Lake Worth heading in a new direction?

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Right now, the most powerful person on the dais is Scott Maxwell. He has worked long and hard for this day to come where the majority vote would reverse. He had a powerful machine behind him screaming "anarchist," and making other wild assumptions but those who just went down to defeat can only blame themselves.

Jo-Ann Golden would only listen to the city manager rather than the people she served. Elected officials forget the "serving" part. Rachel Waterman wouldn't listen to anyone and held us all in contempt.

If either one of these former officials ever listened to anyone, it was only those few in their political camps who obviously gave them very bad advice. And the timing was just dreadful--taxes up, special assessments, water, sewer and hiring a company to find other ways to tax the people. They supported Susan Stanton to their own detriment and demise.

We are all looking forward to a Commission that knows they are the boss but more importantly, knows that they answer to all of us. We all have that in a promise but knowing politics the way that it is, more often than not those promises become a memory, get lost or swept under the nearest rug.

I queried one Realtor in attendance today who had a big smile on his face. He said, "It's been six long years" implying we have gone through hell here and now we have found our salvation. There has always been two directions for our city---build higher, build more, build everywhere or build smartly and keep our small town charm. I am in favor of the latter.