Subject: Robert Wexler

• Sucker For Punishment

  January 22, 2007

• The Chicago Cubune Hits Hard

  January 16, 2007

• Crime and Identity

  January 12, 2007

• Let's Hope It's Better Than 'Tabloid Wars'

  September 1, 2006

• Sundancing In Boca

  August 24, 2006

• Don't forget to watch war-mongering

  August 23, 2006

• Democracy: The Reality Show

  August 20, 2006

• Beth Reinhard Adjusts Her Attitude

  August 9, 2006

• Wexler: Bon Vivant or Bon Head?

  July 26, 2006

• Miami Herald Rights Sentinel's Wrong

  July 25, 2006

• Bill O'Reilly Nails Robert Wexler

  July 22, 2008

• You're Fired. Now Love Me!

  July 23, 2008

• O'Reilly Endorses Sentinel, Disses Post

  August 8, 2008

• A Hen In The Foxhouse

  August 24, 2008

• On the List - Rory Phillips, Miguel Migs, Arthur Baker, Sander Kleinenberg and Fool's Gold

  October 17, 2008

• Hawking for Israel

  September 26, 2002

• Letters for October 3, 2002

  October 3, 2002

• Letters for October 10, 2002

  October 10, 2002

• Letters for November 7, 2002

  November 7, 2002

• Letters for December 19-25, 2002

  December 19, 2002

• Letters for January 9, 2003

  January 9, 2003

• Eating Cookies With Congressman Wexler

  On Monday, Democratic Congresspersons Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Ron Klein held a "dessert reception" to welcome folks to the inauguration. They walked from their offices in the Capitol: directly across the lawn to the Library of Congress: where attendees had to wait in line to go through a security checkpoint, and where a certain Florida state senator could be overheard grumbling that this was supposed to be a private reception with invited guests only, but Debbie Wasserman S

  January 20, 2009

• Mini-Reporter: Barack Obama Could Not Be Reached for Comment

  Does this kid look like an assassin to you? Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary fifth-grader who trekked to Washington, D.C., in hopes of getting some inauguration day face time with the new pres, got stuck at a security checkpoint and didn't even get to see Barack Obama's historic speech.Well, kid, now that you've been stood up for an interview, you're a real journalist. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of sources inventing flimsy excuses to duck your questions. But, hey, interviews with Jo

  January 22, 2009

• Tailpipe

  October 14, 2004

• Obama's BFF (Best Florida Friend) Embroiled In Home Renovation Scandal

  Sun-SentinelBroward County Mayor Stacy Ritter's involvement with a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme should finally wise Barack Obama up about his supporter, friend, and possible White House hire (that's the two of them pictured above at an Obama rally at the BankAtlantic Center last year). It's already an embarassment for the new Administration here in South Florida.  Just to update on what we know: A fraudulent viatical company, Mutual Benefits Corp., hired R

  January 23, 2009

• War Between Obama Mamas and Palin Pretties in Lake Worth

  October 23, 2008

• Boca Pol 'Fesses Up to Colbert

  When you're running upopposed, even hos 'n' blow can't beat you

  July 27, 2006

• Letters for December 16-22, 2004

  December 16, 2004

• Avast, Ye Pirates

  Get yourself -- and Congress -- ready for the next wave of absurd anti-file-sharing tactics

  December 9, 2004

• Loving the War

  Our caveman columnist gets an earful from a couple of congressmen

  November 20, 2003

• Still Steaming

  A pair of filmmakers dredges up all the rage and frustration of Election 2000

  July 24, 2003

• Out with the Truth, Part 2

  The web sure didn't ignore the Foley-is-gay story

  May 22, 2003

• The Jackass Whimpers

  Bush's war has sent the Democratic Party scurrying for cover

  February 27, 2003

• Oiling the Wheels of War

  If only our man in Washington would stay there

  October 31, 2002

• Wexler's Travels

  South Florida's bellicose congressman carves up the Middle East

  October 24, 2002

• The Dogs of War

  The people don't want to attack Saddam, but our elected representatives sure do

  October 17, 2002

• Tea Party Team Fights Obama, MoveOn on Health Care

  RBerteigIf the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide "tea parties" have become emboldened by the turnouts they've drawn. Now they are fighting Obama's plan to move toward nationalized health care. If they have their way, they'll become the anti-MoveOn.org. Already, local blogger/Sarah Palin supporter Daria DiGiovanni and friends showed up to protest at Congressman Robert Wexler's office July 2 (they

  July 7, 2009

• For Wexler It's Hard to Be Good Cop When White House Is So Bad

  Robert Wexler​By helping Obama win Florida, Congressman Robert Wexler earned himself a higher profile in Washington, but the new administration has also placed him in some no-win foreign policy situations.Wexler, who is Jewish and has a large Jewish constituency in his central Palm Beach and north Broward district, has the unenviable task of brokering relations between the Israelis and an Obama administration that has been tougher on that nation than any U.S. president in a generation.He's als

  July 30, 2009

• Great Expectorations: Patriot's Visit to Town Hall in Stuart Marred by Magic Loogie

  That's video from outside yesterday's Tom Rooney town hall in Stuart. In the ongoing battle over what side of the health care debate is more civilized, this is the Zapruder film. A reform proponent, apparently, is dressed in camoflauge and allegedly spits at one of the tea party types he was arguing with.

