Maybe it’s not so hard, running this “government.” George LeMieux sure makes it look easy. No matter how complex the problem, LeMieux finds a solution so simple, a total idiot could understand it. But these must be frustrating times for the Broward-born U.S. Senate appointee. First Congress failed to see…
In an excerpt Fox showed from the video of Allen West’s speech last year in Fort Lauderdale, the congressional candidate talks about how he joined the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel “not because the government came down and tried to make the rules to change…
It’s been awfully hard to get Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper to talk about the consulting contract that her city manager gave to real estate agent Joe Kessel in 2008. When I reached her last week, she first told me that it wasn’t newsworthy. (I think otherwise.) Then she told…
The South Florida Tea Party has landed itself a minicelebrity for the anti-tax rally tomorrow in downtown West Palm: Hannah Giles, the young woman who in August 2009 pretended to be a prostitute for a pimp seeking help with tax evasion and human smuggling from ACORN, the voting registration outfit…
That’s video from yesterday at the campaign headquarters of Ted Deutch, the Democract who’s running for the open 20th Congressional seat vacated by Robert Wexler. I wouldn’t dare wish for another musical act like Journey, but isn’t it time that some modern group conceives a campaign anthem that displaces “Don’t…
Looks like Deerfield Beach forgot to tell its taxpaying citizens that in early 2009, it paid nearly $100,000 to the feds to make up for its misuse of public housing dollars. In fact, those city officials nearly forgot to mention this to the forensic auditing firm specifically investigating how Deerfield…
There have been rumors in the local legal community that Broward County Judge Lee Seidman is considering a campaign to challenge Broward Circuit Court Judge Susan Lebow, who’s been notorious since February, when she dismissed a death-penalty murder case over a scheduling conflict and a clash with the prosecutor.With exactly…
Squawk Radio guru Joyce Kaufman, whose show airs daily on 850 AM WFTL, has announced that Citizens for National Security (CFNS), a nonprofit Public Charity, “has completed an exhaustive 14-month research study which conclusively reveals that a vast number of Florida’s elementary and high-school history and geography textbooks are Islam-slanted.”And…
The last time the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority’s board met, the topic of conversation was Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens — specifically, whether his blog posts alleging corruption in the housing agency’s contracting process amounted to libel.Yet there’s a good chance that at the next meeting of that board,…
Make room in Broward for one more bowtie-wearing senior. Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, just 11 days shy of his 90th birthday.As Juice reported in October, Stevens is a snowbird, migrating every November to his winter home on the Fort Lauderdale…
Who played matchmaker between the City of Hallandale Beach and a businessman with a porn-filled portfolio? Whomever it was, he did a whale of a job. Back in March, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency gave a $125,000 loan to Digital Outernet Inc., a billboard company run by the same man…
We showed you the offending video a few days ago, and it landed right in the wheelhouse of MSNBC’s fire-breathing liberal Keith Olbermann. This moment of infamy should help West burnish his right-wing ideologue credentials, but the former Army lieutenant colonel will need to move toward the center if he’s…
A video being circulated by Florida Democrats, apparently from a speech that congressional candidate Allen West gave last night to supporters in Jupiter. Making a congressman — West’s opponent Ron Klein — “scared to come out of his house”? OK, so West hasn’t explicitly asked his supporters to commit terrorist…
Gotta love how Fox & Friends skips the pleasantries and fires away with the tough question to Rudy Giuliani about whether his endorsement of Marco Rubio is payback for Charlie Crist’s treachery in 2008.And yet, by the eager way he answered the question, it’s almost like Giuliani told Fox &…
Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis says that a charity run by the Poitier family, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, has finally provided documents in response to the independent auditor’s request, meaning that he won’t need to file the lawsuit he’d prepared against the organization. But another charity may not…
Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper says she was aware that a real estate agent, Joe Kessel, had been contracted by the city manager as a consultant, but Cooper refused to answer a question about whether that consultant should have disclosed his contract before testifying in support of a massive condominium…
I can’t imagine a single person who was present at last night’s town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scream.The hatred…
Around 2:45 in the video above, you’ll see Republican congressional candidate Edward Lynch make a rather explosive allegation: that the U.S. imposed sanctions against Israel and that the effect of those is tougher than those against Iran.That moment from Sunday’s debate on This Week in South Florida With Michael Putney…
What does a real estate agent like Joe Kessel know about managing city government? Whatever it is, it’s worth at least $36,000 per year based on a consulting agreement that Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good forged with Kessel in July 2008.Kessel, a former specialist in health-care information technology, now…
An investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in Deerfield Beach has led straight to the local church till. The pastors of three North Broward congregations have been questioned by auditor Michael Kessler as to how they used thousands of dollars entrusted to them by the city.Their answers have not…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office made a generous accommodation of disgraced former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, allowing his prison sentence in the state case to run concurrently with the one in the federal case. But those kinds of favors don’t come cheap. I wonder what Eggelletion gave to prosecutors.Remember, the…
The program director of Deerfield Beach’s Community Development Block Grant allegedly has family ties to the Poitiers, who run a charity at the center of an investigation for misuse of taxpayer dollars.Wednesday morning that program director, Stephanie McMillian, received an email from the investigator, Michael Kessler. It began thus:Stephanie, I…
