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Petty Watch Triumphs
October 30, 2008
Will Carless
Voice of San Diego
It's taken two months of almost
constant hounding, more than a
dozen blog posts, pressure from the
mayor of San Diego and dozens of phone
calls, voicemails and e-mails, but, this
morning, the Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. finally handed over
virtually un-redacted copies of Corporate
Counsel Regina Petty's legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 13
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 am
The Mayor's Office will be calling the
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
and asking officials at the agency to abide by
the California Public Records Act when it
comes to providing copies of Regina Patty's
legal bills, mayoral spokeswoman Rachel
Laing just told me.
Petty Watch, Update 12
Monday, October 27, 2008 12:00 am
Day 22 of Petty Watch and I still haven't
received the full legal bills I requested from
the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp. on Sept. 4.
Petty Watch, Update 11
Friday, October 24, 2008 12:00 am
Day 19 of Petty Watch and Brian Trotier,
interim president of the Southeastern
Economic Development Corp., is defending
the agency's decision to redact most of the
pertinent information from Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty's legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 10
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:00 am
It's Day 16 of Petty Watch and we're still
waiting to see Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty's detailed legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 9
Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 am
Last night, I had my first chance to speak with
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
Corporate Counsel Regina Petty, who has not
provided complete records of her billing for
work she does for SEDC, despite a California
Public Records Act Request which has been
pending since early September.
Petty Watch, Update 8
Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00 am
So, on Day 10 of Petty Watch, we received
legal bills from the Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. for work done by its
corporate counsel, Regina Petty.
Petty Watch, Update 7
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:00 am
Day 10 of Petty Watch and still nothing from
the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp.'s Corporate Counsel Regina Petty, who
is still stonewalling me. But members of
SEDC's Board of Directors aren't happy that I
haven't received the records I asked for more
than a month ago.
Petty Watch: Update 5
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:00 am
Day Nine of Petty Watch, which officially
began last Monday, and there's still no
response from Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty about whether she will make her
legal bills available.
Petty Watch: Update 6
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:00 am
Cory Briggs, a local activist attorney, just
wrote this letter to Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Board Chairman Cruz
Gonzalez asking for copies of Regina Petty's
legal bills. Briggs states in the letter that he's
acting on behalf of his client, community
activist Ian Trowbridge.
Petty Watch, Update 3
Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 am
Still haven't heard anything from
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
Corporate Counsel Regina Petty on whether
she's going to provide me with her legal bills
for SEDC.
Petty Watch, Update 2
Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 am
No word yet from Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty on whether she's going to
produce her legal bills, documents that must,
by law, be made available for public scrutiny.
Petty Watch, Update 1
Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 am
I just called Regina Petty, corporate counsel
for the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp., to see whether she intends on
providing me with long-overdue public records
I've requested. She was on a conference call
and couldn't take my phone call, a
receptionist told me.
October 30, 2008
Will Carless
Voice of San Diego
It's taken two months of almost
constant hounding, more than a
dozen blog posts, pressure from the
mayor of San Diego and dozens of phone
calls, voicemails and e-mails, but, this
morning, the Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. finally handed over
virtually un-redacted copies of Corporate
Counsel Regina Petty's legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 13
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 am
The Mayor's Office will be calling the
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
and asking officials at the agency to abide by
the California Public Records Act when it
comes to providing copies of Regina Patty's
legal bills, mayoral spokeswoman Rachel
Laing just told me.
Petty Watch, Update 12
Monday, October 27, 2008 12:00 am
Day 22 of Petty Watch and I still haven't
received the full legal bills I requested from
the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp. on Sept. 4.
Petty Watch, Update 11
Friday, October 24, 2008 12:00 am
Day 19 of Petty Watch and Brian Trotier,
interim president of the Southeastern
Economic Development Corp., is defending
the agency's decision to redact most of the
pertinent information from Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty's legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 10
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:00 am
It's Day 16 of Petty Watch and we're still
waiting to see Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty's detailed legal bills.
Petty Watch, Update 9
Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 am
Last night, I had my first chance to speak with
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
Corporate Counsel Regina Petty, who has not
provided complete records of her billing for
work she does for SEDC, despite a California
Public Records Act Request which has been
pending since early September.
Petty Watch, Update 8
Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00 am
So, on Day 10 of Petty Watch, we received
legal bills from the Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. for work done by its
corporate counsel, Regina Petty.
Petty Watch, Update 7
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:00 am
Day 10 of Petty Watch and still nothing from
the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp.'s Corporate Counsel Regina Petty, who
is still stonewalling me. But members of
SEDC's Board of Directors aren't happy that I
haven't received the records I asked for more
than a month ago.
Petty Watch: Update 5
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:00 am
Day Nine of Petty Watch, which officially
began last Monday, and there's still no
response from Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty about whether she will make her
legal bills available.
Petty Watch: Update 6
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:00 am
Cory Briggs, a local activist attorney, just
wrote this letter to Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Board Chairman Cruz
Gonzalez asking for copies of Regina Petty's
legal bills. Briggs states in the letter that he's
acting on behalf of his client, community
activist Ian Trowbridge.
Petty Watch, Update 3
Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 am
Still haven't heard anything from
Southeastern Economic Development Corp.
Corporate Counsel Regina Petty on whether
she's going to provide me with her legal bills
for SEDC.
Petty Watch, Update 2
Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 am
No word yet from Southeastern Economic
Development Corp. Corporate Counsel
Regina Petty on whether she's going to
produce her legal bills, documents that must,
by law, be made available for public scrutiny.
Petty Watch, Update 1
Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 am
I just called Regina Petty, corporate counsel
for the Southeastern Economic Development
Corp., to see whether she intends on
providing me with long-overdue public records
I've requested. She was on a conference call
and couldn't take my phone call, a
receptionist told me.
Anatomy of a success and a failure by Voice of San Diego
(VOSD) in obtaining public records
Here's a comparison of Voice of San Diego's public records pursuit of attorney Regina Petty at
the SEDC versus its non-pursuit of attorney Diane Crosier at San Diego County Office of
Education. Perhaps Buzz Woolley, influential bankroller of VOSD, protects SDCOE lawyers because
of friendships he forged as top dog at the Girard Foundation. Editor Andrew O'Donohue and CEO
Scott Lewis seem to be compromising journalistic ethics to please Woolley and Irwin Jacobs,
VOSD's other top donor. Both Woolley and Jacobs supported the failed SD4 effort to undermine
democratic school board elections in San Diego Unified (see story below)
(VOSD) in obtaining public records
Here's a comparison of Voice of San Diego's public records pursuit of attorney Regina Petty at
the SEDC versus its non-pursuit of attorney Diane Crosier at San Diego County Office of
Education. Perhaps Buzz Woolley, influential bankroller of VOSD, protects SDCOE lawyers because
of friendships he forged as top dog at the Girard Foundation. Editor Andrew O'Donohue and CEO
Scott Lewis seem to be compromising journalistic ethics to please Woolley and Irwin Jacobs,
VOSD's other top donor. Both Woolley and Jacobs supported the failed SD4 effort to undermine
democratic school board elections in San Diego Unified (see story below)
VOSD fails to get the full story
"But when VOSD asked for records that would
show if the trips were given to the agency
rather than the employee, it didn't provide
any."
Hotel Stays, Flights and a $400 Bottle of
Wine
December 26, 2010
Updated: Feb 21, 2011
by Emily Alpert
Voice of San Diego
...In response to questions from
voiceofsandiego.org, the County Office
wrote in an email that it believed Crosier
had followed the gift rules. But despite
repeated questions, it would not specifically
explain why the trips could be legally left off
the forms. In an email, Crosier said only that
the trips were not included "due to discussion
with legal counsel."..
But when VOSD asked for records that
would show if the trips were given to the
agency rather than the employee, it didn't
provide any.
Instead, the County Office argued that in the
past, it just wasn't required to report gifts
given to the agency. Despite repeated
questions, the agency gave no further
explanation of why it wouldn't have to report
those gifts...
"But when VOSD asked for records that would
show if the trips were given to the agency
rather than the employee, it didn't provide
any."
Hotel Stays, Flights and a $400 Bottle of
Wine
December 26, 2010
Updated: Feb 21, 2011
by Emily Alpert
Voice of San Diego
...In response to questions from
voiceofsandiego.org, the County Office
wrote in an email that it believed Crosier
had followed the gift rules. But despite
repeated questions, it would not specifically
explain why the trips could be legally left off
the forms. In an email, Crosier said only that
the trips were not included "due to discussion
with legal counsel."..
But when VOSD asked for records that
would show if the trips were given to the
agency rather than the employee, it didn't
provide any.
Instead, the County Office argued that in the
past, it just wasn't required to report gifts
given to the agency. Despite repeated
questions, the agency gave no further
explanation of why it wouldn't have to report
those gifts...
Why This Website
Stutz Artiano Shinoff
& Holtz v. Maura
Larkins defamation
SDCOE
CVESD
Castle Park
Elementary School
Law Enforcement
CTA
CVE
Stutz Artiano Shinoff
& Holtz
Silence is Golden
Schools and Violence
Office Admin Hearings
Larkins OAH Hearing
Stutz Artiano Shinoff
& Holtz v. Maura
Larkins defamation
SDCOE
CVESD
Castle Park
Elementary School
Law Enforcement
CTA
CVE
Stutz Artiano Shinoff
& Holtz
Silence is Golden
Schools and Violence
Office Admin Hearings
Larkins OAH Hearing
San Diego
Union-Tribune expose
of Dan Puplava
Dan Puplava,
self-admitted annuity
gamer (related site)
Indemnifying SDCOE
lawyers
SDCOE
Union-Tribune expose
of Dan Puplava
Dan Puplava,
self-admitted annuity
gamer (related site)
Indemnifying SDCOE
lawyers
SDCOE
Will Carless was allowed to aggressively
follow through on his public records
requests to SEDC.
follow through on his public records
requests to SEDC.
Emily Alpert did not--or, as I suspect, was not
allowed to--aggressively pursue public
records requests to San Diego County Office
of Education. Who made the decision to go
softly? Was it editor Andrew Donohue, CEO
Scott Lewis--or Buzz Woolley and Irwin
Jacobs (the two main donors for VOSD)?
This brings us to the question of why Emily
Alpert left VOSD--was she disgusted with the
censorship?
allowed to--aggressively pursue public
records requests to San Diego County Office
of Education. Who made the decision to go
softly? Was it editor Andrew Donohue, CEO
Scott Lewis--or Buzz Woolley and Irwin
Jacobs (the two main donors for VOSD)?
This brings us to the question of why Emily
Alpert left VOSD--was she disgusted with the
censorship?
A striking difference between two VOSD
stories that should be similar:
stories that should be similar:
Story #2:
Failure with Diane Crosier
SDCOE (San Diego County Office of Education)
Why didn't VOSD conduct a "Crosier
Watch"?
