Bober

And then last April Mayor Bober had his attorneys, with his new CRA director, negotiate with our attorney on what was to be called a descending loan grant.

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Rather than fixing the building at the City's expense, however, Bober and his minions have commenced foreclosure proceedings.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

Elected after a nasty campaign against the previous mayor, Mara Giulianti, Bober's disdain for his predecessor makes House Speaker John Boehner's attitude toward President Obama seem positively reverential.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

Ordinarily, the peremptory proclivities of this petty South Florida municipal politician would not be of academic or esoteric interest to anyone fortunate enough to live, well, anywhere outside Hollywood, except that Bober, driven by his loathing for just about everything he inherited from Giulianti, seems intent on harming if not destroying the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, one of the most important institutions of its kinds in the nation.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

Guess what, the Center once again said yes and Bober once again changed his mind.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

Peter Bober, the mayor of Hollywood, Fl., since 2008, epitomizes what the late US District Court Judge Whitman Knapp for whom I had the great privilege of clerking used to refer to as the Equine Theory of Life: there are far more horses' posteriors in the world than horses.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

"I've been trying to think of a way I could buy a jersey or something without looking like Freddie Mercury," says Mr. Bober, referring to the late lead singer of British rock band Queen, who wore a lot of tight clothing.

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Brian Bober, an executive director at Morgan Stanley from Pelham, N.Y., who coaches his eight-year-old daughter's soccer team, says the situation has left him frustrated.

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Ordinarily, the peremptory proclivities of this petty South Florida municipal politician would not be of academic or esoteric interest to anyone fortunate enough to live, well, anywhere outside Hollywood, except that Bober, driven by his loathing for just about everything he inherited from Giulianti, seems intent on harming if not destroying the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, one of the most important institutions of its kinds in the nation.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012

Rather than fixing the building at the City's expense, however, Bober and his minions have commenced foreclosure proceedings.

Menachem Rosensaft: Spare Us From Petty Political Hacks: A South Florida Holocaust Center Under Siege Menachem Rosensaft 2012