Have we heard the last of Jan Jackson, Colorado’s leading activist in the fight against homeowners associations and assorted other anti-government, anti-Obama, Tea Party, “patriot resistance“ causes?
Jackson spent much of the decade fighting HOAs, as they are known. She has engaged in intensely personal attacks on her own HOA board and her neighbors at the B Lazy M Ranch south of Florissant in Teller County. And she carried on a statewide, even national crusade.
For years, she was a prolific anti-HOA crusader, writing hundreds of articles and Web postings like the one below.
Last spring, in the wake of a major legal victory in which an appellate court lifted a lower court-imposed gag order on Jackson, she disappeared.
Turns out, Jackson had fallen ill and was hospitalized. Then, she suffered the loss of her husband, Richard Thomas, who died July 3 leaving her a widow after 27 years of marriage. The personal tragedy clearly changed her. She has quit her Web radio blog and stopped posting on state and national anti-HOA Web sites. And she has given up efforts to amend the Colorado Constitution to abolish HOAs.
Jackson said she thinks she has done her part, warning the nation about the evils of HOAs. And she intends to remain on the sidelines of future HOA wars unless she really feels the need to get involved.
Here is a link to a previous blog I wrote about Jackson. I’ve written several columns about Jackson over the years. Here is my March 19, 2009, column. Before that, I profiled her on Nov. 12, 2007.
Here’s a link to Jackson’s HOA radio blog site where you can listen to past broadcasts. This takes you directly to an archived broadcast.
Here’s Jackson’s page on ResistNet, a site for gun owners and the patriotic resistance.
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In our HOA, the streets and fire hydrants are privately owned. If the HOA suddenly ceased to exist, the streets would not get plowed, patched and sealed, and the fire hydrants would not get the recommended annual maintenance. With the HOA, our streets are usually clear of snow sooner and better than the nearby city streets, and, unlike nearby city maintained hydrants, our hydrants are recently tested and known to be in working condition.
I’d probably prefer that these functions were performed by the city since I also pay city taxes, but this is unlikely to happen. As I understand it, our streets (installed by a developer 17 or more years ago) are not up to city standards.
I am quite happy that Jan Jackson’s irrational anger against HOA’s has failed to produce her desired result. Her anger is her own fault. She should never have purchased in an HOA.
HOAs are a national plague – a cause of mental anguish, depression, anxiety and split personalities. Jan’s outbursts are simply symptoms of a disease caused by Mandatory Associations Foreclosing in America(MAFiA) and it’s time to end this fascist occupation and bring all property owners back into the American zone.
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Get well, Jan.
I’ll pray for you and all others similarly situated, conned by the largest organized crime gang ever…CAI lawyers, Associa, and the housing industry that creates these infected neighborhoods. May they burn in hell.
Rich