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ancianita

(35,933 posts)
6. Top to bottom -- Lazy, corrupt, stupid politicians bilking people at the start of a pandemic.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:23 AM
Mar 2020

Commissioner Omari Hardy:

"We should have been talking about this last week. We cut off people’s utilities this week and made them pay what could have been their last check to us to turn their lights on in a global health pandemic.

But you don’t care about that. You didn’t want to meet. But every other year you go around and beg people for their votes. Y

ou care more your relationship with that guy (referring to the speaker) then you care about the relationship with the people who don’t go to work in this office…

You failed to act, when you’re a leader, you failed to act.”


This man needs to run for mayor.

SoFlaJet

(7,767 posts)
16. And for years and years Lake Worth Utilities were
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 06:22 PM
Mar 2020

50% higher than anywhere else in the county. My last bill in that city purview was $535 and that was in 1998. An electric bill that was at that time as high as the rents were going. It was being run like Enron. Even today look up how much you'll be charged to turn on the electric and Hardy was right to get it turned BACK on is ridiculous.

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