Thanks for the laughs Gregory Tony

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It was really entertaining the last couple of months. Thanks for the memories. Good luck on your future endeavors.

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It was really entertaining the last couple of months. Thanks for the memories. Good luck on your future endeavors.

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Broward deputies union asks Gov. DeSantis to remove Sheriff Gregory Tony

06/04/20

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Hours after a protest called for the firing of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, the Broward Sheriff’s Deputies Union has formally written to Gov. Ron DeSantis asking for Tony’s removal.

“The request to formally ask the Governor to remove Gregory Tony was made out of necessity for the 5,000 Union members at the Broward Sheriff’s Office who come to work knowing that their boss is unqualified during a time of national emergency and epidemic,” union president Jeff Bell, who has been suspended by Tony, said in a statement Thursday.

Bell went on to write that, “If Gregory Tony were to accurately and honestly complete a Law Enforcement Officer job application today with all of the information the public has learned over the past two months, he would have a near impossible time finding a Law Enforcement job anywhere in the Nation."

Tony was appointed to the Broward Sheriff job by DeSantis in January 2019 after the governor removed Scott Israel in the fallout of the Parkland massacre.

Tony and Israel are both candidates in the election for the position later this year.

Tony’s campaign said earlier Thursday that politics was the reason for Thursday’s protest that also called for the reinstatement of suspended deputy Ron Thurston. Thurston, a popular longtime deputy, had his badge taken this week after he criticized the diversity within the department.

“Yet again, Scott Israel’s campaign just can’t be honest,” Tony’s campaign said in a statement. “This was a political event organized by Scott Israel’s paid political consultants, and attended by political opponents of Sheriff Tony and Scott Israel himself.”

In April, members of the deputies union voted no confidence in Tony, largely stemming from an alleged shortage of personal protective equipment early in the coronavirus outbreak. (Israel also received a vote of no-confidence from the union before his removal.)

Since then, details of Tony’s past have emerged, including his killing a man during his teenage years in what was deemed self-defense. Questions have also come up about how truthful and forthcoming Tony was on job applications and law enforcement forms.

Read the letter the union sent to DeSantis below:

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Jeff 0
Pollock -4

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Yet another FAILURE.
Keep fu@king around Jeff and our boss now will be our elected boss later.
Too many people in the democratic race. Keep this up Jeff and you will be Fired as your punishment for going after Tony because Pollock fooled up.

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I don't know how you figure that. I see it as Tony the Toilet is a racist, uncle Tom oppressor who's sheriff during the most volatile time in recent American history. He is a black plantation owner oppressing his own people while rubbing elbows with rich high society whites and blacks and bumping uglies with white women and men. I didn't see any black females or males in those swinging penis Bliss photos.

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I don't know how you figure that. I see it as Tony the Toilet is a racist, uncle Tom oppressor who's sheriff during the most volatile time in recent American history. He is a black plantation owner oppressing his own people while rubbing elbows with rich high society whites and blacks and bumping uglies with white women and men. I didn't see any black females or males in those swinging penis Bliss photos.

Those pics in his banana hammock are hot!!!🥒

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Governor’s office passes on union’s request to oust Sheriff Gregory Tony 
SKYLER SWISHER
June 4 at 8:44 PM ET
Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t going to act on a deputies union’s request that he suspend Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s from his post ahead of August’s election, the governor’s spokeswoman suggested Thursday night.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association asked the governor in a letter to oust Tony, citing omissions the DeSantis-appointed sheriff made on job applications and other paperwork about his past.
Helen Ferre, a DeSantis spokeswoman, knocked down the notion that the governor is planning to suspend Tony.
“Broward voters will have the opportunity to decide who will be their sheriff,” she wrote in an email.

DeSantis made similar remarks to reporters in Tallahassee in early May.
The union is supporting Al Pollock in the Aug. 18 Democratic primary election and has been waging a public battle against Tony.
Tony should be suspended because he hid information about his past on job applications, Jeff Bell, the union’s president, wrote in the letter made public Thursday.
“Broward Sheriff’s Office employees have lost respect for and must endure a sense of disgust when employees come to work knowing that their ‘sheriff’ has lied, cheated and obtained the position that he holds today through deception,” Bell wrote.
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Bell’s union, which represents about 1,400 of the Sheriff Office’s roughly 5,500 employees, has voted “no confidence” in Tony’s leadership.
Tony’s campaign dismissed the letter as a political stunt.
“It’s no surprise that a suspended police officer who represents a union that has already endorsed the sheriff’s opponent is writing a politically motivated letter to the governor." Joshua Karp, a campaign spokesman, said in a prepared statement. "It’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”

The governor can suspend a sheriff for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties or commission of a felony. The Florida Senate is responsible for upholding or overturning a suspension.
In interviews, Tony has dismissed omissions on his law enforcement paperwork as politically motivated attacks digging up decades-old issues and urged voters to evaluate his present performance as sheriff.
As a first-time candidate, Tony has faced scrutiny for not disclosing on a 2005 job application with the Coral Springs Police Department that he shot and killed an 18-year-old man in 1993 when he was a teenager. Tony, 41, was not found guilty of wrongdoing in the shooting, and he says it was self-defense.
He wrote he’d never used hallucinogens, but on a previous application with the Tallahassee Police Department, he admitted to using LSD in 1995. He also left off his application that he’d been accused of passing a bad check when he was a student at Florida State University. That charge was dismissed, but Tony wrote an apology letter for leaving it off his Coral Springs application when it turned up in a subsequent background check.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has launched a preliminary investigation into Tony’s paperwork.
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Bell and Tony are enemies.
Tony suspended Bell with pay and placed him under an internal affairs investigation in April, accusing the union leader of making false statements, engaging in corrupt practices and engaging in conduct unbecoming. Bell has said he was punished for saying that deputies didn’t have the equipment they needed to protect themselves from coronavirus.
DeSantis appointed Tony to the post in January 2019 to replace Scott Israel. DeSantis ousted Israel as sheriff as part of the fallout from the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting that left 17 students and staff dead.
Israel is also challenging Tony in the Democratic primary.
Staff writer Lisa J. Huriash contributed to this report.
Staff writer Skyler Swisher can be reached at sswisher@sunsentinel.com, 561-243-6634 or @SkylerSwisher.
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