Subject: Ron Klein

• Get Used To This Comb-Over

  November 8, 2006

• Crist For The Mill

  October 30, 2006

• Vote Evangelista Straight Up

  October 18, 2006

• Foley Got Shaft From POTUS -- And Not In Good Way

  October 12, 2006

• Gelber "Steps Back" From Senate Race

  That's video from Saturday's Netroots Coalition meeting in Miami Beach, where State Sen. Dan Gelber acknowledged his intention to leave the U.S. Senate race. Miami-Dade Democratic activist Larry Thorson posted it last night on the Daily Kos, along with his congratulations for the Democrats avoiding a nasty primary battle, so far at least. Here's Gelber's own blog post on the decision.Gelber comes off as a class act. It's hard to be pragmatic when the competitive campaign juices are flowing. Gelb

  June 1, 2009

• Put The Brakes On The Bailout

  September 28, 2008

• Former Football Star Charged With Rapes

  October 1, 2008

• A Few Election Eve Headlines

  November 3, 2008

• Joel Steinger and Mutual Benefits Corp. Stole a Billion Dollars by Peddling Bogus Life Insurance Policies

  June 4, 2009

• Dark Horse Dem Emerges in Race for Martinez Seat

  On the Democrat side of the Florida's 2010 U.S. Senate race, the field keeps getting larger, with Congressman Allen Boyd, of Monticello, looking like a contender. Boyd (right) runs with the congressional Blue Dogs -- socially conservative Democrats who walk and talk so much like Republicans, it can be hard to tell the difference. The Blue Dogs increased their numbers in 2006 and 2008, and their presence is going to moderate what looks on paper to be a liberal House of Representatives. But before

  December 5, 2008

• A Real Brew-haha

  December 25, 1997

• Love to Hate: Right-Wing Visitor to South Florida Wins Big in Europe

  Maybe there's method in the seeming madness of Adam Hasner's right-wing associations. The House majority leader from Boca Raton sparked controversy in late April when he took a break from the state budget to make public appearances with anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Based on exit polls from elections yesterday in the Netherlands, Wilders' Freedom Party won 15 percent of votes, meaning it stands to get four seats of the 25 that nation sends to the European Parliament. Wilders and coh

  June 5, 2009

• 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

• Barack Obama wins -- and So Does South Florida

  November 6, 2008

• New Poll: Crist in Pole Position

  A "double" what? Sorry, I don't speak French. Just check out the Strategic Vision poll released yesterday on Florida's 2010 U.S. Senate race. It attaches numbers to some obvious truths, such as Gov. Charlie Crist getting 54 percent of the votes against other prospective candidates in a Republican primary. The poll, which interviewed 1,200 likely voters last week, has Crist routing all Democrat nominees, too. The surprise among the Democrats is Pam Iorio, Democrat mayor of Tampa, whose 29 percent

  February 13, 2009

• Meek Inching Closer to Frontrunner Status

  It would be one thing if a South Florida paper was heralding U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the frontrunner in the U.S. Senate's Democratic primary for 2010. It's a far more auspicious thing that a Tampa Bay paper is making that claim, albeit with some hesitation. Along with Orlando, Jacksonville and the Florida panhandle, Tampa Bay is a region that may not be familiar with a congressman whose district is in South Florida. There's no better way to introduce himself than as the frontrunner.The Miami

  March 9, 2009

• Lauderdale Congressman Sharpens Sword for AIG

  Today in Washington, D.C., members of Congress are taking turns pummeling AIG Fat Cat Edward M. Liddy. His woefully mismanaged company needed billions of tax dollars to save it from failure, and yet AIG still handed out millions in bonuses to its management. It is fashionable -- and appropriate -- to be outraged. Which Fort Lauderdale-based Rep. Ron Klein's was on his district's behalf. Here's video of a portion of an opening statement he gave yesterday. It can be read in its entirety here.And h

  March 18, 2009

• Liberty City Six Judge Refuses to Pay Private Investigator After He Speaks Out

  March 12, 2009

• Ahoy, Yacht Lovers

  The Boat Hustle Is Alive and Well

  October 30, 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.

