Around 2:45 in the video above, you’ll see Republican congressional candidate Edward Lynch make a rather explosive allegation: that the U.S. imposed sanctions against Israel and that the effect of those is tougher than those against Iran.That moment from Sunday’s debate on This Week in South Florida With Michael Putney…
What does a real estate agent like Joe Kessel know about managing city government? Whatever it is, it’s worth at least $36,000 per year based on a consulting agreement that Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good forged with Kessel in July 2008.Kessel, a former specialist in health-care information technology, now…
An investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in Deerfield Beach has led straight to the local church till. The pastors of three North Broward congregations have been questioned by auditor Michael Kessler as to how they used thousands of dollars entrusted to them by the city.Their answers have not…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office made a generous accommodation of disgraced former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, allowing his prison sentence in the state case to run concurrently with the one in the federal case. But those kinds of favors don’t come cheap. I wonder what Eggelletion gave to prosecutors.Remember, the…
The program director of Deerfield Beach’s Community Development Block Grant allegedly has family ties to the Poitiers, who run a charity at the center of an investigation for misuse of taxpayer dollars.Wednesday morning that program director, Stephanie McMillian, received an email from the investigator, Michael Kessler. It began thus:Stephanie, I…
It might have been gentler if Keith Olbermann just said: “Marco Rubio, you’re a little bitch.” Olbermann, MSNBC’s most outspoken political commentator, was ruthless in his message to Rubio last night, a response to remarks Rubio made yesterday during a speech in West Palm Beach. In a two-minute-long “Special Comment,”…
In what appears to be another crushing setback for downtown Hollywood, a lender this week filed to foreclose on WSG, the developer of ArtsPark Village, a 23-story condo tower that was to be built on the southeast corner of Young Circle.It’s the second time that Hollywood officials gave a developer…
This poll by Daily Kos came out a few weeks ago, but there’s a statistic buried near the bottom that deserves more attention: Roughly one-third of registered Republicans likely to vote in Florida’s August primary believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States — and another…
It may be too early to assume that Florida’s tea party faithful will flock to the polls for Marco Rubio. As evidenced by questions that surfaced during Sunday night’s debate on Fox News, it seems Rubio has taken that support for granted and that he’ll now need to mend fences…
Today on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin gave a public endorsement to South Florida congressional candidate Allen West. Said the former Alaskan governor and Republican VP candidate:Allen’s personal story is a testament to the commonsense conservative belief that our nation’s greatness is rooted in freedom, because with freedom comes equal…
A charity under investigation by Deerfield Beach took out a high-interest loan from a brother of Commissioner Sylvia Poitier in hopes of paying taxes on property it owned in the city. The charity then listed that liability in a financial statement to the city, raising questions about whether it intended…
Felecia Poitier, president of a charity being investigated by Deerfield Beach for its management of housing funds, denied allegations that her agency has not cooperated fully with auditors, blaming delays on the time-consuming nature of the city’s request.”He’s trying to get this [financial information] as fast as he can,” says…
A week after health-care reform has passed and still no sign of Vladimir Lenin’s reanimated corpse, which was supposed to be laying waste to hard-working (retired/unemployed, technically) Americans. What’s more, the economy is slowly shaking out of its slump. By next fall, some of those unemployed (but hard-working) droves of…
Much of the analysis in the media about yesterday’s Marco Rubio-Charlie Crist debate on Fox News Sunday was spent on Rubio’s “slush fund,” as the governor put it. But among the other jabs thrown by both sides: that Crist has appointed liberal judges to the Florida Supreme Court.The attack comes…
A nonprofit organization in Deerfield Beach under investigation for mishandling tax dollars has failed to pay taxes on any of six properties for at least five years, according to records released to Juice this afternoon. The Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association stands to lose all six properties it owns on Southwest…
With their first debate coming up Sunday on Fox News, both Republican senatorial campaigns have released new and nasty videos about each other, as have interest groups with a horse in the race. Put on your poncho and get ready for some mud-slingin’! First, a superscary video about the dystopian…
Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier told Juice Thursday that she received stipend payments from a charity that later became a recipient of tax dollars for the improvement of the city’s low-income housing. That same charity, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, is currently a focus of a forensic investigation based on…
Nearly every one of the 535 members of U.S. Congress got there through a grueling, humbling campaign, convincing one voter at a time to entrust him or her with the role of casting votes in the nation’s capital. But not George LeMieux. The only guy he had to convince was…
Sorry, Fox News, but ol’ Jeb ain’t quite ready to announce his support for Marco Rubio. He’ll need a bigger stage than Neil Cavuto’s show. It’ll happen at a time and a place when it can do maximum damage to the Crist senatorial campaign. And when it happens, let’s all…
Now that former U.S. Congressman Mark Foley has begun his unembarrassed return to Republican politics, it’s tempting to recall the many other disgraced Floridians who perhaps should have stayed hidden longer. Blithely ignoring the infamy of their scandals, these public figures insist on resurrecting their careers. Shouldn’t there be a…
Here’s an outrageous piece of video, courtesy of Acts of Sedition.com. It’s from last night’s Deerfield Beach Commission meeting. You’ll see City Attorney Andy Maurodis talking to the commissioners about his failure to get any response from his requests for financial records from Arlington Park Family, a nonprofit that accepted…
By the end of tonight’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission, local lawyers will be licking their chops. That’s because the city appears to be on the brink of filing lawsuits against a number of nonprofit agencies that have been slow to give the city a better look at the…
