Sun City Anthem

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Association Jargon.....Track Records...and...Observations

Sun City Anthem Board Elections...2014

We have no desire to enter the world of association politics in a battle over "words",  because in our opinion, the many "words' spoken by candidates over the years have been just that...

WORDS...EMPTY WORDS

Does it matter what a candidate says?

What should matter is what they do...

Who out there disagrees with these "words"?

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER

Usually about 25% of eligible voters cast ballots and the greatest percentage of those who do, make their decisions based on...

ASKING A NEIGHBOR...WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR ?

Unfortunately many of those "neighbors" have no idea themselves, and have merely heard from their friends who the choices should be...and then convey that message to their "neighbors"....

...either that...

...or...

... read some biased opinion on a community blog site that boasts some kind of a record of choosing winners.....yet repeatedly fails to report subsequent voting records or their behavior toward others after they've been elected.  

WINNERS....on paper...

but...

LOSERS once they are infected by the power bug

These "endorsements" and the subsequent election of such individuals over the years,  have, in numerous cases, resulted in...

.... TV "HOA Hall of Shame" presentations on Channel 13

....publicly humiliating a number of residents.

... a number of failed restaurants.

...electing individuals who met secretly to withhold background information about chosen restaurant operators...even from other fellow board members...operators who eventually failed...before they were chosen.

...inexperience at contract negotiations resulting in adverse financial results to residents.

...individuals who supported bookkeeping practices that eventually cost residents in excess of $140,000 to defend actions dealing with improper IRS filings.

...retribution toward others who have made attempts to join committees, and rejected for what has always been believed to be the result of "disagreeing with the system".

....defending management company practices that in some cases were believed to have harassed long-term, resident/ employees.

...failing to allow any independent oversight on contract bidding.

That is the track record of many of those endorsements.

And now we once again are confronted with much the same....a source who has endorsed those with these  past records.

But...perhaps, rather than accepting what you read, or who your neighbor is voting for, you might do something a bit differently this time before you accept such recommendations...

 ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU SEAL THAT BALLOT


Just who votes "YES" to having .33% taken from the sale of your home when you leave the community...thereby allowing massive costly decisions to be in the hands of a few in order to avoid major financial decisions to be made by a vote of the membership?

Just who votes "Yes" to ignoring resident questionnaires that overwhelmingly demanded a modestly priced restaurant...without community funds to subsidize it?

and follows that with...

Just who votes "Yes" to choosing selected individuals  to spend $3,000 of resident funds, to sample the food of independently owned businesses as potential tenants of that restaurant location?

...and follows that with....

Just who out there votes "YES" to spending YOUR DUES MONEY on that private business by taking it upon themselves to reduce the tenant's rent $24,000 per year, making residents responsible for that deficit...when about 95% of residents don't eat there? 

Just who votes "YES" to have a community retain your funds when they could have been returned to you to avoid a $140,000 IRS bill?

Just who votes "YES" to spend $500,000 on air conditioning units when they still work...just because it's in a budget?

Just who votes "YES" to spend $65,000, then revised it to over $75,000, with still more to come, on a vestibule door when $8,000 could have solved the problem?

Just who votes "NO" to creating a committee with experienced people to oversee expenditures in order to cut waste to get "the biggest bang for your buck"?

Just who does these things?

THEY DO...YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS !

THE ONES THE SAME BLOG SOURCE HAS ENDORSED
100% OF THE TIME

If that astounds YOU, I'm saving the best for last.

On February 20, 2014 I sent the following email to all those who are running in this current board election.

To...

Jean Capiluppo
Thomas Nissen
Donald Schramski
Carl Weinstein
Kay Frank


As a candidate for the 2014 Sun City Anthem Board election, I am attaching a copy of an article that was published on the Anthem Opinions community blog on February 18, 2014.



I am sending this to each of you and want to know if you endorse this policy toward residents.



This will be a subject of a subsequent article as to how you respond...or do not respond...to this PLAGUE that has cursed this community for years.


It is a topic that must be addressed and it was written to demand DECENCY in publications.

What say each of you?

The follow-up article with your support...or silence...will be published on March 3, 2014.

Thank you in advance.

Dick Arendt
Anthem Opinions
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NOTE:  The article being referred to is on this website entitled:

Should Harassing Commentary be Condemned by Board Candidates?
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And...as promised....here are the results of that inquiry as to merely pledging support for....

