From a concerned Deerfield Beach High School parent.

11-8-2011

The coaching staff at Deerfield high has suspended all the seniors from playing their last high school football game on Friday night because the didn't show up for practice. This is the 1st year in 15 years Deerfield has not gone to the playoffs due to poor coaching. The kids were upset and nobody cared about them. The coaches gave up on our seniors. And now they are just crushing them.

I feel the community should know what they're putting our kids thru before they pay to go see their child play and they're not playing. They held a meeting today and no parents were there to defend their child or to hear the threats they made about not helping them into college, not giving them game tapes, and to just belittled them. Not the fact they played and came to every practice, played for coaches some of who don't know what they're doing.

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Boca Raton to host 2012 presidential debate.

Lynn University in Boca Raton to host a 2012 presidential debate on Oct. 22, two weeks before Nov. 6 election day

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Community info

Deerfield Beach residents: Check your FPL bills and water bills to see whether you were charged the 10% utility tax on services in September when the tax was supposed to go into effect Oct. 1. call city hall at 954-480-4263 and complain.

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Sanitation Workers should attend this Assessment Workshop by Kessler Consulting Inc. on solid waste and recycling operations.

Courtesy of city's website.

Title: City Commission Workshop Date: October 26, 2011 Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:30 PM Description: A City Commission Workshop will be held on Wed., Oct. 26 at 7 PM at the Public Works Facility, 401 SW 4th Street. Kessler Consulting Inc. will be presenting the findings of their assessment of the city's solid waste and recycling operations. Workshop will be preceded by a Special CRA Meeting, which begins at 6:30 PM. Address: Public Works Facility 401 SW 4th St. Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

TOP NEWS: Home burglaries on the rise in Broward County

From the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

Home burglaries on the rise in Broward County

Most of Broward County 's largest cities reported stunning increases in home burglaries since 2007 despite a nationwide drop in crime.

The full story can be viewed at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-increased-burglaries-safety-20111004-54,0,1188809.story

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The General Employee Union, (IUPAT) wins layoff Arbitraton against the City of Deerfield Beach. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!

This contract language clearly provides the City with authority to determine which positions it could eliminate. The City exercised this authority reducing full time bargaining unit positions in the following job classifications:


1. Chemical Specialist

2. Community Code Investigator

3. Equipment Operator I

4. Equipment Operator II

5. Equipment Operator III

6. Landscape Technician

7. Maintenance Worker I

8. Parts Specialist



In three of these classifications [Community Code Investigator, Landscape Technician, and Parts Specialist] there was only one employee in the classification prior to the layoff. As such, when those employees were laid off the classifications were essentially eliminated. The other five classifications remained, with employees who were not laid off continuing to perform duties therein. The laid off full time employees were relieved of their duties effective on the date of the layoff, July 30, 2010. They were, however, provided with paid administrative leave time until September 30, 2010. Laid off part time employees were given two weeks of paid administrative leave, until August 13, 2010. It is clear that the City complied with the notice requirement of Article 13(2)(d) for both full time and part time employees.



There was no evidence presented to indicate that regular full time employees were laid off before emergency, temporary and provisional employees or probationary employees in possible violation of Article 13(2)(c).



Notwithstanding the above, the controlling contract language regarding which full time employees are to be laid off is found in Article 13(2)(e). That Section provides that full time employees shall be laid off on the basis of the following factors weighed equally:

1) Length of service in a class

2) Length of service with the City

3) Length of service with the Department

4) Performance evaluations for the last two years or the length of the employee’s service…








Employer’s Claim that the Union Arguments Raised at the Hearing Should Not be Considered


