[Watchdogs] Texland Fiasco

[Bill Christensen]

Sorry, I must have missed whatever Texland announcements prompted this.

Care to fill me (and the others on Watchdogs) as 
to what you're talking about?  Has some agreement 
or other action been reached regarding Texland?

And in general - yes, we need to move forward, 
but when there's a possibility of recovering some 
or all of the money we've been hoodwinked out of, 
we need to pursue that.   Half a million is a 
fair bit of money to recover.



At 12:19 PM -0400 4/23/09, Linda Kaye Rogers wrote:
>I am waiting to hear what those attorney's fees 
>are---the ones mentioned at the board meeting on 
>the 20th.  As I believe I have said before, this 
>is probably going to cost PEC and Bluebonnet 
>about as much as we are going to get out of it. 
>So, indeed, where was the forsight and prudence? 
>A costly show for what?  Our co-op needs as 
>little bad prress as possible.  It may be 
>interesting, but it is costing us as members, 
>directly and indirectly.  When will realistic, 
>practical thought begin to be the driving force 
>for action?  The reality is that as much as we 
>may be angered by past events, to stay focussed 
>on them is not serving the best interests of the 
>coop or members, as we operate in the NOW and 
>the FUTURE. To question the costs versus the end 
>product should be the practical issue, this is 
>the bottom line, the money.  Isn''t that what so 
>many are mad about anyway,  how previous money 
>was used/spent?  You can complicate and argue 
>this issue to dooms day.  Yes, we were 
>hoodwinked.  Some people did things that 
>put money in their pockets and out of our 
>pockets.  So again I must ask, when are we going 
>to stop actions that continue to take money out 
>of our pockets, as members, and in most cases, 
>putting it in the pockets of lawyers and the the 
>media?  When will we pull together as a co-op 
>family and work for the good of the whole?  When 
>will we quit the destructive process of anger 
>driven by a few, and move into the healing (and 
>productive) process of letting go (of the 
>anger).  Forgiving does not mean forgetting. 
>Dilligence will always be necessary.  We are 
>human beings, and no matter how honest most of 
>us are, there will always be those who work for 
>themselves.  This usually requires practices 
>that harm others.  There are no guarantees, 
>ever, about anything.  As long as we have the 
>human factor in operation, we will have deceit 
>and ill-driven motives.  So no, we do not 
>forget, but to stay fixed in the past disallows 
>progress.  I believe we must begin to pull 
>together, with prudent thought and planning,  To 
>do this, we must begin to pull together in a 
>positive, FORWARD 
>direction.                   Linda Kaye Rogers
>
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