I keed. Vote. It’s important. Ralph De La Cruz has an inspirational column about it in the Sun-Sentinel today, but for some reason it’s not on the newspaper’s web site. So if you don’t have the paper, you’ll just have to take my word for it. But there’s more than…
Polls are all over the place in the governor’s race. The Miami Herald has Charlie Crist with a commanding ten-point lead (with a poll conducted by reputable Zogby International), but SurveyUSA has the race between Crist and Jim Davis in a virtual dead heat (via Taeg0n Goddard’s PoliticWire): “In an…
Dude Was A Football Player This from Armando Salguro’s story in the Miami Herald on the Dolphins’ inspired beat-down on previously undefeated Chicago: “There’s no telling how folks such as former Dolphins guard Bob Kuechenberg likes Taylor now. After telling the Chicago Tribune that Saban should be impeached and the…
The Face Of The Mixed-Up Mainstream You have to read this blog post by an Orlando Sentinel political columnist named Scott Maxwell to see how sloppy, ill-informed, and muddled the mainstream media can be on the Crist issue. Maxwell begins by writing, insipidly, that he is against outing any politician…
Bruce Carlton Jordan After calling a reporter a horse’s ass yesterday, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush asked a very pertinent question: Why now? Why are allegations that Crist is gay reaching the news now? Bush would have you believe it’s because of evil Democratic operatives, apparently possessed by the spirit of…
CBS-4 The Mayor At Work This one is pretty good. CBS-4 reporter Mike Kirsch follows Cooper City commissioners into bars and gets videotape of them drinking wine and beer before city hall meetings. Miami Herald reporter Breanne Gilpatrick (isn’t that a great name?) follows the Kirsch investigation in the Miami…
This comes from the St. Petersburg Times’ Buzz blog regarding the Crist coverage: —————————- A Testy Time in Orlando Charlie Crist, campaigning in Orlando with Gov. Jeb Bush Friday, got decidedly off-message. A reporter for an Orlando TV station wanted Crist to respond to questions about his sexual orientation raised…
It’s heating up. The Davis campaign today released this statement from Jim Davis and Florida Dem Chair Karen Thurman: ————— Davis and Thurman Criticize Personal Attack on Crist TALLAHASSEE – Democratic nominee for governor Jim Davis and Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman issued a statement criticizing any attempt to…
Can He Win? I was just on Barry Epstein’s 10 a.m. radio show on 1470-AM and, after we discussed the Crist coverage, Epstein asked Palm Beach County political consultant Andre Fladell and I who we thought were going to win the major races (Palm Beach Post gossip columnist Jose Lambiet…
I think it’s important that I reprint here Carl Jones’ short in the the Miami New Times this week regarding a fellow reporter: St. Petersburg Times reporter William Levesque has undergone two rounds of chemotherapy and two surgeries. He has been hospitalized three times and takes eight different medications per…
Audiotape from the Dee Dee Hall video about Charlie Crist debuted on the Paul and Young Ron Show on 105.9 FM this morning. After it played, Paul Castronovo, who is all over the place these days (including Channel 10), said after it played, “This is intense.” My segment — which…
Jordan, at left, shows his Harris spirit Click here to see the videotaped sworn statement from Dee Dee Hall, who says former Katherine Harris travel aide Bruce Carlton Jordan, a convicted felon, told her he was in an exclusive romantic relationship with GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. Hall’s boyfriend, Jay…
Steve Burk wants to call his “dog.” So he starts growling, barking, and grunting. “SASHA!” he shouts, clapping his hands. “RRrrrrrrr! GRRRRRRRR!” Sasha saunters around the corner. At 75 pounds, two-year old Sasha isn’t quite full-grown. He’s no ordinary dog: Even as an adolescent, Sasha is incredibly strong. He can…
A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a convicted felon and former travel aide to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris. Last week, I reported that 21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington had claimed…
This should have been a piece of cake for County Commissioner Jim Scott. It was candidates’ night last Thursday at a meeting of the Coral Ridge Association, and Scott, who has represented the area for 30 years in one capacity or another, appeared to be chillin’ with his Republican homies…
Named after the man who owned the longest-running illegal casino in American history, E.R. Bradley’s Saloon has always been the sort of place where you could find big talkers and lots of cash. On my Friday evening excursion to the “Palm Beach tradition” that now calls West Palm Beach home,…
Do We Care? His sexual orientation may be his best quality: While gubernatorial phony, er, candidate Charlie Crist may or may not be gay, he is a big flip-flopper on the issues of class size, drilling offshore, and other subjects of importance to voters (“Crist Denies Trysts,” Bob Norman, October…
Time for another one of those newsy deals without much reporting in them but that you can take to the bank. Let’s preface with the bad news first. Circulation at newspapers is still trending downward, as a corporate analyst might say. According to the Sun-Sentinel’s Harriet Johnson Brackey, the Newspaper…
Hemmer: A Tool In The Box Fox is at it again, ala Dan Rather and Swift Boat. They’re blanket-covering this idiotic, botched John Kerry joke like it’s actually important. It’s the most important thing in the world to the Fox News Channel, where Bush/GOP tools Bill Hemmer and Brit Hume…
Just got off the Jim DeFede Show on 940 AM regarding Charlie Crist. It was great because I got the time to tell most of the story and also answer DeFede’s sometimes tough questions. His radio style is easy as a Sunday morning but never forget that DeFede is one…
Gallagher and Crist Okay, the new Crist story is on the New Times home page. One of the main knocks against the first story was that it used anonymous sources (whom I knew to be credible). Well, this one’s got two named sources who I also believe to be credible…
What follows is the full transcript of last night’s gubernatorial debate between Charlie Crist, Jim Davis, and Max Linn. It’s, um, really long. CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: Florida, the state that carried George W. Bush into the White House and elected Jeb Bush twice for governor. A state on the…
