During the last Mayoral campaign, Mayor Jack Seiler spoke frequently about how he has reduced the City’s operational Budget since he has been Mayor over the last 3 years. He repeated this so often, that Commissioner (and fellow attorney) Romney Rogers began parroting the same “mantra” during his re-election campaign too.  Both elected officials deliberately misprepresented the truth. I have spoken regularly over the last 4 years about our City’s unbridled addiction to spending taxpayer’s money on stupid and wasteful projects, and how we need to cut spending.

Now a local neighborhood activist (Cal Deal) has compiled the REAL FACTS behind our City’s spending addiction in an easy to understand chart. Here it is:

As you can see by this chart provided by Cal Deal, our City has taken (and spent) more of your money over the last 3 years. The City has not reduced spending, as Seiler and Rogers claim.

There is nothing honorable about winning an election when you have to lie to get re-elected. And Jack has become an expert at it. Just read his election campaign literature from earlier this year. Go to: Political Baloney.

Unfortunately, most registered voters in Fort Lauderdale don’t seem to care whether our elected leaders lie about their past accomplishments. It’s going to be an expensive mistake this fall. Why? Because Seiler, Rogers, (and probably Roberts and DuBose) are once again planning on raising your taxes and fees this fall to cover more spending increases; spending that will go toward more wasteful projects and more salary raises for unions and special interest groups that helped to get them re-elected.

So when you open your tax bill this fall and see your property tax increase, or your water bill and discover higher costs; remember who to blame for that increase. Since more than 85% of registered Fort Lauderdale voters don’t vote in local elections, it’s most likely yourself you should blame!

Comments?

Earl Rynerson

The Police Union building, supporting Rogers and Roberts

If you live in the Northeast part of the City (District 1), or in the South/Southwest part of the City (District 4), you will be able to vote for your District Commissioner on Tuesday March 13th.

As usual, our City’s Police Union has been busy at work behind the scenes (and in front of their headquarters) trying to get “their boys” re-elected into office. Both Romney Rogers (District 4) and and Bruce Roberts (District 1) are essentially nothing more than “yes men” to our City’s Union bosses and do whatever the Unions tell them to do.

These two Commissioners have helped swell our City’s budget to an unsustainable size, and have gone along with raiding our City’s saving’s account to continue to pay out exhorbitant salaries and bonuses to our City’s already-overpaid police and fire staff.

If you drive by the headquarters of the Police Union building, located at 735 NE 3rd Avenue, you’ll see the Union’s support of these two Commissioners (who are contributing to our City’s spending addiction) with their signs posted out front.

So remember, if you vote for either Rogers or Roberts on March 13th, you are essentially allowing the Unions to continue to get their way in this City; more raises and benefits, an even larger unfunded pension liability, and an additional tax increase on us this fall to pay for all this.

Oh, and by the way, did you know that every day, 441 police cars leave Fort Lauderdale to spend the night in other Cities? That’s right, at the end of their shift, all police officers take their cars home. Over 80% of our officers don’t even live in Fort Lauderdale, so that means that 441 of our cars (that you and I are paying for) leave our City and grace the driveways overnight in Plantation, Parkland, etc.

Our City is not getting any benefit from this, yet you and I are still paying for all those costs associated with this little perk. And Romney Rogers and Bruce Roberts will insure that this wasteful use of City resources continues if they get re-elected.

So if this irritates you (and it should), make sure that you consider voting for the alternative to these two folks. If re-elected, they will do nothing to protect your interests, they are only interested in protecting those special interest groups that get them re-elected!  

Earl Rynerson

Fort Lauderdale is now the seventh most miserable City in the US!  Thanks, Mayor Jack Seiler!

 According to Forbes listing of  “Most Miserable Cities in the US, 2012”, (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/02/02/americas-most-miserable-cities/) , Fort Lauderdale has unfortunately risen from being the 10^th most miserable city in the US (last year) to (now) the 7^th most miserable city. And our do-nothing Mayor Jack Seiler, along with Commissioners Bruce Roberts and Romney Rogers are largely responsible for this, by not working to reduce the cost of Government.

Forbes looked at 10 factors for the 200 largest metro areas and divisions in the U.S. Some are serious, like violent crime, unemployment rates, foreclosures, taxes (income and property), home prices and political corruption. Other factors they included are less weighty, like commute times, weather and how the area’s pro sports teams did. One tweak to this year’s list: they swapped out sales tax rates for property tax rates.

