The Wise-Guy "charmer" and the Gulfstream Hotel

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Now and then I get a real "charmer" who comments here.  He was answering the letter to the Editor on the Ag Reserve but somehow got diverted and talked about the Gulfstream Hotel. Here is an excerpt:

Unfortunately, your tired complaint of the vote being deemed null and void by the State of Florida is your constant fall back position. Oh Boo hoo.

The current Gulfstream Hotel lawsuit is evident of a certain diminishing element of narrowly focused crunchy granola types and trust fund babies, and serves as proof of their unhappiness. It's also proof that these select minor opinions are choosing to hold hostage the redevelopment of our city. It's the same select minor opinions who wish to cause increased expense to the city on a position that thy will lose - again - in a court of law.

This was just an ad hominem attack--the belief that an argument is a simple competition in which winning or domination is the goal. Name calling and ignoring a vote is egregious.  We have had plenty of that with this Trio commission where personal understanding is unimportant, and mutual understanding is completely irrelevant and the vote of the people is meaningless. The vote was deemed null and void by the City of Lake Worth, not the State. Think about it.  Three people can directly affect your lives whether you win the vote or not.

Your comment at 9:14 last night had nothing really to do with this Letter to the Editor. The present owners have never had any intention of renovating this historic hotel, IMO, and now want to use the excuse of a lawsuit that only has to do with our Charter that affects the new development of the parcels to the west of the existing hotel. They now use this as an excuse to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but let the existing hotel go to more slum and more blight. If that corporation was serious, the present hotel would have been renovated ions ago.

It is this present commission that created a lawsuit. It was this city administration that in all their arrogance, that is responsible for barreling over the people to do the will of three commissioners and not the 57% of those who won this vote to keep heights at 45 feet. And it is they who are directly responsible for this hotel remaining idle two years later with the present owners using the lawsuit as some excuse for not renovating it. They certainly can't flip it or develop it right now but they knew the vote when they applied for 65 feet and was granted it by this majority city commission.

I thank all of those who stand up for principle and democracy and trying to right the wrongs in this world--you are to be greatly admired even though the cards are often stacked against you. It takes a lot of money whereas the city uses the taxpayer's money to defend.  Sometimes the people win; sometimes we lose. But we have to keep trying to keep it all honest.

So, oh, boo hoo yourself, Mr. "Charmer."