My lawsuit against former HOA and Social Club

For those who haven't heard what this is about, here is a quick history of events. On Nov. 19, 2007 El Dorado's HOA had over $9,300 that they took from the preceeding HOA that raised all of the money. The bank allowed them to transfer this money because the older HOA was not active.The newer HOA gave that money ($7,500+ that was left after spending some) to the Social Club, claiming they were legally disolving the HOA. Raul Torres was on both "Boards" and was instrumental to the taking of this money. This was done in secret by a small group of individuals. On April 1, 2008 a new HOA was formed. This HOA now represents 169 dues paying residents. The Board of this new HOA decided not to sue the old HOA and Social Club for this misappropriated money. I took it upon myself to sue them. My lawyer said I had a 50/50 chance of winning. I and Gayle Washburn felt differently. I played up my lawyers guess and spead that around as my feeling. I knew they didn't owe ME the money, but I wanted to put up a fight so they would not get away with taking this money with no resistance. I can't imagine any court in America that would award me $7,500 personally for something like this. At best I should get $30.33, my share of the original $9,300 divided by the 302 space in the park. Well, I lost my claim, as I expected, but made a big impact on the defendants. They totally lost their cool and spent about $2,000 to defend against a case they could win without saying a word. Charles Richardson, the Social Club president, was their lead person in this defense. He had a lawyer as a witness (about $1,000) and paid for 9 subpeonas and a professional proccess server (only 1 witness ever spoke, the lawyer). Charles was shaking like a leaf at the courthouse, his cockiness was in retreat. The judge slapped him down early on by telling him to let the court handlle things and that he would not be calling witnesses like he thought. Charles thought he was running the show, like always, and got shot down right away! When the trial was over his followers congratulated him and slapped him on the back. They had no clue that they just wasted $2,000 on a case they had in the bag from the outset. This group still thinks they won?! They are now down to $5,500 of that money instead of $7,500 and that's a win? hehe

Is Martin Farrell from Earth?

Ok, I'm a week behind on reading. I just read Martin's "Realities" rant about Jamey. Is Jamey just supposed to sit there and nod his head every so often or did we elect him to get a grip on the situation? Martin prefers the former. Get over it Martin, Steve is no longer in charge of the money spending machine. There really is a way to spend money without giving it to everybody who wants it. It's ok to turn down a project because we can't afford it. We don't have the unlimited revenue to match the unlimited spending of the last City Council. They spent $100 million! This is a small relatively poor town, give me a break! A million $ for a skate park on the wrong side of 126? Dumb! $26 million to treat chloride? Dumber! Tens of millions extra spent on a sewer plant? Dumbest! This city needs accountability more than ever and Martin wants us to close our eyes and just nod our heads. I say, Jamey and Gayle are just what the doctor ordered for this ailing city! By the way, on the Realities page Martin has an editorial ripping Obama, but on that same Internet page is an ad for a company selling "Super Obama" t-shirts. Martin's opinion sells for very little.