Our City’s unemployment is hovering around 10%, foreclosures here are higher  than anywhere else in the US, and political corruption has been rampant in our area.

And of course Fort Lauderdale has been hit hard by the housing downturn. Median home prices in our area (which include Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach) are down 50% since 2006 to a recent $183,000.

We also have a cripplingly high budget. It’s twice the size of our budget just 8-9 years ago, and is now twice as large as other cities our size. Nonetheless, our elected officials and City employees are like drug addicts; trying to take every dollar of revenue they can from us in order to continue their spending addiction.

I chose to move here in 1998 because of the beauty of our City. We have the canals of Venice, the weather of the Caribbean, the beaches of Hawaii, the diversity of New York and the yachts of the Mediterranean. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Because of all the intrinsically great things our City has, it is disappointing to me to see us on a list like this.  Imagine where we would be on this list without the beaches and the great weather!

Yet here we are the seventh most miserable city in the US…. And if you don’t think Seiler is going to push for increases in the millage rate this fall, (along with looking for ways to raise other fees), you’re leaving in a dream world. We’ll be even higher on the list next year!

I was appalled to hear Seiler, Roberts and Rogers last month (at the Civic Leader’s Forum) state they thought our City’s budget “was about the right size”. They are either clueless to economic realities or else they are in the pocket of special interest groups.  They are certainly not looking out for us, the resident and taxpayer! Remember that if you are voting for a District Commissioner on March 13.

Earl Rynerson

A couple of weeks ago, I came up to a red light in a busy intersection near Sunrise Blvd. Next to me was a Fort Lauderdale City Police officer on a traffic motorcycle. I thought I would chat with him briefly.

I asked him: “Is that motorcycle yours to use on a regular basis, or do you return it to the City at the end of your shift”?

His friendly reply: “No they give it to me to use full-time. I take it home after my shift.”

I responded: “What happens if it’s raining or if it’s really hot? Isn’t that motorcycle difficult to use year-round”?

His reply: “Oh, they give me a take-home car too!”

So this particular police officer has a police car AND a police motorcycle to take home and use as he sees fit, courtesy of us the taxpayer????  My jaw dropped. It was all I could do to get part of the motorcycle’s license plate number: “J..07…”.

It’s bad enough that we the taxpayer must provide every police officer with their own take home vehicle (85% of those officers leave Fort Lauderdale at the end of their shift because they don’t live in Fort Lauderdale), but we are giving out motorcycles too? In this age of economic cutbacks, why isn’t someone in our City asking why this is necessary?

Several months ago, I asked for and received from the City Attorney’s office a detailed list of all vehicles that are assigned to our Police Department. A total of more than 550 vehicles, from Ford Interceptors, and Dodge Chargers, to Jeeps, pickups, trucks, some unusual vehicles, along with several vehicles whose information was redacted (lined out), were on that list.

That’s just about one vehicle for every employee in the Police Department, from Street officers, detectives, Captains, Lieutenants, secretaries, and so on. Given that fewer than 100 police officers, Managers and detectives are on duty at any one time in the City, is there a reason why we the taxpayer must shoulder (what appears to be) a wasteful and costly vehicle extravagance that does little to help protect us, yet does a lot to help reinforce an “Attitude of Entitlement” within our Police Department?

I am sending an email to Lee Feldman and to Harry Stewart, asking them to provide me information on exactly how many of our officers get a free car AND motorcycle. I think this is a ridiculous waste of money. What do you think?

Earl Rynerson

First, to those of you who supported my Mayoral candidacy with your time, money and effort, I say, “Thank you”! I’ve spent the last few days trying to personally reach each of you who helped us and to let you know how much I appreciate your efforts.  And to those of you who voted for me, I am sorry that the results were not what we had hoped for.

We knew going in to this that (with our limited resources) it would be difficult to unseat an incumbent, especially one who is a career politician and has many contacts with deep pockets.  We had hoped that our message of reigning in the out-of-control budget would make sense to those concerned about our City’s financial future. Although we did not ultimately succeed, at least we gave the voters an alternative to the status quo and I am happy that I was able to do that.

