Commissioner Jennings stands in defiance

Googling or English lessons?

Last night the item of $350,000 was on the Consent Agenda to pay for repairs at our ShuffleBoard Court building, a building that has been totally neglected for a decade or more like so many of other public buildings. The request for funds came at the exact same time that our lease began with The Mentoring Center, a group to aid illegal immigrants. Commissioner Jo-Ann Golden said that this was just coincidental. The Commission has allowed this Group to be at our public building and the use has not even been approved. Zoning must change to even make this illegal act legal to some degree. The Commission is not even following our own laws on the books.

What I found especially offensive was that the City allowed the building to rot while only the seniors were occupying it who are legal residents of this city (a little over 14% of the population), but now there was a special group there (probably half of our City or more) using it at our expense who are illegal. The Median age is estimated at 35.2 in Lake Worth so you can see where Seniors have some problem here.

Former Commissioner Scott Maxwell spoke in front of the Commission and advised that this was a waste of our public treasury. He handed out a letter from Judicial Watch that they all received in the mail and a document that none of them had acknowledge receiving, that the City was violating Federal law.

Judicial Watch just managed to finally close down the illegal labor center in Herndon, Virginia, a center that had used tax dollars to help illegal aliens find jobs. Judicial Watch had filed a law suit on behalf of a group of residents against the Town and it prevailed. They are involved in other law suits.

Although Commissioner Jennings put down Judicial Watch as unimportant, I suppose, saying it wasn’t even signed by an attorney (how does she know that?) and did the same to Mr. Maxwell, the City of Lake Worth’s illegal action is being taken very seriously by this group.

Commissioner Golden reminded me that the City had passed some ordinance four years ago saying that we had to call these people undocumented workers, not illegal aliens. She had taken offense to my term of use during public speaking. May I please remind Jo-Ann that this is America and legal citizens have rights. What happened to the First Amendment? Because of the direction this City Commission is taking, before too long, none of them will care about my rights.