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🎵 New song 🎵 They Stepped Up They stepped up! Not for a party, not for a crown! They stepped up! For the love of this little town! Randy, Howard and Patrick,
neighbors through and through.
They stepped up for us.
Now it’s our turn to step up too. |
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The final week · November 3They stepped up.
Now it’s our turn.Hi neighbor, Randy, Howard and Patrick aren’t running for a title, a career or a party. They’re running because they love this town, and they don’t like the direction it’s been heading. So instead of just complaining, they stepped up. |
 | For Mayor Randy Strauss Raised his family here. Voted no on all eight charter changes. |
|  | Seat 1 Howard Goldberg Chairman of the LBTS Chamber of Commerce. |
|  | Seat 2 Patrick Ferguson Helped neighbors write the No Politics in Paradise referendum. |
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Who's behind each side Our three: Strauss, Goldberg, Ferguson | ✓ | Backed by neighbors. In Seat 2, Patrick Ferguson has 34 donors who live in our town. | | ✓ | They’ve already served here: on the Commission, at the Chamber of Commerce, on Planning & Zoning. | | ✓ | Randy Strauss voted no on all eight charter changes. |
The other slate: Malkoon, Poulopoulos, Bartholomew | ✗ | Endorsed as a team by a political party, on one printed door-hanger. | | ✗ | The mailers backing their side were paid for in Tallahassee, by political committees run by the same man. | | ✗ | In Seat 2, Justin Bartholomew has zero donors who live in our town. |
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❌ NO on all 8 Eight changes to our charter, put on your ballot together by a 3–2 vote: a longer term for the Mayor, ethics removals decided in Tallahassee, and less time living here before you can run. If any change is a good one, it can come back on its own. |
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In your neighbors’ words“We voted for you three times. Not this time.” — Cristie and Marc Furth, residents since 1972, in an open letter to Mayor Malkoon Read their letter → |
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Now step up Early voting ends Sunday, Nov. 1 | Mayor ✅ Randy Strauss | Seat 1 ✅ Howard Goldberg | Seat 2 ✅ Patrick Ferguson | Charter questions 1–8 ❌ NO on all 8 |
| 🗓️ | Early voting ends Sun., Nov. 1. Open 7 a.m.–7 p.m. through Sunday, at any Broward early-voting site. | | 📬 | Mail ballot still at home? It must arrive by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3. Drop it at any early-voting site through Sunday, or at the Supervisor of Elections office on Election Day. | | ✅ | Election Day is Tue., Nov. 3. 7 a.m.–7 p.m., at your own polling place. |
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Thank you for reading this fall. Whatever you decide, please vote.
Your neighbors at Let’s Protect Our Paradise
Where this comes from: the candidates’ own campaign materials and records; the Town Commission’s minutes and video; Ordinance 2026-04; the county party’s 2026 door-hanger; the State of Florida’s committee records; and the candidates’ campaign finance reports. All of it is at letsprotectourparadise.org.
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