Monday, March 18, 2019

Broward County Community Stands Up to Parkland Shooting Victim's Mom



As Lori Alhadeff wept for her daughter who was murdered in the Parkland High School massacre, she spoke in front of cameras in favor of control. Her name was subsequently entered in the November 2018 ballot to run for a seat on the Broward County School Board. Sympathetic to her grief and passionate at her stance on gun control and positive messages, Broward County citizens voted for Adhadeff to become a member of the school board. However, her plea for gun control and other causes were overshadowed since she turned her focus to Robert Runci, the Broward County Public Schools Superintendent.  She made it her mission to do all that was possible to remove him as the superintendent with the aid of her supporters including the Sun Sentinel. All previous accolades and praises that Superintendent Runcie received from his own school board, national associations, and the community were not important to Adhadeff, the inexperienced school board member. She dug up all that she could possibly find to smear the superintendent's name in her effort to replace him with a  person who quite possibly would not have reacted any better to a horrific mass shooting on a school campus despite vigorous Code Red policies, procedures, and drills at all Broward County schools. But, the Broward County community came out in full force to town hall meetings and spoke passionately in their defense of Mr. Runci. People from a wide cross-section ranging from parents to even a city mayor made their voices heard, and the overwhelming support was quite clear when the majority of the Broward County School Board members voted in favor of keeping Mr. Runcie. Now, Mr. Runcie must watch his back as the devious intentions of Alhadeff is still present despite her hypocritical assurance that she will "work" with him.