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...greatest fear is being the biggest dork at the Janet Reno Dance Party. I have never been anywhere in South Beach where I was not the least cool person in the room, and Level, where Reno is throwing a Friday-night fund raiser, is one of the hottest clubs in Miami. Being the No. 1 loser at a party for Janet Reno--the former U.S. Attorney General, current Florida gubernatorial candidate and perennial icon of dork style--could set my self-confidence back to junior high levels...
...Reno is having the dance party for many reasons, several having to do with postmodernism, the triumph of irony and the melding of Hollywood and Washington. But the biggest reason is that she trails incumbent Jeb Bush 37% to 53%. Plus, the Florida Democratic establishment wants nothing to do with her. With so little to lose, she figures, why not impersonate Will Ferrell's impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live? The people on the Bush team are either so confident or so pressed for social outlets that four of them are coming to the party...
...good news is that these are 2,200 people who make me look like the young John Travolta. These are the people you see on convention floors, who are referred to as the party "faithful," which I suspect is code for "loser." They shake JANET RENO FOR GOVERNOR signs more than their booties. Never having been at a club where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole Gaviria, 32, of the shortest half shirt and lowest jeans...
...Bush oversaw a 27% increase in child-protection funding, 60 children who had previous contact with the state's child-welfare system died of abuse or neglect in 1999 and 2000, and as many as 1,000 were unaccounted for. Bush's Democratic challenger, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who is lagging in the polls, was quick to use the tragedy against Bush. The murder, she says, "certainly indicates that Rilya Wilson's case was not an isolated incident. There is simply too much at stake to stay our current course." Says Democratic state representative Frederica Wilson...
...that is completely unaccounted for, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office 50 hours of community service were assigned as sole punishment by a Thai court to a man who confessed to beating his wife to death with a golf club 1,500 people bought tickets to a Janet Reno nightclub fund-raiser for her Florida campaign for governor, where she broke through a fake brick wall and shouted, "It's Reno time...