Looks like Scotty and Carla and Lisa were right after all. Gee.

"In her first term, Commissioner Mulvehill pushed to save the beachfront casino building from demolition and fully supports the innovative restoration plan that could begin next year. So does Dr. McVoy, a soil scientist with the South Florida Water Management District. Ms. Blockson has qualms, and Ms. Maxwell - no relation to Commissioner Scott Maxwell - even more so. She says the financing plan, under which Lake Worth in two years will take a loan to repay itself for up-front construction costs, won't work. The city's financial experts say it will. Moving ahead on the long-stalled project makes sense."

Just in case the above quote doesn't seem familiar, allow me to refresh your memory. Click Here to read the  Palm Beach Post editorial endorsing Cara Jennings' hand picked successor, Chris McVoy, for the office of Commissioner District 2 and Suzanne Mulvehill, running for re-election as Commissioner District 4. 

Oh. By the way, if you do click on the link and go on down to read the first comment left there, Please be advised that I am not now, nor have I ever been, Mary L.

If you'd like a little more historical perspective, Click Here to read another Post article; this one from October 27, 2010, on the Beach and Casino financing plan in which you'll find:

"Commissioners also approved in a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Scott Maxwell dissenting, a financing plan through which the city will borrow $6 million from its portfolio to pay for the casino work. After the casino is renovated in 2013, the city plans to take out a bank loan and pay itself back with interest.

Maxwell said he did not like the financing plan, but added, "I really do wish this project the best of success."

Commissioner Cara Jennings, attending her last meeting after four years in office, thanked residents for supporting the plan to keep the casino public instead of leasing the beachfront site to the Greater Bay Group under an earlier plan.

"I'm so thrilled and honored to get to vote on this before I leave office," Jennings said. "I look forward to being at the ribbon-cutting."

And finally, this tidbit from the Post editorial, Friday, September 24, 2010:

"The city's financial plan shows best, likely and worst scenarios, and works under all three. The hope is to open construction proposals Oct. 13, name a winner - who must guarantee a maximum price - in November, start work next summer and be finished by early 2013, for the city's centennial. To get going quickly, the city will lend itself up to $6 million from its investment portfolio. When the building is ready, the city will take a bank loan to pay itself back, with interest. By 2014, Lake Worth expects income to exceed expenses.

Can it work? It's a fabulous location. And the city, after years of contention, has gotten its act together well enough to collect $5 million from Palm Beach County to renovate the park area. Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill, who helped save the casino from demolition, says the new plan will work because, for the first time, "there's community buy-in." Also for the first time, there's a hard-headed business plan. Pulling it off will mean a makeover of a great area leisure spot - and a city's image."