Quote.

“I encourage you to start thinking in positive statements for our future. The foundational work has been done. The process for improvement is underway and change is coming.

“It is through these next evolutionary steps that we can become what we have hoped for and dreamed of all these years.

“Together, as a community of neighborhoods, we will set the global example for courage and strength and compassion and resolve. Let those who hate us do so for our unity. We will have compassion. Purpose. Results. Despite our differences we all must bond together for our community and our country. That is our real strength.”


—Lake Worth Beach Mayor Pam Triolo, State of the City address, Feb. 26th, 2019 at Lake Worth Beach and Casino Complex.

Friday at 9:00 a.m. is next meeting of Lake Worth Beach Tree Board.

Tree Board members are strongly encouraged to be on time. Meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 with the Call to Order followed by the Pledge of Allegiance in the conference room at the Community Sustainability Dept. located at 1900 2nd Ave. South.

Discussion will be on Tree Board bylaws, goals, objectives and developing a sustainable and workable mission statement in Lake Worth Beach. One or more members of any volunteer board or member of the City Commission may attend and speak at this public meeting.

Public comment will be permitted with a five-minute limit and Robert’s Rules of Order will be followed.

And please welcome Anna Tedesco Santacroce and Chris McVoy, PhD: Newest members of the Tree Board.

The staff liaison for the Tree Board is Mr. Dave McGrew. The long-time Chair of the Tree Board is Mr. Richard Stowe.

If you wish to become a volunteer board member in Lake Worth Beach click on this link for all that information or contact Olivia Brown the City’s volunteer coordinator by email: obrown@lakeworth.org

Clary’s Cafe on Run-Off Election Day: Please enjoy another episode of Mabel and Fred.

“Fred, let’s go to Clary’s Café today for breakfast.”

Fred: “Gee wiz, Mabel! We tried finding that place three times already!”

“Stop yelling, Fred.”

“Please, Mabel. Can you find out where that hideaway is first?”

“I already found out where it is Fred. It’s inside Lake Worth Towers. That’s why we missed it.”

“Gee, Mabel. No wonder we missed it. Let’s go right off!”

Welcome to another episode of Mabel and Fred.

Mabel and Fred are going to have a spectacular meal at Clary’s Café serving breakfast and lunch. It’s a hidden gem on Lucerne Ave. on the west side of town east of A Street inside a really really really tall building. For their Facebook page click on this link.

Clary’s is closed Sunday and Monday, open Tuesday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m.–1:00.

Have you ever been to Clary’s in Lake Worth Beach? If  not then below is a helpful map.

As most of you are aware today is Run-Off Election Day and Clary’s is a happening place this time of year.

You may recall an earlier episode when Mabel and Fred both learned about the mayor and vice mayor of Palm Beach County. Following the election today there will be a few weeks of rest and then the focus will turn to 2020 and the August Primary and General Election. Worth noting is both PBC Mayor Mack Bernard (District 7) and Vice Mayor Dave Kerner (District 3) will be up for re-election in 2020 and both Districts 3 and 7 cover Lake Worth Beach.

And that delves into how important the Neighborhood Assoc. Presidents’ Council (NAPC) is in getting information out to the public. Because not only is Clary’s Café in Lake Worth Towers, that location is also a voting location too!

Here are the directions from the PBC Supervisor of Elections:


Lake Worth Towers is located of the north side of Lucerne Ave (which is a one-way street, westbound only), approx. 4/10 mile west of Dixie Hwy. and 2 blocks east of North A Street.


Lake Worth Towers and Clary’s Café are both located in the Tropical Ridge Neighborhood Assoc. (TRNA) neighborhood which lies within the greater Neighborhood Assoc. Presidents’ Council (see map below). To learn more about the mission of TRNA use this link.

What neighborhood are you located in? Find out by using this helpful GIS mapping tool or send an email to: napcinfo@gmail.com

Now why don’t you head on over to Clary’s Café real soon and you’ll have a lot to talk about, especially the latest about “Ripples” the pet alligator and the Residences of Lake Osborne neighborhood (shaded golden brown in map below).

And make sure to pick up the latest edition of The Lake Worth Herald while you are there too!

In map below see all the neighboring neighborhoods of Tropical Ridge west of Dixie Hwy. including Royal Poinciana and Commerce Park Village as well.

Click on map to enlarge:

FYI: Areas west (shaded grey) include Lake Osborne and John Prince Park in suburban (unincorporated) Lake Worth and the incorporated Village of Palm Springs as well. 

