Originally Posted by Bucco

First of all, should you not get many responses,you link did not come through as a link so some searching needs to be done to get to the article I presume you were alluding to.

All I will say is that I have been in The Villages since 1998 and in that time I have seen a lot of changes. One that will NOT change....EVER is that the developer is a big time Republican. If for some reason that makes you uncomfortable then you had better put your house on the market....that is just speaking plain.

In addition, since 1998, other than guests he may have here, I have never seen any overt politics at all...EVER (we recently had a thread about signing a pledge or something and something smelled rotten about that)

None of this is a defense of anybody or anything...just a statement of fact.

As far as the forum is concerned, I think I have been here since the inception of the TOTV and the political forum. Met many of the posters on line through a special board that was set up on a horse racing issue way back.

NEVER have I seen posters either feel reluctant to post or fear to post. FACT is and I will allow others to either validate or spurn what I say...but there were probably in numbers of posters, more "left leaning" and Obama supporters on here than the other. Most of them left after the election..they still post in the general part as I have seen thier names but they were not made to leave or pushed out of here. Don't tell them, as they surely gave me a hard time but sometimes I miss them because for the most part they were not nasty although there were exception as there are on both sides of the aisle. Fact is there were a few, and mostly on the conservative side that were asked to leave.

No..this is a flat playing field. BUT, in order to enjoy, learn, and interact properly you have to do it with factual discussion of issues

I recall back then, not many what I call the "party one or two liners" but an actual display of knowledge of the issues and in their own words expressing an opinion. Folks for the most part gave links to back up what they say. This is not to say the board did not have the "troublemakers" and I hate to use that word, but I think you get the point. There is now less of an exchange of facts and more of the what I call the Tweets, which I really do suspect (actually do KNOW in few cases) are tweets the copy and paste on here.

NO....playing field is level.....the developer nor anyone else controls this board or dictates what you learn, know or share. There are probably as many posters that post on here, that DO NOT EVEN LIVE HERE.

If the developer being an active Republican bothers you,do some research and find a development that has a developer who is active in the Democratic party and move and that is not meant to be smart but you are not going to change that my friend.