Susan Stanton Adjusts to Life as Lake Worth City Manager

Ms. Stanton is stepping into a city that is very much divided.Corruption and the "Good Ole Boy" system were the rule in Lake Worth for a long time.City hall had a definite "Circle the Wagons " mentality. I would advise Ms. Stanton not to dismiss all of our blogs. Mr. Coakly's blog kept city hall staff and some previous Commissioners more honest than they wanted to be . Lynn Anderson has a great blog.A little breeze of fresh air has begun to blow through city hall, and I feel confident that under Ms. Stanton , our little breeze will become a full force gale wind ! Also,any business that is stupid enough to alienate their clients will not be in business for very long! Welcome Ms. Stanton,we're glad that you are finally here !

And just for the record, our police services in Lake Worth have improved about 400 percent since the sheriff's department took over. No disrespect to the LW City Police, but the Sheriff's Dept is really doing its job. We call now, we get instant response. Graffiti is cleaned up in a timely way. I even saw two cops ON HORSEBACK patrolling our street not long ago. They're highly visible and I would never want to go back to the old way of doing things.

Unfortunately, as reporters often do, this is the worst of reporting I've yet seen.

Instead of publishing the truth you just reported what one person said without checking one single fact, without any background on Lake Worth utilities.

If you were interested in the Truth, why didn't you at least call me instead of letting a new city manager twist you around her thumb? My articles are accurate and I stand by every word.

Andres Reyes was re-hired primarily because lakeworthmedia.com published an investigation which uncovered among many other things, the fact that in a hasty attempt to fire Mr Reyes because he indentified a $50,000 scam ...city staff blatently violated their own rules. Then when they discovered their error they offered him $15,000 to shut him up.

The utility has a long history of wasting taxpayer's money. And because of the injustice done to Mr Reyes and 4 out of 5 commissioners wanted him reinstated, the new city manager was forced to hire him back AFTER he had been forced to resign.

And it doesn't say much for the new city manager that to satisfy the staff mob... rather than get to the bottom of what's going on... she re-hired Reyes only if he consented to disciplinary action for something he did right.

So get your facts straight before printing a one sided op/ed and go after the truth. It better serves the community.

That is true Gail about the Sheriff. I remember Laurence Mcnamara a private citizen painting over graffiti all over town and that wasnt too long ago. The Sheriff seems to be doing a good job in our town. Also, I dont see the bums hanging out in the Cultural Plaza anymore or bothering the merchants like they once did. also there are a few blogs that do a good service in what they write, telling the facts and not acting stupid or photo shopping people for others amusement. Cruel people here.

First, Stanton is not a her, second, isn't it a little unprofessional to be gabbing to press about vomiting, efficient ways to fish and getting your nails done?

Shelly, How sad it must be to have such a restricting narrow perception of what life is and respecting everyone for who they are. I stand in awe of HER courage! She is more of a lady than some of the women I see and hear spewing their hatred at council meetings or making insipid comments on a blog!

I would like to make the following observation:

Two children, ages 4 and 3, decide that they could use a cookie. After making a make-shift ladder, the 4 yr old assists the 3 yr old up the ladder to open the cupboard where the cookies are known to be in a round cookie jar.

About the time that the 3 yr old makes it to the cookie jar, a parent enters the room and loudly inquires of the children, "what are you doing?"

The 3 year old points a finger toward the 4 yr old holding the ladder-like contraption and the 4 yr old says, "we saw that the cookie jar was about to fall so I sent John-John up to push it back. We decided to check and see just how many cookies we saved from hitting the floor."

This from a 4 yr old, with prompting from a 3 yr old. It seems that we are almost bound to manipulate the truth as another might see it, from a very early age. Perhaps, one might even say that we are "programmed" to do so.

There is no need to expound on this idea here. The truth often is in the eye of the beholder and that can vary as we all know. I live in Volusia County Florida, the "Cook County" of Florida. Here, we would be disappointed if we did not have some form of truth variation in everything that we do and say. It is almost manadatory that one attend a class on that subject least we might all be subject to direct undiluted honesty. Something that for the most part, has not existed in this Country from day one.

With no stretch of the imagination, everyone at one time or another has taken a fact and arrived at a different truth. We just seem to be programmed to behave this way and I for one do not see it changing anytime soon.

I'm so glad I randomly found your blog. It rocks!

I will get back. Love reading about technology.