Politics in Florida is a rough and dirty game. Candidates must prove undying opposition to reds, 'queers, integration and corruption. Though the louder a politico. attacks corruption, the more certain he is to be discovered up to his own fat neck in it. Typically, the current election campaign in Florida is marked by scandals, bitterness and wild charges (accounting for the antihomosexual drive which could hardly sprout from excess purity in a fleshpot like Miami.

A Dade County grand jury accused Miami Judges Holt and Prunty of serious but profitable malpractices. State Atty. Brautigam (recently attacked in Miami Life for racial integration in his office) was under heavy fire for attempting to suppress the jury report as irresponsible.

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Miami Life is a pornographic weekly featuring gutter politics, homo-baiting, ads for Miami Burley-Q houses and even ads for female impersonator shows. Its publisher, Ruebin Clein, is running for Sheriff against incumbent Tom Kelly, also famed for bitter attacks on deviates. two small pamphlets printed and widely distributed by Clein in April (and also in a vivid public meeting, on TV and in a Herald ad) he charged Kelly with lying under oath, fostering racial integration, beating his wife, and frequent homosexual acts (described in terms One wouldn't dare reprint.)

This was based on purported official transcripts of a lie-detector test taken by Kelly in 1952. He was quoted as explicitly describing homo-sex-play from the age of 13 up thru recent incidents and his intimate relations with a homosexual businessman (named) whom he met in Paris, and who brought him to Miami, ‘kept' him for weeks, offered him money to start a business. Several contacts described in lewd detail. Throughout, he expressed strong distaste for such persons and activities which seemed constantly forced on him. There were further alleged quotes (misleadingly arranged) from the Herald, and a telling claim that in 1952 Kelly's lawyer threatened, but never filed, a $250,000 libel suit against Clein for publishing the alleged polygraph interview.

Kelly called the present pamphlets 'an effort by Clein to get the same old garbage into the newspapers again before the election. . The material contained in the booklets is the same which the grand jury investigated and cleared me of during the last campaign. My attorney and my advisers have instructed me not to do anything about the matter until after the election.

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