Once again, the city of Boca Raton is battling an ad hoc group of barely coherent Mandami supporting leftists, Republican nimbys, rabid “greens,” Boca newbies, and some people who have always disliked, um, “New Yorkers.”
This is nothing new. These battles have been going on since I moved to Boca back in 1991-1992.
What is new is that a self-appointed messiah started a PAC called Save Boca, which, given that the guy who funded and founded it has never voted in Boca Raton, is absurd. He’s recruited another woman, a Republican, to run, who hasn’t voted in the last two or three munis. Some other guy is running for Mayor, throwing around money, who, as far as I can tell, only voted in a Boca muni in 2024, and some poor woman running against Weinroth who doesn’t seem to have a campaign at all.
A word to the people who want to “Save” aka take over, Boca Raton, we don’t need to be saved, thank you very much, and you have some nerve suggesting we do. You’re trying to convince the people of Boca Raton that the voters who have actually voted here don’t know what they’re doing and need to be rescued by you.
I don’t think so.
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A word to my fellow Republicans, though, if you support any of these Save Boca candidates, you’re supporting turning our city left, and if that’s what you want, then by all means vote that way, but do it with your eyes open.
The online savagery directed at real estate developers, especially by Republicans, when Boca Raton voted to elect one as President by around 13-14 percentage points, is strange.
I’m not without sympathy for my fellow R’s who feel Boca has gotten bigger than they want it to be. Blame Seinfeld, or Uncle Junior from The Sopranos, who constantly mentioned Boca Raton. They’re as responsible as anyone. I also long for the days when I was young and could buy a candy bar for a nickel, a Bazooka Joe gum for a penny, and a house for $35-40K, but those days are gone. They’re gone where I grew up, and they’re gone in Boca Raton, and have been for a long time, and turning the city over to bitter no-growthers is a recipe for tax increases and disaster, and it won’t bring those days back.
The candidates are not allowed to say which party they are from, but I can. All my choices are Republican, and even in a supposedly “non-partisan” race, it matters.
And please note, I’m swamped, and I seriously considered sitting out the Boca races until the mad-dog nastiness of Save Boca’s supporters convinced me I had to get involved.
Note: These are my personal choices and opinions. I am the president of BizPac of PBC and a trustee, but my political endorsements have nothing to do with BizPac.
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