Failure with Diane Crosier
SDCOE (San Diego County Office of Education)
Why didn't VOSD conduct a "Crosier
Watch"?
2011 VOSD board
Note: VOSD editor
Andrew Donohue left
in 2012 to study at
Stanford
Reid Carr--elected to the
Board of Directors on
September 8, 2010. He is
President and CEO of Red
Door Interactive which
helps clients like Cricket
Wireless, Rubio’s Fresh
Mexican Grill, Shea Homes
and Petco
Neil Morgan--longtime
writer and editor at San
Diego Union-Tribune
Bob Page
Bob owns a media
management company
which is actively engaged
in newspaper and
magazine consulting. Prior
to forming his own
company, he owned three
community newspapers in
suburban San Diego. He is
a former publisher of the
Chicago Sun-Times and
the Boston Herald. In 20
years with United Press
International, he rose
through the ranks to
become executive vice
president and general
manager.
Bill Stensrud is Chairman
of InstantEncore.com, a
private investor and
mentor to entrepreneurs.
He has served on the
boards of Scripps Health,
the Neurosciences
Institute, the San Diego
Telecom Council, the
University of California at
San Diego Foundation, the
National Venture Capital
Association.
Gail Stoorza-Gill
Gail is chairman and CEO
of The Right Question
LLC, a marketing and
consulting firm specializing
in solving marketing
problems through
qualitative research.
Buzz Woolley
Buzz is a 40-year San
Diego resident, a retired
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is the
president of the Girard
Foundation which has
provided millions of dollars
for K-12 programs in San
Diego County over the
past 18 years.
Development Committee
Gail Stoorza-Gill
Reid Carr
Ashley Pingree Lewis
Ashley is a graphic
designer who offers
creative services through
her company, Dog Beach
Design. Ashley specializes
in branding, print design,
web design and illustration;
she also contributes
editorial cartoons to
voiceofsandiego.org.
David Lynn is an
entrepreneur and
consultant with Ayamba,
Inc., focused on finance
and database applications
for business and
nonprofits, and serves on
the board of San Diego
Social Venture Partners.
Bob Page
Geoff Patnoe is the
Director of the Office of
Strategy &
Intergovernmental Affairs
for the county of San
Diego.
Note: VOSD editor
Andrew Donohue left
in 2012 to study at
Stanford
Reid Carr--elected to the
Board of Directors on
September 8, 2010. He is
President and CEO of Red
Door Interactive which
helps clients like Cricket
Wireless, Rubio’s Fresh
Mexican Grill, Shea Homes
and Petco
Neil Morgan--longtime
writer and editor at San
Diego Union-Tribune
Bob Page
Bob owns a media
management company
which is actively engaged
in newspaper and
magazine consulting. Prior
to forming his own
company, he owned three
community newspapers in
suburban San Diego. He is
a former publisher of the
Chicago Sun-Times and
the Boston Herald. In 20
years with United Press
International, he rose
through the ranks to
become executive vice
president and general
manager.
Bill Stensrud is Chairman
of InstantEncore.com, a
private investor and
mentor to entrepreneurs.
He has served on the
boards of Scripps Health,
the Neurosciences
Institute, the San Diego
Telecom Council, the
University of California at
San Diego Foundation, the
National Venture Capital
Association.
Gail Stoorza-Gill
Gail is chairman and CEO
of The Right Question
LLC, a marketing and
consulting firm specializing
in solving marketing
problems through
qualitative research.
Buzz Woolley
Buzz is a 40-year San
Diego resident, a retired
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is the
president of the Girard
Foundation which has
provided millions of dollars
for K-12 programs in San
Diego County over the
past 18 years.
Development Committee
Gail Stoorza-Gill
Reid Carr
Ashley Pingree Lewis
Ashley is a graphic
designer who offers
creative services through
her company, Dog Beach
Design. Ashley specializes
in branding, print design,
web design and illustration;
she also contributes
editorial cartoons to
voiceofsandiego.org.
David Lynn is an
entrepreneur and
consultant with Ayamba,
Inc., focused on finance
and database applications
for business and
nonprofits, and serves on
the board of San Diego
Social Venture Partners.
Bob Page
Geoff Patnoe is the
Director of the Office of
Strategy &
Intergovernmental Affairs
for the county of San
Diego.
Media hogs
By Matt Potter
Dec. 16, 2004
Inside of inside Look out, Union-
Tribune, here comes Neil
Morgan, who was fired by the
paper this spring, and his old
sidekick Bob Witty, who used to
help Morgan run the Copley-
owned, now-defunct San Diego
Tribune. The pair, along with
Barbara Bry, an ex-L.A. Times
reporter and Harvard business
school grad who married and
later divorced millionaire
Democratic La Jolla developer
Pat Kruer, are part of the
nonprofit "Voice of San Diego,"
a new website that sources say
intends to take direct aim at the
U-T's SignOnSanDiego.com
Internet operation. Bankrolling
the venture is said to be a
foundation run by La Jolla
fatcat venture-capital investor
Ralph B. "Buzz" Woolley, owner
of Coronado's Glorietta Bay
Inn, among other concerns.
Woolley last popped onto the
public stage in March, when he
was identified in a San
Francisco Chronicle article
along with Wal-Mart heir John
Walton as financial backers of
Bay Area Democrat Ted
Lempert's 11th district state
senate primary campaign. Both
Woolley and Walton were
reported by the paper to be big
fans of using taxpayer-funded
vouchers to pay for private-
school tuition. Lempert lost his
legislative bid badly. Key
participants in the new website
have close ties to UCSD,
including Morgan, whose wife
Judith, a freelance travel writer,
is a longtime member of the
institution's PR advisory board;
Woolley, whose wife,
lawyer Ann Parode, is
university counsel; and
Bry, who once
worked for Connect, UCSD's so-
called tech transfer arm
founded by the late Bill
Otterson and overseen by
UCSD extension dean Mary
Walshok.
--2004
Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes was the 18th
president of the University of
California, from 2003 to 2008. A
first-generation college
graduate and a distinguished
physicist, Dynes served as the
sixth chancellor of the UC’s San
Diego campus from 1996 to
2003. He came to UC San Diego
in 1990 after a 22-year career at
AT&T Bell Laboratories...
He is married to Ann
Parode Dynes, the
former campus counsel
of UC San Diego.
By Matt Potter
Dec. 16, 2004
Inside of inside Look out, Union-
Tribune, here comes Neil
Morgan, who was fired by the
paper this spring, and his old
sidekick Bob Witty, who used to
help Morgan run the Copley-
owned, now-defunct San Diego
Tribune. The pair, along with
Barbara Bry, an ex-L.A. Times
reporter and Harvard business
school grad who married and
later divorced millionaire
Democratic La Jolla developer
Pat Kruer, are part of the
nonprofit "Voice of San Diego,"
a new website that sources say
intends to take direct aim at the
U-T's SignOnSanDiego.com
Internet operation. Bankrolling
the venture is said to be a
foundation run by La Jolla
fatcat venture-capital investor
Ralph B. "Buzz" Woolley, owner
of Coronado's Glorietta Bay
Inn, among other concerns.
Woolley last popped onto the
public stage in March, when he
was identified in a San
Francisco Chronicle article
along with Wal-Mart heir John
Walton as financial backers of
Bay Area Democrat Ted
Lempert's 11th district state
senate primary campaign. Both
Woolley and Walton were
reported by the paper to be big
fans of using taxpayer-funded
vouchers to pay for private-
school tuition. Lempert lost his
legislative bid badly. Key
participants in the new website
have close ties to UCSD,
including Morgan, whose wife
Judith, a freelance travel writer,
is a longtime member of the
institution's PR advisory board;
Woolley, whose wife,
lawyer Ann Parode, is
university counsel; and
Bry, who once
worked for Connect, UCSD's so-
called tech transfer arm
founded by the late Bill
Otterson and overseen by
UCSD extension dean Mary
Walshok.
--2004
Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes was the 18th
president of the University of
California, from 2003 to 2008. A
first-generation college
graduate and a distinguished
physicist, Dynes served as the
sixth chancellor of the UC’s San
Diego campus from 1996 to
2003. He came to UC San Diego
in 1990 after a 22-year career at
AT&T Bell Laboratories...
He is married to Ann
Parode Dynes, the
former campus counsel
of UC San Diego.
Ann Parode and Bob Dynes
Annual Hearts and Scholars
Dinner Brings Together UC
San Diego Students and
Donors
February 9, 2010
By Kristin Luciani and Jade Griffin
UCSD announces
appointment to new campus
counsel position
January 17, 1997
Ann Parode, formerly executive vice
president, general counsel and
corporate secretary of San Diego
Financial Corporation, has been
appointed to the newly created
position of campus counsel at the
University of California, San Diego.
"UCSD has grown as an institution
to a point that our need for legal
guidance requires that we have
someone on site," said Richard
Attiyeh, interim senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs. "We
are fortunate to have an individual
with Ann Parode's knowledge and
experience to provide general legal
advice on a variety of matters that
arise daily, including new policy
development, academic
employment issues and corporate
relationships."
The University of California Office of
the General Counsel of The
Regents, based in Oakland,
provides legal counsel for the UC
system. Many of the campuses have
locally based counsel as well,
according to Attiyeh, since the
growth of campuses has outpaced
the growth of the General Counsel's
office. As senior legal advisor to the
campus on a wide range of campus
issues, Parode will report jointly to
the UCSD vice chancellor for
academic affairs and the UC
General Counsel.
Prior to accepting the new position
at UCSD, Parode's career included
a number of other firsts, including
appointment as the first female
attorney at the law firm of Luce,
Forward, Hamilton and Scripps and
as the first general counsel for the
former San Diego Trust & Savings
Bank. She remained with the bank
until its sale in 1994, developing the
institution's legal department.
In addition to her professional
achievements, Parode has
extensive community service
experience in San Diego. From
1994 to 1996, she served as
chairman of the board of the San
Diego Community Foundation, and
is currently a member of the board
of directors of the Girard
Foundation, the Burnham Institute,
and the City of San Diego
Employees Retirement System. She
was founder of the San Diego
County Bar Foundation and served
as its president from 1980 to 1983,
and is a former president of The
Lawyers Club of San Diego.
Among the honors she has received
are the San Diego County Bar
Association's Community Service
Award, and the Woman of
Dedication award from the Salvation
Army Auxiliary.
Parode holds a Bachelor of Arts
from Pomona College and earned
her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the
UCLA School of Law.
UC system president
announces resignation
By Eleanor Yang Su
SDUT
August 14, 2007
UC President Robert C. Dynes, who
announced he will step down in
June, plans to return to San Diego,
spend time with his wife and
possibly resume teaching.
Robert C. Dynes, the president of
the 10-campus University of
California system, announced
yesterday his intention to step down
in June, after a rocky tenure
involving a controversy over
undisclosed executive
compensation and struggles over
lean state funding.
