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• Demo Boss: End Party Fight For Obama

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Broward Democratic chief Mitch Ceasar warned this week that Democrats who continue to divide the party threatens the re-election of Barack Obama.

  “We can not tolerate as a party continued dissension,” Ceasar said.

  He told party insiders meeting in Plantation that their only job was to re-elect Obama and elect [...]

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• New Study: Do Unknown Political Committee Ads Work?

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  By Jim Kane

   

  With the primary now concluded, most voters are finding their mailboxes far less full and their favorite TV shows containing fewer political commercials.

  This, unfortunately, is only a temporary respite in what will soon become a monstrous storm of political ads as we approach November.

  Many of these ads [...]

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• Local Law Firm Kisses Up To GOP

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  A Hollywood law firm founded by a one-time Democratic leader has is now embracing the Republicans.

  Maybe that’s because Republicans have more money?

  Becker and Poliakoff, who has been active in the Cuban-American community for years, is co-sponsor of a luncheon and briefing for Hispanic delegates to the GOP convention [...]

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• School Candidate Sands Gets Big Boost

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Locked in the toughest race of life political life, Franklin Sands announced Thursday he has snared a big endorsement for School Board.

  Franklin Sands

  Andrew Luciani, who came in third in the primary for the countywide Board seat that Sands wants, endorsed Sands in the general election runoff.

  Luciani said he [...]

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• Blame Runcie for Bungled School Buses

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Is Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie taking us for a ride?

  If he is, he better not use a school bus.

  Runcie bungled the first day of school with the system’s botched school bus scheduling.

  The inexcusable foul up which left thousands parents scrambling to find out what bus their children were [...]

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• Maverick Former School Board Member Dies

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Marty Rubinstein, the maverick School Board member who lost his job after voting to fire a controversial superintendent, died Sunday.

   

  Marty Rubinstein

  No age or cause was immediately reported by the family. Previous newspaper stories said that Rubinstein was 54 in 2004, which would make him roughly 62-years-old.

  A Sunrise [...]

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• Sam Fields: Paranoia Justified In Wikileaks Case

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

  Every day, ships and planes travel from London to Stockholm. But the reverse must not be so.

  That is the only conclusion one can draw from the fight to extradite Australian Julian Assange from London to Stockholm so the police can “talk” to him about his involvement in two [...]

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• Low Turnout Has Many Causes

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  My wife today accompanied a friend today to the courthouse on a joyous occasion.

  The woman was becoming an American citizen after a long, arduous journey from oppression to freedom.

  Armed with citizenship papers, the woman wanated to do one thing quickly: Register to vote.

  This 40s-Something woman can’t wait to participate [...]

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• More Election Political Tidbits

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  If you go out to dinner tonight, will you wear a leisure suit?  Did you note the date on your PalmPilot?  When you get home, will you be slapping a tape in your VCR?

  Not likely.  Those are part of the past.

  So why are so many campaigns using the [...]

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• Tea Party Chair: Members Will Back Lamberti

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  The chairman of the South Florida Tea Party said his members will back incumbent Republican Sheriff Al Lamberti in the November election.

  Everett Dirksen Wilkinson, whose party endorsed defeated Democratic Louis Granteed in the primary, e-mailed Browardbeat.com:  “The overwhelming majority of our members will opt for Republican Sheriff Al [...]

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