Wednesday, December 30, 2020

When it's a question of "Use it or lose it" for South Florida governments and federal funds, you can pretty well guess that all logic and reason goes out the window QUICK to spend, spend, spend... But now, state/local governments have an additional year to account for CARES Act funds, so will better decisions be made?

When it's a question of "Use it or lose it" for South Florida governments and federal funds, you can pretty well guess that all logic and reason goes out the window QUICK to spend, spend, spend... But now, state/local governments have an additional year to account for CARES Act funds, so will better decisions be made?

If you are a longtime reader of the Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog -let alone a relative newcomer like so many of you are in our stay home New Normal era of coronavirus- I know that you're as shocked as me to learn that in Miami-Dade County, federal CARES Act money is paying for many, many things that are NOT directly related to what most reasonable people would consider any aspect of the COVID19 pandemic. 

Or, as a very knowledgeable civic activist friend here in Hollywood told me when this article appeared in the Herald last Thursday, "The thing is, you can only imagine how much worse the flim-flammery  must be in Broward!"

Miami Herald
Cities scrambling to meet CARES deadline. Here's why that means more money for police
By Aaron Leibowitz and Joey Flechas, Miami Herald
December 24, 2020

With the deadline to allocate COVID-19 relief funds less than a week away, local governments across Miami-Dade County are scrambling to make sure they don't leave money on the table.

They're giving out more grocery gift cards. They're distributing rent and mortgage assistance. They're even getting reimbursed for costs with no direct connection to the pandemic — namely, salaries for police and firefighters dating back to March.

It's all part of a mad dash to the Dec. 30 deadline for Miami-Dade to distribute $474 million in CARES Act funds. As of Dec. 7, only about half of that money had been spent with more in the pipeline. Among the outstanding amount was $50 million from a $75 million pot intended to reimburse municipalities for COVID-related costs.

"It doesn't look like it's working out very well," said Joseph Corradino, the mayor of Pinecrest and a member of the Miami-Dade League of Cities executive board. "It looks like the deadline is getting short for everybody to get their act together."

Read the rest of the story at: https://t.co/PyLdk40ngg?amp=1

It's even crazier than it sounds when you know that cities 

"no longer needed to present documents to justify the use of CARES Act dollars for public safety workers. Instead, police and fire salaries "are deemed significantly COVID-19 related, thereby alleviating the need for extra paperwork such as duty rosters [and] daily activity reports," Miami-Dade's chief financial officer Edward Marquez said in a Dec. 7 memo."

https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1342133685701775360

This in an area of the U.S. renown and some would even say infamous for trying to gouge the federal government, especially when it comes to weather-related cleanups, with many local municipalities specializing in hurricane hocus pocus. 

Legitimate expenses related to preparation, response and clean up are one thing, of course, but South Florida is also known for submitting requests to FEMA for cleanup payments when storms did NOT... actually hit our area.

You can only imagine how this all looks to the rest of the country. 

I guess it's a good thing the news media, especially national TV, never deigns to mention it, huh?


Miami Herald 

FEMA denies Irma money for three cities. One desperately needs it to pay off a loan

By Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald
December 2, 2020

The federal government has rejected millions of dollars in requests by three Miami-Dade County municipalities to pay for debris cleanup after Hurricane Irma, saying substantial parts of their submissions failed to properly document the work and prove it was eligible for reimbursement.

El Portal, Miami Shores and Florida City each used the same consultant, Disaster Program & Operations, to help with the complex reimbursement process after the September 2017 storm. After a lengthy review, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the cities submitted flawed paperwork — and not just minor errors.

Read the whole article at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article247519230.html#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20has%20rejected,it%20was%20eligible%20for%20reimbursement


https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1334132540463046656


Just since I decided to write about this subject on the blog there's been a bit of a pivot in spending and accountability and reimbursement policy because of the language that Congress inserted into the bill that President Trump signed on Sunday.

Miami Herald
Last-minute law change could mean more COVID relief, grocery cards in Miami-Dade
By Douglas Hanks, Joey Flechas and Samantha Gross, Miami Herald
December 29, 2020


Read the whole article at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article248148830.html

Speaking of the serial mis-communicators in chief over the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and its Editorial Board, as of today, they've yet to mention in print that the bill that President Trump signed on Sunday means that CARES Act money given to state and local governments many months ago does NOT have to be used by Dec. 31. 

It's no longer "Use it or lose it."

But not one word of it in print from the sleepwalking Sun-Sentinel!


It's for many of the reasons stated so well in the preceding articles about local government's performance, namely underwhelming incompetency on the one hand and what can only be called benign neglect of public oversight by local Miami TV stations, that an idea is now percolating just below the surface among many people I am in regular contact with as so much of the South Florida news media increasingly looks to be taking a knee or biting its tongue when it comes to being objective, unbiased, or critical -by name- of the often inexplicable #COVID19 #pandemic responses we've all seen among County/City governments -and some nonprofits- in Broward and Miami-Dade.

The idea, such as it is, is that some prominent #SoFL bloggers -including me- are considering forming a Working Group in 2021 to critically and publicly examine the many mis-steps of the #Broward and #MiamiDade County Commissions, its cities and certain nonprofits.

That is especially true when it comes to South Florida elected officials' not-so-subtle hypocrisy on curfews and the wearing of face masks, where they prefer the school of Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

Along with some others, I'm planning on bringing some much-needed Sunshine to bear on the issues that in my opinion they have not been getting. 

One of the questions to be raised: What happens when unelected Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry makes a decision that is not supported by a majority of the elected nine-member Broward County Commission?

