How’s business at your “restaurant”? I’m sure you’re selling lots of Geller-imprinted pot holders, shirts, sponges and other crap these days!!!

As for indicted Bev Gallagher, who you mentioned as an example of corruption … do you mean the same School Board Member Bev Gallagher who endorsed Steve Geller for Commissioner? Remember, felon Joe Eggelletion also endorsed Geller — because Geller is a “Joe Eggelletion kinda guy”, if you know what I mean. Probably Joel Steigner, Chas Brady and Scott Rothstein are backing Geller, too.

Sue calling for ethics reform AFTER she made her fortune in shady deals is disingenuous at best and flat out hypocritical at worst. Can I call for a moratiorium on restaurant construction because I’ve got mine and don’t need more competition? That’s what Sue is doing.

I hope no one is naive enough to suggest that the contract her husband got qualifies as “legitimate” just because Mike Satz didn’t have the balls to investigate public corruption charges in those days. If Keith Wasserstrom went to jail for having the POTENTIAL to make money off a shady deal and Bev Gallagher is nailed for making less than $10K, what do you think would have happened to someone that made MILLIONS?!? Just because Sue and her husband flew under the radar doesn’t mean it was legitimate.

Sue couldn’t get a second on her motions because loading up your county charter via referendums is simply bad policy and bad governance. Leaders should lead and NON-leaders simply defer the tough decisions to other people. So now Sue thinks that something as critical and complicated as ethics reform should be thrown in front of the same people that put pigs in the state constitution?!? That’s a complete lack of leadership and a dereliction of her duties as a commissioner.

All that grandstanding was a campaign tactic to show “I’m tough on ethics!” Ron probably has the related campaign mailouts printed already.

Sue, how about some REAL leadership for once? Offer some ideas that are meaningful and have substance rather than silliness that does the public no good whatsoever.

And the ethics board is worried about campaign volunteers? How about we just end campaign donations all together? That’s where we’re headed and that’s fine with me.

Crooks will still be crooks.

Moreover, the people who take potshots at politicians will not be placated by elected officials who abide by the new regulations; they will just call the regulators corrupt if their targets de jour are not indicted.

A good example is the recent “dump” issue in Sunrise. The state ethic commission states Comm. Rosen does not have a conflict, but that’s not good enough. Many people do want to go by what the law says, but by what they (in their rightous, but often feigned, outrage)”feel.”

His mother had nothing to do with my hiring him to be our General Counsel.

Lori

If you thought Eggelletion, Wasserstrom and Gallagher were crooks, just wait til we get a total scumbag thug like Geller on the commission. Bad news from Day One!

Or how about the fact that her son runs her campaign out of his Broward County office paid for by us taxpayers? If she really had fortitude and wanted to really clean things up she would make an across the board motion to prevent anyone who works for the county to not work on political campaigns of commission candidates. Coupled with the inability of campaign staffers to lobby the elected officials they help to get elected, you would have less influence peddling. But I bet you she’d never go along with that. How could her son (what’s his name?) work for both with those rules? It would never happen, because she wouldn’t let it. Hmmm….I wonder how he got that job?

But I digress, someone who made millions off the county has no right to talk about “reform.”

FROM BUDDY:
All of what you write has no relevance on the fact that she has backed ethics reform since 2001. I wrote this many times at the Sun-Sentinel and on this website. So have other reporters.