At this point, it’s clear that virtually all of the support for Tim Canova’s congressional campaign is coming from the same frothing section of the populace that’s pulling for Bernie Sanders. In March, two major unions — the Communication Workers of America and National Nurses United — both endorsed Canova…
Throughout the Broward courthouse, attorneys and defendants say that circuit court judge Matthew Destry is too harsh and random, as reported in a recent New Times investigation. This frustration motivated Fort Lauderdale attorney Brian Greenwald to challenge the incumbent Judge Destry, who was appointed to the bench in 2008. Greenwald…
In 1989, Milton Bradley created Trump: the Game. This copy is a vintage version; a later one was released after Trump started appearing on The Apprentice. Everything about a Trump presidential candidacy could have been predicted from this game: The thirst for power: The game was designed to be somewhat similar…
After raising a flabbergasting amount of money — more than a half million dollars — in his first three months of campaigning, Tim Canova can now call himself the first bona-fide primary challenger in Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s career. To prove that point, Canova, who is challenging the Democrat for her seat…
On Tuesday, Cara Jennings called Florida governor Rick Scott an “asshole” to his face in a Gainesville Starbucks. His immediate reaction was to calmly walk away, as he should have. And that should have been the end of things. But it wasn’t. Rather than letting the criticism wash off his back,…
On Monday, New Times reported that the family of Michael Saphir, a mentally disabled alumnus of Cypress Bay High School, is suing the Broward County Public School District, claiming a district employee “masturbated” their son and continually sexually harassed him. That suit accused the district of hiding the Saphirs’ claims from…
In a Gainesville Starbucks yesterday, former Lake Worth commissioner, activist, and all around straight talker Cara Jennings took on Governor Rick Scott. “You are an asshole Rick Scott,” she said as Scott bared an uncomfortable smile. . “Rich people like you don’t know what to do when poor people like…
When New Times first profiled Tim Canova in January, the onetime Bernie Sanders adviser running to take Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s congressional seat, a handful of political analysts wrote him off entirely. “It totally comes down to money,” said David Custin. “The conventional wisdom says, ‘Nope, no way. The guy running against…
Abbe Rifkin says she has wanted to be a judge ever since she was sworn into the Florida Bar. That was in 1981, when she had just started working as a prosecutor with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. She has tried dozens of high profile murder cases and is active…
On March 8, at news conference at Trump National Golf Club, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was accused of grabbing Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields as she went to ask Trump a question. Fields said that her arm was yanked aggressively, she almost fell, and that she was definitely “shaken”…
On Sunday, March 13, Donald Trump held a massive rally at Boca Raton’s Sunset Cove Amphitheater. Despite the fact that Trump’s rallies have been overcome with violence and hatred as of late, initial reports said the few thousand attendees in Florida had been “peaceful.” As it turns out, this may…
Last week, the Florida Democratic Party — and Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — took some serious heat after it banned upstart congressional candidate Tim Canova from using the party’s voter data files, which help candidates research and contact supporters. But the Florida Democratic Party reversed its decision yesterday, party…
I am a 23-year-old Hillary Clinton supporter and for the last few months I have camouflaged myself among my peers, who all seem to be Bernie Sanders enthusiasts. It was pretty easy. I look like them: a white, college-educated liberal. My friends are activists. I work at an alt-weekly newspaper…
This feels like a bit of political deja vu. Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz serves as chair of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she’s supposed to support Democratic candidates for office at all levels of government. But in December, she blocked Bernie Sanders’ campaign from accessing the DNC’s voter…
Jesse Cosme, a Black Lives Matter activist in Broward County, says his team of activists arrived at Donald Trump’s rally in Boca Raton on Sunday to peacefully protest in the Sunset Cove Amphitheater’s parking lot. “We were handing out popsicle sticks that said, ‘Love Trumps Hate’ on them,” Cosme says…
Tim Canova, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University who once advised Bernie Sanders on Wall Street reform, is now running a grassroots campaign to take Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s seat in Congress. He’s using virtually the same message Sanders has relied on in his fight with Hillary Clinton: claiming that…
In case viewers at home weren’t aware that last night’s Democratic debate — the final one before primary seasons ends — was taking place in South Florida, Hillary Clinton decided to whip out some heavy-handed Spanish midway through the contest. When debate moderator Karen Tumulty asked Clinton whether Donald Trump,…
There’s only one thing that would make our presidential election crazier than it already is, what with the candidates talking about one another’s penises, and Donald Trump evoking Hitler comparisons: a former professional wrestler jumping in. Of course!!! Why didn’t we see this coming??? This weekend, while Trump was Trumping,…
The bathroom sinks at Mar-A-Lago, the $14,000-a-year private club Donald Trump owns in Palm Beach, are plated with gold. Last night, after washing his hands, a TV news cameraman took out his phone and snapped a photo of the faucet. Another reporter, wearing an orange lanyard, walked up next to…
A highly controversial bill Florida’s Senate Appropriations Committee shot down last week could return for a vote again today, after Senator Lisbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, moved to “reconsider” her vote during last week’s meeting. The bill in question – SB 318 – may be the most widely debated bill of…
The Florida Senate Appropriations Committee voted 10-9 yesterday to shoot down a highly controversial bill that would have, in essence, banned local communities from regulating fracking, the controversial process by which water, sand, and undisclosed chemicals are pumped into the ground to extract oil and gas. The bill, SB 318,…
On Feb. 14, an unmarked cargo plane touched down from Munich at the international airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, for refueling on its way to South Africa. Ground workers noticed something strange: rust-colored streaks along one side of the all-white fuselage. When the door to the compartment was popped open, a…
