Gov. Jeb Bush’s office released e-mails exhanged between the gov and disgraced congressman Mark Foley yesterday and, thankfully, we are none the wiser on the size of Jeb’s member. But Dara Kam of the Palm Beach Post reports that there were some interesting exchanges about Foley’s concern about getting the…
We hear that Charlie Crist is gay. There’s no proof that he is. In fact, Crist, the Republican candidate for governor and the current state attorney general, has repeatedly denied it. But professional muckrakers have burned fistfuls of campaign money trying to prove it. His political opponents have tried to…
For the past eight years, Lamont Snyder could be found toiling on the football field at Hallandale High School, his intense expression shaded from the late-afternoon sun by a broad-brimmed straw hat, which comes off only when a point must be made — emphatically. Thanks to the hat, as well…
After publishing Kelly Cramer’s remarkable story “Daddy’s Girl” two weeks ago, the most frequent question I’ve been asked about the tale of a Wall Street millionaire who married his own daughter is: How could Linda Schutt, a grown woman with a PhD in psychology, succumb to the seduction attempts of…
Proving that anyone can start a blog, a local group of lawyers recently got one going that generally reads about as exciting as a court pleading. The Justice Advocacy Association of Broward, made up of about 200 local defense attorneys, calls its Internet experiment JAABlog (jaablog.jaablaw.com), and it’s been operating…
In an unprecedented journalistic coup, New Times has uncovered the last instant messages that Congressman Mark Foley sent to an underaged congressional page just one day before the news broke that led to his abrupt resignation. The complete text follows (reader discretion is strongly discouraged): Maf54: are you in your…
Conversation between Robby the Robot, the courtly and groundbreakingly human automaton from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, and Robot B-9, the barrel-chested mechanical Man Friday with the clear-plastic noggin from the 1960s television series Lost in Space, overheard by Tailpipe last week in Boca Raton: B-9: Warning! Warning! Starboard functionator…
When Rodman’s Rehab opened in mid-September as a bar-within-a-bar in Voodoo Lounge, the Night Rider invited herself to the party. When the general manager wouldn’t return her call, she decided to go anyway, flashing her business card at the door, insisting her role as nightlife reporter should warrant her entry…
Ratzo Satz-oh Why sleazy Broward pols live charmed lives: I think your article was right on (“A Politician Weeps,” Bob Norman, October 5). I have seen many of these issues for myself and cannot believe the arrogance in which the State Attorney’s Office turns a blind eye. Why is Broward…
His Three Sons In a recent Republican Party mailing for gubernatorial frontrunner Charlie Crist, they included a picture of Crist clutching a few little boys in a happy pose. Under the picture is this Crist quote: “If we promote and protect our children and strengthen our families, we will go…
The Bush-Foley caption contest has a victor. We’ll start with the third-place finisher, from Will: — “Now Foley, that’s your problem. If you leave ’em alone, let ’em age a little more, they get a lot bigger!” Second place is from “joker”: — “Yeah, Markie, it used to be that…
Okay, if you want to have some fun, go to Google, punch in hollywood florida and then see the top ad at the front of the page. You should get this. It’s a Keith Wasserstrom google ad that says: “Father of 3, Husband, Get The Facts City Councilman NOT Guilty!”…
Uh, Anybody Know Where Gov 101 Class Is? The Miami Herald’s Nirvi Shah and Hannah Sampson have a story today about the Town of Southwest Ranches offer to buy back the swampland it sold the school board. You know, it’s the land that the board bought for $4.3 million and…
— Dan Abbott’s days should be numbered as city attorney. He fought like hell to keep Keith Wasserstrom from being charged, even making a special trip downtown to plead with prosecutors to go easy on him. He’s claiming all over the TV news that he knew every aspect of the…
I Love This Picture Pompano preacher O’Neal Dozier basically destroyed his political standing in the State of Florida when he recently complained that Islam was an evil cult intent on cutting off all our heads. In response, Jeb Bush cut him off and Charlie Crist dumped him from his campaign…
This following explanation of Keith Wasserstrom crime (as abetted by Mayor Mara Giulianti, his good friend and mother of his then-law partner) appeared in the New Times on May 20, 2004. Titled “Justice Revised,” it breaks down the mayor’s lame excuses and indicates that she knew full well what was…
Harper’s Magazine just posted one of the most fascinating stories on the Mark Foley scandal to date (via Romenesko). In short, Ken Silverstein puts the lie to the Republican B.S. line that this was orchestrated by the Democratic Party. The source of the information, he writes, was a Democrat, but…
The Sun-Sentinel’s John Holland and Ihosvani Rodriguez have their first version of the Wasserstrom bombshell on the website. Holland is a driven reporter who has been following this thing closely so it’s no wonder it’s a helluva start (though it is rather vague on how the investigation started). It’s worth…
Wasserstrom Hollywood City Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom has been indicted on several felony counts for his involvement with Schwing Bioset, a waste treatment company that does business with his city, according to several sources. The State Attorney’s Office’s investigation of Wasserstrom was sparked by an April 15, 2004 New Times column…
In keeping with the today’s spontaneous theme of visual art, this cartoon comes courtesy of the Hartford Courant’s Bob Englehart (and here’s Englhart’s commentary on very said cartoon)…
Damn, this Foley scandal even has the tired hacks at Time coming up with inspired ideas. If you can’t read it, click here for a better look…
Supply the winning caption and win a Pulp prize (photo via Daily Kos)…
