The Town of Davie is considering an idea to restrict the deed on the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds for the next 99 years. One CRA member and former councilwoman told the Sun-Sentinel the idea is “insane.” The town’s CRA director is opposed to it, saying it could get in the way of…
For years, campaign operative and erstwhile politician Dan Lewis has claimed that his 2006 run against incumbent Jim Naugle for mayor of Fort Lauderdale was undermined by a conspiracy led by his nemesis, super-lobbyist Judy Stern. For years, Stern has said she had nothing to do with that campaign, even making the claim…
Yes, the buzz is already starting up in some of the farthest reaching corners of America’s right wing that Allen West should be our next president. There’s now a website devoted to the idea and a blog called American Thinker had a post about West yesterday titled “America’s Next Black President” that opined: …
We’ve heard all about how the Centurion and Platinum hedge funds in New York sank hundreds of millions of dollars into Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme. Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer is suing them, claiming they were privy to the fraud and now must cough up millions of dollars to multimillionaire Douglas Von Allmen and other Rothstein…
I’m digging up what one source called “game changer” in the continuing Scott Rothstein saga today, so in the meantime I’ll give you the Reader’s Digest version of this weekend’s Allen West speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday. West hit a lot of topics but what came…
In Broward and Tallahassee politics, influence peddling comes in countless forms. Here’s one currently under investigation by the federal government: A powerful lobbyist, seeking to curry favor with a state senator and benefit a major client, helps to secure the senator’s boyfriend a job at the development firm the lobbyist represents. The…
Facebook posting from Democratic guy Steve Beste from yesterday sent in by an astute reader. Ritter has made grumblings about running for Congress in the past, perhaps in part because her lobbyist/hubby, Russ Klenet, shifted his business to D.C. Of course, she also expected a position in the Obama administration at…
The recent headlines in the Herald and Sun-Sentinel had a shocking quality: “Photo Said to Show Adam Walsh’s Face ‘Etched in His Own Blood.'” Adam We all know Adam Walsh’s face. When Adam was abducted from a Hollywood mall in 1981, it shook South Florida. When police announced that they’d found only his head…
Hollywood lobbyist and political fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn won’t be sentenced on his federal conspiracy conviction next week after all. The sentencing has been pushed back to April 28, according to court records. Sounds mundane enough, but I hear there is considerable intrigue behind the scenes in this case. Mendelsohn –…
Yes, Ilene Lieberman showed up at yesterday’s commission meeting. But was she really there? The AWOL commissioner was a veritable black hole, not participating in the least, except to cast votes with an “aye” and to decline adding anything else to the discussion. She spent much of the time on…
Georgia Roberts, who was acquitted of stalking Channel 10 reporter Kristi Krueger in 2003, now stands accused of stalking a family in the Orlando area in an eerily similar manner. Roberts, according to a Winter Gardens police report, was arrested at a Publix store after confronting the wife of the family she is…
Ilene Lieberman, after months of no-shows and call-ins to Broward County Commission meetings, has finally returned to public service. She’s on the dais now — after fellow Commissioner Chip LaMarca made it an issue last week and more heat came from the media. UPDATED 10:58 AM: Almost an hour in and Lieberman has spoken only one…
The mother of now-teenaged twins, Roberts was accused of following and harassing Krueger after meeting her at gymnastics lessons for their respective children. When Krueger didn’t invite Roberts’ daughter to her daughter’s birthday party, it reached a boiling point, with an altercation at Silver Palms Elementary. Roberts was arrested the day…
Summing up the Super Bowl: bad rendition of the national anthem, mess of a halftime show, mixed bag of commercials. As an afterthought, the game was pretty good (Packers took it away from the Steelers, literally). Onto more important matters, like who runs the State of Florida. In light of Gov. Rick Scott’s unlikely…
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti addressed the Super Bowl issue, telling the Sun-Sentinel (you know who) that his son accompanied him to the big game but that he was working and that neither saw the game, except on TV, and that they spent almost the entire game outside the stadium overseeing BSO security…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, left, wants to engage in a high-heels contest with Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, right. From Twitter yesterday: “It’s clear that Ceasar et al. were targeting one candidate in particular: Jerry Fadgen. He’s the only Republican on the list. And that, in my opinion, is fair…
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews made a remark yesterday comparing the Tea Party of America to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. “So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party,” he said. “They’re the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you’ve stayed too long?” That’s what you…
Remember that first post on Sheriff Al Lamberti using his status as sheriff to get his teenaged son into last year’s Super Bowl at Sun Life (Joe Robbie) Stadium? Well, it’s kicked up a hornet’s nest that was hit with a stick yesterday courtesy of South Florida Times reporter Elgin Jones…
The Republicans are now pushing the notion that the attempted overthrow by the people of Egypt is vindication for George W. Bush and his legacy of “freedom.” The Washington Post recently published a piece claiming as much by Elliott Abrams, who quoted a Bush speech from 2003 to back up his claim: Are the peoples of…
Model Citizen Scott deserves a hand today. Rick Scott’s move to force government employees to contribute to their pensions (like everyone else) and drop the horrid DROP triple-dipping program is flat-out wonderful. It’s high time someone derailed the gravy train that government workers have been riding on taxpayers’ backs. Scott hasn’t been lauded here…
Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca brought up a key — and politically loaded — question at yesterday’s commission meeting. Essentially he asked: What about Ilene? Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, who has been AWOL for months now, was absent again yesterday. See how LaMarca’s fellow commissioner reacted to LaMarca’s question inside, along with what sources say is…
More pain is forecast in the housing market. All you need to do is look at Broward County Property Appraiser records to see why. There are thousands of properties left over from the housing boom that have neither been foreclosed or short sold. They’re saying the bottom might hit in 2012,…
