An email to me from Duane Dobson, Provocateur General for Rick Thompson, King of the Board of the Travis Landing Property Owners Association (HOA) and Friends
“Ho Barry The so called “survey” was done without Board approval with the ” results” on our web site. The Board has effectively cut off any critical discussion of the electric gate on Discussions@TLPOA . The Nominating Committee has exceeded their authority. If Jamie were President I would object. D”
Next posting will be the evolution of the assentation of Richard Thompson to his Kingship – Why it happened – How it works – Why you must genuflect or be socialy skewered in Travis Landing.
Your TLPOA Board has become a typical HOA, hiding behind a wall of obfuscation – hiding the truth so they can go off on there own claiming the do it to you, when it really is about them. This is a profound act of moral corruption. Ben Franklin said “to see a man’s character, don’t give him money, give him some power”, this is so true with our Board (and if you look at the web about other HOA’s you will see becoming SOP in this country). Retired folks seeking the importance they never had in there worker-bee life.
Joe Mancuso’s public resignation was a brilliant solution to this matter. It was the only way to get to you. Rick Thompson’s take over of the Board a few years ago through the power of the proxy allowed Greg , Maggie, and Margie to orchestrate a sold block on information flow from the Board in which only Thompson approved propaganda could get out.
Joe found a way through that dike that Rick and his Tech Committee team could not block. And boy are they mad.
Congratulations Joe for having the fortitude, strength, and moral conviction to try to let you to see the there is stench in this Board of narcissism that will you gag.
On Saturday the TLPOA had its big annual meeting and it was a great show. We were to be taught a lesson for not supporting the political side of the community, but it didn’t quite work out as planned. We were not assimilated, not this time anyway.
Rick Thompson organized his people for a major attack on the community. Carefully managed, his minions were well prepared and briefed from meeting the night before. This was to be a follow up of the April meeting as an attack on those who wanted to update the By-Laws and clean up the growth of TLPOA proxy voting manipulation. Rick had to stop this effort or they couldn’t deliver the BIG SURPRISE and teach us the lesson we must learn.
Why all this effort on the By-Laws? Simple – election reform would stop his plans. There is desperation in the need to retain power. He and his side-kick Greg as well as minions personally pitched home owners by phone and visits to get “NO” votes for the By-Laws reform and give their proxy vote to his political party members.
THE SURPRISE – Was that after not running for the open election, Rick chose the invisible door and ran a completely secret scheme to be Treasurer again. A Secret Write-in supported in secret by his minions and proxies (too bad this included the Chairman). He is desperate to control the money but the real purpose was to teach us that he commands the voting here in Travis Landing.
If he won, then it would be clear to all that he doesn’t need to go through the standard voting process anymore. He believes he has enough followers and proxies that he and he alone can choose who is on the Board of Directors and thus what the community does. He no longer needs to be a member of the Board to run the Board. In the end, the voting majority on the Board owes their jobs to Rick’s Proxies.
Total anonymity with no accountability and total power – how perfect can you get? What kind of a mind needs that?
The real eye-opener is the poor Chairman/President who sacrificed his integrity to protect Rick in last year’s lawyer issues.
On Saturday hopefully even this naive young man began to realize that he has no real power on the Board, he can be out-voted now, even removed by the will of Richard Thompson.
And now we sit back and watch this madness proceed. I wonder who the new appointees will be? I have more on this coming, stay tuned.
