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Board members receive a list of contractors who are subject to the limit each week. Kal Krishnan Consulting Services was on the list in February when it gave $7,000 to Fang. In an apparent loophole in the regulations, two other BART directors each received the maximum $1,000 from the same company and an additional $1,250 from staff and relatives of the owner last year. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said he thought Kal Krishnan – a longtime BART contractor – did not have pending business when he gave the money. Fang said he would return the contribution and look into whether it violated the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an appearance that doesn’t look right then I really don’t want to perpetuate that and cause more problems,” said Fang, who has served on the board since 1990.\u003cbr>\nRelated\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said the money did not influence his vote and that he simply followed BART staff’s recommendation to award the contract. He said he does not get involved in pushing for one contractor over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heavens no. It is entirely staff,” he said. “It’s a very rigorous process.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan said his contributions constitute “free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these limitations are all unconstitutional and illegal,” he said. “We have the right to free speech in America. Are you working against that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Director Lynette Sweet said the board should go back to a previous policy banning campaign contributions from contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re giving to the same directors who keep voting to give you contracts over and over, it just doesn’t look good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board banned contractor money in 1996 in the wake of a bribery scandal. One former BART director pleaded guilty to accepting bribes; another pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. 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Each director also received another $500 from Krishnan and his wife; $500 from a company manager named Dev Krishnan, and $250 from another employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra $1,250 Blalock and Keller received came from individuals, not the company’s account, so it shouldn’t count toward the $1,000 limit, Blalock said. Aside from the contractor regulation, there are no limits on BART campaign contributions. Blalock noted that the rules are “not as tough anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve taken a more relaxed attitude about it also,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve crossed the line anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blalock said the money doesn’t influence his votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan, whose office is across the hall from the BART boardroom in Oakland, said, “My friends need to have some money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Political campaigns are expensive, they need money and these people do very good work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who led the charge to loosen contribution rules in 2007, did not return phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 11, Keller, Blalock and Fang voted with the board majority to give Krishnan’s company and two others engineering contracts worth up to $20 million for each company over five years. Krishnan’s firm is a general engineering contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan had received an award in 2009 for $15 million over five years, but the money has been used up early. Sweet, upset at how quickly the last award had been spent, was the only director to vote against the new awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two unions representing BART employees opposed the new contracts, arguing that BART staff could do some of the work that was being contracted out. One of the unions, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, gave Fang $7,500 in Februrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fang said at the meeting that he supported the contracts, in part because the companies are led by minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have basic firms, people of color, taking the principal role,” he said. “And that’s what, without getting too corny, that’s what America is about. 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Are you working against that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Director Lynette Sweet said the board should go back to a previous policy banning campaign contributions from contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re giving to the same directors who keep voting to give you contracts over and over, it just doesn’t look good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board banned contractor money in 1996 in the wake of a bribery scandal. One former BART director pleaded guilty to accepting bribes; another pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. The bribes involved were as small as $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, BART directors including Fang loosened the rules to allow contributions of up to $1,000 from contractors with pending bids. BART’s nine directors serve four-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2010, when Krishnan had pending business with the board, the contractor hosted a fundraiser for two BART directors up for re-election, Thomas Blalock and Joel Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a little gathering … and got consultants together to honor us and toss some money into the pot, which is a typical thing they do,” Blalock said. “He even brought in some of his people from Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other contractors gave money, but Krishnan showed them up. Krishnan’s company gave $1,000 to both Blalock and Keller. Each director also received another $500 from Krishnan and his wife; $500 from a company manager named Dev Krishnan, and $250 from another employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra $1,250 Blalock and Keller received came from individuals, not the company’s account, so it shouldn’t count toward the $1,000 limit, Blalock said. Aside from the contractor regulation, there are no limits on BART campaign contributions. Blalock noted that the rules are “not as tough anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve taken a more relaxed attitude about it also,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve crossed the line anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blalock said the money doesn’t influence his votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan, whose office is across the hall from the BART boardroom in Oakland, said, “My friends need to have some money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Political campaigns are expensive, they need money and these people do very good work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who led the charge to loosen contribution rules in 2007, did not return phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 11, Keller, Blalock and Fang voted with the board majority to give Krishnan’s company and two others engineering contracts worth up to $20 million for each company over five years. Krishnan’s firm is a general engineering contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan had received an award in 2009 for $15 million over five years, but the money has been used up early. Sweet, upset at how quickly the last award had been spent, was the only director to vote against the new awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two unions representing BART employees opposed the new contracts, arguing that BART staff could do some of the work that was being contracted out. One of the unions, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, gave Fang $7,500 in Februrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fang said at the meeting that he supported the contracts, in part because the companies are led by minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have basic firms, people of color, taking the principal role,” he said. “And that’s what, without getting too corny, that’s what America is about. So I plan to move forward and support this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate decision earlier this year, Fang pushed for the board to negotiate a real estate deal with a longtime friend, developer Lawrence Lui. As previously reported, Lui had given Fang $3,500 last year. BART’s campaign contribution rules refer to contractors, not developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Van Every, senior vice president at Republic Urban Properties, which had a competing development proposal, called the campaign contributions “completely ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the BART conflict of interest laws are a joke,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said the money didn’t influence him and pointed out that Republic Urban had hired a lobbyist to push its proposal. