Candidate for the Board ~ Jerry McAnear

Interesting week(and month), an indication that board elections are upon us.
Thank God for the opposition, it opens numerous sides of the issues that plague the community, finances, open/public meetings and voting, transparency, authoritarianism, among other issues and exposes existing deficiencies.
It has been my observation since moving here, some years    ago  that all it takes for a person to embrace a totalitarianistic point of view is to be elected to the board of directors and given a bit of authority. It then becomes an obsession to take over and rule, through tyranny, by repression of information and rule by force and threat.
The status quo is not the answer to the problems we are currently experiencing in this community. The primary solution to the difficulties currently being discussed is to elect board members who will answer to the public and not be influenced by personal, ego-driven agendas. Has anyone thought of the reason for controlling POA dues? One possibility is it causes more homes to be on the market thereby creating more opportunities for real estate sales. We have board members with a very definite conflict of interest in this area and other board members who know of this but refuse to acknowledge and act on this knowledge. How can a board manage the affairs of a  community of 1500 when they can not or will not govern themselves?   We are into an election season for the election of qualified people to serve the community as members of the board of directors. This should be an election of qualified individuals who are capable of guiding the community into the future, while handling affairs in a better than adequate business approach.  It should not be a popularity contest, which historically has been the case in Diamondhead for some time.
As I review actions of this and previous boards, I am reminded of the wise old saying,  
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We undeniably need a change.
J.L.McAnear, SR