Let’s be real. Charlie Crist isn’t trailing in the Senate race because he’s a weak leader who surrounds himself with a coterie of crooked businessmen and conflicted advisers. No, those would be legitimate reasons. Rather, he’s trailing the Senate race because back in February, he hugged Barack Obama.In the year…
It’s surreal to hear a conservative like LeMieux campaigning for mass transportation, typically a crusade for liberals. But when it comes to the railroad industry, to which LeMieux has deep ties from his halcyon days as a lobbyist, LeMieux turns liberal.As we’ve mentioned on Juice this month, LeMieux’s former law…
Collecting and showing prisoner art is Carol Strick’s second career. It started when she left her job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1994, where she worked making faience reproductions for the Ancient Egyptian collection. Her husband had died, she’d moved to Florida, and she was…
On the World Wide Web, even tea party activists can be hot. But they still ain’t buyin’ what Charlie Crist is sellin’. The video above was made last week and was to be furnished to “millions” of potential voters. I was the third to watch it. Maybe traffic will pick…
The list of candidates for the Broward Health board is full of attorneys, contractors, politicians and health-care business owners. They are vying for at least one open seat — the one formerly belonging to Maureen Jaeger, who left this fall to join George Lemieux’s U.S. Senate staff. Commissioner Rebecca Stoll’s…
This week’s Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race cost Democrats their filibuster-proof majority and dealt a powerful blow to the party’s hopes for health care reform. This afternoon I asked West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz whether it’s triggered any panic in the House Democratic caucus. “I would not…
The ultrasound manufacturing company where Mike Fernandez works as a general manager has been selling products to Broward Health during the same period that Fernandez has occupied a powerful position as a commissioner of that hospital district. Documents obtained by Juice suggest that Fernandez has been violating state ethics law…
A Guatemalan immigrant in Jupiter is facing deportation after Federal Express employees in Riviera Beach opened a package, inspected its contents, then reported a possible illegal alien to immigration officials, who swooped in when a group of Guatemalans arrived to pick up the package on January 6.The case, which appears…
One week after an earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, the Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN) are trying to pull off a very delicate public relations maneuver: stating their sympathy for the Haitian people, while also communicating in no uncertain terms that Haitians are not welcome here, no matter how…
If you’re running for U.S. Senate like Marco Rubio, it’s hard to break the habit of speechifying, even if you’re just stepping outside your car and walking into a new campaign office in Clearwater. But just stick with it a few minutes. A few sympathetic people are bound to stop…
It used to be the best gravy train on the tracks: If you were a frat brother of Charlie Crist at Florida State, you could practically name your job. Harry Sargeant landed a prestigious gig as the finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Crist appointed another “Pike,” Mike…
If you’ve followed the recent machinations of the Florida Bar Association, it’s hard to imagine it will hold Sen. George LeMieux accountable for what appear to be grievous professional sins he committed in 2008.But at least there’s some pressure building, as evidenced by this weekend’s Miami Herald article about the…
Commissioner Marty Popelsky broke a 2-2 tie on the Deerfield Beach City Commission this evening, voting in favor of a resolution that terminated Mike Mahaney, the city manager of more than two years.The meeting was civil, by Deerfield Beach standards anyway. Commissioners Joe Miller and Sylvia Poitier teamed up with…
That’s video of Marco Rubio from last night’s The Kudlow Report. At the 2-minute mark, Kudlow asks Rubio to respond to the recent profile in New York Times Magazine, which asked whether Rubio is “The First Senator From the Tea Party?”Of course, Rubio saw that question coming from a mile…
In just a few hours, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will hold its special meeting to vote on a motion by Commissioner Bill Ganz to terminate City Manager Mike Mahaney. I reached Ganz by phone a few moments ago to see whether he had been able to work out his…
That’s what former Rothstein business partner Roger Stone is reporting on his blog this morning. He says that former Heat center Alonzo Mourning played matchmaker in an encounter that took place in Miami Beach on the night of October 26 — just before Rothstein left for Morocco the following day…
In yet another demonstration of Charlie Crist’s plummeting stock in the state Republican Party, a legislative committee has rejected the compact his office hammered out with the Seminole Tribe last year that would have allowed the Seminoles to keep theirLas Vegas-style games in exchange for annual payments to the state,…
It’s hard to watch the footage of injured, homeless Haitians without remembering the desperate Katrina survivors on the rooftops of New Orleans. Soon, the Katrina refugees were taken in by sympathetic citizens across the United States. But South Florida is no Houston. Our Haitian neighbors routinely drown trying to get…
U.S. aid workers are pretty busy today, what with Haiti experiencing apocalyptic conditions and all. But the coordinators of that incredibly complex and chaotic rescue effort surely have enough time to chat with our Broward-born Sen. George LeMieux, who wants to learn about their effort. Otherwise, he won’t be able…
Leave it to that old and ornery quote machine Alcee Hastings to bust up the scrum of politicians descending on Haiti. In a statement that the Central Broward Congressman just released, he opened with the usual buzzwords like “sorrow” and “tragic,” but then he gracefully stepped out of the way…
Young Andrew Perez is a bit like the canary in the coal mine. The Plantation native was hired three years ago, as an 18-year-old intern at Rothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler, working there for the past three summers. He swears he once remarked to another associate at the firm that he…
Charlie Crist juggled his schedule so he could fly down to Miami-Dade, where a press conference will be staged to comfort the Haitian people. But however little Crist has to lose in his Senate race against Marco Rubio, still he had better be careful about dashing toward ground zero, Giuliani-style,…
