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Bill Nelson

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Obama and Nelson Leading in Florida According to NBC Poll; Nelson and Mack Tied in Q Poll

    Another day, another poll, another outcome. Yesterday, Qunnipiac released a poll in Florida that found Mitt Romney had taken the lead in Florida, and today they've released a poll showing that Bill Nelson and Connie Mack IV are now tied in the Senate race. Though, today also saw the release of an NB ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Boring Moderate Bill Nelson's Stance on Gay Marriage is Vaguely Boring and Moderate

    There are worse things for politicians to be than boring moderates, sure, but Bill Nelson is a boring moderate through and through. So, it's really no surprise that his stance on gay marriage is predictably off in some vague, boring, moderate middle land.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Joe Biden Visits Everglades, Stumps for Obama and Bill Nelson, Does Not Kill a Burmese Python

    It was an entrance worthy of Vladimir Putin.Joe Biden roared his air boat to a halt in the Everglades. Miccosukee war paint smeared his face. Swamp spray glistened on his bare chest. The Veep then tossed a giant, dead Burmese python at the feet of a gaggle of reporters and screamed: "Are you not ent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Connie Mack IV Links Bill Nelson to Monkeys on Cocaine

    Florida's 2012 Senate election is shaping up to be as ridiculous as ever. Connie Mack IV, whom you might remember has been characterized by his Republican opponents as "the Charlie Sheen of Florida Politics," released a web ad today linking incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Poll: Bill Nelson Leads Connie Mack IV by Eight Points in Senate Race

    Just two weeks ago, a Rasmussen poll showed Republican Connie Mack IV beating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by seven points, but now a new Quinnipiac poll shows an almost opposite picture. According to Q, Nelson now leads Mack by eight points in the battle of Senator Spacesnakes vs. "the Cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Senate Poll: Connie Mack Now Leads Bill Nelson by 7 Percent

    ​Never mind the fact that Connie Mack IV's history of bar brawls and financial problems have been talked about heavily for the past month. It hasn't apparently hurt his campaign in any way. The Republican Senate hopeful has opened a seven-point lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Cow Furry Shows Up to Protest Sen. Bill Nelson's "Udder Hypocrisy"

    ​Florida's Democratic Senator Bill Nelson has apparently really pissed off one furry. A man in a full plushy cow costume showed up at the State Capitol building this morning to declare that Nelson was in the business of "udder hypocrisy."

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Connie Mack, Florida Senate Candidate, is One of the Sexiest Members of Congress According to Horny College Kids

    ​Rep. Connie Mack's late entrance into the GOP primary for the right to take on incumbent senator Bill Nelson later this year has resulted in a quick jump to the front of the pack over other candidates like George LeMieux and Adam Hasner. The fact that Mack shares his name with his father, a forme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Connie Mack To Enter Senate Race

    So far the Republican primary to decide who gets to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 has been a big, wet, cold heap of "ain't nobody care." Neither George LeMieux nor Adam Hasner have caught on with GOP voters, and pretty much every poll has shown that most are undecided. Well, Rep. Connie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Marco Rubio has Higher Disapproval Ratings than Bill Nelson

    Who's Florida's political golden boy? Well, based on all the fawning press and attention he's received, you might believe it's our first-time Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Well, apparently the honeymoon is coming to end. Now more Floridians disapprove of the way Rubio is handling his job than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Another Rich Guy Seeking Office: Craig Miller Enters GOP Senate Primary Race

    ​Stop us if you've heard this one before: a millionaire business mogul with little name recognition is using his vast fortune to jumpstart a surprising campaign for a statewide office in Florida. Yep, after the mixed results of Rick Scott and Jeff Greene is 2010, Craig Miller, the former CEO of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Bill Nelson Seems Boring Enough to Win Reelection

    ​Bill Nelson is now Florida's longest serving state-wide elected politician, and yet a surprising amount of Floridians don't think much of him one way or another. The guy has sat in the Senate for 11 years, and mastered a brand of bland Democratic moderation that doesn't piss off Republicans too m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Obama's Approval Ratings Get Big Bump in Florida

    The 2012 election is still 17 months away, but the latest numbers from Quinnipiac show hopeful news for Democrats for the first time in month. President Barack Obama's approval ratings are back above 50 percent in Florida since 2009, and more Floridians say they would definitely vote for him than a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Bill Nelson Will View Osama Death Photos, Marco Rubio Opts Out