Dynes, 64, who previously served
as chancellor at UC San Diego,
said he plans to return to San
Diego, focus on his new wife and
possibly teach.
“It's all bittersweet,” Dynes said. “I
fell in love with this university. In so
far as I'm committed, I will not let it
go. But on the other hand, I have a
wife I want to spend some time
with.”
Dynes, a noted physicist, raised
eyebrows by continuing to run a lab
and apply for research grants, even
while leading one of the top public
university systems in the country.
Some have questioned whether
Dynes was the best fit for the job.
Though he has won numerous
teaching and research awards, and
is well-liked among lawmakers and
members of the university's
governing board for his humility and
down-to-earth nature, Dynes has
been criticized for his lack of interest
in the day-to-day management of
the UC system.
“I have mixed feelings about (his
stepping down),” said Jack Scott, D-
Pasadena, chairman of the Senate
Education Committee. “I've
personally liked him and had
respect for some of the things he
did. But he made some serious
mistakes in failing to make all
compensation practices
transparent.”
Timeline: The career
of Robert C. Dynes
1968-1990: Robert C. Dynes works
at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
eventually directing its chemical
physics research division.
1991-1995: Works at the University
of California San Diego as a
physics professor, department
chairman and senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
Oct. 25, 1996: Becomes the sixth
chancellor in UCSD's 36-year
history.
1999: Despite faculty opposition,
Dynes creates The Preuss School,
a charter school on the UCSD
campus for low-income students.
Oct. 2, 2003: Succeeds Richard
Atkinson as UC president.
May 2004: Signs a controversial
agreement with the governor, which
calls for hundreds of millions in cuts
for UC. One week later, regents
approve a 14 percent fee increase
for undergraduates.
2005: Newspapers report that UC
spent millions in bonuses and other
cash compensation while raising
student fees five straight years.
February 2006: State senators grill
Dynes in the first of several
hearings on undisclosed executive
compensation packages.
March 2006: UC regents outline
plans for improved oversight,
including overhauling the
president's office.
April 2006: Independent audit finds
that UC violated its compensation
practices hundreds of times.
May 2006: The UC board of regents
reaffirms its support for Dynes.
Yesterday: Dynes announces he will
step down as UC president in June.
Compiled by Union-Tribune library
researcher Merrie Monteagudo
Dynes weathered several storms
since taking the reins of the public
university system in October 2003.
Criticism peaked after newspapers
reported in 2005 that UC had
disbursed millions in pay and perks
to faculty and administrators, often
without public disclosure.
The revelations triggered legislative
hearings last year and three audits,
each of which documented
widespread examples of policy
violations and exceptions.
Annual Hearts and Scholars
Dinner Brings Together UC
San Diego Students and
Donors
February 9, 2010
By Kristin Luciani and Jade Griffin
UCSD announces
appointment to new campus
counsel position
January 17, 1997
Ann Parode, formerly executive vice
president, general counsel and
corporate secretary of San Diego
Financial Corporation, has been
appointed to the newly created
position of campus counsel at the
University of California, San Diego.
"UCSD has grown as an institution
to a point that our need for legal
guidance requires that we have
someone on site," said Richard
Attiyeh, interim senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs. "We
are fortunate to have an individual
with Ann Parode's knowledge and
experience to provide general legal
advice on a variety of matters that
arise daily, including new policy
development, academic
employment issues and corporate
relationships."
The University of California Office of
the General Counsel of The
Regents, based in Oakland,
provides legal counsel for the UC
system. Many of the campuses have
locally based counsel as well,
according to Attiyeh, since the
growth of campuses has outpaced
the growth of the General Counsel's
office. As senior legal advisor to the
campus on a wide range of campus
issues, Parode will report jointly to
the UCSD vice chancellor for
academic affairs and the UC
General Counsel.
Prior to accepting the new position
at UCSD, Parode's career included
a number of other firsts, including
appointment as the first female
attorney at the law firm of Luce,
Forward, Hamilton and Scripps and
as the first general counsel for the
former San Diego Trust & Savings
Bank. She remained with the bank
until its sale in 1994, developing the
institution's legal department.
In addition to her professional
achievements, Parode has
extensive community service
experience in San Diego. From
1994 to 1996, she served as
chairman of the board of the San
Diego Community Foundation, and
is currently a member of the board
of directors of the Girard
Foundation, the Burnham Institute,
and the City of San Diego
Employees Retirement System. She
was founder of the San Diego
County Bar Foundation and served
as its president from 1980 to 1983,
and is a former president of The
Lawyers Club of San Diego.
Among the honors she has received
are the San Diego County Bar
Association's Community Service
Award, and the Woman of
Dedication award from the Salvation
Army Auxiliary.
Parode holds a Bachelor of Arts
from Pomona College and earned
her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the
UCLA School of Law.
UC system president
announces resignation
By Eleanor Yang Su
SDUT
August 14, 2007
UC President Robert C. Dynes, who
announced he will step down in
June, plans to return to San Diego,
spend time with his wife and
possibly resume teaching.
Robert C. Dynes, the president of
the 10-campus University of
California system, announced
yesterday his intention to step down
in June, after a rocky tenure
involving a controversy over
undisclosed executive
compensation and struggles over
lean state funding.
Dynes, 64, who previously served
as chancellor at UC San Diego,
said he plans to return to San
Diego, focus on his new wife and
possibly teach.
“It's all bittersweet,” Dynes said. “I
fell in love with this university. In so
far as I'm committed, I will not let it
go. But on the other hand, I have a
wife I want to spend some time
with.”
Dynes, a noted physicist, raised
eyebrows by continuing to run a lab
and apply for research grants, even
while leading one of the top public
university systems in the country.
Some have questioned whether
Dynes was the best fit for the job.
Though he has won numerous
teaching and research awards, and
is well-liked among lawmakers and
members of the university's
governing board for his humility and
down-to-earth nature, Dynes has
been criticized for his lack of interest
in the day-to-day management of
the UC system.
“I have mixed feelings about (his
stepping down),” said Jack Scott, D-
Pasadena, chairman of the Senate
Education Committee. “I've
personally liked him and had
respect for some of the things he
did. But he made some serious
mistakes in failing to make all
compensation practices
transparent.”
Timeline: The career
of Robert C. Dynes
1968-1990: Robert C. Dynes works
at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
eventually directing its chemical
physics research division.
1991-1995: Works at the University
of California San Diego as a
physics professor, department
chairman and senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
Oct. 25, 1996: Becomes the sixth
chancellor in UCSD's 36-year
history.
1999: Despite faculty opposition,
Dynes creates The Preuss School,
a charter school on the UCSD
campus for low-income students.
Oct. 2, 2003: Succeeds Richard
Atkinson as UC president.
May 2004: Signs a controversial
agreement with the governor, which
calls for hundreds of millions in cuts
for UC. One week later, regents
approve a 14 percent fee increase
for undergraduates.
2005: Newspapers report that UC
spent millions in bonuses and other
cash compensation while raising
student fees five straight years.
February 2006: State senators grill
Dynes in the first of several
hearings on undisclosed executive
compensation packages.
March 2006: UC regents outline
plans for improved oversight,
including overhauling the
president's office.
April 2006: Independent audit finds
that UC violated its compensation
practices hundreds of times.
May 2006: The UC board of regents
reaffirms its support for Dynes.
Yesterday: Dynes announces he will
step down as UC president in June.
Compiled by Union-Tribune library
researcher Merrie Monteagudo
Dynes weathered several storms
since taking the reins of the public
university system in October 2003.
Criticism peaked after newspapers
reported in 2005 that UC had
disbursed millions in pay and perks
to faculty and administrators, often
without public disclosure.
The revelations triggered legislative
hearings last year and three audits,
each of which documented
widespread examples of policy
violations and exceptions.
Buzz Woolley and
Irwin Jacobs want
more arbitrary control
by school
administrators
Buzz Woolley, a financial
backer of the recently
failed SD4 (see story
below) initiative to pack
the San Diego Unified
board with unelected
members, seems to
believe that the best way
to improve schools is
to give administrators
and their lawyers more
arbitrary control. Of
course, this might be true
to a point, but it would
probably be just as true
that schools would get
better if teachers had
more control--especially if
the individual teacher
had more control. In my
experience, administrators
are statistically more likely
to sabotage the success
of teachers than to
support it. They don't do
this on purpose. They
simply don't understand
how to bring about
improvements. What we
have is something like
gridlock, with
power-hungry control
freaks on both sides doing
more harm than good.
Irwin Jacobs want
more arbitrary control
by school
administrators
Buzz Woolley, a financial
backer of the recently
failed SD4 (see story
below) initiative to pack
the San Diego Unified
board with unelected
members, seems to
believe that the best way
to improve schools is
to give administrators
and their lawyers more
arbitrary control. Of
course, this might be true
to a point, but it would
probably be just as true
that schools would get
better if teachers had
more control--especially if
the individual teacher
had more control. In my
experience, administrators
are statistically more likely
to sabotage the success
of teachers than to
support it. They don't do
this on purpose. They
simply don't understand
how to bring about
improvements. What we
have is something like
gridlock, with
power-hungry control
freaks on both sides doing
more harm than good.
Story #1:
Success with Regina Petty
SEDC (South East Development Council)
VOSD conducted a high profile
"Petty Watch"
Success with Regina Petty
SEDC (South East Development Council)
VOSD conducted a high profile
"Petty Watch"
Fake San Diego
Education Reform
Initiative Fails Due to
Insufficient Valid
Signatures
OB Rag
Signatures fall short
in bid to shake up
SDUSD
July 11, 2011
By Karen Kurcher
SignOnSanDiego
July 11, 2011
An initiative that would
have asked voters to
approve adding four
appointed members to
the five-member San
Diego school board
failed to gather enough
valid signatures to put
the measure on the
ballot, San Diego
officials said Monday.
San Diegans 4 Great
Schools, a group
supporting the
proposed ballot
measure, had submitted
more than 133,000
signatures in April as
they sought to qualify
the measure for a
future election.
However, the county
Registrar of Voters
found an insufficient
number of valid
signatures had been
collected. The measure
needed 93,085
signatures and county
officials found that
90,027 were valid, said
Denise Jenkins, an
elections analyst in the
City Clerk’s Office.
“It pretty much just ends
because it was
insufficient,” Jenkins
said.
The initiative would
have imposed term
limits on trustees and
require that they were
voted into office in
geographic regions of
San Diego rather than
from the district at large.
Proponents had said
they believed the
initiative would help
depoliticize the San
Diego Unified School
District, increase
accountability and
improve public
education in the state’s
second-largest district.
Backers included
Qualcomm co-founder
Irwin Jacobs and real
estate mogul Malin
Burnham.
Critics had argued that
the movement would
erode the democratic
process, bust unions
and possibly lead to a
new education system
that could include
privatization.
