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• Poetic Justice: Bush The Hacker Was Hacked

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  BY SAM FIELDS

   

   

  The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees us protection against the government unreasonably searching or seizing us our papers or our property.  With a few narrow exceptions, it requires the government to obtain a search warrant before they go into our homes, cars, businesses, listen in [...]

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• Path Clearing For Charlie Crist’s Gov. Race

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  The Democratic nomination for governor next year is getting easier for Charlie Crist.

  Orlando Buddy Dyer slipped his decision not to run into the end of his “State of the City” address yesterday.  The Democrat told a city hall crowd that too much remained to be done in the [...]

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• Geller – Joe, Not Steve – “Leans” Towards Run

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  A man named Geller could be headed to Tallahassee from Southeast Broward.

  No, not Steve Geller.

  This time it’s Joe Geller.

   

  Joe Geller

   

   

  Joe’s brother Steve represented much of Southeast Broward in Tallahassee for two decades.  The Hallandale Beach Democrat was in the House 1988 to 1998 and the Senate from 1998 [...]

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• Hollywood Cops To Explore Joining BSO

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  In what might be the first  expansion of Sheriff Scott Israel’s law enforcement empire since he was sworn-in  less than two months ago, Hollywood’s police have voted to explore a merger with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

  The city’s Police Benevolent Association voted 89-2 to look into a union.

  The Hollywood [...]

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• Candidate Hires Attack Firm And Other Tidbits

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Plantation Commissioner Bob Levy’s re-election seems like a slam dunk since he is running against a largely unknown candidate with little money.

  So why is he hiring one of the most notorious attack campaign specialists.

  Cornerstone Management Partners of New Jersey got $2,250 of Levy’s campaign money. The firm has [...]

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• Broward’s Gun Control Quest: Good Politics

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS   

   

   

  When I read the bill that two Broward Democratic lawmakers filed this week, I couldn’t help thinking of Don Quixote and his trustee sidekick Sancho Panza.

  You remember Don Quixote?

  He’s the poor Spaniard who reads so many chivalrous novels that he becomes deluded. He believes he is a knight [...]

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• Ft. Lauderdale State Rep. Votes Against Broward

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  One problem with the capital being in Tallahassee 450 miles away is that legislators sometime vote against our interests and nobody seems to notice.

  Well, I’m paying attention State Rep. George Moraitis, R- Fort Lauderdale.

   

  George Moraitis: Voting against the county’s wishes

   

   

  Moraitis voted in favor of a bill on Wednesday [...]

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• Was GOP Chair Too Blue Collar For Party?

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS   

   

  Why did Rico Petrocelli quit as Broward’s Republican Party chair?

  He isn’t talking except to say on the Internet and in a news release from the GOP that he had “irrreconciliable difference” with the party’s executive board that caused him to leave.

  Here is his comment sent to me and [...]

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• Tamarac Recall Commissioner Defends Herself

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  The embattled Tamarac Commissioner has Patte Atkins-Grad struck back at her critics on Monday.

  In a news release, Atkins-Grad posed questions  that appear to be the centerpiece of her defense:

   

  What will a recall election cost taxpayers?  This is of interest since her term is up next year anyway.

   

  Why isn’t Mayor [...]
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• Buddy’s Political Tidbits

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  A lot of people in politics spend a lot of time watching Judy Stern.

  She’s the sometimes-political consultant, sometimes lobbyist who some love.  And some just love to hate.

  Now her rivals lobbyists are worried that Stern could have four good friends on the Broward County Commission after next years [...]

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