Dear Governor Charlie Crist, Dear Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp,

with letters dating May 9, 2007 I had asked to please consider vetoing bills S 314 and S 902/H433. I know that quite a lot of members of different organizations and many owners have e-mailed your office with the same request.

Please see letters:
http://www.ccfj.net/CCFJGOVCRISTVETO433.htm

http://www.ccfj.net/CCFJGOVCRISTVETO314.htm

Both bills have been vetoed last year by Governor Bush -- only insignificant changes were made this year!

Both bills clearly violate private property rights!

I'm amazed to read in today's Sarasota Herald Tribune the following quote: "Crist spokeswoman Suzette Roblejo said the governor had received only a handful of e-mails on the subject by last week."

See: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070619/REALESTATE/706190358

Everybody knows that the community association bills need a serious overhaul. There is no question about it! But we need bills that help owners, already under siege by high property insurance premiums and high property taxes. Both bills would further enhance the power grab of service providers and greedy developers to the detriment of the owners!

Private property rights are supposedly the foundation our nation is built upon!

So please veto these bills and create a Task Force chaired by owner-friendly legislators like Representative Julio Robaina to overhaul the system! We need to stop the financial mismanagement, uncontrolled spending and even clear embezzlement in our communities! Even the AARP acknowledges the desperate need for community association reforms due to the fact that they received a multitude of complaints from our elderly citizens suffering from abuses in our communities!
We owners need help -- because we are being priced out of our homes!

You, as our Governor, have the power and ability to initiate the necessary changes!
Vetoing S314 and S 902 is the first important step in the right direction!