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Political Lobbyists

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Merick Lewin Says He Was Not Paid for 411-PAIN Lobbying

    Facebook.com​Being a pro bono lobbyist sounds a little like being a volunteer stockbroker, but Merick Lewin says it's true. The Republican state House candidate from Davie contends he did lobbying work for his uncle's company,the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, but wasn't paid for it. Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Are You a Lobbyist? Maybe, According to New Broward County Ethics Ordinance

    ​A town council member in Southwest Ranches has refused to talk to his constituents about town matters, citing a new ethics ordinance that was approved last Tuesday night by the Broward County Commission.Bill Di Scipio, a Southwest Ranches resident, had been trying to set up a meeting with council ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Embattled Stacy Ritter Back on the Fundraiser Trail

    Cal Deal Wild Art: Sheriff Al Lamberti at a pill mill protest Friday at the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale. Also pictured: Broward Commissioners Chip LaMarca (left of Lamberti) and Kristin Jacobs (far right). Thanks to Cal Deal for the photo. ​Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter may be in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    "Miss Gottlieb, YOU Are the Distraction"

    We all knew that Broward Commissioner Ilene Lieberman -- once perhaps the most powerful woman in the county -- disappeared for a few months, missing commission meeting after commission meeting without explanation.  After weeks of questions, Lieberman claimed her AWOL status was due to a he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Rise of Anonymous: Former Tallahassee Staffer Tells of Lying, Cheating, and Stealing at Capitol

    Coming up on April 15 is a local conference on political corruption that will have among its speakers dubious former state Sen. Steve Geller, Broward County Judge Ken "Mr. JenJen" Gottlieb, and lobbyist/fake ethics champion Norm Ostrau.With folks like that on board, there should be no shortage of co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    "A Rodeo of Phonies and Pimps"

    A fine Monday-morning quote comes from Carl Hiaasen: "I once referred to a past Legislature as a festival of whores, which in retrospect was a vile insult to the world's oldest profession. Today's lackluster assemblage in Tallahassee is possibly the worst in modern times, and cannot fairly be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Vice Mayor's Brother Hits Up Lobbyists For Biz

    Cal Deal Wild art: Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler with a friend (is that Judy Stern behind that mask?). And no, Seiler has nothing to do with the following blog post.​So what do you do when your brother is elected to the city commission? Why you go to political events -- like a meeting of the B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Note to "Distressed" Dinnen: No More Tears

    Mike Stocker/Sun-SentinelScreen Capture: School Board Member Jennifer Gottlieb shoots a glance at Supt. Jim Notter as teacher Sharon Graham ripped into Notter over the grand jury findings at yesterday's school board meeting​From this morning's Sun-Sentinel: Meanwhile, board member Maureen Din ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    The Lobbyists Who Keep PIP Insurance Fraud in the Headlines

    Facebook.comPIP reform is a never-ending fight.​Auto insurance fraud has been in the news a lot lately. Last month, the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald published lengthy stories about the fraudsters who stage fake car accidents and the lawyers who earn hefty fees fighting  insurance compani ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 2010

    Questionable Developer Mark Siffin Wants to Build a Times Square in Miami

    Facebook.comPIP reform is a never-ending fight.​Auto insurance fraud has been in the news a lot lately. Last month, the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald published lengthy stories about the fraudsters who stage fake car accidents and the lawyers who earn hefty fees fighting  insurance compani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Hospital Commissioner Making Noise About Physician Contracts That Skip Past Committee

    Clarence McKee​The Broward Health board has a new maverick. Clarence McKee was first to express reservations to the public hospital district's proposal to lease its assets to a nonprofit. And now McKee wants to reverse a trend whereby contracts for physicians, lobbyists and other professional serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Florida Ethics Czar Asks for Leniency for Corrupt School Board Member

    Sun-Sentinel This shot by Mike Stocker should have won a Pulitzer.​The top ethics official in Florida penned a letter asking a federal judge to show leniency for former Broward County Board Member Beverly Gallagher, who has pleaded guilty to bribery and other federal charges that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Reform Event: Tea Party, Libertarians, and Greens Get in Bed Together

    When it comes to electoral reform, you're the boss.​ Cast your mind back to your seventh-grade Civics class, when Mrs. Brown drew that sprawling chart on the blackboard detailing the branches of government. That's when you first found out you had something like a moral duty, as a citizen of this g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Reporter Turned Congressional Aide for Broward Congresswoman Reverses Field Again

    Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable "liberal media" howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days -- and go back to jour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Broward County: Still Getting Ripped Off by Trash Haulers

    Flickr: Jeffrey BeallWaste Management has a strangle-hold on the Broward trash industry.​Let's not get too carried away with the celebration for our soon-to-be cheaper trash bills.We had been paying $98.50/ton for trash. And now Broward residents will pay $61.75/ton. That's because we've finally p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Butterworth Looking for "Root Cause" of School Board Corruption: Maybe It's the Media?

