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December 11, 2008
News Roundup
Hairgelz Carvalho will actually be suing the state for $35 million, thank you very much. [CBS4]Rep. David Rivera won the chairmanship of Miami-Dade's Republican party by just one vote. Outgoing chair Mary Ellen Miller moved the vote, leaving state legislators who favored Rivera's opponent, Carlos Cu ... More >>
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April 22, 2004
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February 15, 2010
District 25 Void: Miami Lakes Mayor Pizzi to Announce Candidacy, Dems Eye Annette Taddeo
Now that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is mildly carpetbagging his way over to Congressional District 21 to run for the more Republican-friendly seat his elder brother is vacating, there's a big void in District 25. Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi will announce his candidacy, according to Eye on ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
David Rivera Takes Lobbyist Cash During Legislative Session
Former Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairman Joe Garcia is wasting no time knuckling up for Via David Rivera's FacebookAt a recent fundraiser, Rep. David Rivera (left) serenades supporters with the help of actor Steven Bauer, whom, as far as we know, doesn't do business with the state of Florid ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Florida Mints Joe Arpaio's Dream License Plate
Bill 1070 from Arizona requires immigrants to carry residency papers and allows law enforcement to randomly pull over those suspected of being in the country illegally. But how will la migra know who to stop? One congressman, Brian Bilbray of California, suggested illegals can be spotted by sart ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Marco Rubio and David Rivera's Tallahassee House Faces Foreclosure
Long before Marco Rubio and David Rivera became two of the highest profile Republican candidates in Florida, the Miami politicos shared a nice shady suburban house in Tallahassee, a few miles from the state capitol, just off the Apalachee Parkway.via New York Times MagazinePresumably, the scene insi ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Paul Crespo to David Rivera: "Anywhere You Meet Me, Guaranteed to Go Down."
David Rivera May Need Steven Bauer to reprise his role as Manolo for tonight's Republican party meet-upState Rep. David Rivera's campaign for U.S. Congress has taken quite the ass-kicking since he was caught being less than forthright about his friendship with Ariel Pereda, a Miami businessman wh ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Miami-Dade Republicans Name Drop Ronald Reagan
Paul Crespo Last night's monthly meeting of Miami-Dade Republicans was an entertaining respite from the LeBronomania enveloping the county. As promised, congressional candidate Paul Crespo demanded that David Rivera, the Republican frontrunner in the U.S. congressional race to replace Mario Diaz- ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Hall of Shame: Five Candidates You Want to Vote Against
With the primary election less than a month away, Riptide is doing its civic duty by letting readers know about the five worst candidates running in local, state, and federal races. A vote for these jokers is just another leap toward Idiocracy, the made-up future world conjured by Beavis & Bu ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Five candidates you want to vote against
With the primary election less than a month away, Riptide is doing its civic duty by letting readers know about the five worst candidates running in local, state, and federal races. A vote for these jokers is just another leap toward Idiocracy, the made-up future world conjured by Beavis & Bu ... More >>
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August 24, 2010
Election Day Races to Keep an Eye On
Will Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek hold back the two millionaire candidates? Will Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado's blossoming political machine get his daughter a seat on the Miami-Dade School Board? Will Dorrin Rolle survive his scandalous year to win another term to the county commission? Wi ... More >>
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August 24, 2010
Florida Primary Election Results Live Blog
Today Florida went to the polls for the 2010 primary election. While tonight's big theme involved controversial, self-funded billionaire outsiders taking on establishment career politicians in both the Republican primary for Governor and Democratic primary for Senate, there's still lots of ballot ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Joe Garcia is Leading David Rivera in District 25, Says Democratic Poll
Conventional wisdom says that the 2010 midterm elections are supposed to be tough for Democrats. There's already some conservative pundits who think that Republicans taking over the house is a done deal. Of course, national conventional political wisdom doesn't always translate to Miami-Dade, and ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Marco Rubio is in A Whole Lot of Personal Debt, May Have Used Party Money to Redo His Kitchen
Marco Rubio talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and his ideas to save the economy. He also talks a lot about the national debt and ways to balance the budget. So you'd think the guy would have his own finances in order. Not true. Today, The Wall Street Journal singles Rubio out as one of the can ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Did David Rivera Really Run a Truck Off The Road To Stop an Opponent's Campaign Mailers?