“Destination Lake Worth Beach 2”: FREE event at Lake Worth Beach and Casino Complex.

Must RSVP by Friday, April 5th. More details below. This event is being called,

“The Next Big Thing!”

This event will be held on Tuesday, April 9th
from 8:30–10:00 a.m.

If you are an interested investor, developer, property owner or a LOCAL business owner you are all invited to attend this meeting for a discussion on small business and development opportunities in Lake Worth Beach.

Parking is FREE as well.

To attend you must RSVP no later than April 5th by contacting Emily Theodossakos at the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) at 561-493-2550 or send an email to: ETheodossakos@lakeworth.org

This event is being sponsored by the CRA, City of Lake Worth Beach and Retail Strategies. Mr. Clay Craft from Retail Strategies will have a presentation on strategically identifying retail opportunities and engaging local business.

Also in attendance will be consultant and author Angel Cicerone who will be the special guest speaker on “Keeping local LOCAL”.


Activating a downtown or emerging shopping district starts with energizing locally-owned retail and restaurants. While the focus in generally on attracting national brands, it’s the local businesses that create a true sense of community and sustainable success.

Once again. . .

Please RSVP by contacting Emily Theodossakos (see contact information above) at the CRA as soon as possible to guarantee seating in the Ballroom at the Lake Worth Beach and Casino Complex on Tuesday, April 9th.

Did an editor at the Post really misspell Dave Barry’s last name?

The answer is Yes!

But not once. Four times. Not joking.


CORRECTION

Because of an editing error, a story in Wednesday’s [Nov. 28th] Post misspelled author and columnist Dave Barry’s name. The brief appeared on Page B3 in the Local section.


And it gets worse. It was a story in the Post about an event sponsored by The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County kicking off the event, “Read Together Palm Beach County”.

It sounds like a joke, right. 

This is no joke. 

And Mr. Ben Kerr, PIO, is a part of this story too. And kudos to The Palm Beach Post. It was because of the Post the position on PIO became an essential function in the first place.

Mr. Kerr is the City’s public information officer. Briefly, how Mr. Kerr became the City’s PIO is an interesting one. Post reporter Joe Capozzi penned a fascinating article about Kerr but prior to that, back in 2016, it was another Post reporter that ended up creating the need for a public information officer in the first place. Read all about that by clicking on this link.

Gee wiz! How does any newspaper editor refer to Dave Barry as “Dave Berry”!

Well, let’s delve into that topic.

Before we get to ‘Dave Berry’ Kerr penned a column about the contest called, “Best. Municipality. Ever.” Lake Worth City Manager Michael Bornstein was the contest winner. A huge honor for both Bornstein and this City of Lake Worth.

This contest was one created by author and Pulitzer Prize winning satirist Dave Barry. Barry is the author of the wildly popular book titled,

Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man
Defends His Homeland.

Learn more about this long-time best-selling book below.

The Best. Municipality. Ever. contest was held at the Harriet Himmel Theater. An event organized by The Literacy Coalition. In the Post story themed “Read Together Palm Beach County” Dave Barry’s last name was misspelled.

Four times.

Unbelievable. Don’t think the good folks at the Literacy Coalition were amused at all.

Let us move on to the story published by The Lake Worth Herald by Kerr and headlined,

Lake Worth Wins Best. Municipality. Ever. Contest

Lake Worth’s City Manager, Michael Bornstein, submitted an entry to the Read Together Palm Beach County “Best. Municipality. Ever.” essay contest last month and on Wednesday, Nov. 28, his essay was announced as the winner.

After the awards ceremony, Mayor Triolo said that “working with the City Manager on this was so much fun! He truly captured the spirit of our City and its people, and our beautiful diversity and quirkiness with humor. And it’s true, if Dave Barry was a city, he’d be Lake Worth!”

This contest gave the City an opportunity to showcase what makes Lake Worth such a special place to live. Mayor Triolo, Vice Mayor Amoroso and Commissioner Robinson joined the City Manager to record a special reading of the essay [see video below] for all to enjoy and share.

As we embark on the holidays it is a perfect time to remember what makes Lake Worth, and all the friends and neighbors who form the Lake Worth community, the Best. Municipality. Ever!

Enjoy the video!

And following this video learn more about Dave Barry’s award-winning book “Best. State. Ever.” and that very unfortunate typo in the Post.