The City argues that the lack of specificity in the grievance should cause the Arbitrator to not consider the arguments raised by the Union at the arbitration hearing. The City contends that the Union has waived such arguments by failing to raise them prior to the hearing. The City argued that had the Union been more specific in the grievance or during the grievance procedure, any specific violations could have been addressed and corrected before the layoffs became effective. The City’s argument was carefully considered, but found to be not convincing. The grievance asserted violations of the seniority and layoff articles of the labor agreement. The arguments raised by the Union at the arbitration hearing did not introduce any new issues, but merely brought into sharper focus the specific claims of the grievance. The issue was at the outset and continues to be a violation of the layoff language in the contract. It would be surprising that the City, being experienced in the field of labor relations, and after having reviewed its actions in regard to how it determined which employees would be laid off, did not have a sense that the Union was concerned about the process used to select employees for layoff. In any event, the City did not state at the hearing that it was so taken back by the Union’s specific charges raised at the hearing that it needed time to prepare or strengthen its case. Arbitrators will often grant a request for a continuance when one party to a dispute contends that the arguments raised by the opposing side have caught it off guard. No such request for a continuance was made at this hearing.



Remedy

The record of this hearing compels a finding that the City did not properly prepare a list of regular full time employees in accordance with their rank on the four equally weighed factors of classification seniority, department seniority, City seniority and performance evaluations. The Union requests that in order to remedy this situation all laid off employees should be returned to work with back pay and made whole. The Union’s requested remedy is overreaching. It is likely that some regular full time employees who were laid off will, after a proper lay off list is prepared, remain in layoff status. In such case those employees would not be entitled to reinstatement or a monetary award. The City is correct in its view that to return all laid off employees to work with back pay would result in a windfall that some, perhaps most of the employees are not entitled to.

The City is ordered to prepare a list of all employees which ranks them on the four equally weighted factors of classification seniority, department seniority, City seniority, and performance evaluations for all classifications in which they have held permanent classification. If an employee has held permanent classification in more than one classification he/she shall have their classification seniority determined for every classification held in accordance with Article 13(2)(f) or Article 13(2)(h) as appropriate depending on whether their classifications were in the same classification division. Layoffs by job classification are to be made in accordance with the ranking of employees on that list. Employees who were laid off on July 30, 2010 and are shown to be properly laid off on the ranking list to be prepared under this order shall remain on layoff status. Employees who are shown on the ranking list to have been improperly laid off shall be returned to work with unbroken seniority and back pay from the effective date of the layoff less any unemployment compensation they received and are not obligated to repay, and less any income from wages they received from work undertaken to replace the income lost when they were laid off. Interest on net back pay is awarded at an annually compounded interest rate of 3.00 percent per year. Jurisdiction of this arbitrator is retained for a period of sixty (60) days from the date of this award to assist the parties with the implementation of its terms if requested.



















IN THE MATTER OF ARBITRATION BETWEEN





INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS
OPINION AND AWARD

AND ALLIED TRADES, AFL-CIO


DISTRICT COUNCIL 78, LOCAL 1010


Union
Layoff Grievance







and
FMCS Case No. 11-01763-3







CITY OF DEERFIELD BEACH


City/Employer




AWARD

Based on the evidence and testimony taken into the record in this case, the grievance is sustained in part and denied in part. The remedy described supra is awarded.



10/2/2011 James L. Reynolds

Dated: ________________________ _________________________________

James L Reynolds

Arbitrator



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IUPAT wins on the layoffs.

Broward County



By Elgin Jones  http://www.sfltimes.com/
ANOTHER MESS

The city of Deerfield Beach has suffered yet another embarrassing setback. In September 2010 city manager Burgess Hanson laid off more than 100 full and part-time employees without any notice or process. An arbitrator has issued a ruling that once again exposes the blatant incompetence of this city. Among other things, the ruling found the list the city used as the basis for the layoffs was done improperly and the process used to be in violation of the union contract. The ruling requires the city to compile a new seniority list, rehire some full time employees with full back pay, benefits and seniority. The city must also pay the affected employees 3 percent interest on their money. The final cost has not been determined, but taxpayers will get soaked because of mismanagement and a lack of foresight. Whew!

Update from Rescind Unfair Taxes

At 5 p.m. this evening, I was informed by the city attorney that the petitions would not be ready for pick-up on Thursday as I had indicated. It seems that our contention that we could not proceed without the names of the 973 voters who were thrown out because of incorrect precincts finally hit the mark. The Clerk's office is dealing with the SOE to provide us with those names.Then we shall be able to get the petitions and start our amendment process.

