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    Very true, however even Patten had the ability to call on great leaders like McArthur and Eisenhower to help him. So far, Greg Tony has only called upon a school teacher for a chief of staff and a undersheriff who spent most of his 10 years in law enforcement deployed in the military . These guys are complete armatures

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    That's not the sentiment outside of the agency. Ask people. They're all in for Tony and he'll probably win in a landslide. AA, Jews and the money in north Broward, they're already out there. People love an underdog who comes from left field. Black guy from Philly, a college walk on for football, he's got a great story and the public doesn't want a career law enforcement guy who has been embroiled in Broward politics. And, they don't work in the agency and don't care about who was qualified, or who deserved it. The voters elect the Sheriff. Tony is the antithesis of Scott Israel and that's all he needs to make it to the finish line. Think about it. One guy is talking about AST and the other is manipulating senior citizens. Israel has lost blacks, hispanic, jews. He has some leftovers in the gay community and some at Century Village who may expire by 2020. When your base is wearing rainbow scarves or Depends, you appear to be anything but a lion. The best thing about Tony seems to be that he is an inclusion guy, at least he says he is. We'll see about that. The mere fact that he STATES that he will consider the input of what he describes as an agency of talented individuals is huge. The former administration was an obvious dictatorship and appeared to be just that from the outside looking in. Still, the association with Rose does nothing re-establish public trust. They come across to the public as manipulative co-conspirators. Time will tell, but there's already significant momentum for Tony. Truth is, democrats love a cool black guy. Broward is left, left left. May not be what everyone wanted, but at least there's a chance to work toward undoing the Broward Coward label. Israel digs himself a deeper hole at every event. Hope he is booked with speaking engagements.
    The fact that the democrats love a cool black guy says it all. And if that is your sentiment on who should lead an agency of this size, you are absolutely part of the problem, and probably a hypocrite. Wow a cool black guy with a white wife. Thats about as sophisticated as a pap smear.

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    Very true, however even Patten had the ability to call on great leaders like McArthur and Eisenhower to help him. So far, Greg Tony has only called upon a school teacher for a chief of staff and a undersheriff who spent most of his 10 years in law enforcement deployed in the military . These guys are complete armatures
    Dear Israel supporter,
    Please go away, I wouldn't waste my Narcan on you.

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    Can't wait for the circus to start! Silly Willie, Jane Fonda, the Ninney guy, Tony the Tiger and a host of other clowns! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Exclamation We're getting the gang back together!

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    Oh yea? Well MR. Scott Israel told the Sun-Sentinel today that he is running in 2020 TOO! So, nanny-nanny-POOH!
    AND don't talk about shriveled up old guys like that! Those are called "my constituents"!
    Yo, Adrian! Did U see all da people dat came 2 hear me campaign today? I wuz AMAZING!

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    Suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday that he and his family were devastated by the mass murders at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and that the horrific tragedy didn’t justify his removal from office, an action he derided as a political maneuver by Gov. Ron DeSantis.


    Israel also said he’s intent on getting his badge back, from the Florida Senate, through the courts, or as a candidate in the 2020 election. He said he is “100 percent” certain he’ll be on the ballot as a candidate for the job, regardless of whether he’s reinstated before then.


    Appearing before a friendly audience of about 60 people at the Democratic Club at Century Village in Pembroke Pines, Israel said he should be judged on the totality of his career, not because of what happened at Stoneman Douglas on Feb. 14 and not his disastrous appearance on CNN 11 days after the shooting.


    “Who here would want to be judged for a lifetime of work, who here would want to be judged by one horrific incident or one bad day in your life?” he said. “Don’t you want to be judged — as people and Americans — by the totality of what you’ve done, by a life’s work?”


    Israel said DeSantis was not justified in suspending him from office over his agency’s response to the massacre in which 17 people were killed and 17 wounded.


    “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not a perfect person. I’m not a perfect sheriff. But I was devastated [by the shooting]. I’m a good dad, I’m a good husband, and I’m a good sheriff, and I want to get back in,” he said. “I worked hard as the sheriff. I have been honorable as the sheriff. This is not right.”


    In his Jan. 11 order suspending Israel from the office he was first elected to in 2012, DeSantis cited incompetence and neglect of duty and said Israel “egregiously failed in his duties” by not properly training deputies and not maintaining “a culture of vigilance and thoroughness,” among other problems.


    Israel said Thursday that he takes “complete responsibly” for the actions of the people in the agency. “What we don’t take responsibility for is one killing or one person being shot. That is the responsibility of a monstrous, evil killer, nobody else, just him. He picked up the gun. He programmed himself to destroy families, to destroy lives.”
    CNN interview


    Israel acknowledged his poor performance during the infamous CNN interview Feb. 25, when he proclaimed, “I have given amazing leadership to this agency.”


    “You’ve heard me speak many times. I’m a good public speaker. I’m not Barack Obama, but then who is?” Israel said Thursday. “That day, I was godawful.”


