Lobbyist Ken? We Knew It Was Only a Matter of (Not Much) Time (at All)

​Happy MLK Day, the holiday that has at least half the populace confused about whether they have to work or not. In NT’s case, it’s not an official holiday, but they worked it out that we got the day off anyway.   ​The Sun-Sentinel tracked down some recently rejected politicians. One who didn’t…

Sunday Politics: Q&A With Tea Partier on Health Care

The Tea Party has demonized health-care reform — or Obamacare, as it calls it — to the point that the group seems to believe that it alone is going to destroy America. They’ve disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about socialized medicine, and decried supporters as traitors over the issue (including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords before she was shot; her…

Don’t You Feel Safe Now That They Got This Menace Out of Her Bedroom?

This is Coral Park Elementary School Principal Amanda Miles, who was arrested by the Coral Springs Police for having 21 grams of marijuana (three quarters of an ounce) in her bedroom. ​ Is this really what our police are spending their time doing — busting 60-year-old women in their bedrooms? Here’s a…

Is Stacy Really Concerned About Security?

Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter had her regularly scheduled “Coffee with Stacy” on Wednesday and I commend her for that. After the horror on Saturday that occurred at U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ “Congress on your Corner” event, I think it’s great that Ritter is carrying on in that tradition. Ritter…

Tea Party Leader Ran “Gay Bashing” Campaign In Connecticut

Note: This is the second part of a series about Gabriel Jose Carrera, a leader of the Tea Party. Click here to see the first part. More than a decade before Gabe Carrera became a leader in the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party and began rubbing shoulders with the likes of Florida Gov. Rick Scott and…

Fort Lauderdale Tea Party Leader Speaks Out on Sarah Palin

  ​ By day, Gabriel Jose Carrera works as a bespectacled immigration attorney, but in countless off-hours during the past 18 months, he has had another calling: leading the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party to help elect candidates like Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, and Allen West. Carrera is one of the original leaders of the Tea Party. He started stumping for his…

After Tucson, Stacy Ritter Wants More Security — From “Bloggers”

In the wake of the Tucson shooting, Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter said at yesterday’s public meeting that she wants to beef up security and have metal detectors at the county governmental building. All That Glitters, who watched the meeting (I didn’t), reported the following on the previous post: “She wanted to have weapon…

Source: Federal Indictment Coming for School Administrator Who’s a BSO Sergeant

Sources tell me the U.S. Attorney’s Office will announce the arrest of a Broward County public official as soon as tomorrow. Thomas Correa, a longtime Broward Sheriff’s Office sergeant and a former administrator at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is expected to be indicted on fraud charges, according to sources. Correa was terminated from his position…

RRA Case Fading Away

Thought I’d share a new piece of my wardrobe this morning while I work on another post. Yes, that’s an authentic Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler cap. It’s glittery. I was also given an RRA T-shirt handed out at the infamous Bahamian retreat for the law firm that I’ll catwalk for you at some point. It’s just…

Jared Lee Loughner’s Lunatic Rantings Prove That Politically He’s…

It’s amazing how people are trying to figure out Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner’s political philosophy. He’s a registered Republican, they say (hoax). He’s a liberal pot smoker (according to a former classmate who didn’t know him well). He was predisposed to right-wing rants that echo Tea Party rhetoric and paranoia (The Guardian). So which…

The Show Must Go On

Working on a Tea Party story but in the meantime wanted to share a photo that has been spreading across the internets lately. Here it is:                   What the hell is this, you ask, and why is it on the Pulp? Well, it came from Radar Online…

The Tucson Shooting: An Open Letter to Joyce Kaufman

The following is an open letter to WFTL-AM (850) radio host Joyce Kaufman, whose incendiary political rhetoric included a Tea Party rally remark that “If ballots don’t work, bullets will”: Dear Joyce, How does it feel when you hear about the horrific shootings in Tucson yesterday? How does it feel to see that someone actually employed your…

Ari Porth Caves In To Radical Idiot

State Rep. Ari Porth agreed to speak this weekend at a convention of the Islamic Society of North America in Fort Lauderdale. But Porth bailed out yesterday, canceling his speech. Why? Because of pressure from a local extremist named Joe Kaufman put pressure on him, who told him that ISNA was linked to terrorists. The ISNA,…

Sheriff’s Top Political Aide Defends Criminally Charged Krafts

You may not expect much drama and controversy out of a Coral Springs/Parkland Democratic Club meeting, but you got some last night. The night was meant for Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, who gave a very successful speech, but the drama arrived in the form of Sheriff Al Lamberti and…

Miami Dolphins Stadium Renovation: A Field of Schemes

​I think it’s safe to say that the Miami Dolphins’ plan to soak Broward taxpayers for a stadium renovation is dead. But Dolphins lobbyist Ron Book is crafty — we’ll see what he can do. Dolphins’ owner Stephen Ross has kept a lot of Wayne Huizenga’s old employees around (inlcluding…

Super Bowl Tax Is Anti-American

​ — After the post on Sheriff Al Lamberti’s taking of liberties with official Super Bowl credentials to get his son into the game, the South Florida Times has come out with a report on a “secret” Super Bowl detail that involved more deputies who provided security for the big game — and were…

Ilene Lieberman Gives Wrong Answer

So Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman won’t say why she’s gone AWOL from commission meetings, telling the Sun-Sentinel (the WofP, actually) that she is “dealing with some personal matters, and I’m not at liberty to discuss them at the moment.” Not at liberty? That implies that someone has forbidden her to…

Russ Adler’s Questions for Sheriff Al

Busy news night. Another Broward jail worker, this one a nurse named Carline Jean, was arrested yesterday on charges of introducing contraband to an inmate, including giving the inmate a cell phone and (this goes without saying at this point) sending nude pictures of herself to the prisoner. What’s in…

Did Campaign Cash Help BSO Promotion?

I am hearing new information regarding Broward Sheriff’s Lt. Rick Reilly, and it’s not good. I won’t get into details, but suffice it to say that Reilly’s late wife, attorney Caryl Boies, may have a lot in common with Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of onetime presidential contender John Edwards who also died with cancer…