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• See The Video: Lamberti Blasted In New Ad

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  A committee supporting Democratic candidate for sheriff Scott Israel has unloaded on Al Lamberti. 

  The 30-second ad began running today broadcast TV covering in Broward.  That’s expensive because an advertiser pays for the Miami audience, too.

  It is sharply pointed, but I don’t see anything inaccurate in the ad.

  Polls indicate [...]

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• Court Fight Over Name “Fort Lauderdale”

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  In the age of Internet searches, the name Fort Lauderdale is worth millions.

  And it is the name Fort Lauderdale and the wealth it creates that has sent two magazine publishers to U. S. District Court.

  Broward magazine publisher Bernie McCormick, 76, who has been publishing “Gold Coast” and a [...]

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• Campaign Polls: Obama’s Support Lagging

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  Internal campaign polls in Broward County reiterate what anybody who has talked to their friends already know – President Barack Obama is not as popular as he was four years ago.

  The polls are an echo of a Sun-Sentinel story over the weekend.

  The article said computer modeling of economic [...]

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• Connie Mack Lashes Out At U. N.

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Republican U. S. Senate candidate Connie Mack is taking on the United Nations.

  Boy, that’s the major issue of our time.

  Mack wants to “defund the U. N.” and suggested we “kick them out of New York.”

  Mack told the Indian River Party Tea Party Rally last week, “I don’t think [...]

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• Sheila Alu Resigns Sunrise

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  (The always controversial Commissioner Sheila Alu of Sunrise has resigned effective January 1. She was first elected in 2001.)

  Sheila Alu and I are old drinking buddies.

  As we sat in some tavern after work a decade ago, the intense, tall blonde would riff on what’s wrong with Sunrise where [...]

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• Sheriff Al Lamberti’s Vote Buying Scheme

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Sheriff Al Lamberti calls them Operation Medicine Cabinet and Shred-A-Thon.

  I call them vote buying.

  The sheriff says his twin grass roots efforts are designed to protect Broward residents.

  Shred-A-Thon provides a way to prevent identify theft by safely disposing of credit card statements, check stubs and other personal items.  Operation [...]

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• Demos: Hasner Once Hid His Judaism

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Republican congressional candidate Adam Hasner is a Jewish Republican.

  That’s well know in South Florida.  Hasner has been openly courting Jewish voters as one of their own in the Palm Beach  and north Broward Counties race.

  But it hasn’t always been that way, according to some Democrats who served with [...]

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• Connie Mack Pathetic In Senate Debate

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  To see how far the Republican Party has sunk you need only to have heard Connie Mack IV at Wednesday’s U. S. Senate debate.

  It is a shame that The Grand Old Party of Lincoln is represented by such a lightweight.

  Mack reminded of the windup dolls I buy my [...]

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• “Help Me Howard” Wins Free Speech Case

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Well-known psychologist Michael Brannon has won a lot of matches under the name of his professional wrestling alter ego – Dr. Red Robert.

  This week, Brannon was body slammed by his most formidable opponent ever – a federal judge.

  Brannon’s free speech case against Public Defender Howard “Help Me Howard” [...]

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• Kane: Does Paying Absentee Ballot Postage Increase Turnout?

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  BY JIM KANE

   

   

  In recent months, communities across the country have begun to entertain the costly measure of including postage-paid return envelopes with voters’ absentee ballots.

  This past month, the Miami-Dade County Commission passed a resolution authorizing the inclusion of postage-paid envelopes with countywide absentee ballots at a cost of $170,000, [...]

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