Standing up for what you believe in apparently isn’t in the South Florida Tea Party manifest.Pam Wohlschlegel — the director of the Palm Beach County chapter of the South Florida Tea Party — called it quits after Chairman Everett Wilkinson declared House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan a “public…
Apparently everyone wants a chance to sue Rick Scott.The Florida Police Benevolent Association filed a third-party intervention today to join 11 others in state government to sue Gov. Scott and several other state department heads over the new law mandating that 3 percent of salaries for employees enrolled in the…
Florida doesn’t have an open-carry law to show your piece off in public, but it’s now OK to “briefly and openly” flash your firearm to the populace.Since Gov. Rick Scott signed SB 234 into law Friday, it’s been legal to show off your hardware — but just for a little…
In the fourth recent lawsuit targeted at policies of Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Education Association is now suing over a 3 percent pay cut to the salaries of teachers and other school workers.According to a news release from the union, the lawsuit was entered today in circuit court, alleging…
Now, says former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, it all makes sense!In late 2005, Republican Mark Foley found his Democrat ex-colleague Anthony Weiner’s enthusiasm for a bill he was trying to introduce a little misguided.”He came up to me over and over again for me to cosponsor his bill,” Foley said…
Rick Scott, apparently desperate to appeal to the thin slice of voters who (a) might consider supporting him and (b) still read newspapers, has orchestrated a fake-letter-writing campaign to ambush Florida’s newspapers with unspecific praise of his time as governor.This is the governor who has never sat down with a…
You may have noticed that Rick Scott doesn’t love the media. His spokesman got into a spat with a Miami Herald reporter, and the governor himself refuses to use email because he’s “embarrassed” by it. (Presumably, he’s embarrassed when the media and public read the mail and see how he…
As you may know, there are around 420* wildfires blazing through the state right now, and Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for Florida.Around 93 percent of the state is in a drought at one level or another, according to Sunshine State News, and more than 300,000…
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has apparently run out of things to complain about.Her target this week is Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who’s in the middle of a fundraising tour through Florida.The New York Times reports that while Romney was meeting unemployed Floridians…
If you’re a state employee — not in the Department of Corrections — you don’t have to detox quite yet to get those doobies out of your system.Gov. Rick Scott sent out a memo to agency heads on Friday stating that departments do not yet have to comply with his…
Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson didn’t want last night’s commission meeting to be his political funeral, so he made the decision to quit during a meeting recess.Benson was taking a lot of heat from Mayor Peter Bober for a few things yesterday — a $10.3 million budget deficit (an estimated…
While we were busy adding up all of those jobs Gov. Rick Scott brought from Canada to Florida during his “trade mission” last week — zero — big layoffs were taking place across the state.Now, aside from slaughtering government jobs from the state budget, private businesses are making firings too…
In case you didn’t notice — between coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony Weiner, and Anderson Cooper probably wearing a skin-tight shirt — CNN held a debate between hopeful Republican presidential candidates last night.You can guess what happened when Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul,…
Animals rights activists are claiming victory after a local private airline, Monarch Air Group, agreed to stop shipping primates for research. Monarch, which runs private passenger and cargo flights from its base in Fort Lauderdale, sent a letter to the animal rights group South Florida SMASH HLS yesterday announcing its…
Touting yourself as a lunatic has just become a political campaign strategy.Adam Hasner — the former Florida House majority leader who represented parts of southern Palm Beach County and northern Broward County — thinks acting like a right-wing extremist will get him elected to the U.S. Senate.Former U.S. Sen. George…
Here’s the new number of jobs Gov. Rick Scott actually brought to Florida during his “trade mission” to Canada last week: zero.That’s right, not a single one.Over two statements from Canada last week, the governor announced that 210 new jobs were coming to Florida from our neighbors to the north…
Gov. Rick Scott has shown us he can kill 4,500 jobs with the stroke of a pen, but sending him to Canada for a week on a “trade mission” to bring jobs back to Florida didn’t go so hot.Scott’s camp says he and his delegation met with 120 Canadian companies…
Gov. Rick Perry Jr. Rick Scott sure has been providing a lot of “charades of the day” recently, including today — after the governor signed a declaration for a day of prayer, he then proceeded to say that he didn’t.Out in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry decided to hold an event…
Update, June 12, 2012: A year later, the PBA has a couple hundred fewer Republicans in its ranks, thanks to this event. Read an update here.Next month the Broward County Police Benevolent Association is holding a “Party to Leave the Party” — an event coordinated with the Supervisor of Elections…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking into former Lauderdale Lakes finance director Larry Tibbs for allegedly taking sick-leave money he didn’t deserve, while former City Manager Anita Fain-Taylor — who’s been accused by commissioners of providing them with fraudulent information — is momentarily off the hook.It’s not yet…
If there was any question whether Florida Gov. Rick Scott favored business over the environment, this week he ended the debate. Scott appointed a businessman with a history of environmental problems to oversee the board that’s supposed to protect South Florida’s water supply and wetlands from pollution.Juan Portuondo, if confirmed…
Now for Gov. Rick Scott’s charade of the day — making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get…
