LIGHTHOUSE POINT – In the wake of the latest unemployment figures which showed 10.7% unemployment with no end to the climb in sight, today candidate for Broward County Commission Chip LaMarca unveiled his plan to bring jobs back to Broward County. LaMarca described the plan as substantive and ambitious, and compared it to Mayor Ken Keechl’s lack of plan for Broward.

“I was absolutely irate when I read that unemployment in Broward continues to rise. Today, well over 100,000 of our friends and neighbors are without work in Broward. What makes me even more angry is that this Commission has done absolutely nothing to resuscitate our economy,” LaMarca said. “Instead of being proactive and exploring new ways to bring jobs back to this county, Mayor Ken Keechl and his friends on the commission continue to run and hide behind their $92,000 per year salary plus benefits and refuse to help anyone in the county without a job.”

“As a result, today, I’m putting forth a plan for Broward to get real jobs back in this county,” LaMarca said. “I know the folks here in District 4 are tired of a vision-less County Commission, and it’s time we rolled up our sleeves and started working on getting jobs back to this county.”

LaMarca, a small business owner himself, compared his plan to current Mayor Ken Keechl’s lack of plan, which LaMarca called “embarrassing”.

“The reason we don’t hear much about a Ken Keechl economic plan is because he doesn’t have one,” LaMarca said. “Perhaps if he and his friends on the commission weren’t spending the last three years dodging federal and state prosecutors and investigators or trying to water down ethics reform, we would have a commission that actually cares about bringing jobs back to this county. This inactivity on the part of the commission is downright embarrassing.”