I am overwhelmed and truly humbled that the voting members and staff at WBAI gave me the biggest vote that anyone has ever received in any WBAI election to date.
I received 1,140 First Place votes. Lynne Stewart received 1,136.
Of the listener candidates, four independents -- Mitchel Cohen, Alex Steinberg, Andrea Fishman, and Elizabeth Brown -- were elected and four Justice and Unity folks -- Lynne Stewart, Nia Bediako, Russell Dale, Betty Dopson. One "non-aligned" candidate, Manijeh Saba -- a solid antiwar activist and independent thinker -- was also elected.
And three staff members -- Kathy Davis (Independent), Janet Coleman (Non-Aligned), and Daniel Vila (J&U) were elected.
In real terms, the likely voting breakdown on the Local Station Board will be, for important questions such as electing Directors to the Pacifica National Board, 13-10-1 (with Manijeh Saba having the "unknown" vote listed here, and Lynne Stewart hopefully out of jail soon and able to take her seat).
The Independents did far far far better than we expected, given the falsity and nastyness of the attacks on us.
So THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, intelligent WBAI members, listeners and staff!
The first meeting of the new WBAI Local Station Board will be on Wednesday, December 23rd, at 7 pm, at a location to be announced. (If you know of a suitable location, please let me know ASAP.)
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Mitchel Cohen Chair, WBAI Local Station Board
The LOCAL STATION BOARD ELECTION RESULTS
With the ballots counted and scanned, the results of 41 rounds of electronic single-transfer vote counting are as follows:
Listeners:
CANDIDATE STATUS ----------------------- ------------- ------------- ---------------------- Mitchel Cohen ELECTED -- 1st round Lynne Stewart ELECTED -- 1st round Alex Steinberg ELECTED -- 2nd round Nia Bediako ELECTED -- 3rd round Andrea Fishman ELECTED -- 4th round Russell Dale ELECTED -- 5th round Elizabeth Brown ELECTED -- 38th round Betty J. Dopson ELECTED -- 40th round Manijeh Saba ELECTED -- 41st round Camille Yarbrough DEFEATED -- 39th round (1st runner-up) Austin Kelley DEFEATED -- 37th round (2nd runner-up) Andrea Katz DEFEATED -- 36th round (3rd runner-up) Gil Obler DEFEATED -- 35th round Sharonne Salaam DEFEATED -- 34th round Hillary Weiss DEFEATED -- 33rd round Chude Mondlane DEFEATED -- 32nd round Chris Farrell DEFEATED -- 31st round Teresa Palmer DEFEATED -- 30th round Jonathan Asculai DEFEATED -- 29th round Frank LeFever DEFEATED -- 28th round Paul DeRienzo DEFEATED -- 27th round Arun Aguiar DEFEATED -- 26th round Carlos Canales DEFEATED -- 25th round John Brinkley DEFEATED -- 24th round Linda McDonald Carter DEFEATED -- 23rd round Berta Silva DEFEATED -- 22nd round John H. Reynolds DEFEATED -- 21st round Terrence Podolsky DEFEATED -- 20th round Jeffery Peress DEFEATED -- 19th round Lionel Legros DEFEATED -- 18th round Myriam Decime DEFEATED -- 17th round Ken Laufer DEFEATED -- 16th round David Barreda DEFEATED -- 15th round Write-in DEFEATED -- 14th round Rolando Bini DEFEATED -- 13th round Sarah Klepner DEFEATED -- 12th round Sam Weinreb DEFEATED -- 11th round Wellington Echegaray DEFEATED -- 10th round Albert Baron Solomon DEFEATED -- 9th round Andrew Aaron DEFEATED -- 8th round Ebonie T. Grayson DEFEATED -- 7th round Shanti-Rica H. Josephs DEFEATED -- 7th round
Staff (six rounds of vote counting):
Kathy Davis ELECTED -- 1st round Janet Coleman ELECTED -- 3rd round Daniel Vila ELECTED -- 6th round Delphine Blue DEFEATED -- 5th round Kiera Feldman DEFEATED -- 4th round Reggie Johnson DEFEATED -- 2nd round Write-in DEFEATED -- 1st round