Dobbs

No-nonsense former CNN star Lou Dobbs wants to throw his hat in the New Jersey political world as a third party candidate.

Joisey?

You can do better than that, Mr. Independent!

How about trying the corrupt world of Florida politics?

Because he owns a $2 million-home at Ibis Country Club in West Palm Beach, according to county property records, Dobbs could easily become eligible to run for political office in Florida. And there’s enough populist anger and resentment against the political establishment down here to pave the path to office for the grumpy anti-immigration advocate with a red carpet.

If Dobbs wants to aim high, there’s the U.S. Senate seat that Gov. Charlie Crist thinks he’s got a lock on. The vote is in november 2010.

For a dog fight is what he’s looking for, there’s a mayoral election in West Palm Beach in 2011. And the fancy western community in which Dobbs bought in 2005 would love nothing more than having a member become mayor.

Dobbs to replace Lois Frankel? Imagine that!

“Lou Dobbs is a constituent?” WPB Commish Kimberly Mitchell asked, surprised. “Well, if he ran here, that’d put us on the map. I’d sure elevate the dialogue in this city!”

Dobbs is spending Thanksgiving at Ibis. He is expected to spend weeks at a time here this winter as his daughter, Hillary, competes in Wellington’s Winter Equestrian Festival.

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Pennington (Courtesy Wild 95.5)

Wild 95.5’s morning jock Jason Pennington is on a mean streak.

For the second time in a month, a stunt backfired on the guy, this time literally.

Pennington was channeling his rapper alter ego, The Value Meal Killah, for a stage show Friday night at Palm Beach Garden’s Ouzo Blue when things went south.

He first fell flat on his back on the slick stage as he attempted a wrestling stunt. With his back locked into place, security guards carried him away — then dropped him on his back for a second time.

In pain but determined to finish the gig, Pennington then sat in a chair to show his fire-eating prowess. Not only did he burn himself, but the jolt of the pain caused him to fall from the chair, on his back.

“I’ve been laying down on my floor since then and I’m taking care of the burns,” Pennington said Saturday morning. “But the crowd seemed to get a kick out of it.”

Pennington toilet-papered WPB Mayor Lois Frankel’s house this month. Only, it wasn’t Frankel’s house, but her neighbor’s. He’s been part of the station’s morning crew, with Virginia Lang and Kevin Rolston, for five years.

(Special to Page2Live)

What do these feathered pests know that we don’t?

When West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel (left) leaves her Interlachen Circle home for the luxurious confines of the new city hall, two dozen buzzards have taken to spending quality time on her roof.

Says her spokesman, Chase Scott: “We’re glad they’re on the outside looking in!”

The bill for the mayor’s luxury shower at the new West Palm Beach City Hall is in, and it’s as stiff as the marble among which she may now shower.

(www.wbp.org)

According to a statement by project contractor Dan Catalfumo’s staff, the bathroom/shower in Mayor Lois Frankel’s new office set the taxpayers back $13,323! And that’s for a relatively small shower!

That’s what the mayor’s office released in response to a 40-day-old sunshine law request by Page2Live.

The document set the total construction cost for City Hall (or is it Show Hall?) at $101,787,925.

When it comes to the just opened building, city officials and Catalfumo generally have been stingy with numbers. Last month, Catalfumo told me the mayor’s shower contained a total $400 worth of marble, something that “wouldn’t break the bank.”

For the poll and more $ details, look below (Read more…)

It’s a nice amenity, but you’ll have to get elected mayor of West Palm Beach to have access to it.

Hidden behind a door in Mayor Lois Frankel’s office in the brand spanking new domed city hall is a private bathroom that includes a marble shower.

Lois Frankel's first steps at the new city hall.

Marble, as in most Palm Beach mansions.

In the middle of a recession.

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer!

“In the big scheme of things, it was probably a minuscule cost,” says Herhoner, who doesn’t know how much the shower set the city back. As a matter of fact, she said she doesn’t even know if it’s really marble. “I didn’t ask for it. The designer did. I don’t even know if I’ll ever use the shower. But this building was constructed to last 100 years and it’s not been built for me. It’s been built for mayors after me.

“At least, the faucets in there don’t shut off automatically like in the rest of the building.” (Read more…)

If you, too, get this ticket, as West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel got on April Fool’s Day yesterday, be advised: It’s not real. But it’s pretty funny, even if someone obviously has too much time on his/her hands. Earlier this week, a Rush Limbaugh supporter shouted “Communist!” at true blue Democrat Frankel.

Update: Tempers flared at today’s billboard rally, and not just because someone called Mayor Lois Frankel a Communist. Check out this WPBF video. It should be watched while humming the ole’ Frankie Goes To Hollywood song Two Tribes.

Democrats promised an anti-Rush Limbaugh campaign in the radio hothead’s own hometown, and they’re delivering.

The Democratic National Committee is unveiling today its response to Conservative-in-chief’s statement earlier this year that he hoped President Barack Obama would fail. This truck is scheduled to pull into downtown West Palm Beach this morning, then drive all over the area for the rest of the week.

When Page2Live e-mailed Limbaugh the picture, he replied: “I honestly can’t figure out just who this billboard is criticizing. It appears to me as though the DNC may not be happy with President Obama’s takeover of GM/Chrysler.”

And he couldn’t help but sound off about the truck: “And that certainly doesn’t look like the kind of cheap, tiny Green Hybrid vehicle Obama Motors wants us all driving.” (Read more…)

. . . To those who’ve asked me to find out why WPB Mayor Lois Frankel looks “refreshed” these days, and the name of her plastic surgeon: She didn’t go under the knife. It’s all au natural! Herroner’s handler says she lost 15 pounds since going on a Weight Watchers diet last year, and her hair got a serious makeover. “And she is running up the stairs to her (fifth floor) office several times a day,” said city spokesman Chase Scott . . .

. . . Vacationers at The Breakers will be seeing red Saturday night. That’s because several hundred red-clad supporters of the American Heart Association are descending on the hotel for the traditional Heart Ball, always held on St. Valentine’s Day. The recently-crowned Miss America, Indiana’s Katie Stam, is the guest of honor. She picked the ball for one of her first public appearances as the land’s hottest woman . . .

Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil is shutting down Clematis in West Palm Beach again Saturday night for a free concert on the street.

Neil is celebrating the first anniversary of the watering-hole he set up, Dr. Feelgood’s. The music is scheduled to echo throughout downtown at 8:30 p.m.

There’s no word on whether Mayor Lois Frankel will hop on stage and air-guitar with Neil as she did last year.

Long before he had former Pres. Bill Clinton at his home for a Hillary-for-president fund-raiser, man-about-town Thanos Papalexis may have taken part in a murder so heinous that it shocked even hard-boiled Scotland Yard gumshoes.

There was torture, then strangulation.

And the crime scene was so bloody that it could never be cleaned. (Read more…)