As hard as Ron Klein kicks, he’s just an itch to the illogical juggernaut that is Allen West’s campaign. Recent attack ads from Klein play a video clip in which West says to a gathering, “I’m just honored to be here today with all my fellow right-wing extremists.” There it…
Independent Senate hopeful Charlie Crist was scheduled to make an appearance at Hollywood’s Holocaust Documentation and Education Center today but canceled yesterday. His campaign has apparently rescheduled the event multiple times. Meanwhile, Crist is in Deerfield Beach this morning to accept the endorsement of Robert Kennedy Jr., son of late…
Come out, come out wherever you are, Charlie. It’s National Coming Out Day, and a mere three weeks before Election Day. Rumors have been swirling for years, but only you have the power to spin them into reality. Here’s why you should seize the moment:1. You’d win even more Democratic…
time.comIt’s a complicated ballet in South Florida today as politicians warily stump for one another, hedging bets all around. The Palm Beach Post’s George Bennett minds the choreography: First off, it’s Ron Klein, who’s campaigning with the president in Coral Gables later today. Lest too much of Obama’s socialist fairy…
Photo from jimlewisforflorida.comLewis: “Faint heart never won fair maiden.”Jim Lewis won’t be your next attorney general. But if there were some miraculous come-from-behind victory for the perennial losing candidate, Lewis would bring about a radical change. He’d legalize pot. Not just medicinal pot but any big old spliff any adult…
Things already looked piss poor for Gov. Charlie Crist. The most recent poll had him down 12 points, and some speculated that Marco Rubio had the Senate race locked up.But Crist had political gold awaiting. The Tampa Bay Rays had invited the light-footed governor to throw out the first pitch…
Harrington after her victory in the primary.Karen Harrington knows she has an uphill battle in front of her. But she also knows a thing or two about long, hard fights. After all, Harrington is a two-time cancer survivor and the sister of Billy Mitchell, the videogame whiz framed as the…
flickr user: sskennelLike a train wreck, you can’t look away.I have a confession to make about Sarah Palin. It’s not an easy thing to admit, especially from this side of the liberal-elite media establishment. Every fiber of my journalistic being urges me to ignore her, to block out the gleaming,…
Photo by Eric BartonSabrina displays a foam finger of fun.You’re on the internet reading the blog of an alternative newsweekly, so there’s a damned fine chance that you’d like to smoke a joint legally. So why were so few people at the pro-pot rally yesterday in Fort Lauderdale?Sabrina Koramblyum, who…
Facebook.comHe won’t share his real identity. Not yet, anyway. For now, the man known around the Florida Atlantic University campus as “Green Mann” enjoys the stunned reactions and awkward stares he gets as he dances around in a skintight, bright-green Spandex-esque costume.He doesn’t speak while wearing the green suit –…
Tara NieuwesteegWomen wore mangled fur and prom gowns covered in (fake) blood. People wrapped themselves in yellow caution tape. One woman dressed as the Grim Reaper. They held signs telling teenaged girls and their families as they entered the Miss Florida Teen USA pageant that they had blood on their…
If Allen “Higher Security Clearance Than the President” West wasn’t formidable enough, Ron Klein has a new enemy in his sights: the French national railway company. And now Klein, like West, is talking about Nazis.Société Nationale des Chemins de fer, or SNCF, is basically France’s version of Amtrak, except its…
At the beginning of September, the Juice’s Lisa Rab wrote about how a group of Ohioans were collecting LeBron James’ Cavs jersey to donate to Miami’s homeless population. After that idea was halted by “politics,” our sister paper Miami New Times took the matter into its own hands.The kind folks down…
Rynerson: the face of the new media.Earl Rynerson knows a rumor circulating around Fort Lauderdale City Hall. It has to do with Mayor Jack Seiler supposedly pressuring the Sun-Sentinel into making a personnel change. It’s almost certainly not true, but Rynerson wonders if people ought to know about it anyway.”Just…
GOP candidate for governor Rick Scott released this pretty snazzy new website on Friday: It’s a property tax calculator that figures out a Floridian’s tax if Scott gets elected versus Democratic opponent Alex Sink. There’s just one problem with his site: It ignores the Florida Constitution.Scott’s calculator, which is titled…
The question Allen West was fielding at the Pompano Civic Association on September 21 was about the tax lien that had been placed against him. But the retired lieutenant colonel went another way, launching into a soliloquy about his government secret security clearance. “I still retain a secret security clearance,”…
Disgraced Congressman turned West Palm Beach consignment-shop owner Mark Foley got a mention right in the middle of NBC’s Thursday-night prime-time lineup. Though it probably wasn’t the kind of shoutout he would appreciate.On last night’s season opener, 30 Rock made reference to Foley’s scandalous time in conservative politics. It happened…
A day after Congressman Ron Klein released a poll that found he had an 8-point advantage in his race against challenger Allen West, the West campaign is publicizing its own poll, which declares that West is up by six points, 48-42.The West poll, by Wilson Research Strategies, had a 5.7…
Riviera Beach’s most persistent activist, Fane Lozman, has joined with newspaper publisher John Beatty in filing for a recall effort against the city’s five council members. The recall is a typical tool for gadflies, but what makes this one ominous is that it’s attracted participation from gadflies with no stake…
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. And if you’re in a congressional fight that will be decided by moderate voters, you don’t bring a polarizer like Sarah Palin. Nor do you want her witchcraft-dabbling protege, Christine O’Donnell.A missive today from the Ron Klein reelection campaign name-drops both Palin…
Flickr: SF BartGay parents at a recent pride parade in San Francisco.Florida is the only state to specifically ban adoption by gay and lesbian couples, but that may soon change. The Florida Third District Court of Appeals has ruled that the ban was unconstitutional. The ban will now head to…
”Liberals want soldiers to die,” blares the pop-up quote from Allen West. At first blush, the ad looks like it’s touting West’s congressional campaign. But read a little closer, and you’ll see it’s intended to attack him. Read the fine print, and you’ll discover the ad is paid for by…
