Adam Schlesinger's history with Lake Worth and the Gulfstream Hotel

What caught my eye in the Palm Beach Post Sunday's edition was that Adam Schlesinger was back in the news. He and his companies are involved in the Ambassador Hotel Cooperative Apartments on S. Ocean Boulevard and have just been sued by them. It is stated that he is using a lot of scare tactics pressuring people to sell their units to him.

If you recall, the Schlesinger family was highly entrenched in our city at one time regarding The Gulfstream Hotel.

Back in July 2005, Schlesinger bought the historic hotel for $12,910,000 paying over double what it sold for only two years before. The hotel is 13,500 sq. ft. situated on 0.399 acres directly across from the Intracoastal Waterway and Bryant Park. It has 106 rooms in 65,456 square-feet and most rooms have a water view.

Adam Schlesinger came before a former Planning & Zoning Board on numerous occasions as well as the City Commission while Jeff Clemens was mayor. He was crying the blues that he couldn't get financing but NO one on the P&Z Board back then, (Lisa Maxwell, former candidate for District 4, Wes Blackman, former candidate for District 3 and Phil Spinelli to name a few), asked him to prove what he said--none of them even asked. They took him at his "word." They continued to give him extension after extension and allowed the Gulfstream to languish.

This is a hotel that survived the Great Depression but did not survive the financial depression we had. Asset Holding Company 5 LLC filed a foreclosure lawsuit against CSC Lake Worth Limited Partnership (Schlesinger) on August 11, 2010 in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The lawsuit sought repayment of a $12 million loan, plus the foreclosure of the hotel property." In May 2010, it sold for $7,225,000 to HH GULFSTREAM LAND HOLDINGS LLC (Hudson Holdings). Another suit ensued and Carl DeSantis now owns the Gulfstream Hotel. Where is Steven Michael these days?

Read about Schlesinger... in Sunday's Palm Beach Post. In the meantime, the hotel, once an icon of our city, is still in limbo all these years later.

Lake Worth Volunteer Board Appointments

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The following reappointments are requested to be ratified at Tuesday's City Commission Meeting:

Historic Resources Preservation Board:
Mayor’s reappointment of Herman Robinson for a term ending on July 31, 2018
Remodeling contractor

Finance Advisory Board:
Vice Mayor’s reappointment of Robert Lepa for a term ending on July 31, 2018
Financial Adviser for Wells Fargo

Electric Utility Advisory Board:
Commissioner Andy Amoroso’s reappointment of Lisa Maxwell for a term ending on July 31, 2018
Director of Development, WPB Housing Authority

Planning and Zoning Board:
Commissioner Andy Amoroso’s reappointment of Cynthia Brown for a term ending on July 31, 2018
She is a real estate agent in Florida since April 26, 2012.

Garbage is a smelly business

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Garbage is big business and Waste Management, Inc. is back in the news for funny business.

Waste Management, Inc. is a holding company and all operations are conducted by its subsidiaries. Their subsidiaries provide collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services. They are also a leading developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. Their subs are all friends and all in bed together.

One of their "friends" is Southern Waste Systems/Sun Recycling, a company that has been entrenched in one way or another in our Lake Worth political scene. Through the past several years, they have given contributions to:

Retha Lowe (the most infamous of all)
Tom Ramiccio, candidate and former mayor of Lake Worth
Lisa Maxwell, candidate for Commissioner District 4
BacPac, Shanon Materio, Chair and presently West Palm Beach City Commissioner
Jim Stafford, candidate for Commissioner District 2
John Szerdi, present Lake Worth City Commissioner

Orlando Utility Commission selected as energy provider

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Orlando Utility Commission was chosen as our new energy provider.

The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC: "The Reliable One") was chartered in 1923. It's about as old as Lake Worth Utilities. The difference in this facility and ours is that Orlando has the population to generate the resources allowing it to be one of the best electric facilities in the State. It takes money to run an electric utility plant, something of which our small city is in short supply.

OUC is the second largest locally owned electric utility in Florida and the 16th largest in the nation. The company is governed by a five-member commission (including the Mayor of Orlando), and is responsible for all operating policies.

OUC owns and operates the Curtis H. Stanton Energy Center and portions of other power plants in Florida. Notable ownership includes the Indian River Plant north of Cocoa, a former OUC plant now owned by RRI Energy; as well as a 6.08% stake in the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant near Fort Pierce. OUC also owns eight water plants.