Like, for instance, the recent curfew that went into affect in Broward  that will be in effect December 25th through Monday January 4th from midnight to 5:00 a.m. each day, but which will be 1:00 a.m to 5:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Thursday night.

Broward Comm. Steve Geller was trotted out for a press conference right before Christmas and reporters, predictably, talked about it without actually saying out loud what the real process involved was, or for that matter, even mentioning that the emergency documents were signed by Henry, not by Geller or any other elected Commissioner.

So, on the one hand, the Broward League of Cities doesn't like the idea that Gov. Ron DeSantis has legally used his powers to prevent Florida cities from collecting fines on any curfew citations issued, but on the other hand, the mayors of Broward cities have made clear that they do NOT want to be seen or described as being a money-hungry politician trying to nickel-and-dime people to death during a pandemic.

That's known as trying to have it both ways, and up until now, the South Florida news media, and especially the four English language TV stations do not seem at all inclined on calling them out on this self-evident hypocrisy.

Bloggers, though, especially ones like myself who are well-informed and fact-based, have no such compunction about publicly calling out the hypocrisy.

As will be made increasingly clear in the coming weeks and months of 2021.







Tuesday, December 22, 2020

So where are the positive results and ROI of all the tens of thousands of dollars that Hallandale Beach CRA gave to FIU's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival? South Florida news media collectively yawns.

 


So, I've got a bit of a secret to share with you loyal readers of the Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog today, just days before Christmas 2020. The COVID19 Christmas none of us wanted to go through.

Well, actually, it's NOT much of a secret. I mean, to be honest, it's been hiding in plain sight.
And certainly I've been talking about it to many people in emails, texts, and phone calls and in-person conversations at some of the handful of haunts in the area that were open and convenient for others to meet me over the past few months. Which includes a handful of the community-minded people reading this blog post today.

So here's the story in slightly more than a nutshell.
Hard-working and concerned residents and a few civic activists of Hallandale Beach -and to be fair, a few well-informed and concerned Broward County insiders who live elsewhere, like me in Hollywood- have been wondering for most of this year about a shoe that never seemed to fall from the sky.
Wondering, mostly, why nobody in the South Florida press corps was the least bit interested in investigating and reporting on YET ANOTHER Hallandale Beach CRA scandal that's been sitting there on a silver platter for nearly all of 2020, just waiting for someone to simply look at the self-evident facts and the public data, and metaphorically kick the tires and connect-the-dots.

Someone who would logically explain why, once again, the elected officials of Hallandale Beach were consciously choosing to spend many tens of thousands of dollars that the State of Florida mandates be used on matters centering chiefly on the removal of (self-evident) blight and slums in this city located in the SE corner of Broward County, right on the Atlantic Ocean. 

A city that should be, as I have argued for the soon-to-be 13 years of this blog, MUCH BETTER in all sorts of ways that matter to the people who live and work there and call it home, regardless of race, gender, political sensibility or economic status.
The people I know best and trust the most in Hallandale Beach are long past being tired of continual half-assed PR efforts to make unsatisfactory look passable, and deliberate stupidity look like a policy choice.

Specifically, they've been waiting for someone to investigate why tens of thousands of CRA dollars was given to the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, for what, in the end, seems to have been... nothing but positive PR buzz.
Like self-publishing a vanity book using someone else's money.

No, there would be no unsightly, curb-unfriendly slums in Hallandale Beach to be razed, no HB neighborhoods that would be improved by this transaction.
But it would allow a handful of not-so-sharp elected officials in Broward to once again pat themselves on the back for imagining that they'd pulled the wool over the nearly 40,000 residents of the city and the perpetually sleepwalking news media of South Florida.
The same news media that somehow imagines that whatever happens in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, or over on Miami Beach, always seems to trump all other local news, no matter how banal or cringe-worthy those stories in those two places might be.


Since the local South Florida press corps didn't seem the least bit interested in investigating or reporting on this story involving bad to corrupt public policy and use of public funds, with a lot of curiosity and resolve, and fueled by some hazelnut coffee and a delicious steak + egg sandwich -with bacon!- I connected-the-dots on the latest #HallandaleBeach CRA scandal re $$$ given to #FIU + #SOBEWFF- in one afternoon at the Hollywood Panera Bread on Sheridan Street near where I live, all while listening to a college football game on the radio.
 
I'll be posting the results in 2021 right here on the blog.
I may even use this issue as a reason to once again start uploading some more original content to my YouTube Channel, after not doing that for many years.
I'd been itching to do that for month, as well as start posting more original content at Instagram, until #COVID19 struck and a lot of election year ideas and plans went by the wayside.


https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1341464316533477388?s=20

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Genuine "Thanks" on Thanksgiving. France mourns a hero among heroes: Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, one of only two remaining "Compagnons de la Libération" -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100

Genuine "Thanks" on Thanksgiving. France mourns a hero among heroes: Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, one of only two remaining "Compagnons de la Libération" -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100.

After the death of Cordier, as of today, only one Compagnons de la Libération is still alive, Hubert Germain, out of the 1,038 distinguished by General de Gaulle for their commitment within Free France during the German Occupation. 

Upon his death, Germain will be buried in the crypt of Mont Valérien in the last empty vault.