Remember, the irony here is this ‘news’ is about an event sponsored by the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s “Read Together Palm Beach County”. About that event at the Harriet Himmel Theater here is an excerpt published in the Post:


The title selected for the 2018 “Read Together,” was bestselling author, columnist and humorist Dave Berry’s “Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland.”


Anyhow. The book Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland is available on Amazon:


A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Dave Barry.

We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, “What the hell is wrong with Florida?”


Dave Barry won a Pulitzer Prize and wrote for the Miami Herald for over twenty years. Just wondering, has a ‘satirist’ at the Post ever won a Pulitzer Prize for humor?

From Wikipedia:

David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels. Barry’s honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005). 

On topic of three-year terms for elected officials and eliminating run-off elections.

At the end of this blog post today is a newspaper clipping from 2004 that’s extraordinarily topical in 2019, of special note considering the run-off election tomorrow in Lake Worth Beach.

To learn more about the run-off tomorrow see the blog post following this one.

Elected officials in this City serve three-year terms after a ballot referendum passed in March 2017. And what will most certainly be a ballot question in March 2020 is eliminating run-off elections.

Following the run-off tomorrow this topic will go dormant for many months and then after Budget Season will go into high gear again and expect a very contentious debate. 

Run-off elections were a topic of debate in February 2004 as you will see in the newspaper clipping below from The Palm Beach Post. Rodney Romano was the mayor of Lake Worth fifteen years ago. In March of 2004 Mac McKinnon clobbered the other three candidates getting 57% of the vote for the District 2 seat but Joe Egly in District 4 wasn’t so lucky and he went into a run-off with Loretta Sharpe. Egly got 47%, Sharpe 33% and Ed Deveaux at 20%.

Because Egly did not reach that magic number of 50%  +  1 vote he was forced into a run-off to be held two weeks later at a cost of roughly $10,000 to the City in 2004 dollars. What a run-off costs now would be interesting to find out.

In the run-off on March 23rd, 2004 Joe Egly won the District 4 seat beating out Sharpe by 53% to 47%. Like the recent elections in March 2019, those elections in 2004 had a very low turnout and Sharpe did not complain of losing by just about one hundred votes. She accepted the results and moved on.

In the clipping below pay special attention to the last two paragraphs.


Without further ado to the news . . . and does the name Pamela Lopez sound familiar?

Click on clipping to enlarge:

Of note in 2009 District 1 Commissioner Scott Maxwell was re-elected (served prior in 2001–2003; resigned to run for mayor and lost to Rodney Romano) and it was about that time ten years ago that Maxwell began making waves about an idea he had called “Lake Worth Beach”.

Tomorrow is the run-off election for Lake Worth Beach District 4 seat.

Always predictable about run-off elections is
they are highly unpredictable.

Could Mr. Tom Copeland defeat the incumbent District 4 Commissioner Herman Robinson? Yes. It most certainly is possible despite being clobbered by Robinson on March 12th. And remember it’s been 5½ weeks since the editor at The Palm Beach Post endorsed Copeland. Plenty of time to recover.

The Lake Worth Herald made no endorsement in District 4 this year but did endorse Cathy Turk who challenged District 2 Commissioner Omari Hardy. On Tuesday, March 19th Hardy was sworn-in for a second time; this time for a three-year term. And interestingly neither the Herald or the Post gave an editorial thumbs up or thumbs down on either of the two ballot questions this year.

The very good news is there are no public meetings at City Hall this week and April looks like everything is back on schedule according the the City’s official calendar; a quite normal month in Lake Worth Beach.

About tomorrow’s run-off was this front page news in the Herald by Mr. Ben Kerr, PIO:

The City of Lake Worth Beach will be holding a runoff election on March 26 for the position of District 4 Commissioner. The two candidates on the ballot will be Tom Copeland and Herman Robinson. All residents may vote in the runoff election, not just those who previously voted or those who live in District 4.

Residents should vote at their regular polling location. Those who normally would vote at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center will instead vote at the Sunlight Community Church located at the corner of North A St and 14th Ave N.

Polls will open at 7 a.m. on March 26 and will close at 7 p.m.


About the run-off tomorrow including the recently posted SG1 campaign treasurer reports turned in by Robinson and Copeland click on this link for that information.

If you voted on March 12th in the City of Lake Worth not much has changed since becoming Lake Worth Beach except for some feathers being ruffled. So whilst on your way to your polling location tomorrow the building will still be there. All the street signs will still face the same direction and maybe a few more abandoned shopping carts will show up.

