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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Vogel defeats Ward
State attorney race is only real primary upset

Catherine Vogel beat incumbent State Attorney Dennis Ward in the only real upset in Tuesday's primary, after what was arguably the primary season's scrappiest race.

"I believe experience counts," Vogel said from her victory party at Camille's Restaurant in Key West, interrupting a phone interview to hug supporters. "That was my message throughout the campai...

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cease and desist

Dennis you should tell all these folks making comments to cease and desist. Don't they know how important you are?

BARROSO the TRAITOR

Barry betrayed his conch family and burned many bridges. His candidates lost because of their association with him. He has a lot of work to do redeeming himself with the conch community. He should be ashamed if himself. My whole family had his signs on our houses when he ran. I doubt a single one of us would do anything for him or his family in the future. Sad to loose him to politics but he knew he was in bed with the devil. Morgan too, the results show. That you can't fool the conchs, if you are unfaithful to your community, you will not be respected. We conchs stick together, when you work against one of us you hurt us all. Their heads got too big. Glad they got put in their places.

"We Conchs" Really?

This is some crazy smack you're talking here. Real random, and makes no sense.

Dennis was not an advocate for the victims

Ask the Butler family.

Yes ask the whole family

not just the ones her supporters manipulated. Ward appropriately did not prosecute that case, just like Vogel will never prosecute Acevedo if he ever gets in trouble again. It's called legal ethics. Vogel's supporters were SCUM to use the Butler family this way.

Sad!

This is a very sad day in the world of criminal justice. Vogel beating Ward is a huge step backwards and I fear for crime victims over the next 4 years. Vogel or Kohl, it doesn't matter. They are 2 peas in a pod and are in this together. I really hope i am not a crime victim in the next 4 years. Talk about collective amnesia - folks have already forgotten why Kohl and his sidekick Vogel were voted out 4 years ago. Sad.

Corruption Will Rule Again

Well this removes any doubt as to what the majority of people in Key West desire---and that is Corruption and Special Deals. Too bad the rest of Monroe County voters stood by and let the Bubba's run out an honest States Attorney. Its a sad day for Monroe County

Yup. The Bubbas and Cuzzies are in the house again. Gag

Remember that Vogul is thick with them. She's big buddies with the Acevedos and their ilk.

At least McPhat failed in a MAJOR manner.

Just like the "special deal" Druckmiller is getting

So Wards friends spare embarrassment?

Druckmiller isn't getting any "special deal"

At least from Dennis. Her attorney will now do everyhting he can to delay her trial till after Vogel or Kohl is sworn in. Dennis's deal was jail time and loss of pension. Her attorney spread the lie that he was getting a special deal so Ward would be defeated. You fell for it hook line and sinker. She'll keep her pension under the new SOA, and probably won't see the inside of a jail.

Cool

2 "wow's". Kudos to the Citizen for allowing duplicate user names!

Nothing short of a miracle.

I'm still trying to figure out what this says of the voters. Congrats Vogel, and yes experience does count!

Just goes to show you

Apparently experience matters! Great Job Vogel for staying out of Ward's mud. You truly proved you are a professional. Great Job!

Did you miss the mud she was throwing?

Remember the crap about his bar courses? Both the Grisele Blanco stuff and the bar stuff were inappropriate mud. The "Baby Lollipops" reversal for prosecutorial misconduct (she was the "professional" prosecutor in that case - look it up, Ana Cardona was the defendat's name) was fair game.

HAAAA HAAAA

That is HILARIOUS, Manny is such a total kiss a** and should be scared. He should have stuck to being a professional prosecutor instead of playing the political games that got his employer FIRED by the people of Monroe County.

Let the corruption begin!

Now lets watch who she staffs her office with and for what outrageous salaries. The defense bar is thrilled! All their cases will be continued till January to get a sweetheart deal. And, a "Jaws of Life" device has been ordered for the office in anticipation of extracting Madruga from Vogel's A..!

Manny should be scared

I think he and Mark Wilson should be the only ones scared. All the other SA's behaved like the professional litigators they are. Madruga and Wilson are not professional and don't deserve to be employed by Vogel, a woman of great character. They have proven that they play the nasty game of politics and that's not what Vogel is about.

He isn't

Word is he's confident he'll keep his job. No doubt he did his usual disloyal playing of both sides. I disagree on Wilson. I think he did his best and had a lot of potential. He go because he beat Vogel fairly in the Acevedo trial. I also totally disagree as to Vogel's great character. She was an active participant in Kohl's horrible regiem and it won't take long for the public to see how they colluded in this election. Stand by ...

Hold that order!

Vogel's so dumb she couldn't find her A.. with both hands. Maybe leave Manny there as a guidepost?

back to the days of bubba rule

special favors , and the law being about who you are connected to. I had no idea there were so many cheerleaders, the old regime of bubba certainly rallied and we will all pay in the long run.

BUBBA defined

"In American usage, bubba is a relationship nickname formed from brother and given to boys, especially eldest male siblings, to indicate their role in a family." Who started adding the corruption part to Bubba?

THATS RIGHT CUZ

You can't run around bullying the heart of this community and expect that they won't come back ten fold. With the radio and the papers doing all they could to help Ward get re-elected, Vogel came out on top. Guess the paper needs to re-evaluate and start to listen to and support the the conch's. We aren't the stupid group you all think, perhaps we could teach the "locals" a thing or two. We are a well connected tight HUGE CONCH FAMILY that sticks together. The paper's affection for the bar hopping transient community isn't going to support them in the long term. The conchs will ALWAYS be here long after the "locals" come and go. They were way off the mark on this one.

So you are saying corruption

So you are saying corruption and nepotism are good?

I'm a 6th Generation Conch

And I find the "bubba mentality" absolutely appalling. You people aren't really Conchs and you should be ashamed to call yourself that. All the bubbas do is keep corruption and back door politics in action.

Bye-Bye One-Term Ward

In a dreadfull field of candidates, Ward's record, his myopia towards cops and friends, and overall incompetence always made him an easy fourth choice in a field of two

I'd post Ward's greatest hits here again but the paper would just take it down .... again .. One-Term Ward was their boy

Turning this self-aggrandizing boob out is a small and hollow victory

The perpetual corruption will continue with impunity down here because of the vacuum of prosecution of anything of substance and the bubbas and the connected know this well

Sounds like YOU got

Sounds like YOU got prosecuted for something!

I've Never Been a Defendant ....

.... but I was a victim of Ward's personal refusal to prosecute someone because they had a cop as a sibling

Ward's "prosecutorial discretion" was criminal and pervasive

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