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Note: The following text is a quote: Superseding Indictment Returned Charging Members of the Krazy Locos Criminal Street Gang with Two Homicides, Robbery, Firearms, and Narcotics Charges Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael F. McAuliffe, Palm Beach County State Attorney, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Investigations, and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office,...

Despite the disdain of the Florida Democrat Party, and the benign neglect of the Republican Party of Florida, the "Tea Party” phenomenon is gaining steam. Over 4,000 people rallied in Orlando this weekend to protest increased taxes, increased deficits and the toxic stew of never-ending bailouts and stimulus bills. Gov. Charlie Crist and RPOF Chairman Jim Greer were supporters of President Obama’s stimulus package, so the tea parties have been organized without any official support or help from the Republican Party infrastructure. According to Sid Dinerstein, Chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, RPOF has neither endorsed nor...

The Democrat Executive Committee of Palm Beach County wants change allright, spare change that is. Local Democrat activists found out at last week’s DEC meeting that the local party is flat broke. As of last week's meeting the Palm Beach County DEC had $33,444.70 in cash on hand and $53,347.49 in unpaid bills, according to the info handed out at the meeting. Most are placing the blame on former DEC Chairman Wahid Mahmood for leaving the party in such a wretched state of affairs when he left office in December of 2008. The party is in crisis mode and despair...

Carol Anne Burger was fighting for her life. Racked by economic and romantic reversals, she struggled against moods that swung from sadness to anger. Her e-mails and an eight-page letter, subsequently e-mailed to Boynton Beach police by a friend in close touch with Burger during her final months, depict a bright, idealistic and compassionate woman struggling to keep her head up while caught in a painful, humiliating situation. She was unemployed and having to sell her house because of the breakup of her long-term relationship with her partner. Worse, she was still living in that house with her former mate,...

WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County's November election results may be vulnerable to legal challenges because a county administrator has taken on the duties of missing-in-action Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson, county commissioners warned today. Commissioner Bob Kanjian urged colleagues to address the questions ahead of time, either by having Anderson take a leave of absence and appoint a deputy or by having Gov. Charlie Crist name a replacement. Election lawyers are expected to descend on Florida once the votes are in to look for flaws on which to hang a challenge, Kanjian said. He said he doesn't want the...

Best-selling author and WND columnist Ann Coulter has been cleared of violating election laws by the Florida Elections Commission following an investigation of a complaint she registered at an address other than hers and voted in the wrong precinct in a February 2006 Palm Beach election. As WND previously reported, Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson, a Democrat, referred the matter in November 2006 to State Attorney Barry Krischer, the same Democrat who also handled the probes of radio giant Rush Limbaugh for alleged "doctor shopping" and for carrying Viagra. Authorities in Palm Beach County – including the Palm...

West Palm Beach water system cleansing underway, but boil water order continues WEST PALM BEACH - Chlorine began flowing this morning to cleanse West Palm Beach's contaminated water supply, and authorities are still searching for the source of the contamination that prompted a boil water order likely to last through Wednesday. Affected water customers can help too: At 8 p.m. tonight, people should use plenty of water on long showers, car washes, and clothes washing. "To flush the system in your house, basically," said West Palm Beach spokesman Chase Scott. The boil water alert Friday was for its 125,000 utilities...

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter was cleared of wrongdoing after an investigation into whether she violated Florida law by voting in the wrong precinct. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office closed the case April 12, concluding "there was insufficient probable cause to determine that Ann Coulter willfully or deliberately" violated any laws.

FBI agent steps into Coulter voting case By Jose Lambiet Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Friday, May 11, 2007 Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has been cleared of allegations that she falsified her Palm Beach County voter's registration and voted illegally — this, after a high-level FBI agent made unsolicited phone calls to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to vouch for Coulter. The caller wasn't just any G-man. According to PBSO documents, he was Supervisory Special Agent Jim Fitzgerald, of the FBI Academy's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Va. — the closest reality gets to the serial-killer catchers on CBS'...

Four years after President Bush launched the U.S. attack on Iraq, the fighting continues with no end in sight. Would you support a presidential candidate who backs continued U.S. military involvement?

           We are often reminded that in Iraq , the Sunni minority and the Shiite majority are engaged in an undeclared civil war. They are blowing up Iraqis and Americans, and whoever else happens to be standing in harms way. But in Palm Beach County, Florida, like the Musicman warned residents of “ River City ”, local law enforcement is saying:  “We got trouble with a capital “T”.          In the Village of Wellington crime is almost non-existent, but based upon statements made by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, certain other city officials show little interest in addressing the problem of gang...

