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July 2008 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
Vanitzian’s Quixotic Battle Against the CLRC and AB1921 Succeeds Against All Odds
June
24,
2008
The
CotoBuzz Journal has chronicled D.
Vanitzian’s Quixotic (some would called insane)
battle against the CLRC in general and the passage of Assemblyperson
Saldana’s Assembly Bill AB1921. In a post January 16
2008 we wrote “In a scathing letter to the California Law
Revision Commission ominously titled The Temple of
Blame and Wholesale Titleholder Disenfranchisement,
arbitrator and author D. Vanitzian questions the
motives for the mad rush to “pass pork-barrel
project, as she refers to the Statutory Clarification
and Simplification of CID Law”
We sent a copy of the letter to Brian Hebert
for comment – we did not get much.
Early last year, Vanitzian circulated a petition
asking homeowners to write to the CLRC and help repeal
CIV.
CODE SEC. 1363.03.
Sources tell us that Mr. Hebert had very much determined that
ASB1921 would pass – it was a done deal, after all,
this was one of Assemblywoman Saldana’s baby, there
was practically no homeowner opposition and the CAI
was playing ball.
Worse yet. most of the homeowners responding
probably did more harm than good, as their response
was generally in the form of suggestions – these the
CLRC could spin very easy – sort of like the
difference between the Ten Commandments and the Ten
Suggestions.
“I strongly
recommend approval of AB1921. My firm manages 175
Commercial CID's/2000 building owners who desire
clarification, streamlining and smaller governmental
oversight. They are specifically desirous of being
exempt from the double secret blind ballot/elections
rules requirements and many other areas of the D-S
Act. The CLRC and the Legislature has already taken
the position that commercial CID's do not need the
same protections etc., Please move swiftly and pass
AB1921.”
Wrote Mar West Real Estate CEO, Craig T. Stevens on 05/21/2008 – this is an example of the apparent massive support by the industry with no visible signs of a Vanitzian Support.
Ominously however, earlier
this month, after we learnt of a potential
“Mutiny in the Bounty”
- 17 Lawyers opposed to the CLRC we wrote:
“…however, What
we can glean from the 17 attorneys standing up to the
CLRC and their behind the scenes industry supporters
who use the CLRC as their personal un-registered
lobbyists is that they are on the verge of
self-destruction.
Perhaps AB1921 is the triggering event?”
We also promised that we would keep working on
the Follow the Money Trail so
See where the AB1921 support was coming from.
Now this week we found out that the Done Deal
was Undone, and that the CLRC has pulled AB1921!
We asked Vanitzian to comment on the latest
bizarre CLRC move pulling a Done Deal..
We also asked he to comment if Hebert’s
response to her now successful one-person-campaign had
been arrogant, insulting, sarcastic, condescending or ….? Her response?
No Comment!
Fight On Don Vanitizian!
COMMENTS
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