Lynn's little bit of trivia : Sunset 3-7-17

Rasmussen

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

President Trump is heading to Brussels today for the NATO summit, and support for the organization is up as voters continue to see a need for the alliance more than 60 years after it was formed.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 68% of Likely U.S. Voters have at least a Somewhat Favorable opinion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), including 25% who have a Very Favorable one. Just 22% have a Somewhat Unfavorable or Very Unfavorable impression of the alliance. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Bad Politics

BAD POLITICS--the 55th worst decision--voted humongous salary increases for themselves plus a $6,000 a year car allowance 12-13-16

BAD POLITICS--the 54th worst decision--voted to spend $15 million to upgrade our electric utility to 26.4kv 12-14-16

BAD POLITICS--the 53rd worst decision--voted to put 3 year terms on the ballot 12-14-16

BAD POLITICS - the 52nd worst decision--voted in big salary increases 3/2 vote 12-14-16

BAD POLITICS--the 51st worst decision--Suggesting 3 year commission terms on the November 8, 2016 ballot when the people already said "no" by nearly 68% eight yrs ago. It passed anyway.

BAD POLITICS--the 50th worst decision--4 commissioners voted to put a bond referendum on the ballot with NO public discussion allowed--McVoy dissented. 7-19-16

BAD POLITICS--the 49th worst--Trio voted for Resolution 18-2016 to bring Atlanta Braves to John Prince Park 4-5-16

BAD POLITICS--the 48th worst decision--Trio voted to support a sales tax hike from 6% to7% with no discussion. 4-5-16

BAD POLITICS--the 47th worst--Scott Maxwell and the city manager working behind the scenes out of the sunshine to bring the Atlanta Braves to John Prince Park and ruin an entire neighborhood and public park. 3-23-16

BAD POLITICS--the 46th worst fiasco--treating the seniors at the mobile home park like garbage

BAD POLITICS--the 45th worst decision--passed ordinance criminalizing the Homeless. 1-19-16

BAD POLITICS--the 44th worst decision--2nd Public Hearing, voted in an upzoning for Hudson Holdings, owners of the Gulfstream property ignoring the Heights Charter Amendment. 1-5-16

BAD POLITICS--the 43rd worst decision--voted to upzone the Gulfstream parcels so that a developer, Hudson Holdings can have the ability to build higher than what the Charter Amendment allows.

BAD POLITICS--the 42nd worst decision--played politics with rates and fees on electric and beach parking. Approved of deficit spending at our beach. 9-15-15

BAD POLITICS--the 41st worst and non-transparent maneuver--Secret meetings! Even considering more commercialization at our beach by John Szerdi's employer

BAD POLITICS--the 40th worst decision--still trying to grab the cash with no details on going out on another general obligation bond. "We want it; we need it and we want to tax you for it." 1-27-15

BAD POLITICS--the 39th worst performance--Allowed an atheist to give the invocation and immediately before he spoke, walked out of the meeting falling right into the publicity trap set by him. 12-2-14

BAD POLITICS - the 38th worst decision--the mayor allowing two of her supporters to make personal attacks in a city commission meeting against another citizen because she didn't like a graphic depicting her on a blog. 9-9-14

BAD POLITICS - the 37th worst decision--encouraging their city attorney to invite people to the meeting in order to "make a case" against the Canvassing Board and the election process. 9-5-14

BAD POLITICS - the 36th worst self-serving statement--the mayor calling those who voted against the city's money-grab in the Aug 26, 2014 election as "broken" and playing games just to win.

BAD POLITICS - the 35th worst self-serving decision-to spend $50,000 of taxpayer money to promote the bond referendum

BAD POLITICS - the 34th worst maneuvering behind the scenes to force the LWHigh Flea Market to pay fees to continue its operations so it can raise scholarship money for poor kids and force it from its 27 year location.

BAD POLITICS - the 33rd worst thing--Jne 3, 2014 4/1 vote to put $63.5 mil 30 year bond issue on Aug primary ballot when half the city is gone.

BAD POLITICS - the 32nd egregious action--Apr 18, 2014 met with Shelley Vana and other politicians and lawyers to proceed with John Prince Park as a national ballfield, never once contacting the adjacent neighbors.

BAD POLITICS - the 31st dumbest thing--Apr 2014 changed our ordinance now allowing dogs on our beach park...now Fido will be all over the place.

BAD POLITICS - the 30th worst thing--Apr 2014 allowed non-residents (changing their description to seasonal residents) to purchase beach parking decal stickers when we only have 50 spaces

BAD POLITICS- the 29th dumbest thing--made a resolution to bulldoze parts of John Prince Park for a national Spring training stadium

BAD POLITICS - the 28th worst thing--Jan 2014 amended the budget and moved $12.5 million from Reserves to spend on projects now. No one knows for sure

BAD POLITICS - the 27th worst thing--Conjured up a plan to repave 50% of the roadways and place the infrastructure at the Park of Commerce. Might cost the taxpayers $100 million or more for a 30 year obligation bond so that general contractors and developers can get rich

BAD POLITICS - the 26th worst thing they did--Voted to allow open container alcoholic drinking in our downtown, city parks and at our beach on city special events so that the city could make money from boozers and compete against our merchants

BAD POLITICS - the 25th worst thing they did--Fought the Heights Referendum and directed the city attorney to find a way and render an opinion to overturn the March 2013 vote. Caused a court opinion and tied up all development in our downtown

BAD POLITICS - the 24th wildest decision--Voting to have an Ordinance weaning off the city's dependency on the Electric Utility funding to operate our city thus lowering electric rates and making it a super-majority vote from the dais to over-turn it. This is a lofty dictatorship

