October 8, 200817 yr Hi everyone. I found this while browsing the web. It's a poll that WPBT is conducting after the Samson and Braman Interviews. I encourage you all the vote for the Marlins. It might just seem as a silly poll, but we have to remember that Braman originally used these polls to "show commissioners" that the community sided with him. Let's show them otherwise! Link to Poll
October 8, 200817 yr Hi everyone. I found this while browsing the web. It's a poll that WPBT is conducting after the Samson and Braman Interviews. I encourage you all the vote for the Marlins. It might just seem as a silly poll, but we have to remember that Braman originally used these polls to "show commissioners" that the community sided with him. Let's show them otherwise! Link to Poll nice poll...thanx
October 8, 200817 yr Author When I first saw it, it was 49.3% Marlins 46.3- Braman 4.4-indecided. good job everyone! Keep it up!
October 10, 200817 yr A little off topic, but I love when they used to show polls on tv that you had to pay 50 cents or a dollar to vote (don't see them too much anymore) and a certain percentage would be 'undecided'. Why would you spend money to vote undecided?
October 10, 200817 yr A little off topic, but I love when they used to show polls on tv that you had to pay 50 cents or a dollar to vote (don't see them too much anymore) and a certain percentage would be 'undecided'. Why would you spend money to vote undecided? F'n 1-900 numbers. That is pretty silly.
October 11, 200817 yr Same thing i was thinking. Now the old grey haired f*** is winning by 2%. I call BS and that the thing is rigged.
October 12, 200817 yr I just voted for against the stadium, just because I like seeing other people suffer. The poll result shows 60.8% for Braman, 38.4% for Samson, 0.8% undecided.
October 12, 200817 yr How did it fall back nearly 20% in just 7-8 hours? That's a bit fishy. i agree...this is BS!
October 14, 200817 yr this poll was pay by Braman that why he got win in poll all people want to poll ths poll is BS this interview is trap set by Braman to use in apppear
October 14, 200817 yr It would be great if we could talk to a spokesperson from WPBT and let them know about this BS poll how rigged it is.
October 14, 200817 yr this poll was pay by Braman that why he got win in poll all people want to poll ths poll is BS this interview is trap set by Braman to use in apppear How is the interview a trap? He's already lost. And if he did pay off someone to win the poll, it was a giant waste of money. Very few people have actually watched these interviews and the only people voting are probably us on this message board and people who work for Braman and his lawyers. Nobody else even knows that this poll exists.
October 14, 200817 yr this poll was pay by Braman that why he got win in poll all people want to poll ths poll is BS this interview is trap set by Braman to use in apppear How is the interview a trap? He's already lost. And if he did pay off someone to win the poll, it was a giant waste of money. Very few people have actually watched these interviews and the only people voting are probably us on this message board and people who work for Braman and his lawyers. Nobody else even knows that this poll exists. Not until he uses it as a mandate for his appeals and tries to get an injunction based on it.
October 15, 200817 yr this poll was pay by Braman that why he got win in poll all people want to poll ths poll is BS this interview is trap set by Braman to use in apppear How is the interview a trap? He's already lost. And if he did pay off someone to win the poll, it was a giant waste of money. Very few people have actually watched these interviews and the only people voting are probably us on this message board and people who work for Braman and his lawyers. Nobody else even knows that this poll exists. Not until he uses it as a mandate for his appeals and tries to get an injunction based on it. A lawyer can correct me if I'm wrong, but Braman not liking the decision is not grounds for appeal. They don't re-hear the entire case on an appeal. I believe that all the higher court does is determine if the lower court applied the law correctly. In this case, Judge Cohen has been exceedingly cautious to make sure her decision follows the written law. As for using this poll...No way any Judge would allow an Internet poll as evidence for anything.
October 15, 200817 yr As a lawyer, I can say that you are, in general, correct. Bramman will have to argue that the trial court made specific legal (or factual) errors. As far as any legal errors (such as whether a referendum is required), this is reviewed "de novo" by the appellate court, meaning that the trial court's decision is irrelevant. Because the Florida Supreme Court has addressed the referendum issue, the appellate court would be bound by that ruling (unless it somehow determined that the Supreme Court decision did not apply here). On the other hand, any factual decisions made by the trial court (and I would think the public purpose decision would be deemed factual) are reviewed for an "abuse of discretion" or as "clearly errorneous." Appellate courts do not like to revisit factual determinations made by a trial court. Bramman's best chance to succeed would be to find some legal error that he believes Judge Cohen made; this appears unlikely. I hope that somewhat clears things up for non-lawyers.
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