A CODE OF CONDUCT that CONDEMNS BULLY BEHAVIOR THAT HARASSES FELLOW RESIDENTS


JEAN CAPILUPPO
NO RESPONSE

THOMAS NISSEN
NO RESPONSE

DONALD SCHRAMSKI

"I believe in running a decent, positive campaign.  I also believe candidates should present our strengths rather than trying to show others as bad.  Bullying should not be tolerated.  If someone has a well thought out and factual criticism, I'm always willing to consider their opinions."

CARL WEINSTEIN

"I support these comments completely."

KAY FRANK

"No one has the right to intimidate or bully others.  Our association board of directors, management company and the state-licensed employees are failing to enforce the legally-binding SCA-CAI governance rules directed in Section 3.6(h) page 16 and Section 3.5(b) page 14 of the SCA 3rd Amended and Restated CC&Rs that directs the Association to assure each member has "quiet enjoyment" of our homes, clubs, and neighborhoods and common properties".
  
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To conclude this article, I ask all of you to look closely at these responses....and simply consider several observations as to these candidates....

First

THREE ARE CAMPAIGNING TOGETHER YET MAINTAIN THEY ARE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER
(Capiluppo, Nissen & Schramski)

Second

     JEAN CAPILUPPO IS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF SUN CITY ANTHEM... IS SILENT ON BULLY BEHAVIOR... YET HAS ADMONISHED COMMUNITY BLOGS IN A  COMMUNITY SPONSORED PUBLICATION, "THE SPIRIT"  AS PROVIDERS OF "MISINFORMATION".

AND

WHEN ASKED TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THE ACCUSATION, HAS REFUSED TO DO SO.

Third

JEAN CAPILLUPO VOTED TO FINANCE A PRIVATE RESTAURANT BY USING $24,000 PER YEAR OF RESIDENT FUNDS TO REDUCE THEIR FINANCIAL OBLIGATION...AND TRANSFER THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU.

Fourth

JEAN CAPILUPPO HAS OPPOSED ANY ATTEMPT AT CREATING AN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE COMPOSED OF EXPERIENCED PROFESSTIONALS TO CURB WASTE IN SPENDING.

Fifth

JEAN CAPILLUPO HAS BLOCKED EVERY ATTEMPT AT HAVING COMMUNITY BURGLARIES REPORTED TO RESIDENTS.

So...with these facts in mind....

DO YOU OR ANY OF YOUR NEIGHBORS FAVOR CANDIDATES  WHO REFUSE TO SUBSCRIBE TO A BEHAVIORAL CODE OF CONDUCT?

DO CANDIDATES RUN TOGETHER...
IF THEY ARE OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER'S OPINIONS?

Are these comments intended to endorse any particular individual ?

ABSOLUTELY NOT

but...

If these comments have any validity or raise suspicions in your mind....

THEN ASK YOURSELF THIS FINAL QUESTION

Will you be amongst the 75% who will merely ask your neighbor...OR...read something elsewhere that avoids the WHOLE STORY...

When deciding....

"Who Should I Vote For?"

1 comment:

  1. From Dick Arendt....to...Sun City Anthem Residents

    Evidently some people can't help themselves from looking for dirt where none exists.

    There is a world of difference between looking at the truth of a VOTING RECORD, and a "bullying attack".

    Unfortunately an alternative blogger can only find fault with a percentage, NOTHING ELSE.

    ...and I guess that when "that's all you got", you have to say something to DEMEAN another person.

    I thank him for confirming my belief and that of others.

    I choose NOT TO RIDICULE nor respond in some demeaning manner.

    I ridiculed NO ONE; I stated an ACCURATE VOTING RECORD.

    When you are incapable of disputing the TRUTH, the only response a BULLY has to a valid argument is to stress minor details in order to conceal or distort the full truth, and then conclude the distortion with RIDICULING THE PERSON WHO STATED THE TRUTH.

    Unfortunately for his choice of leader, the TRUTH with regard to the voting record of this president was 100% accurate, and it was a mere observation that three people, all going to the same events, sitting in the same room, raise suspicions as to being "independent" of each other.

    That individual for some unknown reason has stressed again and again, that they are "independent" of each other. Why would that be brought up over and over again...unless of course, suspicion was being raised by other voters?

    He also is unable to dispute that two of his choices in no way responded to a simple call for DECENCY.

    His publication in no way has made such a plea.

    Once again, I thank him for proving his continual pattern in what people realize is nothing more than an insulting trend that is as old as the hills.

    And when you make people....voting people...aware of the facts......that's no attack...

    ....that's a community service.

    And INTELLIGENT PEOPLE realize that !

    He might wish to try it some time.

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