Save Palm Aire

10/18/2026

Here’s something I’d like to see taken seriously on every local government board.

Conflicts of interest.

When people are making decisions involving contracts, development deals, grants, and other taxpayer-funded projects, I want to know what business relationships or financial interests might be involved.

Not because everybody serving on a board is crooked.

Because the public shouldn’t have to guess.

Disclose the relationships. Follow the recusal rules. Document the decisions.

And don’t act offended when taxpayers ask who’s connected to whom.

If you’re comfortable handling public money, you ought to be comfortable with public scrutiny.

10/17/2026

Well, folks…

It’s tough to adequately describe or sum up what we’ve seen over the past two years since the last election. If we had to pick a word, it would be tempting to choose “ugly,” but that doesn’t quite capture the scope of unsettling realities of what’s happened to society and the black hole of despicable tactics we collectively seem to accept as part of politics.

Maybe the best word is “sad” or “disappointing.” The lies. The bullying. The sick amounts of wasteful time and money on hateful nonsense. It’s all so awful.

Maybe it’s helpful to understand the distinction between criticism and incivility.

Criticism addresses ideas, decisions, and actions. Incivility attacks people.

We can disagree strongly, ask hard questions, and demand accountability without resorting to insults, name-calling, or contempt. A healthy community makes room for debate—but not for dehumanizing one another.

Followers of virtually every page and profile on Facebook (including this one) do well to simmer down, dial it back, and figure out how to row together when it comes to maintaining a much higher standard when it comes to disagreeing with people or even disliking them…a lot.

If you see your even your sworn enemy looking beat down, weak, and vulnerable, while you feel a sense of accomplishment, power, or superiority, then you ought never, EVER complain or lament about the state of the world or people today. YOU helped make it that way.

Vote your vote. Speak up for your beliefs. Keep everyone’s dignity in the process. If the world feels “broken” it probably is. Fix it.

Vote November 3rd.

Be kind every day.

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10/16/2026

Negative campaign ads have long been defended with a simple argument: people may say they hate them, but they must work—or campaigns would not keep using them.

The evidence is more complicated.

Voters clearly dislike campaigns that become relentlessly negative. After the 2024 election, 74% of voters said the campaign had been too negative. Research also finds that negative advertising is not consistently more effective than positive advertising—and that harsh attacks can backfire, particularly when they come from outside political committees rather than from the candidates themselves.

That does not mean candidates should avoid legitimate contrasts. Voters deserve to know where candidates stand on development, spending, transparency, neighborhood protections, public safety, infrastructure, and accountability.

But there is a difference between presenting documented facts and trying to tear someone down with labels, insinuations, and fear.

In a local race like Pompano Beach City Commission, residents are not looking for national-style political warfare. They want commissioners who understand the issues, listen to neighborhoods, ask hard questions, respect taxpayer dollars, and explain achievable, measurable, and sustainable solutions (not just hopes or goals) for precisely how they plan to make the city better. Voters want accountability, accuracy, and full transparency. No side hustling and lopsided hopes. Hope is not a plan. If RESIDENTS have to tighten their spending they need common sense commitments and deliverables demonstrating that their city is doing the same.

Perhaps the most effective message now is not another attack. It is a credible, specific, forward-looking case for leadership that is focused on current residents and their “now” needs.

Pompano deserves a campaign that takes into account the history of our various communities in the city and the unique needs each has faced. We should see campaigns that address the TODAY realities and expectations of those communities. The future of our neighborhoods must include current generations that want to pay Pompano Beach forward in ways that reaffirm the best of the past and present while improving things like infrastructure that everyone will depend on in the future. It should NEVER be about producing the nastiest mailer for “the win.”

And yes…these sources are from my own curated research, not AI sourced stuff.

Sources
[1] 3. Voters' reflections on the 2024 campaign - Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/12/04/voters-reflections-on-the-2024-campaign/

[2] The Effects of Negative Political Advertisements: A Meta-Analytic ... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/effects-of-negative-political-advertisements-a-metaanalytic-assessment/209838AA96654AFD0AE622F0D0322D36

[3] Does negative political advertising actually work? New study says ... https://www.informs.org/News-Room/INFORMS-Releases/News-Releases/Does-negative-political-advertising-actually-work-New-study-says-yes-but-it-depends-on-whether-you-re-a-candidate-or-a-PAC

CATONSVILLE, MD, June 1, 2018 – While many may dread campaign season because of pervasiveness of negative political advertising, a new study has found that negative political advertising actually works, but perhaps not in the way that many may assume.

10/14/2026

Just a quick update about how much legal fees cost. Your District 5 commissioner paid over $35,000 to get rid of her competitor, Delvin King.

If anyone else in this neighborhood had run, we wonder how much it would have cost to get rid of them.

You might want to keep all this in mind while you are thinking about what’s really going on in this city and considering how much it costs to pay the legal fees that keep your backyard from being developed.

🚨 DISCLAIMER 🚨
It’s ALL perfectly legal, even if it stinks like hot garbage!

🧐 Some 3rd Quarter Donations We Found Telling 🧐

$1,000 donations from each of the following:

G.C. Consulting & Construction (Our Planning & Zoning Chair, Fred Stacer, is the Principal Director)

David Amiel (a real estate investor out of Aventura, Florida)

Christopher Brown (Psst! He’s one of the partners in RMA the consulting firm that essentially runs this city. By the way, Mr. Brown got himself into a heap of trouble in Boynton Beach. You should look that story up.)

