There’s the pride of Broward County, George LeMieux, talking about the terrible suspense as he waited to hear whether his best friend, Charlie Crist, and Crist’s chief of staff (a position LeMieux held the year before) were going to appoint him to be a U.S. senator.It’s a heartwarming story and…
The graphic on the right comes from an email that Deerfield Beach’s forensic auditor sent Monday to the city attorney. It shows the income that Dan Poitier drew over three years of running the Westside Deerfield Beach Businessmen Association, a nonprofit organization that received federal funds through the city for…
There’s still no official word on what evils the forensic auditor found in its recent analysis of Deerfield Beach finances, but Chaz Stevens isn’t the type to wait. Back on March 1, as that auditing firm was arriving in town, Stevens composed these lyrics, which he sent to city staffers:You…
During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month, he charged that Islam wasn’t a religion so much as an ideology, like Nazism, which needed to be contained at all costs.But…
Here’s Marco Rubio in an appearance on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show, the same place where Charlie Crist accused Rubio of using a party charge card to pay for a back wax. Around the one-minute mark, Van Susteren presses the issue, and you can judge for yourself whether Rubio…
It’s not enough that the United States gives spectacular sums of money to Israel. Nor is it enough that the U.S. takes Israel’s side in virtually every political issue that crops up between that nation and the Muslim world. No, according to Congressman Ron Klein, the U.S. also must also…
The firm conducting an audit of Deerfield Beach’s dealings with nonprofit agencies has taken a keen interest in the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, a charity whose executive director chairs the city’s planning and zoning board and whose president is the daughter of Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier.On Tuesday, City Attorney Andy…
Cast your mind back to your seventh-grade Civics class, when Mrs. Brown drew that sprawling chart on the blackboard detailing the branches of government. That’s when you first found out you had something like a moral duty, as a citizen of this great land of America, to go to the…
An atheist named Michael Middlebrooks has accused Gov. Charlie Crist of having a bigoted view of nonbelievers following what he said was a brief encounter in St. Petersburg on March 5. Millbrooks describes his brush with the governor and U.S. Senate candidate in this messageboard post, then repeats it in…
In case you missed it, Susan Stanton was featured in this documentary that aired Saturday on CNN. Alas, it doesn’t have much to do with Lake Worth politics. Rather, it’s primarily interested in the perilous journey that Steve Stanton took to become Susan. Then Susan Stanton was hired to become…
There have been lots of books written so far about the 2008 presidential campaign, but no one’s got a story half as wild as Rielle Hunter. If (OK, when) she writes it, let’s hope she goes all the way back to her childhood in the Woodlands community of Tamarac, where…
A pollster’s analysis of Florida’s Senate race suggests that if Charlie Crist declared as an independent candidate, he would be doing adversary Marco Rubio a big favor. Public Policy Polling found that while Rubio has flipped the race in the Republican primary, he may be a tad too conservative to…
It’s hard to get traction with a back-wax narrative when you’ve given your opponent as much material as Crist has given Rubio.Via Buzz…
For three months, the City of Deerfield Beach has tried to give Arlington Park Family the benefit of the doubt. The local charity was paid $30,000 for “outreach” in 2007. The city attorney, Andy Maurodis, wrote a letter in late December asking for information about how that money was used.When…
Let me try to put a positive spin on a super-depressing graph. From the blog Calculated Risk, the graph above shows the high and low unemployment rates from each state since 1976, along with a red line for the current jobless rate. Yes, we’re living in the most depressed Florida…
Today on the Joyce Kaufman Show, your trusty Juice blogger was treated like a tackling dummy. I tuned in just in time to hear myself called a “lunatic” and be accused of lying.As best I can figure, I’m a lunatic for this post about congressional candidate Allen West. He resigned…
Florida Republican Rep. Stephen Precourt told the Palm Beach Post this week that he’d like Florida to look a lot more like Mayberry (and presumably a lot less like Sodom) — at least when it comes to cinematic representations. Precourt has proposed a bill that would increase tax credits for…
A group of about 50 Muslims from South Florida is embarking this morning on a trip to Tallahassee, where it will have secret meetings with state policymakers. It’s called “Muslim Day,” and the Lake Worth-based Florida Security Council says we freedom-loving Americans should be very afraid.Summoning my courage, I placed…
Today marks the three-year anniversary of the day that Robert “Bob” Levinson of Coral Springs disappeared from Kish Island, off the coast of Iran. A former FBI agent, Levinson was a private investigator following a tip about a cigarette smuggling case.Despite negotiations by American diplomats and impassioned pleas by Levinson’s…
Judging by the avalanche of campaign contributions and the enthusiastic backing of the national GOP, Allen West is no longer a prohibitive underdog in the campaign for the 22nd Congressional District that spans coastal Broward and Palm Beach.This means that as the race gets closer to the finish line, West…
Signs of desperation in Charlie Crist’s camp. That’s an appearance yesterday on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show. Around the two-minute mark, you can hear Crist muse about whether Rubio’s famously expensive haircut, charged to a Republican Party credit card, was in fact a “back wax.” Full transcript of the…
Former associate general counsel of Broward Health Joe Truhe will not be charged criminally for practicing law without a license. A closeout memo from the Broward State Attorney’s Office dated February 24 made it official. Now the more pressing question: Why was Truhe fired in the first place?The memo cites…