Scott Himelstein,
president of San
Diegans 4 Great
Schools and director of
the University of San
Diego’s Center for
Educational Policy and
Law, reached in
Sacramento late
Monday, said he had
not yet heard of the
decision...
Education Reform
Initiative Fails Due to
Insufficient Valid
Signatures
OB Rag
Signatures fall short
in bid to shake up
SDUSD
July 11, 2011
By Karen Kurcher
SignOnSanDiego
July 11, 2011
An initiative that would
have asked voters to
approve adding four
appointed members to
the five-member San
Diego school board
failed to gather enough
valid signatures to put
the measure on the
ballot, San Diego
officials said Monday.
San Diegans 4 Great
Schools, a group
supporting the
proposed ballot
measure, had submitted
more than 133,000
signatures in April as
they sought to qualify
the measure for a
future election.
However, the county
Registrar of Voters
found an insufficient
number of valid
signatures had been
collected. The measure
needed 93,085
signatures and county
officials found that
90,027 were valid, said
Denise Jenkins, an
elections analyst in the
City Clerk’s Office.
“It pretty much just ends
because it was
insufficient,” Jenkins
said.
The initiative would
have imposed term
limits on trustees and
require that they were
voted into office in
geographic regions of
San Diego rather than
from the district at large.
Proponents had said
they believed the
initiative would help
depoliticize the San
Diego Unified School
District, increase
accountability and
improve public
education in the state’s
second-largest district.
Backers included
Qualcomm co-founder
Irwin Jacobs and real
estate mogul Malin
Burnham.
Critics had argued that
the movement would
erode the democratic
process, bust unions
and possibly lead to a
new education system
that could include
privatization.
Scott Himelstein,
president of San
Diegans 4 Great
Schools and director of
the University of San
Diego’s Center for
Educational Policy and
Law, reached in
Sacramento late
Monday, said he had
not yet heard of the
decision...
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Dennis Doyle, former
Asst. Supt. at CVESD,
who went to National
School District for a short
time before suddenly
resigning without
explanation, is another
donor to VOSD and pal of
Scott Himelstein. Doyle
enjoys VOSD's catered
luncheons from
Donovan's.
USD (University of San
Diego) provides a home
for Scott Himelstein as well
as suddenly and
unexpectedly retired
administrators such as
Charlie Padilla of CVESD.
Asst. Supt. at CVESD,
who went to National
School District for a short
time before suddenly
resigning without
explanation, is another
donor to VOSD and pal of
Scott Himelstein. Doyle
enjoys VOSD's catered
luncheons from
Donovan's.
USD (University of San
Diego) provides a home
for Scott Himelstein as well
as suddenly and
unexpectedly retired
administrators such as
Charlie Padilla of CVESD.
Dec. 1, 2012, Scott Lewis, CEO of VOSD points
out the problem in this member report:
"How do you raise money while
raising hell?"
The answer is, you don't--unless you are
very circumspect about who's ox you gore.
Regina Petty and Carolyn Walker are fine
targets, two black women not connected to the
powerful San Diego establishment.
Diane Crosier and Dan Shinoff and Dan Puplava
and SDCOE are off limits. Emily Alpert, the
VOSD reporter who was investigating them was
laid off, and the investigation was ended.
out the problem in this member report:
"How do you raise money while
raising hell?"
The answer is, you don't--unless you are
very circumspect about who's ox you gore.
Regina Petty and Carolyn Walker are fine
targets, two black women not connected to the
powerful San Diego establishment.
Diane Crosier and Dan Shinoff and Dan Puplava
and SDCOE are off limits. Emily Alpert, the
VOSD reporter who was investigating them was
laid off, and the investigation was ended.
With VOSD, you get what you pay
for--nothing more, nothing less
The report below makes clear that VOSD got rid
of its education reporter who was looking into
what happens in classrooms and at San Diego
County Office of Education because donors
didn't want VOSD to do that type of
investigation. VOSD can hardly claim to be
"raising hell" when it's too timid to have
a real education reporter.
It turns out VOSD does have money for another
reporter--but only if that reporter focuses on
land use instead of education.
Member Report
Dec. 7, 2012
...As I mentioned, we hired a new reporter who
is focusing on land use. If San Diego residents
want affordable housing, a clean environment
and a strong, diverse economy, they must
understand the decisions taking place about
how our land is used.
Right now, news often comes too late to big-time
planning decisions or controversial
neighborhood projects. Information is limited
and perfunctory. We want to get ahead of these
discussions.
With a talented reporter like Andrew Keatts
dedicated to covering land use, we'll strive to
give people the tools to engage in these
important conversations.
This effort is being made possible thanks
to "Founding Supporters," Marcie
Rothman, RJC Architects, San Diego Coin &
Bullion and Audrey Geisel...
--Mary Walter-Brown, Vice President of
Advancement and Engagement at Voice of San
Diego.
for--nothing more, nothing less
The report below makes clear that VOSD got rid
of its education reporter who was looking into
what happens in classrooms and at San Diego
County Office of Education because donors
didn't want VOSD to do that type of
investigation. VOSD can hardly claim to be
"raising hell" when it's too timid to have
a real education reporter.
It turns out VOSD does have money for another
reporter--but only if that reporter focuses on
land use instead of education.
Member Report
Dec. 7, 2012
...As I mentioned, we hired a new reporter who
is focusing on land use. If San Diego residents
want affordable housing, a clean environment
and a strong, diverse economy, they must
understand the decisions taking place about
how our land is used.
Right now, news often comes too late to big-time
planning decisions or controversial
neighborhood projects. Information is limited
and perfunctory. We want to get ahead of these
discussions.
With a talented reporter like Andrew Keatts
dedicated to covering land use, we'll strive to
give people the tools to engage in these
important conversations.
This effort is being made possible thanks
to "Founding Supporters," Marcie
Rothman, RJC Architects, San Diego Coin &
Bullion and Audrey Geisel...
--Mary Walter-Brown, Vice President of
Advancement and Engagement at Voice of San
Diego.
Note: SDCOE also failed to produce public records
to me.
to me.
(2012-2013)The following
VOSD donors have a big
personal interest in how
education is covered in
the media (and there may be
others I don't know about):
Major Donors and
Community Partners
$5,001+
Rod Dammeyer
Irwin Jacobs
Buzz Woolley, Jr.
Loud & Clear
$1,001-$5,000
Fern Steiner [CTA
lawyer]
Ann Woolley
Inside Voice $101-$500
Dennis Doyle
Camille Gustafson
Omar Passons
VOSD donors have a big
personal interest in how
education is covered in
the media (and there may be
others I don't know about):
Major Donors and
Community Partners
$5,001+
Rod Dammeyer
Irwin Jacobs
Buzz Woolley, Jr.
Loud & Clear
$1,001-$5,000
Fern Steiner [CTA
lawyer]
Ann Woolley
Inside Voice $101-$500
Dennis Doyle
Camille Gustafson
Omar Passons
Thank you to our
members
admin
04/24/12
YOU are the Voice of
San Diego.
Thank you for your
membership.
There are 190 people
who have asked that
their names not be
public and they
represent $22,273 in
current year donations
to VOSD. All have given
less than $1,000.
Major Donors and
Community Partners
$5,001+
Nicolas Abel
Blair Blum and Jim Sexton
Ann Cottrell
Rod Dammeyer
Danah Fayman
Audrey Geisel
Hervey Family Fund
Jason Hughes, Hughes
Marino
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
La Jolla Playhouse
[Lucille Neeley--
connected to Dennis
Doyle and RNLN]
Mitch Lynn
Michael McConnell, The
Coin Shop
Judith and Neil Morgan
James Robbins, RJC
Architects
Marcie Rothman
Dan Shea, Donovan’s
Steakhouse
Michael Stolper
Takahashi Family Fund
Byron and Jeanette
Webb
Buzz Woolley
Loud & Clear
$1,001-$5,000
Kelly Abbott
Howard Ahmanson
Dede Alpert
Richard and Rita
Atkinson
Steven Baratte
Steve Bjorg
Peggy and Bill Bradshaw
Reid Carr
Cherri Cary
Clifford and Carolyn
Colwell
Dave Cox
Rod Dammeyer
Peter Davis
Maureen Dulbecco
Charles and Valerie Ewell
Michael Eyer
Danah Fayman
Yehudi Gaffen
James and Maxine Hall
Jeffrey Harding
Sheryl Harris
George Hauer
Hendrickson Advised
Fund
Marjory Kaplan
Mel Katz
Ken King
Andy Kopp
Thomas Leighty
Charles Little
Ed and Barbara Malone
John Martin
Howdy Pratt
Jack Raymond
Jane Reldan
Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin
Jarvis Ross
Allison Rossett
Fern Steiner
Michael Stolper
Ann Sutherland
Sandra Timmons
Felix Tinkov
Ann and Philip White
Frances H. White
Les and Marilyn
Williamson
Ann Woolley
Speaking Up
$501-$1,000
James Abbott
Chuck Abdelnour
Giles Bateman
William and Jennifer
Beamer
Lyle Beller
Roger Bly
William S Burgoyne
Conrad and Christa
Burke Fund at The San
Diego Foundation
Malin Burnham
Louisa Campagna
Cheryl Clark
Louis Cohen
Brian and Michelle Cox
Gary Cristofani
Joan Cudhea
Rob Davis
Paul and Linnea Dayton
Gary Debusschere
Gay and Lesbian Fund
for San Diego
Scott Dreher
Marcela Escobar-Eck
Donald Epstein
Charles and Valerie Ewell
Michael Eyer
Pat Finn
Ronne Froman
Robert Hyman
Linda Jennings
Marjory Kaplan
Julia Kelety
Clark Kholos
Marnie and Lewis Klein
Jim Klinge
Chuck and Teri Lang
Patrick and Valerie Lewis
Luis Maizel
John Martin
Jere McInerney
Sherilyn Mongeau
Bob Nelson
Alfred E. O’Brien
Bradford Perry
Meri Jo and Ed Petrivelli
Bernie Rhinerson
David Rogers
Donald Root
Patti Roscoe
Steve and Jacqueline
Silverman
Jeffrey Schneider
Robert Schroeder
Charles Red Scott
Glen Sparrow
Deanna and Richard
Spehn
Gail Stoorza-Gill and
Ian Gill
Linda Sturak
Jon Sundt
Gary and Nancy Sutton
Aaron Thode
Kemer Thomson
Michael and Jennifer
Tillman
Richard Vandervoort
Richard Vandervoort
Kathryn and James Waer
Anthony Wagner
Marjorie Jane Wilson
members
admin
04/24/12
YOU are the Voice of
San Diego.
Thank you for your
membership.
There are 190 people
who have asked that
their names not be
public and they
represent $22,273 in
current year donations
to VOSD. All have given
less than $1,000.
