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Pulsating dance clubs. that s all marketing reinvention of a much older miami beach. we need to go back 50 years or more. when caddies with tail fins were pulling into the newest, glitziest hotel and the east coast, the fountain would. it should be a great city. a hotel real or dealer called ben novak builds it. steven gaines wrote about the era in his book fools paradise. it became a destination for the rat pack, frank sinatra, a lot of major stars were appearing. lots of movies were shot there. novak was the king and he needed a queen to preside over his aqua colored palace. he found one in the former coca-cola model named bernie with her effortless charm, bernice turned out to be the perfect hostess to greet the celebrities, gangsters, and just plain guests, who made the fountain blue the scene of its ....
and ben junior warmed to may. the one-time lonely prince belatedly seemed to recognize a kindred spirit in lonely, neglected may. he saw me as his daughter and i did see him as my father. and he had no children of his own. ben, after his own stunted childhood, finally found in his grandchildren some kids who wanted to play with all his batman stuff. he did a lot of the grandfather things with them. a lot of, i, think why we saw so much of each other was because of those two boys. when she was in her late twenties, ben junior asked may to become part of his very successful convention organizing business. she would work alongside her mother and his mother, bernie it had taken 20 years, but they were finally becoming a family. i actually got older and got into the business, he was there guided me and showed me how to do things. in the spring of 2009, bernice, in her late eighties, had apparently slipped and took a nasty fall one coming out of her fall car. ....
she did very well. my mom is a survivor. she could do just about anything. she left behind her stripper pole to marry ben novak junior. but the little girl felt like so much excess baggage in her mother s new relationship. she was dispatched to boarding school at the age of eight. did you feel like you ve been shipped off? kind of. you had a tough childhood? best thing is that it s over. ben junior and her mother lived in a 2 million dollar fort lauderdale state with a boat out back. his elderly mother, bernice, live not far away. but may, the step fought daughter, was never going to be a good richmond trust fund kid. she grew up tough and hard, estranged from her mother. paying her own way with bartending and waitressing jobs. she had two children young and sweated the bills. it was the grandchildren that ultimately thawed some of the ice between mother and daughter. she may have been a horrible mother but she was the best grandmother. she did everything with them. ....
And bernice, um, mentioned it in that clip. the chief architect of this assault on voting rights is not mitch mcconnell. it s not david duke. it s not whatever boogieman you think is hiding under the under the under the closet. the chief architect is chief justice john roberts. it is he, who has been an enemy of voting rights and racial equality from his very first job out of law school, which was to oppose the 1982 amendments to the voting rights act. it is john roberts who authored shelby county v. holder which eviscerated section five of the voting rights act, which is basically why we are here right now. it is john roberts in 2020 which swung wide the doors toward gerrymandering and it s john roberts who provided the crucial fifth vote in last year s decision which eviscerated section 2 of the voting rights act. this has all been done by federal society conservatives that have been put on the supreme court and until we stop ....