I've never seen a more unenthusiatic "endorsement." Let's look at the "highlights."
Endorsement: Democrat Lauren Book in derailed Florida Senate race
By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Jul 29, 2022 at 11:29 am
OpEd: "Both Democrats have political assets and liabilities. But it’s very unusual for a party caucus leader to face an intra-party challenge, and the last thing Florida Democrats need right now is more upheaval and instability."
Comment: Lauren Book has NO leadership skills and it gave Senate Democrats the worst year ever. Generally, a sports coach inept at the sport, like Hue Jackson, gets fired, like he did after leading the Cleveland Browns to the worst record in NFL history. You can't even depend on Lauren Book to show up!
OpEd: Mainly for that reason, the Sun Sentinel recommends Book in this ugly, contentious race. We do so with little enthusiasm because Book has spent too much time and money attacking Sharief and not promoting herself.
Comment: If there's one thing Bimbo Book does well, it is promote herself and her inflated ego.
OpEd: Let’s first dispel the myth in this race that Sharief is an interloper in the race for the Senate District 35 seat. Sharief, 50, has lived in the heart of the district in Miramar for more than two decades. Book, 37, is a sitting senator, but she had to leave her Plantation home and rent a house in Davie to establish residency in the district after reapportionment. Sharief is well-grounded in regional government
Comment: I rather liked hearing Book referred to as a "Plantation Democrat." But "carpetbagger" can describer her just as well. Of course, she's so stupid, she probably thinks I'm making fun of her rat face again.
OpEd: Book has voted for budgets that contained large direct appropriations to Lauren’s Kids, sometimes $2 million a year. She insists that “not one dime” of taxpayer money pays her salary ($236,000 last year), and that a legal opinion from the Senate counsel concluded that voting for the budgets was not a conflict of interest. Sharief called it an outright conflict of interest. Book’s campaign did not respond to a request for a copy of the legal opinion.
Comment: Book knows this is unethical and chose to do it anyways. Kind of like when her DUI Daddy Ron Book pled guilty to illegal campaign contributions. The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the poisoned tree.
OpEd: What makes this race fascinating is that Book has never faced the voters until now. She has been elected to the Senate twice with a “free ride” — no opposition, so her electability is in question.
Comment: Her sanity should also be in question after her goofy melodrama surrounding her spectacularly failed plan to stop abortions by pulling an unbelievable gangrape claim completely out of thin air.
OpEd: A self-described consensus builder, Book sponsored a tax break for diapers in the Senate. She faced criticism last session for not insisting on a recorded roll call vote on her amendment to add a rape and incest exception to an abortion bill. Book said Republican women senators told her they would face political retribution from the GOP leadership if they voted for the amendment.
Comment: So, Book here admits she was too chicken to stand up to Republicans? That's not "leadership."
OpEd: That’s only part of the money story. Book knows how to raise money, and her father’s network of clients and connections surely helps. A Book political committee, Leadership for Florida, has raised $3.3 million. Much of it is from special interests including $122,500 from The GEO Group, a private prison company that has faced scrutiny for sexual harassment and sexual misconduct — conditions seriously at odds with Book’s public advocacy work. Ron Book has been a GEO Group lobbyist for years.
Comment: Lauren Book would be powerless without her DUI daddy, Ronald "Stagger" Lee Book. And she has NO problems accepting blood money from private prisons known to abuse children. That doesn't sit pretty with her claims of being an advocate against child abuse.
Despite all this, The SLANT-inel concludes with, "This is a perilous time in Florida’s history. Book is a determined and knowledgeable advocate, especially on education and health care." Wrong. Book has proven to be inept and incapable. She's literally a one-trick pony. Whoopdy-do, she got legislation passed that any elected primate could get passed.
Of course, the SLANT-inel forgot to mention how Lauren Book stabbed the families of Parkland shooting victims in the back by voting to reinstate disgraced ex-Broward Sheriff Israel, whose incompetence exacerbated the tragedy.
Nor did the SLANT-inel discuss ho Lauren Book ABUSED the courts to silence a critic, which took an appeal to overturn an egregiously bad ruling.
The Sun-SLANTinel is a trashy newspaper. Endorsing Book in spite of her blatant corruption is a bad look for an already bad rag.
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