P.T.Barnum would love this

Hello Mr. and Mrs. Century Village and all our residents around the globe.

In the last Delegate Assembly, I attempted to inform the delegates that the election process  we have here in Century Village is undemocratic,  biased,  and geared to maintain the status quo.  The goal is to keep those in office, in office,  and to structure the rules to make this happen.  UCO elections are scheduled to be held in March 2016, yet the committee that is supposed to work out the details has done virtually nothing. It has not addressed the main issue which is “providing a level playing field for all candidates.” 

They suggest using the same process that has been used in the past. Candidates to fill out a Bio form.  Have a picture taken.  All this will be printed in the UCO Reporter.  The committee seems to be wearing blinders.  Our Village has undergone a demographic evolution  over the past few years. Many of our new residents have little knowledge of what UCO is all about.  These new residents and many of our long-term residents will be short changed by the current election process.  How  can any delegate or resident  glean any information from just reading a 25 word Biography  on a candidate?  These  are then published in the Reporter 5 days before the election.  Even the soap companies use more words to sell their product than we are allowing here in the Village.

Another fiction proposed was to hold a candidates forum in the Club House.  When will it be held?  How will they inform the Delegates?  How many candidates will be there?  How long will each candidate have for presentation, question and answers?  I don’t  know? Do You?  Grade school students could do a better job than what we are now being offered.

Finally, Barbara Cornish supported the idea that campaign posters be placed on the bulletin boards in each Condo Association.  Great idea? Well, Barbara, I have placed 4 posters on your bulletin board and it was taken down.  In some associations, posters were removed within two hours.  In some associations,  they have placed notifications that only Condo Association material will be allowed.  Some associations have their bulletin boards under glass.  Others to not have bulletin boards at all.

Fair elections in Century Village?  If you think so then I have a bridge in Brooklyn, that I would like to sell you.  Even P.T. Barnum  would be ashamed.

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