Mitt Romney

Scott Prouty, 47 Percent Cameraman, Owes Thousands of Dollars and Sold Alcohol to a Minor

Scott Prouty, who changed the entire context of the 2012 presidential elections when he clandestinely videotaped Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney, has a few hiccups in his past. Let's not exaggerate the infractions. But still, interesting to note. Prouty -- who today lives in a swank condominium high ... More >>

BurgerFi Coming to Davie

BurgerFi is in expansion mode with the opening of a new restaurant in Davie.The fast casual restaurant that features all-natural, farm-raised beef free of hormones, opens its doors in Davie on Tuesday, January 22 at 1904 S. University Drive.This is the lucky 13th Florida location, with more to come. ... More >>

Who Is the 47 Percent Videographer?

Barack Obama Has Mostly Won Florida, But It's Still Not Official

It's Wednesday afternoon, the day after Election Tuesday, and Florida is still lagging on declaring a winner between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.SORRY, YOU GUYS. While Obama won reelection after gaining 303 electoral votes, Florida continues to Florida things up by not yet knowing the final tally ... More >>

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

Russell Simmons on President Obama, Politics, and Hip-Hop

Presidential Debate Protests: Sit-in On Yamato Road, Mass Arrests at the Lynn Debate

It wasn't just Obama and Romney who had something to say last night in Boca Raton. Hundreds of citizens (and some non-citizens) showed up to speak their minds on the election and the issues of the day. Fifteen of those who spoke out went to jail for their troubles. It was all fun and games for the ... More >>

Celebrity Sex, Benghazi, and Jobs: What The Broadwalk Wants Asked at the Debates

This evening, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will look to destroy one another in an epic battle of banter at Lynn University in Boca. It's a safe bet that moderator Bob Schieffer won't throw too many curveballs and the questions will be similar to everything that's already been asked in the ... More >>

Rick Scott Doesn't Believe Mitt Romney Is Up By Seven in Florida

Maybe it's because he's trying to temper expectations. Or, maybe it's because he doesn't want Republicans to get complacent and stop working. Or, maybe it's because he's naturally dickish and can't help himself. But Gov. Rick Scott doesn't believe the latest polls that say Mitt Romney is up by s ... More >>

Federal Tax Loopholes: They're Like a Mafia Protection Scheme Where Big Corporations Profit

Debate 2012: Romney and Obama Attack; Jim Lehrer Loses Control -- the Media Room View

Editor's note: This piece was originally published by our sister paper's news blog Latest Word on Denver Westword. It's written by Sam Levin, an editorial fellow who's been keeping tabs on both candidates in the swing state of Colorado for the past few months. President Barack Obama and former Mass ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hitting Up Florida For More Fundraisers Next Week

Florida is a swing state. Even robots are aware of this. So, Mitt Romney will be hitting up Florida next week for four different major fund-raising events within a 24-hour period on each coast. (He'll be fine. He has his own plane). On the heelsof his Libya comments and recent polls that show him ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Tampa Mayor Says He'll Cancel RNC If Isaac Threatens

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says he'll cancel the Republican National Convention if Tropical Storm Isaac becomes a real threat.As of Wednesday morning, Isaac is becoming a real threat. "Well, absolutely, we're prepared to call it off," Buckhorn told CNN this morning. "I mean, safety and human life tru ... More >>

Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This Week

Mitt Romney is hitting Florida starting tonight for a fundraiser being hosted by his car-dealership-owning friends. It's all part of his swing-state bus tour in which Mitt plans to make stops in St. Augustine and Miami and being interviewed by Spanish-language radio station Radio Mambi. Mitt cancele ... More >>

Mitt Romney Is Hitting Fort Lauderdale for Fundraiser Hosted by Car Dealers

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be coming to Fort Lauderdale on Monday for a $50,000-per-person couples fundraiser.The shindig will be hosted by the president and COO of Auto Nation, Michael Maroone, and his wife, Michelle, and cohosted by Rick Case of Rick Case Honda, and his wife. ... More >>

The Week in Crazy: Get Your Coulter, Limbaugh, Trump Fix Here

South Florida is crawling with famous crazy people. Who has time to keep up with all their yammering? Behold, the weekly roundup: -- Wellington resident Vanilla Ice plays himself in the new Adam Sandler movie That's My Boy, which opens today. As Twitter commenter @ryan_derosa noted, "Every show I wa ... More >>

Donald Trump Is Having a Week So Stupid It Put Obama and George Will on the Same Team

