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The real question is whether the package of bills — bans on robosigning, forcing more transparency during foreclosure, etc — will be amended as a concession to the financial industry, and whether amended bills are better than no bills.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Below is an \u003ca href=\"http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/what-legalized-bribery-looks-like\">ad by the Courage Campaign\u003c/a> that attempts to put pressure on Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Sylmar Democrat, to vote for the bills. Fuentes told the Sacramento Bee, for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/07/4470589/mortgage-legislation-splits-california.html\">article about how the issue has split Democrats\u003c/a>, that he was “disappointed that they misconstrued and outright lied” in the video. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/yahoo.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/yahoo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yahoo\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64806\">\u003c/a>Judging by the media coverage, seems to me at this point we may have a Dead CEO walking…\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120508-717855.html\">Yahoo Committee To Review Scott Thompson’s Academic Record\u003c/a> (Dow Jones Newswires)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-scott-thompson-has-a-lucrative-compensation-package-2012-5\">Scott Thompson Has Already Cost Yahoo $7 Million\u003c/a> (Business Insider)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://allthingsd.com/20120508/exclusive-yahoo-director-in-charge-of-botched-ceo-vetting-to-step-down-from-board/\">Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board\u003c/a> (AllThingsD)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-exec-firing-the-board-member-who-vetted-thompson-sends-an-incredibly-twisted-message-2012-5\">Yahoo Exec: Firing The Board Member Who Vetted Thompson ‘Sends An Incredibly Twisted Message\u003c/a> (Business Insider)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikamorphy/2012/05/08/the-dirt-on-scott-thompson-will-bury-yahoo-too-something-dan-loeb-probably-didnt-consider/\">The Dirt on Scott Thompson Will Bury Yahoo Too\u003c/a> (Forbes)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/david-kennys-yahoo-bio-2012-5\">Yahoo Board Member David Kenny Just Made The Tiniest Change To His Biography\u003c/a> (Business Insider)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-employees-are-livid-over-thompsons-resume-scandal-2012-5\">Yahoo Employees Are Angry At Thompson: ‘How angry? LIVID!’\u003c/a> (Business Insider)\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Thompson is in way-hot water over the revelation by a minority stakeholder that the CEO — only five months into his reign — does not in fact have a degree in computer science, as stated on his resume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yahoo! board called the claim an “inadvertent error,” which as you can imagine did not exactly put out the fire. Now everybody’s talking about it — it’s even on the front page of the \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/business/\">business section of Yahoo! News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on KQED Public Radio’s Forum program, host Michael Krasny discussed l’affaire Thomspon with Kirk Hanson, Executive Director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scu.edu/ethics/\">The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics\u003c/a> at Santa Clara University. Edited transcript after the audio…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited transcript\u003c/em>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOST MICHAEL KRASNY\u003c/strong>: In 2010, a survey was conducted by HireRight, and it was revealed that nearly 70 percent of 1,818 men and women queried in the survey lied on their resumes. The most common lie was educational attainment. This Forum hour we want to discuss the case of Yahoo!’s Scott Thompson and resume padding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining us from the Santa Clara campus at Santa Clara University is Kirk Hanson. He is executive director of Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and he’s researching a new book with the working title Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas in a Business Career, which he says number one is presenting yourself accurately on your resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the key question here, and listeners will doubtless want to weigh in on this in droves, is what’s the right thing for the board to do in light of this ethical lapse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: Well I think the board’s in a hard place. Clearly, there would be great pain in having to replace the CEO again. Unfortunately, when something like this happens, and someone’s deception is revealed like this, they have a very hard time continuing to function effectively as CEO. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are really two reasons. One: There will always be lingering questions about their truthfulness. Can the board rely on them always to tell the board everything they should know and never to embellish? Can employees count on that? Can customers who are told capabilities of software, or whatever, count on the CEO’s word?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the second thing is: Can the CEO be a moral leader in the organization? Organizations, we know, have a pattern — behavior runs downhill, and if the CEO exaggerates a little, you probably will expect a lot of exaggeration down in the organization. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: What about the argument that Thompson was hired for talents and abilities that he’s displayed since college, not whether he was in a computer lab time in his teens. That what matters is, well, the bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: Well, I think that’s what ironic about this. If there’s someone who doesn’t appear to have needed this kind of boost to their resume, it’s probably Scott Thompson, who’s developed a good record in Silicon Valley. And clearly there’s no question about his technical capability to run Yahoo! The problem is that a CEO is not just a technical leader, they’re an organizational leader and a moral leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: We have Richard Blumenthal, who was elected to the Senate in Connecticut and who said he was in combat in Vietnam. He was elected in spite of the revelation that he lied about being in combat in Vietnam. And there are other precedents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the CEO of Bausch & Lomb said he had an MBA. He didn’t. The board said it would not accept his resignation, and he lost a bonus and a year, but he stayed on as CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: And I’ve not seen an evaluation of how that worked out for Bausch & Lomb in the long term, but I think the difficulty is that things continue to change, and the potential for this being a negative for a company actually has ratcheted up as the years have gone on during the last 10 years — if for no other reason than you’ve got dissident shareholders like Third Point out there who are going to try to make trouble over it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, the world of opposition research, which we’ve come to know in politics, has entered into the corporate arena. Clearly, what Third Point did was go through the resumes with a fine-toothed comb and try to uncover things to embarrass the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Well, they’re not only calling for his head — Daniel Loeb — but also the Executive Search Leader Patti Hart, who they also say has a degree that is suspect. [Note: She \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304451104577392184089264016.html\">stepped down from the