Everyone expected that Charles Bronson, commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, would opt out of the race for governor. The only suspense was whether Bronson would fire a parting shot at Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer. And… yep!Bronson had been grousing as recently as Monday…
Moments after Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate last week, he received the endorsement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, with endorsements from leading Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell soon to follow. The intent wasn’t just to welcome Crist but to discourage the Senate candidacy of Marco Rubio,…
Till recently, every poll for the 2010 Florida election was filled with “ifs.” If Crist runs for Senate will you vote for him? If Alex Sink runs for governor, will you vote for her? With the flurry of campaign announcements the last few weeks, the new poll from Mason-Dixon is…
Broward and Palm Beach’s Jewish congressional members were all eagerly anticipating this week’s visit to Washington D.C. of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and yet none appear eager to speak about it. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office made no statement following a morning meeting with Netanyahu she attended with other congressional…
KeepCharlieCrist.com: Sounds like a website for national Democrats who don’t want a certain copper-toned Republican leaving Florida for Washington D.C. as a senator. But last week it was a popular stopping ground for Floridians anxious about the chorus of rumors surrounding Crist’s next move. They wanted to keep Crist as…
Shortly after Ray Sim became director of Broward County’s Animal Care and Regulation Department late last year, county commissioners began floating the P-word: privatize. It was either that or find a way to make a slew of costly reforms during a budget year in which every agency would be expected…
Lots of angst in advance of today’s visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, the first of what figures to be many meetings between him and Obama. Boca Raton-based Congressman Robert Wexler is just returned from a visit to Israel where he met with Netanyahu, perhaps…
With nearly 18 months before the 2010 election for Florida Governor, the Democratic Party has plenty of time to tee off on Republican frontrunner Bill McCollum, the state Attorney General who is announcing his candidacy today. But according to at least one anti-dandruff shampoo, you don’t get a second chance…
Sure, Charlie Crist landed some big endorsements in his first week as a U.S. Senate candidate — the National Republican Senatorial Committee for one. The Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, for another. And there were reports Crist might get the early endorsement of the Republican Party of Florida, chaired by…
Initially, we called new Lake Worth city manager Susan Stanton to ask about rumors — reported on LakeWorthMedia.com — that a city engineer named Andres Reyes was forced to resign for insubordination after he tried to save the city $50,000 by doing work in-house rather than pay a contractor. Stanton…
In picking the week’s best quotes for its “Verbatim” page, Time magazine prizes drama (a quote from the co-pilot killed in the plane crash near Buffalo), candor (Jesse Ventura saying what he’d do with a waterboard and Dick Cheney), and gaffes, especially the kind that reveal more truth than they…
One year ago, a study by a national consulting firm found that Broward County’s Animal Care and Regulation Department was woefully short-staffed, making it impossible to guarantee service required by law for control of the local pet population. But this year, the county faces a $165 million budget shortfall –…
It sure is sweet to be a government employee during the Great Recession. Wilton Manors just became the latest local city to announce it will save money by taking Fridays off, following the example of Pembroke Pines and the police departments in Coral Gables and North Miami. Granted, I see…
These days, Charlie Crist is surely wanting headlines to mention his Senate bid, not talk about his ex-boyfriends. But all that surfaces on the new movie Outrage, which opens locally tomorrow at Gateway in Fort Lauderdale.Outrage chronicles the many closeted gay Republicans who have surfaced over the years. It details…
After allegedly mingling public responsibilities with private consulting work, Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo faces an uncertain future. A week after those charges came to light, Board Chairman Mike Fernandez is seeking to protect the public health system from the fallout. In an interview this morning with Juice, Fernandez stressed…
It sure sounds like a troubling bit of news: Former Broward Sheriff candidate Wiley Thompson has landed a sweet job with victorious Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti — the same candidate Thompson had crossed party lines to endorse after he lost in the August primary. And the Miami Herald notes that…
Now we got ourselves a bona fide political jamboree. Charlie Crist will seek Florida’s U.S. Senate seat on behalf of the Dixiecrat, I mean the Whig, I mean the (could this be right?) Republican Party, even though other Republicans say they’ve already picked a guy named Marco Rubio. The boyish…
Around this time one year ago, Dr. Reynald Pouliot was trying to convince his landlord not to increase the rent. That landlord was the regional health care system, Broward Health. And the lease was for a timeshare office building adjacent to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. The increase…
For the Levinson family of Coral Springs, it’s an auspicious sign: Today’s release by the Iranian government of Roxana Saberi, the journalist imprisoned there on charges of spying, suggests that the Iranian regime can be reasoned with.We wrote last month about how the June presidential election in Iran might have…
Maybe Rush Limbaugh doesn’t spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there’s no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, governors Jeb Bush and Charlie…
Let’s interrupt this string of blogs about alleged corruption to un-allege some corruption. Specifically, Juice hereby calls for a period of media moderation following the binge of stories that would scandalize politicians for traveling. This is the kind of rant that deserves a soundtrack and some video, and the relevant…
If you’ve noticed that Sen. Bill Nelson has an extra spring in his step lately, it’s because this week his friends in the Obama administration flushed the agency chief who has long held the top spot on Nelson’s List of People to Fire. That would be Nancy Nord, who had…