An interesting aspect after the election was an informal exit poll done outside of a few voting precincts. To those voters who voted for Jack Seiler, a question was asked: “What caused you to vote for Jack?” In almost every instance, the reply was one of three: “I know the family”, or “He’s the current Mayor”, or “I recognize the name”. A follow-on question was posed: “What has the Mayor specifically accomplished in his first three years?”  No-one who was asked that question could come up with anything specific!

A final question was then posed: “If you had known that he had increased spending by more than $35 Million and had raided the City’s savings account by more than $25 Million, would you have reconsidered your vote?” The majority said they would have reconsidered.

So it appears that I did not do a good enough job of getting the word out, and I will take the blame for that. And now our City is heading for a major financial calamity unless one of two things happens: 1: Our City’s budget and spending are cut or, 2: Taxes and fees are raised.

I predict that this fall, Jack Seiler will push to have the millage rate (your property taxes) increased. He is already trying to get taxpayers to believe that their millage rate is too low (it’s actually too high).

My hope is that the majority of the Commission will recognize that cuts in the budget need to be made, rather than taxes increased. I also hope that the employee unions “get ahead of this issue” and voluntarily work to tighten their belts and lighten the burden on Fort Lauderdale residents and taxpayers. I am not optimistic that either will happen.

So I will continue to express my opinion on this web site and encourage others to do the same. We need to continue the pressure on our elected officials by sending them emails, calling them and having others do the same.

Over time, if we continue to exert our influence, I am confident that we will eventually prevail.

Earl Rynerson

OK, folks, if you haven’t already voted by absentee ballot, or already voted at one of the early voting locations, you’ve got one last chance: to vote this Tuesday January 31!

Our City has for too long been controlled by special interest groups, career bureaucrats and politicians. Our budget has swelled to double the size just 8 years ago and cannot be sustained. Our pension costs are 1.2 BILLION and the unfunded portion (which we taxpayers will be responsible for) is now over $400 million. We have hundreds of employees getting over $150,000 in total compensation now from our tax dollars, thanks to Jack Seiler! We must return fiscal sanity to our budget and stop wasteful spending! We must insure that no more money is taken from our City’s savings account simply to pay for more pay raises and bonuses.

We must insure that the city works for us and the employees work for us, not vice versa. And the only way that will work is if you GET INVOLVED! VOTE on Tuesday!

If everyone of you insure that you vote on Tuesday and make sure that at least one other person also votes, then we WILL be able to restore fiscal responsibility.

Remember, here are some of my goals for the first 12 months:

• Educate the rest of the Commission on fiscal reform and place cost reduction on the agenda of every Commission meeting.
• Demand through the City Manager that EVERY Department tighten their belts and develop a cost reduction plan, lowering their costs by 10% in the upcoming year, with further reductions thereafter.
• Work toward eliminating take-home vehicles to City employees who live outside the City (that’s over 80% of our employees!).
• Develop an incentive plan to get more of our emergency services personnel (police and fire) to move into and live in Fort Lauderdale.
• Eliminate longevity bonuses and measure Department Managers on how well they control overtime.
• Develop an action plan to reduce the $400 million portion of our unfunded liabilities.
• Benchmark our City Departments with similar Cities to determine which Departments are overstaffed.
• Build marked, safe and well-lit bicycle lanes around our City.
• Develop a beautification program for our main thoroughfares: Sunrise, Federal, Broward, and Commercial Blvds.
• Develop a legally defensible “get-tough” policy with our chronic drug addicts and alcoholics that inhabit our streets and parks.
• Develop new Economic Destination zones for the Sistrunk, South Andrews and 13th Street corridor, among other locations,
• Bring Commission meetings in to different neighborhoods, rather than always at City Hall.
• Encourage volunteers to take my 20-chapter “Vision for Fort Lauderdale” and develop cost effective implementation plans for each chapter.

And if enough of you vote on Tuesday, we WILL be able to make these goals a reality!

Thank you for your continued support!

Earl Rynerson

Candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale

I participated in last night’s Candidate Forum sponsored by the Council of Civic Associations at City Hall.

It reinforces my belief about the way these forums are set up: They don’t work!  Changes need to be made to these events if audience members want anything more than canned “sound bites” from candidates.

