Beware of the fake (astro-turf) groups commenting online re Amendment 3, like the anti-3 "Floridians For Fair Taxes, Not Corporate Handouts"

Beware of the fake (astro-turf) groups commenting online re Amendment 3, like the anti-3 "Floridians For Fair Taxes, Not Corporate Handouts"

As I have previously posted on my blog, my Twitter feed and just a few minutes ago on NextDoor, for the past few months, NextDoor has been inundated by several south Broward residents/ stakeholders opposed to Amendment 3, using fliers/mailers and AI-created elements that in some cases specifically list the sponsoring org as something called, not surprisingly, "Floridians For Fair Taxes, Not Corporate Handouts." 

They are pretty easy to find, but attached is one I have seen on several posts.

For the record, for all the reasons I've written about on my blog and on Twitter, I am a VERY strong YES vote for Amendment 3.

People are entitled to think or vote however they want, it matters not to me, but what I DO think we can all agree on about NextDoor, a site that has NOT always been very reliable or accurate in the past, is that when people choose to share their own thoughts on a particular public policy matter AND back that up by linking to a website or attaching fliers/mailers and AI-created elements to some individual, group, organization or source, they should post to ACTUAL individuals or orgs that follow Florida state law, NOT by creating imaginary individuals or groups that do NOT exist or do NOT report to the Florida's Secretary of State's office, as required by law.
As you can see from the screenshot I've attached, at bottom, in 2026, there is no registered group on the Florida Secretary of State's searchable database named "Floridians For Fair Taxes, Not Corporate Handouts"


(Leaving aside for now the fact that I originally signed up to NextDoor seven years ago to hear about matters related to Hollywood, NOT to Cooper City, NOT to Pembroke Pines, and NOT to Fort Lauderdale.)

I have BLOCKED several of those "people" on NextDoor who have rather suddenly appeared out-of-nowhere to sign up in order to post, and then seem to only post about Amendment 3, usually using that same fake "Floridians For Fair Taxes, Not Corporate Handouts" material.

Regardless of how you feel about this one issue, I suggest that you do the same thing and BLOCK them when you come across them, because nobody needs to see self-evident disinformation from people or groups who think they can successfully get away with manipulating you, because experience teaches us that they will keep doing trying to fool you in the future.

https://dos.fl.gov/elections/search/?q=Floridians+For+Fair+Taxes%2C+Not+Corporate+Handouts

Dave 

David Bruce Smith

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A roundup of recent Broward School Board melodrama, antics and hijinks re misanthropic BTU President Anna Fusco -defending a Broward School administrator who was one of the subjects of a Broward IG report- and more on the latest long-overdue plan to close more under-enrolled and physically-failing public schools

Today's blog post concerns a roundup of recent Broward School Board melodrama, antics and hijinks regarding misanthropic Broward Teachers Union/BTU President Anna Fusco -defending a Broward School district administrator who was one of the subjects of a Broward Inspector General report- and more on the latest long-overdue plan to close more under-enrolled and physically-failing public schools in Broward.

A very flawed plan to be sure but certainly better than the alternative, which seems to be nothing more serious than placating the many vocal, entitled members of the special interest groups around Broward County, some of whom are still very much in denial about the tens of thousands of students who have fled Broward Public Schools the past ten years. The students that the School Board once claimed were "lost," as if they'd simply been misplaced. 

Below is an expanded copy of an email that I sent out Wednesday afternoon to the Usual Savvy Suspects or so people on my email list, before that list likely gets whittled down after the election in under three weeks.

BTU president Anna Fusco, a subject of SO many critical past tweets and blog posts of mine over the years, opposed the firing Tuesday of Jennifer Andreu, a Broward Schools district administrator and a City of Plantation city council member, whom the Broward IG's Office was, quite correctly, highly critical of, here:

OIG Final Report Re: Mismanagement and Vendor Misconduct in the School Board of Broward County’s Procurement of Computing Devices and Deployment Services, Ref. OIG 25-020-M   

https://www.browardcdn.org/api/public/content/cff80498a5c745fd81e17cc4eb0fdb06?v=8422ed9e

This video with Local10 News reporter Jackie Pascale, an ardent Eagles fan, was posted shortly before my first draft of this post.

