August 14, 2014
Rosemary Goudreau
Editorial Page Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE: Judicial elections

Ms. Goudreau,

I beg to offer 2 dissenting opinions.

#! – The election of Judges is an abomination. They can’t answer anything other than how much do you love Mom and do you like your apple pie with or without ice cream. The sight of trial lawyers throwing checks at candidates is, at best, unseemly. The admonition about Caesar’s wife is left unsaid. As a litigant I have been in the following courts: New Jersey Superior Court and the New Jersey Court of Appeals; The New York State Supreme Court and the New York State Court of Appeals, United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals, United States Bankruptcy Court, United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.. It would be safe to say that I have a sense of what makes a Judge a Judge.

Then I got to Florida

Let me say that the Florida Judiciary in general and the cabal that sits in the Broward Courthouse in particular is, in the truest sense of the word, unique. Broward Judges have the uncanny ability to look through a keyhole with both eyes.

#2 – Since Judge Efren is a card player it is a sad fact and an inconvenient truth that with him sitting on the Bench the good people of Broward County are always trying to fill inside straights. The reason why the people who run the casinos live in big houses, wear a bit too much jewelry, and have a tendency to collect ravishing blonde ladies is because people bet against the house that they can do just that.

I watched him on “County Line” hosted by Frank Loconto. I am not used to having people piss on my back and then tell me it’s rain. That’s what Lord Feren did. All that he needed was a powdered wig, a red robe, and a pillory behind him.

I enclose a copy of a letter I sent to him on Tuesday. If we must have Judges elected let’s start by unelecting this black robed churlish snoot.


Kevin Smith