board\u003c/a> today.] A lot of this may be political. And Daniel Loeb was wanting to get on the board of Yahoo! and didn’t — was sort of spurned by the board, which may be why there’s this scorched earth attitude. But I’m reading a quote of his. He says, “CEOs have been terminated for less in other companies.” He’s absolutely right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: Well, he’s right. They’ve been terminated for less. You point out, the Bausch & Lomb case, and there are several others where the individuals have been kept on. In part, it depends upon the full disclosure. If the Yahoo! board, at this point, could make a brand new decision, they might choose to keep him on, but at the same time I think I would argue that the potential downside for the company, and the continuing questions about trustworthiness just don’t make it worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>:Let’s talk about some of the precedents on that side. Radio Shack CEO David Edmondson resigned less than nine months after it turned out he didn’t have a degree, as he said he did, in theology and psychology. There was another case, a football coach — George O’Leary resigned five days on the job because he didn’t have a masters in education from NYU, and didn’t play football like he said he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: I think what that demonstrates is these things that you add to your resume early in a career often stay there. It’s hard to back out of a lie after a period of time when you might want to. And eventually this time bomb blows up on you at the most inopportune moment. Clearly, when George O’Leary stepped into the big time — the kind of public attention a Notre Dame football coach gets — people started to look back at his resume in much greater detail than they had before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would someone do this? I think it’s pretty clear — and that’s what the research we’ve done has indicated about early in people’s careers — they want to present themselves in the very best light. They’ve been told, hey, it’s your brand — “You Inc.” What you’ve got to do is establish your credential and your marketing of yourself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people go overboard, just like some companies puff their products. Individuals, at least a substantial percentage of them some of these surveys indicate, succumb to the temptation to exaggerate and expand upon their accomplishments. And then, once they get the job, arguably they’ve shown their capabilities and they don’t need that kind of fake boost to their resume, but it’s very hard to back out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Well he’s almost assured of another job, because of his track record, but it does say some things that are troubling about his character, and that’s where a lot of the criticism has rested. Also, four months on the job, he’s laid off 2,000 employees worldwide. 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It’s sad for Scott Thompson, it’s sad for the shareholders of Yahoo!, but there are times when you simply have to cut your losses and move forward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it seems to me for the board, that’s what’s called for at this point in time, and in some ways for Scott Thompson, that this is a life lesson which will obviously always stay with him and be on his resume and the search results about him, but nonetheless perhaps it’s time for everyone to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Well, I may be mistaken about this, but doesn’t Yahoo! have a policy that if someone lies on their resume, they’re out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: I don’t’ know whether the company ethics code says that. But that is very common among companies. I’ve seen companies that review resumes from students who’ve graduated from some of our programs, find an error, something they think is substantially exaggerated, and that person is simply dropped from all consideration immediately. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly if something of significance like a degree is found not to be entirely true, those individuals in most companies would be fired immediately, no matter how many months beyond the hiring event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: The real lesson here is don’t pad you resume. But according to statistics it appears that most people do pad their resumes….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: There’s become a culture of stacking your college-going resume, your applications for college with fake clubs, fake volunteer activities. And the repercussions from that are generally less, and therefore some people get in the pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KRASNY\u003c/strong>: One has to ask, just how good are screening processes or vetting processes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HANSON\u003c/strong>: In this case of Yahoo!, the question is, “Who’s at fault for this?” Obviously, Scott Thompson is for having put it on the resume. But it’s also the fault of the search committee. In this case, apparently they did not use a search consultant. The search committee did it itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this day and age you cannot afford not to do very detailed checking of the credentials and the claims that are on a resume, particularly if it’s going to be a CEO that’s going to be a part of your submissions to the Securities and Exchange Commission and so on. 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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-rewrites-textbook-chapter-influenced-plastics-industry-16073\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from politicians and environmental groups, California’s environmental agency has rewritten a chapter in a statewide K-12 curriculum on plastic bags that was influenced by the chemical and plastics industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64590\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/4359906568/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/plasticbagSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"plasticbagSM\" width=\"224\" height=\"222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64590\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: katerha (flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new chapter, which was posted today for review, no longer includes a section titled, “The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags,” and it incorporates more recent and relevant recycling statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public can weigh in during the next 30 days on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calepa.ca.gov/education/eei/PublicCom/1157/Summary1157.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">revised chapter [PDF]\u003c/a> by visiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.calepa.ca.gov/education/eei/PublicCom/1157/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the website\u003c/a> for the state Environmental Protection Agency’s “education and the environment initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to support Cal/EPA’s ongoing efforts to transparently enhance the state’s education and environment initiative, including through this most recent public-comment process,” said Steve Russell, vice president of plastics for the American Chemistry Council. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/environment/plastics-industry-edited-environmental-textbook-12123\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch investigation\u003c/a> showed whole sections of the 11th-grade teachers’ edition guide for the new curriculum had been lifted almost verbatim from comments submitted by the American Chemistry Council. