Who are Taxpayers for Term Limits in Jupiter? - part 2

We'll call this installment "Annie Clean Up Your Own House."

For the partial answer to the title question, you have to go back (back into time, as the song once said.)  To draw the lines, you have to look at a lawsuit titled "Annie Delgado vs. Carl Domino".  Many of you will remember Carl. He was a local Congressman for a while.  And he was a client of Public Concepts.  (Again, more on that later)

The court complaint states that, in 2014, Annie believed that she was hired by the Domino campaign to do some work.  She was to be a fundraiser for $2,500 per month plus 10% of the money she raised.  She was specifically told that any funds raised in Washington were excluded from the agreement.  I assume they meant DC and not Washington State.  The email wasn't heavy on details. This was discussed in an email between Annie, Randy Nielsen of Public Concepts (more on that later), Carl Domino and Larry Casey, who was with Mr. Domino's campaign.  Annie accepted whatever she thought the offer was and moved back to Palm Beach County.  She didn't move as in "sell my house in Ocala and stop my involvement in Marion County" move.  She appears to have rented a place in Palm Beach Gardens.

Annie was also hired, it appears, to work on campaign signs.  The email signature (you know, the little blurb at the bottom that usually says "Sent from my iPhone" unless you change it) states that she is affiliated with A Delgado Realty & Consulting Group, Inc.  This entity exists through today, which is also interesting, since Annie's Real Estate license expired in September 2019.  Both her Broker's license and her business' principal address are what seems to be her home in Ocala.  At least she's not living inside a small rental mailbox.  But, at the time of the offer, she was living in Ocala.  Remember, she moved there from Palm Beach Gardens in 2007.

But I digress.  Annie believed that she was hired by the Domino campaign as an employee of the Domino campaign. Unfortunately for Annie, the Domino campaign did not think they hired her as an employee, but as a contractor. It appears that, in September, she was told that her services were no longer needed.  She felt she should have been paid through the first four days of November.  After those first four days, if you recall, Mr. Domino became the former candidate for the Florida 18th as Patrick Murphy was reelected.  However, she filed her complaint in October 2014, so she did not yet know that Mr. Domino was the loser.  Maybe she had an inkling?  Maybe she wanted to get her money before the campaign had none?

To add insult to Mr. Domino's injury, Annie sued the then-candidate Domino, before the conclusion of the election, for "an amount less than $15,000".  More than a year later she decided that her claim was for more than $15,000 and the case was transferred to Circuit Court.  It didn't matter, though. After some legal stuff that is fascinating to me, but not to most people, Annie lost on what's called a Motion for Summary Judgment.  That's legal jargon for "You have no case."

But it got worse for her.  She not only had no case, but the year before the case was dismissed, Mr. Domino had served a Proposal For Settlement.  This is a procedural maneuver that allows one party to obtain its attorneys' fees from the other if certain conditions were met.  By winning the case, because Annie did not accept the $250 that was offered to her, Mr. Domino met those conditions.  The Court agreed that Mr. Domino was entitled to his attorneys' fees.  Annie agreed that the fees were $60,000 and agreed that a judgment could be entered against her for that amount.  Ironically, this occurred on November 2, 2016, two years after when she thought her employment with Carl Domino should have ended.  According to the Palm Beach County Clerk records, this judgment that she agreed to is outstanding to this day.

Why does this matter, you ask?  It's twofold.  First, Annie clearly prides herself on being some sort of low-level political operative.  (maybe she thinks she's high-level, I won't dispute it if she wants to be called high-level)  She has at least one prior connection to Public Concepts, but the tone of the email that served as the basis for the retention seemed more familiar than people who had just met.  As I'll discuss soon, I think Public Concepts is connected to TFTL in some manner.

Second, and more importantly, how dare Annie Delgado, the Ocala resident, come into this Town to stir up controversy where none exists.  Before she starts making inaccurate claims through TFTL, she should clean up her own house first.  And by clean up, I mean "HOW ABOUT YOU PAY OFF YOUR DEBT TO CARL DOMINO"? Annie, if you're reading this, I'm helping you out.  Here's a copy of the judgment.  I know you have Internet access because you're posting on Facebook, but maybe the Clerk's website is too difficult.

So, you see folks, while Annie's organization is busy inaccurately criticizing Jim Kuretski for fiscal mismanagement and voting to defund the police, she has an actual judgment of $60,000 outstanding against her.  Unless, of course, the Palm Beach County Clerk's records are wrong.  This is a fellow Republican that she owes this money to.  Is there no honor?

In the meantime, Out-of-town Annie's political committee, with the Vegas resident and the dead guy, is receiving funds from well-disguised sources to spread misinformation in our town.  In the old days, if you had an outstanding judgment, you weren't allowed to vote.  I'm glad we're not in the old days (although riding around on a horse all the time might be fun.  But it would take a long time to get to Tampa, and maybe a wagon).  Maybe she should take a paycheck from the $230,000 that was donated to TFTL in January and use that money to pay the judgment?

But here's what I do know.  Not a single person that I can see who is affiliated with TFTL is eligible to vote in the Jupiter mayoral race.  Who is behind this organization and why is nobody from Jupiter identifying themselves as being affiliated with them?  How about they show themselves?  Or is TFTL for term limits but against transparency.  You call your organization "Taxpayers for Term Limits" but I can't find any person or entity affiliated with TFTL that actually pays taxes in Jupiter.  I will suggest another name for the organization, again.  How about "Taxpayers Who Can't Vote and Don't Pay Taxes in Jupiter for Term Limits"  I know it's a long name, but it's more accurate.

Oh, and Annie, maybe you should pay off your judgment now that you're working.  Call Scott Haft.  I'm sure he's easily located on the Internet, unlike the donors to TFTL.