Petition to Remove Maid Marian as CEO

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The Rod
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Petition to Remove Maid Marian as CEO

Post by The Rod » Fri Jul 03, 2026 10:03 pm

323 signatures so far...

With the recent Kimbal Musk scandal and reportedly dipping into the fireworks budget to pay for persona travel, the "well compensated" and hobnobbing CEO of Burning Man Inc. is facing a decline in popularity.
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Re: Petition to Remove Maid Marian as CEO

Post by DoctorIknow » Sun Jul 05, 2026 3:33 am

Last I looked, 389 had "signed" the petition. So many things wrong with what BM is doing, but for July 4, I just watched the Washington DC fireworks and knew that Burners are so lucky to have much better fireworks as the Man burns and explodes....and we are closer to that show than probably every fireworks with crowds of same size (do any other displays have a crowd 360 degrees around the launch pad of fireworks?) And now, as is explained in the petition, fireworks funds are being cut. Hard to believe, huh? But it's happening. I think I read that even cuts for building the Man. This should be in all the newspapers that have spent decades reporting on BM for good or bad. Tickets not sold out made news, why not the front page "If it bleeds, it reads" as BM bad managment should be outed.
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