OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I am so afraid! Not! I am most frightened. Not. I am offended. Well, maybe, but not so much for me as for someone else, a target because of a connection to me. Yes, apparently guilt by association is a crime here in the Village. Have doubts? Well, let's see.

So, first a little history. It was apparent years ago that David Israel was not the President for this Village of ours. Financial shenanigans and incompetence brought us to the brink of bankruptcy, $11 being the amount left in the accounts until their nuts were saved by Dorothy Tetro, may she rest in peace. Our roads were a disaster, physical needs of the Village were neglected, opaqueness was the designated word associated with the administration and rules and regulations were flouted daily, as David violated rules of assembly, engaging in partisan behavior from the stage, interrupting, threatening, even to the point of calling in armed  deputies to stand there at the Assembly, threateningly posed. Wow! I guess those walkers and canes are actually too threatening to some people!

In any case, I put my money where my mouth is and despite being mostly unknown in the Village,  chose to run in opposition to David for President of UCO. I did not expect to win, was not running for that purpose but rather to draw attention to his lacks, his faults, his falling down on the job and the need for change or better supervision, whatever would work for the betterment of the Village, for its residents.

He pulled out all the stops, even calling down the authorities on the synagogue across the street for allowing me to use a fence area for a sign, just as is commonly done in all elections. Nitpicking, desperate, the man called out authorities to threaten the synagogue for violations of ridiculous things, generally ignored, unless pointed out by people with malicious intent. 

New rules were initiated by David and cohorts so as to preclude any meetings on Village grounds to discuss the election issues, no more poolside meetings, no more anything, even to the point of allegedly threatening people to do damage to them via the Internet as he was so  proficient on it, so we have been told. Guess the age of Zooming has  proven to be too much for him though as it was not used to have meetings of the Village during this past year.

Anyway, the man has been steadily going downhill, to the point of even formerly 'loyal' believers beginning to whisper about his apparent growing list of lacks and faults. He refused and continues to refuse to do the right thing and resign, go home, take a break, read a paper, watch a streamed show. take a walk, and give us a break! But no, he continues to misgovern and misdirect, keeping negotiations for a new contract with Benenson a deep, dark secret. Nothing has been presented to the Executive Board nor the Assembly, to the Village, for discussion and voting throughout the entire year. Contracts? Say what? Nothing given over to us as he took over the reins as an open dictator. 

Even as he was forced by the improving health situation to actually call for meetings, he then adjourned them almost as quickly, allowing for no discussion or even presentation of any important, vital issues of the Village, keeping on his path of no transparency, no sharing, no anything! However, this is what has upset me now. 

David, never having been married, apparently does not understand that a good and solid marriage between two independent thinking adults who respect each other, who understand the independence of each, the individuality of each, is possible. In any case, it has worked for us for 53 1/2 years to this point and G-d willing it will continue.

Aha! So why now? Apparently, at the Executive Board meeting so quickly adjourned yesterday, the first meeting in over a year, David, responding, after the meeting, to a question by a member, said that David will not speak to him because of me and what I write in my blog. Wow! Does he think one of us controls the other or must walk lockstep, together? Well, it does not work that way. I am me and Gerry is himself and there are very few people who do not like him or value his opinions, with many turning to him for advice or aid. I think he is too nice at times, but if one has to have a fault, that is not a  bad one at all, is it?!

So David, acting true in manner to his apparent behavioral age of toddler years, will 'punish' me through Gerry, thinking that what? It will shut me down, close my mouth, stifle opposition? I am one voice, sometimes musing in my thoughts, or writing of a national or world situation, or about the Village and yes, about David, if appropriate. So tough!! Remember that old but wise adage about the kitchen and the heat, David. No one says that being President of UCO is an easy job, but if one undertakes a responsibility, one must fulfill all the obligations or get the hell out of the way and allow others to do it right.

So, do me and everybody else a favor and grow up. Gerry has nothing to do with me in this instance. He has his thoughts as I have mine. I do things one way and sometimes he does it another way agreeing and disagreeing as it happens. It is called being independent, thinking adults. Imagine that! People can get along even if there are differing opinions and who disagrees on what is none of your business as far as the Village is concerned. So grow up already. Accept criticism, positive criticism, concern for the Village, from whence it comes. Stop using guilt by association as a rule of thumb, direct from whatever dictator you model yourself on. 

Seriously, enough of this nonsense. You are not talking to Gerry? Really? So stupid! So infantile! I can hear the echoes of schoolyard fights and disagreements. Talking is the path to progress. Not threats. Not regressive behavior. Not threats. Just plain old adult behavior. Try it, David, and maybe you will even like it. Grow up!!