BAD POLITICS - the 23rd worse decision--Bad and inferior advice coupled with their fear of losing, settled with the flim-flam man for $1.6 MILLION dollars...blaming their decision on everyone but themselves. At least the nightmare is over

BAD POLITICS - the 22nd Worst decision--Voting to rob Reserves (savings) $424,000, the Simpkin Trust to operate our library $100,000 and deplete the billboard settlement fund and use it for operations in the amount of $700,000

BAD POLITICS - the 21st worst Decision--Instead of living within our means and making additional cuts, passed the 2013 budget by robbing Reserves of $424,000 and $100,000 from Simpkin Trust

BAD POLITICS - the 20th worst decision--Voted not to accept the certified signatures for a Charter Amendment for Nov 2012 election. Delayed it to March 2013 special election to cost the taxpayers $21,000 dollars so that they could play politics to defeat it. The city lost. The people won by nearly 57% of the vote and this commission will not honor the vote.

BAD POLITICS - the 19th worst decision and the top one--Denied the citizens petition to appear on the ballot and our right to vote on heights in our downtown

BAD POLITICS - the 18th worse decision--Vice Mayor stalled the negotiations with Internal Auditor choice, Robert Marksmeier, after years of complaining that we needed an IA per the Charter. He failed to negotiate—Again

BAD POLITICS - the 17th Worst Decision--Visionaries said that the people could not vote on their raising heights of buildings in the downtown. People forced to a referendum under impossible odds.

BAD POLITICS - the 16th Worst decision--Trio of Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso voted to change the name of our city after 116 years and place on Nov 2012 ballot right before our 100th birthday! This bad decision was later rescinded

BAD POLITICS - the 15th worst vote--Voted to add density to our downtown by higher bldg heights and up-zoned residential neighborhoods

BAD POLITICS - the 14th worst decision--Decided they didn't like the name of our city after 116 years and voted to put name change on the ballot

BAD POLITICS - The 13 worst decision--Voted to accept first low-ball offer from FMPA to settle the law suit...negotiated nothing

BAD POLITICS - The 12th worst decision--Rewriting the Ordinance for the P&Z Board so they could kick off appointed volunteer members and put in their own "good ole boys

BAD POLITICS - The 11th worst decision--Ending the Zoning in Progress thus delaying multi-millions in development

BAD POLITICS - The 10th worst decision--Having City Manager Bornstein fire Kathleen Margoles without knowing her or giving her a chance because she stood up to Scott Maxwell. 4-18-12

BAD POLITICS - The 9th worst Decision--Had the City Manager STOP the Zoning in Progress

BAD POLITICS - The 8th worst decision--Voted to burn $40,000 already spent by not proceeding with the renovation of the 110 N F Street building and moving various departments. We are left with gutted building and employees working out of trailers

BAD POLITICS - The 7th worst decision--Voted to spend $1.7 million more than the beach bond without insisting the contractor reduce his costs and reduce his scope of work

BAD POLITICS - The 6th worst & corrupt decision--Changed its own directive and maneuvered unqualified Joe Kroll into a Top 5 spot for city manager when it was supposed to be Top 3 and then threw him under the bus for Bornstein

BAD POLITICS - The 5th worst vote--Appointed Range Riders and HR Director to find qualified applicants for city mgr and then shoved them out because they didn't like the results. They will now be doing it themselves

BAD POLITICS - The 4th worst thing--Kicking the can down the road--Did not want to take Staff's advice to fix the Utility customer service long term problem by outsourcing it as well as saving a bunch of money but instead capitulated to the Union

BAD POLITICS - The 3rd worst decision by this new commission--Changed our beach closing hours to 1:00am to accommodate a bar. Screwed long-time tenants out of rights of first refusals

BAD POLITICS - The 2nd most stupid thing this commission did--Lake Worth needs to find a Manager, not a Toadie

BAD POLITICS - The 1st worst decision by this new commission-- Visionaries' fire city manager

What the "Visionaries" cost Lake Worth

Paying Susan Stanton $124,395 after firing her because they didn't like her personality

Voting to pay an interim city manager $50,000 for four months minimum and then changed their minds after 65 resumes had already been submitted. Then voted to go with a permanent city mgr instead

Staff's advertisement of the position, compiling the commission criteria that took hours of staff time as well as digesting all of the applicant resumes and determining the top applicants

Appointing Range Rider volunteers to sift through recycled city manager resumes and then didn't like the results of their short list

Travel and lodging expenses for candidates to come here and interview as well as the same for Range Riders.

Tried their damndest to hire an unqualified former employee as city manager.

Hiring a new city manager so that they can manipulate him.

Coming Full Circle

As a voting adult, I started off as a Republican and during the Nixon regime, I realized that I was really a Democrat, back when Democrats had common sense and integrity and cared about the common good of all without the selling off of America. I changed my Party to reflect those views. Having been a Democrat for many decades now, I have come full circle and have seen the erosion of principles for which I thought the Democratic Party stood. It's a pity that it took most of my life, until 2008, to realize how wrong I was.

Lynn Anderson

Quote of the Decade -or- Hypocrisy of the Decade

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Remarkable Quotes

You punch me, I punch you back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Edward Koch

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."
Ayn Rand

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.
Ronald Reagan

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

With integrity nothing else counts; Without integrity nothing else counts.
Winston Churchill

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Menken

Referenda insure all have a voice in land use decisions.
U.S. Supreme Court

Listen carefully to first criticism of your work. Note just what it is about your work the critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
Jean Cocteau

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Sunset 3-7-17

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