Why Broward Doesn't "Work" - Part Three
First Pies All Around ....
In a perfect world, Broward citizens would regularly run amuck – hurling custard pies at their nine elected County Commissioners in session each Tuesday deep in the bowels of downtown Government Building.
Just yesterday (June 15), Broward's Nefarious Nine Commissioners voted unanimously* to battle a move to keep them, their families and domestic partners from serving as paid lobbyists. (*Commissioner Sue Gunzberger has since said she good -- and now opposes the jihad against ethics reform.)
As earlier reported, a number of commissioners and their family members are ebaged – or have egaged – in using their connections to reap fees as lobbyists.
Oh yes.
Naturally, our County Commissioners will spend our tax dollars to finance their legal battle to defeat the anti-lobbyist measure proposed by a Broward Ethics Commission.
Which gives new meaning to the term chutzpah.
And further serves as yet another a cruel reminder of how and why government is anything but representative here in Florida's second largest county.
How so?
Broward voters created the 11-member Ethics Commission in a county-wide referendum on the ballot in the 2008 General Election.
What's more...
County Commissioners Ilene Lieberman and Stacy Ritter – both married to full time lobbyists – were elected without any opposition in the same election that saw the creation of the Ethics Commission that now proposes to put their husbnands out of work.
Which lends a decidedly obscene connotation to Real Politiks in Broward County.
And merits custard pies hurled all around.
Followed by stripping Lieberman and Ritter saggy-butt naked and dragging them down Las Olas Boulevard at high noon behind a Waste Management garbage truck.
In a perfect world, Broward citizens would regularly run amuck – hurling custard pies at their nine elected County Commissioners in session each Tuesday deep in the bowels of downtown Government Building.
Just yesterday (June 15), Broward's Nefarious Nine Commissioners voted unanimously* to battle a move to keep them, their families and domestic partners from serving as paid lobbyists. (*Commissioner Sue Gunzberger has since said she good -- and now opposes the jihad against ethics reform.)
As earlier reported, a number of commissioners and their family members are ebaged – or have egaged – in using their connections to reap fees as lobbyists.
Oh yes.
Naturally, our County Commissioners will spend our tax dollars to finance their legal battle to defeat the anti-lobbyist measure proposed by a Broward Ethics Commission.
Which gives new meaning to the term chutzpah.
And further serves as yet another a cruel reminder of how and why government is anything but representative here in Florida's second largest county.
How so?
Broward voters created the 11-member Ethics Commission in a county-wide referendum on the ballot in the 2008 General Election.
What's more...
County Commissioners Ilene Lieberman and Stacy Ritter – both married to full time lobbyists – were elected without any opposition in the same election that saw the creation of the Ethics Commission that now proposes to put their husbnands out of work.
Which lends a decidedly obscene connotation to Real Politiks in Broward County.
And merits custard pies hurled all around.
Followed by stripping Lieberman and Ritter saggy-butt naked and dragging them down Las Olas Boulevard at high noon behind a Waste Management garbage truck.
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