Broward Politics: Veltri Family’s Unprecedented Political Reign Ending?

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced he wasn’t running for president again.

That same year Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated and Richard Nixon won the presidency.

And in 1968, a Veltri was first elected to office in Plantation.

That first Veltri was Frank Veltri, father of the current Plantation Mayor Diane Veltri Bendekovic.

I can’t think of any Broward city that has been dominated for so long by one family.

With the exception of two years, there has been a Veltri in office since 1968— either Frank (1968-1999) and daughter (2001-today).

The unprecedented reign of the Velti family may be ending.

The mayor faces a reelection campaign in November 2018 that could turn into a real battle.