It seemed like the whole world was glued to their T.V. sets last Tuesday night, waiting to see who would be the next President of the United States .
Well, nearly the whole world. The exception was the Fort Lauderdale Mayor and City Commissioners, and a group of angry protestors that attended Tuesday’s City Commission [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Earl
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From: Sun-Sentinel.com Broward County News (October 22, 2008)
In case you missed it in today’s Sun Sentinel, we reported that Fort Lauderdale city commissioners last night gave a tentative “yes” to 5 percent cost-of-living pay raises for about 250 city employees.
The employees are top managers, the highest paid on the payroll. Like City Attorney Harry Stewart [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Earl
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Sun-Sentinel Broward Political Blog
October 2008
Fort Lauderdale mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson said he has a plan for helping the environment, and it’s not about keeping air in the tires of a Hummer. It’s not about reading the Sun Sentinel online. (Click here if you didn’t read Mayor Naugle’s Hummer initiative and want to. Click here [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Earl
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Sun-Sentinel Broward Political Blog
September 2008
Does this mean the race for mayor in February-March 2009 will be collegial?
Here in a photo shot by Stephen Shires are, from left, criminal defense attorney Steve Rossi, tile store owner Earl Rynerson and attorney/former city commissioner Dean Trantalis. They’re running to replace Mayor Jim Naugle. Also running are state Rep. [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Earl
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Florida has provided some fierce gay debates and is notorious for its colorful anti-gay personalities – think Anita Bryant and Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle. But a tepid gay marriage debate taking place in the Sunshine State suggests the temperature of the gay culture war there has chilled a bit.
For example, Governor Charlie Crist, who [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2008 by Earl
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Sun-Sentinel Broward Political Blog
September 2008
Tile store owner and Fort Lauderdale mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson mass emailed some facts and figures in recent days alerting folks to the six figure salaries in City Hall. Using a little bit of math, he multiplied a few years by the top officials’ salaries and came out with an equation that [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Earl
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July 15, 2008
Sun-Sentinel Political Blog
So the mayor’s race in Fort Lauderdale has taken a slight culinary sidetrack, with an openly gay candidate promising to deliver a fruitcake to Mayor Jim Naugle.
But Monday, said fruitcake was officially a no-show.
This is the actual fruitcake
that soon will be Property of the Mayor.
Naugle, who says he is not anti-gay, [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Earl
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July 14, 2008
Sun-Sentinel Political Blog
Mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson (www.earlformayor.com) might not have raised any money in his campaign for the open mayor’s seat in Fort Lauderdale in 2009. But he’s sure raising some controversy.
Rynerson, who is openly gay, was on the radio Monday morning responding to Mayor Jim Naugle’s recent comments about gays and sex [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Earl
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July 11, 2008
850 AM (WFTL) Morning Show
A candidate for Fort Lauderdale mayor is criticizing the city’s current mayor for making allegedly anti-gay comments.
Click here to listen to the interview
Note: You will need to select audio clip ‘7-11 - Gay Ftl Mayoral Candidate Earl Rynerson’
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Earl
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July 11, 2008
CBS4.com
http://cbs4.com/video/?id=58247@wfor.dayport.com
A candidate for Fort Lauderdale mayor is criticizing the city’s current mayor for making allegedly anti-gay comments.
Click here to watch the video
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Earl
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July 11, 2008
Tim Smith’s Fort Lauderdale
http://blog.timsmith.com/2008/07/09/more-mayoral-candidates-crowding-up-the-field.aspx
And now there are five ! …
Just in case you are keeping count, the fifth candidate for Mayor of Fort Lauderdale jumped into the fray this week! More about him in a minute!
If you’ve been following what is sure to be an interesting political cauldron bubbler, you will remember that [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Earl
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) — Fort Lauderdale’s mayor is no stranger to controversy. Jim Naugle’s comments about the gay community have attracted national attention in the past, and now he’s at it again.
Naugle spoke about the two gay mayoral candidates vying for his position Thursday morning on an AM radio talk show, on 850 WFTL, [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Earl
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July 07, 2008
MiamiHerald.com
by Steve Rothaus
Earl Rynerson, a gay Gulf War veteran and South Florida business owner announced his candidacy for Fort Lauderdale mayor in an unusual way: handing out “Fort Lauderdale Image Polishing Kits.”
Here’s the news release that came along with the kit:
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL - July 4, 2008 - After months of speculation, South [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Earl
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Earl Rynerson plans to fight bureaucracy, and emphasize equality and tolerance
ExpressGayNews.com
By JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A second openly-gay candidate has officially announced a run for the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale.
Earl Rynerson, owner of CLAD Tile & Stone, made it official on July 4. The 55-year-old entrepreneur said he will bring his business acumen to [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Earl
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July 9, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
By Brittany Wallman
FORT LAUDERDALE - It would be ironic, but if a gay candidate wins the mayor’s post in Fort Lauderdale next spring, city residents would have Mayor Jim Naugle to thank.
A second openly gay candidate filed to run for Fort Lauderdale mayor this week, citing Naugle’s comments last year as [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Earl
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July 2008
Sun-Sentinel.com Political Blog
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Gay mayorial Dean Trantalis won’t be able to count on “the gay vote” in his bid for Fort
Lauderdale mayor. Now there are two openly gay candidates in that race.
Earl Rynerson, a local political unknown who owns a tile store, announced last week that he was running. But [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Earl
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July 2008
Sun-Sentinel.com Political Blog
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UPDATE: The three top officials seeking 5 percent raises also got 5 percent cost-of-living increases this year. So this request would bring their raises to 10 percent. The vote is tonight. Stay tuned.
Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will talk Tuesday about giving 5 percent raises to three of [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Earl
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April 2008
Sun-Sentinel.com Political Blog
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Earl Rynerson is considering running for mayor of Fort Lauderdale in spring 2009.
He is the owner of a tile store. [The announced candidates in the race are a current city commissioner, Cindi Hutchinson; a state legislator, Jack Seiler; and a local attorney, Steve Rossi.]
Rynerson sent me this: [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Earl
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April 2004
Sun-Sentinel Political Blogs
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/04/_since_he_hasnt_been.html
Since he hasn’t been doing the circuit of city meetings and neighborhood events for very long, I thought it might be nice to post a photo of Earl Rynerson so you would know him if you saw him. Rynerson is considering running for mayor of Fort Lauderdale. He said he’ll decide in [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Earl
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March 27, 2008
Featured on TimSmith.com Political Blog
http://blog.timsmith.com/2008/03/27/another-mayoral-candidate-.aspx
Meet the Colonel
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rynerson (Ret.), thinking he may want to be the next Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, to be exact. Rynerson, 55, has been exploring the possibility of adding his name to the growing list of Mayoral candidates. He started by sending out his [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Earl
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