1. Bob Thompson charges Clarke with making comments about a possible insurance claim for damages to the Yacht Club pool caused by Hurricane Sandy. Clarke has made public comments suggesting such a claim might be denied because OPA did not follow proper maintenance by emptying the pool after the season. If Clarke is correct, perhaps Bob Thompson should be brought up on some charge for removing all the water from the pool.

2. Sharyn O'Hare charges Clarke with making comments about how OPA handled notification of association members with regard to a mandatory evacuation notice from the National Weather Service during Sandy. Clarke publicly pointed out that OPA took about three hours after the weather service called for mandatory evacuation to notify the membership. How the statement of a publicly known fact is some sort of basis for formal charges is curious. The same fact was published here on the forum at the time. While it took about three hours for OPA to tell the membership of a mandatory evacuation, it took only about five minutes to tell members the Yacht Club referendum passed.

3. Dan Stachurski charges Clarke with disclosing items from closed board meetings. This one is a real corker. The pot calls the kettle black... in spades. I have no specifics on the details of the charge.

4. Tom Terry accuses Clarke for comments related to an OPA employee trying to "fix" the forum poll on the Yacht Club referendum. Clarke had nothing to do with exposing this; I did. Furthermore, the GM has admitted the attempted "fix" by an OPA staffer did indeed take place.

One thing is obvious. These four charges did not all come in by accident at the same time. There was collusion.

Shame on all four of those involved in what certainly smacks of a scandalous attempt to ruin someone's credibility and reputation for political purposes based on school-yard allegations.

However, OPA president Tom Terry stands alone at the top of the Peak of Shame.