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 * Professor McKenzie "trace[s] the history of CAI as it evolved from being something approaching a public interest group, intended to provide institutional support, education and training to CID boards, to its present role as an influential trade association and special interest group dominated by lawyers and property managers."


 * "Concerns about excessive homeowner control were to be reflected in the ultimate design of CAI, which intentionally kept them in check and contributed to a lack of homeowner support for the organization."


 * "Overtime, the managers and colleagues saw the business potential and became more involved in CAI's operation. With the homeowners limited participation in associations operation and even more limited financial ability to participate in CAI leadership, the colleagues soon took over the Institute. Today CAI is fundamentally a trade association. Our experiment failed, but" CAI continues to duplicitously claim to represent homeowners.


 * In 1992, CAI's Statement of Core Purpose stated, "The Community Associations Institute is the nation's voice on community associations issues."


 * Professor McKenzie wrote, "CAI's claim to be 'the nation's voice on community association issues" rang hollow. The political structure of the old CAI gave it an arguable claim to representing a privatized version of the public interest, but the new structure removed whatever special legitimacy the organization had beyond that of a typical trade association petitioning for legislative beneficence for its members."


 * "CAI has evolved into a trade association controlled largely by lawyers, property managers, and others who have an economic interest in seeing that CID private governments remain heavily dependent on professionals like themselves."