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Second Anniversary:
Rigging the election
• - Rigging the Application Process
• - Rigging the Publicity
• - Rigging the Election Brochure
• - Hide the Meeting?!!

• 1. What the County Sold
      to the Community
• 2. Initial Success - 15 projects!
• 3. The 1st Chair:
        "I am in Charge"
     - Useful projects flee
• 4. The "Amphitheater" Bungle
• 5. Selecting the Second Chair
• 6. Bylaw Update Fiasco!
• 7. Appointing the Cronies
•    - Talk, Talk, Talk...
• 8. Rigging the 2008 Election
• 9. Hiding the Minutes

... and who knows what new shenanigans they'll come up with!

The County Commissioners don't seem to care:
No law suit?
No worry!...

The names are changed to protect the innocent!

Darned Folk: Walk Your Talk
Be Accountable To The Community

At the December 6, 2011 BOD meeting, one of the BOD members, apparently summarizing the BOD's position on an ODOT action, said:
      "I am opposed to ODOT or any Government organization positioning themselves
       that they don't account to anybody."

It is truly a sad reflection on their integrity that, at the very next meeting, January 3, 2012, that Clackamas County Advisory Board schemed that the community should not be informed that Cam Gilmore, a key person in Clackamas County staff, will be attending the February meeting.

Vainglorious Bullies Or Conniving Profiteers? You Decide
striving to better eliminate Community Involvement!

It seems that no one wants to play their game: they have two openings on the BOD, which would have been 4 but they snookered two newbies into being willing to be on it (they "volunteered" by not running away fast enough?)

So, rather than "solve the problem of community dislike, disrespect, avoidance, etc", they are, instead, trying to change the bylaws.

Eliminating Community Involvement!
Changing Bylaws to better control!

If you have nothing to do and no one pays attention, why, just change the bylaws so as to have better control by the fewer bullies!

Attend Our Meetings?
We let our friends know, but YOU?
We Don’t Need No Stinking Meeting Notices!

Apparently the meeting scheduled for Tuesday March 1, 2011 was canceled.
Then it wasn’t. Then it was……

So maybe it will be rescheduled for tomorrow… or next week… or sometime.
We’ll certainly keep our friends informed but anyone else?       .....read more

Link from our Tax Paid for Web Site???
Only if we like you!

The BOD meeting of 2011-03-01 of the Villages of the Darned is going to discuss what links can be put on the Taxpayer supported site.

We Can’t Allow The Community to Tell Us To Go Away!

The BOD meeting of 2011-02-01 of the Villages of the Darned was enlightening from the discussion that they had on how the community is to “vote” for BOD members.

The fact that they have had an open position for a year now and no one in the community wants to associate with these folk is a big embarrassment. Added to that was that the community managed to eliminate the most outrageous snake-oil bully last year really aggravates them.    ........read more

When, Oh When, Is The Meeting?

Meeting notices? Meeting notices?
         "We don't need no stinking notices" (to paraphase from Treasure of Sierra Madre :-)
    After all, the 7 days called out in the 'bylaws'...
          "they aren't laws, they are just guidelines"
                  (quoting from a recent 'former chair').    ........read more

Introduction: A Good Idea Corrupted

It is always sad when unbounded enthusiasm of volunteers of a volunteer organization gets ground into withdrawal and resentment by pompous, self anointed "leaders". Leaders who are:

• mostly kindly described as incompetent and clueless
• some older ones may seem to "be losing it,
• gain their position through wily, slick, less than honest talk and positioning
• if deceit doesn't work, then resorting to simple bullying and intimidation works wonders in eliminating volunteer contributions, and
• have a small number of close sycophant and parasites to do the dirty work

While we see these behaviors everyday in "politics", it is most disappointing when it occurs in volunteer organizations that are attempting to do projects for their community. ........read more

8.2 Hiding the Election from Sight
June 16, 2008

In politics as in marketing, it is all about

In this commentary, we will look at how the incumbents, with the assistance of the County Bureaucrat, withheld information from the Community.
=> with the effect of keeping the election and the lone non-incumbent, Community Member's candidacy a secret.
.....read more of section 8.2

8. May 2008: The Second Anniversary of the Formation of the
Villages of the Darned

Rigging the Election to Keep the Cronies on the Board

How exciting! Learning how to rig an election!
    Just like in third world countries.
.....read more of the introduction

8.1 Rigging the Application Process to Keep People From Being Candidates

The easiest way to make sure your crony friends are "elected" to help you control the Community is to make sure no one else runs! 
=> If there are 4 positions and only your 4 friends run, why then it would be very hard to lose.

In this commentary, we will look at how the incumbents, with the assistance of the County Bureaucrat, withheld information from the Community.

=> with the effect of keeping the open positions and deadlines a secret.
.....read more of section 1

8.3                  Biasing the Election Brochure

Elections, even for a farce such as the Villages of the Darned, are always scrutinized for 'fairness".  Issues of "who is first", positioning of statements, etc, can be determining factors in a close election.

The County Bureaucrat, VJG, either with malicious intent or just stumbling, managed to do a number of things to make sure the "outsider" was at as big a disadvantage as possible.

In this section, to help others understand how to do this dastardly type of deed,
.......read more of section 3