Commissioner Scott Maxwell and hilarity at the Lake Worth City Commission.

Lake Worth and Lake Worth Beach, the stories continue on Wes’ YouTube channel. . .

At the end of this blog post today is a hilarious moment three years ago shared by Maxwell with the electeds and the public in attendance that day in the chambers — a story about a phone scammer trying to get clever with a local business owner who knew better — this was prior to Messrs. Omari Hardy and Herman C. Robinson winning the District 2 and District 4 seats on the City Commission, respectively.

But when it comes to videos. . .

Still running away at #1: School Board member Erica Whifield at the Lake Worth City Commission, Dec. 8th, 2015.

At twelve thousand and five hundred views and counting Whitfield’s presentation before the Lake Worth City Commission 3½ years ago is the most-viewed video on Wes Blackman’s Lake Worth YouTube channel. The reason why this video has gotten so much attention over the years is because it gives a real good perspective on how far we’ve come looking back from the present day. To watch the video of Whitfield for yourself click on this link.

To look over the most-viewed Lake Worth YouTube videos all-time since 2007 use this link.

The funny story by Maxwell in May 2016 that brought the house down, the set-up. . .

Chris McVoy, PhD, was still the sitting commissioner in District 2 and Ryan Maier was the commissioner in District 4. Maier opted not to run for election in March 2017 and McVoy was narrowly defeated by Mr. Hardy. The open-seat election in District 4 was won by Mr. Robinson. Both Hardy and Robinson were re-elected last March to three-year terms on the Lake Worth Beach City Commission.

Back in 2016 phone scammers were targeting business owners in the Lake Worth region in a big way and local governments and law enforcement were all out in force getting the word out: Electric utilities DO NOT call electric customers demanding payment to continue service! But every now and then a business owner would drop everything and send money to someone over the phone anyhow.

Business customers of FPL and the Lake Worth Electric Utility (LWEU) were being targeted once again by the scammers and one day one of those scammers called a LWEU customer thinking that business owner was a customer of FPL. . .

At the ten minute and thirty second mark in the video below then-Commissioner Ryan Maier concludes his remarks and Mayor Pam Triolo gives Commissioner Maxwell the nod to begin his remarks. . .

“We bought Lake Worth electric utilities!”