Homeowner Association Fight!
Right here in my county, human people got fed up with rightwing people stealing our Beto yard signs. You knew the signs were overly disturbing to them when their local political pundit had to put on Facebook to her minions to “calm down” about all the Beto signs because Cruz was going to win anyway.
Oh yeah?
There were the regular warning signs that “if you steal this sign, I will buy another and then Beto makes $5 more.” But, if history had taught us anything, it’s that the rightwing people just cannot keep themselves from destroying things.
Somebody is a genius.
Yep, it’s painted on their front yard, you sucky sign-stealing neighbors.
They hadn’t even finished painting it before the homeowner’s association guy was being rude at them.
Speaking with McClatchy newspapers, Bennett said the president of the HOA confronted the family about the sign before she, her husband and kids had even finished painting it.
“He was very hostile,” Bennett said. “This is truly a shock, that they became so angry.”
And then the HOA threatened to remove it themselves.
Bubba makes very few demand of me, but one of them is that we never, ever live where there’s an HOA. He contends this is Texas and a person’s property is a person’s property and you can’t step on somebody’s property without their permission, much less tell them what shrubbery they can have.
So anyway, they have 30 days to appeal the decision so that takes us until after the election and they weren’t planning on keeping up much past that.
So, in highly technical legal terms, the HOA can stuff it.
HOAHAHAHAHOAHAHAHOA…
Now I just had an idea to make a big “Ted” stencil, a very big one, and tack it down at one of those dog parks, near a road of course, a hillside for bonus points.
1Have people let their Fidos dump on the the grassy exposed “Ted” stencil cutout areas (without doing the plastic baggy thing, ewww). Then remove the stencil material.
Leaving big lettered brown piles spelling out Cruz’ Anglo nickname in a very suitable medium (chickens would work too, but who’s got any?).
I live near Juanita in a very Republican neighborhood (it’s nice other than that). I’m pleasantly surprised that my Beto yard sign hasn’t been stolen yet, and I’ve had it up for several weeks! There are a couple of others in the ‘hood, but mostly we have signs for Cruz, aka “Lucifer in the flesh” according to the Chronicle.
2Years ago, when our political sign kept getting stolen, Mother finally wrote across the top in letters not legible from the street but quite easy to read from anyone close to the sign: “Jesus is watching you.” No more signs were stolen.
3I live in the heights – a whole lot of Beto signs and every once in a while you see a Cruz sign. Cruz signs are like Cruz – he pops up here and there – no one wants to really look at it and none of the other houses want to go near it either.
4That photo makes me happy. I will keep a copy for times when I need a smile later, and there will be plenty of those in any case. And I like the fact that when I drag a copy of the photo to my desktop, what it’s called is “beto-orourke-sign-painted-texas-lawn-results-threats-homewners-association.jpg”
5Speaking of legalities with the news that the thuglican AG ( now gov candinate) lied to the Bar association to get his license now may lose it.
Would that mean anyone who lost a trial can appeal based upon state chief law enforcement officer had fraudelent license?
6During the 2016 campaign, my first Hillary yard sign was taken, so I ordered 2 more and put them inside my large front windows.
7You just can’t trust those R varmints.
SURVEY SAYS: The HOA was behind the Beto sign thefts…
8HOAs. The last refuge of fascists. My daughter and her family have to deal with them constantly where she lives. The HOA Board was supposed to self-dissolve at a certain point but power is power and they hung to make life miserable for everybody. If you install a wooden fence, you can’t leave au natural. You must paint it. The HOA color for fences is you guessed it, the color of **it. Their defense? We just can’t have an entire devlopment looking looking like a patchwork quilt. My psych training translation: Where all colors are equal?
9Love just love it! Timely placed too, I too will never live anyplace with a HOA. I am the only person who can tell other people what to do, hahaha, not that anyone listens.
10OK, I’m totally in love with the yard-sign family! Beautiful!
11As for the HOA, double phooey on them. We have a kinda-sorta set of rules that came with the neighborhood but they seem to be totally unenforced. House colors, for example, are supposed to be tasteful, I forget the exact wording (shades of off-white to beige to tan, as originally?) But nothing was said when one of our neighbors not only painted the house blue, but painted the sides a different color, sort of green. And another neighbor has a house approximately the color of a late marigold. As for signs, can’t recall ever seeing a Trump sign in our little blue bubble. Maybe they are forbidden by city ordinance.
My town is notorious, however, for cops showing up to enforce the noise ordinance on some unfortunate woman who left her window open at night and was snoring at an excessive decibel level.
I’m very fortunate. Here in Maryland, in the heart of the blue part, our HOA doesn’t care about what you do, so long as it isn’t permanent. Decorate your yard for any holiday you want, put up yard signs for political candidates–but don’t paint your front door a different color without getting permission!
Actually, that applies a lot less than it used to. When we moved in twelve years ago, we painted the doors and shutters a color that turned out to be Smurf blue. It looked a lot better against our gray house than the white we painted over, so nobody complained about it, and the HOA has left us alone.
12Sandridge –
13Devious.
Me like.
HOA’s. I HATE them!
When my HOA gets overzealous, I just think of the X-Files episode about HOA’s and I get a giggle.
http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Arcadia
14I have never lived anywhere with a HOA and hope that never happens. We do live in the country but the house is pretty close to the road. We do not put signs because we do not want our windows shot out. Call us chicken or whatever but it is very red here. Do not think anyone we know would do it, but lots of cars go by.
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