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• Tycoon Ron Bergeron: Plantation Commission, Mayor Ignores The Environment

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  One thing about Ron Bergeron: He is not shy about telling folks how he feels.

  Bergeron took the unusual step — I haven’t seen this done before — of blasting Plantation commissioners in a letter to each of them and the mayor for choosing competitor Waste Management for various [...]

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• Ellyn Bogdanoff In Mix For Lt. Governor

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  Former state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff  might be making a quick return to political office after losing a race for state Senate last year.

  Bogdanoff, a Fort Lauderdale Republican, is one of the pols being mentioned as a new Lieutenant Governor.

  Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned yesterday after being connected to [...]

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• Sources: Mayor Jack Seiler, Consultant Judy Stern Cheer Rodstrom’s Loss

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Political consultant Judy Stern and Mayor Jack Seiler are cheering.

  That’s what well-placed, long-time Fort Lauderdale City Hall watchers were saying after the results of the city election Tuesday.

  Be assured that Stern and Seiler are, at the very least, not upset by Charlotte Rodstrom’s loss.

  Rodstrom’s attempted comeback ended in [...]

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• Coconut Creek Election: Manager Big Loser

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

  City Manager David Rivera was clearly on the ropes before Tuesday.

  The election results put him on the mat.

  Sandy Welch won a seat on the city commission.

  Welch has promised to be more skeptical of Rivera in the future. She beat the handpicked candidate of perhaps Rivera’s biggest supporter on [...]

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• City Hall Explosion! Anti-Tax Election Wins Means Big Changes In Plantation

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  I can hear the rumblings in Plantation City Hall from miles away.

  In the election results that will perhaps have the biggest effect Tuesday, a veteran making a comeback, Jerry Fadgen, and newcomer Chris Zimmerman won seats in Plantation on a vow to revolutionize the way city hall does business.

  Their [...]

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• Lawmaker: Taxpayers Should See Books Before Giving Money To Private Ventures Like Dolphins

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  By State Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, D-Miami

   

   

  “It will create jobs.” This by-now-familiar claim is used to sell every new plan to use taxpayer money in cutting deals with private industry. Every year the State of Florida grants hundreds of millions of dollars to businesses in return for promises that [...]

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• Local GOP Seeks To Muzzle Media

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  What do Cuba, Iran and the Broward Republican Party have in common?

  Answer: They are all into censorship.

  Broward’s beleaguered GOP – divided between the country club establishment Republicans and the grass roots activists – are slapping among the most restrictive media coverage rules on their party debates this week [...]

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• Coco Creek Candidate Arrest: The Police Report

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  It always amazes me that folks with arrest records run for office.

  Don’t they know the arrest — regardless of whether they got convicted — will become part of the campaign?

  Take Coconut Creek Commission candidate Bruce Augello. 

  He was arrested for beating and biting his wife Elizabeth Augello nine years [...]

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• Democratic Club Attacks Only Democrat In Race

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

   

  In the waning days before Tuesday’s election, the Miramar Democratic club has criticized the only Democrat in a city commission race.

  The race is between Republican incumbent Troy Samuels and Yvette Colbourne, a Democrat. The news release makes it clear the club is endorsing neither one.

  Wink wink nod nod.

  Only the [...]

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• Tamarac Commissioner: Recall Agt. Me Failed

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  BY BUDDY NEVINS

   

  Commissioner Patte Atkins-Grad announced today that the recall against her failed, falling short by 18 votes of obtaining the signatures necessary to go to the next step in the process.

  The recall committee turned in petitions containing 1,468 signatures. When they were checked by the Supervisors of Elections Office, [...]

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