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• Activist Bill Kling Dies

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Broward’s best known spokesman for veterans and a long-time Democratic power, William “Bill” Kling, died today at North General Medical Center.

  “He was a very special guy. When you walk in the veterans facility on Commercial Boulevard and you look on the wall there is his picture,” said Jack [...]

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• Early Voting A Flop So Far

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  I dropped by early voting at the Plantation Regional Library on Saturday and was pretty much alone.

  There was nobody in the voting center.  Nobody.

  That’s been the pattern across Broward so far.

  Only 2,918 voted in the first two days of early voting.  That’s a minuscule amount of the 1.1 [...]

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• Former Commissioner: Julio Gonzalez “Coddled Criminals”

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Former City Commissioner Tim Smith of Fort Lauderdale has opinions.

  He blasts those opinions across the Internet in one of the better Broward websites — Tim Smith’s Fort Lauderdale.

  This weekend Smith charged that when he was previously on the bench, judicial candidate Julio Gonzalez ”coddled criminals”.

  Gonzalez lost his seat in [...]

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• Tea Party Pulls Endorsement Over Gays

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Broward’s Tea Party handed School Board candidate Katie Leach a gift Friday.

   

  Katie Leach: Friend of gays, not Tea Party

  The group withdrew its endorsement of Leach because she refused to reject the endorsement of Equality Florida, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender group.

  This can only help Leach, a [...]

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• Foolish Or Wise? Paying For Your Own Race

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Sometime using your own money in a judicial campaign is just plain foolish.

  That may be the case with Julie Shapiro-Harris, who is running for circuit court.  Harris has put $85,000 of her own into her race.

   

  Julie Shapiro-Harris: Places A Big Bet On Winning

  If Harris was a Rockefeller heir that [...]

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• Franklin Sands’ Phony School Board Campaign

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  School Board member Katie Leach proposed new ethics laws for the Broward school system this week and immediately got the tentative support of four other members.

  The School Board is the only large government excluded from the county’s new ethics law.  That’s unfortunately it needs reform more than any [...]

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