Tolerance, a fair, objective and permissive attitude towards opinions and practices that differs from one's own.
We are a city full of talent, full of intelligent people all from different cultures, backgrounds and degrees of experience and education. Lake Worth has been known for tolerance. We have to be one of the most tolerant cities in the country. The majority of people living and working in our community pride themselves on that very quality. It is one of the reasons why people want to live here. Our leaders forgot that everyone should be given a chance and not be kicked to the curb when their "vision" is different; they forgot that we are the best city ever.
Excellent point. Because your blog has always been so tolerant of the illegals living in the city.
ReplyDeleteI am not tolerant of anyone BREAKING THE LAW. If these people want to migrate here legally, great--all for it.
ReplyDeleteCriminal acts never should be tolerated. No one is talking about criminals here. Maxwell was right in his stand on illegal immigration. It is too bad that he became a woose on it.
ReplyDeleteI am gay and I consider myself extremely tolerant of people. However, to put tolerance of illegals who are committing an illegal act, criminal acts by crossing our borders to be spoon fed by the working people here, in the same breath of what the essence of this thought is, is phony beyond belief. Lynn should have qualified this, no tolerance for phoniness or criminals.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the support above. However, there is no need to qualify this. Everyone knows what I am talking about. Even the one ball buster knows as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty disappointed in Scott MAxwell and the other two. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI think we are a very tolerant city. People with many different views live here and get along. I think that getting rid of Stanton who was so intolerant of so many will bring us closer as one Lake Worth family. Thank you Lynn for working towards the goal of making us a success.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for your sarcasm. I guess I did NOT vote for you.
ReplyDeleteI have a great idea. Hire Annabeth Karson to circulate a petition to re-hire the city manager that you all love so much.
ReplyDeleteBet you won't get 100 signatures!
Well, Annabeth won't get the 100 signatures from Scott Maxwell fans who are mean-spirited that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI think it is wrong to say the dismissal of Susan Stanton was done by hateful or mean-spirited people. Ms. Stanton is or was the CEO of LW, she has a responsibility to be a PR person for our city and what she does and says means a lot, her people skills and leadership need to be not just adequate for communicating with the public in general and the commission. If this is less than mediocre, then it is understandable why they would want to dismiss her. I think using terms like mean-spirited are not correct or fair. Ms. Stanton did not have the correct PR to perform and get along with the public, it has been noted thousands of times on this blog, personal interactions, other places that all cited Ms. Stanton not having adequate PR skills to interact with the public at large, this is critical of a figure head or CEO, this is the reason I think she was let go and why she should have been maybe even a long time ago from the previous commissioners, but they all overlooked this flaw in her. We need a CEO/manager of LW that has excellent PR skills to interact with the public as a whole, she is the leader of the city and needs to set the utmost perfect example and unfortunately Ms. Stanton didn't do this well, that is why probably no one came to her defense during the last comm. meeting. We deserve the BEST here. Hopefully Ms. Stanton learned some very important lessons from this position and works on refining her PR skills better to interact and communicate with her public in the future.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteIt was a "mean" act.
Susan Stanton was hired as city manager--not a public relations professional. She was not hired to get along with the public. That is the Commission's job and why we elected them. They fall way short in that area. A city manager needs to stay out of inter-acting with the public and interact with our elected officials, which she did very well. It was Maxwell who refused to meet with her and all he wanted to do was to fight her and to bring her down...having her crawl out the door was the only thing that was going to make him happy.
SO, I RESPECTFULLY disagree with your assessment of the matter.