Saturday, March 5, 2016

Lake Worth and Operatives

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Blake MacDiarmid is back in the news.  Blake MacDiarmid, an unaligned Florida Republican strategist, said Team Cruz's overwhelming focus should be to "slice and dice" Rubio in Florida and make his home turf a "real Rubicon." He is helping Ted Cruz.

Back in 2002, he was the campaign manager for Mary McCarty. They had a falling out...Mary was too demanding...and she eventually was sentenced to 3.5 years for honest service fraud in 2009.

If you recall, he has also helped two of our incumbents:  Scott Maxwell and Pam Triolo.

In March 2014, Scott Maxwell paid MacDiarmid $3,000 for campaign services and consulting. No one could figure out why Maxwell needed his services as he walked into office unopposed. But MacDiarmid had helped the Delray Beach commissioners when he was hired to help the city. Delray asked its voters to approve a $14 million bond issue to be used to finance parks and recreation projects. You remember how Maxwell was pushing a national baseball stadium at John Prince Park and walked around town with a baseball bat singing "Take me out to the Ballgame."

MacDiarmid served as an adviser to Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo as well.

Read about MacDiarmid at CNN

Photo: Damon Higgins of the PB Post

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hemingway said "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them" Well we trusted Triolo, Maxwell and Amoroso for the past few years and where did it get us. I for one would not trust them with my dead dog. They are the most underhanded, evil, low life that I have ever met and they are a disgrace to this city.

Anonymous said...

Can't stand it. Time for a BIGggggggggggggggggggg change.

Anonymous said...

Anon @ 11:00. a little dramatic there? Wow, u make Trump look angelic!
The hyperbole is laughable.
I might save that kind of nastiness for say, OJ? Manson? Ted Bundy?

Anonymous said...

Truth hurting you. Here's another one for you.
Nietzsche says: "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." That ia what everyone of the incumbents have done to the residents of Lake Worth. WE can't trust a thing that comes out of your mouths. You are all devious individuals that are out for your own glory. If you can't take the heat get the hell out of the kitchen.

Anonymous said...

Anon at 1:09.
Not too much heat at all.
Merely laughing at your comments.

Anonymous said...

When Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso succeed in giving away our beach to Hudson Holdings, I am guessing all of their little supporters will just melt away into the shadows and will never be heard from again. They came out of nowhere. Most have never been seen in public, and they'll just suddenly go silent. Those of us who have lived here all of our lives will be stuck with a Convention Center at the beach that will be there for the next 80 years. And with HH in control of our entire beachfront I expect they'll eventually get a hotel built there as well. A total tragedy. Totally preventable. But so many liars running around defending this trio. And so many people on the take. Another sad Florida story.

Anonymous said...

Anon at 11:35
Taking things a bit to the extreme, aren't you?
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"