That a husband/wife team of dues-paying residents desires to follow OPA election rules, to effect positive change to the way the Association is governed, is a good thing.  Quoting your 'Subject', the term 'Alliance' seems to imply the Diller team intends to use Colby as a tool to garner support for their agenda (whatever that may be). 

Informed sources say Diller and her husband, and now perhaps Phillips, are seeking to change the majority on the Board of Directors...

'Informed sources' means you consulted more than one source.  Ms. Phillips is quoted as saying she's not involved in whatever the Team has tasked themselves with.  Apparently, 'Informed sources' did not include Ms. Phillips; or, she has changed her position post any conversation you had with her.

Diller wants candidates ... based on the individual's priorities and values. Presumably, those priorities and values would need to coincide with Diller's to gain her support.

Would you expect the Team to support candidates with contrarian  views/positions/solutions?  Why that had to be said escapes me. 

A power struggle is taking place within the Board of Directors, primarily as a result of the resignation of the very popular OPA employee Colby Phillips after six members of the Board of Directors voted that OPA President Larry Perrone did not violate the board's so-called Code of Conduct as Phillips charged.

'A power struggle' ensued because 6 of 7 members cast identical votes?  There may be a 'struggle' but 6 to one hardly implies a meaningful struggle.  

Phillips is just starting a new position ... Captains Cove in Virginia. Why .. choosing to embroil herself in OPA political issues ... is confounding. If Phillips has any interest in a future position as General Manager of Ocean Pines, board politics is the last thing she should be involved with.  

Let's dismiss any thought of her 'choosing to embroil.'  If she is desirous of the OPA GM position, it's doubtless that she'd want that as a topic of discussion around the 'Cove' water fountains. 

A local paper reports that former OPA employee Colby Phillips and former OPA board member Esther Diller have teamed up to create a social media group...

Maybe Colby mentioned this, but I'll assume FACEBOOK and an IM service; just the ticket to make it easier for the local papers to aggregate, interpret and pass judgement on the garbage disguised as 'information' on these platforms.  I'm surprised you didn't take the Team to task for this.

Diller is outspoken in her feelings about Larry Perrone, Colette Horn, and John Viola. She wrote that the culture of the board with Perrone as president and Horn as vice-president is one of "dictatorship."

That paragraph, alone, is a distillation of what I've been reading on The Forum for month-on-end.  With that in mind, the 'Questionable Alliance' membership, that now consists of 2, perhaps three, non-'gripers' has a chance to grow exponentially-- especially, if the collective opinion of the Forum user group is any indication of how the overall membership views the behavior of Perrone and Horn.

Respond or ignore... just 'sharing' as one might say.  

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