Lake Worth's Select Committee, consisting of 7 members (city commissioners, Finance Director and Chair of the Utility Board), all voted for Orlando Utility Commission as this company was the lowest bidder across the board based on the city's requirements in the RFP.

As price and terms plus reliability were our top considerations, this was a good, sound vote by our city and void of politics except when former candidate for District 4, Lisa Maxwell, Chair of the Electric Utility Board,  condemned a former commission for not getting a bid on the sale of our utility in the RFP and not requiring that all bidders have their costs made public.  At the time it was originally discussed, Sue Hersey said that it should be a separate RFP to sell our Utility. Last night attorney Schef said that if bids were public then we would have had totally different results. Under Florida law, bidders have the right to protect trade secrets and price is a part of that.

Quote of the Day - Burt Aaronson

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The experience of the company's management team, not the track record of the company, should count.

~Burt Aaronson, Palm Beach County Commissioner


Southern Waste Systems (Sun Recycling) is back in the news today.

The Palm Beach County Commission agreed to ease its rules on who can compete for its garbage business. It used to be that you had to have experience hauling residential garbage with at least 30,000 curb side customers. Palm Beach Commissioners instructed staff to re-write the restrictions so that Sun Recycling can bid.

Lake Worth has had its experience with Sun. They dumped all sorts of crap on our landfill and left the 66 acres unusable. If you recall, Sun dumped over 6,000 truckloads of construction material on our landfill, some of which is 3.6 or 3.8 inches thick, hauling in material from south Florida construction sites, giving that commission (one of the WCE) a song and dance abiout using it for a disaster staging site. Our reclamation of the land was again, dead. This was in a lawsuit but I don't see it any longer on the list. Perhaps it was settled or dropped and we weren't informed. This is what I  hate about our lawsuits--the public never knows what's happening.

They also gave campaign contributions here in Lake Worth. You remember the Retha Lowe incident that got her in all sorts of trouble with Tallahassee. Retha lived in our landfill district.  Because they wanted to do more business in Lake Worth, Sun companies contributed the same amount in the general election as they did in the primary to Tom Ramiccio...$2,500. A few years back,  Sun companies gave $2,500 to Lisa Maxwell, now Chair of the Electric Utility Advisory Board as well as $1,400 to Shanon Materio's  BacPac that was supporting certain candidates. Materio, as you know, is now commissioner in West Palm Beach.

Our commission voted not to renew any contract with Sun Recycling (the BCE) and we would use our own rolloff containers.  Palm Beach County made a decision on May 18, 2010 to extend Sun's permit.

Burt Aaronson is finally term limited but Southern Waste Systems is moving right along.

Electrical Utility Advisory Board in Lake Worth

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Mary Lindsey

Although not giving a reason for stepping down from the Electrical Utility Advisory Board, most of us can figure it out. There comes a time when banging your head against a brick wall is giving you nothing but a headache. Mary Lindsey gave kudos to all the members of the board.

As Mayor Triolo had originally appointed Lindsey, she got to choose her replacement. Carla Blockson, former candidate for commissioner District 2, will now be on the Board. We haven't seen Carla since she ran as a pro business candidate in 2010 wanting to end the Utility Conservation Program to save less than a buck on our utility bill. We can also give Blockson credit for the vicious "Mad Scientist" attack mailer against Commissioner McVoy that Shanon Materio, now commissioner in West Palm Beach, was behind.

The commission voted in Lisa Maxwell as the new Chair, taking over for Lindsey. The vote was 3/1 with McVoy dissenting. She has appeared at city hall a few times since that election where she lost to Suzanne Mulvehill and ran on the platform of cleaning up our streets, preventing the bankruptcy of our city and stopping unfair utility fees and assessments.

Guess who's leaving town?

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Located in a highly desirable waterfront location on S. Lakeside Drive, guess who's selling their house?

Listed at $799,000, read the fabulous property description.

Maxwell with Friends in Low Places?

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Ron Book
Lisa Maxwell's Sugar Daddy

Several years ago, the Miami New Times had an article about Ron Book. In that article it said that Ron Book "knowingly violated Florida's campaign finance laws, not once or twice, but on dozens of occasions over a number of years.

