If the case against Lakey were as strong as you purport, those community members wouldn't fear sticking their necks out.

If you weren't working (for free, apparently) for a private, for-profit corporation dedicated to "transparency," your unwillingness to discuss the source of this information and their motivations would make more sense. Transparency for thee but not for me, right? (That's the CA board's credo after holding 15 closed meetings--without proper notification--over the last 10 months.)

Also, your bullying is well known in Howard County and on the eastern shore. But I understand that you need to tell yourself stories of righteousness to justify your behavior. Why did you get kicked out of the Hickory Ridge Village Board meeting the other night?

Unemployed law student with years of unpaid activism? Who's paying your tuition? How do you afford food and housing? Something's not adding up.

Which CA resident requested those documents? Have they been working with the board? Did you ask about their motivations for passing these documents on to you? I'm not surprised someone would use you to fight their fight, since you have a reputation here and elsewhere as being a caustic bully who is willing to say anything about those you don't like. Easier for this "CA resident" to hide behind you than to make this case publicly.

It's actually a pity you're not getting paid, since you're clearly doing someone else's bidding.

How much was the writer paid for this piece and who is paying him? Note that HoCo Watchdogs is a private, for-profit corporation, so their finances are purposefully shrouded in mystery.

It's also noteworthy that this writer is a law student and he is defending the Columbia Association board, which has spent hundreds of thousands of community dollars on legal fees over the last several years. Has the writer been promised a job with the lawyers who seem more than happy to stoke these expensive community fights?

It's clear that someone pointed him in the direction of the documents he used to make this flimsy and verbose "case"; was it an attorney or a member of the current board with whom he has an undisclosed relationship? How else to explain why someone who lives and works outside Columbia would choose to get involved the homeowner's association politics?