BY BUDDY NEVINS

 
Far down at the bottom of the ballot is a question that illustrates the pathetic inability of the ethically-challenged Broward County Commission to get anything done. 

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BY BUDDY NEVINS

Republican Sheriff Al Lamberti’s campaign starting gathering steam in the last week after sitting stalled and almost invisible for months.

It’s about time. There is less than two weeks until Election Day.

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BY BUDDY NEVINS

Scott Rothstein has heard the rumors, the talk, the disparaging remarks.

His Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm’s business plan doesn’t make sense in a faltering economy.  Rothstein is expanding too fast.

Then there is his personal life.  He’s spending too much.  He’s too showy, ostentatious.  Like Humpty Dumpy, he’ll fall and shatter.

“My wife says I should put WD 40 all over my back so all the stuff thrown at me rolls off, Rothstein says. Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

He’s back.

It didn’t take Ken Jenne long to be involved in the race for sheriff. 

Apparently Jenne is taking a role in the sheriff’s race less than a month after leaving prison.  And 13 months after quitting the sheriff’s job and pleading guilty to corruption charges. Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

Pinocchio is back.

I don’t know how many times I have seen an ad illustrated with a photo of a politician doctored to appear to have an abnormally long nose.

Just like Pinocchio, the character from literature and movies whose nose grows if he lies.  Get it?

This political cliché is back, courtesy of the Florida Democratic Party.  This time the target in flyers is state Sen. Jeff Atwater, the Republican who represents a big hunk of northeast Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

UPDATE:  Funeral services for Charles Kaplan will be held Sunday, 9:45 a.m.,  The Eden Memorial Chapel,
327 Main Street, Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024.  Kaplan’s friends are also planning a memorial service to be held in Broward, possibly next week.

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Judge Charles Kaplan was found dead in his apartment this morning by his courthouse aide after failing to show up in his courtroom. 

 
“I’m shocked.  This was a 45-year-old man. I can’t believe it, said Raag Singhal, Kaplan’s law partner before he was elected judge two years ago.

 
Kaplan was at the center of a controversy concerning prosecutor Sheila Alu and Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner. The controversey was the subject of daily newspaper articles this week. Read the rest of this entry »

BY BUDDY NEVINS

This is an arbitrary and very partial list of those who have given contributions in the sheriff’s race since the primary.

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BY BUDDY NEVINS

Where are some of Broward’s movers and shakers putting their money in this electon?

Here is a very arbitrary and partial list: Read the rest of this entry »

BY SAM FIELDS

Guest Columnist

I have endorsed Al Lamberti for Sheriff. 

He could be a great Sheriff. 

Politician…not so good.  Read the rest of this entry »

BY SAM FIELDS

Guest Columnist

For the last thirty years we keep hearing that all will be well if only America were ruled by a Christian with Christian values. 

The real issue is what will America be like if we have eight “more” years of  Bush/Palin’s Christian values?
 
As Buddy reported last week, Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein and U. S. Sen. Joe Lieberman had a lunch to raise money for McCain/Palin.

Apparently  Rothstein and Lieberman and a host of Republican Jews don’t have a problem or understand that a Vice President Sarah Palin means having a hardcore anti-Semite a skin cancer away from the Presidency. Read the rest of this entry »