Broward Teachers Union president alleges First Amendment violation after meeting removal
WPLG Local 10
October 14, 2026
Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco said Wednesday that she plans to file a lawsuit against Broward County School Board Chair Sarah Leonardi and others, alleging her First Amendment rights were violated when she was escorted out of a school board meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j4SO4r4s4Q

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I suspect most of you receiving this email can recall why I personally think it's VERY ironic for Broward School Board member Rebecca Thompson to be quoted in yesterday's Scott Travis article saying, "It gives fuel to the accusation people have made about how we act and how friendships and personnel influence our decisions” given her own VERY deceitful performance in the months immediately prior to her election two years ago, when the former Allen Zeman School system secretary posited many things re Torey Alston that were simply untrue -and confirmed as such by an independent investigation that exonerated Alston, despite Zeman's great efforts to ease the election path for his then-newly-arrived, dim-witted protege.

It is what it is, which shows that Thompson has not learned a thing in office, which, candidly, is about what I expected.

* In case you don't recall any of this completely unprofessional conduct by Zeman and Thompson, see my tweet thread connecting-the-dots, which started in 2024 and concluded last May: https://x.com/hbbtruth/status/1902457500298809412?s=20

South Florida Sun Sentinel

Broward School Board fires administrator named in inspector general report
By Scott Travis, South Florida Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: October 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT

A Broward schools administrator accused by the county’s top watchdog of mismanaging the purchase of laptops and misleading the School Board has been fired.

The firing of Jennifer Andreu came despite pleas for leniency from many of her supporters, who told School Board members on Tuesday she had done nothing to warrant the action. Andreu denies wrongdoing.

Read the rest of the story at https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/14/broward-school-board-fires-administrator-named-in-inspector-general-report/

As for last week's Sun Sentinel story regarding the needed closure of schools, for the record, I don't personally know Chris Canter, the two-time failed Broward School Board candidate from Hollywood mentioned in Scott Travis' article below.

He is described as follows: "Chris Canter, a parent and chair of Hollywood’s education advisory committee, spoke out against closing either school, saying he doesn’t think the district had done proper research.

“I’m not ashamed to say I oppose the closure of every single school on this list. This is a failed process,” he told the board. “Look at what your staff did in West Hollywood. They threw out a bunch of names of schools and then basically said, ‘You guys figure it out.’”

  

As most of you know from my emails, blog posts and comments at public meetings over the past 19 years criticizing the troubled, leaderless Broward County Schools, where for much of that time I was the #1 person BLOCKED on Twitter by the myriad Superintendents, I have long supported School Choice, but recognize that it's not a perfect solution for every family, just a choice they should be free to take.

Despite being asked to do so via Lorie Alhadeff, one of his bosses, then-Supt. Robert Runcie refused to ever remove the completely illegal BLOCK placed on me by Broward Schools in 2016 for sharing facts and insight that was completely counter to THEIR preferred narrative.

She told me, "I wanted you to know I did speak to him but nothing is going to change. Sorry."

ICYMI the first time around, my long essay about the "Culture of Corruption & Incompetency by Feckless #Broward #SchoolBoard, General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick & Supt. Robert Runcie in a Nutshell. The special #Florida Grand Jury investigating them will find a target-rich environment: here are examples. #FixIt "

https://t.co/fqZyKmY9eF

While I have been complaining publicly for years about the myriad, ever-changing and nonsensical throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall policy process that the majority of the Broward School Board members have so often consciously chosen, I am in 100% opposition to Canter's opposition to this VERY imperfect process that could easily be improved by 500%.

But Canter proposes no reasonable alternative, and seems to refuse to acknowledge the central inescapable fact: Many Broward schools should have been closed years ago resulting in the Teacher's Union enrollment getting smaller in the future to match the huge drop in student enrollment that so many of the Broward Education Establishment and Downtown Fort Lauderdale Business Establishment that supported ex-Supt. Runcie has continually denied was taking place -even as it took place before their very eyes for years.

Parents have voted with their feet and with their wallets. 

