Local political blogger Javier Manjarres was in the thick of the heckling drama at the Newt Gingrich rally in Coral Springs yesterday and claimed that one of Gingrich’s staffers “assault[ed]” him in the incident he caught on tape.Turns out, that Gingrich staffer is the campaign’s Broward co-chair, Karin Hoffman, who…
Newt Gingrich’s stump speech at Wings Plus in Coral Springs had a lot of meat to it — he criticized President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, made fun of the media, and was heckled mercilessly for the first half of the event by a protester who was eventually…
Gov. Rick Scott would like to add himself to the endless list of people with an opinion about President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night, so here we go.Here’s the short version of the governor’s opinion: Businesses don’t want to come to America. Except Florida. Florida’s cool. And…
Though a Rasmussen poll released Monday showed Newt Gingrich well ahead of the rest of the Republican presidential field, a Univision/ABC News poll released this morning revealed Florida’s Latino voters overwhelmingly favor former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.Of those polled, 49 percent went for Romney; Gingrich got 23 percent, and the…
Remember the ditzy-sounding actress Victoria Jackson? You probably know her as Saturday Night Live’s worst cast member of all time. Or if you can remember black-and-white TV, you might recall her fairly ridiculous standup routines on the Tonight Show.Well, if that’s all you know of Victoria Jackson, you might not…
The Republican presidential candidates can figure out a way to disagree on any topic — we saw last night they could argue about everything from Terri Schiavo to beet sugar — but there’s one thing they all have in common: None of them has any plans to go anywhere near…
Tonight at 9, the remaining four contenders for the GOP presidential nomination take the stage in Tampa to talk about the issues — and, usually, the nonissues.Either way, Florida’s primary election next week is a winner-take-all contest for the state’s 50 delegates, and the contest between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt…
Call it a match made in heaven.Rick Santorum is best-known (among 20-something alt-weekly types, at least) as the evangelical homophobe who likened gay relationships to “man-on-dog” sex and consequently suffered the wrath of Dan Savage’s revolting Google bomb.Jim Naugle is known locally as the former mayor who wasn’t afraid to…
Democrats Lois Frankel and Patrick Murphy have maintained that they’re both hell-bent on defeating Republican Rep. Allen West in this year’s election.On the other hand, it’s not 100 percent that they’ll both want to run against West considering the redistricting process, so both Democrats have been treading very lightly against…
Yep. A Broward Republican actually called the county Supervisor of Elections Office to ask for his absentee ballot back so he could vote again.Mary Cooney, public services director for the county election’s office, says she’s “only aware of one” person who tried to do this.As we mentioned earlier today, there…
Herman Cain is trying to work his magic again, this time by being featured in the new advertisement for U.S. Senate Republican hopeful and former Ruth’s Chris steak house CEO Craig Miller…
There have been a few news reports around the state about Republicans who got their absentee voting ballots in the mail a few weeks ago and sent them right back in with the Rick Perry/Michele Bachmann/Herman Cain/Jon Huntsman/Gary Johnson selection, which kind of sucks, since they’re not running for president…
Fort Lauderdale commissioners voted unanimously to complain send off a resolution saying the city’s not exactly a fan of the “destination resort casino” bill in the state Legislature — which is sponsored in the Senate by Fort Lauderdale Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff.Aside from that little rift in interests, the complaints stressed…
Believe it or not, South Florida Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch — supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act — happened to get a lot of money from interest groups supporting the legislation.According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization MapLight, Wasserman Schultz and Deutch took in nearly…
You know what sucks? Florida, if GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s new advertisement is to be believed…
That was quick. Less than an hour ago, Sen. Marco Rubio announced he no longer supports the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) — the Senate version of the Stop Online Privacy (SOPA) — which he was previously a cosponsor of.As we noted this morning, two South Florida congressional representatives, Democratic Reps…
If you go to Wikipedia’s website today, you may cry after finding it’s not giving out information today. The Google logo is also blacked out on that website, and Reddit and other sites are also blacking themselves out today.If you’re looking for someone local to blame for any of your…
If you ask Floridians if they approve of Gov. Rick Scott’s job performance, between 26 and 38 percent would say yes.In the last week, though, two “polls” have been released that claim the governor’s approval rating is much, much higher.According to a public relations/communications firm hired by the Florida Chamber…
It might seem a little ridiculous that PolitiFact took the time to find out whether Gov. Rick Scott really sold more than 240 dozen doughnuts over a couple hours, as he claimed during his State of the State address.It’s a little more ridiculous that PolitiFact returned with a verdict of…
Merick Lewin, the Republican state House candidate from Davie whose family runs the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, has raised $96,000 for his campaign– far outpacing all of his competitors in District 97.Unsurprisingly,roughly 30 percent of Lewin’s donations come from healthcare professionals and attorneys. 411-PAIN is a Broward-based company that refers car…
If Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said something profoundly stupid, we’d be all over it.Unfortunately, this is a case of a Fox News writer saying something profoundly stupid.When the headline “DNC Chair Blames Tea Party for Tucson Shooting” comes with a chopped-up video clip and an ellipsis right in the middle…
The House Committee on Ethics announced today that it won’t start a full-on investigation into the sexual harassment allegations against Rep. Alcee Hastings.This all stems from a complaint — an accompanying federal lawsuit that’s still alive — from a woman named Winsome Packer, who worked on the U.S. Commission on…
