Is Bubba the Love Sponge swaying next week’s election?The syndicated radio host (Bubba the Love Sponge is his real name; he had it legally changed) has been encouraging his listeners, known as “The Bubba Army,” to vote for his preferred candidates. Among them: Charlie Crist. Bubba’s influence is no joke:…
Ann Coulter is magic!With no effort, research, or due process at all, she can tell the difference between a totally bogus, bullshit threat to your bodily harm, and an honest-to-goodness portent of doom. She demonstrated this remarkable skill yesterday in Human Events, in an editorial explaining why Allen West is…
I’ll be writing more about the infamous crusher handshake later, but a few people have asked me who I’m voting for (or would vote for if in a certain district). I got it a lot in the primary too. So I thought I’d go ahead and spit it out. Don’t call these endorsements. I would…
In one of the more bizarre twists we’ve seen to an already wild election season, a School Board candidate says she was injured in a post-debate handshake that bruised her hand and ultimately led to a hospital visit. School Board candidate Jaemi Levine said that after last night’s debate at the All County…
Both Halloween and the election are fast approaching, making this a very spooky week, with unexpected twists and turns lurking ahead. Far in advance of the October 31 holiday, Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate for Delaware Senate, revealed “I am not a witch” (provoking awesome parodies), and now the…
For ten years, the Delray Public Library has been a site of democracy in action. Within its walls, the most senior of Delray Beach’s citizens have argued the great issues of the day, sometimes intelligently, sometimes contentiously, and sometimes both.But no longer. Old people, as it turns out, are too…
Oaktown Crack Comics via Wikimedia CommonsLake Worth has a serious utility problem.Electricity is a huge issue in the upcoming Lake Worth City Commission election. Yes, it sounds small-town and petty, but for years, high bills and frequent outages have been a black eye for the city. Ask any hippie, artsy…
Sometimes, negative campaigning lives up to its bad name. The weekend attack on Florida Attorney General candidate Dan Gelber is a perfect example of the kind of sleazy negative campaigning that should make your skin crawl. In the ads sent out this weekend to heavily Jewish neighborhoods, Gelber was called “Toxic to Jewish Education” in red Halloween font. Why? Because…
Acclaimed scruffy documentarian Michael Moore showed up, clean shaven, to Cinema Paradiso on Saturday night for a sold-out appearance at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Beforehand, he answered questions from reporters (and a smattering of film-dazed Florida socialites) about his films and the state of the world.Moore let slip…
If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s seeing pets dressed in costumes. This year this country will spend more than $10 million on Halloween costumes for their pets.The animal rights activists who’ve been protesting the Puppy Palace in Hollywood know this all too well. That’s why on Sunday, October 31,…
Congressional candidate Allen West has received $5,000 from a group called Black Republican PAC. Sounds official enough, doesn’t it? Donors around the country have given about $769,000 to the group, presumably because they want to elect more GOP candidates who look like Michael Steele. But what they’re getting is something…
John Fry is facing John Howes in a runoff for a Broward County Judge right now, but ten years ago, that must have seemed like an impossibility. He had lost his job as a Margate cop and was facing criminal charges for, as the Miami Herald put it at the time, participating in…
As Election Day nears, Republican congressional candidate and motorcycle enthusiast Allen West continues to haul in considerable dough from political action committees based outside of Florida.There are the usual suspects — $6,000 from the House Conservatives Fund, $2,500 from the NRA Political Victory Fund. But West has also been particularly…
Talk about scary politics. Republicans are throwing a Halloween party in Pembroke Pines next Friday night. As part of the festivities, they will be holding a U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz look-alike contest that the invitation says “could scare the devil himself.” The winner gets $100. Wasserman Schultz Wasserman Schultz is, of course, the Democratic…
From Rick Scott’s Facebook pageAt least Rick Scott didn’t get a negative headline for this photo opp.Lots of right-winged Republicans claim the liberal media treats them unfairly. For Rick Scott, the GOP candidate for governor, lately it seems to be true.Or at least, that’s a conclusion easily drawn after a…
timsmith.comImagine a society in which citizens must work to air their grievances, where every complaint to city hall requires a bit of physical effort. Would this weed out the gadflies? Apparently not.Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler’s new “mobile office hours” involve a monthly jog/walk through a neighborhood of the city…
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom’s attempt to kill term limits (chiefly for himself) is going to court tomorrow, where a judge is expected to rule on it up or down. Rodstrom, plain and simple, is trying to overturn the will of the people for his own selfish reason — namely staying in a…
[UPDATED: Just received word from Broward School Board governmental affairs specialist Requel Bell that the sensitive school board background check document being used in the smear campaign against School Board Member Phyllis Hope is indeed exempt from public record disclosure. That means its release from the board’s Special Investigative Unit was illegal. Still trying to…
Allen West has raked in the dough.Congressional candidate Allen West has gained national attention for his enormous campaign haul — he’d raised $4 million by August, compared to $2.5 million raised by his opponent, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein. It’s time to examine the origins of all that dough. Some of…
mikesatz.comDanny PryorLet’s say you really, really don’t like somebody in a position of power. What do you do? Send letters? Pass on some dirt to New Times (yes, please)? Testify to the county commission? Deliver dog poo?Well, if your specialty happens to be creating domain names and building hundreds of…
Hours before flying back to Haiti to begin a marathon final month of his campaign, Haitian presidential hopeful Charles-Henri Baker sat in an unmarked studio at the back of a Boca Raton office park, getting makeup dabbed on his face, reading lines from a TelePrompter in Creole. He was recording…