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the investigation was published, state schools chief Tom Torlakson \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/62859549\" target=\"_blank\">issued a statement\u003c/a> saying his office would work with Cal/EPA to examine the material and identify areas “where further review may be warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Fran Pavley\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>D-Agoura Hills, also called for an investigation, and Cal/EPA issued a statement saying they would review the chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am grateful for CalEPA’s work and allowing a public process for review,” Pavley said in a statement today. “I am pleased to see the EEI curriculum is staying true to the mission of providing educational materials that are factual, unbiased, academically appropriate and rigorous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Santa Cruz school librarian started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.change.org/petitions/remove-pro-plastic-bag-text-from-california-textbooks\" target=\"_blank\">petition\u003c/a> to have the chemical industry’s influence removed from the curriculum. To date, she has garnered more than 30,000 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/are-paper-bags-really-that-much-better-than-plastic/\">\u003cstrong>Are Paper Bags Really That Much Better Than Plastic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (KQED News)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Our concern always with the curriculum was to ensure integrity and accuracy,” said Bryan Ehlers, Cal/EPA’s assistant secretary for education and quality programs. “We went back and looked at the whole unit and really picked through it with a fine-tooth comb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised chapter incorporates 33 changes, including deletions, additions and changes in the text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a question in the teachers’ guide that was originally phrased: “What are the advantages of using plastic shopping bags?” now reads: “What factors have contributed to the consumption of plastic shopping bags?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another section, in which the original text had used recycling statistics offered by the American Chemistry Council,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>indicating a 12 percent rate of recycling for plastic shopping bags, the new text notes recycling rates of plastic shopping bags are largely unknown. It also shows state estimates, which hover closer to 3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see from what we’ve released – particularly given that so much of it was written years ago – that we’ve updated a few statistics and made a few tweaks to make certain there is no bias. That certainly was never our intent,” Ehlers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that while reviewing the text, his office made sure not to begin biasing it in “the other direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Murray, executive director of the Sacramento-based Californians Against Waste, said he was “pleased with the changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are more evenhanded and honest with regards to plastic bag waste,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susanne Rust is an investigative journalist at \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "With Campaign Donations, California Bond Underwriters Secure Contracts",
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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/money-and-politics/campaign-donations-bond-underwriters-also-secure-contracts-16032\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading financial firms over the past five years donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California, and in almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit, a California Watch review has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/bondgraphic.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64534\" title=\"underwriters\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/underwriters-300x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>The practice is especially pronounced in California, where underwriters gave \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArIIIOjhjIvddHN5N0JsUHZlbjNhVEItMy1BMFdmWWc\" target=\"_blank\">155 political contributions\u003c/a> since 2007 to successful bond campaigns for school construction and repairs. One major underwriter, Piper Jaffray, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352478-piper-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> it gets more requests for campaign contributions in California than in any other state where they do business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success rate of these underwriters is extremely high. In only five cases since 2007 has a campaign donor failed to receive a bond-selling contract from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts say they choose bond underwriters for their expertise and competitive rates and because they’ve served them well in the past. And underwriting firms say they contribute only after they’ve been hired to sell the bonds, avoiding any undue influence. \u003c!--more-->But critics say that no matter when the agreement is made, the campaign donations influence school districts’ business decisions. They argue that pre-arranged underwriting contracts bypass a truly competitive sale, leaving in doubt whether districts got the best possible deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist,” said Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County’s assistant treasurer, who oversees some school bond sales but doesn’t control the hiring of underwriters. “The timing of the payment is irrelevant. You paid and you got the job. That’s pay to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have banned the practice. Missouri, for one, outlaws donations to bond campaigns from companies with a financial interest in the bond sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years in California, five major underwriters donated $1.8 million to help pass 111 ballot measures, authorizing $15.5 billion in debt. A couple dozen other measures received underwriter contributions but failed at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, bond underwriters who donated to these campaigns were granted contracts by school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all cases, the only underwriters that donated to a successful school bond campaign ended up working on the bond sale. Bond Buyer, a trade publication, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/121_10/california-broker-dealer-contributions-school-bond-issue-1035266-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">found the same pattern\u003c/a> in an earlier review of 2010 campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, multiple underwriting firms will donate to a single bond campaign. But even there, the success rate is high. In almost all cases in which multiple bond underwriters donated to the same campaign, they all were given contracts by the school district to market those bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For donors, failure is rare. In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, a Democrat from Pittsburg, tried and failed to pass a law in 2005 requiring competitive bidding of bond sales. In a competitive sale, which takes place after the election, the underwriter with the lowest bid wins the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist.\u003cbr>\n--Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County assistant treasurer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Canciamilla said school districts instead negotiate underwriting deals before bond elections specifically to draw in campaign money. Districts are “in effect negotiating much more attractive deals for the underwriters in order to generate the money necessary to run the campaign,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, school districts can’t use their own funds for bond campaigns. That leaves other interested parties – underwriters, builders and organized labor – to pony up the necessary cash. For their part, underwriters have \u003ca href=\"http://msrb.org/Rules-and-Interpretations/Regulatory-Notices/2009/2009-35.aspx?c=1\" target=\"_blank\">justified\u003c/a> the practice to federal regulators by noting that bond campaigns simply need these contributions in order to convince voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November’s $63 million bond measure for the Newark Unified School District in Alameda County, for example, raised money from architecture and construction firms, the financial adviser and the law firm working on the bond issue, and local construction unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only underwriter to donate, Los Angeles-based De La Rosa & Co., gave $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the money was donated by outside companies,” said Gary Stadler, a parent volunteer who was the campaign’s treasurer. “We said, ‘Hey, we’re going to pass this bond to improve the schools, we need some contributions, are you going to contribute?’ And of course they’re going to, because they’re going to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s financial adviser, Oakland-based KNN Public Finance, had earlier considered proposals by four underwriters and ultimately recommended De La Rosa, said Newark Unified’s chief business official, Elaine Neilsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district granted De La Rosa up to 1 percent of the bonds – potentially $630,000 in compensation – subject to negotiation before the bond sales. The company donated after signing the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“De La Rosa & Co. respects and abides by the selection process of California’s school districts,” Chief Financial Officer Arthur Raitano wrote in an e-mail. “Accordingly, we neither discuss or consider contributions to bond ballot campaigns until such districts have selected their professional financing teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top 5 underwriting firms analyzed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters typically sign agreements with school districts before the election, and then give money for the political campaign that promotes the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters act as middlemen, buying bonds from districts and selling them to investors. The underwriters buy the bonds at a discount from the district and then sell them at a higher price to their investors. Investors are essentially loaning money to the school district in exchange for regular interest payments and eventual principal repayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, for example, the Glendale Unified School District picked two underwriters to handle a $270 million bond that would go before voters in April as Measure S. The money will be used to upgrade classrooms, science labs and libraries, and purchase computers, among other promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of offering the underwriting contract to other companies, the district selected De La Rosa and RBC Capital Markets because it had worked with them previously, said Eva Lueck, the district’s chief business and financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RBC gave $25,000 to the “Yes on S” campaign two days after Lueck signed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352481-glendale-rbc-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreement\u003c/a>, according to filings. De La Rosa donated $25,000 a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lueck noted the donations came after the contract was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very conscious of not crossing any lines,” said Lueck, who also volunteered on the campaign. “We always look to, well, who would this benefit, and maybe they would be willing to contribute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election, the district issued its first batch of Measure S bonds – $54 million worth. The underwriters bought them at a .5 percent discount in order to collect $270,000 in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reviewed contribution data for the five underwriting firms most active in California bond campaigns: De La Rosa, George K. Baum & Co., Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital Markets and Stone & Youngberg. (A Stone & Youngberg managing director for public finance, Tom Lockard, serves on the board of directors for the Center for Investigative Reporting.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the firms profited from bond sales they had supported with political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of school districts benefiting from underwriter donations ranges from the tiny Blue Lake School in Humboldt County to one of the state’s largest districts, Long Beach Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a twist on the usual practice, Piper Jaffray last year contributed to three bond campaigns after the elections were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the Centinela Valley Union High School District in Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352486-centinela-piper-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">hired\u003c/a> Piper Jaffray in November 2010, the month voters approved a $98 million bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well after the election, Piper Jaffray made a donation that may have indirectly benefited two school board candidates instead of the bond campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2011, Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to \u003ca href=\"http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens for Better Schools\u003c/a>, the committee that had \u003ca href=\"http://liveweb.archive.org/http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/why.html\" target=\"_blank\">championed\u003c/a> the $98 million bond measure. The committee had cash reserves and no debt, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352492-citizens-for-better-schools-jan-june.html\" target=\"_blank\">campaign filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, the committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352493-citizens-for-better-schools-july-dec.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent $53,000\u003c/a> campaigning for two school board candidates, one of whom unseated an incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond underwriters rarely give campaign donations to individual candidates or local elected officials. Federal regulations bar underwriters from doing business with a public agency within two years of giving campaign donations to an official of that agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donation to a committee “that the contributor knows or reasonably should know” is backing an official is the same as giving directly to the official, according to an e-mail from Ernesto Lanza, deputy executive director and chief legal officer of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. The self-regulatory agency’s rules carry the force of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s those kinds of things, whether they’re innocent or not, that create a certain appearance of impropriety that creates part of the problem here,” said Canciamilla, the former assemblyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Citizens for Better Schools nor Piper Jaffray responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray’s official policy reads, “We will not make, or indicate a willingness to make, any financial contribution as a condition to being retained as an underwriter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela Valley Superintendent Jose Fernandez said the district chose Piper Jaffray because of the firm’s extensive experience, and the board unanimously approved the decision. He said