1/ Daniel Cordier, #French Resistance hero, a designated "Companion of the Liberation," dies at 100. After the war, he became a leading modern art gallery owner in Paris as well as a prolific author on his wartime experiences, via @washingtonpost
https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332022863918985218?s=20


The Washington Post

Obituaries
Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, dies at 100
By Phil Davison, Monday November 23, 2020 at 5:21 p.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/daniel-cordier-dies-/2020/11/23/3986156e-2d98-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html




What a great beginning for this tale of valor and strength...

Age 19 and about to join the French army to fight the Nazi invaders, Daniel Cordier heard on the radio in June 1940 that France’s military head of state, Marshal Philippe Pétain, had capitulated to the Germans.
“I naively thought, as my parents did, that Pétain was going to launch France’s victorious counteroffensive,” Mr. Cordier recalled in a 2010 interview with the public radio channel France Culture. “Instead, he announced the end of the fighting, that is to say the end of hope. I burst into tears, went up to my room and sobbed.”

Then, muttering a choice epithet about Pétain, he regrouped.

2/ #DanielCordier was a man who, when #France was at its lowest depth, was up to the moment + tasks ahead, when others were not. He did not shirk his responsibility as a citizen and leave it to others to do what was necessary. He just did it. @RBrookhiser @LewisHowes

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332024626877173760?s=20



3/ “When #France was in danger, [#DanielCordier] and his compagnons took every risk so that France remained France. We owe them our freedom and our honour...”
-President Emmanuel Macron
https://t.co/jjSpW0kYlr?amp=1
@RBrookhiser @LewisHowes

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332027630816792579?s=20



The Guardian
Daniel Cordier, one of last heroes of French resistance, dies aged 100
As secretary to the great resistance leader, Jean Moulin, he helped organise fight against Nazi occupation.

By Kim Willsher in Paris, Friday 20 Nov 2020 14.33 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/20/daniel-cordier-one-of-last-heroes-of-french-resistance-dies-aged-100



4/ .@EmmanuelMacron  "#DanielCordier helped to build the history of the past century, to bring his indispensable testimony to the memory of our present time. Farewell Caracalla. Thank you. The flame that you lit with your companions will not go out." 🙏

https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332028062448431106?s=20


Watch the amazing video of the complete nationally-televised hommage to Daniel Cordier that took place this morning in Paris, at la Cour des Invalides, aka Les Invalides.

https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/1331971169889775617?s=20


Daniel Cordier, dans l'ombre de Jean Moulin

France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine YouTube Channel
Uploaded May 7, 2018

Ce magazine met à l'honneur Daniel Cordier à travers un documentaire inédit, un homme au destin extraordinaire : il fut le secrétaire particulier de Jean Moulin durant la seconde guerre mondiale. A 97 ans, il est l'un des 10 derniers Compagnons de la Résistance encore en vie. Ce Bordelais d'origine a reçu les journalistes dans son appartement cannois, peuplé de centaines de livres et d’œuvres d’art. Face à la caméra, il revient sur son parcours hors du commun. Marie Pierre d'Abrigeon et Didier Bonnet signent cet entretien. https://youtu.be/Qh4_N6Q5lNM




Dave

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Genuine &quot;Thanks&quot; on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thanksgiving?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Thanksgiving</a>. 🙏<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#France</a> 🇫🇷 mourns a hero among heroes: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DanielCordier?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DanielCordier</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/French?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#French</a> Resistance hero, one of only two remaining &quot;Compagnons de la Libération&quot; -an honor awarded by exiled wartime leader, Charles de Gaulle- dies at 100. 😢<a href="https://t.co/kiE7Q7zHRK">https://t.co/kiE7Q7zHRK</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1332188693147377664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Because "Fat is not going away..." No, it's not, which is why doctors and plastic surgeons from all over the world continue to make The Doctor's Toy Store their go-to source when they want to buy Liposuction devices, whether new or recent Vaser, Vibrasat, or PowerX models to give them the best possible results for their patients. @drstoystore

No, that's not actor John Cusack in his classic pose with a radio boombox from iconic 1980's film "Say Anything," it's Doctor's Toy Store President/CEO Rob Raymond on Wednesday afternoon, surrounded by just a representative sampling of the dozens of liposuction devices available now at his huge two-story medical showroom just off of I-95, THE largest medical showroom in Florida.  


Because "Fat is not going away..." 

No, it's not, which is why doctors and plastic surgeons from all over the world continue to make The Doctor's Toy Store their go-to source when they want to buy Liposuction devices, whether new or recent Vaser, Vibrasat, or PowerX models to give them the best possible results for their patients.

-SPONSORED POST-


As 2020 nears its end, The Doctors Toy Store, with 20-plus years of experience in serving busy medical professional all over the world, as well as here in South Florida, offers an amazing array of top-tier products at DISCOUNT prices. And in the process, DTS produces another tangible dividend for its busy medical clients: the kind of peace of mind that you can't put a price on.

That comes from getting used to the reliability of the great selection and quality customer service that DTS offers them with the largest medical showroom in all of Florida. A showroom that's full of every medical tool and device a doctor or practice group could possibly ever think of -and then some.


That level of cutomer service also explains why at almost any time of the day, you'll find one of the dozen-plus DTS store trucks rolling thru the streets of South Florida on their way to deliver what DTS clients want at a price they liked, WHEN they needed it.  
And what's often in those trucks? Yes, Liposuction devices and wands and parts and...




DTS President/CEO Rob Raymond and his team continue to satisfy his very demanding, far-flung clients demand for medical equipment and new technologies with conscientious, top-quality customer service that constantly reminds them THEY are his number-one priority.

