Ellyn Bogdanoff

Democratic Candidates Being Attacked by Republican-Linked Liberal Named Group

People living in Delray might have received a mailer about Democrat Sen. Maria Sachs contributing to George W. Bush "more than once" and being in cahoots with Katherine Harris in disenfranchising voters. The mailers, from a group called Progressives, are intended to sound as if a liberal organizati ... More >>

The Bill That Could Bring Destination Resorts to Broward "Dead for This Year"

"Hey, you take your giant casino drawings and you GET OUT OF TOWN, MISTER."​The Florida House bill that would grant three licenses to developers looking to build South Florida resorts has been killed, at least for the time being. The House Business and Consumer Affairs committee postponed a vote r ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Commission Signs Off on Laundry List of Complaints About Casino Plans

​Fort Lauderdale commissioners voted unanimously to complain send off a resolution saying the city's not exactly a fan of the "destination resort casino" bill in the state Legislature -- which is sponsored in the Senate by Fort Lauderdale Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff.Aside from that little rift in interes ... More >>

Broward GOP Claims Supervisor of Elections Is Trying to "Disenfranchise" Republican Voters

​The Broward Republican Executive Committee released an open letter to Brenda Snipes, the county's Supervisor of Elections, claiming it's unfair that there aren't any early voting sites in Republican State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff's district.Republican State Rep. George Moraitis doesn't have an early ... More >>

Boca Raton Pastor Protesting Casino Proposal; Believes It'll Just Bring Hookers and "Evils"

gamefront.com​Mark Boykin, a pastor at Boca Raton's Church of All Nations, isn't too happy about Republican State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff filing a bill to allow Vegas-style casinos in South Florida.After citing hookers, crime, "evils," and some stuff he found on the Internet, he's planning to sho ... More >>

State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff's Daughter Arrested on Burglary and Drug Charges

myfloridahouse.govState Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff​Danna Bogdanoff, the 19-year-old daughter of Fort Lauderdale-based State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, was arrested on four felony charges in Miami-Date County late last week.The police report hasn't yet been released, but according to our sister paper to the s ... More >>

Newspaper Report: Sylvia Poiter Is Being Charged With Five Misdemeanors

UPDATED: Sylvia Poitier, the controversial former Broward County commissioner who is now an elected official in Deerfield Beach, has been charged with five misdemeanors related to her family's involvement in a city-sponsored housing organization, according to the South Florida Times. Poitier​ ... More >>

Florida's Senate Majority Leader Makes False Claim About "Smart Cap" Bill

Another Floridian falsity for PolitiFact's truth-o-meter. ​Hypocrisy and shallow intellect are common among the leadership of Florida's fiscally conservative Senate. But a recent statement from Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner makes one wonder if he was blatantly trying to mislead the public o ... More >>

Cindi Hutchinson's Developer Friend Had Alleged Civil Fraud History With Toy Store

WFOR-Channel 12 Former Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Cindi Hutchinson leaving jail in a New York sweatshirt. ​ Goldstrom​ I want to thank Fort Lauderdale activist and graphics designer Cal Deal for supplying these images. Deal was on Hutchinson's case before it became a case. ... More >>

Cindi Hutchinson: Another Broward Pol Flushed

​Was it worth it, Cindi? ​Former Fort Lauderdale Vice Mayor Cindi Hutchinson not only wins the the award for selling out her seat the cheapest -- a toilet, really? -- but also for the worst mug shot in a procession of public official mug shots.  Look at that ... More >>

BSO Wants to Know Where Homeless Sex Offenders Live, Even if It's on a Bench

Lamberti wants to close the transient loophole.​They've been exiled to sleep under bridges and on benches. They've been banned from hanging out in places where children gather. Now Broward sheriff's officials say county sex offenders are lying about being homeless.House Bill 119, a state measure p ... More >>

The Timeliest, Most Entertaining, Mudslinging Ad We've Seen This Halloween Season

​Both Halloween and the election are fast approaching, making  this a very spooky week, with unexpected twists and turns lurking ahead. Far in advance of the October 31 holiday, Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party candidate for Delaware Senate, revealed "I am not a witch" (provoking awesome pa ... More >>

Man Bites Dog: The Friday Grab Bag

Nothing ripe on the reporting end and nothing big breaking at the moment so I thought I'd cull together some interesting stories from other places. Model Citizen's latest creation ​-- We finally get a little Scott Rothstein action in the political season with Kelly Skidmore's "Angel of Dea ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Tea Party Declares Victory

​When David Gould, a 26-year-old Fort Lauderdale man showed up at the corner of Oakland Park Boulevard and Federal Highway -- the spot known to local tea partiers as "the corner" -- he expected some sort of confrontation. He's pretty liberal and this is, after all, the location of the self-proclai ... More >>

Morning Juice: Flags Thrown Against Delray Football Coach; Kim Rothstein Now Shopping for Lawyers

​Let's take a quick look through the local news:The parents of Scott Wilson, the 23-year-old killed last month in a collision with polo mogul John Goodman, have launched an investigation of their own. Considering Goodman's wealth and influence, that's probably a good idea. [Palm Beach Post]The foo ... More >>

Who Got Rothstein Money? (And If That Gets Bad, Will They Give It Back?)

