As New Times revealed last year, Matthew G. history, the top law enforcement job in the nation belonged to a man whose name once appeared in a press release announcing the invention of a toilet for men with big dicks. With Snipes now out of office, here's hoping Broward gets its act together in 2020 - for once.įor a fleeting moment in U.S. The office missed a recount deadline - whoops! - and Broward turned into a national laughingstock prompting cries of election-rigging by President Donald Trump and daily protests outside the elections office by the likes of the Proud Boys. Then, amid a highly contested recount, Snipes revealed her office had misplaced thousands of ballots. For starters, Broward's ballots were so poorly designed that many voters completely skipped the crucial Senate race. But 2018 took things to a whole new level of chaos. Then there was the time Snipes illegally ordered the destruction of a bunch of ballots from the 2016 election. Sometimes they showed up in voters' mailboxes missing constitutional amendments other times they didn't show up at all. Over her 14 years in office, ballots went missing by the thousands. It's a hilarious take on one of those tales that makes people roll their eyes and say, "Only in Miami."įormer Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes had a history of screwing up elections long before 2018. But we'd name Screwball the best documentary of the year even if it weren't for tiny Tim. Then- New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink, who broke the massive story in 2013, heavily features in the flick and has a pintsize doppelgänger of his own. At one point, a baby Pitbull even shows up. It's the kind of thing that's so absurd it would be hard to make up if it weren't true, and Corben leans into that absurdity by employing child actors as stand-ins for A-Rod, Tony Bosch, and Porter Fischer. With a cast of characters including an obsessive tanner with a vindictive streak and a fake doctor who linked up with a drug dealer to hawk steroids, plus some of the biggest names in baseball, Screwball tells the surreal story of how hurt feelings and a $4,000 debt blew up into the greatest scandal in modern sports history. And the Biogenesis scandal is so very Miami. No filmmaker tells Miami's story quite like Billy Corben.
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