Article
Courtesy of The Sun Sentinel
By South
Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board
Published April 9, 2007
Taking
pettiness to new heights
Considering the Florida attorney general entered the latest South Florida
condo pettiness, you wonder who would get involved if they had a real
problem. The Joint Chiefs of Staff? The pope? President Bush? Who knows.
This time, Attorney General Bill McCollum basically told the association
at the Port Condominium in Fort Lauderdale: "Are you folks for
real?"
This is the association that was telling Laurie Richter she couldn't keep
her mezuzah -- all five inches of it -- on her condo's doorpost. It took
lawyers on both sides and meetings and finally the AG to come to the
conclusion that should have taken about five minutes: the mezuzah doesn't
bother anybody except someone who is desperately trying to be offended.
Richter and any resident who wants a mezuzah should be able to have one,
and let's get on with life.
For the moment, common sense has prevailed in South Florida condos. For
the moment.
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