Los Angeles Dodgers to promote "Pride" Night

"As liberals drift away from God and religion, The Los Angeles Dodgers is obliging them.

One of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises is getting blasted over its plan to honor a controversial LGBTQ+ activist group of “queer and trans nuns” at an upcoming game, drawing the ire of Catholics who have condemned the “blasphemous” depictions of their faith.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are being accused of anti-Catholic bigotry for the planned hosting of a gay and transgender group that uses religious imagery to promote a sexually degenerate lifestyle, presenting a “Community Hero Award” to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence before the June 16th Pride Night home game at Chavez Ravine, appropriately, a matchup against the rival San Francisco Giants."

I used to be a Dodger fan when they were in New York but it looks like crazy California caught up to them these past 66 years. Read Marco's letter to the MLB Commissioner

"Get woke; Go broke"

Congressman Reminds MLB It Still Has 1 Big Legal Protection, But Woke Boycott of Georgia May Have Just Endangered It

Rep. Jeff Duncan, a Republican from South Carolina, said Friday that he plans to introduce legislation that will remove MLB’s antitrust exemption after Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the Georgia move in response to the passage of state Senate Bill 202.

Read the bill

Nationals Pitcher pitching a lot of bull

Sean Doolittle Won't Join Nationals When They Visit Donald Trump, White House

One has to wonder why Hollywood types and some sports figures say they are standing up for principle when they take the knee or disrespect the President of the United States. I assume they think it cool but it is liberals who are dividing the country.

Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle has announced that he will not join the team Monday when it visits the White House. He doesn't like what the President has to say about illegals or the President's personality, I guess. .

Priorities in Lake Worth

Gardens to spend $3.5 million on baseball complex improvements while Lake Worth moved to destroy theirs

While Palm Beach Gardens is pouring in more than $3 million to improve their baseball fields and will spend sales tax money building two additional fields for the kids, Lake Worth has rezoned their ball fields in the north end, happy to give up more green space, in order to allow development of more housing. Anything for a tax base in Lake Worth.

Lake Worth wants to use the penny sales tax money to yank out our Olympic pool and build God knows what. What say you, Commissioners?

At the Yankees game yesterday - Trump 2020

Several fans at a New York Yankees baseball game Sunday held up a giant “Re-elect Trump 2020” banner.

While the scene was met with some middle fingers and “boos” from the crowd, it also elicited cheers and whistles. [David Michael Lynch]

Ultra liberal Chris Matthews comments on James Hodgkinson, Alexandria shooter

"Some things you’d think could and would be universally condemned by everyone--things like jihad attacks against innocents or opening fire on a group of unsuspecting legislators at a baseball practice. If you think that’s the case you’re under-estimating hyper-liberals like Chris Matthews."

Democrats won Congressional baseball game

In fact, the Democrats slaughtered the Republican team (11-2)--but it's only a baseball game they have won--Will they end all the rest of the slaughter with their hatred and vitriol? Chuck? Nancy? News Media?

There were 24,959 tickets sold, which was a record for the game that was first played" in 1909. More than $1 million has been raised this year for Congressional Sports for Charity. Ivanka Trump, joined by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and her two eldest children Arabella and Joseph Kushner, presented a $50,000 check from 'Friends in the Trump Administration to 'Congressional Sports for Charity' at the game."

Florida Sports Development Program

Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, filed his bill (SB 236) on the first work day of the new year, to abolish the $13 million Sports Development Program. Lee is a former Senate president and ex-chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a certified leadership insider. SB236 was not heard on March 13 in the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee as scheduled according to his aide. I have not yet learned why it was pulled.

I wrote about this on March 12

Below is a snapshot of what taxpayers have given to corporate ball clubs since 1994--

SB 236: Sports Development GENERAL BILL by Lee Sports Development; Repealing provisions relating to state funding for sports facility development by a unit of local government, or by a certified beneficiary or other applicant, on property owned by the local government, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2017
Last Action: 4/18/2017 Senate - Unfavorable by Commerce and Tourism, laid on Table; YEAS 3 NAYS 3 -SJ 435
Location: Laid on Table

Stop Taxpayer dollars going to Billionaire Sport's Teams

[Liberty First Network] The State of Florida is taking our taxpayer money and handing it out to billionaire sports team owners. The Florida Legislature currently budgets monthly payments from the state of $166,667 for 30 years, for an annual payment totaling $2,000,004 to each of the nine major sports franchises like the Miami Dolphins.

