You know those missing e-mails in the Hollywood Sludge case? Well, first of all, they almost surely weren’t done from Mayor Giulianti’s official city e-mail. As Trevor Aaronson pointed out in his story “Mayor Mara, Annotated,” the mayor for years has been using her AOL account — mayormara@aol.com — to…
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…
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…
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)…
Remember when the Sun-Sentinel went to psychics to provide us expert prognostication on how bad this hurricane season would be? Ken Kaye led the March 27 piece (of …) saying that clairvoyants and Vegas oddsmakers believed we would be nailed by a Category 2. Cute. As if there isn’t enough…
CBS4 News called the dead 20-year-old man a “snitch” and the Miami Herald intoned that he had “ratted out” a murderer. The question: Is that really the kind of language news organizations should use regarding police informants, especially those whose cooperation with authorities cost them their lives? Friends and family…
Issues, Indeed It’s unbelievable to me that our PBS affiliate, Channel 2, is keeping known propagandist and Republican hack Helen Ferre as host of the supposedly thoughtful and independent Issues political show. The first segment of the show tonight was on the Foley scandal and all the woman talked about…
Gallagher So I talked to Broward County School Board member Bev Gallagher about her relationship with mega-lobbyist Neil Sterling. Specifically about her job at a blood bank that does business with the school district. Sterling reps the blood bank. Sources told me she’d gotten the job through Sterling. And on…
http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=17543&category=Local%20News&PHPSESSID=87e1c30606e74392285079681d4e2e92 Barbara Bush a guest at Shaw fundraiser in Boca Published Thursday, October 5, 2006 Former First Lady Barbara Bush spoke at a private fundraising luncheon in Boca Raton Wednesday in support of the re-election of U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw. It was held at Boca Raton Country Club. The…
Don’t Trust That Smile Here’s Fort Lauderdale Congressman Clay Shaw’s quote in the Jennifer Mooney Piedra’s article in the Miami Herald today on the Mark Foley fallout: ”That was a sad day in Congress last Friday when we found out that the Mark Foley we know is not the Mark…
