Things already looked piss poor for Gov. Charlie Crist. The most recent poll had him down 12 points, and some speculated that Marco Rubio had the Senate race locked up.But Crist had political gold awaiting. The Tampa Bay Rays had invited the light-footed governor to throw out the first pitch…
Harrington after her victory in the primary.Karen Harrington knows she has an uphill battle in front of her. But she also knows a thing or two about long, hard fights. After all, Harrington is a two-time cancer survivor and the sister of Billy Mitchell, the videogame whiz framed as the…
flickr user: sskennelLike a train wreck, you can’t look away.I have a confession to make about Sarah Palin. It’s not an easy thing to admit, especially from this side of the liberal-elite media establishment. Every fiber of my journalistic being urges me to ignore her, to block out the gleaming,…
Photo by Eric BartonSabrina displays a foam finger of fun.You’re on the internet reading the blog of an alternative newsweekly, so there’s a damned fine chance that you’d like to smoke a joint legally. So why were so few people at the pro-pot rally yesterday in Fort Lauderdale?Sabrina Koramblyum, who…
Facebook.comHe won’t share his real identity. Not yet, anyway. For now, the man known around the Florida Atlantic University campus as “Green Mann” enjoys the stunned reactions and awkward stares he gets as he dances around in a skintight, bright-green Spandex-esque costume.He doesn’t speak while wearing the green suit –…
Tara NieuwesteegWomen wore mangled fur and prom gowns covered in (fake) blood. People wrapped themselves in yellow caution tape. One woman dressed as the Grim Reaper. They held signs telling teenaged girls and their families as they entered the Miss Florida Teen USA pageant that they had blood on their…
If Allen “Higher Security Clearance Than the President” West wasn’t formidable enough, Ron Klein has a new enemy in his sights: the French national railway company. And now Klein, like West, is talking about Nazis.Société Nationale des Chemins de fer, or SNCF, is basically France’s version of Amtrak, except its…
At the beginning of September, the Juice’s Lisa Rab wrote about how a group of Ohioans were collecting LeBron James’ Cavs jersey to donate to Miami’s homeless population. After that idea was halted by “politics,” our sister paper Miami New Times took the matter into its own hands.The kind folks down…
Rynerson: the face of the new media.Earl Rynerson knows a rumor circulating around Fort Lauderdale City Hall. It has to do with Mayor Jack Seiler supposedly pressuring the Sun-Sentinel into making a personnel change. It’s almost certainly not true, but Rynerson wonders if people ought to know about it anyway.”Just…
GOP candidate for governor Rick Scott released this pretty snazzy new website on Friday: It’s a property tax calculator that figures out a Floridian’s tax if Scott gets elected versus Democratic opponent Alex Sink. There’s just one problem with his site: It ignores the Florida Constitution.Scott’s calculator, which is titled…
The question Allen West was fielding at the Pompano Civic Association on September 21 was about the tax lien that had been placed against him. But the retired lieutenant colonel went another way, launching into a soliloquy about his government secret security clearance. “I still retain a secret security clearance,”…
Disgraced Congressman turned West Palm Beach consignment-shop owner Mark Foley got a mention right in the middle of NBC’s Thursday-night prime-time lineup. Though it probably wasn’t the kind of shoutout he would appreciate.On last night’s season opener, 30 Rock made reference to Foley’s scandalous time in conservative politics. It happened…
A day after Congressman Ron Klein released a poll that found he had an 8-point advantage in his race against challenger Allen West, the West campaign is publicizing its own poll, which declares that West is up by six points, 48-42.The West poll, by Wilson Research Strategies, had a 5.7…
Riviera Beach’s most persistent activist, Fane Lozman, has joined with newspaper publisher John Beatty in filing for a recall effort against the city’s five council members. The recall is a typical tool for gadflies, but what makes this one ominous is that it’s attracted participation from gadflies with no stake…
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. And if you’re in a congressional fight that will be decided by moderate voters, you don’t bring a polarizer like Sarah Palin. Nor do you want her witchcraft-dabbling protege, Christine O’Donnell.A missive today from the Ron Klein reelection campaign name-drops both Palin…
Flickr: SF BartGay parents at a recent pride parade in San Francisco.Florida is the only state to specifically ban adoption by gay and lesbian couples, but that may soon change. The Florida Third District Court of Appeals has ruled that the ban was unconstitutional. The ban will now head to…
”Liberals want soldiers to die,” blares the pop-up quote from Allen West. At first blush, the ad looks like it’s touting West’s congressional campaign. But read a little closer, and you’ll see it’s intended to attack him. Read the fine print, and you’ll discover the ad is paid for by…
FlickrRon Klein’s campaign is feeling good about his chances of being sworn in again in 2011.We’ve been waiting for one of the two campaigns in the 22nd Congressional District to release the findings of an internal poll — typically, candidates withhold those findings until they’ve got good news to report…
Photo: Robert Kunst for CongressKunst wants to defeat Wasserman Schultz, then impeach Obama, then protest Wasserman Schultz and Obama policies.Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a tough customer — so tough that even a hardened combat vet-turned-politician like Allen West didn’t dare run against her, even though he lives in her 20th…
During her time as the director of the Community Redevelopment Agency, director Lisa Bright basked in the good graces of the Boynton Beach commissioners, who serve as the CRA board. Even after Bright made an enemy of Mayor Jose Rodriguez, a majority of those commissioners wanted to believe that Bright…
Followers of the Allen West congressional campaign have heard plenty about his career in the U.S. Army. But in building his personal narrative, the Republican candidate tends to skip over the job he took immediately after that career ended: as a history teacher at Deerfield Beach High.It must have been…
Andrea HuerfanoThis weekend dozens of undocumented immigrants took to the sands of Miami Beach to tell Congress to pass the DREAM Act this week. About 50 people formed human billboards spelling out the words “Dream Act Now” and “Call [Sen. George] Lemieux Now.”Activists in South Florida — a front in…
