Subject: U.S. Republican Party

• Video Debuts On the Radio

  November 2, 2006

• To The Video

  November 2, 2006

• The Crist Question

  October 24, 2006

• Idol Worship

  May 25, 2006

• Buddy, the Blog, and the Boot

  April 10, 2006

• Gators Win, Readers Lose

  April 3, 2007

• If It's A Fair, Where Are All The Rides?

  November 9, 2007

• Adam Hasner Goes Fishing

  May 15, 2008

• Stacy Ritter For President!

  September 10, 2008

• Bill Scherer Gearing Up For Electoral Rampage

  September 24, 2008

• Crist's Frat Buddy In Hot Water

  November 10, 2008

• Crist's Wedding Dress, the GOP's KKK Problem, and the Dunkin' Badass

    Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome is Crist's beard-bride but simply because my Google Image Search skills totally suck. While I meant to find a woman wearing a similar silk dress made by a Spanish designer, what I got instea

  December 2, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  December 7, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  December 14, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  March 1, 2001

• Morning Juice: GOP Cuts Everything to Save Cigs, Prosecutors Rebuked for Being Dicks, Haitians Get Conversation Starters

  GOP Cuts Everything, Saves Sweet, Sweet TobaccoAs I sit here puffing on my Camel Wide with the filter broken off, my lungs blackening like beach tar, I'm thanking the state's Republicans. Because it is the GOP lawmakers who fought off attempts in Tallahassee to increase cigarette taxes in order to cover a crazy huge $2.3 billion budget deficit. I've never been able to do fancy smoke rings, so instead I'll just exhale in appreciation, knowing that instead of paying more per pack, we'll see just a

  January 6, 2009

• Letters for January 29, 2004

  January 29, 2004

• Letters April 29-May 5, 2004

  April 29, 2004

• Letters May 13-19, 2004

  May 13, 2004

• Letters for May 20-26, 2004

  May 20, 2004

• Tailpipe

  October 21, 2004

• The Jewish Problem

  Rev up your Swift Boats, boys. The Obama campaign is coming to town.

  June 12, 2008

• Teflon Charlie Rules Lauderdale Stage

  The big punchline in Washington D.C. these days is "bipartisanship." Barack Obama wants to be friends with Republicans but they don't want to be friends with him. Of course, it's all politics. The Republicans have nothing to gain from jumping on the Obama bandwagon and everything to gain if that wagon loses a wheel or three. But Obama has managed to make a friend out of at least one Republican: Our own Gov. Charlie Crist.In opening remarks before this afternoon's town hall meeting at the Galt Oc

  February 18, 2009

• Mysterious Candidates to Be Questioned in Suit, Rare Benevolent Lawyer Steps Up

  A judge has cleared the way for the Green Party to figure out who's behind the Florida Five, a group of mysterious Green Party candidates who ran in contested races across the state last November. Most of the Florida Five were broke young people who couldn't have afforded the couple thousand dollars needed to register, meaning they were probably put up to run by the Republican Party. It's either that or they all won the Florida Lottery's new scratch-off game in which the winner gets to be a cand

  March 11, 2009

• State Rep. Adam Hasner: Supporting "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest"?

  Today, the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pointed out that State Rep. Adam Hasner -- the House Republican leader -- is listed as a "coalition partner" for an upcoming coming "free speech summit" that could be seen as an anti-Muslim event.  The featured speaker will be Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch politician who faced death threats after making a film about Islam in the Netheralnds. In January, criminal charges were filed against Wilders in Amsterdam for "inciting hatr

  April 13, 2009

• What About Bob? Florida Senior Bids to Be Florida's Junior Senator

  Bob SmithBob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire's U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he would be the first in the august chamber's history to ever serve two different states. That's a big if.For one thing, Smith is almost sure to face Gov. Charlie Crist, he of the soaring approval ratings, w

  April 13, 2009

• Florida Green Party Candidates Were GOP Moles, Suit Claims

  October 30, 2008

• Privacy Schmivacy

  Tell the world how you vote!

  October 23, 2008

• For Love of God

  On her radio show and in her personal life, Beverly Kennedy spreads her gospel across Broward

  January 24, 2008

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

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

  March 30, 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?

