Over several weeks in early 2010, then-Governor Crist unleashed a series of tweets condemning President Obama’s prospective health care reform bill. To Crist — yes, the other Crist — enacting ObamaCare would only constitute “the beginning.” He said “Americans deserve better than this.” He launched a petition to stop “health…
Politicians have to be All-Pro when it comes to shouldering hits from the sideline about job performance and bungled expectations. But it’s still got to be a little bit embarrassing when the electorate decides to trash your term in office on the White House’s front steps, electronically speaking. That’s what…
As first reported on this here bloggy blog by Bob Norman back in 2010, Tamarac City Commissioner Patricia “Positively Patte” Atkins-Grad was arrested and charged with bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation after she threw herself one helluvan election victory party. Nothing wrong with…
By now, it’s pretty clear what’s to happen. Charlie Crist is running for governor — and, in a way, this has been obvious for some time. But it only became inescapably obvious a few days after Election Day. When Crist got a telephone call. It was from President Barack Obama…
After pretty much doing it unofficially over the last few years, former Florida governor Charlie Crist finally made his defection over to the Democrats over the weekend. The signs have been there for some time. — In 2010, he left the Republican party in a failed attempt at U.S. Senate…
Last Thursday morning, drivers motoring down NW 40th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale might have eyeballed an odd sight outside of Plantation Hospital: three protesters waving signs. Anyone close enough to make out the fine print would have been surprised to see the group wasn’t hawking pro-life slogans or any of…
On Wednesday, Marco Rubio sat down with Politico’s Mike Allen at a Playbook breakfast and made it clear that he does know that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, even though he once said the age of the Earth is one of the great mysteries. But he’s no scientist,…
The nation just went through a long, arduous, heated election cycle that felt almost as endless as standing in line for eight hours to vote. And that means only one thing: TIME TO START TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT ELECTION HELL YEAH!See also: -Jeb Bush Favored Over Marco Rubio for President, According…
Boynton Beach Commissioner Marlene Ross has resigned from her post in District 4. Ross announced her resignation on Thursday through a letter sent to the city clerk’s office. In the letter, she explains that her and her “beau” are expecting a “blessing in the New Year.” The resignation comes after…
A few weeks ago, Marco Rubio was asked by GQ how old he thought the Earth was in one of them uppity gotcha questions the lamestream media love to throw at Republicans. Rubio’s answer was, “I’m not a scientist, man.” Then he rambled on about how the age of the…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a pretty big deal. She helped Democrats expand their majority in the Senate, which in and of itself was a task. And she helped Obama win Florida in November, which is almost impossible. But because she did these things, the POTUS announced Tuesday that he wants…
Even though a good portion of its candidates were booted out of office in November, and even though Floridians shot down Amendment 1, and even though Obama not only won the election but also won Florida, the Tea Party is still insisting that the government do what it says, because…
Apparently nobody trolls Rick Scott quite like… Rick Scott.After the governor insisted he would reject any and all of Obama’s health-care laws that come his way, he then turned around and changed his mind. Then, after suppressing the vote in November before the elections, he vowed that voting procedures will…
Over the last few weeks, as the political yammering mercifully subsided and we sank into the off-season of national intrigue and drama, out of the quiet rose the name Jack Seiler. That’s because Fort Lauderdale’s mayor is mulling a run at governor. And though that 2014 election may seem as…
With tensions continuing to writhe in the Middle East as Israel and Palestine fall into an uneasy calm, a group of Zionist Jews in South Florida condemns both the cease fire between the neighbors as well as the United Nations’ decision yesterday to award Palestine the status of nonmember observer…
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s recent victory, the Federal Emergency Management Agency may soon open “concentration camps” — some of which are in South Florida — to detain anyone who disagrees with the government authority, Everett Wilkinson, chairman of South Florida’s Tea Party, told New Times Thursday. “There…
Boca Raton millionaire Marty O’Boyle doesn’t like politicians scandalizing up his county, dag gummit. So he’s doing what any millionaire with loads of time on his hands would do to combat such a thing: He’s going to fly a big-ass blimp over Palm Beach County to shame elected officials when they…
Charlie Crist, who jetted all over the state and nation in the days and weeks before Election Day, is not in line to snare any Cabinet positions in a new Obama administration — at least, not that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has heard. Sorry, Charlie. Can’t get no love. The…
Ensconced in some Tallahassee conference room, how state officials must have pictured it: An anonymous Florida woman receives a questionnaire in the mail and gets comfortable — gets intimate — perhaps sloshing some red into a glass, laying down an Erykah Badu track, and pulling out her pen to spill…
As the rest of the nation gathered in droves to hit up the superfantastic deals on Black Friday and basically kill one another for half-off toasters and universal remote controls, Walmart workers and activists held peaceful rallies outside stores as part of a nationwide walkout to protest poor wages and…
Jeb Bush’s son Jeb Bush Jr. appeared on CNN yesterday to answer the typical CNN-y type questions about why the Republicans are a sad, sad party to which blacks and Latinos were invited but got the Oh, I’d love to but I got a thing answer at the polls. But…
After only two years, Richard DeNapoli is done. Chairing the perennially underachieving Broward County Republicans — like coaching any team that sucks — hasn’t been easy, and DeNapoli, who’s a tad thin-skinned, won’t seek reelection. “It’s not a glamorous position,” he said, adding he’s taking a position in another part…
