A polarizing Republican candidate, annoyed by the presence at a campaign rally of a videographer hired by his opposition, uses a metaphor that suggests a profound cultural insensitivity. Sound familiar?In 2006, during a vicious senatorial campaign in Virginia, Sen. George Allen jeered a videographer for his opponent’s campaign, calling him…
During last month’s meeting of the Sun-Sentinel editorial board, Broward Judge John “Jay” Hurley departed from his stump speech to mention an exciting, previously unheard credential: He had devised a plan for the governor to follow in the event of a terrorist attack in Florida.For some reason, Hurley wasn’t as…
Rick Scott got rich running a huge — if ultimately fraudulent — corporation, and now he’s begun a campaign for world domination, starting with the Florida governorship. Sounds like Lex Luthor. Looks like Lex Luthor. So why is Lex Rick not showing up for debates with Bill McCollum?…
With an ear-to-ear smirk and a laugh, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene responded to stories about the parties aboard his yacht, calling the whole thing a “silly sideshow.” The interview, posted today to YouTube by WPBF, mentions the first-person account printed here this week of Greene’s former stewardess. Sharyn Peach…
Before you liberal pranksters get any ideas, let’s make one thing clear: It’s a dirty rotten trick to put a bumper sticker that says Coexist on a vehicle driven by Allen West or on the vehicle of any Allen West supporter. West has said, specifically, that this bumper sticker “absolutely…
For folks in a low-income section of Hollywood, it’s hard to pass up a chance to make $50 — even if it means standing outside in 95-degree heat for 12 hours holding up a campaign sign. And that, say sources in South Hollywood, is the offer being dangled by Broward…
No one will get her to officially admit that she’s enjoying the controversy that has blanketed Broward Judge Peter Skolnik’s reelection campaign; but make no mistake about it, Debra Steinsaltz is more than a casual observer.”I have no comment about that,” Steinsaltz said when I asked her about Skolnik’s campaign…
Things just don’t seem to be going well for Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene. Here he was in West Palm Beach yesterday, hoping his stop at a homeless shelter would be a bit of good press as his campaign for U.S. Senate implodes. But the shelter Greene picked for his…
During a year when state and federal investigators have been circling the Broward County School Board, it seems as though every member of that ethically challenged outfit would have reason to keep a personal attorney close by. But only one school board member had the nerve to give her legal…
Sharyn Peach has been in the news a lot lately, telling of the days she worked on the yacht owned by Jeff Greene, a candidate for U.S. Senate. Peach, from Fort Lauderdale, is lead singer of BitchFire, winner of the New Times 2009 Readers Poll for Best Band. She agreed…
Being a fabulist is good, right? Like being fabulous? Because today’s Sun-Sentinel column by Jack Lunardi paints an otherwise unflattering portrait of this blog’s Allen West coverage. He writes:New Times blogger and leading nominee for the Stephen Glass Fabulist Award for 2010, Tom Francis, speculated last week that West was…
Congressional candidate Allen West has entered the home stretch of his campaign against incumbent Democrat Ron Klein, but it appears he’s still finding time to unwind with the occasional Netflix DVD. Based on the speech he gave this week at the opening of his campaign in West Palm Beach, West has…
By next week, Broward County will be ruled by a new code of ethics thanks to a unanimous vote this past week by the county’s commission. But commissioners followed up that vote by moving to place a referendum on the ballot that, if passed, would significantly weaken ethical reform.Now Broward…
A local website designer, Stephen Smith, has filed a police report in which he accuses Broward Judge Peter B. Skolnik of cheating him out of his fee and a campaign volunteer of threatening murder. That looks like it won’t be the last police report. A volunteer with Skolnik’s campaign says the…
Having scrolled through the photos of Rush Limbaugh’s recent wedding at the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, I’m confused. Did he marry Elton John?Just look at them! How very open and unabashed they are about their man-love. Shoulders turned into each other — you don’t have to be a body-language expert…
In an email that Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger sent to campaign supporters late last night, she cheered the passage of an ethics reform package at a meeting just hours before and said that the possibility of being punished by her angry commission colleagues was a small price to pay…
It took a while, but Congressman Ron Klein has finally figured out that the best way to beat Allen West is to let Allen West beat himself. By talking. This morning, Klein’s campaign released a highlighted transcript of West’s remarks during a talk radio appearance last week.You can listen to…
One might assume the $7 million stimulus contract that Deerfield Beach businessman J. David Eller recently won for his family’s manufacturing company, MWI Corp., was the result of some successful schmoozing or campaign donations to his congressman, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein.But Eller’s no Klein fan. When contacted last week, Klein…
David Eller, former Jeb Bush business partner and longtime GOP donor, rarely has trouble snagging government work for his family’s Deerfield Beach manufacturing company, Moving Water Industries (MWI).But the $7 million federal stimulus package contract MWI recently received could raise some eyebrows.MWI will be supplying water pumps and motors for…
For a man with an Army background, Allen West seems to have a hard time reading a map. The candidate in the 22nd Congressional District that spans coastal Broward and Palm Beach counties will be opening a new campaign office Tuesday — in the 23rd Congressional District.Yes, the soon-to-be unveiled…
Last night’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission was a mostly civil affair, at least until Commissioner Sylvia Poitier learned that her colleague, Bill Ganz, was considering a motion to have her censured if she erupts in the same way she did at the last special meeting, in late. June.Poitier…
Jesse Scanlon, a 21-year-old English major at Florida Atlantic University, recently completed a 2,500-mile bike ride across the country. He rode from Jacksonville Beach to Los Angeles (with a stop in Tijuana), covering anywhere from 20 miles to 100 miles a day. He chronicled his adventures on his blog, America…