Last night, nine candidates attended (seven Commission candidates and two Mayoral candidates). Five previously prepared questions were asked from the Council and each candidate had to answer the same question in two minutes or less. After the fourth or fifth candidate responded to the same question, you could start see the audience’s eyes glaze over; they were hearing much the same thing over and over again. If you were the ninth candidate answering the same question, nobody was really listening to you.

The other problem with these forums is they do not allow debate. I would have loved to have challenged Jack on what I consider to be his lack of leadership and failures as Mayor, but the forums do not allow that. The only little spat Jack and I got into was when Jack said I was “arrogant” to write a Vision for Fort Lauderdale. I countered by letting people know that the 20-Chapter Vision I wrote was not arrogance, it was Leadership.

I was stunned to hear Commissioners Roberts and Rogers (and our Mayor of course…) sit there and say they felt our budget was the “right size” at $635 Million, twice the size of our budget just 8 years ago… Commissioner Rogers deliberately misstated the truth when he said that our budget is balanced (it has not been balanced for the last three years), and that we had a “healthy reserve” of $50 million (when it was 80 million just three years ago)!

The best line of the evening came from Commission candidate Jackie Scott. After hearing Mayor Seiler and Commissioner Rogers talk about our City’s budget (“nothing’s wrong with our budget”, “everything’s under control”, etc, etc.), she said simply (about their comments): “I’m not buying what they’re selling”.

So I am repeating what I said two weeks ago: I will meet Jack Seiler anytime, anyplace, if he will openly debate me on the critical issues pertaining to our City. Jack needs to publicly account for the poor decisions he has made over the last three years, including:

• Why he feels it’s fiscally responsible to siphon off more than 20 million dollars from our Reserves to cover budget gaps?
• Why hasn’t he implemented formal procedures to reduce the growing unfunded pension liability?
• Why has he deliberately misled the public about the budget? He has not reduced the budget; it’s grown more than $35 Million since he has taken office!
• Why he waited more than two years before starting the process to find a qualified City Manager?
• Why he waited until 3am just days before City Manager Gretsas departure before even asking the question: “What are we going to do about a new City Manager?”
• Why does he feel it’s acceptable to talk in generalities (aka: sound bites) without giving people an honest answer to a straight forward question?
• Why did he give current City Manager Lee Feldman a lifetime employment contract as City Manager? Why did he include an expensive “golden parachute” in the contract (when previously he said he would not)? He was either indifferent to his responsibilities as Mayor or he’s an incompetent employment contract negotiator.
• Why did he squash the debate about looking at power alternatives to Florida Power and Light two years ago? Could there be some back room “quid pro quo” going on?
• Why is he saying that he has reduced City headcount when in reality, he has just eliminated vacant positions?
• Why does he keep pushing for one particular Developer to build a new swimming complex near the Beach, without having the City do a background check on their questionable qualifications?
• Why does he feel he can take credit for 8 new parks when these parks were already decided on before he came in to office?

The deliberate misrepresentations on the part of our Mayor are disappointing. He needs to account for his actions and statements over the last three years. These Forums do not allow that.

I believe we need to have a Mayor that is judged on the substance of their accomplishments, not on the slipperiness of their rhetoric! Remember to Vote this week at the ARTSERVE or Main Libraries, or on Election Day on Tuesday Jan 31!

What are your thoughts?

Earl Rynerson

Candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale

In next week’s Presidential Primary, you will also have a chance to vote for the next Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. As a Candidate for Mayor, I want you to know about the REAL issues affecting our City.

1. Most of our problems stem from lack of leadership from our current Mayor in controlling costs. In eight years, our budget has almost doubled!  Go to this video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC5UlPOWTVE   to see how “out of whack” our budget has become. We have a spending addiction that is currently unsustainable!
2. Over the last three years, career politician Jack Seiler has failed miserably at his job. This video outlines the “Top Ten Failures of Jack Seiler”. Go to:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlpfQGeQZTQ to see for yourself how poorly he has performed!

You’ll see in these videos that I am not a professional speaker (or a career politician), but I am passionate about our City and want you to know what is REALLY going on.

3. In the last video (sent by one of our readers) it shows the continuing homeless problem here in Fort Lauderdale. Again, a lack of leadership at the top has caused this problem to get worse over the last three years. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZoLh2Ff6ng  to see this video.

