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• 8/27/2008 7:28 AM kicked to the curb (Arreaza) wrote:
  Hey, Areazza, thanks to you, a few judges bit the dust too. Could't lose a better group except Gonzalez. PS. How was the fish fry?
  
• 8/27/2008 7:44 AM Sell Outs wrote:
  Elijah Williams turned his back to Richards because of politics, Holmes walked Avalos to her church and introduced her due to politics. Not much unity in Broward. You two should be ashamed of yourselves. Wait till its your turn.
  
• 8/27/2008 7:44 AM Guy Pines wrote:
  With the notable exception of Catalina Avalos, all of the judicial candidates listed first on the ballot won, regardless of whether the race was two- or three-way.
  
  I'm changing my last name to Aaron and running for the next open seat.
  
• 8/27/2008 7:48 AM Ha Ha wrote:
  Alex was played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
• 8/27/2008 7:50 AM political reality wrote:
  It could not have turned out any better for Arreaza and his compatriots. Finkelstein is a good man and has done a stellar job. Do you think Arreaza gets it now?
  
• 8/27/2008 7:52 AM Endorse this wrote:
  So much for the weight of the newspaper endorsements. Avalos, Dijols, Gonzalez all were endorsed. Richards and Feld and Levey didn't even spend any money. The conventional wisdom that Republican organization would carry the day in a low turnout race? Hogwash. The fact is only the old blue hairs turned out and voted as they always have in Broward, ie for names like their own. Racist? Probably not. Whose fault is it anyway that they are the only ones who bothered to vote?
  
• 8/27/2008 7:52 AM bunker madness wrote:
  Judge Williams is the same judge that sold out on the so called Diversity Committee to cover Greene's back before he went to hide in civil. Did you expect anything else form him? Got news for you. Don't.
  
• 8/27/2008 7:57 AM THE BELL TOLES FOR THEE wrote:
  Well Pedro.. Catalina you can pull unemployment compensation for a couple of months while you look for a gig... Pedro you were a sorryass excuse for a judge. You were always a cop. Can't throw your weight around anymore and threaten defendant's anymore. Too bad. I can't wait until the moment comes when one of these mutts you represent fires you. hahahhhah
  And Catalina.... OHhh Seems being the first Columbian judge in Florida didn't cut much mustard here in Broward. And it seems your cop ass hubby getting the cop union endorcement didn't work either. Maybe Satz will hire you back to fo nothing like you did in the past. Screw both of you . Screw affirmative action big timme. Loved waking up this morning and seeing you two unemployed. hahahha Hey DIAZ YOU"RE NEXT !!!!
  
• 8/27/2008 8:05 AM Anonymous wrote:
  Oh Dale, what have you wrought? Why didn't you have the decency and foresight to start her at the satellite?
  
• 8/27/2008 8:06 AM CONGRATULATIONS HOWARD! wrote:
  CONGRATULATIONS TO HOWARD FINKELSTEIN AND HIS OFFICE FOR A JOB WELL DONE. ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR CITIZENS OF BROWARD COUNTY WAS NOT FORGOTTEN LAST NIGHT AS THE VOTERS SHOWED THEIR APPRECIATION.
  
• 8/27/2008 8:13 AM great job Howard (Jim) wrote:
  I'm glad you have earned another term for the great job you've done. Maybe in another four years all the judicial corruption will be on the way out. It took a long time to accumulate. This town is the worst I've ever heard of when it comes to judges and their games. Why can't they just do their jobs honorably?
  
• 8/27/2008 8:22 AM An African American Leader wrote:
  No one has mentioned the best possible outcome of a Richard's victory.
  
  If he squeaks it out, we will finally have a dynamic Black leader in Broward courts.
  
  He is an outsider, unlike the other Black judges, who all played inside baseball kissing the evildoers' butts to become judges.
  
  This guy is not a sell out. He is an inspiration.
  
• 8/27/2008 9:20 AM JUDICIAL WING CLIPPING wrote:
  Can Broward Judges whom have enjoyed their positions for a long time, now adapt to the new political climate without losing their sense of self worth? We'll see, as I suspect this is just the start of what is going to be a very difficult time for judges that feel it was their unchallengeable right to occupy their judicial seats without opposition.
  A number of future races will ultimately be determined by past actions and performance of participant sitting judges. Things are going to go badly for a few as they revisited by their past.
  
