Kathy Pugh sent the following email message this morning, after early voting tallies for Jack Tuter’s unopposed run for a new term as chief judge were satisfied:
I am pleased to announce that Chief Judge Jack Tuter has been re-elected by a majority vote of all active Judges for another two year term beginning July 1, 2019.
Congratulations!
Coming Soon – Is Jack Tuter Broward’s newest chief judge for life?
WHAT??!!??!! It should have been me.
I demand a recount! Yet another celebration cake wasted.
Restore honor and integrity to the chief judge. Elect RICHARD BRIAN KPLAN for Chief Judge. Ensuring liberty and delusional behavior for all.
When’s the parade?
Why didn’t Andrea run?
Ive done the best job as CJ in the history of the 17th
Unopposed? You can hardly call it an election, More like a vote of confidence for another apparent lifer.
Of course he’s unopposed. Why wouldn’t they support anything goes.
TWO MORE FOR TOOTY
BETTER THAN CARRYING A FULL DOCKET
BROWARD JUDGES ARE SO PREDICTABLE
LEADERSHIP IS IN DEFICIT
Good job Jack. Now you just have to keep them from burning the building down for another few years and then it’s a trophy like mine and a soft landing in Probate
Coral Springs sure didn’t want this joker. He’s like a slug that moves onto the next thing to suck off of.
DBR via Jaab:
https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2019/02/07/broward-chief-judge-jack-tuter-re-elected-for-two-year-term/
“I thoroughly enjoy the job and look forward to keeping the 17th moving forward,” he said. “As always I encourage anyone involved in the court system to give us input on changes we can make to be more efficient.”
Seriously?
Moving forward, Jack? You have both feet stuck in the primordial goo. When are you going to get with the rest of the circuits and institute Judicial Rotation to stop what has been come to be known particularly in Broward as Judicial Butnout Syndrome?
How many more judges in Broward have to hit the skids and melt down before you realize the problem?
It’s not your job to keep these tatertot judges too comfortable in their divisions as they learn nothing and instead become nasty little dictators.
Isn’t it time you stop concerning yourself with getting re=elected as chief judge and do something that brings the Broward Judiciary into the 21 Century instead of playing judicial politics? God knows we’ve seen enough of that with your predecessors.
How about getting off your duff and doing your job. Broward continues to have the most poorly performing judges in the state.
You’re only serving as an enabler to a bunch of burnout dancing dwarfs with very little knowhow and even less desire to learn the broader scope of law.
Judge Tuter worked for Scherer?
Go figure.
O Jack. From here, elevators at busy times are still a disaster (call Palm Beach, they know what they are doing), cell phones on lower floors are worthless, and the handicapped and elderly are still dumbfounded by the crossover walk from the parking garage to new courthouse.
It’s shameful to see one BACDL H Gulkin winner after another gasping for air and reaching for their nitro pills in the middle of that ill designed walkway. It should be leveled.
Refer to it by its officially dedicated name : The Merrilee Ehrlich 17th Circuit Fuck You To The Elderly And Handicapped Bridge.
He could part the Red Sea but until he fixes the bridge that will be his legacy.
it’s not chief’s fault, judge weinstein was the one on the courthouse task force.
The ramp is an affront, as is the cafeteria situation. It may be a County issue but the Chief Judge has shown a disappointing lack of initiative to cure either. The citizenry deserves to be treated with respect, including those supboenad for jury duty who take time off from their busy days to serve and ought to be able to have a cup of decent coffee and some breakfast after working through the maze and lines to get to the jury room in the first place. The issue with the ramp and special needs people is entirely another story, and an affront to decency.
Tuter learned from the best. Peter Weinstein. He’s been passing the buck ever since.
Shut it punk this is the 17th Circuit
Not very nice but unfortunately true🙄
Tuter has done nothing in his tenure to improve the situation with the judges here in Broward. He’s unfortunately just riding the donkey for the clownshow that continues to be the Broward Juiciary.
After court I’m going to douse this doll in gasoline and stab it with knives while it’s burning
Omg, when she was in juvy she lorded it over everyone and it was so obvious she had a screw loose and was a total useless lawyer before she won election and I’m talking before she got smacked in the head.
