To date, The Political Action Committee,
The Friends of the Gulfstream
The Friends of the Gulfstream
has reported contributions of $11,075 to
RPPac's $6,130
What the NO people did:
- Installed an illegal banner on the historic Gulfstream Hotel on a Friday afternoon and then played games with Code. Refused to take it down. This act as well as their unethical yard signs did them in.
- Un-installed the banner at the Gulfstream two days after the official deadline from the City of Lake Worth and then re-installed it three days after that. The stupid banner finally came down.
- Their first yard sign was not working so they made a new one, twisting the Respectful Planning Pac's message saying Vote NO, keep Lake Worth lo-rise.
- They told everyone who would listen that by voting YES, you would be destroying Lake Worth. They further told them that the city was being taken over by anarchists, socialists and people who were encouraging slum and blight.
- They told everyone that we needed a hotel district, that tourists were coming here but there was no place for them to stay. By granting heights, a developer would be attracted to build as heights lower than 65 feet would be a detriment to an investor.
- Got a guy on a bicycle to install yard signs everywhere on public rights of way and the medium strips, an illegal act.
- In bed with the Lake Worth Herald (they are social buddies and had all of their campaign printing done there), the editor wrote abominable opinions to bring down the Referendum and this blogger and even printed an editorial which seemed to have been written by a 3rd grader attacking the people who disagreed with their position.
- Concocted an outburst by the leader and always vocal Chair of Friends of the Gulfstream PAC to humiliate this blogger in the city hall chambers by calling me the most EVIL person in Lake Worth. I responded with "fuck off." They proceeded to capitalize on that but not the bully's evil outburst that was never printed. The Lake Worth Herald never writes about the entire story, only the side it wants to project.
- They charged that I posted a comment on my blog calling Greg Rice a name and Loretta Sharpe a medically ill ridden woman using despicable words. They could not produce the comment but they decided to go viral with it to bring down this blogger on what some anonymous person had said. Throughout this campaign, the most vile of comments showed up almost on an hourly basis that were deleted by this blogger. One was turned over to the PBSO Detective Division.
- The mayor and Greg Rice took it upon themselves to project their opinions with Channel 12 News. Channel 12 never sought the other side of the argument. Channel 12 ended up looking stupid on a segment that was entitled the Pros and Cons of the Height amendment.
- The mayor, Pam Triolo, who represents all of the people, gave a state of the city one day before the election to use her persuasion/marketing techniques to convince voters that we need to have a hotel district and absolutely need to grow up the city--subtly suggesting that the Vote Yes people were the cause of Lake Worth's problems.
What we did learn from this outcome was that a huge percentage of the people want to keep a low-rise city that was not reflected in the vote. Both signs, Yes and No, mentioned keeping a low-rise city. It was only their die-hard developer oriented supporters who wanted to keep 65 feet and 100 feet in our downtown. Everyone wanted a low-rise downtown with no more buildings as high as The Lucerne.
With everything going for them including nearly twice the campaign contributions of the Respectful Planning PAC, that is a true grassroots effort, two newspaper endorsements, three commissioners plus the Mayor in their camp, the President of the Neighborhood Council working diligently and doing everything under the sun to confuse the voter, hiring out of town people to wave signs at the voting precincts on election day, fighting this campaign in the most unethical fashion ever witnessed by Lynn's Little bit of Trivia,
they lost.
The hippies had nothing but time to ride around on there bikes telling everybody to say no against high rises, while the rest of us went to work in the real world. Joy, good for you, go take a picture of Lake Osborne and then go to sleep in your concrete ghetto bunker. Whats the next "'battle", the pool? Get the lame t-shirts ordered?
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It is for comments such as yours above, coward, that you LOST.
ReplyDeleteThe only people I saw riding around on bikes were Wes Blackman and the guy placing no signs on city property.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to our Mayor's awarding the silver medal to either Greg Rice or Loretta Sharpe at the next Commission meeting.
ReplyDeleteWe of course expected devious tactics from the avaricious realtors (Loretta Sharpe) who wanted more units to sell, the store keepers in downtown (Cmr. Amoroso) who hoped for more customers, and those who owned properties in the area (Greg Rice)
who saw an increased value from some out of town developer buying his property, and last but not least from the Chamber of Commerce which always takes the side of the tiny percentage of business owners in opposition to the desires of the taxpaying, home owning public.
