To all, please find excerpts from the November 20th Miami Herald with my commentary below;
Palmetto Bay’s Village Council could witness a power shift when voters return to the polls Nov. 20 to cast ballots in a runoff election for two council seats.
Since none of the six candidates broke the 50-percent threshold required by village charter, four candidates remain on the campaign trail.
First casualty of the polls: incumbent Howard Tendrich, who, from his district seat, often clashed with the council majority led by Mayor Shelley Stanczyk, Vice Mayor Brian Pariser and council member Joan Lindsay on issues like the Palmer Trinity School expansion legal fight, a divisive Neighborhood Protection Ordinance and a similarly-titled Neighborhood Protection Amendment that Palmetto Bay voters overwhelmingly supported Tuesday.
Tendrich finished about 10 percentage points behind challengers Jim Araiza, a businessman who previously ran unsuccessfully against Stanczyk in 2010 for the mayor’s seat, and political newcomer and financial advisor Tim Schaffer who finished first by 57 votes. Nearly 10,000 votes were cast in that race.
Tendrich expressed anger Thursday, saying Stanczyk and others spread false information about him.
“When you have people who don’t tell the truth you can’t win against them,” Tendrich said. “If you have a mayor and a council person’s spouse [Lindsay’s husband Jerry Templer] who are recommending someone else — two people as a slate — it’s hard to win. I can’t be at every poll trying to fight their lies. It’s sad but when you have a mayor who sends out an email through the village’s email list telling people to look at sites that aren’t true, she doesn’t care. She wants her control. You think the mayor is not going to give out misinformation but the people accepted it.
“It will be an interesting race,” Tendrich continued. “In my seat you have the one the mayor put up, Tim, and Jim who is on the completely other side. No matter who the village picks, it’s going to be bad. For vice mayor you have Brian, who she supported, and John, who she doesn’t support. I’m hoping for the best for the village, more than for myself. …When Gene [Flinn] was mayor, he wasn’t a perfect person but the town went forward for eight years and in two years this mayor has brought dissention and bitterness to the council and the town. I’ll miss sitting up there. I know I did a good job.”
Stanczyk said she used her personal email list to discuss her views on the race and didn’t endorse anyone until the final days of the campaign.
“I’m very sorry Howard feels that way,” she said. “I have a lot of respect toward the many years he’s been a strong supporter of our community and the Deering Estate and the parks — his commitment has always been especially strong there. Howard has donated his time over the years to the village in many different ways and has shown his worth. I would never have said anything about Howard in a negative way. My focus was on the charter amendments and the use of my personal email, not the village’s, was something I chose to do in the last couple of days of the campaign. I’m a voter and I did that.”
MY COMMENTARY
What the Miami Herald is not reporting is the Mayor Stanczyk is lying once again. When she and Councilwoman Joan Lindsay realized they could not control the way Howard Tendrich voted (he has principles), they and their supporters approached Tim Schaffer to be their shill to run against Howard in this year’s Council race.
Mayor Stanczyk and Councilwoman Lindsay ultimately want four controllable votes on the Council. They already control Councilman Brian Pariser, since he has voted in lockstep with the Mayor and Councilwoman 99% of the time in the past two years. This is fact, just look at his voting record.
The Mayor, Councilwoman and their group will stop at nothing including lying and deception to control the council. They appear to have a master plan that includes continuing to divide this community, which needs to be stopped.
Please don’t consider voting for Brian Pariser or Tim Schaffer unless you want;
• Higher Real Estate Taxes and Village fees
• Operating Deficits (The Village has run with Operating Deficits the last two years)
• Needless Litigation and Legal fees
• Wasted taxpayers dollars
I implore everyone to please vote on Tuesday November20th, and don’t be mislead at the poles.
Next, find out if the Tennis Courts at Coral Reef Park have really lost over 1.65 million dollars in the past 2 years?
David Singer
Recallpalmettobay.com
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