• 8/27/2008 9:34 AM Congrats Howard for Broward wrote:
  Congrats to the office of the PD. You guys since Howard took over have unfailingly tried to improve the system that all of us work in, and have done an exemplary job of doing just that. Broward County has needed a leader like Finkelstein for a very long time. I for one am very happy to see that you will now continue the good work you have stared to better Broward County's system of Justice by seeing that Justice is indeed done.
  
• 8/27/2008 9:44 AM Anonymous wrote:
  Let's just hope he does not join the BBEO, Broward Black Elected Officials, if he does win. While this shakedown group throws great parties, it ha zero credibility.
  
• 8/27/2008 9:54 AM shakedown wrote:
  I'd say it's a group that is increasing in popularity among the voters of this county. It's also a group who has worked for the credibility you lack.
  
• 8/27/2008 9:58 AM A-TURD = DUNCE CAP wrote:
  Great job A-Turd. You called them all wrong, and just in time for you to crawl as far underground as you can get. I'll look for you wearing that tall pointy dunce cap to remind people that you are as dumb as you look.
  
• 8/27/2008 10:01 AM CONGRADULATIONS HOWARD wrote:
  HEY HOWARD .. congradulations. If these judges thought you were a pain in the ass before I think they better get ready !!!!! hahahaha It's a new sherifff in town now !!! And to all you mutt judges that don't get it.... try treating people with repsect and dignity and stop working for the state's attorney office. Clearly Howard was the BIG winner in this election. Some of these other judges are going to have opposition. GOOD.. No more 30 yr gigs for these inept politicians. This guy Feren is a monster political hack, he will be a pain in everyone's ass.
  
• 8/27/2008 10:07 AM Anonymous wrote:
  Here is what will really suck for the judicial incumbents who lost is that any judge defeated in election is NOT permitted to sit as a retired judge.
  
• 8/27/2008 10:29 AM Wanna know a secret.... wrote:
  Ummm Ahearn was with Scott Israel from the beginning. Thank you JAAB for putting up his flyer and working hard against Lemack.
  
• 8/27/2008 10:30 AM Anonymous wrote:
  I am trully saddenend by what has happened today. I think Howard deserved to win- he has been a great PD. However the fact that all the hispanic judges got opposition and got defeated, some by people who didnt even campaign, shows how racist this county is. A 5 year lawyer who was mediocre in law school and even more mediocre as a lawyer, an opportunist who picked the highest rated county court judge to run against because she is a racist, and possible Mardi- the dumbest attorney to ever walk the broward county courthouse- could be our next judges (Go Bernie) is a sad comment on our voters. This county is racist and hateful. I hope that all of these judges start saving thier pennies now because the hispanic community will not forget you. And in 2012 this place will be more like dade. TO all of you that said that this sends a message to judges to be better- you are wrong!! the only message this sends is- if you are hispanic, then DO NOT TRY TO BE A JUDGE!!! I am sickend by broward county today
  
• 8/27/2008 10:41 AM Anonymous wrote:
  Where is insane anti-Howard guy now?
  
  Liar Liar!!
  
• 8/27/2008 11:00 AM DARK DAYS JUDICIALLY wrote:
  It's the Judges themselves that have brought this down upon them.
  Look back over the last couple of years with the scandals involving judges in this circuit. It's being talked about from Tallahassee and all throughout the State.
  Now they want to whine about getting incumbents kicked out of office. These people have no shame.
  I'll bet many more are gonna bite the dust as they come up for reelection. Remember the Sham Judicial Uplift Committee and the Sham Diversity Committee with Judge Williams, and the Ross Scandal and his hiring of this Scandal Shak whose now lost his miserable run for Sheriff, The Greene Scandal, The Zeidwig Scandal, The Levenson Scandal and not the least but maybe the best The Gardiner Scandal?
  This hasn't been lost on voters at all. People are tired of these phony judges milking the public for what they seem to think is owed to them for some reason that continues to elude the public.
  They can just add this round of judicial upset to the deplorable list of outrageous shenanigans they've pulled and allot worse hurting people in their way and actually thinking it was funny.
  It's gonna be a Dark Day for a few of these judicial jokesters as it hits them squarely in the face sometime soon.
  It's every judge for his or herself now which is the way it should be. These judicial gangsters are looking at a bleak future if they don't start acting like the public expects them to act and behave.
  They are working for the people of Broward County, and I think Broward County has made it quite clear it's no more fun and games on the Public Dole.
  
