It was as if the age of social media had crept up upon the hierarchy at Fort Lauderdale City Hall and caught the old fools napping. Suddenly a community that spends millions each year on hospitality marketing found itself doused in international infamy. Ham-handed would be too kind to describe last month’s roll out of a new ordinance regulating homeless feedings that passed in the early morning hours on Oct. 22. Maybe the mayor and city manager and the commission majority were too blurry-eyed to anticipate a public relations disaster of their own doing. But Mayor Jack Seiler, soon-to-be infamous as a homeless-hating fiend, might as well have raised his gavel and pounded himself in the head....
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