Major Donors and
Community Partners
$5,001+
Nicolas Abel
Blair Blum and Jim Sexton
Ann Cottrell
Rod Dammeyer
Danah Fayman
Audrey Geisel
Hervey Family Fund
Jason Hughes, Hughes
Marino
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
La Jolla Playhouse
[Lucille Neeley--
connected to Dennis
Doyle and RNLN]
Mitch Lynn
Michael McConnell, The
Coin Shop
Judith and Neil Morgan
James Robbins, RJC
Architects
Marcie Rothman
Dan Shea, Donovan’s
Steakhouse
Michael Stolper
Takahashi Family Fund
Byron and Jeanette
Webb
Buzz Woolley
Loud & Clear
$1,001-$5,000
Kelly Abbott
Howard Ahmanson
Dede Alpert
Richard and Rita
Atkinson
Steven Baratte
Steve Bjorg
Peggy and Bill Bradshaw
Reid Carr
Cherri Cary
Clifford and Carolyn
Colwell
Dave Cox
Rod Dammeyer
Peter Davis
Maureen Dulbecco
Charles and Valerie Ewell
Michael Eyer
Danah Fayman
Yehudi Gaffen
James and Maxine Hall
Jeffrey Harding
Sheryl Harris
George Hauer
Hendrickson Advised
Fund
Marjory Kaplan
Mel Katz
Ken King
Andy Kopp
Thomas Leighty
Charles Little
Ed and Barbara Malone
John Martin
Howdy Pratt
Jack Raymond
Jane Reldan
Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin
Jarvis Ross
Allison Rossett
Fern Steiner
Michael Stolper
Ann Sutherland
Sandra Timmons
Felix Tinkov
Ann and Philip White
Frances H. White
Les and Marilyn
Williamson
Ann Woolley
Speaking Up
$501-$1,000
James Abbott
Chuck Abdelnour
Giles Bateman
William and Jennifer
Beamer
Lyle Beller
Roger Bly
William S Burgoyne
Conrad and Christa
Burke Fund at The San
Diego Foundation
Malin Burnham
Louisa Campagna
Cheryl Clark
Louis Cohen
Brian and Michelle Cox
Gary Cristofani
Joan Cudhea
Rob Davis
Paul and Linnea Dayton
Gary Debusschere
Gay and Lesbian Fund
for San Diego
Scott Dreher
Marcela Escobar-Eck
Donald Epstein
Charles and Valerie Ewell
Michael Eyer
Pat Finn
Ronne Froman
Robert Hyman
Linda Jennings
Marjory Kaplan
Julia Kelety
Clark Kholos
Marnie and Lewis Klein
Jim Klinge
Chuck and Teri Lang
Patrick and Valerie Lewis
Luis Maizel
John Martin
Jere McInerney
Sherilyn Mongeau
Bob Nelson
Alfred E. O’Brien
Bradford Perry
Meri Jo and Ed Petrivelli
Bernie Rhinerson
David Rogers
Donald Root
Patti Roscoe
Steve and Jacqueline
Silverman
Jeffrey Schneider
Robert Schroeder
Charles Red Scott
Glen Sparrow
Deanna and Richard
Spehn
Gail Stoorza-Gill and
Ian Gill
Linda Sturak
Jon Sundt
Gary and Nancy Sutton
Aaron Thode
Kemer Thomson
Michael and Jennifer
Tillman
Richard Vandervoort
Richard Vandervoort
Kathryn and James Waer
Anthony Wagner
Marjorie Jane Wilson
4/24/2012
Inside Voice $101-$500
Theresa Acerro
Nancy Acevedo
Brian Adams
Michele Addington
Ann Alpert
Doris Alvarez
Ralph Anderson
William Anderson
Ester Araujo
Sharon Arbelaez
Karen Arden
Marilyn Arkinzadeh
Trudy Armstrong
Nancy Corbin Assaf
Joe Austin
Elizabeth Avalon
Paola Avila
Susan Baer
Jonathan Bailey
Tamra Bailey
William Ballard
Keely Bamberg
Bruce Bastien
Murtaza Baxamusa
Audrey Becerra
Mary Beebe
Karen Begin
Anthony Belef
Joel Bengston
Roy Benstead
Whitney Benzian
Mary Linn Bergstrom
Grace Bernal
Vanessa Bernal
Eric Bernhard
Joan Bernstein
Brad Beyenhof
James Biddle
Carla Blackmar
Janet Black-Yznaga
Martha Blake
Todd Blakesley
Donn Bleau
Richard Blick
Joan Bockman
Lenore Boling
Kim Bond
Livia Borak
Jan Bourgeois
J P Boyce
Laurie Brindle
Corrine Brindley
Jo Brooks
Rick Brooks
Amie Brown
Jeanne Brown
Larry Brown
Barbara Bry
Karen Bucey
Alice Buck
Gene Burkard
Eric Busboom
Brian Byrne
Gil Cabrera
Mark Cafferty
Rocky Campbell
Linda Canada
Denise Carabet
Todd Cardiff
Andrew Carey
Brent Carey
Harry Carter
Janed Casady
Lori-anne Cash
Paisley Cato
Mike Cavanaugh
Erin Chambers
Hank Chambers
Joshua Chanin
Patricia Chavez
John Cheney
Dave Cieslak
Ann Clark
Ben Clay
Nicole Clay
Paul Cleary
Guy Clum
Mike Conger
Aaron Contorer
Bink Cook
Stanley Paul Cook
Roger Cornell
Sharon Corrigan
Sally Costello
David Cottingham
Janet Coulon
Jorge Covarrubias
Peter Cowhey
Tyler Cramer
Virginia Crockett
Mike Croghan
Kent and Peggy Cross
Dan Cruz
Gene Cubbison
Ron and Vicki Currie
Barbara Daly
Barbara Davenport
Samuel David
Darlene Davies
Donald Davis
Jane Davis
Peter Dean
Katherine DeGenaro
Mary Delgado
Peter Dennehy
Wayne Dernetz
Neil Derrough
Doug Diamond
Grover Diemert
Sandra Dijkstra
Julie Dillon
Jeri Dilno
Andy Donohue
Daniel Dotson
Maren Dougherty
Dennis Doyle
Jeff Dunigan
John Dutch
Cheryl Dye
Steffan Dye
Bud Eaton
Diane Edge
Jamie Edmonds
John Eger
Jane Eguez
Marlee Ehrenfeld
Jeanne Eigner
Mary Eikel
Walter Ekard
Sue Elam
Gina Ellis
Peter Ellsworth
Suzanne Emery
Pamela Engebretson
Art Engel
Mark and Janet Evans
Roy Evans
Michael Evans-Layng
Gayle Falkenthal
Matt Fallon
Cindi Fargo
Anne Farrell
Corey Fayman
Dina Feldman-Scarr
Jack Ferguson
Kathleen Ferrier
Catt Fields White
Colleen Finnegan
Matthew Finnegan
Cissy Fisher
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Jerry Fitzsimmons
Chuck Flacks
Mindy Fletcher
Nathan Fletcher
Joe Flynn
Gail Folkman
Kenneth Fortier
Terry Foster
Patti Fox
Michael Fraunces
Sara Fraunces
Jean and Otis Froning
Tom Fudge
Tom Gable
Joni Gabriel
Marjorie Garcia
Patricia Garcia
Maruta Gardner
Bryon Garner
Peter Garofalo
David Gatzke
Henry Gaudet
Mike Gault
John Geary
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Investigating the
investigator
By Matt Potter
San Diego Reader
Nov. 11, 2009
Anyone who wants to know
how the well-connected
world of San Diego’s power
brokers works need look no
further than Mary
Lindenstein Walshok,
associate vice chancellor for
public programs and dean of
Extension at UCSD. She’s in
charge of the university’s
public television station,
UCSD-TV, and runs UCSD’s
“outreach activities.” In
addition to her duties at the
university, Walshok has
found time to sit on the
boards of a host of
influential local
nonprofits, including the
San Diego Public Library
Foundation, which is
lobbying for a new taxpayer-
funded downtown library,
and Buzz Woolley’s
Girard Foundation,
which backs the charter
school movement and other
privatization causes and paid
Walshok $5000 last year for
her services. It was recently
revealed that Walshok is
also on the board of the new
“Watchdog Institute,” the
nonprofit group formed by
ex–Union-Tribune editor
Lorie Hearn, based at San
Diego State University and
commissioned to do
investigative reporting for
the U-T. So maybe Walshok
can be forgiven some
downtime in the form of an
August 16 ticket to San
Diego Symphony’s Summer
Pops, worth $154.70
including food and
beverages, courtesy of
Sempra Energy, according
to the company’s recent
lobbying disclosure report.
investigator
By Matt Potter
San Diego Reader
Nov. 11, 2009
Anyone who wants to know
how the well-connected
world of San Diego’s power
brokers works need look no
further than Mary
Lindenstein Walshok,
associate vice chancellor for
public programs and dean of
Extension at UCSD. She’s in
charge of the university’s
public television station,
UCSD-TV, and runs UCSD’s
“outreach activities.” In
addition to her duties at the
university, Walshok has
found time to sit on the
boards of a host of
influential local
nonprofits, including the
San Diego Public Library
Foundation, which is
lobbying for a new taxpayer-
funded downtown library,
and Buzz Woolley’s
Girard Foundation,
which backs the charter
school movement and other
privatization causes and paid
Walshok $5000 last year for
her services. It was recently
revealed that Walshok is
also on the board of the new
“Watchdog Institute,” the
nonprofit group formed by
ex–Union-Tribune editor
Lorie Hearn, based at San
Diego State University and
commissioned to do
investigative reporting for
the U-T. So maybe Walshok
can be forgiven some
downtime in the form of an
August 16 ticket to San
Diego Symphony’s Summer
Pops, worth $154.70
including food and
beverages, courtesy of
Sempra Energy, according
to the company’s recent
lobbying disclosure report.
Voice of San Diego chief
Scott Lewis has taken heat
for firing two journalists
from the nonprofit online
publication.
Image by Alan Decker
The Business of Nonprofit News
By Elizabeth Salaam
The Reader
April 4, 2012
Don’t ask Scott Lewis about the layoffs at Voice of San Diego. It’s not something the chief
executive cares to discuss. Back in early December, the nonprofit news organization let go
reporters Emily Alpert and Adrian Florido and photographer Sam Hodgson. The decision
was not popular.
A December 14 editorial in CityBeat read, “CityBeat writer Dave Maass put it this way:
‘Voice of San Diego essentially cut its heart out. Adrian, Emily and Sam were Voice’s
strongest journalists in terms of compassion, understanding and character.’”
In comments on the Voice website, some readers called the decision “shocking” and
“appalling,” saying it “weakens” the news outlet. Others rebuked the organization for not
appealing to members and donors before the decision was made.
“Who wants to contribute $$ to some vague, fuzzy ‘goal’ when they have no idea where
the $$ is going?” wrote one commenter. “It’s just psychologically easier to pony up the $$
for a person or specific cause rather than yet another general fundraiser.”
