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• Adam Hasner, D-22 candidate: Stop the name calling

  The Broward GOP offers this clip of U.S. D-22 candidate Adam Hasner.

  You'll get a good sense of Hasner from watching this video. He's facing Lois Frankel, the Democrat from West Palm Beach, in this Broward-Palm election.

  On the jump: An interview of Hasner by Ed Pozzuoli, former Broward [...]

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• Wasserman Schultz to join Republicans for their convention in Tampa

  Updated at 7:28 p.m.

  Isaac, the storm approaching Florida, could monkey with the Democrats' plans.

  Here's what Wasserman Schultz communications director Jonathan Beeton said:

  Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz will be hosting a hurricane safety public awareness press conference with federal and local officials on Friday in South Florida and will be [...]

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• Michelle Obama fires up Democratic faithful

  It took hours standing in line in the blazing sun. What followed for many was another hour-plus on their feet. And then a message imploring them to get to work.

  But no one complained.

  The crowd, some 2,500 strong, loved every minute of the late-afternoon campaign rally Wednesday featuring First [...]

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• Before big event, Michelle Obama makes unannounced Fort Lauderdale stop

  A large crowd, perhaps in the thousands, is waiting to see First Lady Michelle Obama at Fort Lauderdale's War Memorial Auditorium.

  The warm up speakers -- Mayor Jack Seiler and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee -- are done. But Obama may not [...]

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• Fort Lauderdale city attorney: Charlotte can run

  Now that Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom has said she’s going to run to keep her seat, I checked in with City Attorney Harry Stewart to see if he sees any legal problem given the city’s term limit restrictions.

  The word from Stewart is that Rodstrom is good to go, [...]

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• Charlotte Rodstrom will try to keep her Fort Lauderdale seat

  Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom isn’t going away without a fight.

  Updated: 9:10 p.m.

  After being defeated last week in her quest to replace her term-limited husband on the Broward County Commission, Rodstrom said Tuesday that she will run to keep her seat on the City Commission.

  And she says she’s not [...]

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• Charlotte Rodstrom will try to keep her Fort Lauderdale seat

  Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom isn’t going to go away without a fight.

  After being defeated last week in her quest to replace her term-limited husband on the Broward County Commission, Rodstrom said Tuesday that she will run to keep her seat on the City Commission.

  And she says she’s [...]

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• Fort Lauderdale mural coming down

  
  It appears time has run out to save the 1974 egret-themed tile mosaic mural on the Cumberland Building, 800 E. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.

  City activist Steve Glassman reports that crews have been at work removing the mural, and glass tiles are littering the ground.

  Here’s [...]

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• Broward breaks ground on courthouse

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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  The county broke ground this [...]

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• Hold the chips and pass the politics

  The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is gambling that hard-edged political commentary could draw patrons that slot machines and poker tables can’t.

  From the left, Hard Rock Live is offering comedian and HBO personality Bill Maher. From the right, it’s serving up commentator and Fox News talker Bill O’Reilly.

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