An update from REscind Unfair Taxes

On Thursday, October 13th, the Rescind Unfair Taxes will pick up the petitions to amend what we had submitted. Due to the insistence of the Deerfield city clerk and the city attorney, the Supervisor of Elections had to verify the signer's precinct number although that had never been a criteria in the past to determine if anyone was a registered voter. The city charter does ask for the precinct number, but nowhere does it insist that they be verified. As a result 973 Deerfield voters were disenfranchised. We need to collect 1234 new signatures in order to have the commission rethink their passage of the public service tax by sending it to referendum. As of this date, the 12th, we still do not have the names of those residents whose signatures were thrown out. How can we amend what we do not have? From the beginning, there have been a number of errors on the part of the city. Originally we were told we would have to get 4200 signatures. Now the city clerk tells us we only need 4,128. Just how many registered voters were there at the last municipal election? The figure we were given by the city attorney is not the same one that the city clerk is now offering. Why can't the city get its act together.

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Message from Rescind Unfair Taxes.

By Jean Robb The commission is grasping at straws to convince the voters that the people who circulated the petition did something wrong. The only thing we did was to give a voice to 6,000 plus registered voters who had no voice on June 7th when 3 of them voted to impose this tax. Who is lowering the real estate tax? You are. Not the Commission What they want you to pay monthly for the utility tax will be used to lower the millage. The city says it will only cost you 15.00 a month. That is 180.00 for the year. Did your tax bill go down that much? Check it out. The millage can be lowered without the new tax, but the commission is determined not to listen. Tuesday, September 6th, is the public hearing and it is your turn to be heard. The Rescind Unfair Taxes will speak. Listen to what they have to say and then get up and speak your mind. Tell the commission not to spend 102,000 to send this tax to referendum. Tell them to listen to the people they are supposed to represent and kill the tax now.

Community info

Rescind Unfair Taxes will be making its presentation to the commission at the meeting Tuesday September 6 at 7 p.m. They will be asking for a vote to rescind the 10% utility tax. It is important that all be there to lend support to their effort.

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Guest Commentary

By Jean Robb, Deerfield Beach Mayor 1980-1993 On Sept. 6 , the Rescind Unfair Taxes will present 6,000 signatures for verification by the SOE and ask the commission to rescind the action take on June 7th when the 10% utility tax was imposed. Since the 10% has already been plugged into this budget, there has to be a Plan B. The tax is supposed to generate 6 million dollars to lower the millage rate by using 4,622,065 of the money. Last year's budget passed with 8 million in the undesignated reserve. This year there is 10,596,455 in that fund. Take 2,596,455 to lower the millage rate. The city can still maintain its bond rating with a percentage rating of the general fund which stands at 74 million. Where is the 2.9 million the city was to save with the BSO merger for the Fire Department? The budget sheet for the Fire Dept. lists costs at 18,192 thousand which reflects only 577,000 less than last year's budget. We hear everyone should pay his fair share. If so, if the worker bees are giving back 5% than why aren't the people making over 100,000 giving back 10%? The fire assessment fee was passed to everyone pay his fair share. It would seem more logical to increase that deductible fee to offset the money needed to lower the millage. The Charter says the commission can not make changes in their own salaries, but there is nothing to prevent them from voluntarily giving back 5 % of their salaries and make a move to end their pensions as part-time emplyees are not eligible. There are ways to lower the millage to 5.67 without adding a new tax to the mix.

Info

If you have wanted to sign the Rescind Unfair Taxes petition, and you have not yet done so, the opportunity to do so presents itself. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 13th, the petition will be available for signatures at the Chamber of Commerce building on Hillsboro Boulevard. Let your voice be heard.

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LOCAL NEWS: Broward gets corruption hotline

From the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

Broward gets corruption hotline

Imagine a team of corruption investigators sitting at the ready, waiting for your tips about government activity in Broward that looks fishy.

The full story can be viewed at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-corruption-hotline-20110723,0,2834073.story

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Congratulations to Ben Preston, our new District 2 Commissioner.