The race to replace carpetbagger Mario Diaz-Balart in congressional District 25 is heating up, and Democrat Joe Garcia has taken to the airwaves with an ad claiming his Republican opponent David Rivera once rammed into a truck on the Palmetto Expressway and ran it off the road to stop a former po ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
David Rivera Says He Worked for Company That's Never Heard of Him
For the past seven years David Rivera, a Republican state legislator now running for congress in district 25, has filed sworn documents claiming that besides his salary from the state his main source of income has been from U.S. Agency for International Development. Well, The Miami Herald contact ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
David Rivera Attacked as Bizarre Mr. Bean-Austin Powers Hybrid Monster
The race to fill the empty seat in congressional district 25 is heating up, and lately things haven't been going Republican David Rivera's way. Most recently, an agency that he claimed on sworn documents employed him says it has no records of ever doing business with him. Now along comes Democrat ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Joe Garcia Supporter Sues to Kick David Rivera Off the Ballot
David Rivera, Republican candidate for Florida's 25th congressional seatA Miami lawyer and a Joe Garcia supporter are suing to kick his opponent, Republican David Rivera, off the ballot for congressional district 25.Lawyers representing Garcia supporter Maria Teresa Pascual and attorney William B ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Five Election Ads That Will Make You Crap Your Pants, Just in Time for Halloween
This man will skullf*ck your pet poodle, at least according to recent political attack adsA pair of lidless, unblinking eyes stare out at you from the TV screen. You change the channel, but there it is again. A chill runs up your spine. Instinctively, you look around to make sure your children, g ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
David Rivera Stays On The Ballot As Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Shady Disclosures
David Rivera may have spent the last eight years filing the shadiest disclosure forms this side of Tom DeLay, but that doesn't mean Miami-Dade voters shouldn't have a chance to vote for the guy. So says Judge Jerald Bagley, who just dismissed a lawsuit to remove Rivera from the ballot.Bagley didn ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Election ads strike fear in time for Halloween
David Rivera may have spent the last eight years filing the shadiest disclosure forms this side of Tom DeLay, but that doesn't mean Miami-Dade voters shouldn't have a chance to vote for the guy. So says Judge Jerald Bagley, who just dismissed a lawsuit to remove Rivera from the ballot.Bagley didn ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
2010 Election Results Live Blog
Will Florida gets its first female Governor? Will the country's first female Speaker of the House be forced to turn in her gavel? Will Kendrick Meek somehow shock the world by winning? Did anyone bother to get to know enough about the CFO race to bother voting? Join us tonight as we live blog the ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Election Day Recap: A Real Life Montgomery Burns Poised to Lead Florida
Florida's new governor: Rick ScottWatching last night's election results pour in, Banana Republican could only take solace that Dorrin Rolle is no longer a Miami-Dade County commissioner and that state legislators will no longer have the ability to draw their own districts. Other than that, the 2 ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Congressman-elect David Rivera Being Investigated for $500,000 in Secret Payments from Dog Track
Floridians sure didn't let silly things like "ethics" get in their way of voting this year. Just ask Governor-elect Medicare Fraud. Despite evidence that David Rivera claimed employment for years as a state legislator from an organization that said they'd never employed him, he was easily elected ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Rick Scott Snubs South Florida In His Inaugural Parade -- Maybe For the Best
Does this look like a guy you want to party with?Inaugural parades are a time-honored American tradition, a treasured moment when fat corporate cats and scummy developers can make millions of dollars rain on a newly elected governor, all so he can throw a masturbatory party celebrating what a swe ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Marco Rubio, Frederica Wilson Make List of Congressional Hotties
Marco Rubio Riptide, 4-eva!It's widely accepted that, for a politician at least, newly minted Florida senator Marco Rubio is kind of a hottie. I mean, he doesn't quite have that Aaron Schock six-pack, but no one would be embarrassed& to be caught up in a D.C. sex scandal with him. So it's n ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
GOP Is Already Looking Into Plans to Replace Rep. David Rivera
Way to go Miami. We've elected a guy to congress who is so ethically shady that he even makes career D.C. politicians nervous. As the ethics scandal involving freshman Republican Rep. David Rivera grows, GOP leaders are said to be quietly making plans to replace him if need be. In any event, ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Rep. David Rivera Paid Himself $60,000 in Unexplained Campaign Reimbursements
Newly elected Rep. David Rivera's ethics troubles continue to be a source of shame for both his Republican party and his Miami-Dade constituency. The Associated Press has added more charges to his ever-growing list of suspicious dealings with money. The news wire reports that over the eight y ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Rep. Wasserman Schultz: Republicans' Effort to Redefine Rape is "A Violent Act Against Women"
With Republicans now back in control of the US House of Representatives one of their first orders of business seems to be a drastic legal redefinition of rape. The proposal has been met with outrage by many anti-rape activists, including South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who says she "c ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Politico: David Rivera Has the Toughest Reelection Bid in 2012
With investigations ongoing and more shady ethics charges mounting up, freshman Republican Rep. David Rivera might not even make it until 2012, let alone run for election. If he does, he's in for one hell of a hard campaign. Politico has ranked the top ten most contentious house races for 2012, a ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Watch David Rivera Squirm Over Ethics Charges for Thirty Awkward Minutes
Republican Rep. David Rivera is now under investigation by three separate agencies who are all looking into ethics charges involving his campaign finances. Perhaps no one told him, because he sure doesn't have anything to say about it. Since his district includes part of Collier County, Rivera de ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Miami-Area Congressional District is the Most Suffering in America
via Firehouse2District 17's Liberty CityGallup-Healthway's annual "Well Being Index" takes a wide-ranging reading of physical, emotional, and mental health of political districts on the state, metropolitan and congressional levels. The just-published statistics for 2010 don't give such a healthy ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
David Rivera's Office Tries and Fails to Remove Scandals from Wikipedia
Remember how Rep. David Rivera is allegedly a giant, corrupt scumbag? Well, someone in his office would rather you forget. According to Politico someone in Rivera's office is desperately trying to remove all references to the many investigations Rivera currently finds himself at the center of fro ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Does David Rivera Have to Tweet a Picture of His Bulge For Anyone to Care About His Alleged Scandals?
