Monday, September 2, 2013

From the Wayback Machine (2003 Election)

 
A good friend of mine dropped off some files from the ghost of Lake Worth elections past. This stood out from the rest for a couple of reasons. It is printed on green paper, a tri-fold flier with printing on both sides. Significantly, on the front page, readers are urged to visit freelakeworth.com. I was surprised to find that it is still an "alive" web address with current material and copyright. You might say that whoever runs it is heavily into controversial topics and conspiracy theories. Your guess is as good as mine as to who actually runs it. The document had no other disclaimer as a political advertisement.

It had this handy legend before presenting the evaluation of the current crop of candidates:
The odd thing is that everyone but one candidate got a so-so or poor rating/evaluation. The exception was Laurence McNamara. Here is his glowing review. Pay particular attention to "KEEP ALL BUILDINGS TWO STORY":
Here are the others in no apparent order. The winners of this election were Romano, Burns (run-off) and Lowe.

So, what is the connection between freelakeworth.com and Laurence McNamara?