February 9, 2026 • 14 mins
Sipple is one of three candidates in the race for Seat D on the Boca Raton City Council.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w j NO dot com and
my election spotlight on the city of Boca ratone. Four
races in the city, one for mayor and three for
the city council, and we're going to focus on st
D here. This is the seat that Andy Thompson is
currently holding. There's a year left in it. He is
(00:21):
actually running four mayors. He's in the mayoral race and
we've talked to him. Three candidates, and we will speak
with Stacy Sipple, candidate for c D. Thank you for
joining me, well, thank.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You very much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So before we get into some of the issues, let's
talk about you give us some background. How long have
you been in Boca Ratone.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I am the native Boca.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Ratonian, so I have been there for over fifty years,
and I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That would make you, out of the three candidates here,
the only native.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
My great grandparents and parents came down in the late forties,
bought their house well they hadn't been built yet, moved
down in the early fifties and.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Never went back. That was it.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
My grandfather was the second oldest or the second pharmacist
in Boca Raton, wow, okay, yeah, and I followed in
his footsteps.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'll say, so I was going to get into that
now work experience. So tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
By trade. I've always been in pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I started out as pharmacy cashier, moved up to pharmacy technician,
went to pharmacy school, and have been a pharmacist for
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So I was working.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
At the hospital as a clinical pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Is that is that what you're doing now?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I unfortunately had to leave my position there to take
care of my father when he was sick.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, all right, So now talking about the pharmacy whole thing,
as I said, safe to say, it's in the blood.
But what would be another reason you would cite for? Really,
because it sounds like, I mean, you started out the
ground up, right, cashier, tech, hemassistant and all that. What
(02:33):
what made you really want to do this? I mean
you obviously had a knack for it if it was
what you really Oh no.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I should go into work with my grandfather all
the time. And I mean back then, people always went
to the pharmacist first. He was on They always called
him doc, and you know, they would ask him.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For his opinion before they even went to.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
The doctor, and I was just so impressed by that
and how he, you know, treated the people and how
they looked up to him, and you know, it went
on to you know, I've have a lot of management experience,
director experience, and just generally working with people and empathy,
(03:22):
and that's you know, that's really that's.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What they want. They just want someone to listen to.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Them and understand them and answer their questions constructively and
in a language they understand.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You point out on your campaign page, I am am
I a politician. No, and you go into that. Would
you like to elaborate on it looks like you feel
like that's a benefit to you, so would you like
to talk about that it is.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I am not a politician at all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I have ties to no one.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'm not as I'm sure as what you see on there.
I'm not taking any money from developers. I'm working on
a shoestring budget. And the reason I'm doing this is
because as a resident for so long and then starting
off with this one BOGA project, we're not being represented
(04:19):
by the people that we've elected, and I think we
just need some common sense on our council and I hope.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
To be the voice of that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay. And you brought it up, the so called elephant
in the room, the one Boca project, And this is
the redevelopment of the downtown area. And there are several
prongs to it, and I'm sure most of the hopefully
the voters in Boca Rateau know what it is. They're
going to see it on their referendum. The public private
(04:51):
partnership with the developer that the city is already the
current city council has already approved that. Being said, it's
up to the voters to give final approval to get
it done. Would you like to share more thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let's put it this way. It sounds like you're not
one hundred percent on board. Is that safe to say?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, with the voters voting.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
No, no, no, no, I meant on the project. I meant
on the project itself.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, there's no question the area needs to be revitalized.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, the city has.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Allowed it to be confided falling apart. And I don't
think my competitors were here as children, So there's kind
of a sentimental aspect to it as well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean I played there as a child.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I climb those banyan trees. My grandfather would take me
over there all the time, and you know, it's and
that's why it upset me when they say it was
not a park, you know, dedicated to our veterans.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Talk about memorial Park.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But other than that, I didn't even realize this project
was occurring. That was the scary thing, the whole way
it got started. It wasn't until I went to the
library one day and I saw all these people outside
with petitions and I was like, well, what is this
And I was reading on it and I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Like, no, this can't be happening. Where was the notification.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, if you look at the notification standards and the
ordinances of Boca.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They're pretty lacking.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And this whole thing was not started off on the
right foot, which I really think it's why a lot
of people have issues with it. And if Save Boca
had not stepped in, they would be in the middle
of building it right now.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So you're crediting this the group Save Boca for getting
the council.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Get the referendum vote.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, to put this on the on the referendu
referendum on the on the ballot, what uh, what else
is it? Well, I was going to ask you this.
