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The CotoBuzz Journal

Community Journalism, Newsletters and Blogs Covering South Orange County, CA

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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!

Breaking News: CZ BOD Candidates Announced

March 17, 2007

Keystone Pacific, the CZ master association property manager has officially announced a meeting scheduled for May 24, 2007 to elect three directors to the association’s board of directors.

The five candidates include incumbents: Robert Varo, Jerry Mezger and Lyle Schlieder. The two newcomers are Vince Hylka and Michael Zurosvski.

Varo: Wants a “city hall” type of facility. From previous deeds and actions, turning Coto into a city no doubt.

Mezger: Specially concerned about public safety. From previous deeds and actions, apparently as long as husband/wife teams do not volunteer for safety committees and the CHP is not around, he will be happy.

Schlieder: Wants to work with Keystone on contracts and bid preparation. Similar to the ones used to fire Securitas, the CHP, the irrigation control and lighting companies, for example.

Hylka: Wants to fight resident apathy

Zurovski: Wants to give back to the community

Now the clincher: Paradoxically, in the State of the Union with arguable the most direct form of government, The Varo/Mezger boards have refused to comply with the democratization of the electoral process within the associaiton as prescribed in SB-61 and have decided to not only maintain the current corrupt delegate system but also use cumulative voting. The delegate system combined with cumulative voting was specifically designed for developers to retain control - which is what Varo/Mezger have managed to do over the last five years, with inpunity!

Suggesting that a group of people should make decisions for the greater good for any reason (apathy, cognitive skills, etc.) is at best presumptuous. Democracy and the US Constitution should NOT check in at the UPS gates.

We need to remember that in ANY system, there will be those so enamored with power that they will lie, cheat and steal to maintain the status quo! – need we provide any more proof?

As Joseph Ratzinger writes in Values in a Time of Upheaval “after all the disappointments prompted in recent years by the collapse of real socialism, positivism and relativism have now undeniably gained the upper hand …..This however, does not make it pointless to consider again the characteristics….in Marxism, because it still leads a ghostly existence deep in the souls of many people and it has the potential to emerge again and again in many forms”

Now CotoBuzz readers know why we have been able to predict the outcome of CZ elections since Varo/Mezger first came into the scene - no rocket science, just political corruption!