Carolin Pawlak Mueller, a former nurse who followed a dream to become an advice columnist, passed away unexpectedly recently. Mueller was a Delray Beach resident who was well-known in South Florida both for her bubbly, contagious personality and for the cheery advice she gave on her new website.Mueller gave up…
Sometime about a year ago, there was a strange phenomenon coursing through the airwaves. Newscasters and reporters, it seems, had been bitten by a strange bug that made them talk of witchcraft, dead babies, and masturbation. It was like Salem circa 1692: a middle-class white woman, all the while protesting…
Democratic State Rep. Scott Randolph is no stranger to expressing his grievances against Gov. Rick Scott and his “get-to-work days.”First he complained about the governor “pretending to be a working Floridian” at the Tampa doughnut shop at the beginning of the month, and now he’s moved on to Scott’s playing…
GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann begins her five-stop tour of Florida today, starting at a sandwich shop belonging to a self-proclaimed “Bible thumpin’, gun totin’ capitalist pig.”That would be Ed Malin, owner of Angie’s Subs in Jacksonville Beach, who told Fox News a couple of months ago that he is…
Gov. Rick Scott’s magically deleted email debacle is starting to sound a bit ridiculous already, even though he’s ordered an “investigation” by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.As you may recall, St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald capitol reporter Michael C. Bender went looking for some emails from the governor and his…
Skip to minute 2:30, and you’ll see the white-haired, 71-year-old Bill Koch place the winning, $2 million bid for the only known photo of Billy the Kid earlier this summer. The crowd at the Denver Merchandise Mart stands up and cheers, and Koch, after a moment of indecision, grins and…
There may be a war brewing between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Gov. Rick Scott’s office, especially after Maddow explained the other day that the governor’s office may have canceled taping of the network’s prison documentary Lockup because of her anti-Scott antics.To add to her résumé of hounding Scott, last night…
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner doesn’t seem to know exactly what his political views are.He’s been campaigning on the thought that one of the other GOP candidates, George LeMieux, is too moderate compared to Hasner’s brand of conservatism, and he even ran a campaign ad featuring LeMieux describing himself…
Sen. Marco Rubio did what was probably the most heroic political action of the year last night by catching 90-year-old Nancy Reagan as she fell at California’s Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.If you remember the last time the former first lady had a fall, in 2008, it landed her in the…
There’s a 28-year-old South Florida native who’s never run for political office before, but he’s convinced he can unseat polarizing Tea Party Rep. Allen West in 2012.His name is Patrick Murphy — a CPA and businessman who’s hoping to get a spot on the Democratic ticket for his chance to…
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann has canceled her appearance at the Villages retirement community that was slated for the weekend, according to the Tea Party group that planned to host her.The Tri-County Tea Party Florida was selling tickets at $25 a pop to see Bachmann speak at the LaHacienda…
A couple of weeks ago, the Florida Department of Corrections was proud to announce it was inviting the crew of MSNBC’s prison documentary, Lockup, to Florida’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution to film the goings-on at the prison — including a contract that gave the state an extra $110,000 of income.”For…
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Lou Dobbs, Dick Morris — a cornucopia of right-wing talking heads call South Florida home. According to today’s New York Times, this makes the area “A Conservative Beachhead in the Sunshine.” The Times notes that after Limbaugh moved to Palm Beach in the mid-’90s,…
There’s apparently some unwritten rule that members of the media are forbidden to talk about Rep. Ron Paul — at least in the eyes of Jon Stewart — but according to our readers, Paul is most likely to win next month’s “Presidency 5” straw poll in Orlando, garnering more than…
Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests — never mind the outrageous price tag — but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That’s what happened to the St. Petersburg Times’ Capitol reporter Michael C. Bender, he wrote…
Accountability — it’s a trait that’s seemingly absent from a few of Florida’s politicians, especially after Gov. Rick Scott declared that the state’s credit rating had been upgraded to AAA by Standard & Poor’s.The truth is, Florida’s credit rating was upgraded to AAA — in 2005, under then-Gov. Jeb Bush,…
Republican Rep. Sandy Adams of Orlando is now a subject in a new collection of dolls called the “Lady Republican Series.”Adams joins Sarah Palin, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the plastic GOP, at the…
Gov. Rick Scott has been proudly touting that Florida has created the second-most jobs in the country (behind Texas) since he took office, but here’s what he won’t tell you: Those new jobs suck.More specifically, since the governor took office in January, Florida workers have had lower hourly wages, fewer…
Gov. Rick Scott’s office emailed members of the media yesterday, asking that we all use one specific picture of the governor.”Please forward the attached photo of Governor Rick Scott to the appropriate people in your organization who handle graphics, layout and design,” the email says. “Please use this photo of…
On Saturday afternoon, Haylee Becker, a 19-year-old volunteer with Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs who does most of the talking to the media about the local group, sat in a vegan ice cream shop on the other side of the Everglades and talked about confronting despair.Becker was leading one of…
Rep. Allen West decided to insult Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz again over the weekend, but in spite of his angry email tirade to her saying Wasserman Schultz “doesn’t have the guts” to insult him to his face, he dropped his newest insult at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party social event…
Wendell Potter — a former health care insurance executive who most recently left his post as head of communications for CIGNA — has been following up on the Pulp’s post on Florida’s newest HMO policy for state employees and agrees that the decision to allow just one HMO provider per…
