Subject: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

• The Impeachment Gang Gets Together Tomorrow

  September 14, 2007

• Live Blogging the Barack Obama Rally

  September 19, 2008

• Just a Reminder: Your Congressmen are Weak

  October 14, 2008

• War Between Obama Mamas and Palin Pretties in Lake Worth

  October 21, 2008

• Pelosi Power

  October 24, 2008

• Top 10 Sexy Political Halloween Costumes That Aren't Sarah Palin

  October 29, 2008

• Election Night Live Coverage

  November 4, 2008

• Looking Forward to 2010

  November 5, 2008

• Where Are Dubya's Miami Balls?

  The official White House Christmas tree this year is festooned with ornaments from more than 369 artists chosen by senators and representatives. Conspicuously absent are any ornaments selected by our local dream team of Cuban-American Republicans. Did they not get the memo? Even disgraced sex fiend Tim Mahoney participated. Certainly we have enough talent in town to make some balls; whether they'd want them on Bush's Christmas tree is another question. Assuredly one of them would have called up,

  December 19, 2008

• Debbie Does the DNC

  It's not often that Republican reps Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts must be happy about announcements of new Democratic leadership, but the buzz today that congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be elected vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee must have them smiling. As co-chair of the Democratic Party's Red to Blue congressional campaign group, Wasserman Schultz announced she wouldn't be able to campaign against any of the three owing to her friendships. Now that sh

  January 21, 2009

• News Roundup

  Oh, look, an update from our old friends the sex offenders under the bridge. It's nice to hear from them every once in a while. [NBC6]It is going to get really, really cold this weekend. [CBS4]Fidel Castro wants Obama to give back Guantánamo Bay. [NBC6]Some dumb kid accidentally shot his friend in the leg on a bus. [CBS4]Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in Miami Beach talking up the stimulus package. [Herald]DJ Laz's morning show has helped raise $50,000 to cover funeral costs for three young

  January 30, 2009

• Live From The Barack Obama Stimulus Tour

  Riptide is live today from Ft. Myers, Florida for Barack Obama's first visit to Florida as President of the United States of America. He'll be continuing the themes from his stop in Elkhart, Indiana and his first press conference last night, talking up the need for a stimulus package. The event will be a town hall style meeting, with the President taking questions from residents, and is scheduled to start around noon.We are blogging live now, right after jump. Refresh often.

  February 10, 2009

• Bill Nelson Caught up in PMA Mess

  Last week, ABC News broke news that the FBI had raided PMA Group, a lobbying firm, this past November. PMA, which specialized in lobbying for earmarks for defense contracts, had close ties to Democratic Rep. John Murtha, but also donated heavily to other politicians -- many of them Democrats, but some Republicans as well. The Washington Post uncovered campaign donations given in the names of people listed as PMA employees, but many turned up to have never heard of the group nor of the candidate

  February 17, 2009

• No One Wants To Watch Politicians Sing On YouTube, Let Alone Talk Politics

  Here is one of our local state House members, Republican J.C. Planas, belting out "Walking in Memphis" at Disney's new American Idol attraction, as first seen on Naked Politics about a week ago. So far it only has 898 views. Which by YouTube standards is paltry, but by politician standards is down right astronomical. Ileana Ros-Lehtnin's only has 842 views for her official YouTube channel total, and she's federal. The videos on other local US Congressmen, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and M

  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 Mel Martinez barely passed with a D. This pattern held up pretty well until we got to South Florida's congressmen. Our entire delegation, regardless of Party identifications, all got As! Kendrick Meek a

  February 19, 2009

• Ros-Lehtinen's Constituents Happy and Healthy, Meek's Not So Much

  Gallup, Healthways, and America's Health Insurance Plans have teamed up to create a state by state, and congressional district by district well-being index. The index is based on the World Health Organization's definition of health as "not only the absence of infirmity and disease, but also a state of physical, mental, and social well-being." Out of the four congressional districts that make up major parts of Miami-Dade, District 18, represented by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is by far the happiest and

  March 11, 2009

• Dear Politicians, Please Exploit Your Family Dogs

  The liberal, elitist media would like you to think that Barack Obama is the first ever dog-owning politician in history. Charles Beauregard "Bo" Hussein Kennedy-Obama (yes, we've made that joke today but we will continue to call him that until the Obama administration produces his birth certificate. Why are you hiding the birth certificate, Obama, why?) is cute and all, but surely there must be other cute, political dogs.

