Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” — is getting out of Arizona this weekend to be the headliner for the “Choose Liberty 2012” event, hosted by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party and the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity.According to the sheriff’s PR crew out in the…
Today is Election Day, and in case you were tempted to stay home because the candidates are all local nobodies, the City of Lake Worth is here to change your mind.Here in the Brooklyn of South Florida, we have a City Commission candidate who, in addition to being a respected…
Once again, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London found himself the lone dissenter on a vote in which the gung-ho City Commission voted, under the leadership of Mayor Joy Cooper, to spend millions on a real-estate purchase without clear plans for what the property would become.William Gjebre at Broward Bulldog has…
Gov. Rick Scott may not think Florida needs more anthropologists, but cruise-ship DJs — that’s a different story.The governor held another one of his borrowed “Let’s Get to Work” days this Friday at the Port of Miami, and among his duties, the governor’s office said Scott planned to “demonstrate his…
Patrick Murphy, one of the Democratic hopefuls in the race for Rep. Allen West’s congressional seat, has joined several of his party colleagues — including DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Alan Grayson — to come out in support of the Occupy movement.In an email to campaign…
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick “I want to go to war with China” Santorum will be joining Reps. Allen West and Tom Rooney for a cute little picnic this weekend sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.Santorum’s appearance at the “GOP Family Picnic,” as well as the appearance…
Gov. Rick Scott’s reaction on Wednesday to a former staffer for Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll being charged with illegally recording a conversation: “It is a disappointment.” (He said that twice.)His reaction to the part of that audio recording in which Carroll’s chief of staff said the governor isn’t leading: “That’s…
The Cole Brothers Circus will still be rolling through Margate this year, but the scores of residents and animal-rights activists that showed up to last night’s City Commission meeting may have prevented it from happening again.After presenting the case to the commission about Cole Brothers’ lengthy history of mistreating animals…
According to a poll released yesterday evening by Suffolk University, Florida voters like highly unlikely vice-presidential scenarios.If Sen. Marco Rubio were to be the selection on the GOP ticket, pollsters say Republicans would carry Florida 46 percent to 41.If Hillary Clinton were to replace Joe Biden as President Obama’s running…
U.S. Senate candidate George LeMieux has apparently run out of things to talk about, so he’s bitching about critiquing trash cans.He’s upset about solar-powered trash compactors — $6,000 “robotic trash cans,” as he calls them — some of which were purchased with federal stimulus cash by the Lynx bus system…
When things don’t go Gov. Rick Scott’s way, it’s time to take off the loafers and put on the flip-flops.First he promised 700,000 extra jobs for Florida over seven years, and after falling behind state projections, he tried to lie his way out of it by claiming he never promised…
Four months ago, we brought you a sobering catalog of Rick Scott’s dirtiest deeds as chief executive of this fair state. There were a dozen items on the list — gems like outsourcing prisons to political donors, slashing funding for public education, and mandating drug tests for state workers.But a…
Gov. Rick Scott was happy to announce yesterday that Boeing is creating 550 jobs in Florida by 2015 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.Aside from the fact that 500 jobs in four years doesn’t quite offset the few thousand people laid off after the space shuttle program was…
President Obama will debate some guy (don’t pretend like Michele Bachmann is in contention) at Lynn University in Boca Raton next year, according to an announcement from the Commission on Presidential Debates.The debate, scheduled for October 22, 2012, is planned to be the last of three, preceded by one at…
It’s Halloween, and if you don’t have a costume, we’ve got just the thing to make children and former government workers so scared, they’ll barf up their Sour Patch Kids — the Gov. Rick Scott mask.Not surprisingly, this one’s brought to you by the anti-Scott liberals over at Pink Slip…
“The new jail planned for southwest Broward County will go in a barren area where the county puts things that nobody wants,” wrote David Fleshler and John Maines at the beginning of a story in the Sun-Sentinel.At stake was a plan by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a landowner…
U.S. Rep. Allen West has already tried to end federal funding for National Public Radio. But if he needed another reason to hate NPR, yesterday’s “All Things Considered” segment should do the trick. The story explored West’s view of Islam as a “totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology” and his ongoing rhetorical battle…
Being a pro bono lobbyist sounds a little like being a volunteer stockbroker, but Merick Lewin says it’s true. The Republican state House candidate from Davie contends he did lobbying work for his uncle’s company,the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, but wasn’t paid for it. Yep, he just kept an eye on state legislation…
The Teamsters’ ethics complaint filed last month against Gov. Rick Scott — which alleged his million bucks from private prison corporations was somehow affecting the state’s decision to enter contracts with the companies — has been tossed out by the Florida Ethics Commission.Among other things, the commission says that “pay…
Forget Kevin Bacon. The Florida Democratic Party is playing the “Six Degrees of Rick Scott.”How do you play? Well, apparently by launching a website identifying the state’s “Rickpublicans.”Sure enough, hometown favorite Rep. Allen West landed a Bacon Rick number of one, with a direct connection to the governor…
Wow! Gov. Rick Scott just left for Brazil a few days ago, and he’s already announced that he brought over a Brazilian company to create 75 whole jobs at an average salary of $62,000!Just like he waited until he went to Canada to announce a months-old deal he wasn’t even…
It looks like Gov. Rick Scott never met a constitution he couldn’t violate.This time, it was likely the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge who temporarily blocked the state’s new welfare drug-testing law the governor loves so much.The lawsuit over the law, filed by the…
