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Mayor · Seat 1 · Seat 2 · November 3Eight. Six. Eleven.
Zero. One. One.Every campaign publishes a list of the people and groups who back it. We put all six lists side by side, exactly as the campaigns published them. Then we counted the groups, mayors and other officials on each one. We did not count Town commissioners in office now, or friends and family, on either side. Every candidate’s mother would endorse him. We wanted to know who else did. Our three Town-First candidates are backed by a Republican congressman, the deputy sheriffs, realtors, the County Property Appraiser, and former mayors and commissioners. The other three are backed by the same three or four people, over and over. |
Exactly as each campaign published itRead the lists.Friends, family and neighbors are left off all six lists. Mayor Strauss has a Republican congressman, two former mayors of our town, the mayor of Sea Ranch Lakes, a Fort Lauderdale commissioner, and three groups: deputy sheriffs, realtors and labor unions. Malkoon has no groups and no outside officials. His only officials are two commissioners who vote with him. |
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Randy Strauss For Mayor |  | 0 groups &
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Edmund Malkoon For Mayor | ✔ Counted in the score Groups, mayors and other officials. | GROUP Broward Deputy Sheriffs Assn. Deputy sheriffs’ union, Local 6020 | None.
No groups. No mayors.
No other officials. | GROUP Our local REALTORS® + RWorld Realtors | GROUP Broward County AFL-CIO Labor unions | U.S. Rep. Brian Mast Republican congressman | Scot Sasser Former Mayor, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | Chris Vincent Former Mayor, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | Jeffrey Nelson Mayor, Sea Ranch Lakes | John Herbst Commissioner, Fort Lauderdale | | ✖ Not counted in the score Also on their lists: Town commissioners in office now, and community leaders. | John Graziano
Commissioner, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | SAME NAMES  Comm. Poulopoulos |  Comm. DeNapoli |
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4 Charter Review Board members: Brian Kuszmar, Bob Fleishman, Patrick Ucci, Jackie Rubino. See the note below. William Wusylko
President, Royal Coast Condominium | | Source: his campaign website | Source: his campaign email | About the Charter Review Board. Four people on the Mayor’s list sit on this Town board. In May 2025, the board agreed to recommend four-year terms for the Mayor, instead of two-year terms. Now these four endorse the Mayor. Board minutes, May 6, 2025 · Board members |
Seat 1 Goldberg has a former mayor, four former vice mayors and commissioners, and a voter group. Leaders of the Garden Club, the Bel-Air civic association and the Italian-American Club back him too. Poulopoulos has the Mayor, Commissioner DeNapoli and one former mayor. That is his whole list. |
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Howard Goldberg Seat 1 · District 1 | | 1 groups &
officials |
Theo Poulopoulos Seat 1 · District 1 | ✔ Counted in the score Groups, mayors and other officials. | GROUP The Hispanic Vote Voter group | Chris Vincent Former Mayor. Also endorses Strauss. | Scot Sasser Former Mayor, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | Nothing else on his list. | Buz Oldaker Former Vice Mayor | Elliot Sokolow Former Vice Mayor | Marc Furth Former Commissioner | Stuart Dodd Former Commissioner | | ✖ Not counted in the score Also on their lists: Town commissioners in office now, and community leaders. | John Graziano
Commissioner, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Ann Marchetti
President, Garden Club and Women’s Club Kym Miranda
President, Bel-Air Residents Civic Association; Charter Review Board Bernard Petricia
Past president, Italian-American Club | SAME NAMES Mayor Malkoon | Comm. DeNapoli |
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Seat 2 Ferguson has the County Property Appraiser, the School Board chair, a former mayor, four former commissioners, and four groups: realtors, teachers, the Sierra Club and a voter group. Bartholomew has the Mayor, Commissioners Poulopoulos and DeNapoli, and one former mayor. That is his whole list. |
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Patrick Ferguson Seat 2 · District 2 |  | 1 groups &
officials |
Justin Bartholomew Seat 2 · District 2 | ✔ Counted in the score Groups, mayors and other officials. | GROUP Miami Assn. of REALTORS® Realtors | Chris Vincent Former Mayor. Also endorses Strauss. | GROUP Broward Teachers Union Teachers | Nothing else on his list. | GROUP Sierra Club, Broward Environment | GROUP The Hispanic Vote Voter group | Marty Kiar Broward County Property Appraiser | Sarah Leonardi Chair, Broward School Board | Scot Sasser Former Mayor, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | Buz Oldaker Former Commissioner | Elliot Sokolow Former Commissioner | Marc Furth Former Commissioner | Stuart Dodd Former Commissioner | | ✖ Not counted in the score Also on their lists: Town commissioners in office now, and community leaders. | John Graziano
Commissioner, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea | SAME NAMES Mayor Malkoon | Comm. Poulopoulos | Comm. DeNapoli |
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They agree on almost nothing.
They agree on this. | A Republican congressman | & | the labor unions | | The deputy sheriffs | & | the teachers | | The realtors | & | the Sierra Club |
They are on opposite sides of most fights. Every one of them is backing Strauss, Goldberg or Ferguson. | 0 | Groups backing Malkoon, Poulopoulos or Bartholomew. Not one, on any of their lists. |
Every group on these lists looked at the candidates and chose ours. The other side did not win over a single one. Vote Strauss, Goldberg and Ferguson.
Vote NO on all 8 charter changes. |
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November 3
Hold them accountable. Hold our candidates accountable. You can only do that if you keep your rights.
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on all 8 charter amendments
We are asking you to trust three neighbors with your vote. Do not trust anyone with your rights, including them. Vote NO on all eight and you keep the power to hold all of them to their word, including the three we recommend.
One reason for all eight. The people asking you to rewrite the charter are three of the five people it is meant to keep in check. Vote no on every one and it stays as residents wrote it. Anything worth changing can come back on its own.
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November 3
Vote for these three. Town first.
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Randy Strauss
For Mayor
Voted no on putting all eight amendments on the ballot.
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Howard Goldberg
Seat 1 · District 1
Longtime Chamber of Commerce voice for the businesses on Commercial Boulevard. Committed to the charter as residents wrote it.
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Patrick Ferguson
Seat 2 · District 2
Worked with neighbors on a citizen charter petition. Committed to the charter as residents wrote it.
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Each has committed to vote in public, with their reasons on the record. If any of them breaks that promise, you should keep every right to act. All three races are decided by the whole town.
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Election Day
Tuesday, November 3
Vote by mail, early, or on Election Day. Mail ballots and early voting times are at browardvotes.gov. Town races here are decided by a few hundred votes.
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Forward this to a neighbor who hasn’t decided yet. The lists speak for themselves.
Your neighbors at Let’s Protect Our Paradise
Where this comes from: each campaign’s own published endorsements, as of October 8, 2026: randystraussformayor.com; Howard Goldberg’s Facebook post; patrickferguson.vote; the Mayor’s endorsement email; and the campaign mailers of Theo Poulopoulos and Justin Bartholomew (home addresses removed). Charter Review Board: the Town’s list of members and the board’s May 6, 2025 minutes. The 3 to 2 vote: the roll call in Ordinance 2026-04. We left friends and neighbors off every list, on both sides. If a campaign adds names, tell us and we will update the count. More at letsprotectourparadise.org/record.
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