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December 1, 2019
Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor
The Sun Sentinel
RE: The nexus of literature, politics, culture, and proof positive that the Duke of Duval County still lives. Some comments on your unlinkable editorial condemning the promiscuously profligate use of “koozies”.
MS. O,
First, congratulations on your editorial headline -
“Broward’s koozie fiasco is a doozy,
but sadly, just the latest” –
which proves that James Joyce and Chicago-style politics are alive, well, and willing bedmates.
As an Irishman, I am proud whenever Joyce gets a compliment. “Koozie” may be in the next edition of the OED but it isn’t in the current one. Am I revealing my elitist, all male, Catholic prep school background by confessing my knowledge of James Joyce? You betcha!
Any new word – “koozie”, for example – is to be celebrated like Keats’s joy at discovering Chapman’s Homer like “when a new planet swims into his ken”.
It is also proof that when a political entity, Broward County for example.is run by one party, kleptocracy prospers.
I suggest the evidence of your own eyes will buttress my thesis.
Broward County, Cook County, Detroit, Baltimore, Saint Louis, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Newark, inter alia, belong to one party, political and cultural hubris follows “as night the day”.
That they are all run by Democrats shows the Republicans lack the wit to run micro peccadilloes, things such as the world famous urban “5 Finger Discount” for which Big City Dems are world famous,
Miriam Oliphant, Broward County Supervisor of Elections, and if central casting could find a better candidate for the prototypical Broward County modern American Liberal, she would have to come from a Potemkin village. She was a Black female, “clean and articulate” by Slow Joe Biden’s standards, [except when she spoke], multi-degreed [even if the degrees were in whipped cream and gossamer wings].and dumber than a box of hammers.
In 2002, before her shapely 3rd World ass was fired for Brobdanaglian incompetence, I true to my Hudson County roots, got 6 voter ID cards from her office. Although I believe that the statute has run, the question of whether I used them will remain in pectore until a subpoena is properly served. I believe I will adopt the Lillian Hellman template of testifying. It worked for her. Why not me?
Your unlinkable editorial also mentions Broward Tourism Commissioner Stacy Ritter. She was a favorite pinata of mine, beginning in the last century. She, like Miriam Oliphant also had a shapely ass. And, like MS Oliphant was so egregiously dumb that she made my hair hurt and, when I read my notes to her to my cat Sharpton, he got massive dry heaves. She came by the sobriquet, “Cement Head”, the old-fashioned way: She earned it.
My reference to Duval County – Texas, only Texas – is because of one party rule is where the plans for the DC Vietnam Wall were begun.
In 1948, Congressman Lyndon Johnson ran in the Democratic Senatorial Primary against sitting US Senator Coke Stevenson. LBJ was a few votes short. He sent Abe Fortas to Duval County to make 2 + 2 equal either 5 or 6. Would you believe he found 200 votes in alphabetical order and all filled out in with the same green ink and that they were all for Johnson? The election supervisor of Duval County did. Speaking of sobriquets, that how LBJ became known as “Landslide Lyndon”.
It was there, in a place not only run by one party but supervised by the same family, for a century, that the opening lines of “The Ballad of the Green Berets” and
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” were written.
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” were written.
I am glad that Sheriff Ken Jenne flew too close to the sun. He wanted to invade Palm Beach, didn’t he?
The obvious solution, unelecting the scoundrels, seems beyond the capacity of the Broward County electorate.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
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