Donald Trump, devoid of any meaningful role in American culture outside of a television show in which he fires marginally famous people from imaginary jobs, has settled nicely into a new, strange role as a political commentator, a role with all the hubristic indulgences of his campaign for president ... More >>

Mitt Romney Beating Obama in New Florida Poll; Rubio VP Pick Would Boost Romney

Took a little while to get to because Quinnipiac University's website is being duct-taped together today, but here are the results of its latest poll, taken May 15 to 21 with a 2.4-percentage-point margin of error.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 47 to 41 percent in ... More >>

Marco Rubio Not Being "Seriously Considered" For VP Spot, Favor Going to "Incredibly Boring White Guys," Says Report

It might be fun for people to talk about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio getting picked to be Mitt Romney's running mate, but one group that isn't talking about it is... Mitt Romney's campaign, according to an article from Politico.The article compares the Romney campaign to that of John McCain in 200 ... More >>

Bill Koch's Company Donates Another $1 Million to Romney's Super PAC

Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who criticized his brothers' support of libertarian causes and has long escaped notice on the national political stage, is emerging as a major supporter of Mitt Romney.Huron Carbon, a subsidiary of Koch's West Palm Beach-based Oxbow Corp., donated $1 million to ... More >>

Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, and Monkeys -- They're All in the Mix of the High-Impact Photo Exhibit at Girls' Club

Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Represent Everything You Hate About Capitalism

Cupcake Couture Bakes for Obama and Romney in the Same Week: At Least Everyone Can Agree on Sugar, Right?

Demonstrating that baked goods can be nonpartisan or, perhaps more accurately, bipartisan, Cupcake Couture Sweet Boutique in Delray Beach this past weekend prepared special sweet treats for a second presidential hopeful in less than one week. On Sunday, April 15, the boutique bakery created nearly 3 ... More >>

Poll Finds Marco Rubio Wouldn't Help Mitt Romney in Florida, but Jeb Bush Would

A new poll of Florida voters was released yesterday with all kinds of juicy numbers about politicians on both the state and national level. The full report is included at the bottom, but there are more facts in it than one blog post could ever hold.The poll was conducted by Democratic firm Public Po ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Secret Palm Beach Stump Speech: Destroy HUD, Pitch a "Republican DREAM Act"

It's amazing what a politician will say when he doesn't think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who's the subject of this week's cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his p ... More >>

Jeb Bush Courageously Endorses Mitt Romney

​Former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush has taken the brave and politically risky move of endorsing presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a long-shot candidate who is only 300 delegates ahead of his competition.Romney has won only 16 primaries, including Florida's, which was held almost two months ago.

Wasserman Schultz Attacks Romney; Best She Can Do Is 29-Year-Old Anecdote About Dog Crate

​South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz operates on a national stage -- as chair of the Democratic National Committee, she's the face of the president's party and frequently takes on national issues. Late last night, she took to Twitter to attack Republican presidential candidate Mit ... More >>

Here's Allen West Singing "Pretty Woman" in Its Entirety

Wikimedia Commons"I'm sorry... what?" -- Roy Orbison​He started by saying, "Anyone that records this, I'm going to drop you for pushups."A brave patriot with a camcorder wasn't scared, and now, to put on your iPod next to Mitt Romney's rendition of "America the Beautiful" and President Barack Obam ... More >>

Local Porn Exec Fills Mitt Romney's Coffers

bagnewsnotes.comPorn corporations are people, my friend.​Most (male) Mitt Romney supporters have probably stumbled across an ad for AdultFriendFinder.com (NSFW) at one point or another, though they might not admit it. But now there's another connection between Friend Finder Networks and the likely ... More >>

Broward County Has Lowest Republican Primary Voter Turnout in Florida

​As you may have already heard 3 million or 4 million times, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Florida Republican primary last night with 46.4 percent of the vote -- though more than seven in ten Broward Republicans didn't even bother showing up to the polls.Only 28.7 percent of regist ... More >>

Bill Koch and Oxbow Donate $1 Million to Romney Super PAC

​Six months ago, Bill Koch's spokesman told us the Palm Beach billionaire's political allegiances were "hard to pin down." Unlike Tea Party sugar daddies Charles and David Koch, "Wild Bill" was the Koch brother who supported more traditional Republican candidates and liked to fly under the radar. ... More >>

Florida Latinos Like Romney but Like Obama Better

​Though a Rasmussen poll released Monday showed Newt Gingrich well ahead of the rest of the Republican presidential field, a Univision/ABC News poll released this morning revealed Florida's Latino voters overwhelmingly favor former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.Of those polled, 49 percent went fo ... More >>

