Monday, October 28, 2002

Not South Florida Again!
I could spend a lot of blogspace on the hijinks down there, but it's so sadly predictable. Here's the latest from Broward County:
Kathleen Weinstein is a paraplegic in a wheelchair who worked as a poll worker in Tamarac -- until Miriam Oliphant was elected.

Elections Supervisor Oliphant moved Weinstein out of Precinct 15J, where she had spent 15 years helping voters. It broke Weinstein's heart. Confined to a wheelchair since she was stricken with polio at age 5, she loved working at the polls.

"They told me that Mrs. Oliphant's mother had requested to work in that precinct, so I couldn't any longer," says Weinstein, 62.

Sure enough, Oliphant's mother, Hattie McKinzie, was assigned to the Mainlands 1 & 2 Clubhouse, earning $135 for the day. Weinstein, who lives on Social Security and could have used the money, was out of a job.
And after completely screwing up the primary with her incompetence, Oliphant got a raise - she now gets $126K per year. (An interesting note in the last article is that the former head of the Broward Teacher's Union got $134K - until he was convicted of involvement in Internet pornography and got a small room at the big house.)

Stay tuned for the real scams - on election day.