  

Also, for the record, despite Canter having been a candidate while I have lived in SE Broward, I have never once heard anyone -including everyone receiving this email- mention Chris Canter by name in an email, text or phone call to me, nor have I ever read about him publicly discussing the quite embarrassing Jessica Norton ethics/fraud scandal in the School system, one that the Sun Sentinel has NEVER reported on honestly and accurately.

South Florida Sun Sentinel

Broward School Board sticks with plan to close 10 schools
By Scott Travis

October 8, 2026

Parents and community members packed the Broward school district headquarters Tuesday in hopes of saving their schools from closure, but School Board members gave little hope of that happening.

The School Board reviewed Superintendent Howard Hepburn’s proposals to close 10 low-enrolled schools and move students to other schools with plenty of space.

School Board members didn’t make any final decisions during a four-hour workshop Tuesday, but their discussion suggested a desire to move forward with the current proposal, with possibly some tweaks.

Read the rest of the article at:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/07/broward-school-board-sticks-with-plan-to-close-10-schools/

As GOP voters and political professionals across USA increasingly have doubts about Senate candidates in Georgia and North Carolina among others, some, like me, place a lot of the blame directly on Tim Scott's shoulders for his ineffective "leadership" and work ethic at NRSC

In my opinion -and I've felt this way for months- Georgia will be the next state that the GOP will pull their Senate donor funds   from, as current Rep. Mike Collins is as completely hopeless and charisma-free a candidate as former RNC Chair Michael Whatley is in North Carolina. This has been abundantly clear to me since about May because of several VERY experienced politico friends I knew and respected when I lived and worked in Washington, D.C. for about 15 years, who now live in Georgia and North Carolina. (One even lives tantalizingly close to the ex-Love of My Life.)

Both of them are prematurely crying tears in their beers or punching walls  in their emails/phone calls to me the past six months, and way past being exasperated that these two races will not even be competitive unless something crazy bad happens to or because of Jon Ossoff and Roy Cooper in the last 30 or so days of the campaign.

Yet because both candidates were in HEAVY rotation AFTER their respective primary wins on the increasingly-ineffective and uncompelling Conservative Talk Radio ecosphere, they seemed normal enough to win if you judged them only by their myriad show appearances.

But being "GOP normal" in 2026 against very popular (if highly-irritating) Dems like incumbent Jon Ossoff in Georgia and soft-on-crime ex-North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, is NOT a substitute for them also being savvy, articulate and able to effectively read the room.

Both Collins and Whatley have failed that test, with reasons aplenty that Rachel Bade does not even bother getting into via her Substack story from this morning, that also appears on the website of ABC News: 

GOP doubts grow over Senate wins in Georgia and North Carolina. One Republican said the environment has never been this bad for GOP in Georgia. 

https://rachaelbade.substack.coretreat/comments

m/p/a-gop-

https://abcnews.com/Politics/gop-doubts-grow-senate-wins-georgia-north-carolina/story?id=136834817

New York Post 

GOP pulling up to $10M out of North Carolina Senate race, diverting to Kansas in late bid to save majority
By Josh Christenson
Published Oct. 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m. ET

https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/gop-pulling-up-to-10m-out-of-north-carolina-senate-race-diverting-to-kansas-in-late-bid-to-save-majority/

Trust me, those reasons make up a long list that my friends can practically recite from memory the way that I can STILL recite the roster of the Miami Dolphins Perfect Season team in 1972, my first as a Dolphins season ticket-holder at the Orange Bowl, seated alongside my Dad. In part because these particular friends are not just keen professional political observers, but, themselves, have friends or family members who for reasons of their own, have backed Collins or Whatley, two Trump-endorsed candidates.

This, despite my prescient friends perfectly diagnosing these two candidates' fatal political flaws last year. But the friends and family didn't listen, and now are aboard ships that are about to be torpedoed and sunk -with no survivors. 

Not surprisingly, in most cases, it involves a series of mistakes that involve overconfidence and laziness, as always, the surest way to sabotage a political race.

The other big problem here is that Conservative Talk Radio in 2026 has completely censored the self-evident fact that lazy AF Tim Scott was in charge at the NRSC.

