Sip, Shop, Straw Poll
Mark the Date – Thursday, March 2 – 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Stroll, Sip, Shop & Snack
Twenty-five dollars entitles you to a wine glass, which you can refill as many times as you like at your favorite restaurants, cafes and shops. Be sure to stop by Park Avenue’s stylish eateries to sample their menu items while you shop and enjoy your wine. Note: You must be at least 21 years of age to attend.
Vote Early! Vote Often!
Wait! That’s not all! When you pick up your wine glass at the Winter Park Welcome Center on Lyman Avenue, you can also cast a straw ballot for your favorite candidate for Winter Park city commission. Will you vote for crime-fighting Navy vet Wes Naylor? Or side with Local Nerd Greg Seidel?
Do you have to live in Winter Park to vote? No. Do you have to be a registered voter — anywhere? No. Can you vote more than once? Yes. How many times can you vote? How many $25 checks do you have?
Does the Chamber of Commerce or the Winter Park Merchants Association have a favorite candidate? They’re not saying. Speaking for the Chamber, Vice President Erika Spence stated emphatically, “The Chamber does not endorse political candidates.”
Straw Votes Tallied at 7:00 pm
Folks from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office will join the fun and tally the straw votes. The Straw Poll ends at 7:00, and the results will be announced by 8:00 pm. The cost of County participation will be covered by proceeds from the event. For once, this is not your tax dollars at work.
You won’t want to miss this event, which is sponsored by Allegro Senior Living.
For more information, click here.
I could be wrong. But it appears to be a veiled Chamber promotion for Wes Naylor.
Picture this.
First you go to the Welcome Center and someone holding a Wes campaign sign is there waving it at you. Then next thing you know someone is wearing a Wes campaign shirt is holding a bottle of wine asking if you want some. Down the way, someone who has already obviously been drinking long before you started slurs at you that he’s voting for Wes. Then further along, another Wes “volunteer” with a bottle of wine asks if she can “top yours off” and reminds you to put in your “straw ballot” for Wes as she tugs on your arm insistently.
When you get to one of the Park Avenue government surveillance cameras, another Wes supporter steps in your path and whispers in your ear, “Psssssssst.” You turn and he points upward saying, “See that camera? See it? I’m voting for Wes Naylor cause I want one of these babies right outside my bedroom window. That way if the bad guys get in my bedroom, the government will have it all on video.”
When you say, “But what if the bad guys never get in your bedroom? Do you really want the government to know everything that goes on in and around your bedroom and your home?” He says, “Uh…you got a point,” as he sips the last few drops from his glass. “A VERY GOOD point.” Then he pauses, stares at the government camera and says, “You know what? I think I may vote for the NERD Greg Seidel instead.”
Vice President Erika Spence stated emphatically, “The Chamber does not endorse political candidates.”
No, our members purchase them using hard to trace LLCs and out of state PACS…
Trump has his Vice President Pence and WP Chamber has its Vice President Spence! Unbelievable.
Wes Naylor is claiming victory today in Thursday’s straw poll 43-39. If the ballot counting reported was correct, it’s actually pretty good news for Commissioner Greg Seidel.
Naylor, even with his huge campaign war chest loaded with treasure, could only summon a measly 43 recruits to revelry yesterday? This was supposed to be Wes Naylor’s big wipe out victory so that he could show everyone that he was still Captain Crunch!
Instead Wes Naylor barely eeked out a token straw poll win by a margin thinner than a single ribbon on his dress whites, by what arguably is his main base of support in this race – development-oriented Chamber supporters. Had the weather been fairer, Seidel might have even come out on top, in a stunning upset!
With now less than two weeks to Winter Park’s election day, Naylor may feel like taking a couple dramamine as Seidel’s high waves continue to plummet Naylor’s reeling campaign ship. Will Naylor make his campaign skipper walk the plank? These are uncharted waters for Captain Naylor and Polaris, the North Star, may be his only remaining means of navigation on the 2017 Winter Park City Commission campaign high seas.
Yo ho!
Captain Blyth was given the helm of the British navy ship The Bounty during the 1700’s. His failed command of the ship was the subject of the epic movie, Mutiny on the Bounty.
Here is a short video clip from the trial of Captain Blyth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDK7Iuu-isc
Editor’s Note: The Captain of the Bounty was William Bligh.