(3) Request two Fort Lauderale Police officers to order me to leave the meeting – an order which I declined to comply. (2) Order me to leave the Common (sic) meeting – which I refused. (1) Order me to silence the fart machine – which I refused. “…I attended the regular monthly meeting of the Distict Commission yesterday (May 25) with a fart machine for the express purpose of registering my objections to the Commissioners’ failure to respond to my questions as a District taxpayer.
He demands answers to what he claims are “disturbing budgetary anomalies” at Broward Health.ĭeGroot explained the entire situation on his blog (my underlining): Nabil El Sanadi, the former Broward Health CEO who had committed suicide just days earlier.Įven after nearly being locked up this week, deGroot is unrependant. The other gadfly who annoyed deGroot by making negative comments about Dr. That wasn’t the first time deGroot interrupted the decorum of the Broward Health Commission.ĭeGroot threw a pie at another Broward Health gadfly at a January meeting. The cops and Rodriguez eventually calmed deGroot and he agreed to surrender his machine. Broward Health Commissioners weren’t amused.īroward Health Chair Rocky Rodriguez called the cops after deGroot refused to stop making noise. The device is designed for giggling elementary school kids. Today? Today he is a laughing stock after his latest stunt - disrupting a public health care meeting with a device that made fart noises.ĭeGroot was almost arrested Wednesday for interrupting a Broward Health Commission meeting by repeatedly using a contraption that produced the loud sounds of flatulence. He was also an award-winning writer for the paper’s Sunshine Sunday magazine. Later in his career, his column was one of the most read features in the Sun-Sentinel. His stories helped drag Broward County government from its rural past into the modern era.
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He was a key part of a Fort Lauderdale News series that exposed government corruption in the 1970s. He was a highly gifted writer who authored a Broadway play about Ernest Hemingway. He was part of a Pulitzer Prize on the Kent State shootings. The Baltimore Sun | The Aegis | The Capital | Carroll County Times | Catonsville Times | Maryland GazetteĬhicago Tribune | The Beacon-News | Chicago | ChicagoNow | The Courier-News | Daily Southtown | Forsalebyowner.John deGroot was once a very big deal in Broward County.
In 1982, Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel was renamed the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In the 1970s, the Fort Lauderdale News and Pompano Sun-Sentinel, were merged to become the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel. In 1960, Gore Publishing purchased the once-a-week Pompano Beach Sun, and resurrected the "Sentinel" name it had dropped seven years earlier, and converted it into a new morning newspaper, the Pompano Sun-Sentinel. In 1953, Gore Publishing (who purchased the paper in 1929) changed the name of the paper to the Fort Lauderdale News. That same year, two Ohio publishers bought the Sentinel and the Fort Lauderdale Weekly Herald, consolidating the newspapers into a single daily newspaper, the Daily News and Evening Sentinel. In 1925, the Everglades Breeze was renamed the Sentinel. Daily News and Evening Sentinel 1925–1953
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