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:



One Response to “Former Sheriff’s Candidate Is Back”

  1. Israel Is Yesterday says:

    Scott Israel is yesterday’s story. I’m surprised he is staying involved, but he will never seriously run again.