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Pacifica Announces New Election Chief for Next Listener Poll
BERKELEY (May 31) -- Pacifica Radio today announced the appointment
of electoral reform specialist Kenny Mostern as the network’s
National Elections Supervisor for Pacifica’s next round
of local station board membership elections.
Mostern is presently a campaign consultant specializing in
electoral reform initiatives. Most recently, he led the Measure
I ballot initiative in Berkeley, California. The successful
March 2004 ballot initiative called for the city to adopt
the Instant Voting Runoff method, which ranks candidates in
order of preference, to be adopted in local elections. See
www.fairvote.org/irv/whatis2.htm
Mostern’s appointment follows the successful completion
of the first ever Pacifica membership elections that produced
five listener- and staff-elected Local Station Boards each
at the network’s five stations. More than 16,000 Pacifica
members nationwide voted last January for some 320 candidates
running for the 120 local seats. The local station boards
in turn appointed members to a 22 member Pacifica National
Board.
In elections to be held this fall, half of all existing Local
Station Board seats will be contested. Nominations for vacating
seats will open on July 25 and close on September 25. Ballots
will be mailed on October 15 and are due to be returned by
November 15. The new national board will be seated in January
2005.
The National Elections Supervisor oversees and certifies
the fairness of the elections in each station area. The national
elections supervisor also oversees the nominations process,
the preparation of the ballots and the counting of the ballots
and reports on the results of every election on the network’s
websites.
New elections supervisor Kenny Mostern works closely with
the Washington, DC-based Center
for Voting and Democracy (CVD), as well as with Californians
for Electoral Reform. He worked on Measure
A Alameda County Health Care Tax (March 2004), Oakland
Violence Prevention Initiative (March 2004), the Peter Camejo
for Governor of California campaign (November 2002), and Yes
on Oakland Measure EE (Just Cause Eviction/Renter's Rights)
(November 2002)
Prior to becoming a Campaign Consultant, he spent two years
as Executive Director of the National
Poetry Association, and five years as a faculty member
at the University of Tennessee. He holds a Ph.D. in African
American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley
Kenny can be reached at elections@pacifica.org.
The Pacifica National Elections Supervisor post is a part-time
consultancy. The complete job description can be found at:
pacifica.org/news/electioncoordinator.html
The Pacifica Radio network owns and operates five non-commercial
radio stations: WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City (www.wbai.org)
KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, (www.kpfa.org)
KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles (www.kpfk.org)
WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC, (www.wpfw.org)
and KPFT 90.1FM (www.kpft.org)
in Houston.
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