Not only that, the article went on to say that at one time Book came under investigation and was caught on tape for "allegedly helping to bribe an Opa-Locka politician." The following year he got arrested for an insurance fraud case.

This is the guy who gave Lisa Maxwell $500 for her campaign. Tell Lisa on Tuesday that we don't want Broward County in Lake Worth.

Election Lake Worth

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No, this is not Roseanne Barr playing this role.
In spite of the rare smile,
this is the DOOM & GLOOM candidate for Mayor

VOTE WATERMAN ON TUESDAY

Don't be stampeded on Tuesday - Lake Worth Election

Don't be stampeded by the herd and the Chief Bison.
Bisons are gloomy and sort of scary.
They want to "right wrongs" but they don't know what that means.
They are always opening their mouths and inserting their feet.
The only place that they are protected is at the
Maxwell Wildlife Refuge in Kansas.

We don't want to be swift-boated
and we sure don't want to be stampeded at the polls--

we definitely don't want to be buffaloed.

Vote smart
WATERMAN

Contributions for "Bulldozer" Maxwell

As someone said, Lisa Maxwell, former Director of Re-Development for Lennar Corporation is close to the "money and power" people. She was also a lobbyist for the Builder's Association. One of her contributors, not only now but last year as well, is lawyer and lobbyist, Ron Book. You can't be much closer to the most powerful unless you have something in common.

Ron Book has not been jailed but he has had civil penalties: In 1995, Book pleaded guilty to 4 misdemeanor charges and was fined $2,000. For an additional penalty, he agreed to pay $40,000 to charity.

Maxwell has never met a developer that she didn't like. Not only did Maxwell get a $500 campaign contribution from Ron Book, she received the same from the Developers and Lobbyists:

Gold Coast Alliance for Jobs, 2101 Corp. Dr, Boynton Beach
Floridians for Sensible Growth, address as above
Citizens for Economic Growth, address as above
Families for affordable Housing, address as above
Skeet Jurnigan, a lobbyist from Ft. Lauderdale who only lists a PO Box, a violation.
Another interesting contributor is Carla Blockson, failed candidate for District 2.
There were several people on Maxwell's report with NO address listed, a violation of Election Reporting Laws.
Some guy on Golfview gave $500 twice, against election law.

Lisa Maxwell's latest Treasury Report, click on G4

Conflict of Interest Shuts down Ron Book's work for Bail Bond Industry

Read more on the most powerful lobbyist in Florida, Ron Book.

Lake Worth Doom & Gloom Candidate

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Graphic designed by Tom McGow

Casino Demolition

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It was emotional watching the demolition of our casino building, a place that I first visited as a kid in the 50's--a place that still had the tunnel leading from close to what later became John G's--the days of the old Clock across from it and the wonderful long-time merchants, many of whom became friends and like family.

In one month the entire building will be razed other than some pillars here and there, etc. In 1.5 years we are to have an outstanding structure that will look like our 1922 building that gave the city so much pride and literally helped develop Lake Worth, attracting people from all over.

Just another thing that this Commission and City Manager has accomplished, something that has been discussed for 30 years according to Retha Lowe. Lisa Maxwell can now take that off her list of complaints. We are on our way as well to a breathtaking building and the financing is on track.
Once built, this building will attract world tourism to Lake Worth.

Decorum at Lake Worth City Hall Jumped off the Cliff

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Back on March 15, 2011, the City Commission amended the Rules and Procedures to add "Rules of Decorum for Citizen Participation." It had gotten to the point that some citizens, organized by a few in the neighborhood associations and easily influenced by their political agenda, had become unruly. We all thought that by passing this Resolution that behavior in the Chamber would get better.

During election time we have to endure some candidates who feel that making some stupid political statement is in their best interests. We usually tune it out if they are respectful. However, Lisa Maxwell spoke last night and said 1) that this commission wanted to close the library and 2) that library hours were being shortened. Neither of her statements were correct--she mis-spoke again, but Lisa did what she does best. Any candidate running for office should know the facts. Lisa does not and is unwilling to learn. Last night, those married to the little organized herd, bent on political destruction, tossed out the City's Resolution No 04-2011 and played by their own rules. Here are a few of the rules that they broke:

Rule #4 states that citizens must speak only to the matter for which they signed up. This was abused over and over again last night by the herd that was hell bent on sounding off with political sound bites, lies and personal attacks turning the subject around to what they wanted to sound off about.

