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…
As hard as Ron Klein kicks, he’s just an itch to the illogical juggernaut that is Allen West’s campaign. Recent attack ads from Klein play a video clip in which West says to a gathering, “I’m just honored to be here today with all my fellow right-wing extremists.” There it…
Independent Senate hopeful Charlie Crist was scheduled to make an appearance at Hollywood’s Holocaust Documentation and Education Center today but canceled yesterday. His campaign has apparently rescheduled the event multiple times. Meanwhile, Crist is in Deerfield Beach this morning to accept the endorsement of Robert Kennedy Jr., son of late…
Come out, come out wherever you are, Charlie. It’s National Coming Out Day, and a mere three weeks before Election Day. Rumors have been swirling for years, but only you have the power to spin them into reality. Here’s why you should seize the moment:1. You’d win even more Democratic…
time.comIt’s a complicated ballet in South Florida today as politicians warily stump for one another, hedging bets all around. The Palm Beach Post’s George Bennett minds the choreography: First off, it’s Ron Klein, who’s campaigning with the president in Coral Gables later today. Lest too much of Obama’s socialist fairy…
Photo from jimlewisforflorida.comLewis: “Faint heart never won fair maiden.”Jim Lewis won’t be your next attorney general. But if there were some miraculous come-from-behind victory for the perennial losing candidate, Lewis would bring about a radical change. He’d legalize pot. Not just medicinal pot but any big old spliff any adult…