In early March, three months after the fact, it’s still a delicate issue.
“It was an incredibly difficult decision,” Lewis says now for the third time in ten minutes.
“We grew and then had to settle into a smaller budget. It sucks. I’m a little sensitive about
why we have to keep talking about it.”
We’re in his glass-walled office in Point Loma. Lewis has moved his chair out from behind
the desk. He leans back in it with his legs crossed.
He won’t tell me how the organization decided on the particulars of the layoffs, only that
they came as a result of end-of-year budget talks in which Voice decreased its $1.2 million
budget by $200,000. He does, however, say that in addition to letting go three employees
(along with an unnamed development director), Voice also cut travel and employee
education budgets.
“We specifically chose to protect employee pay and benefits, though,” he says.
Lewis doesn’t hesitate to confirm his already public $85,000 salary, but he will not
comment on any other salaries.
In some fundraising campaigns, the Voice of San Diego has allowed donors to choose
what their donation funds: arts, education, technology, and so on. When I ask if appealing
to donors was ever on the table as a way to avoid the layoffs, even with a decreased
budget, Lewis says no.
“I’m not going to ever hold a gun to someone’s head and say, ‘You’ve got to give us
money or we’re going to have to let some people go,’” he says.
On the Voice of San Diego website, the nonprofit explains that it is “run like a business.
We must keep a strict eye on expenses, be innovative and work hard to raise money from
a variety of sources.…”
In the current model, Lewis informs me, foundations/grants and major donors account for
approximately 35 and 30 percent of the budget, respectively. The remaining 35 percent is
split among members, media partners, and corporate sponsors. In the near future,
however, the organization would like to shift those numbers around.
“I’ll be frank,” Lewis says, “we’ve survived and thrived based on spontaneous acts of
heroism in the past, and now we’re turning that into a more professional business model of
prosperity and actual metrics and goals.”
He leans forward and relaxes visibly as the conversation moves on from the layoffs to the
future of the organization. Though he’s still tight-lipped about details, he tells me that the
future they’re trying to build “isn’t about readership, it’s about membership.”
Last fall, Voice hired Mary Walter-Brown, former producer at NBC San Diego, as vice
president and then later added “of advancement and engagement” to her title.
Her job, Lewis says, is “professionalizing and formalizing our strategies for each one of
those [revenue streams].”
Currently, the Voice of San Diego has 11,000 active contacts, of which 7016 receive their
morning report each day. Others receive the arts report and/or the best of the week
report. As of today, they have 1716 members, or donors, who give under $5000, and
Lewis says they’re looking to increase that number “exponentially.”
“The average donation we get is $100. So, if we’re able to build eventually to 10,000
members, that’s $1 million,” he says. “We have a $1 million budget, and KPBS raises
through the same sort of formula about $25 million a year, so we think it shouldn’t be that
difficult for an organization like ours to build up to a $2 million or $3 million budget.”
Lewis estimates that Voice of San Diego spends 5 or 6 percent of its budget on its
website, a number much lower than other nonprofit news organizations. And one of the
challenges he faces is that no standard has been set for what these numbers should be.
“If you run a hotel, you can open up a book, and it’ll say what hotels all across the country
spent on linens, right? And it’ll give you a number per room how much that should cost.
But there’s nothing like that for nonprofit news,” he says.
As much as Lewis would like to stop talking about the layoffs, they were only the beginning
of a transition that, three months later, the organization has still not completed.
“There are conversations going today, tomorrow, about branding efforts and about exact
targets we’re going to set and what kind of projections we can realistically hit now that we’
re formalizing,” he says.
The Voice of San Diego will communicate “a whole new message” about its future plans
and strategies sometime this spring, Lewis says. Though he feels optimistic about the
organization’s future, he also admits, “It’s scary. It’s hard to build something new, and
especially when everybody’s criticizing.”
He takes solace in the fact that his former employees have fared well in the wake
of the layoffs. Emily Alpert and Adrian Florido landed jobs at the LA Times and
KPBS, respectively. And, in the last two months, Sam Hodgson has shot for
Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times as a freelance
photographer. Hodgson also continues to freelance for Voice of San Diego.
Scott Lewis has taken heat
for firing two journalists
from the nonprofit online
publication.
Image by Alan Decker
The Business of Nonprofit News
By Elizabeth Salaam
The Reader
April 4, 2012
Don’t ask Scott Lewis about the layoffs at Voice of San Diego. It’s not something the chief
executive cares to discuss. Back in early December, the nonprofit news organization let go
reporters Emily Alpert and Adrian Florido and photographer Sam Hodgson. The decision
was not popular.
A December 14 editorial in CityBeat read, “CityBeat writer Dave Maass put it this way:
‘Voice of San Diego essentially cut its heart out. Adrian, Emily and Sam were Voice’s
strongest journalists in terms of compassion, understanding and character.’”
In comments on the Voice website, some readers called the decision “shocking” and
“appalling,” saying it “weakens” the news outlet. Others rebuked the organization for not
appealing to members and donors before the decision was made.
“Who wants to contribute $$ to some vague, fuzzy ‘goal’ when they have no idea where
the $$ is going?” wrote one commenter. “It’s just psychologically easier to pony up the $$
for a person or specific cause rather than yet another general fundraiser.”
In early March, three months after the fact, it’s still a delicate issue.
“It was an incredibly difficult decision,” Lewis says now for the third time in ten minutes.
“We grew and then had to settle into a smaller budget. It sucks. I’m a little sensitive about
why we have to keep talking about it.”
We’re in his glass-walled office in Point Loma. Lewis has moved his chair out from behind
the desk. He leans back in it with his legs crossed.
He won’t tell me how the organization decided on the particulars of the layoffs, only that
they came as a result of end-of-year budget talks in which Voice decreased its $1.2 million
budget by $200,000. He does, however, say that in addition to letting go three employees
(along with an unnamed development director), Voice also cut travel and employee
education budgets.
“We specifically chose to protect employee pay and benefits, though,” he says.
Lewis doesn’t hesitate to confirm his already public $85,000 salary, but he will not
comment on any other salaries.
In some fundraising campaigns, the Voice of San Diego has allowed donors to choose
what their donation funds: arts, education, technology, and so on. When I ask if appealing
to donors was ever on the table as a way to avoid the layoffs, even with a decreased
budget, Lewis says no.
“I’m not going to ever hold a gun to someone’s head and say, ‘You’ve got to give us
money or we’re going to have to let some people go,’” he says.
On the Voice of San Diego website, the nonprofit explains that it is “run like a business.
We must keep a strict eye on expenses, be innovative and work hard to raise money from
a variety of sources.…”
In the current model, Lewis informs me, foundations/grants and major donors account for
approximately 35 and 30 percent of the budget, respectively. The remaining 35 percent is
split among members, media partners, and corporate sponsors. In the near future,
however, the organization would like to shift those numbers around.
“I’ll be frank,” Lewis says, “we’ve survived and thrived based on spontaneous acts of
heroism in the past, and now we’re turning that into a more professional business model of
prosperity and actual metrics and goals.”
He leans forward and relaxes visibly as the conversation moves on from the layoffs to the
future of the organization. Though he’s still tight-lipped about details, he tells me that the
future they’re trying to build “isn’t about readership, it’s about membership.”
Last fall, Voice hired Mary Walter-Brown, former producer at NBC San Diego, as vice
president and then later added “of advancement and engagement” to her title.
Her job, Lewis says, is “professionalizing and formalizing our strategies for each one of
those [revenue streams].”
Currently, the Voice of San Diego has 11,000 active contacts, of which 7016 receive their
morning report each day. Others receive the arts report and/or the best of the week
report. As of today, they have 1716 members, or donors, who give under $5000, and
Lewis says they’re looking to increase that number “exponentially.”
“The average donation we get is $100. So, if we’re able to build eventually to 10,000
members, that’s $1 million,” he says. “We have a $1 million budget, and KPBS raises
through the same sort of formula about $25 million a year, so we think it shouldn’t be that
difficult for an organization like ours to build up to a $2 million or $3 million budget.”
Lewis estimates that Voice of San Diego spends 5 or 6 percent of its budget on its
website, a number much lower than other nonprofit news organizations. And one of the
challenges he faces is that no standard has been set for what these numbers should be.
“If you run a hotel, you can open up a book, and it’ll say what hotels all across the country
spent on linens, right? And it’ll give you a number per room how much that should cost.
But there’s nothing like that for nonprofit news,” he says.
As much as Lewis would like to stop talking about the layoffs, they were only the beginning
of a transition that, three months later, the organization has still not completed.
“There are conversations going today, tomorrow, about branding efforts and about exact
targets we’re going to set and what kind of projections we can realistically hit now that we’
re formalizing,” he says.
The Voice of San Diego will communicate “a whole new message” about its future plans
and strategies sometime this spring, Lewis says. Though he feels optimistic about the
organization’s future, he also admits, “It’s scary. It’s hard to build something new, and
especially when everybody’s criticizing.”
He takes solace in the fact that his former employees have fared well in the wake
of the layoffs. Emily Alpert and Adrian Florido landed jobs at the LA Times and
KPBS, respectively. And, in the last two months, Sam Hodgson has shot for
Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times as a freelance
photographer. Hodgson also continues to freelance for Voice of San Diego.
Voice of San Diego CEO fired Emily Alpert, the reporter who started
the aborted investigation into SDCOE. See story below. Photo of
Scott Lewis taken by Alan Decker.
the aborted investigation into SDCOE. See story below. Photo of
Scott Lewis taken by Alan Decker.
| .UPDATE April 2014 |
Now that so many public school officials who were represented by
SDCOE's favorite lawyer, Dan Shinoff, have been indicted for
corruption, isn't it time for Scott Lewis to rethink his protective attitude
toward San Diego County Office of Education and Dan Shinoff?
SDCOE's favorite lawyer, Dan Shinoff, have been indicted for
corruption, isn't it time for Scott Lewis to rethink his protective attitude
toward San Diego County Office of Education and Dan Shinoff?