In 2014, the Florida legislature decided to give sports team owners even more of taxpayer money by making available funding for privately owned stadiums to build or renovate sporting centers. Teams would apply to the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity for sales tax rebate funding. The money can be used for “constructing, reconstructing, renovating, or improving a facility or reimbursing such costs.


Economists consistently find that stadium construction subsidies fail to generate much, if any, "economic impact" in local markets in terms of metro-area wide employment and income. Sports subsidies are poor uses of taxpayer money.


SB 236 will repeal the 2014 legislation.

Take Action

SB 236 will be heard in the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on Monday March 13th, 2017 at 4:00 PM.
Call and e-mail the members of the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee and tell them to support SB 236 and stop giving our taxpayer dollars to billionaire sports team owners.


sports team owners.

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE

Name/Committee	Email	Phone
Commerce and Tourism
Bill Montford	Montford.Bill@flsenate.gov	850-487-5003
George Gainer	Gainer.George@flsenate.gov	850-487-5002
Audrey Gibson	Gibson.Audrey@flsenate.gov	850-487-5006
Travis Hutson	Hutson.Travis@flsenate.gov	850-487-5007
Jack Latvala	Latvala.Jack@flsenate.gov	850-487-5016
Kathleen Passidomo	Passidomo.Kathleen@flsenate.gov	850-487-5028
Jose Rodriguez	Rodriguez.Jose@flsenate.gov	850-487-5037
Dana Young	Young.Dana@flsenate.gov	850-487-5018

 

Lake Worth High School Officials made Bad call

Politically Correct crap is getting all of us in trouble...now it's a few high school ball players caught in the trap.

Lake Worth High School officials believing they were making the right call, over-reacted, acted prematurely and threw their own players under the bus.  Now there is a lawsuit.

Read about it...

Lantana gets new Sports Stadium

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Palm Beach Post photo by Damon Higgens

City Manager of Lake Worth, Michael Bornstein, running the bases.

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John Prince Park serves Residents, not multi-millionaires

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Letters to the Editor
Palm Beach Post
April 26, 2016

Park serves residents, not multi-millionaires

John Prince Park is a place for residents to enjoy — not for multimillionaire ballplayers and their owners to take over for a few weeks a year so they can further line their pockets with money at the expense of local citizens, who, through taxes, for years paid for its upkeep for the enjoyment of county residents.

I came by John Prince one Sunday afternoon, and the park was hopping. Ballplayers of all sorts, picnickers, bike riders, joggers, walkers, sunbathers, boaters — a multitude of citizens enjoying the great outdoors on a beautiful day.

Now the county commissioners are proposing to take that away from supporters and give it over to those with money who want to make more money. Think of the citizens who use this venue year-round, not of the multimillionaires who want us to sacrifice this area, for a few weeks of the year, to fatten their bank accounts and get a family vacation.

We need to retain this beautiful open space park for our citizens.

SUE WAGNER
ATLANTIS

Letters to the Editor - County's Priorities not the same as Braves

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Letters to the Editor
Palm Beach Post
April 25, 2016

County’s priorities not same as Braves’

I was reading the April 9 Local section, and two stories caught my eye: one concerning the proposed sales tax (“Gardens officials vote to oppose hike in sales tax”) and the other on building another spring training stadium for baseball (“Braves want county’s largest park”).

Where it got interesting were the numbers. Using the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches as a template, let’s take a look: $113 million from the state bed tax, $50 million from the state (for a $144 million complex, by the way). One of the principals involved estimates 144,000 fans attending over the course of a year.

So we are spending $163 million in state money for 144,000 to watch spring training baseball. I’m sure “jobs creation” would be the rebuttal here, but some will be temporary workers … you know, spring training.

We have a lot more than 144,000 people involved in the school system and using infrastructure in Palm Beach County. So before you ask for more tax money to fix these problems, I suggest people in government start drawing the right priorities.

I’m sure the money is earmarked for certain items. However, like the Atlanta Braves lobbyist said concerning the stadium: It might be time to get “very creative” with our tax dollars, as far as how we’re spending them.

MIKE HUNDLEY
WEST PALM BEACH

Developers, Sports teams rule this area

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Letters to the Editor
Palm Beach Post
April 23, 2016

Developers, Sports teams rule this area

My opinion is this about local governments in South Florida:  "For the developer, by the developer, of the developer and, now, multimillionaire sports-team owners."

And the citizens be damned and ignored.