Flickr: Hasner on the MoveLamberti, Lieberman, Hasner, and Bogdanoff: They all got Rothstein $$.​At the Florida Secretary of State database, you can call up a list of the Florida politicians who accepted campaign contributions from embattled attorney Scott Rothstein. Long, isn't it? Mind you, that ... More >>

Candidate: Broward Democrats Offered Her Big-Money Donors if She'd Back Off From Evan Jenne

Broward School Board Members Who Oversaw Rampant Overspending Just Make Things Worse

Cash Dries Up in Key Races for Dems

house.govA painting of Bill Young, whose congressional career may have pre-dated the invention of still photographyOn paper, the congressional district of Rep. Bill Young of St. Petersburg would seem to be one of the best chances for the Democratic Party to pick up a seat. Although Young has kept th ... More >>

Why She Did It

Sunrise commissioner Sheila Alu exposed a judge's misconduct — at great personal risk.

No More Taxes on (Almost) All Things Fancy

Photo courtesy Tom Fancy StudiosIf that looks like your shopping list then, well, thank you, good sir, for generous contributions to the State of Florida, but you probably should have waited till after the legislative session. A bill recently passed by the House Finance and Tax Council would remove ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel Insults Joel Steinger

In the lead story on this morning's local section, the Sun-Sentinel took off its little white glove and slapped Mutual Benefits' mastermind in the face with it. The newspaper reports that the Ponzi scheme called Mutual Benefits poured $1.4 million into political coffers to help keep state ... More >>

The Line To Lansky: Steinger Linked To Ben-Veniste, Jewish Mafia

We know that Joel Steinger, the mastermind of the billion-dollar Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme with ties to several Broward politicians (Steve Geller, Stacy Ritter, Ellyn Bogdanoff, and others), had connections to Colombian drug cartels. Now we have evidence of another intriguing ... More >>

Some Mutual Benefits Boys Pose In Colombia

For those of you following the Mutual Benefits story, here's a photograph to bring some visuals to the table. It was taken in Bogota, Colombia, in 2001, as Mutual Benefits was trying to round up South American investors in what feds say was a billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The ra ... More >>

Mutual Benefits used dirty money to pay its legal defense

The Stacy Ritter Corruption Compendium

After the Miami Herald over the weekend broke a story on yet another Stacy Ritter vote that benefitted the lobbying business of her husband, Russ Klenet, I think it's time we had a one-stop shopping spot for all the alleged misdeeds of the Ritter-Klenets. Because of its length, the post jumps. ... More >>

Mutual Benefits may have collapsed, but the fallout for South Florida politicians is still coming.

Ellyn Bogdanoff Mutually Benefited From Fraud Too

One thing about the $1 billion Ponzi scheme that was Mutual Benefits Corp.: It loved to throw money at politicians. And boy did our fearless leaders lap up the cash. It gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to elected officials, but nobody benefitted more from Mu ... More >>

Stacy Ritter Voted For Company That Renovated Her Home

While serving as a state representative in 2004, Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter voted on legislation that benefited the fraudulent company that paid her husband $20,000 a month, renovated her Parkland home at a cost of $100,000, docked her family's boat, and provided ... More >>

November 4 Election Predictions

Early Election Results

Chick Fight! Bogdanoff Vs. Ritter

The People Person

State Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff puts you ahead of politics — if you're the right kind of person

The Bogdanoff/Hasner Spa Video

Sooey! Ellyn Bogdanoff Wallows In the Muck

Stacy Ritter For President!

Stop Charlie

Sell one of our most traveled freeways to some foreigners? Might as well just give 'em a Budweiser.

The Talk of the Green Iguana

Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?

Letters for May 10, 2007

The Crist Question

He's Not Tom's Buddy

Buddy, the Blog, and the Boot

If Waldman's a Dem, What's With the GOP Cash?

Another in the long tradition of Broward elephants posing as donkeys.

Letters for March 9-15, 2006

The GOP's Buddy

If the Sun-Sentinel's Buddy Nevins has declared for Crist, why's he still covering the governor's race?

The Plot To Depose King Jenne

Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, have banded together for one simple reason: to stop Ken Jenne from becoming Broward's first strong mayor.