• 8/27/2008 11:24 AM Looks like JAAB got fooled again wrote:
  I have been cracking up for weeks seeing the Jabbers write about how Ahern was tied to Lemack. Mike has been calling everyone all year to support Israel, he raised and donated quite a bit of money for Israel. You all knew he was with Judy Stern did you not see the connection? He just let you guys keep ripping him about being with Lemack. Telling people not to vote for Lemack because of his ties to Spechler and Ahearn, classic. To cap it off, you guys put up Isreal's mail piece and appear to support him. Looks like the Jabbers got played on this one.
  
  Of course you will say this is Ahern, Aterd or whatever you call him but it is not. Despite what you think he does have many friends around here.
  
• 8/27/2008 11:40 AM Anonymous wrote:
  Cheers to Scott Israel for what appears to be a win in a very close race.
  
  It is good to see that notwithstanding the differences between the JAAB folks and Mike Ahearn when it comes to many of the judges, they can both be behind the right candidate in the Sheriff's race. This is one of the most important (if not the most important) position in Broward County Government, and having the best person in that seat is good for all of us as members of the community.
  
  I first got a call from Mike about supporting Scott Israel back in February/March of 2008. I wound up giving some money to Scott and volunteering on his campaign for the last 6-months.
  
  I don't know why so many people on this blog (I can only assume "so many" people, because there were tons of posts, it would be odd if it was just one guy posting so much) thought that just because Mike is friends with Jay Spechler, they would necessarily be supporting the same candidate for Sheriff.
  
  Well, in the end, it was a close race, but Scott appears to be the winner. The Lemack Pack can go back to Hollywood, and Scott can move on to defeat Republican Al Lamberti in the general.
  
  Again, it's good to see that even though people can be on the opposite side of many issues, the fact that an adversary is supporting the candidate you think is the best won't prevent you from supporting him too.
  
• 8/27/2008 12:50 PM Anonymous wrote:
  None of the Judges that were involved in inapropriate behavior scandals got opponents. So it is not about that. It is about hispanics getting challenges by opportunistic racist people.
  
• 8/27/2008 1:27 PM Jack Thompson, Attorney wrote:
  John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law
  5721 Riviera Drive
  Coral Gables, Florida 33146
  305-666-4366
  amendmentone@comcast.net
  
  August 27, 2008
  
  Howard Simon
  Executive Director
  ACLU of Florida
  4500 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 340
  Miami, Florida 33137
  
  Re: The Florida Bar’s Assault Upon Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion,
  and Freedom to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances
  
  Dear Mr. Simon:
  
  I am a member of the ACLU, and thus I commend and thank your Maria Kayanan for her excellent amicus brief filed on behalf of attorney Sean Conway’s free speech rights in Florida Bar v. Conway. I moved the court to allow me to serve as amicus in the Conway case as well because of my previous experience as an amicus in a renowned First Amendment case in which the ACLU was also an amicus but more importantly because I have been a victim of an even more egregious infringement of the First Amendment by The Florida Bar than has been Mr. Conway.
  
  The fact that the Florida Supreme Court, without explanation because there was no basis for doing so, denied me amicus status speaks volumes about a) how keen The Florida Bar has been to deny me my First Amendment rights of speech, religion, and to petition the government, and b) how thoroughly The Bar has deluded the Florida Supreme Court in this regard.
  
  The Bar now seeks disbarment of me in large part for my fact-based criticism of two judges. Unlike Mr. Conway, I did not engage in opinionated hyperbole. I stated facts. An Alabama judge by the name of James Moore deprived a black teen of a fair trial by an all-white jury in a murder trial by denying him any semblance of a “video game defense” about which I was interviewed on CBS’ 60 Minutes by Ed Bradley. This Judge Moore has used The Florida Bar to keep this young man on Death Row and also to punish me for alerting the public and the Alabama State Bar that a lawyer friend of this Judge Moore claimed he could fix the case. The Bar believes it was a violation of ethics for me to accept Mr. Bradley’s invitation to appear on 60 Minutes at the behest of Mr. Bradley, six years after I had first appeared.
  
  It is unconscionable that The Bar would think let along act upon such a belief. I was fully within Bar Rules to warn Americans of a public safety hazard.
  
