How much longer will that entry at Wikipedia for Dave Aronberg exist? He's running for Palm Beach State Attorney, so why the Chicago-style tactics against sitting judge?

How much longer will there be an entry at Wikipedia for Dave Aronberg, who's running for Palm Beach State Attorney? Chicago-style tactics against a sitting judge?

As it happen, I voted for Dave Aronberg in the 2010 Democratic primary for Florida Attorney General race against Dan Gelber, and then voted for eventual winner Pam Bondi that November in the general election, owing to both my liking of Bondi's moxie and my distaste for Gelber, whom I've ripped here previously a few times, not least for the company he keeps and his propensity to be a perpetual candidate..

That said, though, why is there an entry for someone like Aronberg who's largely unknown outside of certain activist/news junkie neighborhoods in South Florida?

I mean he's more obscure than some of the most obscure Dolphin players. 

Plus, much of the information there is NOT accurate or timely.

Additionally, it seems to me that per the Palm Beach Post story below, his friends are doing him no favors by acting like they are Rahm clones and trying to put the screws to a sitting judge to force her not to run against him. 

I've lived in Chicago, and this isn't it, and neither is Palm Beach County.

It's hard for me to see how this sort of incident or similar ones in the future won't backfire on Aronberg in ways that he never anticipated.

Palm Beach Post

Warnings lead Circuit Judge Krista Marx to abandon campaign for state attorney

By Joel Engelhardt and Stacey Singer 

Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Updated: 10:58 a.m. Sunday, April 15, 2012

Posted: 10:44 a.m. Sunday, April 15, 2012

Circuit Judge Krista Marx chose not to run for state attorney after she learned supporters of the lone candidate in the race, Dave Aronberg, planned to attack her reputation and challenge her husband's judicial seat, The Palm Beach Post has found.

Read the rest of the article at:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/warnings-lead-circuit-judge-krista-marx-to-abandon-2306123.html

Joy Cooper, the FL mayor who called citizens of her own city opposed to her policies, "Nazis," is quoted in PB Post story on govt. civility

Joy Cooper, the Hallandale Beach mayor and current Florida League of Cities President, who called concerned citizens of her own city opposed to her public policies "Nazis," is quoted in a Monday Palm Beach Post story on civility in Florida municipal government.

As I have written here numerous times, over two years ago, up on the 2nd Floor at Hallandale Beach City Hall, Mayor Cooper, in speaking with then-Comm. William Julian just moments before the continuation of a City Commission meeting referred to me and other HB citizens opposed to her disastrous policies as "Nazis," and seconds later, referred to Comm. Keith London, a frequent opponent on the dais, as "a Hitler."

I bring this to your attention because it's a perfect example of how little the news media in South Florida really knows its elected officials and their behavior, and because there are many people within this city who have also been maliciously maligned by her and other city commissioners and officials at public meetings and forums, as well as had their opportunity to speak at public meetings squelched, or threatened with arrest for recording the proceedings at a public meeting.


Palm Beach Post
Are not!! Am too!! -- Cities aim for civility in civil discourse
By Andrew Abramson
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 7:47 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2011
Posted: 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2011

WEST PALM BEACH — At Lois Frankel's final city commission meeting in March, the former mayor cut off the microphone while a resident blasted commission candidate Keith James, who was up for election in a runoff the following day.

Frankel and City Attorney Claudia McKenna pointed to the city's civility code, as they often did at heated meetings. It says that "all remarks shall be addressed to the commission as a body and not to any one member or to the audience."

The city commission voted to reaffirm that rule April 18. And it's not alone in trying to re-instill civility in public meetings.

Read the rest of the post:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/are-not-am-too-cities-aim-for-civility-1447015.html

The hedging your bet, having your cake and eating it, too headline on Miami Herald's website

Sunday 2:54 a.m.

Showing the kind of foresight that has their popularity dropping like a rock, (see Bob Norman's excellent new Broward Palm Beach NewTimes article, Newspaper layoffs, partnerships, and the Net conspire to kill South Florida dailies, http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-30/news/newspaper-layoffs-partnerships-and-the-net-conspire-to-kill-south-florida-dailies/ )
before I went to sleep this morning after watching the fantastic Texas-Texas Tech football game, I hit the Miami Herald's website http://www.miamiherald.com/ and caught this classic headline there that speaks for itself, which is at: http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/752469.html

CAMPAIGN '08
Florida could have history making role in 2008 election
Florida could put Obama over the top Tuesday night -- or complete a stunning comeback by McCain. - 0:30 AM ET

Then again, Florida could also be a national punch line -again!
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