Let's say you get elected to CD and you talk
about wanting more transparency. Is what it sounds like. Is
that something that you would push for?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I mean, right now, if there's a new project they
put a little yellow sign outside, you drive by it.
You can't read it because you're usually.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Going by it fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
If you stop, you're going to get hit by a car.
They only have to mail within five hundred feet, which
is approximately four to five houses in length, you know radius.
And most people don't read the agendas for the city
council meetings and the building and planning because we think
(07:57):
we've elected and I am guilty of this too. I
feel that we've elected these officials to act in our
best interest.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And the more I look at it, that's not what's happening.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I see developers they're getting the best deals, they're getting
the interest, and the residents are kicked.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
To the side. I mean, if you look at I mean,
this is going a little bit further back.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But with the Wildflower project, one of my competitors didn't
even want the public to have a vote on it.
He was fully against it. He wanted to put a
Houston's there. He didn't think that the people of Boca
should have a say, and he refers to.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This area as a very tiny part of Boca. It's
thirty acres and I know that they have.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Scaled the project sized down, but it's still a very
valuable portion of land. And we shouldn't just be giving
that away because it's not something that's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Ninety nine year lease.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's not going to come back to us in my
lifetime or anybody else's lifetime. Right now, I want to
talk to you about a really good lifespan.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You mentioned Houston's. Isn't there already a Houstons in book?
Or maybe that it used to be there is?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That was the crazy thing, and then they wanted to
build another one there.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Okay that was a while back though, But yeah, what
just the very.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fact that he's running for council now and he had
those were his feelings previously that he didn't believe that
public land, they shouldn't even have a say in what
is done with it. That to me is offensive because
(09:56):
it doesn't belong to him, It belongs to all of
us and serve a vote no matter what the project is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I wanted to ask you. We're talking about developers and businesses,
the efforts in recent months to bring businesses, financial businesses
from other states like New York and California to Boca Ratone,
and with the setup to provide jobs, you know, higher
(10:26):
paying jobs. So we just recently found out that a company,
a quantum computing company I believe it's called d Wave,
is going to be moving that one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars or more annual salaries, minimum hundred jobs.
What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You still there? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah? I can hear you.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, Well, it's funny because if you look at the
qualifications for affordable housing I mean the media, and it's
just over one hundred thousand dollars and you would qualify
for it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So technically one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Twenty five thousand dollars isn't even a high paying job anymore, sadly, And.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know, I'm all for bringing new business.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
To Boca, but I need to see what kind of
I would have to see what kind of a business
it is, what it's going to provide, what our budget is,
and do their states to bring them down here, and
that would be something that's dependent upon me getting elected
(11:39):
and then being able to actually see the budget and
go line by line and see.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If it's worth it. But yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I mean, I am for attracting businesses to Boca, absolutely,
but we have to realize that even though they're going
to have all these employees that are making what they
consider a high salary, we have many people that don't
(12:11):
make that much and what are we doing for them?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All Right? The final question three candidates in this race
in a nutshell, what makes Stacy Sipple the best candidate.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I'm not a politician.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm a resident.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I want the residents to feel that they can come
to the council, be included, that their voices are heard,
and I want just fair treatment for everybody. And there's
a lot of issues that I want to do. Affordable housing,
the homeless problem. I mean, these are many issues that
(12:51):
people have brought up with me and I want to
deal with them. And I'm not a politician. I have
no ties to anyone whatsoever. There's nothing. I'm not doing
it for the money. I'm not doing it for fame.
I'm not doing it. I'm doing it for my city.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
All right, very well, well, appreciate you joining us, and
you know, speaking right directly to the voters of Boca
Ratone again c D candidate Stacy Simple for the book
Ratone City Council. We should mention again this winner of
this election is going to serve for one year, have
to run again I guess what twenty seven in the
(13:29):
spring again, so for a full three year term. But
we appreciate, appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So it's kind of like a tryout period. But I
will do my best because this is my hometown and
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's worth every everything possible, and our biggest asset are
our residents and they deserve to be included.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What's again, and Stacy, thank you for joining.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Us, No, thank you so much for having me. I
really appreciate it. It's been a pleasure.
