Wow! Hallandale Beach is in The Washington Post: WaPo's Jason Horowitz ponders Jewish-American voters' feelings towards Mitt Romney and President Obama's treatment of Israel thru the prism of Hallandale Beach. HB's Sage Bagel as the NEW poor man's Algonquin Round Table!

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Above, looking east from in front of the RK Sage Plaza retail strip at Hallandale Beach Blvd. (State Road 858) and S.E. 8th Avenue in Hallandale Beach, FL, home of Sage Bagel and Deli. In the distance is one of the three condo towers from The Related Group's The Beach Club on the beach and State Road A1A. Google Maps' Street View, circa 2011.

Wow! Hallandale Beach is in The Washington Post: WaPo's Jason Horowitz ponders Jewish-American voters' feelings towards Mitt Romney and President Obama's treatment of Israel thru the prism of Hallandale Beach. HB's Sage Bagel as the NEW poor man's Algonquin Round Table!

The Washington Post

Jewish voters ponder Romney

By Jason Horowitz

July 30, 8:57 PM

HALLANDALE BEACH. Fla. — Moments after Mitt Romney completed his ode to Israel in front of Jerusalem’s old stone walls on Sunday, reporters asked Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul and a financial rabbi for the presidential campaign, whether the speech would convince Jewish voters back home to vote for the Republican.

“If they hear it,” answered Adelson, who was with Romney in Israel and has pledged tens of millions of dollars to pro-Romney super PACs. “Yes, for sure.”

Read the rest of the article at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/can-romney-persuade-jewish-voters-to-abandon-obama/2012/07/30/gJQArjTULX_story.html

Hmm-m... could our very own Sage Bagel become the new Versailles, the "The World's Most Famous Cuban Restaurant" on Calle Ocho and the place where all U.S. presidential candidates and state-wide candidates are required to visit when they campaign for the first time in South Florida, for a press op, drinking café con leche?

Yes, more powerful than any law, it's a South Florida political and media tradition!

The mind reels at the possibilities!

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Sage Bagel and Deli

800 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd.

Hallandale Beach, FL 33009 

(954) 456-7499

http://www.sagebagelanddeli.com/

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Versailles Restaurant

3555 S.W. 8th Street,

Miami, FL 33135 

(305) 444-0240

http://www.versaillesrestaurant.com/

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Washington Post's Dan Eggen serves up a delicious slice of hypocrisy re transparency: "Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves"

Sunlight Foundation video: Washington's Lobbyist Fix -- The Advisory Committee on Transparency. March 16, 2011. I'm posting this year-old video because Dan Eggen is a panelist on a forum on the topic of transparency.

http://youtu.be/2AEOVj0snPY

The only thing better this week than hot pizza and cold beer while watching the beginning of the NCAA basketball tourney on TV -unexpectedly being served-up some sweet hypocrisy on a silver platter!

More, please!

The Washington Post

The Influence Industry blog

Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves

By Dan Eggen, 

Published: March 14, 2012

In a bid to limit the impact of “secret money” in the 2012 elections, a coalition of liberal-leaning groups announced a campaign this week aimed at pressuring corporations to reveal donations to political groups.

There is one complication, however: Many of the groups behind the effort also don’t disclose their donors to the public.

Read the rest of the post at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-pro-disclosure-groups-often-dont-disclose-themselves/2012/03/13/gIQAs9X9CS_story.html 

Take a look while you're at it at the WaPo's Campaign 2012 Campaign Finance Explorer chart at http://wapo.st/zESKIX

Dan Eggen archives: http://www.washingtonpost.com/dan-eggen/2011/02/28/ABg0isM_page.html

Follow Dan Eggen on Twitter at:@DanEggenWPost

Recent tweets at http://twitter.com/#!/daneggenwpost

Open Secrets blog: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/