We have gone through much of the wrongs that have been perpetrated upon us here in the Village and no, sorry, Petey Boy and Ed, directing traffic for an hour or so does not make one a hero. Nice thing to do, but no amount of heavy print will take away all the harm that has been done through these men, one by his deeds and plans and the other by his constant beating the drum for these misdeeds, and in nasty words as well.
But in any case, we still remain with why, why have these deeds been done? Why have these plans been made and more planned for the future? What is the bottom line here for David Israel and Ed Black and associated minions and, in fact, why do these minions support men who have gone dangerously off course, much to our detriment.
Well, I did not major in psychology during my undergraduate, graduate and post graduate years, but took enough courses and lived a life where psychology played a large role at work. The main reason in these people, for the most part, is personal benefit, that cui bono that I wrote about in my previous posting. How do they benefit?
There are always several motives. One is money. We know that past presidents of UCO - not all- have benefitted thus but in this situation we can only posit, we cannot prove at this point, just wonder.
Another motive and the one that is ringing for most people here is that of power. Yes, pathetic, I know, power in CV seems to drive these people, to be a middling and big toad in a small pond. Sad, but true. David Israel and Ed Black sit there and plot and plan, ignoring the needs and wishes of the residents and why - because they can and doesn't that feel good to them. Perhaps they never had any power in their prior life so here is a chance to make up for it. Just musing here, folks.
Joy Vestal is so giddy at the thought of two posts that she does neither well, and, in fact, has driven the proud Reporter into becoming the Rag and has fallen to the ranks of those who beg the readers to actually read the paper. And why is that? Because there is now another paper that has cut into readership, popular with those many people who want the truth, the unbiased truth, and who are sick and tired of subsidizing a CV Pennysaver! Power is fleeting, Joy and what you have done to yourself and your honor needs much introspective thought on your part.
Bob Marshall? Who the hell knows at this point. He was a terrible president and got us into much trouble and now can work with only one thought at a time, so let's just pass on to the next - Barbara Cornish. Well.... She LOVES power and resigned last time when it appeared that she would not be able to remain in office for life- how dare we have term limits! and now is a proponent of no term limits backed up by fallacious reasoning and her own plans for her term in office. Very, very much into power and its use and also has fallen down on the job as to reaching out to her quadrant people.
Still holding on Fausto. He likes being in a position of power, be it the Italian - American Club or UCO, but he does appear to have taken part in some active work for the Village, but also has not reached out to his quadrant and has not solicited opinions from the residents., What will be - we need to wait and see. As for Phyllis and Pat - they never have anything to say. But they love being up there at the dais and at the conference table.
Now for the committee chairs and the various little fiefdoms that David Israel has set up for them and their payback - a vote, a vote for him on crucial issues and why? So they can keep their little ducal roles and have some power, some title after their name. Sad, very sad.It demeans the good they do.
What happens when UCO is non responsive and concentrated on maintenance of power rather than attention to the Village and service to the people? What we have now is what happens. We get a Sheffield O and an Easthampton association. We get the preponderance of renters and of undesirable insertion of homeless and people who simply cannot afford to live here. We get beggars at the doors - residents placed here who do not have the money to keep themselves in food. Well, folks, this is not a Welfare Village, but a CV. We can take care of our own, but cannot do so for the rest of the world nor was meant to do so. Make no mistake about it. I am all for helping those of our residents who have outlived their money, their children even, and have nowhere to turn other than to government programs that we can bring to them, much of that done already by Phyllis Richland, but I DO NOT believe that we can afford to or should take in the rest of the people out there who need help. We are a residential community, not a social welfare community and trying to be otherwise, to let other people turn us into that, or worse, a source of money as an investment, as Kelly and others, right, Ed, have done by purchasing multiple apartments, is ruining us.
The equivalent of UCO in Boca CV bought into the DSL program and had a disaster, a huge money loss as it was awful and had to be stopped. I spoke with residents from there over the weekend and heard from others who had visited there and found the anger still to be high and yet, if we, the opposition, had not raised awareness of this disaster, this Wi Fi awaiting us, David Israel, Ed Black et al would have pushed through our own debacle of millions of dollars, on top of the $5 million loss over the roads and the huge cost awaiting us for the correction of those roads. Now they want to push through again, calling it Broadband. Well, people, Shakespeare said it already - "A rose by any other name......"
So why? For themselves and their own needs and certainly not for ours. Kent security contract? What a disaster and what playing around when the vote went against them. This was David's and Ed's baby - wonder what went on there in all their talks? Who knows - ah, the Shadow, right, but he is not a resident here.
This is what happens when term limits are removed. People feel they are now dictator or petty little power person for life as long as they give their votes. If not, under the bus you go, along with some very good people, the latest being Howie Silver and you, all of you out there who have kept mum, afraid for yourselves, remember, your day will come too and there will be no one to speak up for you other than us, so think, think carefully, evaluate the important things in life such as personal integrity, honor, courage, doing the right thing and think again! Act again!
Step up to run for office. Become the president of UCO, a VP, an officer who does something and hears the people , who advise them in their hour of need, not send them packing without any advice, leaving them out there as they did to Nancy Salmi until we raised the roof on them and they had to act or by another association president who also was thrown under the bus when he asked for help, was promised help by UCO and the insurance committee
and the insurance company and then was ignored, summons not answered and now he is in a suit for his life. Once again, thank you, UCO and there is another suit against you waiting in the wings. Then David Israel can whine again - but why, because of your actions and lack of actions. Please do not join nor remain in his "crimes" against CV. Do the right thing.
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