New voting laws passed in 14 states — states that control 171 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election — could make voting “significantly harder” for more than 5 million people who are actually eligible to vote, according to a new study.As many as 1 million…
The “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration that’s been catching on across the country in recent weeks is just days away from the introduction of the Fort Lauderdale movement.Saturday, October 8 is the inaugural date of Occupy Fort Lauderdale, as protesters will gather outside the Broward Main Public Library at 6 p.m.”Let’s…
A couple weeks ago, Gov. Rick Scott’s approval rating reached an all-time high of 37 percent.Since his approval rating has hovered between hemorrhoids and a ham sandwich for the past few months, it’s been hard to actually compare his ratings to another human being.However, we found that not only did…
Merick Lewin, the Davie state house candidate who said he did not want to be judged by his “familial relationships,” was a registered lobbyist for his family’s medical clinic last year.State records indicate Lewin lobbied for the Broward Rehab Center, a medical clinic in Lauderdale Lakes. The vice president of the…
Rosh Hashanah probably isn’t Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s favorite holiday. Aside from the fact that he’s not Jewish, he’ll also find out today that Florida Jews don’t want him to be president.Public Policy Polling released the second part of its survey of Florida voters today, finding that President Obama wouldn’t…
With this afternoon’s release of Public Policy Polling’s survey of Florida Republican voters, Florida became the first Southern state polled by the firm that didn’t select Texas Gov. Rick Perry as its front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.Instead, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the Florida field, based on the…
Nezar Hamze — a Muslim and executive director of Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations — is no stranger to taking heat from right-wing politicos in Broward County.He’s feuded with Rep. Allen West, U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner, radio host Joyce Kaufman, and pretty much anyone else in South Florida who…
Birther-ism apparently isn’t dead, as Jerome Corsi — head bullshitter of the Obama “fake birth certificate” movement — has still found enough brain-dead people to believe that the president is a Muslim from Indonesia.In Arizona, Stephen Lemons — the Feathered Bastard of our sister paper in the desert, Phoenix New…
Most of the time, Rush Limbaugh says things that are highly partisan. Sometimes, he’ll say something profoundly stupid — which is what he did today from his West Palm Beach headquarters.Limbaugh, who can apparently calculate levels of blackness in presidents and presidential candidates, was talking about businessman Herman Cain’s victory…
This past weekend was a few days full of the politically strange around Florida, which included jeers from the audience at a gay soldier during the GOP presidential debate, Ann Coulter calling Debbie Wasserman Schultz “a hideous beast who has a voice like a hyena getting an abortion,” and Gov…
Well, here’s what just came out of Ann Coulter’s mouth in front of an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference — Florida, during what was apparently a comparison between Republicans and Democrats done by illustrating a pair of South Florida congressmen: “I want to implant it in people’s minds…
Another GOP presidential debate in Florida last night apparently presented the opportunity for audience members to make asses of themselves on national television again, this time by booing a gay soldier stationed in Iraq.During the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, a question was given to Rick Santorum in the form…
Without much difference from the national poll released the day of the CNN/Tea Party express GOP presidential debate two weeks ago, most Florida Republicans would pick Texas Gov. Rick Perry as their presidential nominee, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.The poll showed that 28 percent of the 374…
UPDATE: After Ft. Lauderdale passed a controversial homeless feeding restriction law, Arnold Abbott was stopped and cited by police for feeding the homeless on November 2, 2014. On November 4th, 2014, he was cited a second time. When we were reporting last week’s cover story on Food Not Bombs, one…
A campaign strategist for former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson confirmed that Johnson has been invited — and will participate in — tonight’s Fox News GOP Presidential debate in Orlando, after being shut out of the previous four debates.The Republican Party of Florida reportedly won’t let Johnson participate in the…
Gov. Rick Scott’s approval rating was polled as the highest of his governorship at 37 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning.The increase is due to a higher opinion of Scott’s job performance from members of the Republican Party, as both Democrats and Independents disapproved of the…
Add Judge John “Jay” Hurley to the list of people pissed at political operative Jack Shifrel.The judge left a message on Shifrel’s Facebook page late last night that made a spat between them very public. Hurley, who gets boatloads of TV time for serving as the judge who handles first…
In the seventh edition of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s listing of the most corrupt members of Congress, two Florida congressmen managed to earn a spot on the list.Those two Florida representatives would be Miami-based Rep. David Rivera and Rep. Vern Buchanan of Sarasota — both members of…
State Sen. Arthenia Joyner, a Tampa Democrat, filed a bill today that would repeal the new law requiring drug testing for applicants of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.Senate Bill 284 — the brief text of which can be found here — would simply repeal House Bill 353 passed…
Last month, New Times introduced you to Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who owns a coal and gas company, is known for his voracious appetite for wine and women, and has two brothers famous for being the sugar daddies of the Tea Party. While Bill Koch is not as politically…
A conservative think-tank released a study yesterday on the state’s new welfare drug-testing law, championing a projection that the state will save more than $9 million in the first year of testing, after 9.6 percent of applicants didn’t receive benefits due to drug testing in the first month.Of course, there’s…
Florida politicians received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from two private prison corporations last election cycle — GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America — and an ethics complaint filed by the Teamsters union yesterday claims $30,000 of those contributions that went to Gov. Rick Scott may have influenced…