And according to Mr. Kerr, also front page news in the Herald, this City “[W]ill maintain the unique and fun character and artsy small town charm it is famous for, only now it will do so as the City of Lake Worth Beach.”

The City goes on to advise everyone still upset about the name change that you direct your energy into this year’s Great American Raft Race on July 4th and the 8th annual honoring of International Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19th.


Now let’s take a stroll back in time. . .

Two years ago, Election Day
on March 14th, 2017.

Two years ago few thought Mr. Omari Hardy would defeat the long-time District 2 incumbent Chris McVoy, PhD. But Hardy did. And last Tuesday Commissioner Hardy was sworn in for a second term. This time for three years.

Two years ago few thought Mr. Herman Robinson would avoid a run-off with Maryann Polizzi. The editor at The Palm Beach Post called it a toss-up. But Herman won by a comfortable margin.

Two years ago few thought the voters would approve the ballot question increasing terms for elected officials from two to three years. But the voters did approve it. Now all of our elected officials serve three year terms on the Lake Worth Beach City Commission.

Two years ago a lot of people were really upset after that ballot question passed in 2017 (see results below). But now almost everyone agrees it was a really good idea.

The election results from March 14th, 2017.

And because of that ballot referendum in 2017 there will be no election of candidates in 2020. A year off in Lake Worth Beach. Imagine that!

Published in Palm Beach Post this week: PBCHA meeting tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.

Notice of Meeting

Palm Beach County Housing Authority
Board Meeting

A Palm Beach County Housing Authority Board Meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 25th 2019 at 8:00 AM. The meeting will be held at:

The PBCHA
Main Conference Room
3432 W. 45th Street
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
(561) 684-2160


For more information click on this link to contact the PBCHA.

Classic Talk from a Thought Leader.

The Telling Tale of Two PACs: “Lake Worth Yes!” and “Save Our Neighborhood, Inc.”

About the last two reminders of the dueling PACs.

These two PACs both formed in January 2015, over four years ago. And many of you who follow politics will remember those former political battles long since over and decided.

The Lake Worth Yes! PAC turned in their Termination Report (TR) ending its mission as a political committee late in 2018. And it was indeed a job well done.

There was money still available in this PACs campaign account and last August they shut down the PAC and donated all the money to Donors Choose: “Support a classroom. Build a future”.

The money was distributed to:

• Lake Worth Community High School: $3,505.31
• Highland Elementary School: $1,052.35
• Barton Elementary School: $589.81
• North Grade Elementary School: $109.03

TR from the Lake Worth Yes! PAC.

Click on image to enlarge:

The treasurer and chairperson of this PAC many of you know as City resident Peggy Fisher.

Now to the PAC Save Our Neighborhood, Inc.

On February 1st this year the Save Our Neighborhood PAC has decided to continue on, sending another check to the State of Florida.

Here is a previous report report from 2018.*

According to the latest treasurer report this PAC has about $1K available. What’s the purpose of keeping this PAC active? For the memories? Just terminate this PAC as well and donate the balance of the funds to a local public school.

The days of the dueling PACs are over.

*To look over all the campaign treasurer reports turned into the City of Lake Worth from 2016 to present click on this link.

Explore YouTube videos about Lake Worth Beach.

For the most-viewed videos on my Lake Worth YouTube channel use this link. Along with each video is a red “Subscribe” button. Subscribers get an email when new videos have been uploaded.

Coming in at #10 of the most-popular is “Art on the Water: Can you do the Can Can? Yes we can!”, a performance prior to the City’s July 4th Raft Race a few years back. At #16 is a former Lake Worth City Commissioner during “Break” to the music, The Love For Three Oranges Suite by composer Lutz Kohler (Op. 33bis: III. March, Arr. F. Tull for Brass Ensemble).

And hope you enjoy this one as well — at #24 the ever-popular visit to City Hall by ‘Weetha Peebull’ — “Why it’s generally unwise to be disrespectful to City employees”.

Hope you enjoy the video below as well. Whilst everyone awaits the end of all the talk and actual work begins to renovate our historic Gulfstream Hotel. . . this video is from February 2016 when the public was very excited about the rezoning of the Gulfstream property believing progress was finally on the horizon:

Footage of downtown Lake Worth from ninety years ago.