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Ben Preston savors election victory.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/videobeta/7f2c4f44-1901-4869-ba1a-ca15d2c26e81/News/Ben-Preston-savors-election-victory

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South Florida Times: Miami , Broward, Palm Beach, Breaking News & Weather at SFLTimes.com - Sexual battery charges dropped against noted physician

http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7529&Itemid=1

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Watch "Beckett - Take Action" on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffs5YNg4i8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Longtime Deerfield Beach employee Johnny Tigner passes.

A fixture at Westside Park for over 35 years, the man who guided the 60`s, 70's, 80' s 90's generation at Westside Park Recreation. Johnny Tigner passed tonight, Tigner, the soft spoken man will be missed by this community. I hope one day Johnny Tigner can have a part of Westside Park named after him, he certainly is well deserving of that honor.

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TOP NEWS: Hollywood serves 13 police officers with layoff notices

From the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

Hollywood serves 13 police officers with layoff notices

The City Commission on Monday laid off 13 police officers and handed a 10 percent pay cut to the rest of its already short-staffed police department.

The full story can be viewed at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-hollywood-police-layoffs-20110613,0,1723552.story

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Judge Barbara McCarthy must go! Here is the form to start the process.

The form: http://floridajqc.com/images/ JQCComplaintForm.pdf

This is the link for a Judicial complaint against Barbara McCarthy, who will be up for reelection in 2016. Equal protection didn't work for Max. We can make it happen.

It is my belief she violated the "appearance of impropriety" in the Ethics Law.

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COLUMNISTS: Judge McCarthy lenient with LeVin, tough on local driver

From the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

Judge McCarthy lenient with LeVin, tough on local driver

Two guilty defendants with criminal records, two driving offenses, one judge.

The full story can be viewed at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-levin-judge-mayocol-b060911-20110609,0,2332682.column

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Broward Politics | Sun Sentinel Blogs | Five candidates seek to replace suspended Deerfield Commissioner

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2011/06/five_candidates_seek_to_replac.html

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VOTE YES ON IUPAT CONTRACT RATIFICATION VOTE ON JUNE 9, 2011

By Wayne Adams

Last year over 100 Deerfield Beach city employees were laid off without any type of advanced formal notice, or may i say warning. Most people i knew were outraged, some of the laid off employees are still angry about Friday July 30, 2010. They have every right too, for they were never given this unique opportunity to bargain for their jobs.


 The City of Deerfield Beach, in current contract negotiations is offering the General Employees a 3 year contract, with no layoffs or privatization with the exception of Solid Waste, Fire Department employees. In the third year Fleet Maintance could possibly be laid off. The Employees would have to take a 5% pay cut, rollback merit raises to those employees who received them in the last fiscal year, I'm being told that is about 38-50 employees affected. The employees must pay 10% towards now free healthcare insurance.

The financially strapped city hope to save $1.2 million annually. This city for years have slighted the general employees taking away from them and lining the Firemen pockets with gracious salary and pension benefits. For the first time in my memory, the city is looking for the same concessions from the firefighters, who are still in contract negotiations with the city.

The cuts are tough to absorb, I'm the first to admit that. But for city employees and some residents to imply that the IUPAT employees union have sold the membership out, is totally ridiculous at best. I have been on the negotiating team for 5 years, I have given my heart and soul for the employees of this city, but in these tough times when layoffs are occurring all over Florida, and across the U.S. Some Deerfield Beach employees, and residents are taking shots at this union, the union and their reps are always the easiest targets for disgruntled employees in tough financial crisis. This is the same union that got Deerfield employees 4% COLA raises for 3 years, when other cities were cutting back. The same union that got  their part timers in Deerfield Beach benefits when some other cities deny their part timers any type of benefits.

Let's look at the sanitation/recycling, before and after layoffs only 9 out of 44 employees were union members. Many joined within the last 2 months only after the Florida Legislature threatened the existence of unions. IUPAT, has around 350 union eligible members in the unit. I was told the assessment report is in on the Solid Waste Department, the report I'm being told is in favor of keeping some functions of Solid Waste, and making some functions private. I think the level of service is excellent in Solid Waste and they should be retained by the city. We get the Cadillac of service with residential pickups.