RON HOWELL
LAKE WORTH

1 cent Sales Tax Increase and Baseball

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Today's Editorial in favor of the 7% sales tax increase

But I am in tune with this Letter to the Editor:

Letters to the Editor
Palm Beach Post

Here is my succinct response to the proposed sales tax increase.
Roadways, bridges, schools and county buildings — I vote yes. If anything else is in the mix, I vote no.

DENNIS E. CICOTTE
JUPITER

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In fact, I go one step further--if Palm Beach County can spend multi millions more catering to and rolling over for another national league ball club to develop here at the expense of its residents and destruction of a county park, then I vote NO to it all.

The Houston and Astros price just raised to $144 million and they have said that it could go even higher. The Braves price tag is $110 million. This is all for the County's ego of wanting to be known as the Spring Training Capital of the Country.  I would suppose that is better than being known as Corruption County.

No Popcorn and Crackerjacks at John Prince Park

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As seen on Lake Osborne Drive

It's so hard for the little guy to fight city hall. Now, of course, it is a county commission that just has visions of sugar plums. Throw in the Trio commission in Lake Worth plus our crackerjack commissioner Scott Maxwell calling in all his cards with downtown and beach merchants who believe they will prosper and all of the Atlanta Braves money, you have one powerful message--Let's ruin a county park because we believe it is in the best interests of all those taxpayers in the county who will be paying for it.

The Lake Worth city manager has already said in order to fix the potholes everyone will be taxed. The county wants to raise the sales tax by one cent. It can't pay for its infrastructure either.

Sounds like a plan...let's just tax the minions. At least they will be able to see a few spring training games to get their minds off their real problems, if they can afford going to a game.

Can you even imagine that many people here, a stone's throw away from ROLO? Screaming, shouting people trashing up the place.  All our wildlife will flee and there will not be any peace and quiet in the Lake Osborne neighborhood. And once the game is over, these people will be getting back onto I-95 (it might take hours) to get the heck home. The Lake Worth economy will not be affected. Just visualize the congestion, the noise and the pollution, not to mention there will no longer be a sanctuary here for our precious wildlife--just popcorn and crackerjacks.

Atlanta Braves attendance figures at Disney

Year	Total	Average
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008	127,131 124,104 134,134 127,328 136,360 105,795 140,419 138,811	7,063 7,300 7,452 7,490 8,021 7,557 7,801 8,676

Map - John Prince Park - Atlanta Braves

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Atlanta Braves has zero LOYALTY

At Turner Field since 1997, they are saying adios and moving to a new stadium. They are building new at a cost of $622 million in order to save on maintenance costs of $150 mil over 30 years at Turner Field. The county there is raising $368 million through bonds, $14 million from transportation taxes, and $10 million cash from businesses in the Cumberland Community Improvement District.

Read Joe Capozzi's article in today's Palm Beach Post where "sources" have indicated the Braves want land in the south end of John Prince Park.

$135 million Ballpark of the Palm Beaches moving right along

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Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature earmarked $50 million toward the $135 million stadium. The Baseball corporations, Huston Astros and Washington Nationals, pay for any over-runs and they are tax exempt.

Letter to the Editor calls for non-reelection of County Commissioners who vote for Atlanta Braves, a billionaire corporation that wants to locate here at taxpayer expense

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Braves want John Prince Park

Letter to the Editor in today's Palm Beach Post:

Scott Maxwell, his Crazy Bat, Secret Meetings and $$$

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We already went round and round about this several years ago with the Astros and Nationals but Commissioner Maxwell who represents this neighborhood doesn't give a flying fig. He loves secrecy and intrigue and the hell with his neighbors. It's still, with him, all about the possibility that some $$$ might trickle to Lake Worth from all of this.  Just another one of his Field of Dreams. But what he is not considering, as it is not a priority, is the total ruination of a neighborhood.

This is posted as a reminder of the last behind the scenes discussions to screw this neighborhood and a beautiful Palm Beach County park that is deed restricted. Gosh, how soon everyone forgets.

Apparently a telephone survey went out yesterday on this. I have no details on it or who instigated it.

The PB Post said that there was a meeting on "Tuesday night at CityPlace that included officials from Lake Worth, Greenacres and the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, an influential group of business leaders that was a driving force behind the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches." Tuesday night is a curious date as Scott Maxwell was in a city commission meeting on Tuesday. At the end of the meeting when the city manager was asked if he had anything to report, he responded "no."

Palm Beach County is concerned about--"how to pay for the facility, which the Braves want to build in John Prince Park just west of Lake Worth. It could cost up to $100 million."