This cry was resounding through Broward’s political world 12 years ago: “Throw out the Broward School Board and the incompetent superintendent!”
The year was 2006. On the chopping block was Broward Schools Superintendent Frank Till, a spectacularly inept leader.
Till was fired by the School Board, despite his frenzied support from Broward’s downtown Fort Lauderdale business community.
Flash forward to this week and some members of the business community were again throwing a life preserver to a beleaguer and deeply flawed School Superintendent — Robert “Bob” Runcie. The business types participated in a news conference to publicly back Runcie.
The news conference was bizarre and unconvincing.
Members of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance and Broward Workshop would never employ an executive who:
- Bungled a $800 million financing plan.
- Botched the public response to a shooting massacre.
- Repeatedly and publicly lied to his bosses.
Runcie has done all this and worse.
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