They're Baaaaaaack!

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Around Summer of 2014 when this PAC was stumping for the City of Lake Worth including (Scott Maxwell, Pam Triolo and Andy Amoroso), they raised over $19,950 to get the General Obligation Bond passed, part of Lake Worth 2020.  Money helps but it isn't everything--Lake Worth YES Pac thinks it is. $50,000 wasn't enough for this group back then, money used by the City to "educate" the voters on why we needed to vote ourselves into debt.  The PAC raised $19,950,00 more.  It has to make everyone sit up and take notice--spending $70,000 to win an election is not about potholes. It's too bad that at the time every voter did not know about this obscene amount of money to put the property owners in debt for 34 years. But all we needed was one vote to defeat them and we got 25.

Then on top of the insult, the City made a big deal out of the vote trying every attempt they could muster to dishonor it.  This commission, to this day, says we lied. We beat them on principle with little money.

Some of their contributors back then were:

• $5,000: Marty Welfeld, Parrot Cove resident. He and his wife, still in the game, have given to all three incumbents for the March 15, 2016 election of $2,000 each.

• $1,000: Friends of Mark Foley, former Congressman who sent suggestive emails and sexually explicit instant messages to teenage boys who had formerly served and were at that time serving as Congressional pages. He's still in the game too and the last I heard, trying to reinvent himself...he has given $500 each to all three incumbents running in March, Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso.

• $2,000: Southern Waste Systems, the company that dumped all sorts of questionable stuff on our landfill and was involved in suspicious campaign contributions to a resident who was fined by the elections commission for accepting them. Still in the game--Mayor Pam Triolo accepted a $500 contribution from one of their companies for her March re-election.

• $1,000: Weiner, Lynn and Thompson LLC in Delray, municipal and county land development zoning regulation lawyers. Who knows what their claim to fame is but they are from DELRAY, that should tell us something.

• $1,500: Hudson Holdings Lake Worth LLC, an investment holding and development company in DELRAY that had recently bought The Gulfstream Hotel at that time. We know that they're still in the game, waiting in the wings to see what happens on March 15. They still want our beach complex and this trio of Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso want to give it to them.

• $1,400: In-kind contribution from a community affairs manager for printing.

• $2,000: Committee for a Prosperous Florida PAC--Jeff Clemens...who the heck knows what he's doing.

Back in 2014 when this PAC was formed the following were the members:

1. Chair Herman Robinson who is also a political appointee by the Mayor to the Historic Resource Preservation Board and acts as Chair
2. Treasurer Nadine Burns
3. Greg Rice, Public Relations for the PAC and a political appointee and now Chair to the Planning & Zoning Board.

The interest of this PAC at that time was "Advocacy for passage of the Lake Worth Ballot Question of 08/26/14." Don't know what it is now but I am sure it fits their bill like getting these incumbents re-elected.

Today, the Chair and Treasurer is Peggy Fisher, the always serious looking woman who usually sits in the back row at city commission meetings and screamed in my ear one evening at city hall. She too is a political appointee of Scott Maxwell's to the Electric Utility Advisory Board. At the time of the bond election, Ms. Fisher filed a complaint with Tallahassee against the opposing PAC, Citizens Against Unfair Taxation because it did not have a registered agent. Of course, the Palm Beach County Supervisor's office never told them that they needed one.