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/25/BAB91KRBA5.DTL\">\u003cstrong>column\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> that has been drawing a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#%21/AnonyOps/status/106810637270781952\">disdainful\u003c/a> tweets today from various Anonymous-related Twitter accounts, the San Francisco Chronicle's C.W. Nevius writes, in so many words, that he's not a big fan of the ongoing BART protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While protesters may have started with good intentions, their message has been thoroughly muddled. First their complaint was about BART police, and then it was outrage about cutting cell phone coverage. But protesters' main target has become a bunch of weary commuters who just want to go home. They didn't do anything - some of them probably agree with the original concerns - but they are fed up...The patience of the public is waning with these protesters, and BART and San Francisco police are finding ways to diminish their impact.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A contrary opinion was voiced at the Special BART Board meeting yesterday by Krystof Lopaur, from \u003ca href=\"http://nojusticenobart.blogspot.com/\">No Justice No BART\u003c/a>, which is actively involved in the protests and is calling for BART to disband its police force. KQED's Rachel Dornhelm was among a group of reporters who talked to Lopaur after he \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snil8Ea9f9Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player\">spoke\u003c/a> during the public comment period of the meeting. Some of the questioning concerned the moral argument for inconveniencing so many BART passengers in order to protest the organization they rely on for transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen here. An edited transcript follows the audio, which picks up in the middle of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio: Krystof Lopaur debates the morality of the BART protests\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/krystof.mp3|titles=krystof]\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We have a problem in the Bay Area and that problem is that BART runs its own police force and does a bad job of it. So we're not saying that the train should be a free-for all; we're saying that BART should not run its own police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the idea that you have a place to protest if you apply for a permit? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've never applied for a permit, but we've protested outside the fare gates. Our very first protest was outside the fare gates at the Fruitvale station. 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People are organizing around this issue and it's a legitimate issue to organize around. It's an inconvenience for protesters to protest. We are all BART passengers, we all have lives, we all haves jobs. We don't want to be protesting. We're doing it because we feel a moral imperative to do something about a situation that's literally a health and safety hazard for the public. And for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you affiliated with the group Anonymous? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not affiliated with Anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you make of what they've done? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think they've drawn a lot of attention to BART. BART decided to take on Anonymous for some reason. They decided to do the cell phone shutdown. People responded all over the world. I don't think they expected it; I certainly didn't expect this kind of a response to what BART did. 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Again there's a very big difference between them acting on its own property…versus on private property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give one example, at UCLA Law School, we have provided free wireless to students, but we turn it off in classrooms because we're afraid students will get distracted by it. Likewise, it seems to me that BART can say we're all about providing convenience and reliability to our riders, we've added the telephone network for the sake of more convenience for riders, now it looks like this network will be a source of inconvenience, not just because there will be a political protest but as I understand it, the expected protest would have involved illegal blocking of trains and disruption of service. So in order to continue providing maximum convenience and reliability, we're going to temporarily shut down the cell phone hardware that we had no obligation to provide in the first place. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updates by Lisa Pickoff-White\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 7:17 p.m.\u003c/em> All stations are now open, according to BART. Thanks for following, we’re signing off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 6:47 p.m.\u003c/em> Powell Street Station is still disembark only, and all other stations are open, according to BART. An annoyed passenger called into our newsroom to complain that people can still not get onto Embarcadero trains though. BART says in a statement that Embarcadero is open, but police chatter and 511 statements say it’s only for people disembarking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 6:23 p.m.\u003c/em> Civic Center has been reopened for entrances and exists, police on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2776\">scanner\u003c/a> are discussing closing the Embarcadero Station. 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Protesters are heading both up Market toward Powell, and toward the 16th Street Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says that it will now start stopping trains at Civic Center to allow passengers to disembark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is discussion on the scanner of closing Montgomery Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 5:40 p.m.\u003c/em> KQED’s Mina Kim reports that after about a dozen protesters tried to stop an East Bay bound train, about 20 BART police descended on them and began to close the center. Protesters have dispersed, some wearing Guy Fawkes masks, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Announcements on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2776\">BART police scanner\u003c/a> imply that they are now beginning to run trains through Powell station as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>@abc7newsBayArea reports that entrances to the Powell St. BART station are closed but trains are stopping there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can BART legally restrict the free speech rights of protesters on BART property? For more, host Cy Musiker talks with Professor Eugene Volokh, who teaches free speech law at the UCLA School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 5:30 p.m.\u003c/em> BART has officially closed Civic Center, trains are just running through the station. Police say that they will begin arresting any protesters in five minutes, according to \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MLNow/statuses/103262441814765568\">Mission Loc@l\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 5:21 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu\">Frank Chu\u003c/a> is at the protest, marking it as a true San Francisco affair. On Ustream he announced that “cops are covering up murder cases and stealing my money as a movie star in a thousand zegnatronic galaxies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 4:55 p.m.\u003c/em> The Federal Communications Department has \u003ca href=\"http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/08/fcc-probing-wireless-blocking.php\">announced\u003c/a> it will investigate whether BART violated the law by shutting down cell phone service last week at four stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim reports that a small group of protesters have gathered inside Civic Center BART, and that there is a large police presence. 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