Today Rob and his team are focusing on medical devices that continue to be very popular with doctors everywhere and which have been big movers for Rob and his DTS team for years because of their greater efficiency and price: Assisted Liposuction devices.
Those wonders of technology are even more popular now in an era of lower medical reimbursements, when doctors everywhere are looking to create an alternative source of revenue.

So whether you are a doctor who needs to upgrade your current equipment or someone who is purchasing your first device because of the great results you've heard about, make plans now to visit the DTS website and come by their huge showroom in South Florida, and see for yourself what both experienced surgeons and newcomers to the industry are purchasing and getting great benefits from.

Perhaps the best quote in years to come from the ever-quotable Rob comes in this video below, which ws shot on Wednesday afternoon while I was on a visit to his huge two-story DTS showroom: "Fat is not going away..."

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DmNHVDwD5vY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Dr’s Toy Store YouTube Channel
Doctor's Toy Store CEO/President Rob Raymond discusses some of the amazing products he has in abundance at Florida's largest medical showroom, like the Vaser Microaire PowerX that allow surgeons to work smarter, more efficiently, and with much-better results for their patient's goals.
Uploaded November 11, 2020. https://youtu.be/DmNHVDwD5vY


As Rob says in the video, one of the chief advantages of using Vaser devices is that they not only allow surgeons to get in faster, but also allows for more highly stylized detailing/contouring/body sculpture, i.e. the "carving and etching" that so many patients want, with their dreams of six-pack abs.

Pictured below is just one of different Solta Sound Surgical Vaser models available today: the 2.0 High Definition Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction




Perhaps this is where I should casually mention that The Doctor's Toy Store remains the U.S.'s leading distributor for Power Assisted Liposuction devices!

DTS has three pages of detailed product and price information about the various liposuction devices it sells from the world's leading medical equipment manufacturers:

 

Doctor's Toy Store attracts doctors and medical practice groups from all over the U.S. and all four points of the compass because DTS owner and CEO Rob Raymond and his friendly and experienced staff combine their deep knowledge and history of the equipment they have at their huge showroom off I-95, with DISCOUNT prices.



Specializing in new, pre-owned and repair of medical equipment, Doctor's Toy Store has achieved its level of success precisely because it consistently puts its medical professional clients first, whether you are a longtime client with demanding patients, or are just starting your practice somewhere around the world or the USA.
Regardless of what type of medical equipment you are looking for or whether you have a personal preference for one brand over another, YOUR unique needs can and will be successfully met at DTS.

And just a reminder, doctors, DTS does take in your trade-ins!

So, whether you are arriving at Doctor's Toy Store via the Pembroke Road entrance on S.W. 30th Avenue to the north, Exit 19 on I-95, just east of the CSX Railroad tracks,


or from Hallandale Beach Blvd., Exit 18 on I-95 to the south.
 

you'll know you're getting closer to Florida's largest medical showroom when you see the HUGE American flag. 




Doctor's Toy Store
2512 S.W. 30th Avenue, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
(954) 457-0075  
1 (877) DRS-TOYS
With this fax number, (954) 454-3916, DTS customers can fax in anything from pictures to orders to help get the products and services they want.


Twitter: 
@drstoystore  https://twitter.com/drstoystore

Doctor's ToyStore YouTube Channel: 

Doctor's Toy Store ships worldwide and is happy to work with customers from anywhere in the world. 

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-SPONSORED POST-

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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Last minute Election Day thoughts about voting in Hallandale Beach, and the frustrating things I've seen there recently; Vote for common sense and experience: Maggie Ivanovski in Seat 3 Commission race

For you newcomers to the blog, a little recent history about the normal laws about political campaigning were routinely ignored, with photos that show it for all to see: 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2/ See the contemporaneous Twitter thread of the time connecting-the-dots to then-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Comm. Sanders via photos + letters: <a href="https://t.co/jazEfak8bB">https://t.co/jazEfak8bB</a>,<br>and, the self-evident proof that both the <a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> City Mgr. and <a href="https://twitter.com/BrowardIG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrowardIG</a> ignored. 😒🙄🤨😠<a href="https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX">https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX</a> <a href="https://t.co/4d6zIxcWLU">pic.twitter.com/4d6zIxcWLU</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322202177159503873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>




<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/politicofl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@politicofl</a> The spot-on <a href="https://twitter.com/NickNehamas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickNehamas</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/Blaskey_S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Blaskey_S</a> followup re fake website: Prof. Hill <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiLawSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiamiLawSchool</a>: &quot;the website appeared to violate state election laws that require political communications to disclose who paid for them...“ <br><br>Time to investigate! 🔍🔍<a href="https://t.co/IQsziAheeE">https://t.co/IQsziAheeE</a> <a href="https://t.co/8w7LdcwSG5">pic.twitter.com/8w7LdcwSG5</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322022500042182659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>





<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The tumult of a nation divided by politics is spilling into the voting lines <a href="https://t.co/yoxmwvs550">https://t.co/yoxmwvs550</a></p>&mdash; Susannah Bryan (@Susannah_Bryan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Susannah_Bryan/status/1322972424921645057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>




