VOTE FOR MARY BARZEE-FLORES

One of our own from the REGJB is running for Congress, and if you live in her district, you should vote for Mary Barzee-Flores. If you don't live in her district, you should contribute to her campaign and volunteer to help for this last weekend. 

Mary Barzee-Flores started her career at the Federal PDs office. One of her trial partners was a young David O Markus. You may have heard of him.  From the Federal PDs, Barzee-Flores ran for Circuit Court judge and won when after qualifying, her opponent withdrew.  

On the bench at the REGJB Judge Barzee-Flores was one of the very good judges we have had in our courthouse. Her intelligence was undeniable, and she was firm, fair, and moved her docket efficiently. She sentenced defendants to just sentences and she called it as she saw it. That her opponent is running offensive negative commercials cheery-picking some decisions to attack her is both troubling and a direct assault against an independent judiciary. 

After leaving the bench, Judge Barzee-Flores went into civil practice where once again, her litigation skills and talent were obvious and undeniable. A well deserved nomination to the federal bench followed, but the republicans played politics with all of President Obama's nominations in his last two years and they ran out the clock on her nomination through blatant political stalling tactics. 

Now, Rumpole says, is time to show the Republicans that they should be careful what they ask for, because they may get it. Having kept Mary Barzee-Flores off the federal bench, she is now back running for Congress. 

Here is the kind of congresswoman we believe Mary Barzee-Flores will be: 

She will not vote to deprive Americans of health care. She will keep Obama Care, which all of the sudden Republican candidates who voted against it numerous times- like her opponent- now support because they know Americans with pre-existing conditions want to be protected. 

She will not look at the rising oceans and see the regular flooding of Miami Beach and other cities on Florida's coast and throw up her hands and say "you can't prove why this is happening." Mary Barzee-Flores understands and embraces that science now uniformly accepts that humans have caused global warming and she will work to put our country back on track as one of the leaders to save the planet. 

Mary Barzee-Flores will not respond to another tragic shooting by pandering to the NRA. She has called it as she sees it- there are too many guns in our country which are easily accessible to mentally ill people who use them to shoot up schools and houses of worship. 

Mary Barzee-Flores  will not call the exodus of poor people in Central America fleeing gang violence "a caravan of thugs, gang members and middle easterners." 

We could go on and on. But the simple fact is this- we need good, smart, hard working people like Mary Barzee-Flores who has dedicated most of her career to public service. She will respond to the problems we have with smart and common sense solutions. 

This election could not be more important. 
Our planet is in jeopardy. The response is not "drill baby drill." 
Our society is hemorrhaging in violence. The response is not to arm teachers and priests and rabbis. 
Health care costs are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. The response is not to repeal landmark health care reform. 
Poor women and children, hearing the call of the words on the Statute of Liberty are looking to the country President Reagan called a "shinning city on a hill." The response is not to send the military to shoot them dead at the border.  

The beginning of the road  back to sanity is to elect smart, strong and dedicated women like Mary Barzee-Flores. Vote now. 
You can go here and volunteer and contribute. 
https://marybarzeeflores.com/

I am Horace Rumpole, and I alone am responsible for the contents of this blog post.

JUDGE MARY BARZEE NOMINATED TO FEDERAL COURT

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:

BREAKING NEWS ..............

JUDGE MARY BARZEE FLORES HAS BEEN NOMINATED TO THE FEDERAL BENCH

Numerous news agencies are reporting that President Barack Obama has nominated Barzee Flores to an open seat in the Southern District of Florida.  (This is the open seat from when Robin Rosenbaum was elevated from the District Court bench to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit).

Judge Barzee started her career as an associate with the law firm of Sonnett, Sale & Kuehne and she worked there for two years before becoming an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1990 - 2003.  She then ran unopposed for Circuit Court Judge in 2002 and won a seat on the Circuit bench in Miami-Dade County and served there from 2003 - 2011.  (She won reelection in 2008 without opposition).  While on the bench, she served in both the Criminal Division and the General Jurisdiction Division as well as having the honor to sit by designation on the 4th DCA.  She resigned from the bench and joined the law firm of Stearns, Weaver where she concentrates her practice in commercial litigation and arbitration.  She also serves as a private judge, arbitrator, special master, and umpire in appraisal disputes. She is a UM law school graduate.

The two finalists who did not make the cut were U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer and Circuit Court Judge Peter Lopez.

Good luck to Judge Barzee as she makes her way inside the beltway and through the confirmation process.

CAPTAIN OUT .......
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JUDGE BARZEE RESIGNS

Another week, another qualified Judge leaves the bench at the height of her career.

Tuesday afternoon saw confirmation of the rumoured news that Judge Mary Barzee is leaving the Circuit Court Bench to join Gene Stearns at Stearns. Weaver, Miller, et. al. We know the firm primarily through their sponsorship of WLRN in Miami, but Gene Stearns is as good and respected attorney in Miami as there is.

We are sorry to see Judge Barzee leave, but we wish her well in her new endeavors.

And now a message to our legislature and moronic Governor:

Keep this up pinheads. You get what you pay for. You have prosecutors and public defenders who can't survive on the meager salaries you pay them and you have Judges who at the height of their careers cannot afford to turn down private sector offers because of the security it brings to them and their families.

But go right ahead and keep reducing salaries and pensions and blame the budget woes on teachers and prosecutors and soon this state won't be worth a bucket of cheap sand.

We are only as good as the people who represent the state and perform the valuable functions of government. By your actions you are lowering the bar. Less qualified teachers will turn out less qualified students who cannot compete. Dedicated public servants who perform indispensable jobs are leaving. It's like the plot of Atlas Shrugged, but this is all too real.

What's going to happen the next time the nation turns its eyes to Florida and seeks a wise judicial resolution of, lets create a wild scenario- say a presidential election? Or what happens when an important criminal case is brought to court? What is going to happen when we only have inexperienced prosecutors and judges who are far from the best and the brightest?

You get what you pay for.

As John Galt says in Atlas Shrugged: "You were warned."

See you in court.