I have always been cognizant of being a taxpayer and a city employee, it's a tough balancing act. The contract offered by the city isn't the best, but the majority of jobs will be saved. The employees this year have a clear choice with their destiny, the 100 or so employees last year didn't have a choice or chance to bargain for their jobs. What stands in my mind is 18 year former employee, William "Bo" Jackson, coming to me after getting laid off that Friday, the pain on his face, I'll never forget. I made a promise to myself, to never let that happen again if I'm a part of the union. The top union officials, who should be trying to advocate saving employees jobs are sending mixed signals to other employees by being quiet about the June 9 vote. They reportedly don't want to be perceived as giving in to management. The 100 or so city employees laid off last summer never had a chance to negotiate for their jobs.

I'm sure commissioners will sleep peacefully, knowing that employees were given a option this time around if layoffs occur. I'm hearing many employees in the excluded groups will vote no. It's like the "if I go down, everyone should mentality", that's spreading across the workforce.

In the past the blue collar employees wanted the same concessions from every worker, including management in the city, it was always denied. The management team  granted the Union request after tense negotiations this year, everyone from the City Manager on down will take a 5% pay cut, and pay $30 a month for healthcare, that was once free.

My taxes on my home went from $1399.00 to $1735.00 in 2010. I can't afford to have another increase like that again. The city employees must understand that this city is in one of the worst financial crises, in my memory. I'm pro union, but I'm also mindful of the financial stability of our city. Some city workers seem to believe that the city has money stashed away. Some city workers and union officials want to roll the dice hoping that the City Manager Burgess Hanson won't layoff employees to close a $3 million gap. We saw what happened last July.

We saw DCF, give layoff notices to over 500 employees last week. We also saw the Broward County School Board hand out over 1,400 pink slips to teachers, with the Sun-Sentinel reporting another 500 supporting cast to be let go too. This budget crises isn't limited to Deerfield Beach, we know how the problem arose here with Mahaney depleting the reserves, but also saving jobs. Mike Mahaney came and talked to city employees in 2009, he warned all of us of the budget crises looming in the 2010/2011/2012 fiscal year. The Deerfield Beach city employees can act surprised if they want but Mahaney, with all his faults did warned all employees of this dreaded day.

It's too late to point fingers and place blame. The horse is out the barn and running around. We need a fix to this budget crises that has arose all across this country. The city employees can't win this battle like we did in 2003, with Larry Deetjen. The union took our fight to Arbitration, and lost, the commission was generous, all except Mayor Al, Trinchi led the way and we got our raises and COLAS retroactive too. The commission isn't on our side in this battle. I can count the votes. We had a majority of union friends on the Deerfield Beach Commission, those days are long behind us now. The contract offer on the table isn't the best, according to city officals, but it's the best they can offer at this time.

This contract has a reopeoner to bargain for wages before April of 2012, nothing is promised, but employees can attempt to bargain for wages before the end April of 2012. Employees who have been employed in Deerfield Beach, for over 17 years will tell you that this isn't the first time blue collar workers have been asked to have raises withheld. We worked with the city and no jobs were lost, in my memory this has happened at least three times in my over 22 years.

In tough financial times we have to pull together and hope not to become like the city of Lauderdale Lakes, who fired their City Manager a few weeks ago. The focus should be all about the well being and survival of Deerfield Beach, and not about some of our selfish greedy city employees, who could care less about the financial state of our city. Look at the city of Hollywood, their reserves dropped to $ 2 million dollars and forcing the city to declare "Financial Urgency" and asking the unions to enter into contract renegotiations. The Hollywood taxpayers will be hit with large increases.

It is also imperative that city leaders and administrators do not allow incompetance and mismanagement to continue to cripple our city, with no accountability and hefty raises given to cronies on the management team with no official oversight.

Property values dropped in Deerfield Beach by 4.6 percent. Most employees don't care about this city and don't live here so they could care less about the millage rate going up or down, or the thousands in this city living on fixed incomes.The only thing some employees care about is bleeding this city dry. 

