WHAT IS "RIFF-RAFF" ?

This is just a post about a statement made to me by one of the HOA board members when I questioned the large increases in our yearly HOA "dues" shortly after he got on the board. He stated to me that "we want the dues high to keep out the riff-raff." He would not elaborate further about who he considers to be "riff-raff" but I did get some definite impressions from him. Notably that anyone not like himself, his family and friends were probably "riff-raff." This attitude is quite wide spread among some people. Lately this same board member pounded on our front door like a "gestapo" and demanded on at least two occasions that my husband sign his recall petition of the HOA president (the same man that he and the other board members supposedly appointed to the board to be the HOA president.)

His treatment of us is usually referred to as duress and harassment in a normal situation but in HOA ruled nonsense land it seems to be O.K. Since nothing can be done about it except ordering him to stop pounding on our door, etc., we just deal with it. He did succeed in getting the HOA president re-called at the recent meeting and the attending CAI attorney "certified" the recall. This is the current state of things in the Florida HOA land where we live.