KMUD Radio denies Free Speech

Editor:

I urge those who listen to KMUD radio not to give a dime to this station censors free speech when it comes from non-Leftists who do not share the KMUD RADio anti-corporate political slant. While this may have been somewhat acceptable if KMUD could prove its politics matched its supportive listeners' political persuasions but that's never been the case--KMUD listeners run a much wider range of political persuasions than one would suspect from KMUD programming.

Unfortunately, Progs and radical enviros have long ago set the standard at KMUD and now that standard has slipped into a petty dictatorship wherein KMUD program director Michael Jacinto can and has teamed up with the KMUD Board to stop free speech from happening on KMUD radio. Case in point-our KMUD Heartlands Show scheduled and canceled last year.

Michael Jacinto effectively canceled our show when major Paul Gallegos campaign contributor Leonard Bowman, current Bear River Tribal Chairperson, asked KMUD to put a gag order in effect on our Heartlands Show so that even my Bear River Heartlands Project partner Don Brenard was forbidden to talk about the Heartlands Project's connections to the Bear River tribe--a total impossibility since our Heartland Project was under the Bear River Tribal Council's authority for over three years.

Bowman's $25,000 contribution to Gallegos election campaign seems to have bought free speech rights over KMUD radio programming. Do not support a radio station that denies free speech for those they perceive as political opponents.