About Dale King

In his first TV ad of the campaign, state Rep. Bill Hager, R-Boca Raton, assumed the persona of a math teacher. First, he was shown working feverishly at his desk. Then, after writing a series of numbers on a white board, he turned to the camera and said, “When government does the math, it never [...]

Karin Hoffman, a Broward County tea party activist, conservative voice and leader of the DC Works for Us group, got her own political stimulus from President Obama’s failed stimulus package. “I have been involved in campaigns for years,” she says on her LinkedIn page. “However, with the first stimulus package that was proposed, I became [...]

The man in charge of the Republican message in Broward County eagerly exited his black Chrysler, cellphone to his ear. Nattily attired in South Florida chic in sport coat and jeans on this Saturday afternoon, Richard DeNapoli exuded youthful determination. “I’ve been very busy, very active,” said DeNapoli, 35, of Hollywood, elected two years ago [...]

Starla Brown, a staunch, conservative Republican, has never been far from the political arena. She took her first dip in the electoral pool at age 19, when she managed the campaign of her then-boss, an attorney who was running for a judgeship. The results were so close, they required a runoff. Brown’s boss lost, but [...]

Tami Donnally puts a lot of stock in personal values. “I’m just Tami,” said the wife, mother, former teacher, church administrator and second-time political office seeker. “When people ask me, ‘What are you going to do?’ I tell them, ‘What do you want me to do?’ It’s not just about what I want.” The Republican [...]

MaryLynn Magar doesn’t consider herself a politician. But having grown up in northern Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., she picked up plenty of knowledge about political dos and don’ts. She has put that expertise to work since moving to South Florida with her husband, Robert Stilley, and daughter, Samantha, two decades ago. In addition to [...]

Susan Bucher is hoping for another four years of 80-hour work weeks, election days where anything can happen at Palm Beach County’s multitude of polling places, and the sometimes-grueling tasks of training and overseeing poll workers and poring over computer programs to keep a massive voting system in tune. “My husband understands,” said Bucher, elected [...]

BOCA RATON – President Barack Obama spoke to 4,500 students, staff and invited guests at Florida Atlantic University amid a jam-packed itinerary of three big-ticket campaign stops during a visit to South Florida Tuesday. A relaxed Obama, who appeared from behind a black curtain without a suit coat and with his sleeves rolled up to [...]

Delray Beach Mayor Nelson “Woodie” McDuffie feels it’s time to bring his 42 years of experience in the information technology field to bear on Palm Beach County’s troubled voting system. McDuffie, who’ll be term-limited out of the mayor’s office in 2013, said he will challenge Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher for her job in the [...]