Rule #7 states that speakers will conduct themselves in a civil and respectful manner at all times.

Rule #15 states speakers will refrain from making comments of a personal nature regarding others.

Rule #16 states that name calling is forbidden.

Rule #19 states that the audience should refrain from private conversation during the meeting.

Rule #21 states that no campaign placards, banners, or signs will be permitted in the city council chambers.

Can we please have some order in the Chamber and get back to civil, respectful and courteous discourse and behavior? That is what this Civility Resolution was all about--it passed on a 4/0 vote. Coincidentally, both Maxwells were absent that night.

Lake Worth Mayoral Candidates answer Questions at Neighborhood Forum

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Well, you can't call it a debate as no one got to rebut. Even when Waterman tried, she was stopped by the moderator, John Paxman. This was a typical love fest for the Lindsey neighborhood's favorite candidate. If you came and didn't know the candidates and didn't realize that what some of them said was so bizarre and factually wrong or impossible, then no one in particular "won." Some had a better message than did others.

From Top, Left to Right

Tom Ramiccio
Will begin conversations this Summer with FPL to buy Lake Worth Utilities. Says it is worth between $300 to $500 million. Now where did he come up with this figure? FPL bid on our Electric Utility in 1994 for $60 million. He has no idea of the capacity of the generation. The Commission turned it down. We still had generators that we were paying on then and we still have an outstanding Bond today of over $30 mil just on the electric utility. Says he does not trust the city manager and will bring stability to the City Commission. He just does not know that this is the most stable commission in years that has made all of the right decisions.

I contacted an expert on our Utility who says:

FPL has offered Vero Beach $100 million. But, I would doubt that they will offer anywhere near that much for LW. The reasons for the lower amount would be:

1) They would have to decommission the power plant. (Approx. $5 million)
2) They would have to conduct a system wide conversion (both 26 kV and 4 kV). (Approx. $30 - $40
3) The franchise agreement with Palm Spring expires soon and they will go willingly to FPL without any cost.

End result: I would not offer more than $60 million, knowing that I would have to deal with FMEA, the decommissioning and the system wide upgrade.

You do understand that these are "off the top of my head" numbers and in no way reflect what conclusions I might come to if I had the time and opportunity to study the sale of the utility.

Javier DelSol
Education and Prevention is his platform. Says paying 50% of our budget on police is foolhardy. Spend it on libraries. Get to the root of the cause of our problems...education. "Some that we perceive to be the problem can be part of the solution," said DelSol.

Lisa Maxwell
Full of doom and gloom and making up stuff using words such as "triage," "system broken," "borrowing our own Utility deposits for the Casino probably illegal," Lisa says that we should be taking the advice of the Finance Advisory Board, (that will bring her a couple of votes) a Board that has done nothing in over one year; says that our city's assets are a priority and then in the next breath suggests the sale of our Utility; says our viability as a city is at risk. Fear and doom is her platform. She can't find anything positive about anything.

Maxwell had no clue, again, about our Utility. Like Tom, thinks selling it might be an option. Still does not know that we have generation and was corrected by Waterman. Said that we had no Brownfield Money left in Florida rebutting Waterman who previously spoke to the issue who is a professional Grant writer.

Maxwell ridiculed the approval of a contract for Professional Materials Management for warehouse organization and inventory management for our Utility department. The Utilities Department had identified an opportunity to streamline materials management, optimize inventory and storage space, and increase efficiency through improved management of the Utility Warehouse. An initial investigation of the previous three year’s warehouse data indicated that the material is turning only once every ten years. Items are overstocked, in some cases obsolete, and are not properly secured. It went out for bid and a firm was chosen. The City anticipates that this project will result in the sale of obsolete material from the electric warehouse that will generate a one-year revenue of approximately $500,000. Her favorite commissioner, Scott Maxwell,voted FOR this on May 17th.