  The other judge using The Florida Bar to harass me with a SLAPP Bar complaint is Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Ron Friedman, who announced his ruling in my case before he had the evidentiary hearing in it, which he then refused to convene. When I complained about this, he filed a Bar complaint against me which he refused to swear to. The Bar then processed it as its own. Friedman has now been reversed twice by the Third District Court of Appeals for doing to other litigants exactly what he did to me. Judge Friedman is the kind of judge who cannot abide fact-based criticism, so he wants The Bar to punish me for my truthful whistle blowing about his illegal antics.
  
• 8/27/2008 1:28 PM Jack Thompson, Attorney wrote:
  His actions clearly violate 18 USC 242.
  
  Because I complained about this Bar-based assault upon my First Amendment rights, the Florida Supreme Court entered a “sanction” against me that prohibits me even from responding to the Referee’s Final Report. This denial of my right to petition the government for a redress of grievances is one of the most ridiculous decisions made in recent memory by an appellate court in America. The only other court in Anglo-American jurisprudence to deny a citizen the right to appear on his own behalf is England’s notorious Star Chamber, as the US Supreme Court pointed out in Faretta. Florida Statute 454.18 of course grants every Florida resident the right to represent himself in any civil proceeding. This law means nothing to the Florida Supreme Court.
  
  I have this week filed a federal declaratory judgment action challenging the Florida Supreme Court’s utter refusal to accept for filing a stand-alone quo warranto action. The Bar and the Court have this bizarre notion that they can refuse even to docket a lawsuit they do not like. This utterly guts the First Amendment petition right.
  
  I had the pleasure of meeting, for the first time, the national ACLU’s President Nadine Strossen in July 1990 when the two of us were guests on ABC’s Nightline, hosted by Ted Koppel. Subsequent to that, Nadine and I debated one another on close to 20 college campuses. I have the highest regard for her and her love of the Constitution. When I wrote her about this situation with The Bar, she encouraged me to write you regarding possible help from you all for me. You can contact Nadine to verify that.
  
  I would respectfully ask for your help, then, in any form and to whatever extent, to convince the Florida Supreme Court that The Florida Bar should not be the Thought Police when it comes to fact-based criticism of reckless or corrupt judges.
  
  The Alabama judge I have come up against is doing anything he can to keep a black man on Death Row. The Florida judge I have criticized will do anything to punish any lawyer who factually criticizes him. These two judges have stood “judicial independence” on its head to mean that anyone who disagrees with them must be punished. This is nonsense.
  
  Justice Douglas predicted in his dissent in Lathrop v. Donohue that eventually integrated state bars would become “goose-stepping brigades.” Well, those fascistic Bar brigades are here in Florida. Mr. Conway has been a victim, and I have been much more of a victim.
  
  Please help. There is a good reason I fashioned the below quotation, which graces all of my e-mails. It happens to be true:
  
  "If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, as Mayor Koch once said, then a civil libertarian is a Republican who has been indicted."
  
  The great enemy of liberty is the state, and on that conservatives and all members of the ACLU should agree.
  
  Regards, Jack Thompson
  
  Copy: Florida Bar Governors
  
• 8/27/2008 1:32 PM Chief Judge Vicky T wrote:
  Wow....his stint as behind-the-scenes campaign coordinator for Julio G. didn't turn out so hot this time.
  
  Hey Vic....keep your day job......what is that anyway? Secret Shopper at Nordstroms?
  
• 8/27/2008 1:43 PM AnOnyMous wrote:
  Stop grasping at straws, Jack. If you wanted to launch all these different defenses... you should have launched them at the original hearings, when they were taking evidence and exhibits, not at the final stage where they're handing down the judgement.
  
  For that matter, you should have filed them before filing the nonstop pile of porn-containing spam that got your right to file suspended. Folks will read your posts on this blog, but legally? They go straight to the circular file.
  
  Have a not-so-nice forced retirement, Jack.
  
• 8/27/2008 1:48 PM HarmlessBunny wrote:
  @Jack Thompson
  
  Oh Jack, you didn't state any facts in there. Once again a man who was PROVEN GUILTY of LYING in court multiple times as well as in the media, your words have no weight here.
  
  If I could count the numerous inaccuracies and outright fabrications on this letter alone, I could probably spend the entire day writing it down here.
  
  Jack, you are a pathetic pathetic man
  
• 8/27/2008 1:49 PM Sortableturnip wrote:
  When the representative from the ACLU reads Judge Tunis' report on your disbarment, it will become clear to them exactly why you're getting disbarred.
  
