Broward clerk of courts fires employee who is running against her in next election
Annette Daniels, an administrative assistant at the Broward County Clerk of Courts office, was fired Wednesday after 19 years on the job after she filed paperwork challenging her boss, Brenda Forman, in the next election.
Forman has served two terms as clerk and is running for her third.
Daniels’ most recent assignment was conditioned on an oath that she act as Forman’s deputy and in Forman’s name “to do acts and things which I [Forman] myself might or could do if personally present,” according to the letter Daniels released to the courthouse news and gossip site JAABlog.
Daniels is one of two former employees of the clerk’s office challenging their former boss. The other is Charles Hall.
“I can’t believe she fired me,” Daniels said. “I didn’t do anything wrong. They fired me because I can beat her.”
Hall worked at the clerk’s office from 1986 to 2021, resigning after a dispute with Forman over a potential reassignment.
His last position was as court operations manager over the evidence division.
Forman handily defeated two challengers when she first ran for re-election in 2020. This year she is the only one of the three candidates with any money in her campaign coffers: $16,500. Nearly two-thirds of her donations came from outside Broward County, and a little over half came from donors in Texas.
Forman did not reply to a text message seeking comment.
Rafael Olmeda can be reached at rolmeda@sunsentinel.com or 954-304-5256.