<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yakubovich has been INVISIBLE in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> public policy but aims to use being President of 1 of 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. My nickname for him = Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose threats @ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarlyVoting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EarlyVoting</a> is both clownish yet VERY off-putting.</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322995262781071361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When ppl said Yakubovich = a bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! Late Sat. afternoon I heard him &#39;joking&#39; w/pals that bec he has support of HBPD union, he wld have ppl who disagreed w/him or called him a liar arrested. Who&#39;d be dumb enough to say that ALOUD?🤨 <a href="https://t.co/g8CJD2Ffjl">pic.twitter.com/g8CJD2Ffjl</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323006641931980804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> Do you think that for once, on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionDay</a> night, bec polls close @ 7 pm, city cld actually make sure the street lights near <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Cultural Center, as well as HBCC&#39;s parking lot lights, are WORKING B4 it gets dark? Always been pitch black conditions in past!</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323011174397562883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdMorrissey</a> Your multiple criticisms of ineffective <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dem</a> efforts in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MiamiDade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MiamiDade</a> = 100% correct. <br>Which suggests this <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewYorker</a> article shld have come out 1 yr ago, no?<br><br>How Latino Grassroots Organizers Are Fighting to Lift <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Biden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Biden</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Florida</a> <a href="https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg">https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kausmickey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kausmickey</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323015435571396611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Another short reminder why I'm endorsing civic activist Maggie Ivanovski and encouraging you to vote for her for the Hallandale Beach City Commission, Seat 4.

Over a few visits to the Hallandale Beach Cultural Center last week where Early Voting was taking place, I saw for myself that the level of discord, animosity + PERSONAL THREATS was FAR WORSE than anything I've seen there in 15 years of being there for several hours a day.
Which supported all the things that i was hearing from people via emails and phone calls, that, to be fair, were anecdotal.
But when everyone keeps saying the samer thing, almost verbatim, maybe it's what's really happening, no?

Unfortunately, what I saw on the ground last week only confirmed what I'd been hearing -very egregious boarish behavior was the norm once you got anywhere near the HB Cultural Center parking lot or the one nearby at the closed Broward County Library, and the antagonists, well, again, no surprise.
Supporters of Joy Cooper, Annabelle Lima-Taub, and her her bellicose and boarish puppet, Dmitriy Yakubovich. He's got HUGE sense of entitlement!

Yakubovich has been an INVISIBLE presence in Hallandale Beach public policy at HB City Hall or in the larger community since he has been here, but it's very clear that he aims to use being President of one of the 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. 
My nickname for him after reading his material, what's been written abioyt him by others and then seeing him prowl the road between the Library and Cultural Center is Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose, loud-mouthed threats at Early Voting were both clownish yet VERY off-putting.

To be honest, I put all the early negative comments I heard by people I respect in Hallandale Beach re Yakubovich's bellicosity and preening sense of entitlement as, well, smoke. 
But then I saw him in action twice last week.
It's fair to say that when it comes to him, where there's smoke, there's a real fire.

When people said Yakubovich acted like a Russian bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! 

Late Saturday afternoon I was near enough to Yakubovich to hear him 'joking' with some of his friends and supporters and some name personalities that because he had the support of the Hallandale Beach Police, i.e. their union, he would have people who disagreed with him or who called him a liar arrested. 
Honestly, who would be dumb enough to say that ALOUD in public?
And would you vote for them?

It takes all kinds, but Yakubovich is clearly someone who would not be the sort of positive change agent that HB City Hall desperately needs right now.

In the Group 3 Hallandale Beach City Commission race, you don't need to choose between the lesser of two evils... you can vote for the candidate with the experience of being a common sense, pro-citizen advocate at Hallandale Beach for longer than all of her opponents combined: Maggie Ivanovski.




Or, as I wrote last week:



Monday, October 26, 2020

Hallandale Beach's sleazy, unethical political campaigns seem to have the fingerprints of melodramatic Anabelle Lima-Taub or Police Unions or both. Yet again. Surprise! In Hallandale Beach, DON'T reward people who have not earned your trust and your faith like Anabelle Lima-Taub and Cynthia Cabrera. Reward someone who was there speaking out for your and your neighbors best interests for YEARS: Maggie Ivanovski

Above: Hallandale Beach City Hall, February 2020. © Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog, All Rights Reserved

Updated October 27th, 2020 9:00 p.m.

Hallandale Beach's sleazy, unethical political campaigns seem to have the fingerprints of melodramatic Anabelle Lima-Taub or Police Unions or both. 

Yet again. Surprise! 

In Hallandale Beach, DON'T reward people who have not earned your trust and your faith like Anabelle Lima-Taub and Cynthia Cabrera. Reward someone who was there speaking out for your and your neighbors best interests for YEARS: Maggie Ivanovski

Since we last spoke... a LOT of things have been happening. Unfortunately, most of them were happening below-the-radar, and the people involved, including those behind a fake website, do NOT want you to know the truth about what they're doing. 

It just never ends, does it?

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Monday October 26th, 2020


I'm writing this morning to share with you all some very useful context about some very disconcerting news I was recently made aware of about what's been going on for weeks below-the-radar in our slice of the world in SE Broward among the political and business class. 

People who care very much about who has control and power at Hallandale Beach City Hall after the election on November 3rd, one week from tomorrow, and care not a whit about you, your family and your community's best long-term interests.

Which is why I'm making you aware of it today when there's still time to do something about it, instead of complaining about it after the election.
Then it's too late!

Instead of linking to the following news article as I would usually do on the blog since I started it in January of 2007, because it is SO important AND 99% of you would never have heard of it or read it anywhere else, I'm going to post it here in its entirety, including links, so that you can fully appreciate the forces at work under-the-radar in Hallandale Beach and environs who want to have power and control at Hallandale Beach City Hall.
You know, where you the citizen, the public, are supposed to be the most important person in the pyramid.

My comments follow the article, which features Hallandale Beach as the worst example in the state of Florida for a very unpopular trend.
Imagine that!