Its the closest thing she’ll ever have to a boyfriend…
WHO BROUGHT THE CHILI 🌶
RUN AGAINST MADAM CLERK FORMAN.
FIRE ALL HER ADMINISTRATION.
RESTORE DIGNITY AND COMPETENCE.
TOSS CLERK FORMAN AND HER ADJUTANTS.
FIRE FORMAN AND HER HENCHWOMEN.
THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE
SOME BROWARD JUDGES WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET THE JOB
INCLUDING PAYING THE PIPER
How can any of you complain? No one ran against him because of the following: 1) not enough lawyers knew the position was up; or 2) Broward is full of a bunch of narrow minded losers that are too busy bending over and taking it in the ass by a bunch of power hungry assistant state attorneys that would be better positioned on a pole than in a courtroom.
Vacuousness and cruelty is the prerequisite for the Bench.
You forgot stupidity, ignorance of the law, lack of patience, lack of punctuality, downright mentally hampered in most cases, unbelievably lazy, and have absolutely no ingenuity. That’s why most Broward Judges hold on to the job for dear life for lack of being able to practice law successfully.
Otherwise they’d have to go back to work and make some real dough.
This is a dead topic. Florida gets what it pays for.
Loser pay = ?
Still can’t figure it out?
RESTORE INTEGRITY TO THE CLERK’S OFFICE.
VINDICATE HOWARD FORMAN.
We don’t know why people complain. Things have never been better
We love campaigning. Maybe we’ll win another award
I made Coral Springs an offer even a nitwit would have refused
Laugh out loud. Marlon’s low paid little brother.
Where did Diane go. I’m ready to go to the checkout lane
In the good old days robes came in black and white
I wasn’t a very good Judge but lucky for me I’m a pretty good carpenter
Surely he’s terrible at that too.
I wanted to wear my favorite leopard spots but my campaign adviser said peach is much harder to see on surveillance footage
You’re a fashion statement, Bren. When people aren’t laughing, they’re running the other way.
Lookin like an asylum escapee is in vogue in the Clerk’s Office. Ask Little Pepe about it.
THEY’VE ALWAYS COMPLEMENTED ME ON MY ATTIRE
ALTHOUGH MY STRETCH PANTS WITH RUBBER LOAFERS ARE MORE COMFORTABLE
Hopefully there were dog treats for the dogs
I THOUGHT THEY WERE COOKIES
I have everything but Brad Pitt
I have everything but Brad Pittt
I have everything butt Brad Pitt
Got anymore grub? This kid is starting to look tasty.
WELCOME TO BROWARD COURTS
PACK AN OVERNIGHT BAG
The one on the right lent his hat to the speaker at Schrieb’s retirement party?
EVERYBODY’S FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT
That’s the best part of there being a comedy blog in Broward. The Reruns.
The Klan Hat is just about the only thing that can’t be blamed on me
AND I DID IT ALL WITH THIS
It’s fun playing dirty. Ask any number of Broward Judges.
P.S. If you hadn’t given me money I would have bashed your head in with my gavel
Your not alone Merrilee. The Broward Bench is full of like minded mental patients.
The courthouse ramp offends us too
Who’s the chicken that was supposed to tell Ilona that Judicial College is only for Judges?
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE WAILING WALL
What an awe inspiring array of intellect and achievement.
I’m in fear for my life
Guess who? Hint I was a miserable ingrate on the bench who went out of his way to make everyone else miserable too
Lenny cheated at cards too. Being picked on in elementary school helped create another monster with a peculiar twist. This one kept weird things in the fridge too.
All good in fun and games, but in all seriousness, shouldn’t Jaab or someone check to see if any of the judiciary have black face pasts? Isn’t that more concerning than a Governor would be?
“I AIN’T GONNA CARRY THE WHITE MAN’S WATER”
ANOTHER BROWARD JUDGE PUTS FOOT IN MOUTH
HE CARRIED IT ANYWAY
NON HUMAN INVOLVEMENT SCANDAL KEPT ME FROM MOOCHING MORE IN JACKSONVILLE
THE WORD GOT OUT
THEY DONT WANT ME
BROWARD JUDGES ARE A BREED ALL THEIR OWN
Drive over and review the Nova yearbooks. It’s not like having to send out to Princeton or New Haven at Yale for this crew.