If you are familiar with Lake Worth Beach, specifically along Federal Hwy. in the Downtown, you’ll recognize a church structure that still exists to this day. The short film at the end of this blog post is a,

“Compilation of sound interviews with some of the oldest people living in the United States in 1929. Footage is from the early Movietone sound cameras.”

For some perspective, one man in the video (see below) says he is 84 years old, the man next to him is 94 years old. That would mean at the start of the Civil War in 1861 they were both 16 and 26 years old, respectively.

The Civil War ended in 1865. After the war one of the big draws to Florida for former soldiers was construction of Henry Flagler’s railroad in the early 1880s to lay track, build bridges, and provide security against the Seminole tribes. The Florida East Coast (FEC) railroad formed “Palm Beach” in 1894, then Flagler continued south towards a place that would later come to be called “Miami” building railroad stations along the way.

In 1912 a small station was constructed south of West Palm ‘Beach’ (a city still without a beach) and that place south of West Palm would become the “Town of Lake Worth” in 1913 that actually did have a beach.

Early residents from what would be called the Town of Lake Worth — prior to the ‘Town’ acquiring a beach on the Atlantic Ocean — continued west draining the Florida Everglades as they went. Later they created places that would become the City of Atlantis and a village you may have heard of: Wellington. And the march west continues to this day with the creation of so-called ‘agrihoods’ such as the planned community of Arden west of Wellington.

‘Lake Worth’ continues to carry the sad legacy of western development in Palm Beach County. Many of these places in the modern era call themselves Lake Worth because of another migration that began around 1960 when the elites and those with the means abandoned this coastal City to create their own relentlessly sprawling vision that one sees today: cookie-cutter communities for as far as the eye can see and many of them surrounded by walls and dense hedges.

The video below is an interesting look back to the pre-Depression era in South Florida. The segment about the then-City of Lake Worth ends at the 3:30 minute mark.

The march west from the original Town of Lake Worth followed the path of development all across the United States fueled in part by WWI and WWII. Those early pioneers and farmers cannot be blamed for western development. They were encouraged to come in droves.

But what cannot ever be forgotten are all those who abandoned the City of Lake Worth 50–60 years ago and headed west calling themselves ‘Lake Worth’.

Click on play and see if you can recognize a
very prominent structure that still exists to this day
in Lake Worth Beach:

Significant LOCAL election news in Lake Worth Beach: Run-off election next Tuesday, March 26th.

For a press release issued by Public Information Officer Ben Kerr datelined last Friday click on this link.

On the ballot will be challenger Tom Copeland and incumbent Commissioner Herman Robinson. For a recap of this race use this link.

Front page news in the Herald recently about voting precincts 3034 and 3040: a change in voting location (see news and map below).

Support LOCAL newspapers in Palm Beach County.

If you wish to contact the editor at the Herald call 561-585-9387 or send an email to: Editor@lwherald.com

Excerpt from front page story headlined,

Temporary Voting For
Some Lake Worth Precincts

Precinct 3034 and 3040 voters in the City of Lake Worth have been voting at the Scottish Rite in Lake Worth. The Scottish Rite has become unavailable, causing a temporary change in the location for voting. The temporary location will be the Sunlight Church at 1325 North A Street. [emphasis added]


This temporary change does not affect voters in precincts 3036 and 3038!


The only change for the run-off on March 26th will be a busier day than usual at the Sunlight Church with precincts 3034 and 3040 coming there to vote as well.

What is now called the Sunlight Community Church (formerly the Lake Worth Christian Reform Church) is located at 1325 North A St., on the west side of North A St. between 14th Ave. North and Crestwood Blvd. Across the street from this church is the popular Sunset Ridge Park.

Many of you will recall an incident that occurred at that public park several years ago.

At Sunset Ridge Park in 2016. . .

A former Lake Worth commissioner prowling

for a Sunshine Law violation.

Now back to the temporary change in voting location.

For precinct 3040 voters take Worthmore Drive off Dixie Hwy. After the railroad tracks Worthmore turns into 22nd Ave. North.

Someone please notify Larry and Dee about this change in voting location so they don’t set up their tent, chairs and cooler in the wrong place.

PrideFest 2019 is Saturday, March 30th and Sunday, March 31st.

The festival is held in Bryant Park and the PrideFest Parade will be held on Sunday in Downtown Lake Worth. For more about the background of PrideFest click on this link. Stay tuned for more details about this year’s festival next month.

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane!