If indviduals or a group know that they can just pay a small fine after-the-fact, violating state election laws, what's to force them to follow state laws on disclosure?
Nothing! 
They will consider it a small price to pay to get the results THEY want.

https://www.bradenton.com/news/politics-government/election/article246660838.html


ELECTIONS

That annoying barrage of political texts? It’s only going to get worse, Florida

By Linda Robertson

OCTOBER 23, 2020 10:25 AM
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Texts like this one encouraging Floridians to vote by mail are among the 1 billion expected to be sent by political campaigns before Election Day on Nov. 3As election season reaches a crescendo, campaign ads aren’t just hanging from your doorknob, filling up your mailbox, cluttering your inbox, interrupting your favorite TV shows and beckoning from billboards. Politicians are capitalizing on an increasingly popular way to win your vote by inundating your cell phone with text messages.

More than a billion texts will be sent in support of Florida, statewide and national campaigns by Nov. 3, say candidates and their consultants. Like it or not, they’ve found texting to be an effective, efficient method for using personal data to engage directly with voters who spend half their waking hours on their mobile phones.

Because privacy is as quaint as the telephone booth, and voters’ cell numbers have been bought, sold, shared and rented out many times over, a candidate or volunteer or software company that is running a texting operation can greet recipients by first name in hopes of creating a rapport much harder to achieve ringing doorbells or broadcasting advertisements.


Cell phone users, hard-wired to at least glance at texts, also are more like to open them for a range of reasons, said Kevin Munger, assistant professor of political science and social media analytics at Penn State.

“People are resigned to getting spam calls and not listening or blocking them,” Munger said. “But their annoyance tolerance is higher for something they perceive as more important than a commercial pitch for a credit card or, say, selling Coke over Pepsi compared to Trump over Biden.”

Multiple times a day voters see texts soliciting donations, touting or bashing candidates, asking survey questions, coordinating campaign workers or encouraging them to cast their ballots:

“Hi John, it’s Israel with MoveOn. Politico reports that a ‘green tsunami’ -- a wave of donations from Democrats like us -- could flip control of the Senate! A Joe Biden presidency AND Democratic Senate are now within reach. Can you chip in $15 to help flip the Senate?”

“Looting. Rioting. Burning Cities. These are the realities of a Biden America. See this future for yourself & ensure it’s not ours.”

“Hi, it’s Michael from Vote From Home 2020. If you live at [insert your address] voting files suggest that you may not have requested a vote-by-mail ballot yet. If you change your mind you can still vote in person, so keep your options open by requesting a ballot.”


“Hey there John, I’m Diana with FL Research. We have a brief survey for Miami-Dade & we want to hear from you.”

The texts aim to tread a fine line between motivating and irritating voters. They come with one big advantage: People who delete emails without opening them or don’t answer calls from suspicious numbers can’t avoid texts. It’s an intrusion that also can backfire, strategists say.

“Voters have grown quite sick of texts. It’s another invasion of their privacy and their first reaction is often, ‘How did you get my number?’” said Evan Ross, president of the Aventura public affairs communications firm ,Public Communicators Group. He is running three Political Action Committees and advising 10 clients this election cycle, and they’ve sent a total of 100,000 texts. But those pings even get under his skin.

”I was in line for early voting when I received a text for the fourth time asking if I was committed to Biden and Harris,” he said. “I responded by telling the sender they need better data. They can’t be barraging people with repetitive texts and annoying them.”

The hope, Ross said, is a productive exchange, a conversation. Ideally, voter and candidate learn about one another.

“You’re able to make that crucial ask, ‘Can I count on your vote?’” he said. “A text can be so much more valuable than sending a mass mailer or knocking on a door when nobody’s home. But when a text is deleted out of frustration you’ve missed that connection.”

A COVID-19 BOOM

Texting has been especially useful since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Ross knows a candidate in a condo-dense district who could not do the traditional door-to-door canvassing or host bagel breakfasts in meeting rooms. She switched to texting as her outreach solution.

The percentage of people who reply varies depending on how well an audience is targeted, but a 10-15 percent response rate is good, according to Ross and Nathaniel Lubin, co-founder of Survey 160, a software company that provides text-based polling and research services.

“At a time when people increasingly don’t answer their phones, SMS [Short Message Service texts of 160 characters or less] is an attractive way for analytics groups and pollsters to get meaningful data quickly and at scale,” said Lubin, who worked on Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012 when texting began to take off. “We typically do get higher response rates than other methods, especially for surveys. Texting is easier for respondents in that they get to choose when and how to respond, rather than needing to be available at the exact moment required by other channels.”

Ross saw a response Thursday that captured many voters’ feelings of text fatigue: “Who do I need to vote out of office to STOP these text messages? [With an emoji of a crying frowny face.]”

Though its use has exploded, texting remains largely unregulated by election and communications laws, allowing both savvy strategists and unsophisticated campaign managers to spread misinformation anonymously. Voters can receive a text and have no idea who is behind it. Disclaimers identifying who paid for the text messages are not required because there is too little space within the standard 160-character limit to fit that extra verbiage.

Lack of oversight and transparency has spawned some outrageous attack texts.

In the midst of another wild and nasty campaign season in Hallandale Beach, a text stating “Urgent Election Information” went out that appeared to be sent by incumbent commission candidate Michele Lazarow. It linked to a “Michele Lazarow For Commissioner?” website that disparaged and insulted Lazarow with bizarre headlines like “Breaks the Law and Incites Violence” and “Celebrates the Life of the ‘prophet’ Mohammed, an Oppressor of Women” and “Michele’s Dirty Relationship with Evan Ross.”