David Rivera dressed as a UPS man for some reason. (Click to enlarge.)Here's a disturbing contrast in the way the U.S. media approaches political scandals: One congressman accidentally tweets a picture of his boxer-brief-clad boner, and a week's worth of wall-to-wall media coverage ends in teary ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Developers Bundling Money for Carlos Gimenez Too
Carlos Gimenez A couple of blogs have been barking up a storm about certain real estate developers tied to dubious projects getting cozy with Julio Robaina, but Carlos Gimenez has his fair share as well. The donations reinforce the fact both candidates represent special interests and folks they w ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Florida State Rep. Luis Garcia Rumored to Challenge David Rivera in 2012
Considering Rep. David Rivera is under numerous investigations for scandals that, in the grand scheme of things, are far more serious than sending pictures of your junk to ladies on Twitter, it was a given that the Democrats would run a serious campaign against him in 2012. Now it appears the Dem ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
State Rep. Luis Garcia To Make Congressional Run Official This Morning
A rumored Democratic challenger to scandal plagued U.S. Congressman David Rivera is expected to make it official at a press conference this morning. State Rep. Luis Garcia has invited the local media to join him at Tamiami Park at 10 a.m. for "an important announcement." We're betting Garcia, a f ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
David Rivera Named One of Most Corrupt Congressmen
With Anthony Wiener's sext scandal and Allen West's ongoing shenanigans, it's easy to forget just how horrible Miami's Rep. David Rivera is. The freshman Republican representative has been under investigation by several state and federal agencies since taking office. Unsurprisingly, he has now be ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Mitt Romney Picks Up Endorsements from Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balarts
Marco Rubio may be South Florida's star Cuban-American politician, but he's not endorsing anyone in the presidential primary. So, the Republican endorsement prize in these parts is, as it's been for quite some time, picking up the backing of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
David Rivera Accused of Abusing Congressional Privilege With Medicare Mailer
Rivera's taxpayer funded flierOne of the perks in Congress is the right of "franking" -- no, it has nothing to do with Barney Frank, tequila shots and a dark alley. It's the ancient right to send constituents heaps of unwanted glossy fliers plastered with your grinning face at taxpayer expense. F ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich's failed Florida campaign
Rivera's taxpayer funded flierOne of the perks in Congress is the right of "franking" -- no, it has nothing to do with Barney Frank, tequila shots and a dark alley. It's the ancient right to send constituents heaps of unwanted glossy fliers plastered with your grinning face at taxpayer expense. F ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
2012 Resolutions: From Hank Adorno to Donna Shalala to Sid Rosenberg
Let's face it. For most of us, keeping a New Year's resolution is as likely as the Miami Dolphins finally finding Dan Marino's successor in the draft.And some locals should look back on the past year with shameful regret.They could use a fresh start, so Banana Republican came up with some ideas to h ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
David Rivera Has $8,000, Frederica Wilson is a Millionaire, and Local Politicos are Worth $170 Million
David Rivera, multi-thousandaire.Muckraking site OpenSecrets.org decided to throw some fire on the Occupy Movement this week by estimating the net worth of every single member of Congress, from mighty Darrell Issa with his $700 million to Florida pauper Alcee Hastings, who owes nearly $5 million ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Miami's Dirty Dozen 2011
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January 6, 2012
Xavier Suarez and Joe Carollo Endorse Newt Gingrich
Turns out Xavier Suarez and Joe Carollo can actually agree on something: they like Newt Gingrich. They've both been announced as members of Gingrich's Florida Steering Committee. Then again, it only makes sense that two guys who saw their political careers take embarrassing stumbles in the '90s w ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
David Rivera Backs Newt Gingrich, Because Allegedly Crooked Congressmen Stick Together
Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, and former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart have all lined up in support of Mitt Romney, which left little room for Romney's primary opponents to line up a big endorsement that would resonate in Miami's Cuban-American community. Well, Newt Gingrich ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Miami's Top 10 Political Bloggers Rank Dade's Worst Politicians
Miche RattoThis week, Miami New Times profiled the ten hardest-hitting blogs that make life miserable for public officials in South Florida. At a time when the Miami Herald and other media outlets are shaving back coverage of civic and public affairs, bloggers are filling the void to investigate ... More >>
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