An open letter to Mayor Waterman on why I am seeing red...

Mayor Waterman, you are one presumptuous newly minted elected official.  To proclaim that people who do not vote for you hate the city that you love is offensive and counter to your claims that you are against the politics of division.  By your assertion, you are automatically writing off what could be a majority of people in Lake Worth as being "haters."  These "haters" are not voting for you for reasons that you label "hate." They are not voting for you because they rightly question your allegiance to a city that you have had an "off and on" relationship for ten years.  You don't own property here and have a murky professional past that your devotees use to proclaim you as evidence of the Second Coming.  You have a condescending, know-it-all attitude that turns the public off that you are supposed to serve. You consider debate and dissension examples of "hate" and things that should be squelched and controlled so that the small cadre of your supporters can continue to direct the city of Lake Worth in dangerous and perilous directions.

As one of the people that will not be voting for you, how do you deal with the fact that I love the same things that you do about Lake Worth?  I too am not a proponent of the politics of division.  Until you can prove through your actions that you are not going to discard an entire group of people that love Lake Worth as much as you profess, you will not be the savior that Lake Worth so desperately deserves.