news@portlandmercury.com; News; pmnews@kboo.org; Cc: editor@theportlandalliance.org; ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com; njaquiss@wweek.com; amesh@wweek.com; adamewood@wweek.com; stevelaw@portlandtribune.com; jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Subject: The disintegration of the KBOO Board.
I'm a Board member of the KBOO Foundation. I invite you to attend the next KBOO Board meeting, where we will be discussing:
1. A Board member soliciting people to engage in illegal behavior.
2. A Board member who had no authorization to spend Foundations funds, yet did so, and wastefully.
3. A Board member who seeks to toss out all of the work done by consultants to KBOO, paid for by a foundation grant, which, if this is done, will put every granting organization on notice that KBOO will likely make poor use of any additional funding. So much for grants to help pay for items called for in the KBOO Strategic Plan, such as the Media Center. That's $35,000 wasted on consultants and how much wasted on an unrealizable Strategic Plan?
4. A report from the Finance Committee that the Board is neglecting its fiduciary responsibilities.
5. A report that KBOO is on track to lossing its broadcasting license for failure to have a Community Advisory Board, as the FCC and our By-laws require, and that this failure of KBOO to follow its By-laws has been reported to the state's Attorney Generals office.
Plus, you can witness the disruption of the Board's business by a small number of disaffected members, should that happen again, as it did at our last meeting. In addition, you may see people supposedly seeking to protect KBOO values again engage in name-calling, belittling, as well as a general failure by members to carry out their responsibility to let each other know when some are doing harm to another person or a group of people with such behavior, as well as the failure of the Board to ask such people to stop that behavior or leave, all in violation of the "KBOO philosophy.
The meeting is Monday, June 24th at 6pm (arrive early as the meeting may be standing room only). KBOO is located at 20 SE 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 9721
Please contact me if you would like to see the Board agenda and related supporting documents, as well as background information about current events at KBOO, and the long standing disfunction of the KBOO Board.
Hadrian Micciche
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A follow up on some of these issues was released concerning misappropriated funds:
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Subject: KBOO Agenda Item To Remove Board President For Mis-Use of Funds.
To: newsroom@oregonian.com, bwalth@wweek.com, news@portlandmercury.com, pmnews@kboo.org, editor@theportlandalliance.org, ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com, njaquiss@wweek.com, amesh@wweek.com, adamewood@wweek.com, stevelaw@portlandtribune.com, jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Cc:
After KBOO's last Board election last September, KBOO's Board President had some serious concerns and, without the required authorization from the Board, contacted Sussman Shanks to request he be faxed confidential and privileged information which he had no right to ask for, or to have. I have 3rd party information (and am waiting on written confirmation) that a lawyer at firm stated that the Board President has violated attorney/client privilege by acting without the Board's authorization.
The Board President made no effort to ask for Board authorization. If he had, he would have learned that the Executive Director had already discussed the matter the Board President was concerned about had already been discussed with a lawyer at the firm and she had been advised to do nothing. Instead, the Board President, acting on his own, obtained confidential, privileged information, without authorization, and presented it to the Board. The Board, wisely, took no action on the Board President's concerns.
Acting on the concerns of almost half of the Board about the actions of the Board President, the Board's Governance Committee looked into this matter and found that as well as acting without authorization, the Board President mis-used KBOO Foundation funds by spending them unnecessarily. A report to this effect was presented to the board in closed session at a prior meeting, to allow the Board to fully discuss the circumstances behind the Board President improperly obtaining privileged and confidential information. However, this is an official report to the Board from a Board committee, discussed in open sessions of the Committee and part of the public record of those Committee meetings. It contains no confidential information. It will be presented at an open session of the Board and made a part of the legal record of the corporation, as required by state law. The Board President has directed Board members to not release this already public report to anyone. I've informed him that there will be no cover-up of his mis-use of KBOO funds. The report is attached.
