Our City just got Slummier

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Dedicated to all those politicos who are in love

 with their own voice and who care less about anyone else's

You can figure out all sorts of legal ways to stop us. You can talk yourself into the frenzy that we are all socialists, anarchists, unintelligent, etc. You can raise money to defeat us. You can spread all your lies about what we did, what we achieved in 27 days--you can say that we want our city to remain a blighted mess,and write that we are "miscreants."  You can hone in on minute details and  harp that speakers at the lectern used the figure of nearly 1,800 signed petitions when in reality I had a database registering 1,790 of which 1,785 were turned it to the Supervisor of Elections. As we know, the SOE certified 1,719 which was far more than we needed.

You can postpone the inevitable until March special election that will cost the city $21,000 and demonize us if you will. You can continue to twist the facts and twist the truth into one big stale pretzel. Hopefully, the next time around you will be tossed aside.

News publications across the country are losing customers right and left and they wonder why. We used to look for our newspaper to get informed. Those days, in many ways, are gone. For a local publisher to write what he did is conspicuously bad politics, untrue and offensive to all of us who hold principles dear. To throw everyone of the volunteers into one mold and label them as he did is just plain ridiculous--done with the sole purpose of arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred by his readers in order to ridicule all of us who worked on this petition--our Constitutional right.  Irresponsible.

I do know that we all have the right to determine our destiny here in Lake Worth whether it be the beach redevelopment (We did not get to vote on that) or the buildings growing vertically in our downtown. Sometimes it can't all be achieved through a candidate vote. Politicians end up fooling you and things get worse. Take a look at our country as a fine example of that. All Obama can do now is vilify Romney for being a success in his life.

Now there will be a dishonest campaign from all those wanting to change our city and grow it up--have it look like some place else. These people are never happy. The divide will become greater until that side beats everyone else into submission and those with opposing views drop out for good. It won't happen to this gal.