• 8/27/2008 1:54 PM Nightwng2000 wrote:
  RE: John Bruce's latest pile of lies and deceit posted about 15 minutes ago.
  
  MythBusters did a segment some time ago about the speed of fast computer CD drives and just how dangerous it could be, including the shattering of the CDs themselves.
  
  If one translated the spin from the aforementioned John Bruce letter into CD drive RPMs, the CD would most likely instantly vaporize.
  
  Andrew
  
• 8/27/2008 3:48 PM Anonymous wrote:
  No doubt Ahearn is with Israel. Must have signed up the day after Spechler stopped taking his calls
  
• 8/27/2008 4:06 PM Kincyr wrote:
  "An Alabama judge by the name of James Moore deprived a black teen of a fair trial by an all-white jury in a murder trial by denying him any semblance of a “video game defense” about which I was interviewed on CBS’ 60 Minutes by Ed Bradley. This Judge Moore has used The Florida Bar to keep this young man on Death Row"
  
  GOTCHA! Jack Thompson wants killers to run free and continue killing while innocent parties take the blame.
  
• 8/27/2008 6:19 PM AdamasDraconis wrote:
  Jackie, do you actually think that ANYONE with a cubic nanometer worth of cranial capacity will take anything you say seriously? You quote a remark about state bars becoming "Goose-stepping brigades" when it seems about 90% of the sentient humanoids that have even heard of you. (which is basicly limited to the miami area and those who spend a couple minutes tearing your arguments apart whenever you raise your bigoted head) agree that it looks like your main issue is this. YOU want to be leading the "Goosestepping brigade" that wants to control what people do in their free time. So, as my dear mother would say. "Sit down and shut the )&$@ up because no one wants to hear a word out of your mouth.
  
• 8/27/2008 6:20 PM Anonymous wrote:
  probably the other way around, aterd only uses people who can help him since jay was out of power no reason to talk to him anymore
  
• 8/28/2008 7:32 AM Shoehorn O'Plenty wrote:
  "the Florida Supreme Court entered a “sanction” against me that prohibits me even from responding to the Referee’s Final Report"
  
  "the Florida Supreme Court entered a “sanction”"
  
  "sanction"
  
  There you go Jack, as you described it yourself, it is merely a sanction, not a complete ban. You have every right to respond as you feel necessary, the only caveat is that these responses must abide by the sanction placed on you for wasting the courts time. All you have to do is have an attorney in good standing sign the response.
  
  If you believe that this is a ban, then there are 3 ways to interpret that.
  
  1. You simply lack the comprehension to grasp that you need someone to sign off on your filings.
  2. You just don't want to acknowledge this sanction due to ignorance or sheer childishness.
  3. (my favourite) You know full well that any attorney will read through your filing and ask you "Are you sure you want to file this with the court? If so, I won't be signing it!". No attorney in their right mind would sign off on one of your little homophobic paranoid rants.
  
• 8/28/2008 7:46 AM Shoehorn O'Plenty wrote:
  "An Alabama judge by the name of James Moore deprived a black teen of a fair trial by an all-white jury in a murder trial by denying him any semblance of a “video game defense” about which I was interviewed on CBS’ 60 Minutes by Ed Bradley."
  
  Devin Moore is a murderer who belongs on Death Row. He received a fair trial, which was not cheapened or made into a circus by introducing the ridiculous "video game defense". The fact that you were interviewed about it does not make it true. Some guys were interviewed about the bigfoot they supposedly shot a week or two ago... that was a hoax just like your claims about video games.
  
  "This Judge Moore has used The Florida Bar to keep this young man on Death Row and also to punish me for alerting the public and the Alabama State Bar that a lawyer friend of this Judge Moore claimed he could fix the case."
  
  Correction: You did not alert the public, so much as make false accusations in public about Judge Moore. Lying about someone is an act that deserves punishment.
  
  "The Alabama judge I have come up against is doing anything he can to keep a black man on Death Row."
  
  Make up you mind! First he is doing it because he is in the pocket of the games industry. Then it's because he's punishing you for making public his "fixing cases". Now it's because he's a racist? Using the term "black man" here seems to invest his actions with a racist quality. Why don't you tell the truth and say that he is keeping murderer of 3 police officers on death row? Of course, it doesn't matter what someone has done if it gives you the slightest reason to bring frivolous lawsuits against the games industry. You turn a blind eye to child abuse and murder in order to forward your petty little vendetta against Take Two.
  

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