"I heard the reasons today. They’re all personal grudges. I am absolutely astonished that we are even thinking of doing this."
Fort Lauderdale City Attorney Alain Boileau was fired Tuesday night in swift retribution for alleged blunders made in the wake of a controversial election that had three new commissioners waiting a month to take office.
“This is politics at its worst,” Boileau told the South Florida Sun Sentinel after his firing.
Boileau’s $260,000-a-year job has been on the chopping block ever since newly elected Commissioner John Herbst demanded his firing two weeks ago, just hours after a Dec. 6 swearing-in ceremony.
Herbst didn’t have the votes that night, but the political tide changed Tuesday when two other new faces on the dais said they’d also lost confidence in Boileau and wanted to move in a new direction.
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