    At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you'll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn't give more coverage to ... More >>

  • News

    October 1, 2009

    Inside the Arrest of Broward School Board's Beverly Gallagher

    At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you'll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn't give more coverage to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Con Man's Lobbying Dream Team Included Will McKinley

    With his fraudulent viatical company Mutual Benefits coming under fire from state regulators, convicted felon Joel Steinger decided he needed to buy the influence of the state legislature. To do that he first purchased the people who had their ears -- the lobbyists. McKinley: A Man For Sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    DeGroot Picks Apart Ron Book, Lobby Racket

    The legislative session, marking the real advent of springtime in Florida, begins in Tallahassee this week. And the busiest bees working the capital are the lobbyists, who are buzzing about, putting their noses in everything they can, spreading their demon seed far and wide.  If you d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Lobbyists a Wedge Issue in Hollywood

    O'Sheehan voted to restrict lobbying in Hollywood.Maybe Hollywood Commissioner Beam Furr is right that an ordinance to ban private commissioner meetings with lobbyists is "unconstitutional." But it's still a shrewd move by Mayor Peter Bober and Commissioner Heidi O'Sheehan to champion the legislatio ... More >>

  • News

    January 29, 2009

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

    O'Sheehan voted to restrict lobbying in Hollywood.Maybe Hollywood Commissioner Beam Furr is right that an ordinance to ban private commissioner meetings with lobbyists is "unconstitutional." But it's still a shrewd move by Mayor Peter Bober and Commissioner Heidi O'Sheehan to champion the legislatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Hollywood Has Been Swallowed By Benevolent Bizarro World

    By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us...except this. And this.Yep, it's good news. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2008

    Attack Ads Appalling -- And Impressive!

    By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us...except this. And this.Yep, it's good news. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2008

    Judy Stern: All Clear For Profits

    By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us...except this. And this.Yep, it's good news. ... More >>

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    Lady of the House

    She's got three kids, 650,000 constituents, and millions of watching eyes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't keep them all happy.

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Animal Farm

    At the Broward County School Board, the chickens cry foul

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Terrible Trio

    The Wasserstrom conviction should have at least a few pols shaking in fear — but, hey, this is Broward

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Family Ties

    Broward Commission, lobbyists ooze coziness

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Marital Law

    Does Stacy Ritter's lobbyist husband swing her vote?

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2007

    Say No To Notter

    Does Stacy Ritter's lobbyist husband swing her vote?

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

    Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

  • News

    December 14, 2006

    Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

    Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2006

    DeGroot Gives Thanks

    Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    A Politician Weeps

    Confronted with evidence of influence peddling, a school board member tearfully claims she'll quit her job.

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Terrible Twosome

    Vice Mayor Eggelletion's golfing and business buddy stands to profit from county land deal

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    Cheating for Dollars

    It's easy if you're a county commissioner who's also a hired gun. Just pocket the money and deny everything.

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Tailpipe

    Show Me the Moolah

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Another Lobbyist Who Wasn't There

    A Miami developer used undue influence to win a $100 million job to build a new downtown for Lauderdale Lakes

  • News

    July 1, 2004

    Lobbyist- Lovin' Lori

    How cash-fueled politics and a grudge could cause another election fiasco

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    The GOP's Brain

    Fear good. Facts bad. Frank Luntz reveals the Republican way.

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Mayor Mintz

    A Hollywood insider plans war on City Hall

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001

    Best Friends

    Broward County Commissioner Lori Parrish and her lobbyists

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    A Double Whammy

    Two top execs at the gaming company that Boulis built have deep ties to the Christian right

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Feud For Thought

    Real estate squabble puts Broward school board member in a snit

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Undercurrents

    Bob Norman sends the Broward County School Board bureaucrats scurrying

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    A Lesson in Conflict of Interest

    Meet Ron Greenstein, lobbyist. Or Ron Greenstein, state representative.

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Undercurrents

    Meet Ron Greenstein, lobbyist. Or Ron Greenstein, state representative.

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Political winds

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Raising Kane

    How Jim Kane transformed himself from a special-interest lobbyist into a lobbyist who's also Florida's best-known political pollster

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Undercurrents

    How Jim Kane transformed himself from a special-interest lobbyist into a lobbyist who's also Florida's best-known political pollster

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