The mystery disclaimer at the bottom of the home page says: “I’m a concerned citizen of Hallandale Beach, and I have free speech guaranteed by the 1st amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I love Hallandale Beach, and I’m tired of Michele Lazarow allowing by [SIC] beloved city to look trashy!! Don’t vote for Michele please. Thank you!!!”

The deliberate misrepresentation and unaccountability for funding of the ad makes it illegal, but Lazarow’s attempts to trace the origin were fruitless. No one, including Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, who is running for re-election in another district, or Mayor Joy Cooper — who have tangled with Lazarow in the past — has taken responsibility. Lazarow’s opponent, Dmitry Yakubovich, denied any involvement, saying “The politics have been very dirty in Hallandale over the past few elections. I’m not in favor of this. There’s no place for it in Hallandale.”

Lazarow and her advisor and friend Ross said they were “disgusted” by the deceptive message. The number that sent the text has been flagged by consumers complaining of robocalls and scams.

“The people who want to corrupt our city have proven they will break the law as they work to get me out of their way,” she said. “It’s clear these corrupting forces want Anabelle Lima-Taub, Joy Cooper and anyone other than me on the commission. I trust the residents of Hallandale Beach to see through the lies. I trust law enforcement to investigate and prosecute the criminals.”

“That’s the dark side,” said Ross, who created online and TV counterattack ads against Lima-Taub and Cooper with paid-for disclaimers from his Good Government PAC. “People can hide more easily on texts. In the cases of fraud, we need prosecutors to subpoena records and track the digital trail, but often law enforcement views these acts as political shenanigans that are not hurting anybody.”

LEGAL LOOPHOLES

The texting flood has grown as campaigns exploit a loophole in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that was designed to control robocalls. Peer-to-peer texting allows a sender to send messages to recipients without their consent if they are sent one at a time. New tech companies with apps like Hustle, GetThru, RumbleUp and Opn Sesame have sprung up to generate millions of texts. Less laborious mass texting is allowed if recipients gave permission to be texted. Voters can usually stop receiving them by replying “stop” or “unsubscribe.”

“I identify 5,000 voters I want to reach legally through peer-to-peer texting,” Ross said. “I’d get carpal tunnel syndrome hitting send 5,000 times so I hire a vendor and pay a few cents per text for him to do the clicks. While robocalls were big 10-15 years ago, owning a landline is now like owning a typewriter. Texting is the booming industry. Campaigns are spending tens of millions of dollars on this platform.”

What does the future hold?

Ross predicts a trend toward expanded virtual communication for politicians. Campaign trails shrink when voters can tune in to town halls and rallies from home via Zoom. In-person hand-shaking and baby-kissing won’t disappear but candidates and constituents alike have learned during the pandemic how to reach people remotely.

“A local candidate could host Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg on the call because they don’t have to fly to Miami,” he said. “We’ve already seen higher citizen participation in city commission meetings on Zoom. Convenience and accessibility. Virtual platforms will increase engagement opportunities exponentially.”

Munger envisions a rise in campaign alliances with popular influencers.

“Influencer marketing has not yet fully penetrated the political scene,” he said. “That’s where all advertising is going these days. Eventually it will make texting seem as old-fashioned as calling people on their home phone.”

Miami Herald Staff Writer Nicholas Nehamas contributed to this report.


So in case you forgot who was on whose side in February of 2018, I'll remind you what I wrote at the time, and leave it to you to figure out now who regrets what they said and did, and who doesn't after things shook out the way they did.

Not that you would know this from any of the news articles or TV stories that have been written about the antics at Hallandale beach City Hall the past few years, but there are STILL lots of very negative reverberations still playing out in the city as a direct result of the embarrassing Rich Dally appointment/miscalculation.





Now I'm going to repeat some important points that I originally made two weeks ago in my blog post of October 12th, since there's no way of making them any more clearly.

If public honesty about who they are and they've done professionally in a job situation is the very least that we can expect from people who offer themselves up as prospective lected officials -and it is, the very least- what can be said about Vaping lobbyist Cynthia Cabrera, who claims publicly to be a longtime HB resident, but who, unlike Maggie, has been largely invisible and unconcerned when VERY BAD things were ROUTINELY happening in Hallandale Beach the past ten years. 
Where was she?

That Cabrera is neither as personally experienced or as well-informed as Maggie about the specific issues that have plagued and dominated what's happened at Hallandale Beach City Hall and the city more broadly for years is clear, since when Maggie attended meetings, EVERY Commissioner and staffer from the City Manager's office knew exactly who she was, and noticed her the moment she walked into the Commission Chambers.

THAT reaction is what happens when you have personally been actively engaged in improving the climate there, just as I have been, and show up ALL THE TIME, open your mouth and push back hard against self-evident bad ideas and unethical behavior.

Cynthia Cabrera has claimed on her website and to the news media and to Hallandale Beach voters to be a longtime Hallandale Beach resident, but the truth of the matter is that you can't find anyone in town who can honestly say that Cabrera has been even one-tenth as involved, reliable, or as public in her concerns as Maggie has been FOR YEARS in defending and articulating the best interests of the average HB resident and Small Business owner at HB City Hall.
The reason that nobody can say that Carbrera was even one-tenth as involved publicly is the simplest reason of all -Cabrera was invisible.

What kind of qualification for elective office is Cabrera's longtime apathy? 
Cabrera's innumerable campaign signs around Hallandale Beach can't make up for that harsh reality. When she lived here, she was a no-show.

