Last week, the Washington Post published its exposé on how Sen. Marco Rubio “embellished” his family history, and after a few days, no one’s really sure what the hell happened there.The Post validates the reasoning behind the article correcting Rubio’s family history — which involves dates before the senator was…
Broward County Mayor Sue Gunzburger — without any great objection from her fellow commissioners — has issued a proclamation declaring this Saturday “Occupy Fort Lauderdale Day” and “encourag[ing] all Broward residents to work together to bring about a stronger, better, and fairer America for our future generations.”Gunzburger had previously visited…
Well, here’s one way to explain the $3 million difference between the fundraising totals of Rep. Allen West ($4.1 million) and hopeful Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy ($1.1 million): 50,000 Tea Party “whacktivists” across the country are signing checks made out to West.That’s from an email the Murphy campaign sent out…
After the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s executive order to suspend rulemaking in the executive branch agencies was unconstitutional, he decided to issue a new executive order to complain about the decision.The court had ruled 5-2 that it’s not the governor’s job to suspend rulemaking, and now…
Pass the tinfoil; we’ve got more hats to build.Sen. Marco Rubio is a hot pick for the vice presidential spot on the ticket of several GOP presidential candidates, but according to the birther lab, he’s not eligible to be president or vice president because he’s not a “natural-born citizen of…
If money determines elections, Davie Republican Merick Lewin is the leading state House candidate to represent western Broward in 2012.Lewin, who has familial and financial ties to the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, has raised far more money than his Republican and Democratic opponents in District 97. In fact, his campaign war…
On June 7, Southwest Ranches Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff sent an email to (now deceased) Town Administrator Charlie Lynn, town staffers, and his consulting and lobbying colleagues. The email urged town leaders to maintain a “cone of silence” about a proposed 1,800-bed immigrant detention center in Southwest Ranches to avoid…
Standing in the pouring rain in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country, the man in the Gators cap did not mince words. “I’m not issue-specific, because there are so many things fucked up right now about how our country is managing itself.”And so the Occupy movement came to…
A few people stayed the night on Saturday, and donations and support kept coming in through yesterday. On Sunday, organizers say, Fort Lauderdale police told them they wouldn’t be allowed to stay over.An attorney who has been working with the movement contacted the park’s owner, the Downtown Development Authority (DDA),…
President Obama’s reelection campaign released its list of 351 volunteer fundraisers who have helped him rake in the big bucks — more than $50,000 — with 29 of them coming from Florida and eight of them from either Broward or Palm Beach counties.None of the GOP presidential candidates has released…
We reported last week from the scene of a Southwest Ranches town hall meeting where so many people showed up to protest a proposed immigrant detention pen that BSO deputies just started blocking people from entering the council chambers, citing fire code.The detention center wasn’t on the agenda — it’s…
Occupy Fort Lauderdale now has an address — Bubier Park at 32 E. Las Olas Blvd. The group announced it has started a 24/7 occupation of the park, which began with the first group of people on Saturday night after their first demonstration. The next meeting of the group –…
They started outside the federal courthouse and marched — on the sidewalk, escorted by police — to the front steps of Scott Rothstein’s old digs on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Outside the restaurant space where the local Ponzi king once cut his porterhouse, people gathered with American flags,…
A 56-year-old man was arrested last night during a demonstration held by Occupy Gainesville in the Bo Diddley Community Plaza, and of all the people to be arrested, it was the son of blues legend Bo Diddley.Before his arrest, Ellas Anthony McDaniel was explaining that police were trying to get…
The Pulp tried to attend last night’s meeting of the Southwest Ranches town council, but BSO Deputy Lee Roselli and Cmdr. Wallace Haywood wouldn’t let us inside the council chambers. So we remained outside with the 50 or so local residents who were loudly protesting an immigrant detention facility that…
It looks like Texas Gov. Rick Perry is last week’s news to Florida Republicans — pizza man Herman Cain leads the latest poll of the state’s GOP voters with a six-point buffer over the second-place former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, in the chase for the party’s presidential nomination.No other…
Well, here’s what everyone wanted to hear from Gov. Rick Scott, the chief executive of the state with the fifth-highest unemployment rate of the 50 states: Not only as he already retracted his campaign promise to create 700,000 extra jobs but he now says he doesn’t have to create any…
Occupy Fort Lauderdale has set an official date for its first demonstration — a ten-hour stretch on Saturday.The group’s first “solidarity demonstration” is slated to begin at 11 a.m., with a march starting from the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale and ending at the Bank of America Plaza.After several…
To: U.S. District Court From: Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning We’re having a small problem with voting down here in Florida. In May, our Legislature passed some brilliant new requirements designed to crack down on unnecessary voters — specifically, people who are poor, move around a lot, and might…
Several months ago, Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland announced she was getting rid of the entire board of commissioners from the city’s housing authority.Over concerns that federal taxpayer coin was being wasted in the housing authority, Rep. Allen West hopped on the case and asked the U.S. Department of Housing…
Shortly after we posted the announcement from the Patrick Murphy campaign about the hopeful Democratic challenger raising $313,000 last quarter — $1.1 million total — we got word from the camp of Lois Frankel, the other Democrat in the race, striking back.Frankel’s campaign announced that the former West Palm Beach…
Here are Gov. Rick Scott’s small-government principles at work again — he wants the state to pick and choose which university majors are more important and shift funding from liberal arts programs toward the state universities’ engineering, math, and sciences departments.Scott’s main enemy in the battle: anthropology.”You know, we don’t…
