Rick Scott gets pummeled in the polls.

We get a lot of emails from Rick Scott. Like a lot.

He never forgets his friendly neighborhood media, and he's always appointing someone to some bureaucracy somewhere. But two days ago, he hit us with this Huffington Post article that made everyone go, "Wuuuuuuhhhh"??

The article concerns how swell a guy Rick Scott is.

What the article missed? How much Florida hates him.

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Today is International Women's Day! Yes, it's the one day of the year we allow the dames to come out of the kitchen or put the baby down so we can recognize them for all the lady things they do.

We love you, ladies. You're real swell.

But because it's enough already with asking to be paid the same salary as a man or be allowed to treat your body as you see fit, we present to you the top five Florida politicians who hate you:

Now get back in there and make me a steak!:

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I WILL wash your clothing if you cross me

So that was fast.

One month after Lacey Byrd, a West Palm Beach fashionista, announced she was running for Riviera Beach City Council, she allegedly thrashed her husband, got tossed in jail for a night, and upon her exit last Saturday immediately dropped out of the race.

"After careful consideration, I have decided to respectfully resign as a candidate for city council to focus on my family," she wrote on her Facebook wall.

Cool it, Lacey. Your family has had enough of your attention.

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Earlier this week, the Broward County Commission voted for instituting a Wage Recovery Ordinance that would help unpaid workers recover their wages from employers that either didn't pay the salary promised, or didn't pay at all.

The ordinance met with resistance from business owners who called the ordinance insulting, and unnecessary.

The Florida Wage Theft Task Force's Natalia Jaramillo spoke with New Times, and told us a case was being built on workers' behalf, with flyers, petitions, and, most prominently, a video of personal stories from Broward County victims of wage theft.

Jamarillo's hope was the an ordinance much like what Miami-Dade has would be passed -- rather than a so-called compromise what would only give victims legal aid -- a compromise Jamarillo insisted has never worked.

But on Tuesday, the ordinance passed by a 7-2 vote (with Commissioners Stacy Ritter and Chip LaMarca voting no). And now Broward County joins Miami-Dade as the only two counties in Florida to have instituted the law.

"We're definitely pleased," Jamarilo told New Times in response to the vote. "We got the participation from the commission we were expecting, with seven voting for it."

See also:
- Broward County Commission to Vote on Proposed Wage Theft Ordinance

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Back on October 9, the Broward County Commission debated on instituting a Wage Recovery Ordinance that would help unpaid workers recover their wages when their employers don't pay the correct amount (or, in some case, don't pay period).

The vote was delayed until Tuesday, October 23, at 2 p.m.

This is a good forward step, considering Broward County has been lagging in adopting the ordinance. Miami-Dade County adopted a Wage Theft Ordinance in 2010, and even Palm Beach County has at least some kind of form of a "wage theft" law (although not as effective as Miami-Dade's).

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When a video of Mittington Mittbot saying rich douchey things about the majority of Americans to other rich people surfaced a couple of weeks back, Matt Drudge released a 14-year-old video of President Obama saying "redistribution" a lot of times. When that failed to anger America and force an impeachment, Drudge went looking elsewhere.

And then he promised a bombshell video that would cleave the very foundations of America in two and reveal Obama to be the secret Muslim, Communist, Nazi, Socialist, racist, baby-eating zombie that he truly is. And a day before the first debate too, which is the raddest coincidence EVAR!

The video is from 2007 (only 5 years old? WHAT A SCOOP!), which is of then-candidate Obama speaking to a mostly black audience at Hampton University and saying things like the government screwed New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina aid. THASS! RAYCISSSS!

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People living in Delray might have received a mailer about Democrat Sen. Maria Sachs contributing to George W. Bush "more than once" and being in cahoots with Katherine Harris in disenfranchising voters.

The mailers, from a group called Progressives, are intended to sound as if a liberal organization is warning people not to vote for Sachs by tying her to W. and other assorted characters from the right's rogues gallery. Only problem is, Progressives is actually a Republican-linked group.

Ah, GOPers, is there nothing dirty, shady and downright dickish you won't do to win elections?

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"Aaaaawwwww, yeah. I caught an illegal voter. Chalk one up for the Scott-man."

See also: Voter purge havoc, good luck voting in Florida
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Alex Izaguirre

Intratribal conflicts are the worst. A debate on the U.S. presidential election at the Ross Jewish Community Center in West Boynton Beach on August 21 should have been an occasion for reasoned discourse and public enlightenment. Instead, it was a hysterical (in both senses) screamfest, peppered with conspiracy-mongering and racial stereotyping. As always, the worst were full of a passionate intensity -- or a deceptive self-assurance.

"Should Jews Vote for Obama or Romney?" was the question. Making the case for Obama were Palm Beach County Democratic Party Chair Marc Alan Siegel and attorney/Reform rabbi/environmentalist Barry Silver. Team Romney was composed of self-described "patriot and Jewish and Israel activist" Alan Bergstein and "Christian Zionist" Tom Trento, who is either (according to him) "one of the leading academic activists in the United States" or (according to the Southern Poverty Law Center) an anti-Muslim hate group leader.



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YEAAAAHHH

If you're wondering what the next ridiculously destructive posturing move House Republicans are going to be embarking upon (other than seeking reelection), it just might be outlined in a letter that they sent to Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Details started coming out this week about the letter, which asks House leadership "not to bring to the House floor in the 112th Congress any legislation that provides or allows funds to implement ObamaCare."

That, it would seem, indicates that Republicans are going to stage some kind of a fuss over the funding of the government, which has to be renewed either via a new budget (not likely, given the looney-toons proposals of the right) or a continuing resolution by October 1. Not passing one, or causing some showdown between the House, Senate, and White House, would, in theory, shut down the government about a month before Election Day.

And Florida Republicans are sooo in favor.

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