Two Daytona Beach Shores city commissioners have resigned prior to a Jan. 1 deadline for filing a more stringent financial disclosure form.

Two Daytona Beach Shores city commissioners have resigned as the latest in a wave of local elected officials leaving before Jan. 1, when they face more stringent financial disclosure requirements.

Mel Lindauer, a Shores commissioner since 2016, told The News-Journal on Wednesday the new requirement − submitting what’s known as Form 6 − is “totally invasive” and serves no purpose.

Commissioner Richard Bryan, who has also served since 2016, said in his Dec. 21 resignation letter that he had another priority but added the Form 6 issue “affected the timing” of his decision.

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Many state officials already file a Form 6, including the governor and Cabinet, legislators, county council members and sheriffs. The forms require disclosure of the filer’s net worth and holdings valued at more than $1,000, including bank accounts, stocks, retirement accounts, salary and dividends.

  • @force
    2•6 months ago

    What? I stated rates of theft (larceny, burgalary, robbery, etc.), rape, & (for non-nordic countries) assault are generally higher in nordic countries & richer western countries compared to eastern Europe. Which the sources literally prove. Theft & related crimes and rape are consistently extremely high in the north (especially Sweden) and a little less so in the west, and very low comparably in most of eastern EU. The exception is robbery for Norway & Denmark. Assault is extremely high in Germany, France, Italy compared to eastern Europe except for Hungary. It’s also fun to note that the amount of eastern Europeans who report seeing/experiencing a crime is much less than people in rest of Europe.

    That goes along almost exactly with my initial statement that theft crimes as well as rape & assault are generally much higher in rich western & especially northern European countries (with a few exceptions for some crimes). I didn’t say “all crime is higher in nordic countries”. You’re grasping at straws and just blatantly lying saying it’s “completely false” that nordic countries have much higher theft or burgalary or especially rape etc. lol.

    But this comment was mainly about theft. Because the OOP was claiming that nordic countries have low theft. Which is the complete opposite of reality, it’s completely false – they have the highest theft in Europe. I’m sorry you don’t like the data but you can’t just deny reality (well, I guess you can deny reality if you really want to).

    • @RusticusEnglish
      -2•6 months ago

      Nordic countries have extraordinarily high rates of theft/robbery/burglary compared to the rest of Europe

      This you? It’s fucking false. Stop moving the goalposts between east and west Europe and admit you are wrong or at least misspoke.

      • @force
        2•6 months ago

        Yeah buddy I can’t help it if you’re stupid. You can literally look at the maps which are very conveniently laid out for you, oh what’s this when you look at theft? They are the highest in Europe by far. Oh and what’s this, burgarlary is way higher in nordic countries than it is in most other European countries too??? No way, I wouldn’t believe it if it weren’t RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF US. Oh and finally, Sweden is much higher in Robbery rates than most of Europe, with Finland also being in not so good shape! Impossible, astonishing even.

        The only way you can interpret this data as “nordic countries don’t have high theft rates” is if you exclude most of Europe. Which is why I brought up eastern Europe, they usually show a stark contrast in these crimes and many of them have comparable or greater population than Nordic countries (Poland literally has more population than all of them combined). They are very relevant to the discussion

        And I guess your reading comprehension sucks too because in the first comment I immediately mentioned how countries who aren’t “those dirty eastern europoors” (as western europeans often think if them) generally have a lot more crime, there was no “goalpost shifting” that was in my original comment lmfao.

        I don’t have the patience to deal with your ineptitude anymore. Good day.

        • @RusticusEnglish
          -2•6 months ago

          Dumbest motherfucker ever. Learn to read data asshat.

          • @force
            3•6 months ago

            Jesus Christ no way you’re this stupid. I’ll spoonfeed it to you like you’re five I guess:

            WOW, look at that, they ALL have higher rates than the ENTIRETY of mainland Europe, with Denmark, Sweden, and Finland having at least 2x the amount of most western countries and 5-10x the amount of most eastern countries.

            Compared to the other European single market countries (not micronations) which have data, Sweden & Denmark is the same as or worse than 18 (86%) of them, Finland is the same as or worse than 14 (67%) of them, with only Norway not being way higher than most at 8 (38%). Almost as if it proves my generalization to be accurate! Unless you for some reason misinterpreted it as “ALL Nordic countries have higher of EVERY CRIME than EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY EVER under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES”, in which case that’s on your own stupidity, not anything wrong with my comment. For specifically robbery it’s clearly less clear-cut, but Sweden is still clearly much worse with it than ALL of Europe except for Spain, Portugal, and Belgium/Luxembourg, and Finland has worse rates than 14 (61%) of the other single market countries with data (again, other than micronations):

            Pretty much the same thing applies to motor theft (although I find that less relevant).

            Oh and just in case you suddenly don’t like maps, or you just really hate Eurostat for some reason, here’s a different source from 2016 which will of course be different from 2023 statistics, but it’s still generally pretty accurate to modern statistics like the ones already discussed. Denmark and Sweden are LITERALLY the two highest, with Norway and Finland being 5th and 6th. I don’t generally pile on Iceland since they’re kind of weird and complete outliers in a lot of ways compared to the rest of Europe, but just in case you care they’re 13th here which is still worse than half even when you take out all the unrelated countries. And here’s another funny graph for burgalaries from 2019, Denmark is the highest by a large margin and Sweden is 3rd.

            Like I get that you can’t handle being wrong, but like God damn you’re literally denying reality. I have to present you this shit like you’re a middle schooler for you to understand because apparently you’re too braindead to process basic statistics. Go whine to someone else, better yet don’t turn your lack of basic brain functioning into other peoples’ problem.