A Republican activist who did some simple computer research says he discovered an "open door" for fraud: more than 11,000 Palm Beach County voters who are also registered to vote in New York. Bill Skinner, the secretary of the Republican Club of Central Palm Beach County, said he obtained public voter records from the county and from New York and hired a programmer to find voters in one database who have the same first name, last name and date of birth as voters in the other. The search found 11,609 matches between Palm Beach County and the Empire State, Skinner...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County's elections chief said Wednesday. Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case to the state attorney's office by Friday. Coulter's attorney did not immediately return a call Wednesday. Nor did her publicist at her publisher, Crown Publishing. Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct is a felony punishable...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Authorities on Monday found the vehicle that belonged to a family of four before they were shot to death last week along Florida's Turnpike, the St. Lucie County sheriff said. The 1998 four-door black Jeep Cherokee was discovered at about 8:45 a.m. in an industrial section of West Palm Beach, about 70 miles south of where the shootings occurred, Sheriff Ken J. Mascara said. The vehicle was being towed to the sheriff's office in Fort Pierce to be processed for evidence. The bodies of the husband, wife and two boys ages 3 and 4 were found...

Politically biased U.S. Customs agents lay in wait for Rush Limbaugh to arrive at Palm Beach International Airport. They eagerly pounced on him and spread the word far and wide that he had committed a crime that was not a crime at all. That's what Limbaugh says happened when he arrived back in the United States last week, after a trip to the Dominican Republic. He told his national radio audience Wednesday that U.S. Customs agents were waiting to spring a trap for him and embarrass him in the national media. According to Limbaugh, when he got back from three...

Pursuant to an agreement Rush has reached with state prosecutors in Palm Beach, Florida, they are finally abandoning their two-and-a-half year quest to criminalize a human tragedy—addiction to medication prescribed because of severe pain. Unlike most of us, who get to keep our private struggles private, Rush’s celebrity ensured that his would be played out publicly. With characteristic candor and humility, he admitted he had a problem. And he did it in a way that is rare today, although one that came as no surprise to those of us privileged to know Rush. He took real responsibility. He didn’t pretend...

Rush Limbaugh must submit to random drug tests under an agreement filed Monday that will dismiss a prescription fraud charge against the conservative commentator after 18 months if he complies with the terms.

The strained relationship between two of Palm Beach County's top Democrats ruptured this week. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said state Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, is spending so much time undermining the Democratic Party that "it would be much more honest at this point if Irv were to re-register as a Republican." He continued: "Irv has become the No. 1 agent in Tallahassee of the Republican Party. Irv is doing everything within his power to destroy the local Democratic Party." Wexler's assessment came after Slosberg helped launch chiropractor Steven Perman's primary challenge to state Rep. Richard Machek, D-Delray...

Florida County Wants to Force Churches to Stay Small Commissioners seek to amend zoning laws to ensure new churches have limited pews.Pastors and concerned citizens in Palm Beach County , Fla. , are protesting as both unrealistic and unconstitutional a proposed amendment to zoning laws that would limit the size of future church-building projects.  County officials maintain residents in some communities have complained about the noise and traffic associated with church expansion. The only way to solve the problem, they maintain, is to keep churches small.Palm Beach County commissioners have requested that the Planning and Zoning Department draft an amendment...

Palm Beach County, Fla., created the controversial "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 presidential election that reportedly confused more than 1,000 Gore-Lieberman voters such that they wound up marking their ballots for a minor-party candidate. In February 2006, local education officials told the Palm Beach Post that too many of the county's high school students apparently knew answers on the statewide comprehensive test but were incorrectly marking the answer sheets. The multiple choice questions require only one circle to be darkened on the sheet, but other questions require darkening digits of an actual numerical answer, apparently bewildering students into darkening too...

BOCA RATON · It is one of Florida's most polarizing policies, and anyone in the Renaissance Hotel's Coral Ballroom Sunday afternoon could see why. In a sometimes jolting ride over political fault lines, the generally liberal American Civil Liberties Union and a local Republican leader faced off over Florida's school vouchers for students in failing public schools. A signature initiative of Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, the "Opportunity Scholarships" are offered to students whose public schools fail the state's grading system at least twice in four years. The students can use the money toward tuition at private schools, including religious ones....