The Board President has repeatedly said in his defense that KBOO has money in the budget for legal fees. That is true. However, these funds are not his to spend without Board authorization. Also, the budget has no money allocated for wasteful spending.
There is a motion of the agenda of the KBOO Board meeting on Monday to require the Board President to repay the amount he caused KBOO to be billed without authorization and unnecessarily. I now have 3rd party information (and am waiting on written confirmation) that as a result, the Board President once again contacted Sussman Shanks and requested they fax him a copy of what KBOO was billed for his use of the firms time. The lawyer at the firm is reported to have been puzzled by this request, as KBOO has already been billed and the information can be had by asking the Executive Director, Lynn Fitch. Ms. Fitch has stated the amount billed to KBOO due to the Board President's unauthorized actions totaled $1500.
Had the firm had responded to the Board President's request for a copy of this bill, KBOO would incurred additional charges -- another wasteful and unauthorized expenditure. For these reason, I will move that the Board President be removed from the Board for his repeated violations of Board policy and his mis-use of KBOO funds.
The KBOO Board meeting is at 6pm on Monday June 24th. Normally held at KBOO, the meeting will be held this month at the Jupiter Hotel at 800 E. Burnside, in the Dream Box room.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Yet another accusation by Board member Lisa Loviing who has hired a lawyer to defend her on possible felony charges:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lisa Loving
Date: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM
Subject: The harassing "satire" website
To:
Ben look, I know it's fun to troll around, but as I start drilling down into this Save KBOO from Save KBOO site -- I came to it late -- I can't help noticing that at the very top it references Happy Valley, as in"Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY."
Ben, YOU live in Happy Valley. Is this your site? It has numerous links to your writings and your other websites posted in the blogroll, implying that you condone this harassment. I have an attorney and I am actively looking into whoever is defaming me in this matter. I am turning all your materials over to my attorney who is empowered to use law enforcement to look up IP addresses--now that's something civilians are not really able to do but the law can do it if a complaint is filed.
Now it's true that "hacking" as a term is debated, but it is not actually illegal, (what is illegal is 'cracking' but I'm just going to let you look that up). If "hacking" were strictly illegal then tens of thousands of people would be imprisoned including all the people who go to respected conferences every year like this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hackers_Conference. It just happens that source codes for websites are in fact open for anyone to look at and people do it all the time; there is info in the source code that IDs in one way or another who runs the site.
Ben, you have a job and a family. Hadrian is a crazy doosh but don't you understand that people like you are the ones who really get burned in situations like this? I mean come on. I am going to stop scratching into this because I do not see any value in harming your life career or ability to make a living. But if the harassment continues I will proceed with legal action.
www.wired.com/business/2011/11/goog-analytics-anony-bloggers/all/
The other thing, and I want to be clear here because I think you are young and ignorant, is that it is possible -- completely legally -- to suss out the ID of bloggers across platforms where they have multiple sites or administer them, such as all the blog links you have on the dreadful yellow on white type site, and whichever computers you have at YOUR JOB. Dude use your common sense. I am not a hacker but eventually you will piss off someone who is if you don't stop. You understand that right? And once the curtains are opened you can say, It was satire, but that will NOT IMPRESS YOUR BOSSES AT WORK. Right?
This has happened before in the history of KBOO in a staff harassment incident BY A FORMER BOARD MEMBER in which that former board member created a fake email and harassed the staff, was ID'd AT WORK through the IP address she used to send the emails. She was convicted of a felony and lost her job.
Dude I don't dislike you but you are being used like a stooge right now and you are in over your head. The fact that all your links are listed on the blogroll shows you support the harassment of innocent people. What would your bosses think of that? Your job is political -- MAN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?
Thank you.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
It's shaping up to be one of the more exciting board meetings in recent KBOO history and that's saying something. Tensions are clearly running high. Increased press coverage and the expected involvement of law enforcement and regulatory agencies could be a recipe for an implosion in the alternative radio scene that could be the destruction of KBOO.
Whatever happens tonight, there's unlikely to be any winners.