-Ben Bennett has no lead role on Al’s campaign.
- Ali Waldman is far from being the campaign mgr.
-The PBA did endorse Lamberti, not Israe.

Get your facts straight!

You are wrong that he made history by being the first to rise from the ranks to the top spot. He did not rise to the top spot. He would have to have won an election to do that. He was appointed the spot for a temporary period until this election because his/your boss went to the slammer. Jenne made history by going to jail. Al has not made history of any kind.

July 30, 1996
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OTHERS DISCIPLINED AS ROUNDUP INVESTIGATION WIDENS

CONNIE PRATER Herald Staff Writer

Fort Lauderdale detective Don McCawley wasn’t the only law enforcement officer disciplined for bad behavior at the controversial Good Ol’ Boy Roundups.

The off-duty gathering of local, state and federal law enforcement officers and guests became the center of a federal probe that found instances of lewd and racist skits and offensive signs and T-shirts at the annual camp-out in the Tennessee hills.

An FBI agent who repeatedly attended the rally and allegedly made a racist remark at one of them was suspended for five days without pay, placed on probation for six months and ordered to take sensitivity training.

A Boone County, Ky., sergeant got a five-day suspension for being the master of ceremonies at a 1990 skit in which a dog was traded for a man in blackface who pretended to perform oral sex on a person in mock Ku Klux Klan garments. The police chief in Florence, Ky., recommended firing the man who played the Klansman, a sergeant from his department who had a prior record of misconduct and problems. “I didn’t feel he should be a police officer any longer,” said Florence Chief Paul Buelterman. “Police officers are held to a higher standard. Some may argue that point but it’s a fact.”

But the officer appealed to the city council and the punishment was reduced to a six-month suspension without pay and demotion to patrol officer. He’s scheduled to return to road patrol Aug. 11.

U.S. Treasury Department officials recommended that 31 of the agency’s workers, including agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, be reviewed for possible discipline or counseling. A Treasury spokesman said last week the agency’s bureaus are reviewing each case to determine what actions will be taken against the employees.

McCawley was suspended for 20 days without pay last month and agreed not to file suit against the city of Fort Lauderdale if he were allowed to retire on Sept. 12. He returned to work July 15 to brief his supervisors on his pending burglary cases and then left for a 43-day vacation that will end on his retirement date.

Chief Michael Brasfield and the Citizen Review Board had recommended firing the 23-year veteran because they said he could no longer effectively do his job.

The white detective was assigned to the burglary division covering the city’s predominantly black northwest section. Roosevelt Walters, the head of the local NAACP chapter, and Carlton Moore, the city’s lone black commissioner, had publicly called for his dismissal.

McCawley and his attorney argued the city was attempting to make a “sacrificial lamb” out of the detective because as many as 46 other current and former Fort Lauderdale officers had attended the rally over the years.

Brasfield recommended that no action be taken against those other officers because an internal investigation revealed nothing to support disciplining them. He said that mere attendance at the event did not warrant punishment.

(seems very appropriate),
I don’t know who saw me supposedly having lunch with Ali Waldman yesterday. Although Ali is a friend of mine, I haven’t seen her in months. I actually was having a business lunch yesterday in Coral Springs, but not with Ali. Sorry!

And the hairdresser and manicurists are good sources of info. They hear it all!

Stephanie Kraft

ms kraft it seems interesting you would put up your post the same day you were seen having lunch with lamberti campaign manager ali waldman.

maybe someone ought to talk to the people who have been waiting in lin for 2 hours to vote. I have been holding signs for gotv all early voting and almost 4 to one say they went dem down the line.

FROM BUDDY: The writer is wrong. Lamberti was endorsed by the PBA, FOP and the fire fighters. That just might make Thebigharley’s other point, that Israel wants to privatize the jails, more plausible because he owes nothing to the unions. Except Israel pledged to me two months ago that he was against privatization of the jails.