That is an opinion piece by a resident. NOT an endorsement by Tamarac Discuss.
By Patti Fox
With election season upon us, our mailboxes, textual content messages, and social media have grow to be inundated with puff items telling us to help a sure candidate or, worse, attacking one other candidate.
These puff items are sometimes riddled with lies, designed to steer and manipulate our votes. Please comply with the tried-and-true maxim, and don’t belief all the pieces you learn.
Having lived in Tamarac for nearly 20 years, I’ve had the chance to observe our metropolis’s politics devolve from civil and functioning to at least one rife with controversy, discord, and corruption.
I’ve given up on making an attempt to know a candidate’s place primarily based on their net pages, mailers, or social media posts. This yr, I’m casting my vote primarily based on private interactions I’ve had with the candidates and, extra importantly, endorsements from teams I belief to judge the candidates on extra than simply their sensational marketing campaign materials.
Particularly, I’m trusting the police, hearth, and educators, or extra particularly, their unions and boards liable for interviewing and recommending candidates) with my votes this yr. They signify giant blocks of trade professionals all through Broward County and take their endorsements critically. They interview and vet every candidate and make their endorsements for candidates who’ve confirmed they’ll work for town’s greatest curiosity.
Broward Trainer’s Union – Mayor: Michelle Gomez, District 4: Carol Mendelson, and District 2: Joseph Lanouette.
Metro Broward Skilled Firefighters Native 3080 — Mayor: Michelle Gomez, District 4: Carol Mendelson, and District 2: Joseph Lanouette.
Worldwide Union of Police Associations 6020 – Mayor: Michelle Gomez, District 4: Carol Mendelson, and District 2: Joseph Lanouette. Observe: the PBA initially endorsed Stuart Michelson for District 2 however, in an unprecedented transfer, rescinded their endorsement after which backed Joseph Lanouette.
It doesn’t come as a shock to me that every of those trusted, and revered teams have individually endorsed the identical candidates for the Metropolis of Tamarac’s elections. They see one thing in these candidates that reveals their dedication to our security and academic system.
Fellow Tamarac residents, I urge you to not solid your vote primarily based on inflammatory items and false guarantees made by some candidates and to belief within the fact that can transfer our metropolis ahead in the best path.
I’m relying on you to maintain our metropolis protected and our schooling system so as by your vote!
Patti Fox has lived in Tamarac since 2004. A former Woodlands Householders Affiliation president, she retired from her job in 2019 however quickly went again to work in 2020.
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