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Elberg Mike Gelin Tells Kings Point Residents That Tamarac Suffers Because City Filled With Too Many Senior Citizens(!)

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Elberg Mike Gelin debates Mayor Michelle Gomez at Kings Point.
Oh Gelberg!

Elberg Mike Gelin made a bold, if incredibly dumb, choice at Tuesday’s mayoral debate in Tamarac, Florida. Gelin and the very popular incumbent Mayor Michelle Gomez attended the debate hosted by political clubs at the Kings Point retirement community. The cabaret theater was filled with several hundred senior citizens.

So what did Elberg Mike Gelin say?

Gelin complained that his city could never compete with neighboring cities like Coral Springs and Sunrise because Tamarac is home to too many senior citizens.

Gelin said Tamarac faced a “demographic” challenge when trying to attract new developments and businesses since seniors did not have “disposable incomes.” Gelin said Kings Point residents had passed their “peak” income earning potential. He said businesses desired the younger demographics of Coral Springs, Plantation and Sunrise.

The tone-deaf Gelin did not recognize the stunned silence permeating the audience.

When he wasn’t talking about their ages and incomes, Gelin was calling some of the senior citizens liars.

During the “open mic“ question period, members of the audience were allowed to ask questions.

When one gentlemen asked about Gelin about his behavior in front of military veterans at a recent event, he said the man was lying.

When another resident asked about three costly agenda items, Gelin said the man just told three lies.

Exhibiting an arrogant and condescending attitude is nothing new from the Tamarac vice mayor. Gelin and his commission crony Marlon Bolton ooze an unearned arrogance rarely seen in local politics.

It’s clear Gelin doesn’t know the history of western Broward County. Cities like Tamarac, Sunrise, Plantation and Lauderhill grew and thrived thanks to senior citizens relocating to the Sunshine State. A large senior population usually guarantees the best stores and restaurants around. Perhaps Gelin is unfamiliar with Boca Raton?

Lauderhill and Tamarac were once home to the high-end shopping and dining now found in Boca. Seniors escaped to Boca following the mismanagement Broward cities by Gelin’s cronies and ideological allies.

Gelin probably never heard of John Lomelo or Jackie Gleason.

So, instead of asking why things changed, Gelin wants to blame senior citizens for Tamarac’s “geographic and demographic” problems.

Sorry Gelberg. Tamarac’s voters won’t buy that malarkey.

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Broward Democrat Chair “Occupies” Palestine Table At Muslim Event

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Cynthia Busch, second from left, confers with Ghazala Salam of the American Muslim Democratic Caucus

Even though they risk alienating their traditional base voters, the Broward Democrat Party continues to pander to local Muslim groups. The latest stop in the party’s pandering tour took place last week at the Muslim Heritage Celebration Dinner in Lauderhill. The dinner at the Mehfil restaurant was hosted by the American Muslim Democratic Caucus. Many Democrat party leaders and politicians, including former party boss Mitch Ceasar, attended the Ramadan dinner.

Ceasar told the Sun-Sentinel, “We have to spend these days now banding together. We have to realize we are all in this together. If we want this country to be as we believe it to be…we have to unite and stand together, whether it’s fighting bigotry or intolerance or just plain lies and ignorance.”

While Ceasar runs for Broward County Clerk of Courts, Cynthia Busch has taken the reins of the Broward Democrat Party. In pictures posted on social media, Busch can been seen sitting at a table at the event. A sign placed in the center of the table has the word “Palestine” written on it.

While it’s doubtful Busch was making a political statement on Israel by sitting at the table, one wonders how traditional Democrat voters in King’s Point, Wynmoor and Century Village would feel about the table’s centerpiece?

This is not the first example of Broward Democrat’s failure to make Muslim outreach a “teaching moment.” Last June, REDBROWARD exposed how local female judicial candidates covered their heads at Ramadan dinners. The event was hosted by the Democrat-friendly Emerge USA group. In 2014, REDBROWARD documented EMERGE USA’s strong support for Democrats Charlie Crist and Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief.

Pictures from the event featured Broward County Commissioner Marty Kiar, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel and Sunrise Mayor Mike Ryan. While these gentleman appeared as they do at any community or political event, the Broward women running for office looked very different.

Pictures show State Rep. Gwyn Clarke-Reed and several women seeking to be Broward judges wearing scarves over their heads.

Before you say they’re showing respect inside of a mosque, many of the pictures were taken under a tent in the parking lot.

Broward Chief Judge Peter Weinstein attended the event in his normal attire. Would a sitting female judge cover her head? Would she politely decline and use the opportunity as a “teaching moment” on women’s issues in the Muslim faith?

Did anybody tell Rhoda Sokoloff, Betsy Benson and Andrea Gundersen to cover their heads?