Again, for all of Cynthia Cabrera's talk of being a longtime HB resident, HER very own LinkedIn profile lists her as having lived and worked in the Washington, D.C. area for at least three years from 2013-2016. 
You don't have to take my word, see for yourself:
Exactly!

Does she think we'd just take her word for it?

To make matters worse, Cynthia Cabrera does herself no favors by being so free in accepting large campaign dollars from real estate developers, as her campaign disclosures make quite clear.
Given Hallandale Beach's unique location and demographics within Broward County, real estate developers will always be viewed here somewhat more skeptically by many residents than they are elsewhere.
People who quite naturally want to protect their personal investment and Quality of Life.


So that said, it makes you wonder why nobody in the local South Florida news media, especially the South Florida Sun Sentinel, ever bothered to ask these hard questions about Cabrera.
Or, to ask her the most obvious question of all: Why was she SO invisible on matters of important local concern when she ACTUALLY was living here daily?

When you review the facts as they are, not as Cabrera would have you believe they are, you don't need me to tell you that you deserve a whole lot better quialified person represnting you on the HB City Commission than a disinterested woman like Cynthia Cabrera. 

My friend Maggie is in this race to win it, and then do the hard work that comes next.

Like us, Maggie is fully committed to reforming the city and bringing it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century when it comes to increasing the level of public scrutiny, public oversight, and civic engagement, and ensuring that a meaningful degree of financial accountability is always present.
In short, injecting the proper amount of common sense and skepticism to absurd proposals and bad public policy ideas that should never be approved.

In Hallandale Beach, DON'T reward people who have not earned your trust and your faith like Anabelle Lima-Taub and Cynthia Cabrera, reward someone who was there speaking out for your and your neighbors best interests for YEARS:
Maggie Ivanovski.
 
Do what's best for you and your family and the community at large, and reward Maggie's many years of very hard work and civic engagement over so many years to make Hallandale Beach better for both its residents and Small Business owners, and NOT people who have never been there for you, your family and neighborhood in Hallandale Beach.

To me, as someone who actually was at all of those meetings for years and speaking out for you as well, Maggie is more than deserving of your highest endorsement in this race: your VOTE to make Hallandale Beach's government better, more efficient, and more accountable to the people who live there.




Above: My friend Maggie Ivanovski, the Seat 3 candidate with the MOST experience in battling the bad ideas and impractical ordinances that have been coming out of Hallandale Beach City Hall like clockwork for the past 15 years. 

The city will positively change for the better the moment she and her genuine
EXPERIENCE are representing you and reforming it from the inside, and making the City Commission much more relevant and accountable. 
But Maggie needs YOUR vote in order to make that a reality!

Even now Maggie can use your help, so if you are interested, please contact her today via her cell phone number, (954) 646-2573, or via her campaign email:
m.ivanovski2020@hotmail.com

Updated on October 26th, 2020 at 4:15 p.m. 

Since I posted this blog post earlier today, we've publicly heard from one of the Usual Suspects of Hallandale Beach government and public policy, and one of the persons cited in the Linda Robertson article, Democratic lobbyist Evan Ross, the guy who for YEARS has tried to personally insinuate himself -worm his way- into HB issues.

As it happens, he's also the same irritating guy who for many years has held court by sitting in the last row of the HB Commission Chambers near the back door, often sitting in the seats (w/electrical outlets) RESERVED for city staff, and of key importance here, a longtime friend and confidante AND campaign fundraiser for Comm. Michele Lazarow.
In short, not an objective source for any kind of information about the city and its citizens and their desires for elected officials who keep people like him at arms-length.

Surprise! He's also one of the Lazarow-affiliated persons trying to foist political cipher and Vaping lobbyist Cynthia Cabrera onto the City Commission, Seat 3.

I include that back-and-forth on Twitter here now for your amusement and education.
Ross' contemptible sense of entitlement and contempt for voters is readily apparent, no?
"It’s a two person race. The only candidates with any chance of winning are Lima-Taub and Cabrera. Encouraging people to vote for anyone other than Cabrera just helps give the bigot on the commission four more years to embarrass Hallandale Beach."
You know, it's almost as if Evan Ross thinks that he gets more say so than you do in deciding who gets to sit in the HB City Commission seats on the dais.

In case you can't quite make this text out, it reads:

Me: #HallandaleBeach's sleazy pol. campaigns seem to have fingerprints of melodramatic Lima-Taub or Police Unions or both. Surprise!
DON'T reward ppl who've NOT earned yr trust like Lima-Taub + Cabrera. Vote for a better HB via #MaggieIvanovski. hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/hallan

Evan Ross: It’s a two person race. The only candidates with any chance of winning are Lima-Taub and Cabrera. Encouraging people to vote for anyone other than Cabrera just helps give the bigot on the commission four more years to embarrass Hallandale Beach.

Me: #FactsMatter: Lima-Taub has alienated most of the ppl who gave a cipher like her the benefit of the doubt in 2016 bec of HER own personal melodrama. Activists know
has REAL EXPERIENCE: 10x's institutional knowledge of HB's issues/history as longtime no-show
😴
Cabrera.


And speaking of running anonymous and defamatory attack blogs, as Linda Robertson does in her article, Evan Ross has some experience in that department, too. Hmmm...

Cowardly Lobbyist Evan Ross gets smacked down at the Eleventh Judicial Circuit
BY STEPHANIE KIENZLE  
MARCH 11, 2019


Dave