I've heard in recent days certain employees in certain departments are basically daring Burgess Hanson to lay them off. Some making foolish statements that they believe the City Manager to be making scare tactics of layoffs. This type of thinking is beyond my belief. Many are going around telling other employees to vote no on June 9. These are some of the same employees who gave up crucial benefits for a $500 bonus. Jim Jones and David Koresh led many people to their death, I'm afraid some employees, and some union officials are leading some city employees in that same direction with the ratification vote on June 9. This city has over 350 bargaining unit eligible union members. Most care about their jobs and understands the dire financial state of this city. Some just don't get it, and have their heads stuck in the sand.

With the budget hearings scheduled to begin on June 8, 2011 if this contract fails, I' m pretty sure the City Manager, with commission approval will possibly begain a repeat of July 30, 2010. The Union can't do a damn thing about it either, (oh, go to Impasse, we will lose that again too, and it will be imposed on us anyway) Last year union officials cut their phones off when hundreds of laid off employees begain calling. What do employees think will happen again? The layoff Arbirtration Hearing is Tuesday June 7, 2011.
 
So, why would anyone vote no on this contract ratification when jobs are clearly on the line?  I've heard many theories, all absurd too. This union top priority should be trying to save employees from layoffs. The city, according to our contract, Article 4 section 1 under Management Rights: The city has the right to merge, consolidate or close a department or any part thereof; expand, reduce, alter, combine, assign or cease any job. How much clear is that for people to understand in the affected areas. Giving into the city demands isn't a sign of weakness as perceived by some in and outside of the city. It's being sensible in a society laced with unemployment. With Governor Rick Scott's new unemployment requirements, what fool would want to risk the chance rolling the dice and voting no on the contract ratification vote on June 9.
 
 What this contract offer workers is protection from layoffs. The workers who are doing the jobs now will be doing the job next year. Ultimately, this union should be trying to prioritize job security, for which i haven't seen or heard yet. They seem to be bending over backwards to a few loudmouth employees, who are in every department. These selfish employees could care less if this city goes financially broke. In these moments of controversy, it's everyone responsibility to meet half way and get this city back on it's feet again. The employees didn't make this mess, but we have a moral responsibility to help clean this mess up. 
 
I'm a 44 year resident of Deerfield Beach, and a taxpayer for the last 17 years who genuinely care about my community and it's workers. My family has resided in Deerfield Beach since 1926
 
 
Vote YES! on June 9, 2011 for IUPAT contract ratification. Vote YES! for common sense job protection.
 
 
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Challenging Authority
 

Federal Judge delivers message to corrupt politicians

By Sun- Sentinel

Federal judge delivered a tough warning to corrupt politicians and those who enable them as he sentenced former Broward power broker Dr. Alan Mendelsohn to four years in federal prison Wednesday. The Hollywood eye doctor had asked for compassion and a light sentence of house arrest and community service for his role in a lobbying and political fundraising fraud. Federal prosecutors suggested a term of two years in prison, arguing that Mendelsohn's influence-peddling had corrupted the political process and undermined public confidence in government. But U.S. District Judge William Zloch expressed distaste for Mendelsohn's crime and criticized the pay-to-play culture of Florida politics that Mendelsohn detailed when he pleaded guilty.

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David Cody and Andre Samuels to appear on WHQT Fm Hot 105.1 tonight at 11:30pm

Blogger David Cody and Andre Samuels will appear on Hot Talk, with Chief Jimmy Brown, to discuss the current political situation in Deerfield Beach. The show starts at 11:30 pm, you can call into the show at 954-522-9849 Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Little League Football Coach Suspended After ESPN Broadcast. Read the full story on the Pulp

On May 1, television sports giant ESPN broadcast an exposé on gambling in the South Florida Youth Football League --including a segment of Pompano Cowboys Coach Osbert Small allegedly gambling in the stands of a kids football game. According to ESPN, Small --an employee of Pompano Beach for more than 20 years --was suspended by the league Tuesday, only a few weeks after his embarrassing interview on ESPN's Outside the Lines. Small, who also owns Easy O.Z. Bail Bonds in Pompano Beach, was decrying gambling at youth football games in South Florida in his interview. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android