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Michael Putney
Michael Putney is the political and governmental reporter for Miami's ABC affiliate, WPLG-Channel 10, where he also hosts This Week in South Florida with Michael Putney. A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri. He worked as a reporter for the Dow Jones weekly The National Observer, was a writer for Time Inc. and came to Miami in 1977 to work for The Miami Herald. He joined WTVJ in 1981 and in 1989 moved to WPLG. He has won numerous awards in his career, including two Emmys for reporting and commentary.

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There are 727,500 reasons why a Miami-Dade County commissioner seeking re-election cannot be beaten. That's because each of the 13 commissioners has a political slush fund of $727,500 -- ''District Discretionary Fund'' is the official designation -- that he or she can hand out with almost no controls and very little accountability. Give away that much money every year to constituents, and you can make a lot of friends. Or at least people who feel obliged to vote for you. And possibly write a personal...

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