One of my all-time favorite videos on my YouTube channel. Former Mayor Jeff Clemens at the dedication of Compass on March 20th, 2009!

This month will be the ten-year anniversary of this event. Hope you enjoy the video:

Lake Worth Beach District 4 Commissioner Tom Copeland?

There will be a run-off election next Tuesday.

Please continue reading to learn more about this, a topic of discussion at the Lake Worth Beach City Commission this week at the City Commission.

And if you think it is unlikely or even impossible for Mr. Copeland to defeat incumbent Commissioner Herman Robinson then you are delusional.

The chances of Copeland becoming ‘The Accidental Commissioner’ are actually very good. Taking such strong stances on several key issues Copeland believes that damaged his candidacy but those very same positions may actually help him in a run-off.* In other words, if you support Commissioner Herman Robinson you better plan on turning out next Tuesday.

However, if the editor at The Palm Beach Post endorses Copeland again that would help Commissioner Robinson greatly when the public learns of his advocacy,

[F]or many of the better things that have been coming from city government: the license-plate readers, an internal auditor to analyze city operations, a reduction in sober homes.

The editor at The Lake Worth Herald endorsed
no one in District 4 this year.

And kudos to the editor at the Herald. The breaking news from Friday, March 15th was spot on and was headlined, “Ain’t Over Til It’s Over”.

Here is an excerpt:


The election held on March 12 produced no clear winner in race for the District Four Commissioner. A majority of 50% plus one vote is required. The two top vote getters in the four way race were incumbent Herman Robinson with 48.81% and Tom Copeland with 27.73%. Although Copeland has “conceded” the race to Robinson, the run-off is still mandated and preparations for the election are underway according to the Lake Worth City Clerk’s office.


And of this there is no doubt: Run-off elections must be a referendum question on the ballot next year. Either eliminate run-offs and make it winner take all or allow candidates to withdraw if they wish by visiting the City Clerk and making it official. What happened this year cannot happen again.

Run-off elections are the most unpredictable
of all elections.

Maybe some time soon will re-examine once again what happened in 2006.

At the end of this blog post is the YouTube video of last nights meetings at the City Commission, first the ratifying of the March 12th elections and swearing-in of Commissioner Omari Hardy followed by the regularly scheduled City Commission.

Now back to the March 26th run-off.

Copeland ended his campaign on Wednesday, March 13th. And the more concession speeches Copeland gives like the one last night at City Hall he could end up conceding himself right into the District 4 seat on the City Commission.

If elected then one could call Copeland “The Accidental Commissioner” on the theme of the movie The Accidental Tourist (1988) starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner who also both starred in the classic 1981 film noir Body Heat filmed in Downtown Lake Worth.†

And interestingly, as an aside, in the movie Body Heat the City of Lake Worth was referred to as “Miranda Beach” and last evening this City was officially renamed Lake Worth Beach and West Palm never had a beach. Maybe West Palm can have a referendum and rename itself “West Palm No Beach”?


Moving on. . .


Copeland got clobbered on Election Day, March 12th. And so did Messrs. William Joseph and Richard Guercio. However, when combined Copeland, Joseph and Guercio got 51.19% of the vote on Election Day. So because Commissioner Robinson did not get the magic 50%  +  1 vote there has to be a run-off according to City Attorney Christy Goddeau of Torcivia, Donlon, Goddeau & Ansay, P.A.

Goddeau’s opinion after researching Florida election law and precedent is follow the process to avoid any problems later on. 

This law firm representing the City of Lake Worth Beach has been representing this City for a very long time. It would be wise to take their advice and proceed with the run-off election by the PBC Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link.

Just to be very clear.

Even if Mr. Copeland decided to pack up and move to Mongolia and pursue a career in domestic yak milk production there would still have to be a run-off election on March 26th and that is not accidental in the least.

Mr. Copeland begins speaking at the 31 minute
and thirty second mark in the video.

The City Commission goes into recess at the
fifty-six minute mark and reconvenes at
the one hour and ten minute mark.

Thank You for visiting once again today and stay tuned for more information about the run-off election next Tuesday.


*Worth noting is this line on Tom Copeland’s campaign website: “Videos courtesy of Wes Blackman”.
     After many years of taking video of the debates at the Playhouse it was appreciated getting credit from a candidate. To learn more about Copeland’s positions on the major issues click on this link.

†To learn more about the 1981 classic film Body Heat click on this link.