  February 23, 2006

• Red Dollars, Blue Pennies

  Show Us the Broward Money

  February 16, 2006

• Vote Interrupted

  Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it's a crime.

  November 4, 2004

• Tailpipe

  It's All About Sex!

  October 28, 2004

• Lloyd Banks

  The Hunger for More (Interscope)

  August 19, 2004

• The GOP's Brain

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

  April 22, 2004

• Don King Presents

  A battle of Kerry vs. Kerry

  April 22, 2004

• Prelude to a Butt Whippin'

  The GOP eyes a George W. Bush victory in traditionally Democratic Palm Beach County. Here's why.

  April 1, 2004

• United States of Jesus

  The folks who are "reclaiming America for Christ" are pushing an agenda for a Taliban-like state where Scripture is law

  November 27, 2003

• Minority Madness

  Wisecracking Democrats in Tallahassee were steamrollered during the presidential contest. But they didn't take it lying down.

  December 28, 2000

• It's Chad-tastic!

  A reporter plunges into the heart of electoral darkness in Broward County, only to see the light -- through a pricked chad

  November 30, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters for November 9, 2000

  November 9, 2000

• Just Look at the House Republicans Inaction!

  When House Republicans caucus, I'll bet it looks something like this: Star Wars-Imperial March - Click here for more amazing videosAmid all the other state budget crises, it's not getting nearly enough attention, but the Florida Legislature is on the brink of giving the heave-ho to $444 million in federal stimulus funds that could help the state's unemployed.Who knows? Maybe that was the plan all along: Throw lots of bad policy at the wall, and some of it's sure to stick.

  April 29, 2009

• Can Florida Governors Save GOP From Its Self-Destructive Impulses?

  Flickr User: marsdencartoonsMaybe Rush Limbaugh doesn't spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there's no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, governors Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist, are being tossed aside by the radio personality turned voice of the party as well as by others on the party's far right.During a time when Limbaugh was preaching his

  May 11, 2009

• For Local Officials, Skin Condition Means Less-Informed Electorate

   Even when you're in the newspaper business, it's jarring to see someone you know on the front page of the New York Times website. (It's been updated since then, but you can see the screen grab from earlier today.) As a cub reporter ten years ago, I covered politics for a daily newspaper in northern Los Angeles County called the Antelope Valley Press. My most frequent story subject was the powerful and ultra-energetic California Assemblyman George Runner, who's now a state senator slogging

  July 24, 2009

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

  August 20, 2009

• Broward Republicans: Still Crazier Than Broward Democrats

  Would you elect this man?​With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County -- and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County -- the Republican Party may have been looking pretty inviting to your average local political observer. Or at least until those Republicans took that precious piece of political capital to the gun range, where they riddled it with bu

  October 9, 2009

• Jeb Bush Presidential Bid Still Lacks Buzz

  ​As parents in the Palm Beach County School District tries to roll back Jeb Bush's shameful legacy of FCAT drilling, the former Florida governor is roaming around, looking to get his voice heard, apparently to gauge interest in a 2012 run for president (though he'd never admit that).Bush made a very brief -- and somewhat shocking -- appearance as an Obama booster in today's column in the New York Times by David Brooks -- apparently the ex-governor's a fan of what the president has done with na

  October 23, 2009

• Crist's Three Disciples: Men Closest to Governor All From Broward

  LeMieux getting comfortable in the office Charlie scored for him.​Say this about young Broward County Republicans: They know a meal ticket when they see one. By my count, the three men who have the most crucial roles in getting Charlie Crist elected to the U.S. Senate are all from Broward.We know about George LeMieux, the former county GOP chair and campaign "maestro" who thanks to an appointment by Crist is now the youngest U.S. Senator. LeMieux's job: simply to vacate the office when Charlie

  October 28, 2009

• Searching for Democrats to Run Corruption County

  Any Dems want to run against Steven Abrams?​After watching three Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission head to prison on corruption charges, one might imagine local Democratic operatives corking champagne bottles in anticipation of next year's battle to fill the seat held by Republican Commissioner Steven Abrams.But politics in Corruption County are never that simple. Indeed, the Dems have yet to find anyone to run against Abrams. "Of all the races we're scoping out, it's probably th

  November 3, 2009