Hey, Joel Malcoln for w j NO dot com and
my election spotlight on the city of Boca ratone. Four
races in the city, one for mayor and three for
the city council, and we're going to focus on st
D here. This is the seat that Andy Thompson is
currently holding. There's a year left in it. He is
(00:21):
actually running four mayors. He's in the mayoral race and
we've talked to him. Three candidates, and we will speak
with Stacy Sipple, candidate for c D. Thank you for
joining me, well, thank.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You very much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So before we get into some of the issues, let's
talk about you give us some background. How long have
you been in Boca Ratone.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I am the native Boca.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Ratonian, so I have been there for over fifty years,
and I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That would make you, out of the three candidates here,
the only native.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
My great grandparents and parents came down in the late forties,
bought their house well they hadn't been built yet, moved
down in the early fifties and.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Never went back. That was it.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
My grandfather was the second oldest or the second pharmacist
in Boca Raton, wow, okay, yeah, and I followed in
his footsteps.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'll say, so I was going to get into that
now work experience. So tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
By trade. I've always been in pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I started out as pharmacy cashier, moved up to pharmacy technician,
went to pharmacy school, and have been a pharmacist for
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So I was working.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
At the hospital as a clinical pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Is that is that what you're doing now?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I unfortunately had to leave my position there to take
care of my father when he was sick.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, all right, So now talking about the pharmacy whole thing,
as I said, safe to say, it's in the blood.
But what would be another reason you would cite for? Really,
because it sounds like, I mean, you started out the
ground up, right, cashier, tech, hemassistant and all that. What
(02:33):
what made you really want to do this? I mean
you obviously had a knack for it if it was
what you really Oh no.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I should go into work with my grandfather all
the time. And I mean back then, people always went
to the pharmacist first. He was on They always called
him doc, and you know, they would ask him.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For his opinion before they even went to.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
The doctor, and I was just so impressed by that
and how he, you know, treated the people and how
they looked up to him, and you know, it went
on to you know, I've have a lot of management experience,
director experience, and just generally working with people and empathy,
(03:22):
and that's you know, that's really that's.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What they want. They just want someone to listen to.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Them and understand them and answer their questions constructively and
in a language they understand.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You point out on your campaign page, I am am
I a politician. No, and you go into that. Would
you like to elaborate on it looks like you feel
like that's a benefit to you, so would you like
to talk about that it is.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I am not a politician at all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I have ties to no one.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'm not as I'm sure as what you see on there.
I'm not taking any money from developers. I'm working on
a shoestring budget. And the reason I'm doing this is
because as a resident for so long and then starting
off with this one BOGA project, we're not being represented
(04:19):
by the people that we've elected, and I think we
just need some common sense on our council and I hope.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
To be the voice of that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay. And you brought it up, the so called elephant
in the room, the one Boca project, And this is
the redevelopment of the downtown area. And there are several
prongs to it, and I'm sure most of the hopefully
the voters in Boca Rateau know what it is. They're
going to see it on their referendum. The public private
(04:51):
partnership with the developer that the city is already the
current city council has already approved that. Being said, it's
up to the voters to give final approval to get
it done. Would you like to share more thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let's put it this way. It sounds like you're not
one hundred percent on board. Is that safe to say?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, with the voters voting.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
No, no, no, no, I meant on the project. I meant
on the project itself.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, there's no question the area needs to be revitalized.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, the city has.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Allowed it to be confided falling apart. And I don't
think my competitors were here as children, So there's kind
of a sentimental aspect to it as well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean I played there as a child.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I climb those banyan trees. My grandfather would take me
over there all the time, and you know, it's and
that's why it upset me when they say it was
not a park, you know, dedicated to our veterans.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Talk about memorial Park.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But other than that, I didn't even realize this project
was occurring. That was the scary thing, the whole way
it got started. It wasn't until I went to the
library one day and I saw all these people outside
with petitions and I was like, well, what is this
And I was reading on it and I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Like, no, this can't be happening. Where was the notification.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, if you look at the notification standards and the
ordinances of Boca.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They're pretty lacking.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And this whole thing was not started off on the
right foot, which I really think it's why a lot
of people have issues with it. And if Save Boca
had not stepped in, they would be in the middle
of building it right now.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So you're crediting this the group Save Boca for getting
the council.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Get the referendum vote.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, to put this on the on the referendu
referendum on the on the ballot, what uh, what else
is it? Well, I was going to ask you this.
Let's say you get elected to CD and you talk
about wanting more transparency. Is what it sounds like. Is
that something that you would push for?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I mean, right now, if there's a new project they
put a little yellow sign outside, you drive by it.
