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General Topics => Political Discussion => Topic started by: Flapp_Jackson on April 26, 2018, 02:54:58 PM
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A union of deputies in Florida on Thursday announced it has "no confidence" in Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
The Broward Sheriff's Office Deputies Association said a symbolic vote among its members, initiated last week, indicated
534 of 628 officers in the union voted they had no confidence in the sheriff.
Israel, in response to the announcement of a vote, said union boss Jeff Bell was trying "to use the Parkland tragedy as
a bargaining tactic to extort a 6.5 percent raise" from the sheriff's office, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
Bell told the newspaper that "amazing leadership starts from the top, and there is no amazing leadership here," adding that
members of the union "have displayed great courage to come out and vote under threat of retaliation and reprisal from the
sheriff.”
The sheriff has stood by his leadership of the policing agency and its response to the school shooting, which left 17 people
dead.
Bell said the association's next step is to present the vote to Florida Gov. Rick Scott — who rejected calls from some state
legislators to suspend Israel after the shooting — and to ask him to "please make change and replace the sheriff with
somebody who is capable of amazing leadership."
For the mathematically challenged, that's a vote count of 534 to 94.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/26/broward-deputies-union-votes-no-confidence-in-sheriff-israel.html
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Don't forget the 2 sherrifs who died of natural causes.