Metrostrategies, INC (interesting that a website with their listing goes right back to RMA ^^)

Dodie Keith
Adolpine Keith-Lazowick (Psst! Same person with the name she’s known by around town and then her legal name…found a way to donate 2x! She’s the gal from Keith Engineering over there on Atlantic. Looks like she has two homes so she gets to donate two times under two separate names. If we look back to Q1 & Q2, we will probably find a little something something from the company)

Doug Calderwood
New South Realty (there’s another $2k, this time from Atlanta, Georgia )

Coastal Waste

Barry Moss (such a good friend)

❣️THE NEXT PAIR IS OUR FAVORITE❣️

John Talano
John Walsh
(Another $2000… both of these fine fellows are located at 551 South Powerline Rd. they are in property management … guess where!!! GUESSS!!! In the MORGUARD BUILDING!!! Remember Morgauard??? They’re the development arm for ClubLink 🇨🇦 ⛳️)

Awww and what cuteness do we have here…?

PARADISE PUPPIES 🐶
(This adorable little Federal Highway business came in front of the Commission this past year, and there were multiple rounds of reports from an animal advocate about the well-documented problems with how those puppies are churned out. Guess who voted for it!)

The Cove (Deerfield Beach)
Lucky Fish (Pompano)
Lucky Fish (Dania)
Lucky Lou’s (Deerfield)
Oceanic (Pompano) - all owned by LM Restaurants so that’s a quick $5000, right there. Choose your waterfront dining wisely.

Janice Stacer - (retired, so likely the wife of our pal, Fred)

Realtors Political Advocacy Co (it’s a political action committee, y’all)

⭐️ Honorable Mentions ⭐️ Go to the Following:

Equity Land, Title, LLC (out of West Palm Beach) - $500

Hartsell Ozery, PA - $400 (Let’s all pause and remember our good friend, Robert Hartsell who sits on the Planning & Zoning board and represents Mr. Usman who is the guy that wanted to build rental units at the end of S. Palm Aire Dr. and is the owner of the land where the Pulte project was supposed to be built on the north end of Palm Aire along Atlantic. The guy first tried to give our master settlement agreement the slip.)

Fred Stacer - $500 (chairman of the Pompano Beach Planning & Zoning board)

David Fee - $500 (we’re shocked -not- he’s in construction)

Carla Coleman - $500 (another member of our Pompano Beach Planning & Zoning board; she’s also been spotted helping the District 1 candidate, Ms. Worley, trying to host commissioner Fesik)

Want to see more from previous quarters or how much is going to candidates in other races around Pompano Beach? We think you’ll be very interested in some of those numbers.

Visit
https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?c=munpompanobeach

10/13/2026

$241,500 IN OUTSIDE POLITICAL ADVERTISING. THREE CITY COMMISSION DISTRICTS. ONE BIG QUESTION: WHY?

Pompano Beach residents deserve answers.

According to campaign-finance records cited in the accompanying graphic, $241,500 in political advertising expenditures has been identified involving AFF-Florida and American Future Fund, an organization based in Des Moines, Iowa.

And that amount reportedly represents just two payments from one political organization.

Television commercials. Digital advertisements. Political mailers. Personal attacks.

Three different commissioners. Three different districts. A strikingly similar approach.

Commissioners Audrey Fesik, Alison Fournier, and I have all been featured in political advertising that questions our integrity, our decisions, and our commitment to the communities we serve.

One advertisement questions Commissioner Fesik’s real estate dealings. Another portrays Commissioner Fournier as opposing senior safety efforts. Advertisements targeting Beverly Perkins claim she places her personal interests above the residents of Pompano Beach.

We reject these characterizations of Commissioners Fesik, Fournier, and Perkins. They are out and about in Pompano Beach doing genuine public service.

They pounding their chests and floating over “controlling the narrative in Pompano Beach.” They are WORKING in OUR City for residents who already live here. That kind of work matters.

The LAZY establishment politicians with no conscience will “glad-hand” residents, and talk about “restoring civility to City Hall” while tacitly applauding lies and attack ads funded and distributed through connections with developers.

What makes these expenditures particularly noteworthy is that the political consulting company identified in the graphic, LINK Public Affairs, advertises its services with the statement:

“WE MOVE PUBLIC OPINION.”

The graphic also identifies a reported $90,000 payment for mailers and digital advertising.

That raises questions every Pompano Beach resident deserves to ask:

❓ WHO is willing to spend nearly a quarter of a million dollars influencing our local City Commission elections?

❓ WHY are outside political organizations so invested in who represents our neighborhoods?

❓ WHAT interests are behind these expenditures, and what do they hope to accomplish?

Our local elections should be about our neighborhoods, public safety, economic opportunity, responsible development, and the future of our city.

We believe residents should evaluate candidates based on their records, their service, and their commitment to the community—not simply the political messages appearing in their mailboxes or on their television screens.

SO, DID IT WORK, POMPANO BEACH?

Did these political advertisements filled with out-of-context quotations and out-and-out lies really change your opinion of your elected commissioners?

Or did they make you question why so much outside money is being spent to influence our local elections?

Our city. Our community. Our future. They all hang in the balance. Since Palm Aire was litigated out of their right to vote for a city commissioner, it’s even more important to tell your friends around Pompano Beach to vote for

— Audrey Fesik
City Commissioner, District 1

—Freddy York
City Commissioner, District 2

— Alison Fournier
City Commissioner, District 3

— Beverly Perkins
City Commissioner, District 4

It’s no longer about whose style on the Dias you prefer. It’s about whether you want YOUR Pompano Beach owned by developers and operated by consultants and their local shills, or whether you want Pompano Beach to serve residents and practice smart, sustainable growth.