    ​Regular people will probably not see Osama bin Laden's final glamor shots, the one featuring a bullet hole somewhere in his face. At least not any time soon, but a select group of congressmen will get a chance to view those photos. Because Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio serve on the Senate Intellige ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    GOP Senate Candidates Shocking Attack Against Bill Nelson: He Likes Obama

    ​There's no clear front runner yet in the race for the Republican nomination to take on Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, but the candidates are already taking aim at Nelson. Though, the guy is a pretty moderate Democrat who hasn't stirred up all that much controversy, recent web ads from some of the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    President Obama Coming Back to Miami on March 4

    ​President Obama sure loves hitting up Miami for fundraisers. POTUS has been in the area several times since his election for numerous cash raising soirees (including one at the Estefan household) and will be back in town March 4 to attend a fundraiser for Democratic Senate candidates as well as t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Senate President Mike Haridopolos to Run Against Bill Nelson in 2012

    ​Senator Bill Nelson, currently the only democratic official in Florida to have been elected state-wide is up for re-election in 2012, and he's already beginning to draw Republican opponents. Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos will soon announce his candidacy, and is already talking openly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Poll: Rush Limbaugh Will Not Be Our Next Senator

    ​Despite much evidence in the 2010 election cycle to the contrary, Florida voters have not completely lost their damn minds. A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Rush Limbaugh does not have a chance of knocking off incumbent democratic senator Bill Nelson when he's up for reelection in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Why Didn't The Herald Write More About Bill Nelson's Stanford Ponzi Problem?

    First, let's give the feds some credit.via Texas Monthly​​If the Miami Herald's Sunday story updating the Allen Stanford Ponzi-o-rama is accurate, it took the daily only about ten months to finally begin probing the dozens of federal officials who took millions in cash from the (allege ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Bill Nelson Is America's Most Googled Living Senator, Somehow

    ​Out of all the senators who served in Congress this year, our Bill Nelson was the second most Googled senator, according to the New York Times. He came in, understandably, just after the late Ted Kennedy. This means Nelson is America's most Googled serving senator.  No one is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    News Roundup

    Like Christina Milian, the gods of weather are going to dip it low, and after a week of record highs, we might see record lows. These weather gods are obviously bipolar. [CBS4]Wow, Bill Nelson's senate committee is done with health care, and what does he instantly start up on again? Chinese drywall. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    George LeMieux Takes Office Today, Hints at Possible Run Against Nelson in 2012

    Florida's 33rd senator, George LeMieux, will be sworn in today at 2:45 amid concerns his Broward law firm helped secure visas for foreigners to work on a hotel and condo project in Bal Harbour, depriving Americans of jobs. As our brothers in blog-arms The Juice point out, a Capit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Bill Nelson Proposes a Giant Python-Killing Party in the Everglades

    In certain times and places in U.S. history, the answer to every political problem was probably "Let's get a bunch of guys with guns together and solve this." Nowadays, this idea seems to be seriously considered only in matters of Middle East diplomacy, but Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is suggesting a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Senator Nelson Takes Strong Stance Against Burmese Pythons

    via Wiki CommonsLast week, a 12-foot-long pet Burmese python snuck into the crib of a 2-year-old Florida girl and killed her. Now, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson has taken to the Senate floor to push a ban on importing the potentially dangerous snakes. "Sooner or later, a Burmese python will get the end ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    The Atlantic, Important Political and Foreign Affairs Magazine, Now Rates Tweets

    For the past year, in the dimly lit corridors of congressional office buildings the very men and women we've elected to make the laws of this fine country sit in front of their computers, trying to makes sense of this twitter thing. This phenomenon that was first embraced by the 20-something, intern ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Bill Nelson Will Filibuster the Hell out of Offshore Drilling

    Bill Nelson went to space one man, he's seen some things. We don't even know why we're trying to meet our energy needs with oil anymore, when we all know if we could tap into the source that powers Sen. Bill Nelson, we'd be able to meet the global projected power needs for the next two centuries, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Does Bill Nelson Want to Raise Taxes on Your Alcohol?