Saturday, October 22, 2005 BOCA RATON — Police Chief Andrew Scott, already under fire for releasing a wealthy friend from custody, in August ordered a traffic stop on a city resident so a Miami TV news reporter could interview him, according to a memo written by the sergeant who reluctantly followed the command. Scott ordered two assistant chiefs to have an officer help WPLG-Channel 10 reporter Julie Summers get an interview with a contractor who had been dodging her attempts to speak with him, according to the memo obtained by The Palm Beach Post. Sgt. Jeff Kelly was asked to...

Wellington Village Clerk's Office has surveyed how other towns in Palm Beach County handle invocations at commission meetings, after concerns were raised about whether Wellington's were too religious. The subject of invocations hasn't come up anywhere else they looked in the county, and nobody has a policy on them, the survey revealed. "At times, there were invocations that did not include all religions, and I was approached by village residents to make them more generic, like the ones in the [U.S.] Senate and Congress," said Village Councilman Bob Margolis, who is Jewish. Councilwoman Laurie Cohen introduced the subject at a...

In the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach County, President Bush's 39 percent showing last week was cause for GOP rejoicing, while Democrat John Kerry's 60.4 percent of the vote led some Dems to call for a leadership shake-up in the local party. Bush got 211,894 votes in Palm Beach County — a staggering 38.5 percent improvement over his 2000 total, when he was out-polled by even the losing GOP candidates for clerk of courts and public defender. The increase is all the more impressive considering county GOP voter registrations have barely grown over the last four years. Many of the...

If you look at a map of the election returns, we are a sliver of blue, while almost everywhere else but some snowy states near Canada and the weird West Coast has turned a glowing, bloody red. We're more isolated than ever, Palm Beach County. We're blue, along with Broward and Miami-Dade, surrounded by red counties in a red state in a mainly red nation. While most of us voted D, we watched the Senate and House become more emphatically R. We saw W declare his 51 percent a "mandate" to move full-speed farther to the right. You saw the...

Calling all able bodied Patriots!! We have close to 1,600 Bush/Cheney signs to put up in South Palm Beach County over the next two nights. The sign crews will be out all night every night and we need your help! Come even if you can only do a few hours! We will be signing from Boynton to Boca. We also need volunteers early Tuesday morning to patrol polling locations and put up signs if they’ve been ripped down by Dem thugs. If you have step ladders, staple guns, and staplers bring them, we do not have enough stakes for all...

Calling all able bodied Patriots!! We have close to 2,000 Bush/Cheney signs to put up in South Palm Beach County over the next three nights. The sign crews will be out all night every night and we need your help! Come even if you can only do a few hours! We will be signing from Boynton to Boca. We also need volunteers early Tuesday morning to patrol polling locations and put up signs if they’ve been ripped down by Dem thugs. If you have step ladders, staple guns, and staplers bring them, we do not have enough stakes for all...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 1 (AP) - Theresa LePore, the official whose confusing butterfly ballot design contributed to the turmoil of the 2000 presidential election and became the butt of jokes on late-night talk shows, lost her bid for re-election Tuesday. With all 692 precincts reporting, a challenger for her post as Palm Beach County elections supervisor, Arthur Anderson, had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while Ms. LePore had 85,601, or 48 percent. Ms. LePore declined to meet with reporters early Wednesday, but as the polls closed Tuesday she said she was too busy overseeing the counting of ballots...

Critics Say Palm Beach County Absentee Ballot Even More Confusing Than One Used in 2000 Election The Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Aug. 22, 2004 — Palm Beach County has introduced an absentee ballot that requires voters to indicate their choices by connecting broken arrows, sparking criticism that it is even more confusing than the infamous "butterfly ballot" used in the 2000 election. Theresa LePore, the elections supervisor who approved the 2000 butterfly ballot, opted for a ballot design for the Aug. 31 primary that asks voters to draw lines joining two ends of an arrow. Critics say the...

Like a Baptist minister, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler has been preaching the evils of touch-screen voting and the eternal damnation that will befall the Democratic Party if the faithful don't cast absentee ballots in the upcoming fall elections. "It's the only way to create a paper record of your ballot," Wexler, D-Boca Raton, implores voters at meetings throughout Palm Beach County. And party loyalists apparently believe.