Still uninformed about our Budget and the reasoning behind Staff decisions--asks why we are not paying the Fire bill. Says we can't charge more for a utility service than the revenues we take in--says "It's the law." Ms. Maxwell, Lake Worth can charge anything it wants. We own it. She must be confused with a not-for-profit company, not a private company such as Lake Worth Utilities. Maxwell says we don't need it to be a "cash cow" for the city--get it out of control of the city commission, taking a dig at Vice Mayor Mulvehill who beat her last year. Unfortunately, or I should say "fortunately, we need the money from our Utility to operate our city to a tune of $10 million dollars just to help pay for the high cost of policing and retirement benefits. Where does Maxwell think we will make up the money-- from taxes? She gives no solution.

Maxwell, again uninformed about the Bridge Loan the City will be structuring to itself for the Casino reconstruction, (wasn't that proposed by Chair Picket of the Finance Advisory Board?) says that we are borrowing our own Utility deposits for this construction and it is probably "illegal." Wrong again, Lisa, on just about everything.

Rachel Waterman
With a resume as long as your arm, Waterman says that she is a candidate that will do her homework. She speaks three languages fluently and has been involved in the planning of master plans and economic impact analyses. Says that we need to stabilize the Budget and look for more cost cutting measures. Says that we need to re-assess our electric commercial rates and tells us that the City will be giving a rate reduction in the upcoming Budget. Says the idea of selling our Utility is a short sighted solution to a long-term situation.

Waterman talked about being a grant writer and getting Brownfield Grants. Brownfield money can be used on any site within a brownfield designated redevelopment zone - which covers almost all of our city. The land does not need to be proven contaminated - just has to be perceived as possibly contaminated - which is the thresh hold for Brownfield designation. Once designated a Brownfield the money can be used for redevelopment of the site. Maxwell says that we have 300 acres of unused land at the Park of Commerce. Waterman again states the facts that we have 85 vacant acres there.
Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment.

Directly in front of her at a table was a group of Ramiccio supporters who tried to get her off balance every time she spoke. It did not distract her from her goal of telling you that she is all for trying new approaches and that she is the leader that Lake Worth needs. Vision, Creativity and Innovation will be her leadership style for Lake Worth.

Lyin Ryan has a New Job

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Yeah, you guessed it, Ryan Houck has a 'new job' with another phony name...freemarketflorida aka The Chamber of Commerce...wouldn't it be nice if the rest of the unemployed could get a job as easily as he does just to promote 'baloney' ;), says Dori.

Ryan Houck, the nemesis for smart growth in Florida, who has always been in bed with big business and the Florida Chamber of Commerce and someone who wants to pave over our great State at any cost says, "Florida’s Legislature made the right choice in scaling back our state’s cumbersome growth bureaucracy." To Ryan and Rick Scott, everything is about jobs--forget about The Everglades--forget about our scarce resources--forget about our State animal, the Florida Panther--they just want a Florida that looks like concrete.

Read more about Ryan and his new job

Remember on election day the candidate for Lake Worth mayor, Tom Ramiccio, who worked for the Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce and who believes in all the same politics as does Ryan. When you go into that voting booth, also remember Lisa Maxwell, a lobbyist for developers and her down right misinformation at The Playhouse, YouTubes and last night's debate--a gal who just can't make meeting commitments.

On Sunday Morning, Tom Hanks said that "80% of the people are honest and want to do the right thing. 20% are crooks and liars. Find out who the crooks and liars are." Some of us already know.

Get to the core of our problem here in Lake Worth. All you have to do is read some of the mailers and listen to some of the videos...if they sound too good to be true, you can bet that they are. These people still won't change their minds even when confronted with the facts. Also, follow the money.

We can't afford to elect any more people who just don't "get it"--you know, the ones who make up answers as they go along and come up with phony solutions for high energy costs like sell the Utility or want to bring down our city. NO more bullies on the pulpit.

Union Carnage

"The US has now become the model of unsustainable socialism while Europe has taken a more capitalistic approach to solving real problems. "

Read more at Business Insider.

I would like to hear what the Lake Worth mayoral candidates say about our Union retirement pension benefits and how they are draining our city dry.

On Lisa Maxwell's latest video, some resident on N. Lakeside by the name of Marty, talks about how he doesn't want things to revert to how they were in the past. NO one does. Marty wants to protect his investment. Who doesn't? Marty is so new here that he doesn't realize that it is this commission that is and has turned everything around. Lisa was not a part of those great decisions. She was, however, a part of some pretty bad ones while she was on the Planning & Zoning Board.

