On the national stage, Florida has a golden reputation for its broad-ranging public records laws, called “Sunshine Laws.” But in practice, our government institutions are often piss-poor, stonewalling citizens with noncompliance and intimidation when they request to see certain documents.Proving that point has become the life’s work of Joel Chandler,…
Gun lovers around the country designated this past Saturday, January 19, a “gun appreciation day.” In Utah, a guy celebrated by bringing an assault rifle into a JC Penney, and five others celebrated by getting shot at gun shows in Ohio, Indiana, and North Carolina. Locally, the Delray Shooting Center…
Today, a less popular, but in some ways, stronger Barack Obama will become our president for four more years — well, kinda. Sure, he already took the oath yesterday, but that was just the wedding ceremony without the reception. Today’s the party. So what can we expect? Exactly that: a…
Fresh off admitting that he gave away the dog he had adopted before being elected once he was elected, Rick Scott has moved on to tackling more current events. Such as gun control. Specifically, gun control in Florida. And, in what has been his go-to move, Scott plans to do…
President Obama held a news conference in which he unveiled 23 executive actions on gun control yesterday. And, naturally, the GOPers are up in arms and want the president impeached because gun control is tyranny and bad for liberty and un-American and other butthurt reasons. Among those that are hinting…
Yesterday the internet nearly broke in half when an exhaustive Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed that Rick Scott dumped his dog Reagan after publicly adopting him during his election campaign in 2010. At the time, Scott paraded the fact that he had adopted the dog and even had a name-the-dog…
Three years ago, the City of Riviera Beach destroyed multimillionaire Fane Lozman’s home. At the time, city officials said Lozman’s 60-foot, two-story floating home was not a vessel and therefore ordered it dismantled at the marina where it was docked. Work crews spent five days dismantling the house as Fozman…
With Republicans foundering amid fiscal-cliff apoplexy and John Boehner looking more bewildered by the day, Marco Rubio, in a sharp departure from earlier hard-line immigration positions, said yesterday he’s in favor of a pathway to citizenship. Wait, wait, wait. Actually, what he said was: “The best way to deal with…
Anyone making the rounds through Broward County’s political blogosphere earlier this week might have found an unexpected detour waiting for them over at RedBroward.com. Instead of the site’s usual serving of GOP insider gossip and thought, browsers redirected here, to a gloomy bit of existential boilerplate courtesy of German big…
Remember when Rick Scott began to soften his stance against Obamacare and said there should be a conversation about it? Yea, scratch that. Scott did the math and well, the numbers just don’t add up. So. No Obamacare for you, Florida! Oh. Sure. He still walks around like he’s all…
A bit of a brouhaha between a Riviera Beach councilman and a retired Riviera Beach fire chief broke out yesterday. Nasty words were exchanged, particularly from councilman Shelby Lowe, who allegedly called Retired Riviera Beach Fire Chief Richard Wester that word that appears a lot in the latest Quentin Tarantino…
On the first ay of the brand new year, the House voted 257-167 to approve the Senate bill that would avoid major tax hikes and spending cuts and keep us all from falling over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” which would’ve been a terrible way to start 2013. The GOPers wanted…
Several weeks ago, we made a terrible mistake, one that warranted immediate regret. We asked to start receiving Gov. Rick Scott’s news releases. And then came a deluge of good news. If we hadn’t known any better, we would have thought Rick Scott was doing something, well, not evil. Which…
So that was fast. One month after Lacey Byrd, a West Palm Beach fashionista, announced she was running for Riviera Beach City Council, she allegedly thrashed her husband, got tossed in jail for a night, and upon her exit last Saturday immediately dropped out of the race. “After careful consideration,…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital Sunday after doctors found a blood clot related to a concussion she suffered ten days ago. Earlier this month, Clinton was sick with a stomach virus when she fainted and banged her head, causing a concussion and opening…
It’s official. Everyone pretty much thinks Rick Scott is crappy at his job. That, according to a new Quinnipiac poll that has a large number of people saying Governor Voldemort doesn’t deserve a second term. (And that number includes GOPers!) Rick Scott has feverishly been trying to make people forget…
At first Rick Scott was all, NO EXTRA EARLY VOTING DAYS FOR OUR STATE, EVAR! And then everyone started to hate him and think he’s awful because they realized he’s a beady-eyed pustule with dumb GOPer agendas and an affinity to eat people’s souls (allegedly!). But now, all of a…
For once, we’ve found common ground with debt collectors: Broward County Republican Chairman Rico Petrocelli is impossible to get on the telephone and won’t return calls. At least when the calls refer to his crushing debt. Petrocelli is mad broke. He filed for bankruptcy in November of last year –…
You know what the worst thing in the world is? When some yuppie New York schmuck wearing designer Gucci-whatever tells you how shitty you look. Worse still, when that New York douche bag has access to a wide audience to critique your awful appearance. And you know what makes us…
Over several weeks in early 2010, then-Governor Crist unleashed a series of tweets condemning President Obama’s prospective health care reform bill. To Crist — yes, the other Crist — enacting ObamaCare would only constitute “the beginning.” He said “Americans deserve better than this.” He launched a petition to stop “health…
Politicians have to be All-Pro when it comes to shouldering hits from the sideline about job performance and bungled expectations. But it’s still got to be a little bit embarrassing when the electorate decides to trash your term in office on the White House’s front steps, electronically speaking. That’s what…
As first reported on this here bloggy blog by Bob Norman back in 2010, Tamarac City Commissioner Patricia “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad was arrested and charged with bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation after she threw herself one helluvan election victory party. Nothing wrong with…
