I grew up at the Hacienda as a child and have been a part of this wonderful community for over forty years, both as a property owner and as a real estate broker. I am extremely disheartened and offended by the Board's decision to publish an extremely cruel and malicious cartoon of a fellow property owner and businessman, Tom Porter in the May issue of the "new" Discoverer.
When is it appropriate for an owner's association, or anyone, to attack one of their neighbors with malice and forethought? I have to ask the serious question whether any of our Board members possess the moral compass or good judgment to have seen how terribly wrong their editorial decision was. You should all be ashamed of yourselves
Mr. Porter did, in fact, donate the expensive sign for our children's high school. He also provided high quality jobs for our neighbors, built custom homes, when he could have filled our subdivision with eight hundred square feet manufactured homes, and invested over $20 million dollars into renovating our long deserted golf course into something we can all enjoy and be proud of.
I could continue to tell you of school scholarships and generous donations to almost any good cause in our community. Mr. Porter also served his country as a proud member of our armed services. I find this boards treatment of Mr. Porter to be completely unacceptable by any standard of common decency. I know the good citizens of our thoughtful community would never condone this mean-spirited, pitiful excuse for humor that some of our Association Board members seem to find humorous. I believe you owe a collective apology to Mr. Porter and our community.
Due to my obvious strong, philosophical differences with this Board's editorial responsibilities, I can no longer in good conscience continue to support the "new" Discoverer with my advertising dollars.
Lake Don Pedro Realty
YAY, Harry I could not have said it better, Bravo to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteTheir sense of humor is childish and sick.
I thought we had adults on this board, but I guess I was wrong along with lots of other members.
You are so right Harry. They are in the second grade level.
ReplyDeleteHarry Thank you for putting what I was thinking so eloquently!
ReplyDeleteHis children live here and are members. I am sure they were upset to see their father treated so badly in a members newsletter.
Shame on the Board!
Harry, what a nice way to put what we all feel. I for one have had it with this board. Now you know why I had to leave the board. This is what I had to put up with when I was there. Thanks Again Carolynn
ReplyDeleteKudos to you, Harry. We support your strong ties to this community and applaud you for all your efforts that benefit our community. You are a true advocate for families and children and your support for Little League and the improvements to El Prado are so very much appreciated. This recent demostration by the Directors is yet another reason why Mike also resigned from the Board.
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