For Immediate Release
From: Re-elect Mayor Waterman Campaign
Date: October 5, 2011
RE: Mayor Waterman refuses to participate in Candidate Forums
Please be advised I will only be attending the NAPC Candidate Forum at the Lake Worth Playhouse on Monday, October 24th.
We live in a great city that is funky, cool, diverse, creative, and replete with social capital. However, the important work that neighborhood associations can do is undermined when they become vehicles for the politics of division.
The TRNA Forum that I attended on Monday, October 3rd had no objective discussion of the issues relevant to our city and instead served as a platform for vicious personal attacks. The neighborhood association leadership failed to create an objective environment in which issues could be respectfully debated. Moreover, the neighborhood association leadership failed to prevent abusive behavior from participants and event volunteers.
I DO NOT support the politics of division. We are One City with One Future.
Until such time that the neighborhood association leadership, organizers and moderators can appropriately facilitate forums with decorum and propriety, I decline to participate.
I welcome the opportunity to meet ALL those who make Lake Worth their home. I am open to meeting with small groups of residents in their homes, businesses, churches, organizations or during my weekly open office hours on Tuesdays, 9:30AM-12:30PM and Wednesdays, 4:00PM-7:00PM. Please contact me regarding the upcoming election atwatermanformayor@gmail.com
Your Mayor,
Rachel Waterman
Your Mayor,
Rachel Waterman
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Rachel Waterman, Mayor, City of Lake Worth
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