    I was reading I Can Has Cheezburger in my RSS Reader when I saw this ad below all the LOLcats. Apparently, Sen. Bill Nelson wants to raise the taxes on my wine by 233 percent! The ad leads to the Freedom Work's website, where it explains "a massive new tax hike" to pay for health care, which also in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Florida Senate Delegation To Remain Firmly Anti-Burmese Python

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be touring the Everglades tomorrow at the invitation of Sen. Bill Nelson. The day will kick off with a briefing on the efforts to trip and track invasive Burmese pythons that make their home in the 'Glades Most of the snakes loose in the& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Why So Few Women on The JNC?

    Judging by the moose-shootin' hockey mom on the presidential ticket this past fall, political strategists have discovered a little secret: Women outnumber men in this country. And that shows up at the polls.It's for this reason that Florida Senator Bill Nelson might want a re-do when it comes to a d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Katherine Harris Enjoyed a Nice Caribbean Vay-cay with 'Mini-Madoff' Allen Stanford

    There are quite a few South Florida connections to the ongoing "mini-Madoff" scandal surrounding Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who faces civil charges from the SEC that he orchestrated a "massive, ongoing fraud" to the tune of $8 billion through his Stanford International Bank. Courtesy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Local Legislatures On Both Sides Get Good Grades on Poverty Issues

    The National Center of Poverty Law put out their annual Poverty Scorecard, and while scrolling through it we started seeing a pattern. Democrats were all getting As and A s, while Republicans were all getting Cs, Ds and Fs. Take our Senators for example: Democrat Bill Nelson got an A , Republican Me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Nelson Campaign Cash Caught up in Stanford Saga Too

    Robert Allen Stanford is the latest money manager accused of defrauding his investors out of billions. He is also the latest major Bill Nelson donor caught up in controversy. Yesterday, we told you about the tens of thousands of dollars Sen. Bill Nelson accepted from embattled lobbying firm PMA. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Bill Nelson Wants to Keep Snakes Off Planes

    While this entire stimulus bill saga is gripping DC, Senator Bill Nelson found time to tackle another problem. He filed legislation on Tuesday seeking to ban the import and interstate trade of reptiles. Nelsons interest in the matter stems from the problem of alien pythons in the Everglades, who we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Two Senators Declare They're "Gonna Be High as a Kite by Then"

    Keeping up the grand tradition of politicians making friendly wagers on sports games, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson made a bet with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn over the BCS Championship. Instead of a traditional bet, the two decided the loser would have to sing for the winner. Nelson of course won, and Cob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Rocketman Nelson Bets His Pipes on BCS Bowl

    Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Sink May Put a Drain On GOP Senate Hopes, Yet

    "Sink not running against Martinez," technically this Politico.com headline from Monday is correct, as no one will be running against Mel Martinez, ever again. But their assertion that she wasn't throwing her hat in the ring to become Florida's junior Senator in 2010 may have been off the mark. Nake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Only One Of These Men Has A Reason To Smile

    Republicans across the nation may, for some reason, prefer Sarah Palin over Charlie Crist in an imaginary primary, but Crist can take solace in knowing he's the most popular man in Florida. According to the latest numbers 68% of voters approve of Crist's handling of his job. 50% said they'd vote fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Nelson Wants To Make Sure Lil' Lieberman Doesn't Make a Fuss

    via Ybor City Stogie Yeah it's all insider baseball type stuff that most voters don't care about, but I am pretty sure Floridians didn't elect Bill Nelson on a platform of Save our Liebermans. After the weird psychodrama that has been Joe Lieberman's political life of the past few years (lossing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Same Ol' Party

    Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Bailout Is In

    Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Either Sen. Nelson is a Surprise VP Choice or Obama's Webmaster is About To Get Fired

    Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Dire Emergency for Internet Radio!!

    Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2006

    Confessions to Clinton

    Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let' ... More >>

  • News

    March 23, 2006

    Gonzo Gore

    The ex-vice prez sure can talk. Who knew?

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Loaded

    The federal ban on assault weapons never worked, as Miami-Dade Police Ofcr. Keenya Hubert painfully learned

  • City Life

    May 15, 2003

    BEST LOCAL GIRL MADE GOOD

    Cecilia Altonaga

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Space Cowboy

    Someone please tell Bill Nelson that not everyone in the Democratic Party looks like him

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    One Last Push

    A decision on Homestead is imminent, and nobody wants to guess what will happen next

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Riptide

    A decision on Homestead is imminent, and nobody wants to guess what will happen next

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    The Mayor's Strong Arm

    A decision on Homestead is imminent, and nobody wants to guess what will happen next

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