Comments on: Sunrise Commissioner Wore Wire In Probe

By: Crapper Detector

Crapper Detector — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:53:46 +0000

Robin Rorapaugh, you are a mindless idiot if you think Sheila Alu’s hands are NOT dirty with something. What the feds just pulled her name out of a hat and said “She seems like an honest person, lets ask her to be our snitch.” You are either mindless of Sheila’s standing over your shoulder telling you what to write. By the way, make sure you don’t say anything personal or incriminating around Sheila, unless she’s not holding a cell phone and wearing a thong bikini…uurp…I just threw up in my mouth.

By: Shrink

Shrink — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:02:15 +0000

The truth may still come out about Alu. She isn’t as clean as she wants people to believe. Her fellow Commissioners may be looking over their backs right now. The very things that she states she is against, they are involved. County Commissioners and ex-boy toys must be very nervous, they all allowed her in their inner circles. What is most un-nerving is that whatever she says, people believe her. Maybe a few mental tests need to be performed, just to make sure she is all there. Her back ground is not the perfect one.

By: Robin Rorapaugh

Robin Rorapaugh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:43:45 +0000

Buddy, Thank you for the excellent recap of the FBI/Alu story plus your personal color.

The nastiness of the comments only point to how small a town Broward County really is.

Sheila should be commended for her courage, no matter the circumstances of her original involvement with the FBI.

By: I wonder

I wonder — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:10:16 +0000

If shelia was wearing a wire to get corrupt developers and lobbiests you have to wonder if she wore a wire hanging out with ali waldman and bergeron? Not saying they are corrupt but she did spend a lot of time together

By: The Long Black Robe (ret.)

The Long Black Robe (ret.) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:52:59 +0000

I have been around criminal justice a long time and I can’t recall anybody being an informant unless they were charged with something and were trying to save their own skins.
The only explanation for Sheila Alu’s action is that she is a publicity junkie. She is no better than Al Sharpton or others who say they are driven to do “what’s right.” What they are really driven to do is get themselves noticed.

By: the unasked question...

the unasked question... — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:40:25 +0000

Well “alleged” as to Norman. As to Cacciatore there was sworn testimony regarding that one. If I remember he was so upset he was going to file a JQC and an Ethics complaint, but that never happened. Maybe that because one would have to give a sworn statement that the alleged facts were not true?

Sorry Buddy, until the FBI confirms how this “relationship” developed it is a coin flip as to whether she did this to get out of trouble or for the greater good. Hey she wants to be Judge and wearing a wire never hurt Mel Grossman when he became Judge. Who knows?

FROM BUDDY: She wants to be a judge! She has been a lawyer for less than two years. She’s got years to wait.

By: Broward voter

Broward voter — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:18:59 +0000

Is this how it was widely rumored in political circles that Gallagher was under investigation? Then it begs the question — what could Neil Sterling possibly have done wrong, since he has not ever been mentioned as being involved in any of these get togethers?

By: B. Maxwell

B. Maxwell — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:35:04 +0000

Please stay tuned. More when we return….

By: Worried

Worried — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:20:29 +0000

Buddy, you have got to see Hope’s casual treatment of attending a lavish boat party put on by construction interests (as reported on the Sun-Sent.com). I know you have a piece on it too but this is spreading wider and wider. Hope can not even admit a lapse in judgment and thinks ther is nothing for any of us to even question with her attending a party put on by construction interests (who turn out to be FBI). Also, does Hope have to report that as a gift under BCSB rules (if any ethics rules guide apply) or Florida law?

By: Worried

Worried — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:05 +0000

Tell us, do you know how she got home after “they drank heavy”. With all that drinking she was doing trying to get Gallagher to talk, the public would like to know who drove her home? Doesn’t change that bribes are bad and people who take them should go to prison (having further damaged the public trust in the system), but it makes you worried if she drove herself home after her FBI reimbursed happy hours?
FROM BUDDY: I’m not sure the FBI reimbursed her for anything.
I have no idea how she got home, but I didn’t drive her.