Former Sheriff’s Candidate Is Back
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Welcome back, Scott Israel.
Two years after he lost the sheriff’s race 49-51 percent to Sheriff Al Lamberti, Israel is again playing politics.
The former North Bay Village (Miami-Dade) police chief is on a host committee for a fund raiser with some Democratic heavy hitters.
Israel will be raising money for gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink with national Democratic fund raiser Mitchell Berger, a downtown Fort Lauderdale lawyer and name partner in Berger Singerman; Lenny Samuels, the lead Broward County counsel for the Al Gore campaign during the 2000 recount and another Berger lawyer; Sam Poole, a Berger development lawyer; Ron Cacciatore, a key member of Property Appraiser Lori Parrish’s political machine and an investigator in her office; Tom O’Connell, a lawyer active in the Democratic campaigns; William Franz, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer; Howard Weiss, a Boca Raton lawyer who has served on many statewide and local boards and Scott Weiselberg, a law partner of Broward Mayor Ken Keechl.
The fund raiser is being held at Kopelowitz, Ostrow, Ferguson, Weiselberg, Keechl.
The invitation is below:
July 7th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Scott Israel is yesterday’s story. I’m surprised he is staying involved, but he will never seriously run again.