  April 15, 2009

• When SoBe Was Kosher

  May 3, 2007

• Letters from the Issue of August 31, 2006

  August 31, 2006

• News Roundup

  Yesterday we broke some sort of heat record, and today we may do it again. [CBS4]Our five favorite congressmen (Wasserman Schultz, Meek, Ros-Lehtinen, and the Diaz-Balarts) will be heading off to meet with the president of Haiti. [USAToday]You know those charter schools that some politicians think are the future of education in America? Well, apparently a lot of them aren't even performing as well as public schools. And, well, that's not very good at all. [CBS4]Guns shipped out of Miami seem t

  June 22, 2009

• News Roundup

  Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez might have to increase property taxes to bolster the county's budget. [CBS4]Swine flu claimed a sixth life in Miami-Dade, a 53-year-old woman. There are now 716 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in the county. [NBCMiami]Jim DeFede is none too pleased with Cindy Lederman's demotion. [CBS4]It is wonderful that people with HIV can now worry about going bald. It is pretty terrible that a hair transplant clinic is refusing to treat them. [NBCMiami]The man killed by pol

  July 15, 2009

• News Roundup

  Over the weekend, pretty much every newspaper editorial board in the state wrote mean things about new Sen. George LeMieux. [Buzz]Oh, and word on the street is LeMieux might be interested in running for U.S. Senate against Bill Nelson in 2012, or for attorney general. [Buzz]Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a telephone town-hall meeting and publicly declared her love for the public option. [SunSent]Robert Schindler Jr., father of Terri Schiavo, died of heart failure over the weekend. [UPI]

  August 31, 2009

• Florida: 47th Most Powerful State in DC

  ​Florida ranks 47th our of the 50 states in terms of influence and seniority in the US Congress according to an analysis by The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A dismal ranking by any means, but even more so considering we're the 4th most populace state. Our legislators have less swagger on the hill than those from tiny states like Vermont and Rhode Island -- States where the total population is less than half of all of Miami-Dade County. The Herald-Tribune took into account Roll Call's annual i

  September 9, 2009

• When It Comes to "Government Waste," Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts Might as Well Be Democrats

  Cover art from CAGW's Waste Watch​The Citizens Against Government Waste's name pretty much says it all. The fiscally conservative think tank hates pork and government waste, which apparently includes programs such as expanding health care to kids in low-income families, providing low-interest loans to college students, and requiring insurance companies to cover mental health issues. No-good, useless, evil, reckless waste like that. In its annual ratings, CAGW chose 48 bills from the

  October 13, 2009

• News Roundup

  WTVJ has found a replacement for Julia Yarbough. Meet Kevin Corke, former national correspondent for NBC as well as a SportsCenter anchor. [SFLTV]Should we save Miami Marine Stadium, or should we let it be a cute place for raccoons to hang out? [AP]President Obama will be in town Monday attending a fundraiser at the Fontainebleau. [CBS4]Happy (belated) 19th anniversary, 2 Live Crew, for not getting thrown in jail for scarring white folk in Broward. [RandomPixels]The Republican candidate who happ

  October 20, 2009

• News Roundup: Mayor Diaz's Last Day; Heat Off to Hot Start

  As of noon today Manny Diaz will no longer be Mayor of Miami. The Herald paints him as a "a sober, patient reformist up to his elbows in the minutiae of turning around a troubled city" who enacted "an agenda of a scope unmatched by any other Miami mayor in decades." One likely, for better or worse, not to be matched by incomng mayor Tomas Regalado. [Herald]Eye on Miami says that the Diaz administration was an opportunity wasted, because the river front was surrounded by high rise condos. [E

  November 11, 2009