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The Palm Beach Post calls Drautz unrealistic!

WOW! They got one right for once.

"Former Lake Worth Mayor Marc Drautz, a teacher, also is a candidate in District 5. His goal of a 20 percent raise for teachers is unrealistic."

(source: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2008/08/02/c10a_leadedit_psb_endorse_0802.html)

A few highlights from his days in Lake Worth.

Pee Pee Doorhangers

Lake Worth, OHWhen it comes to urinating in public, Lake Worth is No. 1.
“It’s a huge problem,” said Lake Worth Mayor Marc Drautz.
So huge that Drautz decided to use his neighborhood crime walks as an opportunity to remind residents not to use their city as a big outdoor toilet.
To do that, the mayor ordered up some door hangers. And being that Lake Worth is a city of many languages, he decided to point out this problem without relying on any words.
The computer image on the door hanger shows a stick figure standing the middle of a residential street.
“Don’t stand in the middle of the street?”
That’s what I said to myself when I saw the image, which was circled in red with a red slash through the middle of it.
But it turns out that what I thought was a dotted line in the middle of the road was actually supposed to represent staccato bursts emanating from the stick figure.
Computer whizzes don’t do clip art
Drautz admits that he, too, was confused when he first saw the door hanger.
“I thought it looked like somebody walking down the middle of the road,” he said.
The mayor called the effort a “first draft” and said that it’s just plain difficult finding computer clip art to remind people not to urinate in public.
Although, he said, even if people just think the door hanger is urging residents not to stand in the middle of the street, it isn’t a total loss.
“That’s not a bad message, either,” Drautz said.
Found in the Palm Beach Post

Confedrate flag flies over city hall...

Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:53:50 AM · by Guard Dog · 117 replies · 1,770+ views
Palm Beach Post ^ 4/27/06 Jane Musgrave
One of the most divisive symbols of the country's racist past — the Confederate flag — flew over Lake Worth City Hall on Wednesday without raising a peep of protest. Mayor Marc Drautz, who cleared the way for the symbol of the South to be hoisted, suggested that would-be protestors may not have recognized the red-and-white-striped flag for what it was. And, he acknowledged, that's just the way he wanted it. When the mayor, for a second year, gave Palm Beach County members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans the go-ahead to raise a flag to mark Confederate Memorial Day,...

Wife beats him in the street...

Marc Drautz of Lake Worth told police his wife, Yasmine, punched him in the face during an argument Saturday. Read more

Marc Drautz left Lake Worth a mess. Don't let him to the same to your town!