You can't read it because you're usually.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Going by it fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
If you stop, you're going to get hit by a car.
They only have to mail within five hundred feet, which
is approximately four to five houses in length, you know radius.
And most people don't read the agendas for the city
council meetings and the building and planning because we think
(07:57):
we've elected and I am guilty of this too. I
feel that we've elected these officials to act in our
best interest.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And the more I look at it, that's not what's happening.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I see developers they're getting the best deals, they're getting
the interest, and the residents are kicked.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
To the side. I mean, if you look at I mean,
this is going a little bit further back.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
But with the Wildflower project, one of my competitors didn't
even want the public to have a vote on it.
He was fully against it. He wanted to put a
Houston's there. He didn't think that the people of Boca
should have a say, and he refers to.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This area as a very tiny part of Boca. It's
thirty acres and I know that they have.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Scaled the project sized down, but it's still a very
valuable portion of land. And we shouldn't just be giving
that away because it's not something that's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Ninety nine year lease.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's not going to come back to us in my
lifetime or anybody else's lifetime. Right now, I want to
talk to you about a really good lifespan.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You mentioned Houston's. Isn't there already a Houstons in book?
Or maybe that it used to be there is?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That was the crazy thing, and then they wanted to
build another one there.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Okay that was a while back though, But yeah, what
just the very.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fact that he's running for council now and he had
those were his feelings previously that he didn't believe that
public land, they shouldn't even have a say in what
is done with it. That to me is offensive because
(09:56):
it doesn't belong to him, It belongs to all of
us and serve a vote no matter what the project is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I wanted to ask you. We're talking about developers and businesses,
the efforts in recent months to bring businesses, financial businesses
from other states like New York and California to Boca Ratone,
and with the setup to provide jobs, you know, higher
(10:26):
paying jobs. So we just recently found out that a company,
a quantum computing company I believe it's called d Wave,
is going to be moving that one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars or more annual salaries, minimum hundred jobs.
What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You still there? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah? I can hear you.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, Well, it's funny because if you look at the
qualifications for affordable housing I mean the media, and it's
just over one hundred thousand dollars and you would qualify
for it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So technically one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Twenty five thousand dollars isn't even a high paying job anymore, sadly, And.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know, I'm all for bringing new business.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
To Boca, but I need to see what kind of
I would have to see what kind of a business
it is, what it's going to provide, what our budget is,
and do their states to bring them down here, and
that would be something that's dependent upon me getting elected
(11:39):
and then being able to actually see the budget and
go line by line and see.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If it's worth it. But yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I mean, I am for attracting businesses to Boca, absolutely,
but we have to realize that even though they're going
to have all these employees that are making what they
consider a high salary, we have many people that don't
(12:11):
make that much and what are we doing for them?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All Right? The final question three candidates in this race
in a nutshell, what makes Stacy Sipple the best candidate.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I'm not a politician.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm a resident.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I want the residents to feel that they can come
to the council, be included, that their voices are heard,
and I want just fair treatment for everybody. And there's
a lot of issues that I want to do. Affordable housing,
the homeless problem. I mean, these are many issues that
(12:51):
people have brought up with me and I want to
deal with them. And I'm not a politician. I have
no ties to anyone whatsoever. There's nothing. I'm not doing
it for the money. I'm not doing it for fame.
I'm not doing it. I'm doing it for my city.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
All right, very well, well, appreciate you joining us, and
you know, speaking right directly to the voters of Boca
Ratone again c D candidate Stacy Simple for the book
Ratone City Council. We should mention again this winner of
this election is going to serve for one year, have
to run again I guess what twenty seven in the
(13:29):
spring again, so for a full three year term. But
we appreciate, appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So it's kind of like a tryout period. But I
will do my best because this is my hometown and
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It's worth every everything possible, and our biggest asset are
our residents and they deserve to be included.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What's again, and Stacy, thank you for joining.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Us, No, thank you so much for having me. I
really appreciate it. It's been a pleasure.
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Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband she knew in the light of day was a different person after dark. This season unpacks Saskia’s discovery of her husband’s secret life and her fight to bring him to justice. Along the way, we expose a crime that is just coming to light. This is also a story about the myth of the “perfect victim:” who gets believed, who gets doubted, and why. We follow Saskia as she works to reclaim her body, her voice, and her life. If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal Team, email us at betrayalpod@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.