    “It wasn’t the statement I wanted to make,” he said, expressing a desire for a do-over in which he’d have praised everyone at the agency for years of work.


    Former Sheriff Scott Israel files challenge over his removal from office

    He said he didn’t want to make excuses, then explained he was exhausted the Sunday of the interview, having been up until 4:30 a.m. on agency business and getting up at 6 a.m. to go to the interview.


    At the same time, his family was in turmoil. “It was a devastating time for us — not as devastating of course as for the families who lost loved ones,” Israel said. “It was a catastrophic time for us.”


    He and his family had lived in Parkland for 20 years and could see Stoneman Douglas from his backyard. His children attended school there. “My wife was beyond devastation,” he said.


    DeSantis unfair

    He excoriated DeSantis, who as a candidate for governor in the weeks after the shooting said that he would have suspended Israel if he had already been governor.


    Three days after DeSantis took office in January “he made good on a political promise. My suspension is political. It’s anti-American. It’s anti-democratic. It’s unacceptable. You don’t do that to people,” Israel said. “Shame on him for that, and I just hope and pray the truth will come out.”


    Had there been a legitimate cause to suspend him, Israel said it would have been done by the previous governor, Rick Scott, now a U.S. senator. “[Scott] wasn’t asleep at the wheel. He knew what was going on.” Scott, like DeSantis, is a Republican.


    He told the audience he was deprived of his ability to earn a living by the suspension, which ended his paycheck. Later, in a brief interview, he said he isn’t working but has an annual pension between $72,000 and $73,000 a year from his law enforcement career before becoming sheriff.


    Not political

    Ryan Petty, whose Alaina was one of the 17 people killed in the massacre, was one of several relatives — of both political parties — of people killed at Stoneman Douglas who appeared with DeSantis when he announced Israel’s suspension.


    Sheriff Scott Israel dumped over Parkland shooting failures; new sheriff is Gregory Tony

    He said Thursday that removing Israel wasn’t at all political.


    “It is the former sheriff that is making this about politics and he is doing that because he wants the community to overlook his failures and make himself out to be the victim here,” Petty said in a telephone interview.


    “We’d all like to be judged on the totality of our careers, but oftentimes we’re judged based on the moments that really matter,” he said.


    Seeking redemption

    Israel said he’s been visiting various Democratic clubs since DeSantis suspended him on Jan. 11, three days after the governor took office. On Thursday, he spoke for about half an hour, without notes. Israel stepped away from the lectern, declining the use of a microphone.


    He said he’d fight the suspension in the Florida Senate, which is charged with reviewing removals by the governor, but he didn’t express hope for his chances in the Republican-controlled body.


    He said he’d be going to court “very soon” about the issue, but said he didn’t want to discuss strategy until then.


    Sophie Bock, president of the Century Village-Pembroke Pines Democratic Club, welcomed Israel to the front of the room with a hug and a kiss. Afterward, she said “we’d like to have him reinstated because of all the good things he’s done.”

    Pearl Berman, a Century Village resident, said Israel made a good case for himself. “He didn’t deserve what happened to him,” she said (Man, 2019).



    Man, Anthony. (February 7, 2019). Suspended Sheriff Scott Israel slams governor for removing him. Retrieved from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on February 7, 2019.


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    Can't wait for the circus to start! Silly Willie, Jane Fonda, the Ninney guy, Tony the Tiger and a host of other clowns! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
    Scotty en route

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    Not really the same as far as experience, Lemma, Cronister, and Marceno were all high ranking command staff who had years of experience in law enforcement, Marceno was the undersheriff when appointed, cronister was a major who was handpicked by the previous sheriff, and Lemma was also an undersheriff prior to appointment. Not one of this group was a sgt from a small agency.
    I’m a deputy from a county next to Jefferson and I can say Sheriff McNeill stepped in and has done an amazing job. His agency loves him and this was a man who took over for a beloved Sheriff that passed away.... Sheriff David Hobbs. McNeill was appointed and in 10 months went from knowing not one person who lived in the county to winning an election against 5 local LEO candidates in both a primary and general election and is the first elected Republican Sheriff in the history of Jefferson County. The people of Jefferson County, both Dems and Republicans love this guy ........sometimes the Governor gets it right !!!!

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    I’m a deputy from a county next to Jefferson and I can say Sheriff McNeill stepped in and has done an amazing job. His agency loves him and this was a man who took over for a beloved Sheriff that passed away.... Sheriff David Hobbs. McNeill was appointed and in 10 months went from knowing not one person who lived in the county to winning an election against 5 local LEO candidates in both a primary and general election and is the first elected Republican Sheriff in the history of Jefferson County. The people of Jefferson County, both Dems and Republicans love this guy ........sometimes the Governor gets it right !!!!
    Well enough of the positive thing we are hearing a lot of negative things.

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    Negative things??? From the other counties mentioned above or from Broward ?

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    Negative things??? From the other counties mentioned above or from Broward ?
    About McNeil

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