Gingrich, Santorum Build Florida Campaigns With Help From Antigay Crusaders

​The Republican presidential candidates can figure out a way to disagree on any topic -- we saw last night they could argue about everything from Terri Schiavo to beet sugar -- but there's one thing they all have in common: None of them has any plans to go anywhere near gay rights, and two -- Sant ... More >>

NBC News/Tampa Bay Times GOP Debate: Live Blog

​Tonight at 9, the remaining four contenders for the GOP presidential nomination take the stage in Tampa to talk about the issues -- and, usually, the nonissues.Either way, Florida's primary election next week is a winner-take-all contest for the state's 50 delegates, and the contest between forme ... More >>

Mitt Romney Releases Anti-Obama Ad Making Florida Sound Like a Hellhole

You know what sucks? Florida, if GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's new advertisement is to be believed.

Florida Poll: Indecisive Republicans Suppose They'll Be Picking Mitt Romney -- Maybe

Hey, Florida Republican, who do you plan on voting for in your party's presidential primary?Uh, Mitt Romney, I guess. Well, maybe.That's what the results from the latest poll of Florida Republicans reads like, as most people say they might change their mind, and most of the Tea Party members are pul ... More >>

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich Lead Florida Poll, but Bettors Go With Romney

​With a month to go until Florida's GOP presidential primary, the latest poll shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich essentially tied and well ahead of the rest of the field.For those who are putting money on Florida's GOP primary, though, they're pickin ... More >>

Confession of a Former Homophobe, and What Mitt Romney Could Learn From My Bigotry

Segregationist also used to go public with this kind of hate.​The first gay person I ever knew had just served me pasta in his home. He hadn't bought a dining room table yet for his new apartment, so we were sitting on his living room floor with plates in our hands. He had made a simple sauce with ... More >>

Herman Cain Still Leads Florida, Despite Sexual-Harassment Allegation "Nonsense"

Let's talk about some "9-9-9."​So far, the sexual-harassment claims against GOP presidential candidate have not affected some of his most valuable voters -- Florida Republicans.Despite the flurry of allegations that have been raised in the past month -- which Cain refers to as "nonsense" -- they h ... More >>

Herman Cain Leads Latest Poll of Florida Republicans; Rick Perry Registers Just 5 Percent

We'll guess the phrase coming out of his mouth in this picture starts with "9-9-9."​It looks like Texas Gov. Rick Perry is last week's news to Florida Republicans -- pizza man Herman Cain leads the latest poll of the state's GOP voters with a six-point buffer over the second-place former governor ... More >>

Mitt Romney Leads New Florida Poll; Ron Paul Most Unfavorable Candidate but Places Fourth

​With this afternoon's release of Public Policy Polling's survey of Florida Republican voters, Florida became the first Southern state polled by the firm that didn't select Texas Gov. Rick Perry as its front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.Instead, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ... More >>

Who Will Win Florida's Presidency 5 Straw Poll?

​About a month from now, most of the GOP presidential candidates will be in Orlando for the Republican Party of Florida's "Presidency 5" straw poll.It'll work a little differently than the recent Iowa straw poll -- the 3,500 delegates will be pre-selected, and neither Michele Bachmann nor Mitt ... More >>

Mitt Romney Leads Obama in Hypothetical Matchup, Sunshine State News Poll Says

Willard Mitt Romney​Let the horserace begin -- in a poll commissioned by Sunshine State News, pollsters say Florida voters would vote for Republican Mitt Romney over Democratic President Barack Obama in a hypothetical matchup between the two for president.In a survey of 1,000 likely Florida voters ... More >>

Allen West Doesn't Rule Out Vice Presidential Bid

​The First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale: a place for worship, celebration, and a forum for Rep. Allen West to discuss his possible bid as vice president in the 2012 election.During the church's "Faith, Freedom and Fireworks" celebration on Sunday, Rev. Larry Thompson, on stage next to West, t ... More >>

Mitt Romney Makes Florida Unemployment Joke; Debbie Wasserman Schultz Whines

Mitt Romney MediaWillard Mitt Romney​Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has apparently run out of things to complain about.Her target this week is Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who's in the middle of a fundraising tour ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Interview Problems

​Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the DNC, has two big PR problems. The first is that she speaks almost exclusively in what sounds like focus-group-tested sound bites. The second is that she's no good at it, either because she lacks a certain common touch or because her sound bites are ... More >>

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