Condo Elections

I almost named this "Neighborhood Elections", but then I realized the village I live in is lacking in neighborly character.

Elections are only 48 hours away, I have been home from university exactly that long, and we are right in the middle of a heated election for the Board of the association. The usual campaign flyers have been distributed--comically one was delivered to our door last night telling my mother not to vote for herself because she was a liar and a thief.

Tempers are really flaring, and old festering wounds are being gouged and freshly salted. A few years ago when my mother was serving on the board as president she was the unlucky member of a board which had to replace the roofs, fences, and repaint the buildings, all in one year. Being slightly obseesive compulsive about the failures of leadership, I blame what happened to my mother, on the delinquency of previous boards to establish an account to pay for new roofs, when they were needed. So when it came time to do all of this necessary work, it naturally fell to the board to collect assesments to pay for them over a period of roughly two years. Fences and trelaces were rotting too and initial quotes put the assocviation in a position of paying to replace some sections and boards or everything.

To ensure that we got the best quality my mother consulted her boyfriend, a onstruction worker, and he said to use a certain type of wood that was chemically treated, and would give us a lot of years, so long as there was a fresh coat of paint every now and again. So the wood was inspected, and turned out that we needed it all replaced, which was better since we wouldnt need replacements for some now and some later, just finish it, do it right, and dont worry about it for a few years. Well these contracts take longer than a year to complete, and somewhere along the line the opposition group came in and said we were doing it all wrong and screwing up the community. No sooner had they stolen the election away than they backed out of the contract to replace the wood, and messed up the way assesments were going to be collected, and some roofs didnt get completed till about last year before hurricanes Frances and Jeanne. Luckily just in time. But they cause such a scandal that the company doing the fences threatened to sue, and the management company was sueing for lible because of defamation of character by the idiots who got elected.

My mom was voted out, but not because what she was doing was bad, but because the enemy used scare tactics to get people to vote for the condo nazis. The other problem is that the people who dont care dont vote, yet they do care when something goes wrong. For some reason people forget to vote when things are going good for them.

So here we are at another annual election, where the condo nazis are digging up old propaganda and using it to scare people. As unofficial campaign manager for my mother and those who are one our side, and wish to see the slimey cold hearted tyrants thrown out of the neighborhood, we have decided not to involve ourselves with too much campaigning, other than word of mouth, simply because we would rather win this election without putting too much work into it, and simply letting the votes reflect just how many people the nazis have made mad.

They certainly have racked up a lot of opposition simply by being the good "responsible" board members they claim to be on their flyers.

Thats the Report. I'm Jason Weakley.