Princeton doesn’t have a law school.
Broward’s Finest:
IM GLAD HE’S NEVER SEEN MY COURTROOM
Here Ilona let me help you move your things out of your courtroom
On display next to ceremonial black bathrobe
I SET THE CROOKED EXAMPLE FOR YEARS FOR BROWARD JUDGES UNTIL THEY DUMPED ME
TOOTY’S GOT NOTHIN ON ME
HE’S AN AMATEUR
As Broward judges it was just a lot easier to let the moron have the wheel. The less we have to do, the better. 3 days a week is stretching it when it comes to our attention spans.
At least they have respect for Judge Tuter. The meltdowns are fewer and farther apart now. With Judge Ross I remember it was like every time the newspaper was opened another one of them was there. They had no respect or fear for him. They carried on like monkeys in a zoo with no regard for anyone.
Who says we’re monkeys? As judges, we have the right to do anything we want including going pantless at judicial conferences and smoking weed 30 feet from an elementary school and calling minorities Non Human.
It’s always been that way for judges in Broward.
Most of them couldn’t make 100 a year as attorneys too. Pull their applications and look it’s right there. The elected ones are worse probably (and no application). Then they act mean and angry all the time at the people that pay their salary and campaign fees namely the successful attorneys that don’t rely on the State for a paycheck. Their so jealous and insecure they go splat every so often and then want to blame the Sun Sentinel or Jaab for printing about it.
They should pay Judges $400,000 a year so good people will apply. The law firm people won’t be interested but at least the talented sole practitioners may decide to help out for a smaller pay cut. Then the State would save money because they could cut the judiciary in half because a good lawyer/Judge could run three dockets in the time one lazy political hire phoning it in and creating more problems with their pissy attitudes can get through one.
Maybe…..$400 is a decent chunk of change…..they would be scared to lose it….risk averse rulings
They’re paid too much for what they do now. More than half of Broward judges work 3 days a week and leave after lunch.
I was very successful in private practice. I earned almost $800.00 per month after I left the AG’s office. I gave up the glamor of private practice to serve the community with regional. Only the very best can hope to land a job with ORCC.
Soon, I will give this up to serve as Clerk of Court.
Vote RICHARD BRIAN KAPLAN for Clerk. Ensuring liberty and a unearned paycheck for all.
I’LL CHEW UP THE COMPETITION FOR CLERK AND SPIT THEM OUT
KAPPY IS THE NAME
PUBLIC SERVICE IS MY GAME
THEY MAKE MIDOL FOR THIS KIND OF STUFF
I THOUGHT I HAD IT MADE AFTER I BECAME A BROWARD JUDGE
THEN I GOT THE BAD NEWS
I’m ready for the bench
Is John Countryman back with the Sao?
He was a burned out drooler years ago. You mean he’s back sucking at it again ?
Single Satz needs a new wingman
THE OLDEST PERSON ALIVE IS ONE HUNDERED AND TWENTY TWO YEARS OLD
IVE GOT PLENTY OF TIME LEFT
I almost beat Satz and I’m just a bimbo lookin for the big score …
Is she really dating Satz?
I HEAR WEDDING BELLS
God, I hope not. Running into him in th elevator gives me the creeps.
Where we going for lunch Mike?
Tell Jeff I want someplace for a good salad today
IVE CHANGED MY MIND
I WANT MY OLD JOB BACK AND A RAISE
I hadn’t slept for days when I was being accused of pinching goop from Publix.
How’s my makeup look?
BIMBO ALERT
VERY HIGH PROBABILITY
RATED 9 ON THE BROWARD BIMBO SCALE
No one going to comment on her Judge Aleman, Jesus loving comments at her robing?
I couldn’t attend. I was on my private jet to Aspen. I wouldn’t have gone anyway though. What did she say?
I wouldn’t feel comfortable before her if i wasn’t a Christian. She made that clear
Sanctimonious hypocritical whacko
She sure didn’t practice what she supposedly stood for
More like a fallen angel with a spleen to vent
Wasn’t she another one of these appointed bums ?
Calvary Chapel represents a large voting block of like-minded people. She was not unaware of that fact.