  May 29, 2008

• As the World Twists

  Lake Pols-begone

  January 26, 2006

• Nail Ceasar!

  Does the local Democratic Party really need a dictator for life?

  May 18, 2006

• For Congress, Mum's the Word on Netanyahu Visit; But Jewish Scholar Has Opinion

  Flickr User: talkradionewsBroward and Palm Beach's Jewish congressional members were all eagerly anticipating this week's visit to Washington D.C. of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and yet none appear eager to speak about it. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office made no statement following a morning meeting with Netanyahu she attended with other congressional members. Ron Klein attended the same meeting but offered a bland commentary that belies his mastery of the subject. So, too, has

  May 19, 2009

• Jer-ry! Jer-ry!

  Democratic Extravaganza

  September 30, 2004

• The Great Slurp

  Gov. Bush's Scripps gamble is sucking up state funds -- and the Everglades with it

  June 3, 2004

• An Offer You Might Rather De-Klein

  Among the many and varied indulgences that South Floridians must forgo in this era of financial dieting, the least of them, I would guess, is junk mail. Like the piece pictured at the left from Congressman Ron Klein, the Fort Lauderdale Democrat.Not that people in Klein's district aren't interested in learning about how the stimulus funds are being spent and how they can get in on the action. It's just that there are plenty of available, highly visible ways for them to do so. The Obama administr

  April 28, 2009

• Member of (Allegedly) Unruly Crowd Offers Firsthand Report of Kleinstock

  Flickr stream: dbking​Yes, we'll call it Kleinstock: The groaning / chanting droves of patriots who monopolized yesterday's town hall meeting that Congressman Ron Klein's staff has each month with constituents.Of course, you can't trust the liberal media to report accurately on that meeting. So until Fox News launches a bureau with an appropriately fair-and-balanced approach, we will rely upon the firsthand reports of Daria -- AKA "Palin Drone."But if Palin Drone and her cohort was bent on har

  August 6, 2009

• Will Tea Party-Types Take Their Show on the Phone?

  Photo: house.govWasserman Schultz​As the district staff of Congressman Ron Klein learned this week, South Florida legislators are at risk of having their town hall meetings mobbed by people who think Glenn Beck is sane. This group's current source of hysteria is the Democrats' health care reform plan. Or, as they might put it: his nefarious plot to make America a socialist nation.And, to be clear, Klein's wasn't even a town hall meeting, per se, but rather a monthly meeting for constituents to

  August 7, 2009

• Morning Juice: For Murder Investigators, One Cold Case Heats Up While the Trail on Another Begins to Cool

  ​Here's a rundown of the hot topics in Broward and Palm Beach this Thursday morning:WPLG-10's Rob Schmitt reports that Broward Sheriff's deputies are close to charging a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Karp seven years ago. Here's the video. Karp's father told Schmitt there's a DNA match.A possible cancer cluster at the Acreage has attracted the interest of a law firm that worked with Erin Brokovich, according to Mitra Malek of the Palm Beach Post.The Palm Beach Post's Paul Quinla

  August 20, 2009

• Wagging the Dog at the Klein Forum

  OK, so maybe it's not the most riveting video of this month's clashes between congressional Democrats and health care reform opponents, but this is a perfect illustration of the media echo chamber we've entered. Below, a woman shooting a video after yesterday's Ron Klein forum in Boynton Beach. And judging by the proximity of those still photographers swarming her you can probably see the woman's picture in one of your local dailies. They may curse the "liberal media," but these tea party p

  August 20, 2009

• Morning Juice: Nearly a Wrap for Dunbar Village Case, While Case Against Commissioner Warms Up

  ​This morning's news contains hope for justice and renewal.It's traumatic just to read about the Dunbar Village trial, which Susan Spencer-Wendel is covering for the Palm Beach Post. I can't imagine what it's like to be at the trial and for the victims to have to re-live that terrifying night. Here are excerpts from the testimony yesterday of the 37-year-old woman. Fortunately, the trial is nearly over.Unsinkable Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion is taking on water. In the South

  August 27, 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