People are tired of lies in campaigns and of negative campaigning in general.
The continued demonization of the winners is to be expected from the disappointed losers whose devious tactics were unsuccessful.
FABULOUS. You forgot delaying the ballot to March to give them more time to concoct the lies..
ReplyDeleteHow about for the next battle we shut down the porno shop on Lake Avenue owned and operated by Commissioner Andy Amoroso. Becuase really, what purpose does it serve except for helping Andy snag a cheap hook-up now and then. Cleaning up our town should start right there, and continue with cleaning up the drug houses and sending the dealers to Guantanamo.
ReplyDeletethis is not an attack on anybody.just a few observations and questions from a homeowner and local busnessman. i worry about the blight west of dixie. where will the money come from to fix all this. you or i dont live in this mess ms. decker says she wants to keep the small town atmosphere i agree but geez look at those properties and unpaved roads. is she really representing the hard working people who live in this blight? is their another agenda, something like mr. pantiottis ideas. are they using you to help further their cause.sure seems like. a hotel person told me that under a yes vote a profitable hotel was unlikely. he is very knowledgeable and owns several hotels its suprising to me that you would push so hard for something that might have eliminated jobs, tourist dollars,tax dollars and utility dollars for our city. despite the benefit to the cra the city would also greatly benefit.5448
ReplyDeleteI hope the pool is next, save our awesome ocean front pool.
ReplyDeleteAnd the City/CRA spent all that money on unnecessary bike lanes, so clearly the City is pro bike and your comment makes no sense.
anonymous at 12:44--
ReplyDeleteI know that you mean well in what you say. You have been hearing this stuff over and over again. NO one is using me to promote any agenda by any group or person. I am my own person and not in any group.
Those who helped in this referendum are property owners in Lake Worth, for the most part. Do you really think they want slum and blight? Incidentally, slum and blight is all over this city with some areas having so much more because of the illegal immigration situation and the hundreds of rentals. Cracking down on code violations must be a top priority.
I support what I believe to be right and candidates who have their heads screwed on tightly with their only interest, the people of Lake Worth--not special interests as this NO group represented.
Any developer, investor or hotelier will say they need as much property as possible with the least restrictions as possible and favorable zoning so that they can max their profits. This is understandable. However, they can do this by building to the charter.
the comments 1:31 made are unintelligible.
ReplyDeleteyou or i are not hoteliers, so we dont know if they can do this.the gentleman i discussed this with said the margins would be too narrow and he didnt like the risk. but regardless there it sits empty.
ReplyDeleteFor winners, you all are still so angry. You should be ecstatic! You were able to stop all those greedy developers that were chomping at the bit to blot out our skies, steal our breezes and employ our citizens.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite content that the people have spoken. No one was denied their right to vote.
Make no mistake, this was anti business. You "won" placing one more blockade to progress in Lake Worth. Belle Glade is looking more attainable, as if we needed any more obstacles to building anything at all in Lake Worth. Tall or short.
I agree with the above comment wondering what NEXT do you all want to "save"?
"However, they can do this by building to the charter."
ReplyDeleteHow many people have to tell you in every conceivable way that what you state is incorrect? I'm talking PROFESSIONALS.
You left the casino before William Waters gave his presentation with a professor of architecture to explain WHY that can't be done.
This was the education part that you all scoffed at. Nobody can educate you when you already know more than the experts.
As many times as they stated it, our blocks are not set up for a small hotel with amenities and parking.
But you still make the claim.
Unbelievable!
I left the casino because I had heard Mr. Waters' presentation on two separate occasions.
ReplyDelete@2:08--sore loser!
ReplyDelete@:204--it sits empty because it's in FORECLOSURE.
ReplyDeletelynn, really i give you more credit than "its in foreclosure" if someone wanted to buy it im sure that could be finalized in days.
ReplyDeleteRight now, the bank has to go through a legal process to take possession from the buyer. Why not ask Dustin Zacks. When you find out, please post so that my credibility isn't zapped down another toilet.
ReplyDeleteI finally got the graphic. The president of Parrot Cove's neighborhood association is Teresa Miller. She and Marty both gave $2,000 each to the Friends of the Gulfstream.
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