In this video, made last Friday on what activists deemed “Fur Free Friday,” a local animal rights crusader named Josh Durden takes a camera into several high-end clothing stores to ask the employees selling fur what they think of the disgusting animal-skinning processes used to procure most fur.He visits the…
Mark Foley is back! Maybe. The Republican ex-congressman, who resigned in disgrace in 2006 after revelations that he’d made passes at teenaged congressional pages, is considering a run for the mayor of West Palm Beach.Lots of folks will gripe, rightly enough, that the last thing the country, the GOP, or…
As you can see, in the space of a couple of weeks, Seidlin charged up a Walt Disney World vacation and an expensive stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples. He even spent $150 for swim lessons at the Jack Nelson Swim School in Fort Lauderdale. It’s suspected those were for Seidlin’s…
After weeks of silence, ousted Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl has finally given an interview. To the Miami Herald? No. The Sun-Sentinel? No. The Daily Pulp? Hell no. He gave it to the tiny gay Wilton Manors publication Florida Agenda. Remember, this is a guy who used to charge big…
Al Gore and George W. Bush riding hand-in-hand down Okeechobee Boulevard in November 2000 to protest hanging chads. Something in that vein happened in yesterday’s Haitian election, which went just about as badly as anyone could have expected. Elections in Haiti have often been disorganized, and South Florida feels some of the…
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…
[jump] A Fun Change of Pace Somali Pirates Refuse to Board Carnival Cruise Ships Cite ‘Unsafe Working Conditions’ MOGADISHU – In yet another public relations setback for the beleaguered cruise ship company, Somali pirates today said they would no longer board Carnival Cruise ships, citing “unsafe working conditions.” “If Carnival…
“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…