  August 19, 2009

• Morning Juice: Room for One More Forked Tongue in Broward

  ​The Broward School District admits it's overbuilt classrooms, but oops! It overbuilt in the wrong areas. So some are jam-packed while others are desolated. And yet as the Sun-Sentinel's Kathy Bushouse reports, the state isn't eager to help the district go on another building binge. Maybe if it's on a ballot, Broward taxpayers will be more generous? Not Pulp's Bob Norman, who writes, "Any voter who would authorize this deadbeat and arrogant board any more of its money would have to either be i

  August 21, 2009

• Pretty Speech, Barack, But What Will You Do About the Robots Who Will Eat Our Pills?

  Seriously, that classic SNL sketch above is only slightly more absurd than the kind that are being circulated by Boca Raton's state legislator and House Leader Adam Hasner. In tonight's speech, Obama took on the "death panel" myth and the socialism myth and remembered to shave the Hitler mustache that he must have grown during his vacation.Did anyone else notice how our South Florida congressional delegation lined up for the pre-game handshake gantlet with the POTUS? Ron Klein, Robert Wexler and

  September 9, 2009

• Meek, Rubio, I-Team Ganging Up on Crist and LeMieux, But Other Broward Dems Are Gun-Shy

  Congressman Kendrick Meek just posted the above video from CBS 4's Tuesday newscast to his campaign's YouTube account, and you can see why. It shows Charlie Crist playing dumb about the role that George LeMieux's law firm, Gunster Yoakley, played in getting visas for the immigrant workers who were hired for a big hotel-condo project in Bal Harbor instead of unionized American workers. Jim DeFede, who's a former writer for this paper, pointed out that while LeMieux may not have worked directly on

  September 10, 2009

• As Robert Wexler Resigns, a Short List of His Best and Worst Moments

  Boca Raton's Robert Wexler is expected to resign today after seven terms in Congress to join a Middle East think tank, and the group that will miss him the most is TV news producers. That's because Wexler has always found a way to say something so fiery, so lefty that the folks at Fox spend a day talking about an obscure Congressman from Boca. So below, his top three moments in TV.3. Calling for Dick Cheney's ImpeachmentWexler got national headlines for suggesting that the Bush administration's

  October 14, 2009

• Morning Juice: Wexler to Resign; Teens Headed to Jail

  ​The headlines in South Florida this Wednesday:The latest on the Michael Brewer story is that one of his attackers was angry about a videogame the 15-year-old had borrowed. Just sickening. [CBS4]U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler is leaving Congress. [Miami Herald] Stacy Ritter is contemplating a run for Wexler's seat. Is this a joke? Let's go with joke, then. [Palm Beach Post]Broward County School Board Superintendent Jim Notter wants to set up a watchdog committee. I hereby nominate Neil Sterling as ch

  October 14, 2009

• Did Wexler Have Falling Out With Obama?

  Wexler​In Barack Obama's presidential election, Robert Wexler was one of those linchpins. As an early supporter, he convinced a great many wary Jewish voters in South Florida that Obama would be a friend of Israel, as Obama himself promised. It was crucial to winning Florida.But since Obama won election, he's been tough with Israel, insisting that it cease new settlements along borders of the Palestinian territories. More recently, the president has softened that tone -- "restraint" for new se

  October 14, 2009

• Ted Deutch to Announce for Wexler's Seat?

  flsenate.govDeutch​State Sen. Ted Deutch, whose district overlaps with U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's congressional district, just sent out a news release heralding an "important campaign announcement." Sounds like he's going to announce his candidacy for the Wexler seat.The Deutch press conference is for 3:30 at his home in Boca Raton.Your move, Stacy Ritter.

  October 15, 2009

• Morning Juice: Pleas in Mafia Case; Crist Asks for Corruption Inquiry

  ​As we continue to watch for candidates in the race to replace Congressman Robert Wexler, let's see what else is brewing in Broward and Palm Beach.Prosecutors have scored guilty pleas from six men accused of racketeering for the Bonanno crime family, but the alleged ringleader is still holding out for a trial. [Miami Herald]Charlie Crist wants a statewide grand jury to examine corruption rampant in South Florida. But will it be free to go digging in your backyard, Governor? [Sun-Sentinel]In La

  October 15, 2009

• In Special Election, Being Wexleresque Figures to Be an Advantage

  And that's bad for Ben Graber, the former Broward mayor and county commissioner who tried to make hay with Robert Wexler's cocaine joke on The Colbert Report and who has a nasty batch of ads that he ran during a bitter primary campaign in 2008. Ads like the one below. With Graber already in the race, another likely candidate, State Sen. Ted Deutch is already hastening to define himself as Wexleresque. Shortly after sending an email to announce a 3:30 announcement on whether he'd be running for W

  October 15, 2009

• Morning Juice: Police Informant Shot; Political Top Guns in Broward Stay Holstered

  ​Here's your look at what's in today's news:Dwayne Blake of Belle Glade is in jail after allegedly shooting an undercover operative who was taping conversations with Blake for a narcotics investigation. [Palm Beach Post]H1N1 vaccinations have started in Broward and Palm Beach, with people aged 2 to 49 first in line. [WPTV]Ed Portner, facing charges of aggravated assault after pulling on a gun on his daughter, Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter, has opted out of the duel for Tamarac mayor. [Sun-Sentine

  October 20, 2009

• Morning Juice: Reticent Witnesses in Boynton; Biden Visits Boca

  ​An extra-spooky, Halloween Eve edition of the MJ:Junior Cesar, the 30-year-old man who was shot dead Wednesday night at a basketball court in Boynton Beach's Pence Park is the older brother of Jesse Cesar, who was 22 when he was murdered just before he could testify against a gang member accused in a Christmas Eve murder at the Boynton Beach Mall. Police say there's no evidence the two Cesar murders are related, but I'll venture a guess that this is the reason that the six basketball players

  October 30, 2009