VOSD CEO Scott Lewis
Voice of San Diego is
funded by the
following
foundations:
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John S. & James L. Knight
Foundation
Open Society Institute
Ethics and Excellence in
Journalism Foundation
Girard Foundation (Buzz
Woolley)
Price Family Charitable Fund
The Parker Foundation
The Legler Benbough
Foundation
Our Top 20
Donors
Buzz Woolley -$100,00
Woolley Fund at San Diego
Foundation -$100,000
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
Jewish Community Fund -
$150,000
Mitch Lynn
Price Family Charitable Fund
- $25,000
Marcie Rothman - $20,000
The Hervey Family
Non-Endowment Fund at San
Diego Foundation - $20,000
Danah H. Fayman - $15,000
Judith Morgan - $15,000
Michael Stolper
Greater Kansas City
Community/Kauffman
Foundations- $15,000
Michael McConnell - $10,000
Audrey Geisel
Dr. Seuss Fund at the San
Diego Foundation- $10,000
Byron Webb - $10,000
Blair Blum & Jim Sexton
Greater Cincinnati
Foundation - $10,000
Steve Bjorg - $10,000
Nicolas Abel - $7,500
Jack Hendrickson
Hendrickson Charitable Fund
at San Diego Foundation -
$5,000
Mel Katz - $5,000
Frances Hamilton White -
$5,000
Darlene Shiley - $5,000
Sam Takahashi
Takahashi Family Fund at
San Diego Foundation -
$5,000
Ed & Barbara Malone -
$5,000
Our Community
Partners
UpforED
American Medical Response
UC San Diego Extension
Hughes Marino
SDG&E
California Western
School of Law
La Jolla Playhouse
funded by the
following
foundations:
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April 24, 2014
John S. & James L. Knight
Foundation
Open Society Institute
Ethics and Excellence in
Journalism Foundation
Girard Foundation (Buzz
Woolley)
Price Family Charitable Fund
The Parker Foundation
The Legler Benbough
Foundation
Our Top 20
Donors
Buzz Woolley -$100,00
Woolley Fund at San Diego
Foundation -$100,000
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
Jewish Community Fund -
$150,000
Mitch Lynn
Price Family Charitable Fund
- $25,000
Marcie Rothman - $20,000
The Hervey Family
Non-Endowment Fund at San
Diego Foundation - $20,000
Danah H. Fayman - $15,000
Judith Morgan - $15,000
Michael Stolper
Greater Kansas City
Community/Kauffman
Foundations- $15,000
Michael McConnell - $10,000
Audrey Geisel
Dr. Seuss Fund at the San
Diego Foundation- $10,000
Byron Webb - $10,000
Blair Blum & Jim Sexton
Greater Cincinnati
Foundation - $10,000
Steve Bjorg - $10,000
Nicolas Abel - $7,500
Jack Hendrickson
Hendrickson Charitable Fund
at San Diego Foundation -
$5,000
Mel Katz - $5,000
Frances Hamilton White -
$5,000
Darlene Shiley - $5,000
Sam Takahashi
Takahashi Family Fund at
San Diego Foundation -
$5,000
Ed & Barbara Malone -
$5,000
Our Community
Partners
UpforED
American Medical Response
UC San Diego Extension
Hughes Marino
SDG&E
California Western
School of Law
La Jolla Playhouse
Wealthy San Diegans Back
Charter School Politics
By Matt Potter
San Diego Reader
August 19, 2011
Things don't seem to be going so well
for the future of charter schools in
California, what with news today,
reported by the Sacramento Bee,
that the federal government has
pulled $11.5 million of funding to
set up new California charter
schools and could take away more.
According to the Bee, the U.S. Department of Education warned state education
officials for months that they were not in compliance with requirements of the
Charter Schools Program, providing funding for two- and three-year grants for new
charter schools, because they didn’t pay enough attention to keeping track of
student achievement.
The Bee quoted Jed Wallace, president of the California Charter Schools
Association, as disputing the federal agency's findings: "In California we have a
robust accountability system and are working to make it stronger. I don't think it is
a reason to deny any portion of this grant."
In the meanwhile, a few wealthy San Diegans have been anteing up big
money for future political efforts in the state capital on behalf of charter
schools.
They are channeling their contributions through the Alliance of California
Charter Schools, which state records show has set up both a political
action committee and a separate independent expenditure committee.
According to state records, the PAC raised $52,625.28 during the first six months
of this year. Local contributors included $6,500 each from
Point Loma resident and cross-border real estate mogul Malin Burnham;
La Jolla investor, philanthropist, and
Voice of San Diego founder Buzz Woolley;
and
CAC Advisory Services,
run by Woolley ally and
fellow charter schools
advocate Rod Dammeyer.
CAC and Dammeyer were
major financial backers of
San Diegans 4 Great Schools,
a political committee which also
received significant funding from Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs.
That effort, opposed by the teachers union, foundered last month when the group
was not able to collect sufficient signatures to qualify its controversial ballot
measure to expand the school board, in part with appointed members.
In addition to his April 8 PAC contribution, on June 24 Woolley gave $25,000 to
the charter school alliance’s independent expenditure committee. On the
same day, CAC Advisory Services gave the committee $150,000.
The biggest donor of all was Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, who
contributed $493,500.
In all, the independent expenditure committee raised a total of $1,287,000.
Charter School Politics
By Matt Potter
San Diego Reader
August 19, 2011
Things don't seem to be going so well
for the future of charter schools in
California, what with news today,
reported by the Sacramento Bee,
that the federal government has
pulled $11.5 million of funding to
set up new California charter
schools and could take away more.
According to the Bee, the U.S. Department of Education warned state education
officials for months that they were not in compliance with requirements of the
Charter Schools Program, providing funding for two- and three-year grants for new
charter schools, because they didn’t pay enough attention to keeping track of
student achievement.
The Bee quoted Jed Wallace, president of the California Charter Schools
Association, as disputing the federal agency's findings: "In California we have a
robust accountability system and are working to make it stronger. I don't think it is
a reason to deny any portion of this grant."
In the meanwhile, a few wealthy San Diegans have been anteing up big
money for future political efforts in the state capital on behalf of charter
schools.
They are channeling their contributions through the Alliance of California
Charter Schools, which state records show has set up both a political
action committee and a separate independent expenditure committee.
According to state records, the PAC raised $52,625.28 during the first six months
of this year. Local contributors included $6,500 each from
Point Loma resident and cross-border real estate mogul Malin Burnham;
La Jolla investor, philanthropist, and
Voice of San Diego founder Buzz Woolley;
and
CAC Advisory Services,
run by Woolley ally and
fellow charter schools
advocate Rod Dammeyer.
CAC and Dammeyer were
major financial backers of
San Diegans 4 Great Schools,
a political committee which also
received significant funding from Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs.
That effort, opposed by the teachers union, foundered last month when the group
was not able to collect sufficient signatures to qualify its controversial ballot
measure to expand the school board, in part with appointed members.
In addition to his April 8 PAC contribution, on June 24 Woolley gave $25,000 to
the charter school alliance’s independent expenditure committee. On the
same day, CAC Advisory Services gave the committee $150,000.
The biggest donor of all was Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, who
contributed $493,500.
In all, the independent expenditure committee raised a total of $1,287,000.
La Jolla investor, philanthropist,
and Voice of San Diego
founder Buzz Woolley
and Voice of San Diego
founder Buzz Woolley
Rod Dammeyer
| VOSD's major donor trio (see story below) See also SD4GS |
Buzz Woolley
Irwin Jacobs
Rod Dammeyer
Irwin Jacobs
| News, information and ideas about our education system by Maura Larkins |
Voice of San Diego Board of
Directors
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Blair Blum Blair is VOSD’s
newest board member. Blair
also serves on the boards of
the National Conflict
Resolution Center and the
Point Loma Garden Club.
From 2005-2011 Blair served
as senior vice president,
external relations, at Sanford
Burnham Medical Research
Institute; she is currently a
fundraising consultant.
Reid Carr Reid Carr is the
President & CEO of Red
Door Interactive. Named a
Top Small Company
Workplace by Inc Magazine,
Red Door works with clients
such as Petco, Cricket
Wireless and Rubio’s. In
2011, iMedia Connection
named Reid one of the 25
Hottest Digital Marketers. His
civic involvement includes
membership in Rotary
International’s Club 33 and
the Young Presidents
Organization. He is a 2010
graduate of INFLUENCE San
Diego.
Eugene “Mitch” Mitchell Mitch
Mitchell is vice president of
state government affairs for
San Diego Gas &
Electric (SDG&E) and
Southern California
Gas Co. (SoCalGas),
Sempra Energy’s California
regulated utilities. Based in
Sacramento, Mitchell is
responsible for state
governmental affairs for both
California utilities.
Image - Bob Page Bob
Page Bob owns a media
management company which
is actively engaged in
newspaper and magazine
consulting. Prior to forming
his own company, he owned
three community newspapers
in suburban San Diego. He is
a former publisher of the
Chicago Sun-Times and the
Boston Herald. In 20 years
with United Press
International, he rose through
the ranks to become
executive vice president and
general manager.
Gail Stoorza-Gill Gail
Stoorza-Gill Gail is chairman
and CEO of The Right
Question LLC, a marketing
and consulting firm
specializing in solving
marketing problems through
qualitative research.
Buzz Woolley,
Chairman
Buzz Woolley is a retired
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is President
of Girard Foundation which
has provided funding for K-
12 education projects in San
Diego County since 1986.
Staff Directory
CEO
Scott Lewis, CEO
Email: scott.
lewis@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0527 (office)
or 619.701.6664 (cell)
Scott oversees Voice of San
Diego’s operations, its
website and daily functions.
He also writes about local
politics, where he frequently
breaks news and goes back
and forth with local political
figures.
Vice President
Mary Walter-Brown, Vice
President
Email:
mary@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5667 (office)
or 619.208.7510 (cell)
Mary oversees VOSD’s
marketing and fund
development focusing on
raising awareness and
building a sustainable
membership.
Emily Tillson
Emily Tillson, Director of
Corporate Development
Email: emily.
tillson@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5664 (office)
or 513.257.9725 (cell)
Emily is responsible for
generating revenue by
building relationships and
securing partnerships with
corporate sponsors,
underwriters and major
donors. Emily brings 20
years’ experience in
customer service, sales and
management. She is an
established team player with
the ability to develop and
cultivate long-term, mutually
beneficial relationships.
Managing Editor
Sara Libby, Managing Editor
Email: sara.
libby@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0526
Sara is VOSD’s managing
editor. She oversees VOSD’s
newsroom and its content.
Have a question about Voice
of San Diego or one of its
stories? Give her a call.
Engagement Editor
Catherine Green, Deputy
Editor
Email: catherine.
green@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5668
Catherine is VOSD’s deputy
editor. She handles daily
operations, while helping to
plan new long-term projects
for the news organization as
a whole.
Senior Reporter
Liam Dillon, Senior Reporter
and Assistant Editor
Email: liam.
dillon@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5663
Liam leads Voice of San
Diego’s investigations. He
writes about the ways regular
people interact with local
government.
Staff Writer
Ari Bloomekatz, Staff Writer
Email: ari.
bloomekatz@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5669
Ari is an investigative
reporter focusing on county
government.
Speak City Heights
Megan Burks, Speak City
Heights
Email: meburks@kpbs.org
Phone: 619.550.5665
Megan is a reporter and
editor for Speak City Heights,
a media collaborative of
VOSD, KPBS, Media Arts
Center and The AjA Project
focused on community health
and quality of life issues in
the City Heights
neighborhood of San Diego.
Staff Writer
Lisa Halverstadt, Staff Writer
Email: lisa.
halverstadt@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0528
Lisa breaks down bold
statements and complex
processes as our Daily Facts
reporter. Hear something that
seems off or more confusing
than it needs to be? Give her
a call.