Authorities questioned four men Friday for possible involvement in an alleged plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush and held two others on immigration charges, but by day's end they had all but wrapped up the case after their most promising lead collapsed. The lead: a van investigators thought might contain traces of explosives after bomb-sniffing dogs reacted to it. Late Friday night, residue tests proved negative. Investigators already were skeptical of information provided by a jailhouse informant that four South Florida men with Arab names had plotted to blow up the governor in Tallahassee Friday. Additional information about the inmate ...

Rush's Attorney Roy Black to Appear on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports: Wednesday, 5PM ET

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A congressman pushing to require electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail is taking his case to the courts. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Boca Raton Democrat, filed a lawsuit Friday in Palm Beach County against Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore, claiming the officials are violating their duties to ensure votes are counted accurately by not using machines with paper printouts. Wexler, who said he wrote Hood and LePore over the issue several months before he filed the suit, wants printed duplicates of all ballots...

"Scarborough Country" Thursday, 1-15-04, 10:00 to 10:30pm EDT. Transcribed by me from my personal audiotape: Host: Joe Scarborough: "[Garbled] Rush Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, joins us for his first primetime interview on Rush's legal battle. Roy is also an NBC analyst. Thanks for being here, Roy." Guest: Attorney, Roy Black: "That's my pleasure, Joe." Scarborough: "I want to begin, now we've heard over the last couple of months that Rush Limbaugh was involved in a drug ring, he was involved in laundering money, he's been doctor shopping, buying boxes of pills from his maid in a parking lot, and on...

This was transcribed by me from my own personal video and audio tapes of this interview. One segment of "The Factor" on The Bill O'Reilly Show - Fox News Channel - Tuesday evening - 12-23-03 - Aproximately halfway between 8 and 9 PM EDT Host: Former Ohio Congressman, John Kasich - sitting in for O'Reilly Guest: Former US Attorney, Kendall Coffey, Miami, Florida John Kasich (doing the introduction to the topic - I missed the first couple of words): "...to look at his medical records to decide if he should be charged with 'doctor shopping' for prescription pain killers. Limbaugh's...

Hearing on Rush's Medical Records IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: CA 03 13316 RUSH LIMBAUGH, Plaintiff VS. STATE ATTORNEYS OFFICE, Defendant.Palm Beach County Courthouse 205 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida Monday, 2:01 p.m. December 22, 2003 Hearing before the HONORABLE JEFFREY A. WINIKOFF, Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. APPEARANCES: BLACK, SREBNICK, KORNSPAN & STUMPF, P.A., BY: ROY BLACK, ESQ. and MARK SHAPIRO, ESQ. and JACKIE PERCZEK, ESQ. 201 S. Biscayne Boulevard Suite 1300 Miami, Florida 33131 Attorneys for Plaintiff. OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY,...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Investigators raided the offices of Rush Limbaugh's doctor Thursday, saying in search warrants that the conservative radio commentator engaged in illegal drug use and "doctor shopping" for prescription painkillers. The warrants show investigators were looking for records including prescription disbursements, appointment schedules, receipts and a medical questionnaire. "Mr. Limbaugh's actions violate the letter, and spirit" of the law that relates to "doctor shopping," stated one of warrants, signed by Asim Brown, a law enforcement agent assigned to the state attorney's office anti-money laundering task force. Doctor shopping refers to looking for a doctor willing...

GOP mischief maker owns Web site domain with Aaronson's name By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Columnist Monday, October 27, 2003 Palm Beach County Commissioner Burt Aaronson can expect some of the same reelection hassles he helped inflict on rival Commissioner Mary McCarty last year, including an unflattering Internet site bearing his name. Aaronson is being challenged in the 2004 Democratic primary by former state Rep. Suzanne Jacobs. Neither Jacobs nor McCarty is behind www.burtaaronson.com, a not-yet-launched site. That domain name was bought in May 2002 by Boca Raton Republican activist Jack Furnari. Furnari bought the Aaronson domain around the...

Thursday, August 28 Curfew possible to combat malaria By Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 28, 2003 Despite a record seven locally transmitted malaria cases and a looming threat of a West Nile virus outbreak, Palm Beach County health director Dr. Jean Malecki said Wednesday she still hopes to avoid a curfew. "I'm hoping people will take responsibility for themselves without our having to turn their lives upside down," she said. But, she said, she learned as a Girl Scout leader, "Always be prepared." What experts are calling the most significant malaria outbreak in Florida since the...

Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd could liven up local Republican politics when he spends a day in Palm Beach County next week. Given all the campaign money here, it's a natural early stop for Byrd, who just announced his interest in the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. It's also home base for U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Palm Beach Gardens. He's amassed a huge treasury while campaigning for months, including multiple trips to Byrd's Tampa Bay back yard. Byrd is making the standard stops: a Republican club luncheon in Boca Raton and the party's annual Lobsterfest in Delray Beach. He's also...

This past week we all found out that local political chameleon, Rob Ross, is not only a liar, but also a Nazi sympathizer who doesn’t believe the Holocaust ever took place. In addition to all the other shenanigans this creep has been involved with over the past several years while working for both the Republicans and now the Democrats he also finds the time to read the writings of David Irving, a so-called British military historian and noted Holocaust denier. Ross even went so far as to give Irving legal advice in his fight against Emory University Professor Deborah Lipstadt,...

The first formal meeting of the Central Palm Beach County Republican Club will meet Monday, April 7, at 7 P.M. at the Lantana Recreation center on Dixie Highway. This is an important meeting. We need a club badly in Boynton Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth, Green Acres, Atlantis and surrouding areas. Contact Howard Solomon at fl.realtor@worldnet.att.net

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office will begin investigating about a dozen people accused of voting twice in the November election. Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore is expected to send the State Attorney's Office today evidence of double-voting. LePore would not release the voters' names but said they were of various ages and hometowns. Those voters, including a Palm Beach Post reporter on assignment, face up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine if convicted. Each had cast an absentee ballot, but also went to their precinct to vote on Election Day, LePore said.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office will begin investigating about a dozen people accused of voting twice in the November election. Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore is expected to send the State Attorney's Office today evidence of double-voting. LePore would not release the voters' names but said they were of various ages and hometowns. Those voters, including a Palm Beach Post reporter on assignment, face up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine if convicted. Each had cast an absentee ballot, but also went to their precinct to vote on Election Day, LePore said.

WEST PALM BEACH -- As many as two dozen Palm Beach County voters could face criminal charges for attempting to vote twice in Tuesday's statewide election. Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said Thursday she would ask the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office next week to consider filing charges. Elections officials still are compiling information on the balloting. The voters had sent in absentee ballots, then voted provisional ballots at the polls Tuesday, claiming they had not voted earlier, LePore said. "They sign an oath on the provisional ballot, swearing they have not yet cast a vote," LePore said. "And...

Campaigns and county parties are always looking for a helping hand. No matter what your talents, where your interests lie, or how busy your schedule is, there's important work for you to do. You can contribute to the Party to help us get our message out. You can volunteer time to the Party to help us get out the vote. You can register to vote, to ensure the longetivity of the Republican Party. There are always opportunities to talk about the Republican Party and we look forward to hearing from you soon! The Republican Party cannot function without volunteers. Volunteers...

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The problem was a flashback to Palm Beach County's infamous Election 2000: Voters failed to follow instructions. Some forgot to sign their ballots. Rejected. Others failed to get a witness' signature. Rejected. Still others had a witness but the witness didn't write down an address. Rejected. Rejected. Rejected. There was another problem, too -- fishy signatures. Workers review every signature against the voter's registration card, which can date back decades. One 97-year-old man signed his ballot with a signature that didn't look anything like the one on his registration card of 30 years ago. It was much clearer this time....

<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Elections officials in Palm Beach County, where voters were confused by a controversial "butterfly" ballot in the hotly contested 2000 U.S. presidential election, declared a test of new touch-screen voting machines a success on Sunday.</p> <p>The electronic voting machines were put before voters at 21 sites on Saturday. Elections officials said 3,810 people used them to cast votes in a mock election that asked voters to choose their favorite patriotic landmark, patriotic song and to decide whether the words "under God" should be in the Pledge of Allegiance.</p>

PALM BEACH COUNTY TERM LIMITS COMMITTEE June 19, 2002 +++++ COMMISSIONERS ON THE RECORD... At Tuesday night's Palm Beach County Commission meeting meeting, commissioner Mary McCarty proposed that the commission CEASE an legal effort to try to keep the term limits referendum off the ballot. Commissioner Tony Masilotti voted with her, but the proposal was defeated 4-2, as Burt Aaronson, Carol Roberts, Addie Greene, and Karen Marcus voted to continue the effort. Commissioner McCarty deserves credit for putting this up for a vote. While there certainly was politicking all around, this vote brought the issue out in the open and...