The Tea Party’s grassroots methods have proven effective in this year’s elections, for better or worse. And now that the conservatives have a strong foothold, it seems the same bottom-up mechanism is beginning to churn out a new message: Allen West 4 Prez…
On Friday, a little-known Washington resident named Rey Decerega elbowed the president in the mouth while playing basketball. And if there’s one thing that’s clear after the incident, we need Decerega on the struggling Miami Heat. Here’s why…
Maryland radio station WCBM 680 posted a brief video this week of Congressman-elect Allen West that is 50 percent history lesson, 50 percent political polemic, and 100 percent terrifying. West, as it turns out, believes that the United States has been at war with Islam for a very, very long…
UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab’s post. Villegas describes the law firm as a gossip…
The Florida Ethics Commission received state Rep. Jim Waldman’s financial disclosure form this past on July 1 listing his official district address as 4509 Carambola Circle. That’s the little condo in Coconut Creek owned by Ronald Sherman where Waldman — a millionaire (barely) — claimed he rented a room. But on that very same…
For the second time this week, we’ve found evidence that a state legislator out of Broward County doesn’t live in the district he represents and has been playing a thinly veiled hoax on the public in the process. This time, we’re not talking about House Pro Tem Joe Gibbons, who doesn’t live…
“I need your ideas,” says Rick Scott, the governor-elect of Florida, in this new YouTube video posted November 17. “We gotta make this the model state. We gotta make this the state that we’re the most effective, the best state to do business, the best state for all Floridians. And…
Palm Beach County GOP Chair Sid Dinerstein wants you to know that he did not, not, not write a mailer accusing his opponents for the GOP chairmanship of Florida of being stingy little peasants without the earning power to do the party a damned bit of good. Dinerstein explained the…
The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled “Heritage” that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins de fer Francais’ connection with the Nazis.But…
State Rep. Joe Gibbons, who has been named the number-two Democrat in the Florida Legislature, was investigated for homestead fraud earlier this year — and government records indicate he lied to officials during the probe. The Broward County Property Appraisers Office investigation also found that Gibbons’ homestead in Hallandale Beach conflicted…
After all the drama and controversy surrounding conservative talk-show host Joyce Kaufman last week — her accepting, then turning down, incoming Congressman Allen West’s invitation to be his chief of staff, then a terrorist threat against Broward schools citing Kaufman — local Tea Partiers held a rally supporting her this…
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“I would have been some quiet little chief-of-staff,” Joyce Kaufman told listeners on her WFTL-AM (850) radio show. “It’s gonna be your biggest nightmare that I didn’t go quietly off to Washington.” Ah, yes. The woman who urged “bullets” over ballots would have certainly gone meek when she reached Capitol…
Yesterday, Allen West tweeted to us, our sister paper Miami New Times, the Miami Herald, and floridaindependent.com.He said: “I’m keeping an eye on you, bitches!”OK, seriously it wasn’t the real Allen West (although that would’ve been great blog fodder) but an impostor. It looks like there’s a semi-new fake account…
OK, some new information on the threat that caused the Broward County lockdown, and it’s coming from the original source, right-wing radio talker Joyce Kaufman. Kaufman said on Lou Dobbs’ radio program that: — The threat came from a woman, not a man, as has been reported. — The woman…
UPDATE: That was fast. Kaufman announced today she has declined the chief of staff post, after a threat emailed to her radio station led to a lockdown of Broward County schools. New Times columnist Bob Norman has the scoop.Joyce Kaufman, the controversial WFTL-AM (850) radio host who has spent the…
Has outgoing Broward Mayor Ken Keechl tacitly admitted that he defrauded his own election campaign out of thousands of dollars? Keechl and Adcock put the Wilton Manors bungalow on the market two months ago, apparently in advance of that campaign account — which was stuffed with about $600,000 from lobbyists and…
And so it begins. As Sarah Palin campaigns for 2012, she’s already using Allen West as a symbol of the cringe-worthy change she will bring. Notice a theme among the newly elected GOP stars Palin’s highlighting here. West and Marco Rubio hail from the political crucible of Florida, plus they…
“It’s OK to say no to panhandlers.” So read the signs now going up across Palm Beach County — part of an effort by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and the county government to keep decent people from being bothered by the dirty and the weird-smelling.”You don’t have to feel bad inside,”…
Channel 7 is reporting that the man who allegedly threatened to shoot up a Pembroke Pines school was prompted somehow by Joyce Kaufman, the acidic right-wing radio-show host who was named yesterday as newly elected Congressman Allen West’s chief of staff. This whole thing is still murky, but WSVN reported that the…
It was supposed to be a pleasant Christian festival, scheduled for this Saturday in Pompano Beach. There are supposed to be a few bounce houses, some face painting, a mechanical bull, a beach volleyball tournament, some live music, and a silent auction.But it was something else on the itinerary at…
[UPDATE: Stacy Ritter has posted a somewhat surreal YouTube video press release on the elections commission charges. See it above.] The Florida Elections Commission found probable cause this morning to charge Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter with 28 election violations. The nature of the charges aren’t clear, but they are based on a voluminous…
