Email AuthorBob Norman
Featured Entry
Congressman Allen West Not Getting Any Less Crazy
April 25, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Allen West is on a roll of sheer crazy right now. First the Plantation congressman has been on Fox News the past several days lobbing crazy bombs at the president, calling...
Featured Entry
Brandon Marshall Stabbed, Wife Arrested
April 23, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Michi Nogami-Marshall's mug shot (courtesy of BSO)?Miami Dolphins Pro Bowl receiver Brandon Marshall was stabbed in the gut last night with a knife at his sprawling mansion in Southwest Ranches....
Featured Entry
The Toll of Public Service
April 22, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
You know those before-and-after photos of presidents showing how much they aged during their years running the country? Here's one example: ?iThat's a big difference, but it's nothing compared to what spending...
Featured Entry
School Board Construction Chief Tried to Give Contractor $100,000 Break
April 21, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Wild Art: Ken "Jailbird" Jenne and "Freeloadin' Freddy" Lippman back in the day.?At a time of budget shortfalls and employee layoffs, School Board construction chief Tom Lindner took it upon...
Featured Entry
Scott Rothstein's Story Airs on "True Crime" With Aphrodite Jones Tonight
April 21, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Investigation DiscoveryScott Rothstein with Debra Villegas, left, and Melissa Britt Lewis, right, during a 2005 Christmas party for the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. Lewis was murdered in 2008, and...
Featured Entry
Jack Tobin: A Newspaper Retrospective
April 20, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Tobin on the House floor?Margate political powerhouse and consummate deal maker Jack Tobin died Tuesday at age 69 and will be laid to rest Friday.Tobin was a former mayor of...
Richard Rubin Pleads Guilty, Faces Likely Prison Term
April 20, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Featured Entry
Is School Board Member Ann Murray Targeting Whistleblower for Firing?
April 20, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Broward School Board member Ann Murray claims she is trying to tighten the district's purse strings by laying off building inspectors. Building inspector Michael Marchetti -- a whistleblower who exposed massive...
Tuesday Morning Bytes
April 19, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Democrats Honor Criminally Charged Politico With "Emeritus" Position
April 18, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Featured Entry
Embattled Stacy Ritter Back on the Fundraiser Trail
April 18, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Cal Deal Wild Art: Sheriff Al Lamberti at a pill mill protest Friday at the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale. Also pictured: Broward Commissioners Chip LaMarca (left of Lamberti) and Kristin...
Featured Entry
Was the Tea Party Rally Sabotaged?
April 17, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Art SeitzA wide-eyed West greets Donald Trump yesterday in Boca (thanks to Art Seitz for the photo).?The Fort Lauderdale Tea Party rally on Friday at the Fireman's Benevolent Hall was...
Featured Entry
This Tax Day Brings Bad Tidings for "So Ethical" Richard Rubin
April 15, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Back in 2005, I questioned Richard Rubin, husband of criminally charged former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, about his relationship with the shadowy politically connected real estate broker Ira Cor. Ira...
Featured Entry
Diana Wasserman-Rubin's Husband Hit With Federal Tax Charges
April 14, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
A lot of people didn't think it was fair that while his wife was hit with felony corruption charges for voting on a grant that benefited him, Richard Rubin seemingly...
The Sylvia Poitier Case for Dummies
April 14, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Featured Entry
Ed Portner: I Did More for Dirty Developers Than They Did for Me
April 13, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Former Tamarac Commissioner Ed Portner -- best-known as Stacy Ritter's dad -- claimed in yesterday's Sun-Sentinel that he took no money from criminally convicted developers Bruce and Shawn Chait before...
Featured Entry
Newspaper Report: Sylvia Poiter Is Being Charged With Five Misdemeanors
April 12, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
UPDATED: Sylvia Poitier, the controversial former Broward County commissioner who is now an elected official in Deerfield Beach, has been charged with five misdemeanors related to her family's involvement in...
Featured Entry
Did Ilene Lieberman's Public Bailout of Operative Buy Loyalty?
April 12, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Lieberman, far right, presenting an award from her the Transplant Foundation to dirty developer Shawn Chait (second from left).?So the Sun-Sentinel is reporting that political consultant Beverly Stracher defended Broward...
Angry Local Tea Party to Rally for Government Shutdown
April 11, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Featured Entry
UPDATED: BSO Sgt., Wife, Hit With Oxy Trafficking Charges
April 08, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Associated Press Wild Art: Rick Scott's omnipresent security guards (in what one reader called "Blackwater-style" beige vests) couldn't protect him from the catcalls and boos hurled at him by the crowd...
Featured Entry
Government Shutdown Will Backfire on Republicans
April 08, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
?If the government shuts down at midnight tonight, it won't be the first time. The same thing happened at the end of 1995, when a U.S. House led by Newt Gingrich...
Featured Entry
Judge Steven Feren Hires Bogie; Is He the Next to Fall?
April 07, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Will the Tao high-rise be the downfall of Judge Feren? OK, so there's scuttlebutt out there on JAABlog about Judge Steven Feren, the former mayor of Sunrise, having hired local...
Featured Entry
Police Women of Broward County Arrest Former Political Pimp
April 07, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Sun-SentinelVicente Thrower got busted again.?Vicente Thrower was once a rising star in local politics.But unfortunately the 31-year-old political activist was a protg of imprisoned former Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion. He learned...
Featured Entry
Rise of Anonymous: Former Tallahassee Staffer Tells of Lying, Cheating, and Stealing at Capitol
April 06, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
Coming up on April 15 is a local conference on political corruption that will have among its speakers dubious former state Sen. Steve Geller, Broward County Judge Ken "Mr. JenJen"...
"Miss Gottlieb, YOU Are the Distraction"
April 06, 2011 in The Daily Pulp
