Somebody Will Have to Explain this to Me

I'm having some difficulty parsing this statement, in a NY Times article by Adam Nagourney, by the former president of the San Diego Opera board of directors, Karen S. Cohn:

“I cannot support what is going on,” she said of the new coalition and its efforts. “This is a group of people who are not focusing on going forward. They are focusing on ruining people who spent 31 years doing wonderful things for San Diego. I don’t want to ruin their chance of going forward, but I don’t appreciate how they have handled this.”

Okay, a person who voted to close the company is calling the people keeping the company going "a group of people who are not focusing on going forward." That is what I need explained to me. Can someone help? Somehow I am not smart enough to make sense of the paragraph I quote above.