It was the past leaders who put this city in jeopardy with bad Union contracts and a bad Sheriff Contract and one who wanted to outsource all of our assets. It is this administration that is now negotiating with the Unions and we are gaining ground thanks to this city manager and this Commission.

Lisa, why don't you tell Marty and his wife the truth?

PB Post Interview

Lisa Maxwell Skips Interview

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Lisa Maxwell did not bother to have her interview with the Palm Beach Post Editorial Board. I guess she had better things to do. Lisa's not showing up for meetings is standard operational procedure?

Politicians should always coddle the news media...just smart politics.

Lake Worth's Candidate Forum

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Infamous Political Person

Other than the questions being way too long, it was an interesting "debate." I would still like to know who actually decided on what questions to ask. Some were inappropriate and seemed to be slanted in a negative way towards Waterman, the one candidate some want so desperately to beat. As the President's Council is political, I am not sure that any of this was explained other than neighborhood associations submitted questions to them. None of mine were chosen.

Endorsing one of its own, the PBCHRC members and aficionados were at the Playhouse last night in support of their candidate, Lisa Maxwell. They must have filled half the Playhouse. It was all about supporting one of their own in solidarity. Politics over Principle.

This is the candidate who continues to say politically correct statements such as she "wants to bring this city together"--"it is too divisive" and not one single person believes her, not even her greatest supporters, the Gay, Lesbian community. This election is all about grabbing back the power for some and the others just want someone gay no matter who. You sound correct, we will love ya because we know that you will beat up on all those other commissioners who we have been told are "ruining our city with immigrants" and who have "caused all the blight"...you know, all those shhh "anarchists."

Maxwell again brought up the Utility. I guess she doesn't read my blog. We do have generation, Lisa. She doesn't know anything about FMPA. She also brought up contracts. She doesn't think that we should ever break one even when it is bad or would cost the city millions like the water contract with the County this Commission ended and saved the City $3.5 million. But she reminded us that she has lots of budget experience. Jumping on the high utility rate bandwagon, she said that we should not be using money from the Utility to operate our city. In an ideal world that might be true, but we have to pay for all these Union retirement funds that have collapsed Lake Worth. I don't want someone as Mayor who has tunnel vision and someone who would easily cost us money that we don't have. Fiscal responsibility is the key but even more than that, knowing the facts of the matters at hand is essential. Lisa does not.

I was interested in seeing Waterman on her feet and was she ever. She did an excellent job--was quick, spontaneous, on point and knew her stuff. When Ramiccio attacked her for glancing at notes, she said, "Don't hate me for being prepared." You just know that she won't put up with any screwing around on the Dais. She mentioned her 20 years of experience in urban redevelopment and major infrastructure projects that brought new investment to Palm Beach County. She can do the same for Lake Worth. When Maxwell mentioned we needed a Grant Writer, she told the crowd that she was one. She has so many degrees that it isn't funny. Smart people who work hard are qualities that have to impress. It did me.

Tom Ramiccio was fun to listen to--a real showman. He sort of reminded folks of Rodney Romano's antics. Romano did beat him in his last campaign. He was rude to Waterman when he suggested she was an "anarchist." What a silly and stupid thing to say. Unfortunately, Ramiccio stands for everything I do not. He wants to outsource the entire City of Lake Worth. It doesn't matter whether or not it is feasible or something that would costs us millions, he just wants to do it. Get rid of our Utility he says and sell it to FPL. He stated, after being challenged by Waterman, "It's not shortsighted to consider selling this outdated piece of equipment." Tom, don't you know that we have been upgrading our Utility and our new RO will be open next month. We have a $66 million Bond on our Utility for this. And Tom just wants to p**s it away by selling it probably getting pennies on the dollar, if we could sell it at all.

Ramiccio has collected a lot of money from Wayne Akers folks and has a few more fund raisers to go. And to Wayne Akers Ford, it's not going to help you. Your favorable rate that saves you approximately $10,000 a month is under scrutiny right now and the commission is looking to adjust it fairly. Other rate customers have been subsidizing Wayne Akers Ford and this will stop. Campaign money helps when you are trying to get elected.

Javier DelSol was never better as he was last night and made some excellent points. He has some supporters out there who believe along with him that "whitey" is a racist.