he was unaware of the contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anything about that,” he said. “We stay out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s contract with Piper Jaffray specifies, “The Underwriter is not obligated as a result of this agreement to make a campaign contribution in connection with the bond election, nor has it otherwise committed to make a campaign contribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reporting campaign donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, in response to pay-to-play concerns, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board began requiring underwriters to report bond measure donations to the self-regulatory agency. The board is analyzing the data reported so far, before determining whether additional regulations are necessary, Lanza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correlation between contributions and school district contracts “adds to the evidence that there’s certainly something to be looked at,” he said. “It sounds like there’s a little bit of smoke there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms decline to make donations, such as O’Connor & Co. Securities, which is underwriting a bond passed last year in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a firm policy, we avoid participation in campaign contributions solely to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, even though at times this could put us at a competitive disadvantage,” said company President Will O’Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one case in which an underwriter made a contribution but the contract went to firms that didn’t give money occurred in the San Mateo-Foster City School District in 2008. Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to support a $175 million bond measure there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the election, the district instead selected Stone & Youngberg and RBC Capital Markets to sell the bonds. Those companies, neither of which made donations, simply offered a better deal, said Micaela Ochoa, the district’s chief business official at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said she solicited donations as a campaign volunteer on her own time, but made it clear that contributions wouldn’t guarantee a contract. Some firms didn’t want to give without any promises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me, ‘Why are you even calling them?’ ” Ochoa said. “It is harder, but it’s also cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch</a\u003c/a>\u003c/em>>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/money-and-politics/campaign-donations-bond-underwriters-also-secure-contracts-16032\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading financial firms over the past five years donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California, and in almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit, a California Watch review has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/bondgraphic.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64534\" title=\"underwriters\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/underwriters-300x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>The practice is especially pronounced in California, where underwriters gave \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArIIIOjhjIvddHN5N0JsUHZlbjNhVEItMy1BMFdmWWc\" target=\"_blank\">155 political contributions\u003c/a> since 2007 to successful bond campaigns for school construction and repairs. One major underwriter, Piper Jaffray, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352478-piper-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> it gets more requests for campaign contributions in California than in any other state where they do business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success rate of these underwriters is extremely high. In only five cases since 2007 has a campaign donor failed to receive a bond-selling contract from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts say they choose bond underwriters for their expertise and competitive rates and because they’ve served them well in the past. And underwriting firms say they contribute only after they’ve been hired to sell the bonds, avoiding any undue influence. \u003c!--more-->But critics say that no matter when the agreement is made, the campaign donations influence school districts’ business decisions. They argue that pre-arranged underwriting contracts bypass a truly competitive sale, leaving in doubt whether districts got the best possible deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist,” said Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County’s assistant treasurer, who oversees some school bond sales but doesn’t control the hiring of underwriters. “The timing of the payment is irrelevant. You paid and you got the job. That’s pay to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have banned the practice. Missouri, for one, outlaws donations to bond campaigns from companies with a financial interest in the bond sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years in California, five major underwriters donated $1.8 million to help pass 111 ballot measures, authorizing $15.5 billion in debt. A couple dozen other measures received underwriter contributions but failed at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, bond underwriters who donated to these campaigns were granted contracts by school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all cases, the only underwriters that donated to a successful school bond campaign ended up working on the bond sale. Bond Buyer, a trade publication, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/121_10/california-broker-dealer-contributions-school-bond-issue-1035266-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">found the same pattern\u003c/a> in an earlier review of 2010 campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, multiple underwriting firms will donate to a single bond campaign. But even there, the success rate is high. In almost all cases in which multiple bond underwriters donated to the same campaign, they all were given contracts by the school district to market those bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For donors, failure is rare. In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, a Democrat from Pittsburg, tried and failed to pass a law in 2005 requiring competitive bidding of bond sales. In a competitive sale, which takes place after the election, the underwriter with the lowest bid wins the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist.\u003cbr>\n--Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County assistant treasurer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Canciamilla said school districts instead negotiate underwriting deals before bond elections specifically to draw in campaign money. Districts are “in effect negotiating much more attractive deals for the underwriters in order to generate the money necessary to run the campaign,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, school districts can’t use their own funds for bond campaigns. That leaves other interested parties – underwriters, builders and organized labor – to pony up the necessary cash. For their part, underwriters have \u003ca href=\"http://msrb.org/Rules-and-Interpretations/Regulatory-Notices/2009/2009-35.aspx?c=1\" target=\"_blank\">justified\u003c/a> the practice to federal regulators by noting that bond campaigns simply need these contributions in order to convince voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November’s $63 million bond measure for the Newark Unified School District in Alameda County, for example, raised money from architecture and construction firms, the financial adviser and the law firm working on the bond issue, and local construction unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only underwriter to donate, Los Angeles-based De La Rosa & Co., gave $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the money was donated by outside companies,” said Gary Stadler, a parent volunteer who was the campaign’s treasurer. “We said, ‘Hey, we’re going to pass this bond to improve the schools, we need some contributions, are you going to contribute?’ And of course they’re going to, because they’re going to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s financial adviser, Oakland-based KNN Public Finance, had earlier considered proposals by four underwriters and ultimately recommended De La Rosa, said Newark Unified’s chief business official, Elaine Neilsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district granted De La Rosa up to 1 percent of the bonds – potentially $630,000 in compensation – subject to negotiation before the bond sales. The company donated after signing the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“De La Rosa & Co. respects and abides by the selection process of California’s school districts,” Chief Financial Officer Arthur Raitano wrote in an e-mail. “Accordingly, we neither discuss or consider contributions to bond ballot campaigns until such districts have selected their professional financing teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top 5 underwriting firms analyzed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters typically sign agreements with school districts before the election, and then give money for the political campaign that promotes the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters act as middlemen, buying bonds from districts and selling them to investors. The underwriters buy the bonds at a discount from the district and then sell them at a higher price to their investors. Investors are essentially loaning money to the school district in exchange for regular interest payments and eventual principal repayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, for example, the Glendale Unified School District picked two underwriters to handle a $270 million bond that would go before voters in April as Measure S. The money will be used to upgrade classrooms, science labs and libraries, and purchase computers, among other promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of offering the underwriting contract to other companies, the district selected De La Rosa and RBC Capital Markets because it had worked with them previously, said Eva Lueck, the district’s chief business and financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RBC gave $25,000 to the “Yes on S” campaign two days after Lueck signed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352481-glendale-rbc-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreement\u003c/a>, according to filings. De La Rosa donated $25,000 a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lueck noted the donations came after the contract was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very conscious of not crossing any lines,” said Lueck, who also volunteered on the campaign. “We always look to, well, who would this benefit, and maybe they would be willing to contribute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election, the district issued its first batch of Measure S bonds – $54 million worth. The underwriters bought them at a .5 percent discount in order to collect $270,000 in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reviewed contribution data for the five underwriting firms most active in California bond campaigns: De La Rosa, George K. Baum & Co., Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital Markets and Stone & Youngberg. (A Stone & Youngberg managing director for public finance, Tom Lockard, serves on the board of directors for the Center for Investigative Reporting.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the firms profited from bond sales they had supported with political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of school districts benefiting from underwriter donations ranges from the tiny Blue Lake School in Humboldt County to one of the state’s largest districts, Long Beach Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a twist on the usual practice, Piper Jaffray last year contributed to three bond campaigns after the elections were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the Centinela Valley Union High School District in Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352486-centinela-piper-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">hired\u003c/a> Piper Jaffray in November 2010, the month voters approved a $98 million bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well after the election, Piper Jaffray made a donation that may have indirectly benefited two school board candidates instead of the bond campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2011, Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to \u003ca href=\"http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens for Better Schools\u003c/a>, the committee that had \u003ca href=\"http://liveweb.archive.org/http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/why.html\" target=\"_blank\">championed\u003c/a> the $98 million bond measure. The committee had cash reserves and no debt, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352492-citizens-for-better-schools-jan-june.html\" target=\"_blank\">campaign filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, the committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352493-citizens-for-better-schools-july-dec.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent $53,000\u003c/a> campaigning for two school board candidates, one of whom unseated an incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond underwriters rarely give campaign donations to individual candidates or local elected officials. Federal regulations bar underwriters from doing business with a public agency within two years of giving campaign donations to an official of that agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donation to a committee “that the contributor knows or reasonably should know” is backing an official is the same as giving directly to the official, according to an e-mail from Ernesto Lanza, deputy executive director and chief legal officer of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. The self-regulatory agency’s rules carry the force of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s those kinds of things, whether they’re innocent or not, that create a certain appearance of impropriety that creates part of the problem here,” said Canciamilla, the former assemblyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Citizens for Better Schools nor Piper Jaffray responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray’s official policy reads, “We will not make, or indicate a willingness to make, any financial contribution as a condition to being retained as an underwriter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela Valley Superintendent Jose Fernandez said the district chose Piper Jaffray because of the firm’s extensive experience, and the board unanimously approved the decision. He said he was unaware of the contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anything about that,” he said. “We stay out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s contract with Piper Jaffray specifies, “The Underwriter is not obligated as a result of this agreement to make a campaign contribution in connection with the bond election, nor has it otherwise committed to make a campaign contribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reporting campaign donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, in response to pay-to-play concerns, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board began requiring underwriters to report bond measure donations to the self-regulatory agency. The board is analyzing the data reported so far, before determining whether additional regulations are necessary, Lanza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correlation between contributions and school district contracts “adds to the evidence that there’s certainly something to be looked at,” he said. “It sounds like there’s a little bit of smoke there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms decline to make donations, such as O’Connor & Co. Securities, which is underwriting a bond passed last year in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a firm policy, we avoid participation in campaign contributions solely to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, even though at times this could put us at a competitive disadvantage,” said company President Will O’Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one case in which an underwriter made a contribution but the contract went to firms that didn’t give money occurred in the San Mateo-Foster City School District in 2008. Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to support a $175 million bond measure there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the election, the district instead selected Stone & Youngberg and RBC Capital Markets to sell the bonds. Those companies, neither of which made donations, simply offered a better deal, said Micaela Ochoa, the district’s chief business official at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said she solicited donations as a campaign volunteer on her own time, but made it clear that contributions wouldn’t guarantee a contract. Some firms didn’t want to give without any promises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me, ‘Why are you even calling them?’ ” Ochoa said. “It is harder, but it’s also cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Clorox CEO to A's: Keep Team in Oakland or Sell",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64410\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>Earlier today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/\">Clorox Company\u003c/a>, Oakland's only Fortune 500 corporation, hosted a \u003ca href=\"http://investors.thecloroxcompany.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=670184\" target=\"_blank\">press conference\u003c/a> with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and reps from a number of other major East Bay companies to express support for keeping the A's in Oakland and for building a new ballpark. I spoke afterward with Clorox's chairman and CEO, Don Knauss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: We're very interested in working with Lew Wolff and John Fisher, the A's current ownership, to keep the A's here and to build a new stadium. Two-and-a-half years ago, some 45 companies in the East Bay committed to being corporate sponsors and put over a million dollars in escrow as sort of a down payment on sponsorships -- things like marketing programs, seat licenses, luxury suite commitments. Anything to demonstrate to the current ownership that we as the business community were very committed to keeping the A's here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we really haven't had any meaningful discussions with the current ownership since then, so we thought it was time to reinvigorate our message to them, given that there's a Major League Baseball owners' meeting coming up later this month. We're eager to work with them, and we think we've made a public display of affection, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the current ownership is not committed to Oakland, we're confident we have identified a new ownership group who can and will buy the team if it is put up for sale. And that new ownership group would be committed to staying, keeping the team in Oakland, and getting a new stadium built. So we want to be clear to (Major League Baseball) Commissioner Selig and the rest of the owners, that the business community, the city, the county, and obviously the fans are very committed to keeping the A's here in their home town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: Can you identify those prospective buyers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: Well, we think that's premature. First, we'd like to work with Mr. Wolff and Mr. Fisher to keep the team in Oakland, it'd be a lot quicker to build a new stadium if that were to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, we want to respect the process and protocols that Major League Baseball uses with regard to ownership and ownership changes. So it's a bit premature, until we know what John Fisher and Lew Wolff's intentions are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: So what is the benefit to Clorox in having the A's in Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: Clorox is the Fortune 500 company headquartered in downtown Oakland. We care a lot about this community and the vibrancy of this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think my personal experience helps this as well. About ten years ago I was president and CEO of the Minute Maid Corporation in Houston. I got involved in the design of the new Astros ballpark in downtown Houston, and then negotiated the naming rights to change the name of that park to Minute Maid Park in 2002. And I saw what that ballpark did to the revitalization of downtown, in terms of jobs, the economic growth that came out of it, tourism, and just the general vitality it introduced into Houston. I don't think it's unlike what AT&T Park did to revitalize that part of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I've seen firsthand what can be done. And Oakland, I think, deserves that chance, to get that kind of economic vitality brought back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: Is there a preference among the business community for the proposals for \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2012/03/09/coliseum-city-oaklands-only-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum City\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://baseballoakland.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-we-love-victory-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Court\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: As I've had discussions with people who could potentially participate in this ownership group, I think a downtown site could be preferable. But first and foremost, we want to keep it in Oakland. There's some interesting options with Victory Court and other sites downtown, that are more difficult now with the end of redevelopment funding, but not impossible when you look at the model the Giants used to get AT&T Park built with private funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the purchase price of that stadium was through bank loans, and the other half was basically equity generated by all the sponsorship deals and seat licenses and luxury boxes. That model could be replicated over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: You talked to Major League Baseball's fact-finding group about this issue three years ago. Do you expect to hear from MLB again, now that you've thrown down this gauntlet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: I certainly hope we'll hear from Major League Baseball. I think the owners are going to hear from Lew Wolff and/or John Fisher at the upcoming May meeting. 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We care a lot about this community and the vibrancy of this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think my personal experience helps this as well. About ten years ago I was president and CEO of the Minute Maid Corporation in Houston. I got involved in the design of the new Astros ballpark in downtown Houston, and then negotiated the naming rights to change the name of that park to Minute Maid Park in 2002. And I saw what that ballpark did to the revitalization of downtown, in terms of jobs, the economic growth that came out of it, tourism, and just the general vitality it introduced into Houston. I don't think it's unlike what AT&T Park did to revitalize that part of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I've seen firsthand what can be done. 