Mayor Jeri Muoio of West Palm Beach is playing a very dangerous political game. On Sunday she said in her “insider newsletter” that
“renewed talk of building a facility in Lake Worth is appealing.”Sure it's appealing Ms. Muoio when you're playing politics. This is a game of hardball with the county. "We own land that you and the national teams want but we want four parcels of land that you own in our downtown." The County says "no" and the City of West Palm Beach suddenly came up with an outside buyer (no contract mind you) and they just played their winning strike. It seems that WPB has the winning home run here.
Muoio suggested that the County look again at John Prince Park. Maxwell and friends must be drooling as the city pirates have known about this for some time and have no problem with bulldozing a county park for private enterprise actually believing that money will trickle to our downtown. They have been playing their own game of "take me to the ballgame" behind the scenes.
Retha Lowe used to talk about the political "football" when it came to our beach redevelopment. Now it is elected officials playing the political hardball and the neighborhood be damned. It's all about winning the game.
Lake Worth...its time to grow up. Put Lake Worth on the map for something good....not the crime and other BS that goes on in this city. Let the people come and enjoy the National past time...stop bell_aching about every little thing that prevents progress...yeah sometimes people have to be brought out of their comfort zone ... look at the bigger picture, a training facility in LW has more positives than negatives.....sometimes it difficult to accept change. Just grin and bear it.....Invite your northern relatives down to visit and take in a game.
ReplyDeleteLet the people drive 15 minutes up I-95 to 45th Street. And while they are up there, they can check into the mental health facility after the game. We don't need our JPPark used for commerce. Forget about it. It's definitely "time to grow up" and all you people who are not happy and want to change everything, not only for developers but for billion dollar ball clubs, need your head examined. :)
ReplyDeleteWell I guess..thats, that!
ReplyDeleteThe Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council this morning voted 5-1 to recommend committing $90 million in bed tax money for a spring training stadium in West Palm Beach
Nationals general partner Art Fuccillo said an alternative site at John Prince Park in Lake Worth is too small.
Fuccillo showed an image of the superimposed layout of the 160-acre West Palm site over the John Prince Park site. Half of the baseball complex went into Lake Osborne.
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Let this die already. No one wants this at John prince other than a few people out of touch.
ReplyDeleteSeems Scott will stop at nothing to get what HE wants, he could give a damn about what his constituents want related to this issue. Vote this dumbo out when his term is up would ya!
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the park kept as a natural area with grass, trees and the lake. We don't need a baseball stadium with parking lots in our park.
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