After his polling numbers dropped this fall and he was no longer being invited to the debates with other GOP presidential candidates, the probability of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s running as the Libertarian Party candidate in 2012 looks a bit more likely.He’s still actively campaigning as a Republican,…
The GOP debate sponsored by the West Palm Beach-based Newsmax and moderated by Donald Trump is having some difficulties.It has two confirmed attendees — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum — while four have declined, and Rep. Michele Bachmann hasn’t responded.Aside from the “what the hell…
During Gov. Rick Scott’s announcement of his budget proposal today, he took questions from media members curious about his ideas.One of those people asking questions ended up being Aasif Mandvi, a “correspondent” for the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.He wanted to know, of course, whether the governor would pee into…
As the 99 percent draw attention to their less-than-equitable situation, sacrosanct holidays and traditions become a target for protests. Adbusters, the same (Canadian!) publication that launched the Occupy Wall Street movement, has advocated “buy-nothing day” on Black Friday, the annual mass hysteria of commercialism that creeps closer and closer into…
Gov. Rick Scott is still the least-popular governor in the country, but according to the latest poll released this afternoon, it’s the crappiest approval rating he’s ever had.Scott’s approval is down to 26 percent of Floridians, according to the freshest numbers from Public Policy Polling, easily defeating his previous most-crappy…
Memo to Patrick Murphy: If you want to win street cred with the 99 percent, don’t have Rush Limbaugh’s lawyer host your fundraiser.Murphy, the Democratic congressional candidate hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Allen West, has opened himself up to a lot of bad jokes with the fundraiser slated for tomorrow…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a finalist for PolitiFact’s 2011 “Lie of the Year” award(?), thanks to her accusation that Republicans want “Jim Crow laws.”Wasserman Schultz joins President Obama — who was nominated twice — as well as Rep. Michele Bachmann, Sen. Jon Kyl, Texas Gov…
Gov. Rick Scott’s prediction that Herman Cain would become the next president of the United States didn’t quite come true.Cain announced this weekend that he was “suspending” his presidential campaign after yet another woman decided to go public about her encounters with him — this time, a woman alleging a…
GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann stopped by the Westin Hotel in Fort Lauderdale this evening, mostly to speak poorly of the apparent front-runner in the race — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — as well as to answer a few questions as indirectly as possible.What several people wanted to…
The Miami Herald heard a strange thing come out of Rep. Allen West’s camp yesterday — just a few days after the state Senate released its proposed map of congressional seats, someone told the paper that West was “strongly considering” running in a different district next year.That would be Republican…
Gov. Richard Lynn “Rick” Scott is 59 years old today, and to his credit, it’s been a successful run for him.He’s a Navy veteran, earned a bachelor’s degree and a law degree, bought some doughnut shops, eventually oversaw a health-care corporation that pleaded guilty to 14 felonies, bought some more…
Former House Speaker Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich is apparently a thing in the GOP presidential race now, with the most recent poll released this afternoon showing nearly half of Florida Republicans opting for him to be the party’s nominee.Gingrich somehow managed to raise his poll numbers with a pace akin…
The Broward Republican Executive Committee released an open letter to Brenda Snipes, the county’s Supervisor of Elections, claiming it’s unfair that there aren’t any early voting sites in Republican State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff’s district.Republican State Rep. George Moraitis doesn’t have an early voting location in his district either, and although…
When you’re the self-proclaimed “jobs governor,” it’s a little awkward when a major employer in your state files for bankruptcy.Recently, Gov. Rick Scott has either touted “new” jobs coming to the state or blamed jobs losses on other people, typically President Obama.Since no job losses have yet been reported from…
Welcome to the internet, where misspelling a word by one letter can make you see things that cannot be unseen.As many folks who stay in tune with the political side of Fort Lauderdale would know, mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson keeps his rants against City Hall and Mayor Jack Seiler on…
Although one of Republican Rep. Connie Mack’s advisers announced that the congressman was running for U.S. senator in 2012 more than a month ago, it’s not official until there’s a Fox News appearance involved.Mack appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to make his formal announcement, spending most of his time on…
Gov. Rick Scott’s office introduced its monthly chart comparing private-sector job gains against government job gains, and it just didn’t look right.Remember, there were 6,900 more government jobs in October than in September, while the number of private-sector jobs increased by 2,600. (That one wasn’t in the governor’s news release.)Aside…
Earl Rynerson, who’s running for Fort Lauderdale mayor (again) against current Mayor Jack Seiler, deployed an interesting campaign strategy in his effort to get elected — admittedly convincing someone else to run for mayor to force a primary election.Rynerson doesn’t specifically use the word, but it sounds like the third…
Rep. Allen West continued his never-ending media rounds yesterday with an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, and aside from his omnipresent disdain for President Obama, he let Ingraham know he’s not too pleased with the field of GOP presidential candidates either.West described a sort of “political entitlement” the candidates…
Herman Cain, the presidential contender who loves to shout the number “nine,” took a whirlwind tour through Florida last week, visiting Sweetwater, Miami, Coral Springs, West Palm, and Palm Beach. While he was down in Miami, he bent to Spanglophone tastes by shouting “nueve, nueve, nueve” instead.But what lit up…
According to a communique received from a protester with Occupy Fort Lauderdale, the group will be kicked off of City Hall property (100 N. Andrews Ave.) at 5 p.m. today. The Occupiers find it reprehensible that the city would do such a thing on Thanksgiving Eve, when most people are…
UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board’s vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they’ll have a celebrity spokesman…
