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Police union protects incumbent sheriff by playing hardball in Palm Beach sheriff’s race | Pat Beall

A since-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter) featured an attack ad paid for by the Palm Beach County PBA Justice PAC, a political committee affiliated with the county's police union. The ad, targeting Repulican sheriff candidate Mike Gauger, featured confidential information from his military record. (Screenshot by Pat Beall)
A since-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter) featured an attack ad paid for by the Palm Beach County PBA Justice PAC, a political committee affiliated with the county’s police union. The ad, targeting Repulican sheriff candidate Mike Gauger, featured confidential information from his military record. (Screenshot by Pat Beall)
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Columnist Pat Beall writes that a Palm Beach County police union obtained private health information on a Republican challenger to Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and then used that information in an attack ad featured in a since-deleted social media post.

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