Tuesday, February 24, 2015

TRADE MARK - A BURNING ELECTION ISSUE




Candidates supported by an ad hoc Committee, that prepared a flyer to support three Candidates have received some heat from the Town Center Management Office.


What was the problem? Call out the Fire Department. Water down those flames!!! Okay, not so fast here. Send the Fire Dept back and get focused on the real issue.

It seems a logo was copied onto the flyer that Management states is  owned by them. Oops. It looks like someone goofed, but is this logo even legally registered? 

What needed to be done here was for Management just to ask, "Hey Guys, Stop that."  But, they didn't. Instead they injected themselves into our election process. This is a bigger wrong then using the Logo.

Our Photographer/Candidate wrote the following letter, stating his view on the subject. Here it is.

Hi Maureen/Lynn

I saw your email regarding use of VeronaWalk Logo without authorization. This situation could/should have been handled in a different manner in my view. 

I would suggest that the Management Office, being neutral in this election, ask the Board President to request the Residents Committee to simply stop using the Logo. At this point there has been no such  request.

I can not speak for the Resident's Committee, but I am sure that if they had it to do over,  they would not want to offend or detract from this Election with an issue such as this. Your message to our entire community disrupts and distracts from the Campaigns of all Candidates. That is unfortunate and wrong.

That said, we as residents, and candidates, should just move on, and focus on the issues, while Management focuses on their daily endeavors.


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