Well, folks, I hate to tell you this, but there is no way around it. We officially have a gang running the Village, entrenched in UCO and the only way out of this is to wait for time to take its toll or to reinstate term limits - NOW!!
There has been a constant scenario of "unsatisfactory" people being thrown under the bus, so much so that the streets outside the UCO building are often figuratively red with their blood as they are thrown under the bus. Some deserve it, quite frankly, as they had sold their souls to David Israel and Ed Black for the privilege of chairing a committee or getting a new little fiefdom to run. Some are just casualties of war and the egos of weak and nasty paranoid people.
Over the past almost six years that David Israel has been president, we have seen a major deterioration in the quality of UCO, in its lack of service to the people, in its violation of its fiduciary responsibilities to the residents, of its lack of inclusiveness, of not skimming the best from the Village to serve on UCO, to serve the residents. What we have is an increasingly narrow and limited group of people who now are UCO. These people have one major responsibility - to serve David Israel and Ed Black. And yes, I know, we all know, that Ed is NOT an elected official, yet he is on more committees of UCO than G-d! And heads some of them as well.
Just as an aside, a little anecdote which will give you insight into the warped, egotistical, and paranoid mind of David Israel. Some time ago he was told by someone to stop sending his emails to him/her as she/he had never given him permission to do so. He countered and said oh yes, because the email address had been giving to UCO. The reply? Yes to U
CO, but not to you and his response? An insane, "I AM UCO!!!"
Yesterday was the straw that broke that proverbial camel's back. Recently we had a contentious Finance committee meeting where suddenly rules were changed. Suddenly renters were prevented from entering and Al, the guard, was sent there to make sure of that. Now understand that renters may have no vote, but they ALWAYS have been permitted to attend meetings and in fact there was one particular and notorious renter, Anitra Kraus (apologies if I misspelled last name), who not only attended, but took notes, ran IT, headed a committee, etc. etc. No one checks ids for renter or owner status and that is as it should be, but, my friends, there is a renter, a good writer and active person in the opposition, that they desperately wanted to exclude. Why? Who knows as it is time they learned that there are no secrets here in the Village. So Howie O'Brien, the good little soldier boy, listened to his master and closed the meeting to renters. Legal? I do not think so but even if yes, one cannot be inconsistent and allow some renters at some meetings and not at others. This is twisted logic, paranoid behavior, terror at possibly losing a position one needs to justify his life.
Anyway, please follow along. At this meeting, three new members of the Finance meeting were announced. One was a man named Toby Lovejoy, an unknown, but probably well prepared to back up David Israel and Ed Black. Another was Don Foster AKA DonHoHo, or rather recently rechristened EBIT - Ed Black In Training as he is now accepting multiple positions - this committee, the associate editor on the Rag and fires people there as well, other committees or positions which I do not have at hand but does not matter as not to worry, if not on now, he will be in a couple of days!, and yesterday was given the position of Chair of the Election committee. Once again we will have a corrupt, shadowy election, all the better to keep the terrorist and gangster crew in position. Truly, an Ed Black in training, much to our detriment, and this for a guy who came in underage to the Village, demanded a paid position at the paper and if only he hangs on I am sure it will come his way as we have already set an example what with paying out on a $12.000 position for the Rag. This for a man who STOLE Internet connections from Olga rather than pay for his own, and who knows what else he was allegedly trying to steal - her information, her numbers, her identity and at whose instructions? Hmmm.... Just thinkin'.... And now, as a reward for doing his jobs oh so well, he is rewarded and we are screwed!
But wait! There is more, oh, so much more. Toni, the Insurance head, was also appointed to the Finance committee, again part of the recycling of the same people, loading the committees with the same voices. However, Toni has her own ideas and objects to some proposed actions that she feels unwise or poorly done and she has resigned for that or unknown reasons. So....guess who was appointed to her seat and you only have one guess. YES! ED Black, the non elected person who is all over UCO, all over the Village, running our very lives without tacit permission, only the nasty, bigoted, evil desires of David Israel and sometimes I wonder what Ed Black has over David Israel that he gets all these appointments and all this power.
We can go to court on this, sue David Israel, Ed Black and UCO for violation of civil rights, of the letter and spirit of the laws which govern 617 and we would win but it would be a protracted and expensive path. Many of us are already paying attorney fees as we ask questions of legality, so determined are we to rid the Village of these terrorists, these fascists, these gangsters. So sue and have him whine again about being persecuted, ad nauseum?
There is a better and cheaper way. Term limits. Reinstate them and have a better Village where we can live with righteous people running the joint and perhaps we need a new system all together, an amalgam of hired and volunteers as this present system has been corrupted beyond words, beyond all repair. At this point, I would vote for a monkey rather than David Israel or his substitute at the next election but it does not even matter as Don Foster will continue to oversee its nasty reputation as a corrupt and cloudy election process. Prove me wrong, EBIT, and appoint others to the committee, others who do not agree with you and yours and let us all hammer out a fair and transparent process but your lord and master will never allow it and if you try to, he will throw YOU under the bus. Hmmm....
So, residents of CV, are you going to continue to sit there like sheep? Make your outrage heard. Throw out the old and useless delegates who do not think, who do not represent you, and appoint those who will do the right thing and represent the association, not the whims and wishes and commands of the nasty ones over there in UCO. This is the United States of America and we are not supposed to be living under restrictive conditions which violate and deny us our civil rights.
I was literally sick about all this yesterday. Enough is enough, Do we have to wait for death or physical infirmity to remove the maggots from our midst, remove those in training to take over or can we, will we, stand up and do the right thing? There is no Papa Doc here, no Tonton Macoutes, so there is nothing to fear and if all stood up to him he could do nothing, be as impotent as he and his buddies deserve. Stand with us, stand up for yourself, stand up for the right. Must we turn to the outside media again and make our shame known out there again? Must we turn to outside organizations who fight for the rights of citizens to live freely? Do we not have enough to counter, to fight, to keep our Village the way it should be, to get rid of the Kellys and those who enabled him to flourish - and for that - look to UCO for they KNEW and ALLOWED it to happen.
The present reality sucks. It is wrong, unfair and possibly even literally illegal. For those of us who came from Brooklyn, here is the old, yet fitting refrain - "Trow de bum oudda here!"
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