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April 2007 Issue

We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and the Coto de Caza Board of directors and report the facts!

CZ Master Association Electoral Procedures

Joseph Morabito, former member CZ Master Association BOD

March 17, 2007

Hello All: I just came back from Communist China land of the not so free where news and all communications are censored. Communist China has the very same electoral process that we have in Coto. In a country with over a billion people, a small number of people kind of like Delegates to the Communist Party somehow choose their leaders in secret. I would not use the word elect since no one really knows how their leaders are chosen. The people in fact have nothing to say about it just like elections in Coto. And, then in March while I was there in fact, they hold their “People’s Congress” composed of 10,000 hand chosen “representatives” who come to Beijing once a year for a week to hear what their “elected” leaders plan to do in the country. These “representatives” get to vote Yes on the Plan for the year as to do otherwise would be suicide.

Gosh, in Coto we have a small number of people usually not more than 25 – 30 Delegates “electing” our Board Members in secret. The Delegates generally will not reveal how they voted so those they are suppose to represent namely the dues paying members of CZ have no clue who they voted for. Our system is equally corrupt because of cumulative voting and Board Members who serve as Delegates making Recall next to impossible. These same Board Members have attempted to censor the news on several occasions threatening lawsuits against critics. I guess a lawsuit is better than death or the gulag; but the effect is much the same. Fortunately, those of us who are critics understand that the US Constitution does not stop at our gates so we know that the threats are nothing more than silly bluster from a bunch of incompetent, corrupt dopes.

Nevertheless, Communist China and Coto de Caza have a lot in common. They have corrupt leaders and so do we. Their leaders are elected in secret by a hand full of people and so are ours. Their leaders feed their friends who are piggies at the trough and so do ours. Their government confiscates money from its citizens and so does CZ. However, there is one big difference. At least China is growing at about 8% a year even with all the corruption. About the only thing growing in CZ is Bob Varo and Jerry Mezger’s waistlines because our Members don’t have much to show for their tenure in office. So now Varo and Mezger are asking for another term. The question is why would any Delegate in their right mind vote for three more years of Varo/Mezger fiascos. Delegates who vote for Varo and Mezger will be voting for another dues increase because these two characters have proven that they just can’t manage a buck. Joe Morabito

P.S. We have two Varo/Mezger dues increases in just two years that are the result of blatant fiscal mismanagement. I rest my case.

Hi Joe:

You may have noticed that with your Adopted 2007 CZ Annual Budget, there is a section on Legal Action Fine Schedule. – “Hearings before the board; subject to $1,000 fine. Immediate legal action may be taken against any owner who fails to abide by a cease and desist notice”.

Guess what this rule change is supposed to do? Now compare the amount of this fine to the new transponder revenue enhancing initiative. Any questions?- Buzz