And if you haven’t visited my web site yet, I would encourage you to do so. Go to: www.RynersonForMayor.com . There you will be able to read the over 225 articles I have written about Fort Lauderdale (including many solutions that we need to implement), see my 20-chapter “Vision for Fort Lauderdale” along with my 12-Month “Action Plan” for getting our City back on track.

And please remember to vote next Tuesday, January 31!

Thank you!

Earl Rynerson

Candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale

Now is the time to let you know what my goals would be for the first 12 months in office as your new Mayor. Please understand that even though our City Charter places limitations on what a Mayor can do here, there are many ways I can help steer this City toward a new direction of fiscal responsibility and better management. This is just a partial list:

 ON FISCAL REFORM:

• First and foremost, I would work to educate our Commissioners and our City Manager on the importance of spending reductions and budget reform. We can no longer sustain our rate of spending without more tax increases and increases in fees. In my mind, trying to raise taxes or fees is NOT an option. I would work to insure that our Budget Advisory Board and our City Auditor are listened to, and that the advice of both are followed when we look at making the necessary future cutbacks.

• In every Commission meeting we should be discussing specific ways to make spending reductions. Every request for spending that comes from City staff should have a statement as to how critical that spending is to the core running of our City Government. If it is not critical, then we should ask ourselves if that spending is really necessary.

• I would ask the Commission & City Manager to ask Department Heads to develop their suggestions for ways to “do more with less”. For a change, I would ask the City Manager to encourage each Department Manager to come up with ways to maintain or increase service to residents for less money.

• I would also be making specific suggestions for spending reductions and ask our Commission to approve these reductions. Some of those initial suggestions might include:

1. Elimination of take home vehicles to those City staff who do not live in our City. (Currently, about 80 % of our City employees do not live in Fort Lauderdale).
2. We are “top heavy” in many Departments. I would ask that we examine whether those positions are really necessary. If not, then I would propose eliminating those positions.
3. I would propose eliminating “Longevity Bonuses” for all employees. This is simply an extravagance that we can no longer afford.
4. I would ask the City Manager to consider grading all Department heads by how well they control overtime costs. (Currently, overtime appears to be available for anyone who wants it).
5. I would encourage the Commission to set a goal of salary reductions for all employees of between 5% to 10% for all future salary contracts. Returning salaries back to where they were 4-8 years ago (during the economic boom) I feel is necessary during these hard economic times.
6. I would ask our Auditor to provide regular updates on our unfunded pension liability and to provide suggestions on how we can reduce the taxpayer’s future liability on those costs.

STAFFING REFORM:

• I would ask the Commission and City Manager to examine staffing in Departments such as Parks & Recreation, Parking, and the Building Department to determine if some of the responsibilities could be better handled by private firms.

• Some City Departments are being run as “profit centers” where the Department’s focus is on generating revenue for themselves, not on providing service to residents. I would ask the Commission and the City Manager to review all Departments to insure that priorities of those Departments are reset.

• I would ask the Commission to consider “Benchmarking” where we can objectively compare our City to other Cities and determine where we can become more efficient in providing services to taxpayers. Are we overstaffed? How does our City budget compare in size to other Cities’ budgets?

QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS:

• I would ask residents to become members of teams (a total of 20 teams) that would examine individual chapters of my 20-chapter “Vision for Fort Lauderdale”; make any modifications they thought necessary and (within six months) come to the Commission with their suggestions on the top 2-3 cost effective initiatives that the City should implement for the future, within that particular chapter.

• I would ask the Commission approve funding for the establishment of marked and protected bike lanes. A possible first route would connect River Walk to the Beach, then north to Sunrise, then west to Holiday Park and south back to Las Olas and the RiverWalk.

• I would ask that the Commission consider holding Commission meetings in different neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale on a regular basis (rather than in City Hall). Also consider holding meetings on weekends instead of work nights so that residents can more easily participate in Commission meetings.

• I would ask our City Attorney to fully investigate how other Cities are legally handing the problems associated with public drunkenness, drug addiction and mental incapacity, and take all possible legal steps to clean up our parks and other areas where these people congregate. I would work to educate our religious organizations on the negative impact that food giveaways and other handouts have on these individuals.