About the last person you'd want in charge of things in a dynamic and fast-changing year like this, and yet another sign that Conservative Talk Radio regretfully places a much higher priority on maintaining access to someone like Scott than in simply being honest with their core audience. 

See my Twitter thread from last week about Tim Scott's myriad failures, which is itself largely a repeat of something that I wrote several months ago:

Have wondered for 6 mos. why Conservative Media, esp. Talk Radio, was SO reluctant to tell truth abt #NRSC under Sen. Tim Scott. Republicans Say the NRSC Isn’t Taking the #Midterms Seriously 

https://washingtonsun.com/2026-election/nrsc-tim-scott-midterms-decasper

"Unlike #NRSC chairs in previous cycles, [Tim] Scott doesn’t make candidate-recruitment visits or fundraising calls, instead leaving those responsibilities to others on the Comm., acc. to two sources familiar w/matter." It SHOWS! 

Low caliber nominees sink lower-ballot #GOP.

"During early days of the cycle, DeCasper would bring her small dog into the office and, on at least one occasion, let it walk around on the conf. table during a mtg, a source familiar with the matter told NOTUS, leaving those in attendance taken aback."

https://x.com/hbbtruth/status/2102834245236380023?s=20

Not-so-happy  fact: For just the 2020 Georgia Senate races involving both seats, and the subsequent run-off in January of 2021 -NOT presidential ads- nearly $250 million dollars was spent on ads at ABC's Atlanta affiliate, WSB. $250M 

Jon Ossoff narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue, despite Perdue having received more votes in the first round, with Ossoff winning by just 54,9444 votes.

November will not be that close. 😒 

Dave 

David Bruce Smith  

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Re invisible Florida state Rep. Marie Woodson, and the equally-invisible Brian Paruas and David Raskind, Hollywood City Commission candidates who completely fail to do the basics required of them: be informed and show up

Updated Friday September 18th, 2026

Originally posted Thursday September 17, 2026

In 2026, have you seen state Rep. Marie Woodson in-person at any 1301/Portofino-related public meeting, whether hosted by the city, The Related Group, at a neighborhood Civic Association  meeting, or at any Hollywood City Comm./Broward County Comm. campaign event or forum?

I have no reports of that ever having been the case so far in 2026, but obviously, it's entirely possible that someone I know was at such an event/mtg. and simply didn't notice her, or, completely forgot whether they saw her or not when I asked this same question in an email to some Hollywood/Broward friends last month.

Folks who are among the area's most well-informed and enthusiastic civic activists, most of whom you already know or would recognize. 

Esp. when you look in the mirror!  

Policy-wise, Marie Woodson has largely stayed completely invisible re 1301 since she was first elected, and just a reminder, back in April when LIVE Local was being revised for the 4th year in a row in Tallahassee, she was a no-show.

She did not vote on it on the House floor right before it went to the state Senate for final passage.

Was she sick, miss her flight, have car trouble that day??? No idea.

I've checked the myriad websites and Twitter feeds of the Sun Sentinel, Herald and all four English language TV stations make no mention of it.

To me, it's odd behavior for a woman who says she's seriously considering a run for Hollywood mayor in 2028 against popular former mayor Peter Bober, someone whom I have supported in the past and and am on good terms with.

(More recently, his son and my youngest niece were both undergraduates at Yale at the same time.)

 

Woodson's public reputation thus far is that of a dependable, knee-jerk liberal Democrat not known for either her independence or willingness to push back hard against the ideas or agenda of Florida Dem leaders and their powers-that-be.

Reminder about tonight's Hollywood City Commission District 3 candidate forum at David Park.

The event is no longer a real “forum” like the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's a few weeks ago, and the reason for that is because Alex Recio's opponent, David Raskind, recently pulled out, but Recio assures me that he will be there to answer questions from the public. 

Raskind's rationale is here from Monday's The 7 & Beyond Substack by Steven Paul Schneider, wherein Raskind wrote something with the completely ballsy and self-justifying headline:

 

‘I’m Not Interested In Earning A Hall Pass From The Establishment’
David Raskind Explains His Decision To Withdraw From Upcoming Candidate Forum

https://stevenpaulschneider.substack.com/p/im-not-interested-in-earning-a-hall

Classic Raskind, and very on-brand for him, such as it is

Which is to say that from my POV, it's completely tone-deaf and misses the larger point of why anyone runs in the first place.