Thanking Jesus and her hairdresser in the same sentence told me what we were really in for …
Broward judges should have to undergo an independent psychiatric evaluation before taking the bench
It would save the Judicial Qualifications Committee a lot of time and the rest of us a lot of grief
GOD HAD OTHER PLANS FOR ME
BUT BRANNON SAID I WAS ALRIGHT
Lit’l Red Riding Hood
Broward judges cant hold it together for too long
When theyre not paying off sleazy political operatives
They’re counting the minutes to their next meltdown
Then out comes Tooty with his lame jarhead excuses
Did he get sprayed with Agent Orange or something ?
As far as Aleman, she was a complete mess hiding between the pages of the Good Book
go ahead. make fun of someone who died from cancer. I did not care for her as a judge, but let it go man.
Most of the posters here are “a breed all their own” – jealous and pathetic haters.
You complain about the Broward Judiciary, make up lies, pin the wrongdoings of some on all the rest. In fact, you are obviously someone who only dreams of a judicial salary and are consumed by self-hatred and jealousy due to your own lack of professional success.
Maybe God has “other plans” for you too, or your spouse or your child. I wonder if you would find our mirth at their death as humorous as you think your comments here are.
I agree. Making light of a tragic early death is wrong. But bringing in this person’s family is kind of the same thing. Stopping to the same level. That’s not right.
About as convenient as a cold sore on Saturday night
She was obviously a very unhappy woman and sought solace in her faith, but she sure wasn’t a very nice person on the bench and unfortunately found some kind of pleasure making everybody else as miserable as she was. It’s too bad what happened to her, but i don’t see see that as redeemable when it came to her behavior as a judge. She probably shouldn’t have ever sought the position.
If you’re going to tout your religion as some kind of moral superiority, I think should strive to live that way in your own life.
Just my two cents on the subject after reading the above post.
WE ALL PASS ON WHEN ITS OUR TIME FROM SOMETHING
IT DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO REWRITE HISTORY IN REMEMBRANCE
SHE WAS CRAZY
Two socks to the wind and totally clueless
It’s a terrible thing what happened to her but her example on the bench was something that should have been cured by judicial administration before the JQC was inevitably summoned. It would have been better for all involved, including her Honor, if she had been moved from Criminal once her unsuitability to her assignment surfaced. It would have also precluded the stress of a re-election campaign against her by Mr. Malove. Unfortunately judicial administration has a tin ear to criticism of Judges, particularly when it evolves from practitioners. This phenomenon often ends up causing many problems for all involved when it could be avoided simply by not adopting a cynical and defiant “line in the sand” and “us against them” mentality concerning the judiciary and the public it serves.
chief would listen if anyone would tell him things; bacdl doesn’t bother much anymore; we used to write letters
She couldn’t handle it from the beginning. Her insufferable attitude was noticed by everyone from the beginning. She was simply not suitable to sit as a judge.
She was getting some bad and arrogant advice from a few of the other judges too. Typical Broward Judge crap that got her into deeper and deeper water.
All the praying for her in the world couldnt help her in the end. It was too bad, but it is what it is. You have to be accepting of God’s love. Not arrogantly in opposition to it.
From the list of political pontificators sitting on the bench in Broward, Aleman was not one of the noteworthy ones who was appointed. Never cared too much for her knowledge of the law or her bad attitude. She should have been removed from the Criminal Division at first sign of meltdown. Its a repeated pattern among Broward judges who can’t cut the mustard and then make it much worse by adopting a bad tude towards everyone who appears before them.
http://southfloridagaynews.com/Tony-Adams/column-the-manhunt-scandal-of-judge-david-audlin.html
Jaab Job
HIS REAL MISTAKE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH ON MANHUNT ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE
NO WONDER HE COULDNT SCORE
SOUNDS ABOUT THE AVERAGE SIZE FOR A JUDGE
THAT EXPLAINS A LOT
SHORT AND STUBBY
Kicking Bird hasn’t changed much from his wrestling days lol
Call me Jackie for short
Trying to manage Looney Toons for the 17th Judicial Circuit is my favorite pass time
Judicial pimps deserve some downtime. The argument that this pimp offers is as short as his durk. If he was so successful in private practice as he tells the story, why would he want to be a judge for chump change? He’s full of it.
ABRA CADABRA
He’s definitely not describing Audlin.
THIS IS MY SERIOUS FACE