The M1 Treasury Reports are now all in. The incumbents have raised an unheard of amount of money for a job that pays $14,500 a year.
There is a lot at stake in Lake Worth: Our beach casino complex, the budget passed by the Trio to keep it in the red, our charter amendment for Heights in our downtown, the $15 million dollars allocated for the Park of Commerce infrastructure to attract private investment, the slum, blight, escalating crime and the potholes. Our downtown has been turned into one big bar and people don't feel safe. The Trio has "criminalized" the homeless.
Delray New Wave LLC at 10 SE 1st Avenue, Delray Beach gave a fundraiser for Pam Triolo. They are also registered at 102 N Swinton Avenue in Delray. This company has the same corporate agent as Jetport that also gave her a campaign donation. JetPort is one of Sun Recyling's many companies that was just acquired by Waste Management. Waste Management was given our roll-off business for commercial and residential in August 2015. Conflict here?
Right down the road is Hudson Holdings at 20 S Swinton Avenue.
Another very interesting expense was one on Andy Amoroso's report. He paid the bar, Propaganda, $1,000 for that fundraiser event that was supposedly given for him, Maxwell and Triolo. The owner, Jon Jordan, announced his endorsement of the incumbents. He got them to pack his bar, work for free and they even had to pay him for that endorsement.Talk about capitalism alive and well in Lake Worth not to mention Sunshine Law.
Some of the interesting contributions--things that make you go hmmm:
- A former lobbyist for FPL, Tom Barlow, contributed to Scott Maxwell's campaign: $250. Did you see today's article in the post on FPL?
- Benny's on the Beach: $1K Scott, $1K Andy, $1K Pam
- E.R. Bradleys (The Beach Club at Lake Worth Golf Course): $500 Pam, $200 Scott
- Friends of Mark Foley: $500 Scott, $500 Andy, $500 Pam
- Hulett (Greg Rice, Chair of P&Z and on board of the NAPC) $1K Scott, $1K Andy, 1K Pam
- Marty Welfeld: $1K Scott, $1K Andy, $1K Pam
- Teresa Miller: $1K Scott, $1K Andy, $1K Pam
- Thomas C. LaRose: $1K Scott, $1K Andy, $1K Pam
- Ackerman LLP, #1 Corporate practice in Florida; recognized as market leader in Florida since 2003 for Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity. Ranked as one of the leading law firms for Real Estate, Construction, and Land Use/Zoning in the U.S..probably know Hudson Holdings' law firm of Dunay, Miskel and Backman.: $1K Scott, $1K Andy, 1K Pam
- Anthony Marotta who is on the Planning & Zoning Board appointed by the Mayor as well as on the Board of the NAPC: $500 Scott, $500 Andy, $500 Pam
- Friends of Mark Foley: $500 Scott, $500 Andy, $500 Pam
- and various PAC's and other large contributions like Waste Management (mentioned above) to Scott of $1K and many out of town contributors.
To date:
TRIOLO: $15,725
JACQUES: $500
ANTIEAU: $1,050
MAXWELL: $19,410
HARTMAN: $3,609
AMOROSO: $19,125
MCALONAN: $7,379.02
Pay to Play alive and well in this city. What's Greg Rice's interest? Is he still a slumlord?
ReplyDeletePeople are tired of your crap......that's what the numbers say.
ReplyDeleteGreg Rice is the chair of the Planning & Zoning board who lives at The Lucerne, a building that was politically allowed to be built in our downtown.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty disgusting. With all the out of town money pouring in it sure looks like government for sale. As well as the Beach Club: incumbents get it for free, challengers have to pay. And of course only the gang of 3 on the incumbent side get the freebies. If there was any doubt they are again giving our beach to HH, that is now erased. Their universal chant of now all being "against privatization" will abruptly change by March 16, that's a guarantee with HH just down the street.
ReplyDeleteI guess the multitude of thinking people know what's at stake. It is either keep these three in office or risk going back to when Lake Worth was the brunt of jokes all around the county and beyond.
ReplyDeleteThe only viable candidate, McAlonan, is a new-comer and has gone on to attack one of Lake Worth's most energetic volunteers and a great supporter of Lake Worth. He was spending hours of his time WAY before he ran for office and if he loses to McAlonan, will continue to volunteer his time.