• I would ask the Commission identify 3-4 new “Economic Destination Zones” in our City; areas where residents can get out of their cars and walk in a defined area with shopping, dining, etc. I would work with property owners and developers to find economic incentives to build mixed use environments and work to bring in businesses to those areas.

• I would ask that the Commission approve funding for better landscaping along our major public thoroughfares, and in areas where commercial development is beginning.

• I would meet with property owners who own derelict properties along our major thoroughfares and encourage them to improve those properties.

• If necessary, I would explore the use of “eminent domain” to obtain certain properties for the public good, such as the abandoned American Golf Course (which could be our “crown jewel” of a public park), and other properties along major thoroughfares where the property owner refuses to make improvements.

Again, this is not meant to be an all-inclusive list, but should show you how many ways we can work together to make our City better for the future! Comments?

Early voting starts this week! (Jan 21)

Remember to Vote!

Earl Rynerson

Candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale

The Primary election is in two weeks, on January 31!

Get ready to vote for Mayor (and I hope you vote for me, Earl Rynerson).

Since I (as a Fort Lauderdale Mayoral Candidate) am not allowed to ask Jack Seiler any questions directly (if I were to go to a Candidate’s Forum), I thought I would post some questions for you to ask Jack if you go to hear him speak.

Here are some of the misleading statements Jack will make and what you may want to ask him:

1. Jack will say: “We’ve been fiscally responsible. We’ve reduced operating expenses by $18 Million.”

You can ask: “If that is so, then why has our total budget grown by $35 Million since you’ve taken office, (now at $635 Million, the biggest budget ever), and why have our water, sewer, garbage and other fees increased?”

2. Jack will say: “We’ve eliminated 239 position in government.”

You can ask: “Weren’t all those positions already vacant? How many real people have you actually laid off to reduce the budget? Weren’t your instructions in the previous budget plans to “never lay off  any City employees?”

Or you could ask: “Why have you been continuing to provide pay increases to City employees during these rough economic times?”

Or you could ask: Why has the number of City employees receiving more than $150,000 almost doubled under your term as Mayor (from 162 employees to 297 employees)?”

3. Jack will say: “We are financially strong. We have $50 Million in the Reserves”

You can ask: “But weren’t we financially stronger before you took office? Three years ago, we had almost $80 Million in Reserves. Why did you take almost $30 Million out, just to cover your budget shortfalls every year?

4. Jack will say: “We have not raised property taxes. We have the second lowest millage rate in Florida”.

You can ask: “Does this mean you plan to raise property taxes as soon as you are re-elected?

Or you can ask: “Are you willing to sign a pledge that you will not raise taxes or fees if you are re-elected?”

5. Jack will say: “We’ve promoted new businesses and stimulated job growth. Thousands of new businesses have opened in Fort Lauderdale since 2009.”

You could ask: “Show me the list”.

Or you could ask: “How many businesses have closed during your term as Mayor?”

6. Jack will say: “We’ve established strict pension reform”

You could ask: “If that is so, then why has the unfunded portion of our City’s pension plan almost doubled in size since you’ve been Mayor to almost $400 Million and why is it getting worse by the week?”

7. Jack might say: “Under my leadership, we now have a professional City Manager.”

You could ask: “Why did it take you almost two years just to establish a process to find one?”

Or you could ask:  “Why did you wait until 3am( two weeks before Gretsas’ departure) before even starting a discussion on looking for a temporary City Manager, (and then only to pick someone totally unqualified)?”

8. Some other things Jack might say in these Forums:

• We’ve enhanced the River walk.
• We’ve enhanced the beach.
• We’ve promoted business expansion.
• We’ve promoted environmental sustainability.
• We’ve revitalized neighborhoods.
• We’ve allocated new resources to fight crime.
• We’ve made major infrastructure improvements

You could ask: “Show me proof. Give me specific and measureable details of your accomplishments.”

And, you can also always ask: “Why do you think it’s right to spend over $300,000 of our tax money to an out-of-town consulting company to come up with a Vision for Fort Lauderdale? You’re supposed to be the Mayor. You’ve had three years. Why haven’t YOU come up with a Vision for our City?

If you want, send him an email asking him any of these questions above. If he answers you, let me know and I’ll post his replies for all to see. His email address is:  jack.seiler@fortlauderdale.gov .

Earl Rynerson

Candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale