March 14, 2007

Dear Radburn Neighbors:

Following June’s announcement that she was taking part in the litigation for Radburn democracy, more than 500 residents – a record number -- voted in the election in which June won her second term. In January, however, something less than 90 residents voted at the Citizens’ Association meeting as to whether the democracy litigants should be asked to withdraw their suit. About 50 felt the litigants should be asked to withdraw; about 40 voted no. I have to say the whole resolution seemed backwards to me. Why wasn’t the Radburn Association asked to grant open nominations for the Board of Trustees? If the Radburn community were ever granted democracy, I’m sure the democracy plaintiffs would waste no time dropping their litigation.

We do not live in a Fiefdom inhabited by Lords and Ladies (the trustees and manager) and by serfs (the dues-paying residents). This is AMERICA – and we are entitled to a say in our community – our home – our Radburn. We all owe a deep debt of gratitude to the litigants who had the courage to stand up and be counted against an organization that refuses to accept the basic tenets of democracy. Surely the incandescent glow in the harbor that illuminates Lady Liberty and kindles the fire of freedom in minds throughout the world cannot be extinguished in Radburn.

Barbara Gremillot