Hartman is scary. A weasel, chameleon, polluter and quite possibly a domestic terrorist.
Most people can see that Diane doesn't have her heart in it.
I wonder how soon our utility will be sold: they are obtaining a "valuation" on it now, which usually precedes selling an asset.
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY people who ever joked about Lake Worth was you and your friends. I recall one of your gang coined the name that you all used for this city--Lake Worthless. That's when he challenged McVoy a few years ago and got his butt whipped.
ReplyDeleteThe only people tired of the truth, at 8:41, is the Gang of Three and all their little evil puppets. Special interests have a hold on our city again. How sad.
ReplyDeleteWTF? They raised how much? Holy crap. Who wants to get hold of our town? Hudson?
ReplyDeleteI think you mean "Beaucoup Bucks", not Bucko Bucks :)
ReplyDeleteAndy paid Propaganda to endorse him and the rest of the "visionaries"? What a crock of pay to play. That nightclub guy thinks he owns that street as it is.Now he will.He's got Andy, PAm and Scott exactly where he wants them.How is his back pocket looking these days?
ReplyDeleteLet's do a little math: 3 Salaries totaling $43,500 and to date contribution exceed that at $54,260. Can anyone have any doubt who these people are going to represent?? It sure isn't the residents who are paying their salaries. They work for the big guys; special interests and big bucks only need apply.
ReplyDeleteA phonetic spelling...you get the point.
ReplyDeleteThis city looks like crap. And Pam Triolo,Scott Maxwell And Andy Amoroso have all been in office for over 4 years.
ReplyDeleteWhy raise so much money to be a Commission in a five square mile town? Why?
On the national level Donald J. Trump's overwhelming support is a result of voters seeing the corrupting influence of contributions of special interests that want government of, by, and for the corporations rather than of, by, and for the people.
ReplyDeleteThey are"mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore".
When the gang of three inundate mailboxes with large, glossy, feel good propaganda and smear jobs against their more qualified opponents, let us citizens rise against their fascistic behavior on the dais and their representation of out of town developers instead of the people who moved here to live in a low profile city by the ocean with its own beach, golf course, and utilities.
Vote Diane Jacques, Frank Macalonan, and Ryan Hartman on March 15th and SAVE OUR BEACH
If anyone is being funded by out of towners it would be McAlonan followed by Hartman.
ReplyDeleteThe contributors to the visionaries are a who's who of Lake Worth residents and businesses who want to continue the progress.
WHAT progress,anon at 12:10 ?Crumbling neighborhoods ? Out of control crime? 11 million on a pile of dirt that we don't even own? We really are corrupton county.
ReplyDeleteIt is too because people like Foley and Rice, et. al are all part of the Illuminati here who want to control all so to then make bukoo bucks, look at all the blight Rice has been able to harbor for years, all overlooked. These people will fight tooth and nail, but we need to get out and vote full force and get rid or Triolo, Andy, and scott, we are not moving forward, we are filled with blight, crime, and ineffective leadership with so much crime, just too much, they had 4;5 years to prove and do, they haven't we deserve better than this, we need to vote all of these asses out and send the Illuminati back to Palm Beach island.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should pass these reports along to all of the major media! This is terrible. One can't help but wonder what these companies will expect in return? Bradley's? Benny's? Don't they rent property from the city? Very troubling. And despite the lack of funding, the newbies are getting plenty of traction. I think the incumbents are going to lose the election, despite all of the money they've raised.
ReplyDeleteYou have no clue as to what is going to hit your mailbox. I watched the Republican debate the other night and I have to say it was, by far, the ugliest debate in my lifetime. This election and what these incumbents will be doing will also be about the ugliest for LW. IMO.
ReplyDeleteWhich one of the incumbents does not use their real name?Pam Triolo,Andy Amoroso or Scott Maxwell? Answer ALL 3 USE AN ALIAS!
ReplyDeletePoliticians arent elected they are selected
ReplyDeleteThey must be worth it.
ReplyDeleteNo one has knocked on my door yet. If they have any chance of winning with all that money against them, they had better be pounding the pavement.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to read this, does Rice know that no one respects him or what he does, people all just pity him. Our city deserves better!
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