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Allen West: "Total War" Only Kind of Responsible War With Syria

By Rich Abdill Wed., Feb. 22 2012 at 6:39 PM
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​Congressman Allen West has had enough of these half-assed wars in the Middle East.

While West was focused mainly on Obama's spending policies at his town hall meeting in Deerfield Beach Wednesday afternoon, he was also very critical of cuts to military funding and foreign policy interactions that he said made the U.S. look weak, particularly in China, Iran, Egypt, and Syria.

And West said the only way to wage war in Syria is to just blow the place up.
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Allen West Hosting Town Halls Today and Friday; Nobody With a Day Job Can Go

By Rich Abdill Wed., Feb. 22 2012 at 8:50 AM
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​If you've got anything you want to share with Congressman Allen West, he announced two town hall events yesterday: Today's event is at Deerfield Beach City Hall from 3 to 5 p.m., and Friday's is up in West Palm Beach, at the First Baptist Church at 1101 S. Flagler Drive, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Sorry, people with day jobs that aren't at either of those locations, but you don't get to go.

One never knows how these things will turn out -- yesterday, in fact, was the one-year anniversary of West telling a Muslim man at one of his town halls that "you attacked us." Another town hall last year had more than 500 attendees, including a small contingent of loud critics -- the Sun-Sentinel has a live blog of that event if you're curious about the kind of atmosphere at these things (hint: not friendly).

See you there.
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Allen West's Primary Opponents Don't Really Want to Be His Primary Opponents

By Rich Abdill Tue., Feb. 21 2012 at 8:25 AM
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​As you may have heard once or twice or a million times, Congressman Allen West is switching districts for the 2012 race, moving north to the newly drawn District 18. He already has an avowed general election opponent in Democrat Patrick Murphy, but West could also be up against two Republicans in a primary -- Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder has committed to the race, and South Florida Tea Party Chair Everett Wilkinson said he was considering a run.

But neither of the Republicans running against West say there's anything particularly wrong with his leadership.
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Everett Wilkinson Might Let Allen West Pulverize Him in District 18 Race

By Rich Abdill Wed., Feb. 15 2012 at 3:39 PM
Categories: Allen West, Election
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"Go ahead. Make my day."
​One day after Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder announced that he'd be running against Congressman Allen West in the newly drawn District 18's Republican primary, South Florida Tea Party Chairman Everett Wilkinson tweeted that he's "considering running" as well.

"Congressman West doesn't live in this district. I've lived in this district four years," Wilkinson told the Palm Beach Post. "There's local people in politics that may have considered running in that district who live there. Why shouldn't they?"

In Wilkinson's case, the reason he shouldn't is because West would drop-kick him straight out of the primary, then plant an American flag in the crater where Wilkinson's hopes and dreams used to be.

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Allen West "Most Engaging" Twitter User in Congress

By Rich Abdill Thu., Feb. 9 2012 at 8:30 AM
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​Just after Christmas, Congressman Allen West sent out two tweets about a colonoscopy he'd just had -- short, innocent messages; one used the phrase "doggone bran cereal." Like most everything else on Twitter, they should have just passed through the ether and quietly disappeared. Instead, 71 people retweeted them.

And, for West, that's actually far below his average of 112 tweets per message, according to media consulting organization OhMyGov. In an analysis of congressional Twitter feeds released yesterday, West came out as the most "engaging" member of congress by that measurement.

West's average spreads his messages far past his 36,000 followers and puts him far ahead of
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Patrick Murphy Following Allen West to New District 18 Congressional Race

By Rich Abdill Wed., Feb. 8 2012 at 1:29 PM
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BREAKING: Murphy has a nice desk and the will to win.
​Democratic congressional candidate Patrick Murphy's campaign just announced that he will be moving from his original plans to run in District 22 up to the newly drawn District 18 to challenge Congressman Allen West for a seat in the House of Representatives.

West announced last week that he was giving up on reelection in his current district and would be running for a seat left behind by Rep. Tom Rooney.

"Allen West and the Tea Party represent an enormous threat to the middle class, seniors, the environment, and America's economic recovery. There is simply no one more divisive in Congress," Murphy said in a news release. "It's imperative we make sure he is not re-elected."

West swapped districts because the newly drawn map became far more Democratic; District 18 has slightly more registered Republicans than Democrats. Murphy is also going
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Allen West Goes on CBS to Criticize Bill He Didn't Fight Against

By Rich Abdill Mon., Feb. 6 2012 at 2:45 PM
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"It just feels sooo gooood to be on TV."
​CBS News had a story today about a fee built into the two-month payroll tax cut extension approved by the House just before Christmas -- to help pay for the cut, legislators added a tenth of a percent fee to loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Rep. Allen West was featured in the piece as "one congressman... who said he tried to blow the whistle on the whole thing before Christmas."

If West was blowing any whistles, it appears he was doing so pretty quietly.
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Swapping Adam Hasner for Allen West Would Replace One Anti-Islam Politician With Another

By Lisa Rab Fri., Feb. 3 2012 at 12:18 PM
Categories: Allen West, Editorial, Fear-Mongering
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​U.S. Rep. Allen West's departure from his Broward-Palm Beach district to run for a more Republican-leaning seat up north is undeniably good news for local Muslims. Finally, South Florida will be rid of a congressman who calls Islam "a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology."

But don't start celebrating yet. Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner (R-Delray Beach) is seeking to replace West and has already received the congressman's ringing endorsement. Small wonder, because the two men share similar political tactics -- namely, getting ahead by spouting fear-mongering, anti-Islam rhetoric. (To read about how local Muslims are coping with such bigotry, see this week's New Times cover story.)

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Credo Mobile Creates Super PAC, Immediately Targets Allen West

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jan. 30 2012 at 1:40 PM
Categories: Allen West, Election, Politics, Sports?
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"What IS it with people noticing I'm crazy?"
​A cell phone company is jumping into the fight for District 22.

Credo Mobile was founded in the '80s as a long-distance phone service that sent 1 percent of customer charges to "further the causes of human rights, women's rights, peace, environmentalism and an entire progressive agenda." The founders eventually got into the cell phone biz, and now they've started a super PAC and plan to "take down the Tea Party Ten," a group of congressmen they call "racist, sexist, anti-science, hypocritical and downright crazy." They named their first six targets today, and our very own Allen West is right there on the list.

Your move, AT&T.

The PAC's list has West at number six, under the headline "Beyond Crazy." It
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Allen West History Revision: Attributes Ronald Reagan Abortion Quote to Abraham Lincoln

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Jan. 24 2012 at 9:52 AM
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Rep. Allen Bernard West, former "history teacher."
​If you didn't know about Abraham Lincoln's strong anti-abortion policies while he was in the White House, it's probably because they didn't exist.

Rep. Allen West, however -- the former history teacher -- decided to deal an anti-abortion quote to the annual March for Life at the National Mall in Washington yesterday, in the words of the great Abraham Lincoln.

Well, they were actually the words of Ronald Reagan.

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