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Sunday, 19 October 2008 |
Two years ago Democrat Tim Mahoney easily won Florida’s District 16
(parts of Palm Beach and Martin County) Congressional seat after the
incumbent, Republican Mark Foley was forced to step down after
revelations that he was guilty of sending suggestive e-mails to male
teenage pages working on Capitol Hill. At the time Mahoney promised to
return morals and family values to the district and Washington. Now,
Mahoney, who is up for reelection in November, is being accused of two
extramarital affairs.
Mahoney was accused through a report first aired by ABC News, of having
an affair with a former aide whom he fired, but paid to $121,000 to
keep the affair quiet. Although not admitting to the allegations of the
affair, Mahoney during a televised news conference with his wife,
issued a statement apologizing to his family while denying that he had
done anything illegal. In the statement Mahoney said he took full
responsibility for his actions and the pain caused to his wife Terry,
and daughter, Bailey. He said that no marriage is perfect, but the
private life of he and his family is their private life.
After making that statement on Tuesday, hours later there was a report
of another illicit affair with another woman. Reports are that someone
close to Mahoney’s reelection campaign told the Associated Press that
Mahoney also had an affair with a high-ranking Martin County female
official around the same time he was having the alleged affair with the
first.
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Huge increase in voter registrations |
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
Monday hundreds of procrastinating South Florida citizens rushed to
ensure they were registered to vote in November’s general elections.
Crowds of people were seen at various Broward county malls, where
registration sites were set up, attempting to register and although the
offices of the Broward Supervisor of Elections was open until 8:00 p.m.
to facilitate last minute registrants, people still turned up late and
missed the deadline.
Shenika Perry was devastated when she came ready to register and found
that it was too late. “Oh my Lord! Oh my Lord” she wailed. “I couldn’t
get a ride earlier, and know I am late. I really wanted to vote badly.”
The rush of late registrants was very heavy in Miami Dade, where an
employee at that county’s supervisor of elections office said she had
never seen such a rush in the almost 30 years she has been working
there. “People are taking this election very serious this year,”
Lourdes Villiers, the employee said.
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Bankruptcies rising in South Florida |
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
After a lull for approximately two years, following changes in the bankruptcy laws in 2005, South Floridians have stepped up their filing of bankruptcies, according to a Miami Herald report.
Nearly 13,500 personal bankruptcy filings were recorded in the first nine months of this year in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, which reflects an increase of 75 percent from an estimated 7,700 cases filed during the similar period in 2007. In comparison to the sharp increase in South Florida, consumer bankruptcy filings nationally increased by only 32 percent.
The sharp increase in personal bankruptcies, mainly Chapter 7 in South Florida is attributable to the negative economy being experienced in the region, with large number of people experiencing unemployment, the rising number of foreclosures, and falling property values.
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Deaths rock Miami Carnival |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
A cloud has been cast over this year’s Miami Carnival with the death of
several persons affiliated with the event – the latest being
Trinidadian Selman Lewis, CEO of the Miami Carnival Inc.
Lewis, 60, who suffered a heart attack a week earlier, succumbed to his
illness on Monday September 29 at Aventura Hospital, Aventura.
In an interview with the National Weekly, board member Sidney Roberts
said there was a general sad mood in the committee. “It’s serious
regret from everyone. We’re getting condolences from all over the
country… literally, all over the world.”
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
Former Broward sheriff ken Jenne walked out of the Federal Detention
Center in downtown Miami, Monday morning after serving 10 months of his
original sentence of one year and a day. The reduction of the sentence
by two months was the result of Jenne’s good behavior while in prison,
and also represented the standard reduced sentence for someone
imprisoned for a similar term.
Jenne, 61 was up to last year one of the most popular politicians in
Florida, with talk of him considering to run for governor of the state.
He served as Broward sheriff for almost nine years and was considered a
political powerbroker in the state. However, after being charged for
mail fraud and tax evasion, last year September he pleaded quality for
taking $151,625 in improper payments and services from Broward
Sheriff’s contractors. He served the bulk of his sentence at a federal
penitentiary in rural Western Virginia.
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