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  • Ilene Lieberman: Surrounded By Frenemies

    Number of comments: 10

     BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Surrounded by fienemies who say she shouldn’t be a judge, Ilene Lieberman was hit hard by another former friend this week.

    Dan Lewis, the veteran political consultant, sent a blast to his extensive e-mail list denouncing Lieberman.  The piece is devastating.

    Lewis knows Lieberman.  And he is just one of [...]

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  • Mayor Ryan: Tax Cheaters Win Big in Tallahassee…Residents Lose

    Number of comments: 10

    BY MIKE RYAN

    At a time when local governments are facing tremendous financial challenges, there are those who cheat the system, refuse to pay their fair share, and make each of us shoulder a greater burden.    The cheaters seem to keep winning.

    Florida law gives Homestead Exemptions and Save Our Homes protections [...]

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  • Gov: “Let’s Get To Work” At A Convenience Store

    Number of comments: 8

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

     

    This is what Florida has become?

    Gov Rick Scott is scheduled to attend the grand opening of Wawa Stores Florida in Orlando on Wednesday.

    Wawa are a chain of convenience stores,  a competitor of 7-Eleven. They are new to the state.

    Each Wawa store can employ up to 35. About a [...]

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  • Judicial Candidate Accused of Bar Violation

    Number of comments: 10

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Judicial campaigns are the toughest campaigns of all.

    Candidates must campaign countywide in a huge community of around one million voters, bigger than many states.

    Candidates must appeal to Republicans, Democrats and independents, because the races are non-partisan.

    Candidates are generally novices who have never run for office before and thus [...]

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  • Sheriff Candidate Granteed’s Nose Is Growing

    Number of comments: 10

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Louis Granteed, who is running for  sheriff, has been telling voters he is a life-long Democrat.

    Not quite, according to Brittany Wallman in today’s Sun-Sentinel.

    Brittany writes: “Granteed was born in Pennsylvania; Israel in New York. Each has been registered as a Republican at some time in the past.”

    But an [...]

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  • Sheriff’s Candidate Gets 28 Endorsements

    Number of comments: 10

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Just as the absentee ballot voting begins, sheriff’s candidate Louis Granteed rolled out a list of political poobahs that are supporting him.

    It is interesting to me that only one commissioner from Hollywood is listed on the news release as endorsing him.  Granteed retired from that city’s police force [...]

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  • Ellyn Bogdanoff Extends Lead In Fund Raising

    Number of comments: 6

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

     

    In perhaps the hottest state senate race in Florida, state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff  had her biggest fund-raising quarter of this campaign — $106,196.

     

    Ellyn Bogdanoff

    Her major opponent state Sen. Maria Sachs raised $88,940.

    During reapportionment, Republican Bogdanoff and Democrat Sachs were forced to run in the same Broward and Palm [...]

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  • Lobbyist Is Director Of Firm Behind HQ Trade

    Number of comments: 7

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Longtime School Board lobbyist Neil Stirling is a director of the company that controls BankAtlantic, the firm trying to trade a building with the school system.

    Stirling is a member of the Board of Directors of BFC Financial Corp., which owns a majority of the shares in BankAtlantic.

    BankAtlantic owns [...]

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  • House Facing Foreclosure, Commissioner Chip LaMarca Says: “Nobody’s Perfect”

    Number of comments: 10

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

    Chip LaMarca is known as the only Republicans on the Broward County Commission.  He’s supposed to be a fiscally responsible Republican.

    Soon he’ll be know as Chip LaMarca The Deadbeat!

    Wells Fargo wants its money for his house’s second mortgage.

    Jose Lambiet’s GossipExtra website broke the story this morning that LaMarca [...]

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  • Alcee Hastings Endorses Florida House Candidate

    Number of comments: 10

     

    BY BUDDY NEVINS

     

    The dean of Broward’s congressional delegation endorsed a Plantation Florida House candidate Wednesday.

    U. S. Rep Alcee Hastings, the longest serving Broward Democrat who has been in Congress since 1992, threw his support to Louis Reinstein.

    Reinstein, a Plantation lawyer,  is running for the open Florida House District 98 in [...]

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