As ever, Florida is at the center of Election Day for dubious reasons. This time around, it’s basically because no other state has spent more on elections this year than the Sunshine State. All told, the 2014 election cycle has raised a whopping $345 million, reports the Miami Herald. And…
Protesters Call Obama “Chickenshit” on Election Day from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. The sign Bob Kunst was waving on the street corner in front of the Torch of Friendship monument this past weekend reads “OBAMA IS THE ‘CHICKENS**T! JEW HATING JIHADIST.” Doozy is an understatement for Kunst, a practiced…
Election Day has arrived, and while the big battle remains Scott versus Crist and whether you want to vote for medical marijuana, there are also some pretty important local races going down you may want to be aware of. While voting can be a time-consuming affair, no one should just…
Editor’s note: Evan Rowe is an adjunct professor of history at Broward College. Despite the campaign hype and advertising, despite the fact that this election will decide Florida’s governor and the legality of medical marijuana, the largest voting bloc this election cycle will be, as it was in 2010, the…
With Election Day a mere five days away, the governor’s race continues to look like a photo finish. But, in a seemingly last-minute twist, Qunnipiac University’s latest poll (and last before the election) has given Charlie Crist a slight edge over Rick Scott. The number increases a bit when Libertarian…
Election Day on Tuesday is going to decide an important local issue that could impact schools in Broward. Voters are being asked to decide on a referendum that would help fund safety projects for public schools in Broward. Taxpayers are being asked to foot the $800 million bill that will…
Jeb Bush — best buddy to Rick Scott, medical marijuana hater, and enemy of Matt Damon — is more than likely going to run for president in 2016. Oh, he’s also the younger brother of former President George W. Bush. According to Jeb’s son, George P. Bush, the younger Bush…
Rick Scott is supposed to be in California today for a deposition in a lawsuit his lawyers filed to block the release of emails from the governor’s Gmail account to allegedly circumvent Florida’s public records law. It’s a serious issue that puts more light on Scott’s shady ways. But instead…
Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed “militant atheist” Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus Pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Last year’s pole — which was an eight-foot-tall pole made of Pabst Plue Ribbon beer cans — was inspired by Tallahassee officials allowing Christian…
In September of 2013, we brought you the story of Attorney General Pam Bondi asking Gov. Rick Scott to postpone the execution of an inmate on Florida’s death row so she could throw herself a fundraiser. Scott honored Bondi’s request, and the execution of Marshall Lee Gore was stayed so…
Well, that was brutal. Fangate obviously didn’t cool down any tempers. Last night, Gov. Rick Scott met challenger Charlie Crist in the final gubernatorial debate. If you plugged into the live feed from Jacksonville, you witnessed the only show outside of the WWE featuring well-tanned and slightly delirious egos pounding…
Rick Scott and Charlie Crist are set to have their third and final debate tonight on CNN, two weeks from Election Day. And this time, there will be no fans. CNN has made it clear to both candidates that no fans are allowed in tonight’s debate, and Crist has agreed…
Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will be voting tonight on the proposed ordinance that could cripple groups that distribute food to the city’s homeless. The crux of the ordinance deals with applying rules on food handling, providing toilet facilities and hand-washing areas, and requirements on how and when the food should…
Correction, October 21, 10:50 a.m. : The Bradenton Herald endorsed Rick Scott. This article has been corrected to reflect that. Nearly every major newspaper in Florida has endorsed Charlie Crist for governor this week. The endorsements began with the Tampa Bay Times weighing in last weekend and the Miami Herald…
FanGate is only going to get more insufferably weird before it finally dies down. Debate organizers Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association said in their statement Thursday that Crist had agreed to not bring his fan if the temperature were cool enough. Organizers also say that both candidates signed…
Because Florida is Florida, the topic of the day Thursday is, of course, FanGate. And now debate organizers have released a statement saying that Charlie Crist did, intact, break debate rules by having his trusty fan with him onstage. The statement from the Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association…
Rick Scott might be trying to recover this morning from one of the more idiotic and childish political blunders since barefoot Greeks first started tallying votes in the Acropolis. But the current governor of Florida actually might have a bigger issue starting today. Scott — whose personal wealth is huge…
The room was cluttered with a dizzying array of voices. Bodies crushed in together. Lights flashed. Cameras buzzed. The so-called post-debate Spin Room — the designated area where politicians go and talk to the media about how their candidate won the debate — was a steaming goulash of pant suits,…
Hi. Hello. How are you? Ready for the debate between two candidates you’re not all that fired up to see become our governor? No? Well, fear not. Because we here at New Times are gonna be blogging the shenanigans live from Broward College. We’ll be bringing you every issue, and…
The Florida Department of Management Services can’t ban the Satanic Temple’s holiday display from the state Capitol rotunda just because ot thinks it’s offensive, says watchdog group Americans United for Separation of Church and State. On Wednesday, the group sent state officials a letter warning them that they must not…
As part of the ongoing saga between Broward College administration and its heavily beaten-down adjunct labor force, adjunct groups, along with community support, will be protesting the administrative virus at Bailey Hall today at 5 p.m. The context is the long-term trend in the college administration of redistributing money away…
Tonight’s the night Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist bring their 2014 Election-Palooza to Broward and yell at each other indirectly by saying loud things at television cameras. Scott and Crist will face off at the Leadership Florida-Florida Press Association debate going down at Broward College at 7…