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But again, with a maximum capacity of 275 people, and protesters outside numbering more than 500, we weren’t going to be able to have everybody in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Do you think that the criticism of Wells Fargo around foreclosures is fair?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SURIS: We think the characterization that we are not committed to helping this housing market get on its feet again are unfair…We have a very deep commitment both to the housing market and to consumers in it who are our customers. As our chairman and CEO John Stumpf said today, we are conducting two mortgage modifications for every one we foreclose on…That’s allowed us to modify mortgages for more than 740,000 homeowners since Jan 2009…We’ve forgiven more than $4 billion dollars of mortgage principal since Jan 2009.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63376\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Interfaith members protest at Justin Herman Plaza before marching to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. 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And Wells Fargo refused,” she said. “Today, I stand here to pray, not only for those individually affected, but also for the congregations and communities that collaborate, feel the pain of this unethical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Wallace Hill of Oakland told KQED’s Lisa Pickoff-White that his house went to auction in February after Wells Fargo denied him a loan modification as well. Now, he waits for the sheriff to evict him and his tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want is the basics: food, a roof over our head and a place for our kids to be. 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CEO John Stumpf says ‘that’s a first!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution 7 to conduct internal investigation into foreclosure practices voted down. Only 6% vote in favor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:29 p.m.\u003c/strong> Over a dozen stand up and chant ‘mic check’ repeatedly. Woman says ‘Wells Fargo, \u003ca href=\"http://cjjc.org/news/62-actions/214-boycott-launched-against-wells-fargo-july-1-action\">stop investing in private prisons and immigrant detention\u003c/a>.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All are escorted out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/24/wells-fargo-protest-san-francisco/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>Tweets from local journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wf24\">\u003cstrong>#wf24\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stopwellsfargo.com/en/live\">\u003cstrong>Live web streams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com//photos/kqedradio/sets/72157629527141178/show/\">\u003cstrong>Slideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:25 p.m.\u003c/strong> Wells CEO Stumpf: ‘2011 all in all was a terrific year for the company.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester: ‘Not a terrific year for all the families foreclosed on by Wells Fargo.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO: ‘You’re out of order ma’am.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is escorted out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:20 p.m.\u003c/strong> 2nd protester inside meeting interrupts to condemn Wells Fargo’s private prison investments. She’s escorted out. CEO continues with agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> Seconds into CEO John Stumpf’s intro remarks, a man got up and shouted ‘point of order! point of order!…the 99% bailed out Wells fargo with its tax dollars.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers escort him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf continues: ‘People are hurting. They’re upset. And we understand that…’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nActivists are hoping to attract two thousand people from at least ten states to San Francisco today to protest Wells Fargo at the bank’s annual shareholder meeting. Marching from Justin Herman Plaza, protesters will arrive at the California Merchant Exchange Building by noon. “Some people will be ready for arrest if the CEO does not come down and listen to the demands that are being put out by the Wells Fargo stakeholders,” said Robbie Clark of Oakland-based Causa Justa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters want a moratorium on all foreclosures, and principal reductions on mortgages for homes whose values have dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:48 a.m.\u003c/strong> Latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco police are guarding the entrance to the annual meeting of Wells Fargo shareholders in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of officers were stationed around the Financial District building where protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement said they planned to crash the meeting that got underway Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank stockholders were being asked to show certificates or other proof of ownership before being allowed past gates erected in front of the Merchants Exchange Building.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:35 a.m.\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com//photos/kqedradio/sets/72157629527141178/show/\">Photos\u003c/a> from today…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Don Clyde spoke this morning to Father Richard Smith of The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in the Mission. He’s with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfop.org/\"> San Francisco Organizing Project\u003c/a>, a multifaith group that works on affordable housing and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here because, especially as people of faith, we are outraged that even at this stage of the game Wells Fargo has still not taken responsibility for the damages they’ve caused to millions of people across the country, millions of families,” he said, “including people right here in our city and in my own parish and community. This has got to stop. They’ve got to step up to the plate and assume responsibility. This is Ethics 101. It’s far too late in the day; there’s got to be a change now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Don Clyde reports protesters at Justin Herman Plaza have started to march. 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As our chairman and CEO John Stumpf said today, we are conducting two mortgage modifications for every one we foreclose on…That’s allowed us to modify mortgages for more than 740,000 homeowners since Jan 2009…We’ve forgiven more than $4 billion dollars of mortgage principal since Jan 2009.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63376\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Interfaith members protest at Justin Herman Plaza before marching to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. 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That’s all we want,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/24/MN881O8BCL.DTL&tsp=1\">Chronicle\u003c/a> paints this picture of the proceedings today inside the shareholders meeting, the target of today’s Wells Fargo protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The shareholders meeting was held in a room that has eight chandeliers hanging from an ornately carved wooden ceiling. 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CEO John Stumpf says ‘that’s a first!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution 7 to conduct internal investigation into foreclosure practices voted down. Only 6% vote in favor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:29 p.m.\u003c/strong> Over a dozen stand up and chant ‘mic check’ repeatedly. 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