
FORT LAUDERDALE – It must have been a barn-burner of a Broward County Commission meeting on Tuesday, February 22. While working on public policy matters, County Commissioner Chip LaMarca took some time at around 11:30 a.m. to tickle his keyboard and comment on Sun-Sentinel writer Brittany Wallman’s Facebook meanderings about stock car racing. Wallman, who reports about Broward County news for the Fort Lauderdale-based newspaper, was herself at the commission meeting, covering the proceedings for her bosses. LaMarca, who won his commission seat last year after defeating Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl – at one time the nation’s highest ranking gay elected official – entered Wallman’s FB thread when he noticed Wallman banging away at her own keys. The Commish was apparently under-impressed by whomever was addressing the county elders (“Are you posting while Broward’s most famous speaker rants?,” LaMarca typed on Wallman’s page). Wallman ‘fessed up immediately on her page (“full disclosure: I’m commenting while “covering” a Broward County Commisssion [sic] meeting,” she wrote), but only after acknowledging that she’d been “BUSTED!” The identity of “Broward’s most famous speaker” – and the subject of LaMarca’s dry posting – remains unknown.