Friday we had an example par excellence of such a situation right here in the Village. We have David Israel, a man who uses alleged threats and intimidating tactics to get his way. He maneuvered his way into overturning term limits here in the Village and has now joined, at least in his mind, the tribunal of "forever presidents" who occupy that position in many African nations. So it is in his head and so it is that he violates almost every canon of proper chairmanship, of proper behavior, shouts from the dais, discards Roberts Rules, makes deals in secret and in violation of the bylaws and the voting decisions of the delegates and ignores many of the physical dangers to the Village and its ongoing deterioration.
So - let's go back a bit to understand what happened Friday. First, know that David, like an infant, demands to get his way and if not, throws tantrums. Yes, he does try to maintain a surface calm, but when truly caught out, he cannot maintain the reins over himself and he shouts and threatens. Okay, back to where we were.
Now David wants what he wants. He wanted Atlantic Broadcasting, the same way he wanted DSL that we managed to block, despite his behavior and his threats. He got AB in by the skin of his teeth and shoved a contract into the faces of the delegates and added an answer to every question, Oh yes, he said, that will be taken care of, it will be addressed before we sign, we will make sure the Village is protected. Bah, humbug!!!!!
Basically, he screwed he Village. One of the ways he did that was to promise to rent space to them for $1 a sq. ft. this when the rental in the med building is about $22 sq. ft. But - where to find the space? Aha!! Here is how his warped mind thinks. The Camden building which WPRF gave to the Reporter to use, the present Rag, but was no longer a viable place as the mold, etc. was harmful to all. So - where to go. Watch. WPRF or Levy, the result is the same, wanted the space where the present realty office is. So watch what these minds came up with, the better to screw the Village yet again. Take this building with all is property and in turn give the Village the storage shed near Southampton, out of the way and difficult for Villagers to reach if they wished to go there, if they even knew where it was in the first place. But wait. Why were we switching buildings anyway, when WPRF was supposed to give us a replacement for Camden without inducing another trade. We were left holding the bag or missing a building!!! If we took this offer we were still out the building in exchange for Camden as we made another whole trade.
Next. David claims this is a huge deal for us. We were trading a building worth zero for a building worth money and showed its tax valuation as zero. Yes, because it was not listed as a business building, was non commercial, or so the county thought and so its valuation was zero for tax purposes!!! The county tax office plainly laid out the truth of it all and whoa!! The man went berserk. He does not like being questioned or being shown up so he shouts to Ed that Ed is a liar and he cannot come up and tell all these lies. Wow!! you had to be there! Ed had had it! He clenched the paper in his hand and ran - as best he could - up to the stage to show David et al the facts, right to their lying faces. Well, el chicken David began to screech for help, for security, for PBSO. Ed has a temper, yes, but he cannot physically, would not physically, harm anyone. Period. David is just a big baby, but anyway, he is also supposed to remain neutral non partisan as the chair of the meeting. Period there as well.
All the numbers are there. The facts are there. The representative of the Tax office who happened to be there confirmed that the person who gave us the information was in fact an employee of the office with the ability to do this, contrary to David's lies about that. He certainly did not like being shown up.
And even were we to agree to the exchange, why would we want to give them a larger property? How would the Atlantic company fit in comfortably and fairly with the Rag and its staff and needs, especially when they were now ensconced in the Clubhouse although that still left us out in the cold because that is a music room in demand during season and we still needed a replacement for Camden and not a switch of another building!! A switch which left us out in the cold. All data is seen in the previous posting, by the way.
So now we have David screeching online how all who opposed were Fake News!! Yow, I saw that and quickly looked around for the other dude not attached to reality, whose tethers are long gone. Nope, no Donald, only David, but same lies, same approach, same loser. He claims the opposition disrupted the assembly. I seem to have seen and heard otherwise as people yelled out to David to allow Ed to speak. But Ed was a 'danger' so he must go. But not a whit of difference would it have made, for behind Ed in line were others who spoke calmly about the trade and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. Olga spoke, I spoke, and my point was that this is a bigger decision to make and needed the whole Village involved and not a bare quorum in a summer month - the way in which he usually gets his misdeeds done!! Not this time!!! My suggestion to make a motion to table was taken up, the initial motion to vote was taken back, the table motion was made and was overwhelmingly approved.
So reality and benefit for the Village won this time but what about the future? What about a replacement for Bob Marshall who is in very ill health, and we wish him a recovery, but in the meanwhile, we are short a VP for the man who never should have been on the ballot in the first place as he was ill then. But Olga is next up and David is peeing his pants at that thought so he ignores the hole in the officers - no Treasurer from the Village, now no VP for my quadrant, but the man continues on in his deluded feeling that he is eternal, a forever president and can do what he wants.
He learns and takes heart from the other deluded president, Trump, who lies thru his teeth and then denies, who called other people on days of vacation and then takes more vacation than anyone, who has been on his properties for golf more than any other president, has blabbed secrets, called the WH a dump and then denied even as he denigrated the staff, though he was shown up there by Chelsea. Wonder when she can run for President?!
This man in the Oval Office has lost his party, has the lowest approval rating ever, and is even eating away at his deluded base. He is dangerous to life and limb of the country and its people and threatens the lifeline of the world.
Both these men are trying as hard as hey can to shut down the press and both presidents are in office thru alleged chicanery as far as I am concerned and both try to hide the paper trial for this. Well, nature does take its path and history generally allows for a righting of wrongs - if we can survive the worst of them in their respective arenas.
Both need new tethers to reality.
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