Back in 1995, when Hazelle Rogers, a Jamaica native, ran for a spot on the Lauderdale Lakes city commission, she was the first Caribbean-American to seek public office in Broward County. She lost by two votes, in part because she struggled to find donors who would back her campaign. The…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Last week, the Palm Beach elections supervisor raised eyebrows when she decided to move a polling station from a mosque to a library, apparently caving to complaints from Islamophobic residents. But it seems like there’s also a prejudice at work against synagogues at the Palm Beach county elections office. In…
Florida’s unconstitutional plan to limit abortion might have killed a Palm Beach County teen program focusing on drop-out prevention. To keep the program running, program officials scrambled to re-do contracts by the July 1 deadline. To comply with the new restrictions, they cut Planned Parenthood out of the budget to…
On January 6, the Coalition for Trump Victory Cruise is scheduled to set sail from Miami to the Bahamas. The organizer is Robert Jeter, an oil rig worker who lives in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The 43-year-old also volunteers as executive director of the Coalition for Trump, a grassroots campaign that’s…
The American Civil Rights Union. a conservative group, says census data proves more people are eligible to vote in Broward County this November than are currently alive. “The result could be people inadvertently voting who are not registered to vote,” says Joseph Vanderhulst, an attorney with the Public Interest Legal…
Amid allegations that Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz “rigged” the Democratic Presidential Primary in favor of Hillary Clinton, 120 people, including 104 Bernie Sanders donors, sued both Wasserman Schultz and the DNC in the Southern District Court of Florida yesterday for fraud, negligence, misrepresentation, and other claims, after…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi staked a sizable chunk of her political career on trying to ensure that same-sex couples were never allowed to marry. The “promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest,” Bondi once wrote in a legal brief. Translated from Bondi-speak, she was just…
You won’t BELIEVE how well former South Florida Congressman Allen West’s Breitbart-style conservative clickbait website is doing! Frankly, we can’t believe it either, since a site West runs apparently has more followers on Facebook and Twitter than New Times Broward Palm Beach and its sister paper, Miami New Times, combined. According to…
Tim Canova, the longtime Wall Street critic and onetime Bernie Sanders adviser now running to unseat Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, has now raised more than $2 million dollars since announcing his candidacy in January. It’s a campaign haul that is sure to flummox his critics, who…
Roger Stone may be the greatest political thug in history. He has worked in politics for decades, and yet does not seem to aspire to higher office. Instead, he sticks to the tasks he knows — spreading near-libelous rumors through anonymous sources, threatening to sue people for no good reason,…
My conversation with Gervan “G-Funk” Moise, a man who will clearly end up running the entire state of Florida, ended when he shut down the phone call. We’d been speaking for one minute. I reached Moise by phone at around 3:50 p.m. Wednesday. He announced this week that he’s running…
If Dick Cheney spent the 2000s as the Republican Party-equivalent of Darth Vader, then Karl Rove was the GOP’s dough-fingered Emperor Palpatine. Rove, the famed political strategist-turned-TV talking-head, helped organize campaigns for Rick Perry, John Aschcroft, and, most notably, George W. Bush. (I suppose Bush is Grand Moff Tarkin in…
Through nearly six months of campaigning for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, former Bernie Sanders advisor Tim Canova hadn’t heard a peep from the presidential candidate. “I’ve had no contact with Bernie Sanders at all,” Canova told the Washington Post in February. (Sanders once tapped Canova to sit on a Wall…
There comes a point during every presidential race when the candidates stop feeling like candidates and begin to seem like the worst members of your extended family. They fight every night. They make mean comments about each other through lawyers and surrogates. Hell, you probably hear Donald Trump’s voice in…
Over the weekend, as the media reported on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s chauvinist and sexist past, a dozen middle-aged and elderly women rallied for him in Broward, Florida’s most Democratic county. They’re not affiliated with the Trump campaign, but had nonetheless grown frustrated with the belief that all…
The website Politico hustled out a story today with this news flash: HEY! THE SEMINOLES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY! With the cat out of the bag, the tribe dropped a lawsuit it had filed just two days before to keep the information from going public. Back in 2010 when…
Of the 42 states and one city (Washington D.C.) that maintain Pre-K programs in America, the State of Florida manages to spend less on preschool care than almost all of them, according to a report released yesterday by Rutgers University’s National Institute of Early Education Research. Of the 43 areas…
Cara Jennings, the ex-Lake Worth Commissioner who became internet-famous when she called Scott an “asshole” in a Starbucks on April 5, released a video yesterday begging the state of California to help “Stop Rick Scott.” She’s even started a #StopRickScott hashtag. Scott — whose name has been batted around a…
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the federal court in the Central District of California, a woman named Katie Johnson accuses Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of having forced her to “engage in various perverted and depraved sex acts” and threatening to harm her and her family. A…
The biggest knock on Democrat Tim Canova, the onetime Bernie Sanders adviser who is trying to oust fellow Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Congress, has been that most of Canova’s support is from a rabid group of “Bernie Bros” on websites like Reddit, rather than folks in South Florida. While…
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew wiped out Six Flags Atlantis in Hollywood. There has been a giant, aching waterpark-shaped hole in Broward County ever since. But opening another Broward waterpark has been no trip down the lazy river for Schlitterbahn, one of the country’s leading water amusement corporations with outposts in…