Facebook
Twitter
Recent Work
Staff Writer
Andrew Keatts, Staff Writer
Email: andrew.
keatts@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0529
Andrew sees land use
coverage as a way to make
sense of the complex land-
use decisions governments
make while explaining how
those decisions affect the
daily lives of San Diegans.
Twitter
Recent Work
Staff Writer
Mario Koran, Staff Writer
Email: mario@vosd.org
Phone: 619.325.0531
Mario reports on hospitals,
nonprofits and educational
institutions, digging into their
impact on the greater San
Diego community.
Twitter
Recent Work
Paula Moore, Membership
Paula Moore, Membership
and Events Manager
Email: paula.
moore@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0525
Paula manages the member
community and oversees
planning our regular events.
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Members
Loud and Clear - $1,000 and
up
Chuck Abdelnour
Nicolas Abel
Howard Ahmanson
Dede Alpert
Steven Baratte
Giles Bateman
Steve Bjorg
Blair Blum
Peggy and Bill Bradshaw
Christa Burke
Malin Burnham
Susan Cagni
Reid Carr
Brandon Chavez
Louis Cohen
Clifford and Carolyn Colwell
Dave Cox
Stephen Cushman
Rod Dammeyer
Ann Davies
Gary Debusschere
Scott Dreher
Maureen Dulbecco
Charles and Valerie Ewell
Danah Fayman
Pat Finn
Yehudi Gaffen
Bill and Amy Geppert
Diane Gilabert
James Hall
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Sheryl Harris
George Hauer
Joel Holliday
Irwin Jacobs
Mel Katz
Bob Kelly
Ken King
Andy Kopp
Valerie Lewis
Pat Lewis
Charles Little
Bill Lynch
Mitch Lynn
Ed and Barbara Malone
Chistopher and Malinda
Marsh
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Michael Stolper
Gail Stoorza-Gill
Ann Sutherland
Takahashi Family
Sandra Timmons
Felix Tinkov
Felix Tinkov
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Buzz Woolley, Jr.
Speaking Up - $501 - $1,000
Kelly Abbott
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John Anderson
Elizabeth Avalon
Monica Ball
William and Jennifer Beamer
Pierre Beauregard
Howard Blackson
Betsy Blakely
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Mark Cafferty
Harry Carter
Cheryl Clark
Nicole Clay
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Mary Eikel
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Ronne Froman
Bill Fulton
Michelle Ganon
Pat Getzel
Laura Gunn
Ruth Hayward
Ken Hinckley
Linda Jennings
Julia Kelety
Clark Kholos
Lew Klein
Peter La Dow
Michael Lewis
Kurt Mars
Jere McInerney
Daniel McKean
Robert Page
Betty Peach-Tschirgi
Bradford Perry
Meri Jo and Ed Petrivelli
Mark Ratner
Bernie Rhinerson
Carol Roberts
Patti Roscoe
William Sheffler
Alan Sorkin
Glen Sparrow
Deanna Spehn
Alison St. John Inglis
Linda Sturak
Tom Sudberry
Gary and Nancy Sutton
Aaron Thode
Mary Valerio
Richard and Bobbie
Vandervoort
Dick Vortmann
Kathryn Waer
David Walker
Terry Williams
Peter Zahn
Rachel Zahn
Inside Voice - $101 - $500
Theresa Acerro
Nancy Acevedo
Brian Adams
Ann Alpert
Brandon Altman
Doris Alvarez
William Anderson
Cathy Anderson
Christian Andreu-von Euw
Thomas J Applegate
Sharon Arbelaez
Karen Arden
Marilyn Arkinzadeh
Peter Armstrong
Nancy Corbin Assaf
Jacquelyn Atkinson
Jonathan Bailey
Robert and Isabel Baker
William Ballard
Jim Baross
John Barrett
Bruce Bastien
Madeleine Baudoin
Murtaza Baxamusa
Susan Baxter
Sharon Bay
John Beatty
Audrey Becerra
Nancy Beddingfield
Mary Beebe
Karen Begin
Lyle Beller
Charlou Benedict
Joel Bengston
Roy Benstead
Whitney Benzian
Mary Linn Bergstrom
Vanessa Bernal
Eric Bernhard
Joan Bernstein
Brad Beyenhof
James Beyster
James Biddle
Melany Biendara
Carla Blackmar
Janet Black-Yznaga
Martha Blake
Todd Blakesley
Donn Bleau
Richard Blick
David Bloome
Gordon Boerner
Lenore Boling
Tom and April Boling
Kim Bond
Joann Boone
Livia Borak
Jan Bourgeois
Paul M Bowers
Helen Boyden
Pamela Boynton
Nikki Bradford
Jeff Brazel
Rancy Breece
Chris Brewster
Richard Brick
Corrine Brindley
Julie Bronstein
Jo Brooks
Rick Brooks
David Brooks
Janice Brown
Jeanne Brown
Sandra Brue
Terrance Bruggeman
Tony & Camille Bruno
Virginia Brust
Erik Bruvold
Karen Bucey
Alice Buck
Malcolm Bund
Eric Burch
Cathe Burnham
Eric Busboom
Eric Busboom
Kevin Bussett
Marie Bustos
Kristine Byers
Gil Cabrera
Diane Calkins
Deborah Callahan
Heidi Callahan
David Callahan
Louisa Campagna
Linda Canada
Todd Cardiff
Ric Carson
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Blair Blum Blair is VOSD’s
newest board member. Blair
also serves on the boards of
the National Conflict
Resolution Center and the
Point Loma Garden Club.
From 2005-2011 Blair served
as senior vice president,
external relations, at Sanford
Burnham Medical Research
Institute; she is currently a
fundraising consultant.
Reid Carr Reid Carr is the
President & CEO of Red
Door Interactive. Named a
Top Small Company
Workplace by Inc Magazine,
Red Door works with clients
such as Petco, Cricket
Wireless and Rubio’s. In
2011, iMedia Connection
named Reid one of the 25
Hottest Digital Marketers. His
civic involvement includes
membership in Rotary
International’s Club 33 and
the Young Presidents
Organization. He is a 2010
graduate of INFLUENCE San
Diego.
Eugene “Mitch” Mitchell Mitch
Mitchell is vice president of
state government affairs for
San Diego Gas &
Electric (SDG&E) and
Southern California
Gas Co. (SoCalGas),
Sempra Energy’s California
regulated utilities. Based in
Sacramento, Mitchell is
responsible for state
governmental affairs for both
California utilities.
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Page Bob owns a media
management company which
is actively engaged in
newspaper and magazine
consulting. Prior to forming
his own company, he owned
three community newspapers
in suburban San Diego. He is
a former publisher of the
Chicago Sun-Times and the
Boston Herald. In 20 years
with United Press
International, he rose through
the ranks to become
executive vice president and
general manager.
Gail Stoorza-Gill Gail
Stoorza-Gill Gail is chairman
and CEO of The Right
Question LLC, a marketing
and consulting firm
specializing in solving
marketing problems through
qualitative research.
Buzz Woolley,
Chairman
Buzz Woolley is a retired
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is President
of Girard Foundation which
has provided funding for K-
12 education projects in San
Diego County since 1986.
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Scott Lewis, CEO
Email: scott.
lewis@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0527 (office)
or 619.701.6664 (cell)
Scott oversees Voice of San
Diego’s operations, its
website and daily functions.
He also writes about local
politics, where he frequently
breaks news and goes back
and forth with local political
figures.
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Mary Walter-Brown, Vice
President
Email:
mary@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5667 (office)
or 619.208.7510 (cell)
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marketing and fund
development focusing on
raising awareness and
building a sustainable
membership.
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Email: emily.
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Phone: 619.550.5664 (office)
or 513.257.9725 (cell)
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years’ experience in
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Sara Libby, Managing Editor
Email: sara.
libby@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0526
Sara is VOSD’s managing
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Have a question about Voice
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Editor
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green@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5668
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Liam Dillon, Senior Reporter
and Assistant Editor
Email: liam.
dillon@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5663
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Diego’s investigations. He
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people interact with local
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Ari Bloomekatz, Staff Writer
Email: ari.
bloomekatz@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.550.5669
Ari is an investigative
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Megan Burks, Speak City
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Phone: 619.550.5665
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VOSD, KPBS, Media Arts
Center and The AjA Project
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and quality of life issues in
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Email: lisa.
halverstadt@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0528
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Andrew Keatts, Staff Writer
Email: andrew.
keatts@voiceofsandiego.org
Phone: 619.325.0529
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coverage as a way to make
sense of the complex land-
use decisions governments
make while explaining how
those decisions affect the
daily lives of San Diegans.
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Mario Koran, Staff Writer
Email: mario@vosd.org
Phone: 619.325.0531
Mario reports on hospitals,
nonprofits and educational
institutions, digging into their
impact on the greater San
Diego community.
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Paula Moore, Membership
Paula Moore, Membership
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Phone: 619.325.0525
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Irony in VOSD's view of itself
On May 6, 2014 I downloaded the following
from VOSD:
"In 2004, when the Union-Tribune
unceremoniously dismissed
longtime columnist and editor
Neil Morgan, he and entrepreneur Buzz
Woolley decided to launch a digital news
effort. They felt the region desperately
needed more reporting, analysis
and journalistic competition.
Voice of San Diego was born from that vision."
My view:
In 2011, when Voice of San Diego
unceremoniously dismissed
longtime education reporter
Emily Alpert, I felt the region
desperately needed more
reporting, analysis and
journalistic competition.
Voice of San Diego has failed to fulfill that
vision.
On May 6, 2014 I downloaded the following
from VOSD:
"In 2004, when the Union-Tribune
unceremoniously dismissed
longtime columnist and editor
Neil Morgan, he and entrepreneur Buzz
Woolley decided to launch a digital news
effort. They felt the region desperately
needed more reporting, analysis
and journalistic competition.
Voice of San Diego was born from that vision."
My view:
In 2011, when Voice of San Diego
unceremoniously dismissed
longtime education reporter
Emily Alpert, I felt the region
desperately needed more
reporting, analysis and
journalistic competition.
Voice of San Diego has failed to fulfill that
vision.
Emily Alpert--was she not
enthusiastic about
producing stories that
supported the opinions of
Buzz Woolley and Irwin
Jacobs about education?
enthusiastic about
producing stories that
supported the opinions of
Buzz Woolley and Irwin
Jacobs about education?
Buzz Woolley is a retired
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is President
of Girard Foundation which
has provided funding for K-12
education projects in San
Diego County since 1986.
venture capitalist and
entrepreneur. He is President
of Girard Foundation which
has provided funding for K-12
education projects in San
Diego County since 1986.
April 21, 2015 Mary Walter-Brown is proud that VOSD influenced a vote AGAINST school bonds