Never A 'Yes' Vote

I agree with William Clark (Public Viewpoint, Sept. 1) 100 percent. I have been asking the same questions all the years I have lived in Bella Vista? Who authorized (Property Owners Association General Manager) Tommy Bailey's exorbitant salary and how did he get the job? In 17 years, I have never seen his name on the ballot.

I think the POA has forgotten, if they ever knew, what that name, Property Owners Association, implies. We, the property owners vote people in and T. Bailey kicks them out for being unwilling to sign a secrecy agreement. There should be no secrets. We have every right to know and vote on everything.

Who authorized the purchase of the property in Missouri? Who authorized their fancy new tennis facility?

The last meeting I attended, and believe me it was the last, some ... attorney called the police and I was threatened to shut up or get out. We also had to listen to an hour's worth of Tommy Bailey telling us how many outhouses he had painted.

In my opinion the whole POA is corrupt and they should be done away with. They will never get a "yes" vote out of me.

Susan Hamilton

Bella Vista

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Is This Treason?

Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate majority leader, has been hired as a lobbyist by a Russian bank faced with the sanctions that the president of the United States imposed to economically punish the Putin regime and its cohorts for their actions in invading Ukraine.

This means Mr. Lott will seek to influence members of Congress to lessen Mr. Obama's ability to wage the type of war he and our allies in Europe believe to be most effective in this situation -- economic war.

Mr. Lott is amongst more than 300 former members of Congress who are registered lobbyists: people who seek to influence legislation by calling in favors from their old cronies and who are paid large sums of money to influence legislation.

We all understand what lobbyists do and, since Congress makes the rules on lobbyists, there is not much we can to about it. Our Congress is pretty much bought and sold. But this seems to me to be just too flagrant.

Do you think the men who founded this country envisioned this as statesmanship, or patriotism, or the way they believed a government of, by and for the people should be run? I don't. I think it is how they envisioned aiding and abetting an enemy, which is treason.

Michael Wertz

Springdale

Commentary on 09/10/2014

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