"Secret Meetings" in Lake Worth! Oh My! The resurrected nonsense from the 2015 election season

[One of the candidates in the upcoming election in March has brought up "secret meetings" but this time with a twist: He's throwing the all-volunteer Planning and Zoning Board into the mix. Next week is a Planning and Zoning meeting and maybe this candidate will show up and explain his accusation or maybe even apologize to all the volunteers and the City staff. By the way, there never were secret meetings: The State of Florida says that meetings of this sort are illegal and there are severe penalties for violations. Continue reading and Thank You for visiting my blog.]

Many of you will remember the faux 'panic' over "secret meetings" during Lake Worth's election cycle last year. Commissioner Andy Amoroso's challenger for the District 3 seat, Frank McAlonan, is spreading rumors of "secret meetings" again, lies and disinformation about one of our City's volunteer boards: the Planning and Zoning Board (P and Z). On March 2nd is the next P and Z meeting. That would be a good time to present his evidence of these 'secret meetings' would it not? He won't because there were no such secret meetings.

Below is the video from the South Palm Park candidate debate on December 8th where McAlonan brings up the meme 'secret meetings'. You can watch this video and many others on my YouTube channel. If you're not sure what a 'meme' is use this link and read about the meme "critical thinking" that was all the rage a short time ago. Here is McAlonan's quote you can hear for yourself at the 25:50 mark in the video below:

"All the secret meetings that have gone on with this Gulfstream hotel, with Planning and Zoning [P and Z], and I don't think there was an open discussion."

• The Gulfstream hotel never went before the Planning and Zoning Board.
• If there were secret meetings how come McAlonan knows about them and no one else does?
• All the meetings thus far concerning the Gulfstream hotel project have been public. 

McAlonan then goes on to compare the Hyatt in downtown Delray Beach to the Gulfstream hotel project. The Hyatt Place is not a historic hotel, and besides, comparing a hotel in Delray to the Gulfstream hotel in Lake Worth is a big stretch. And why would a candidate running for office in Lake Worth be comparing our City with Delray Beach anyhow? We don't want to be like Delray Beach, right?

Enjoy the video!