{"id":357270,"date":"2026-07-30T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357270\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:13:29","slug":"voters-should-reject-adam-cervera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357270\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters should reject Adam Cervera"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read why your editorial board has endorsed Adam Cervera<\/a> as Broward\u2019s District 6 School Board member, but he seems like another poor political appointment by Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n

We know what happened to his other appointments to the school board, who also did not live in the districts they were supposed to represent (both of them, Torey Alston and Daniel Foganholi<\/a>, lost badly in 2024).<\/p>\n

For much of the time that Cervera has been on the School Board, he did not live in District 6, and now your editorial tells us that his own children attend a Catholic school. Our schools are losing students to Catholic and charter schools, and he\u2019s going to make decisions on this subject?<\/p>\n

That seems like a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

If Cervera is not even man enough to have his own children attend a public school, then in my opinion, he is totally unqualified to serve as a member of the Broward School Board.<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Harris, Davie<\/p>\n

Olga Perez, light and truth<\/p>\n

Human interest stories such as the one a letter writer called \u201cdisgusting\u201d (\u201cA disgusting \u2018sob story,’\u201d Letters to the editor,<\/a> July 13) are vital to understanding how policies impact everyday people.<\/p>\n

These articles strip away the comfortable distance that lets us avoid acknowledging the humanity of others, including people we assume aren\u2019t like us and who don\u2019t share our values.<\/p>\n

Articles such as David Lyons\u2019 report on Olga Perez are about light and truth. Sometimes, those truths are inconvenient and uncomfortable, which is why I think letter writer Barry Godofsky reacted so strongly.<\/p>\n

\"OlgaOlga Perez, longtime translator for the Guatemala Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach, boards a flight to Guatemala City at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 6. A refugee from violence in her country decades ago, she self-deported after being detained by ICE. (Joe Cavaretta\/Sun Sentinel)<\/p>\n

Also in the July 13 paper, Sun Sentinel reporting on Alligator Alcatraz reminded us that politicians like DeSantis use red-meat rhetoric, calling migrants \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olga Perez, a woman who spent 30 years interpreting for the Palm Beach County Sheriff\u2019s Office and social service agencies, plainly does not fit that description, yet her story enraged Godofsky.<\/p>\n

My message to Mr. Godofsky is that the article he found \u201cdisgusting\u201d is actually a mirror. In the reflection, you see the unnecessary pain that the policies and politicians you support have caused people like Olga Perez and her family, and clearly you don\u2019t like what you see.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0I. Scott Singerman, Delray Beach<\/p>\n

An \u2018illegal\u2019 in a store<\/p>\n

In his letter to the editor, Mark Hoffman offers an interesting binary metaphor.<\/p>\n

To roughly sum it up, a legal immigrant enters a store and buys something. An \u201cillegal\u201d breaks into the store and steals something.<\/p>\n

He conveniently overlooks a third posssible scenario: An \u201cillegal\u201d breaks in and sweeps and mops the floors, dusts the shelves, restocks them where needed, and finally, feeds the shop owner\u2019s cat before leaving.<\/p>\n

As the shopkeeper, would you report the break-in and return your store to its previous and untidy mess?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeff Zeitlin, Boca Raton<\/p>\n

Shame on Congress<\/p>\n

Trump may be my least favorite president of all time. That has to be stated right up front, but look who he ran against (Kamala Harris). We were forced to choose. Some of us used logic, while others used emotion \u2014 including a strong dislike for Trump \u2014 to vote for his opponent.<\/p>\n

Every day in every way, the news media has been ripping Trump apart. Some of it was true, and it is sickening. At last weekend\u2019s White House Correspondents Dinner, he gave it right back to them (back in my day, that was called an eye for an eye).<\/p>\n

Patriotism must start in Congress, where the 535 members are only in it for themselves. It\u2019s disgusting. If you ran a business with that attitude, you would file for bankruptcy. I\u2019m ashamed of them. We need leaders and patriots, but look what we have on both sides of the aisle. Shame on you, Congress.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Earl Strugger, Boynton Beach<\/p>\n

Please submit a letter to the editor by email to\u00a0letterstotheeditor@sunsentinel.com<\/a> or fill out the online form below. Letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification. Letters will be edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I read why your editorial board has endorsed Adam Cervera as Broward\u2019s District 6 School Board member, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,114,1205,482],"class_list":["post-357270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}