I suppose the best way to rebut what Raskind says is to simply repeat what one very well-informed friend of mine wrote to me recently about him and some of the other know-nothing people putting themselves forward in Hollywood as City Commission candidates who never did any of the actual preliminary hard work the past few years: showing up in-person at community events- but equipped with tailor-made excuses for why they were always the no-shows.

Always a spectator. 😒

And as if that was not bad enough, as a starter, people who have NOT made a genuinely serious effort to bring themselves up to speed on the issues Hollywood residents and stakeholders care about most, given that they are running at a disadvantage that they themselves are 100% responsible for. 

Invisibility and lacking community trust is a bad wan to run for office.

"Every time I want to give David Raskind a chance, he goes and insults everyone who is the most involved and has taken so much time away from their own families to volunteer for their community. 

He simply doesn’t understand how totally disrespectful he comes across. 

It’s like when District 1 candidate Brian Paruas when he says he couldn’t be involved because he works and has a family. #wtf???

So do a lot of us, and we still do it!" 

Reminder: Paruas is one of the candidates running in District 1 against my super-well informed and well-qualified friend, Catherine "Cat" Uden,

Paruas seems to think that him posting Instagram post of himself with friends and family at various restaurants around town is a substitute for community involvement when it was needed in the past.

Uh, it's not.

From my POV, one of the chief personal criticisms of Paruas is that among the majority of the city's most-involved and well-informed civic activists, he has been Missing-In-Action on one issue and matter after another for YEARS.
Whether the Broward County 911 Emergency antenna, the all-too-frequent personnel changes at the City Manager's office, the low personal regard that so many residents have for the performance of the Hollywood Police, including why it took so long for the city to initiate body cameras, when much smaller cities had them YEARS before? 

Why was there no sense of action among Mayor Levy and the Commission?

Paruas, like Raskind, was simply NOT there when the community needed some pushback against Josh Levy's Rubber Stamp Crew.

And now, Paruas has Levy's endorsement.

Why do you suppose that is?

Dave

David Bruce Smith  

My blog, now eponymous, , formerly called Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog: 

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The AI photo by Will Candis of Broward Blueprint re Florida's property tax issue taking the world by storm. Okay, perhaps NOT the whole world, per se. More like savvy, well-informed people I respect and know very well in #HollywoodFL. Including some of you...

More of the AI photos from Will Candis of Broward Blueprint can be seen here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbWekBNlmhF/

https://substack.com/@candiswill

Sorry for the long time in between posts. It certainly wasn't from lack of 1,001 things to discuss, so I'll be sharing those thoughts with you here in the the coming days, starting on Monday, unless I'm hit by one of the tens of thousands of lightning bolts that have been raining down on Florida the past few weeks, and already come close several times to actually zapping me.  

But for now on this very first day of August 2026, just 17 days before the 2026 Florida primary election, I have this little gold nugget I've been meaning to share the past few days.  

On Monday I'll be highlighting this and other examples of city and county governments in Florida getting a sarcastic taste of their own medicine, as they continue to break the Florida state legislature's explicit warning forbidding local and county governments from using taxpayer funds and resources to promote any position on a general election ballot issue.

Government should not use taxes to preach, despite the fact that in Florida in general and Broward in particular, we've seen a long history of just that kind of behavior,

Obviously, the Florida League of Cities and individual cities and CRAs, among others, are doing everything they can and then some to defeat the property tax ballot issue in November, whether legal or not.

But so, too, are some well-known lobbyists who don't want to see their billings take a big hit from suddenly-shrunken government clients.

Yet where are the stories about that on TV or in the newspaper?  

Perhaps we will finally start seeing such stories sooner than you think.

 

Dave 

David Bruce Smith  

My blog, now eponymous, , formerly called Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog: 

http://www.hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/

Twitter: @hbbtruth, https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/with_replies
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A Joe Carollo clone? Thomas Campenni, the Martin County man serving as plaintiff in the lawsuit vs. State of Florida re Property Tax Reduction ballot measure seems like he must be normal... Until you spend just a few minutes investigating his background. Then 📉!.

A Joe Carollo clone? 

Thomas Campenni, the Martin County man being named as plaintiff in the lawsuit vs. State of Florida re Property Tax Reduction ballot measure seems like he must be normal... 

Until you spend just a few minutes investigating his background. 

Then   .

Per my friend Steven Paul Schneider's The 7 & Beyond Substack post this afternoon,

Broward Attorney Duo File Constitutional Challenge Lawsuit Hours Ago
Case Filed In Leon County Circuit Court Attacking Validity Of State Ballot Measure On Property Tax Reduction
Steven Paul Schneider
June 11, 2026

https://stevenpaulschneider.substack.com/p/broward-attorney-duo-file-constitutional/comments

As Mayor of Stuart, a la ex-Comm. Joe Carollo in Miami, Thomas Campenni seems to have been constantly breaking the city's charter, violating state law and even found time to sic the city's code enforcement on one of his many perceived "enemies," which as most of you know, is Classic Carollo. Among other things.... 

Miami hits pause on Joe Carollo’s $770K pension settlement post legal challenge
By Ladra on May 28, 2026

https://www.politicalcortadito.com/2026/05/28/miami-pause-joe-carollo-pension-settlement-legal-challenge/

Campenni is a former City of Stuart City Commissioner (Sept. 2014 - May 2018) and one-time Mayor, a board member of the watchdog group, Martin County Taxpayers Association, so, someone who fancies himself as a political watchdog as "the publisher of Friends & Neighbors of Martin County. I am your government watchdog. I report on our local governments including the municipal, county and school board. Our newsletter and other articles and blogs are to inform our friends & neighbors in Martin County."

When you spend even just a few minutes trying to find out who he is, you realize that he doesn't ever mention that he was forced to resign as Stuart's mayor. Uh oh, serial ethics violator and all-around creep.

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Embattled mayor of Stuart resigns in aftermath of ‘pig’ comment about police

By Al Pefley | WPEC-CBS12

PUBLISHED: February 2, 2017 at 7:52 AM EST | UPDATED: June 6, 2018 at 7:19 AM EDT

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2017/02/02/embattled-mayor-of-stuart-resigns-in-aftermath-of-pig-comment-about-police/

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Tom Campenni: Stuart Commissioner described as 'bully,' accused of violating city charter

By: Meghan McRoberts
Posted 11:19 PM, Jun 22, 2017 and last updated 8:59 AM, Jun 23, 2017

Some employees of the city of Stuart consider Commissioner and former Mayor Tom Campenni to be a “bully.”

Others say he abuses his power and intimidates employees.

These are some of the findings in an 11-page investigative report released Thursday by Coral Gables attorney, Robert Norton.

Read the rest of the amazing story of corruption in plain sight at

https://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/stuart/tom-campenni-stuart-commissioner-described-as-bully-accused-of-violating-city-charter

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I'm sure there's more where this comes from, but then I only had about 15 minutes to let my fingers do the sleuthing in-between some other things I'm doing this afternoon in advance of World Cup-palooza starting in earnest, so...

ICYMI yesterday in my email to many of you: 

This sounds vaguely 1301-ish. City of Miami to finally put voter referendum on November ballot, 10-years later, re Rickenbacker Marina deal. 

Excellent sleuthing by Elaine de Valle at Political Cortadito! 

"The whole reason the city ended up in court was because it kept trying to change the rules after the game was over. So now commissioners are left with a choice that feels very Miami: Approve sending a decade-old deal to voters largely as negotiated, or risk wandering back into the legal swamp that produced years of lawsuits in the first place."  😏😒😠

Back to the future: Miami to sell voters a 10-year-old Rickenbacker Marina deal
By Ladra on June 10, 2026

https://www.politicalcortadito.com/2026/06/10/miami-referendum-rickenbacker-marina/

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Speaking of 2026 #WorldCup, wanted to get in a plug for my savvy #HollywoodFL friend, Mark Rowe, owner of super-successful

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Dave 

David Bruce Smith  

My blog, now eponymous, , formerly called Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Blog: 

http://www.hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/

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