Subject: U.S. Democratic Party Politics

• Delegating Denver - Will Florida Attend?

  October 10, 2007

• Weekly News Wrapup - Spiraling Economy, Racketeering and Still No Delegates.

  March 21, 2008

• The Nomination Goes To Obama

  June 4, 2008

• Are Hillary Hold-Outs Still a Concern?

  October 2, 2008

• CBS 4 Schedules a Diaz-Balart Debate Double Header

  October 2, 2008

• The D Word

  May 26, 2005

• Pelosi Power

  October 24, 2008

• And What of The State Legislature?

  October 31, 2008

• The Even Less Likely Cabinet Rumors

  November 13, 2008

• Surprisingly, Right-Wing Radio Host Has His Facts Wrong

  You can tell information is factually accurate when the author prefaces his little article with a boast about how one time he called a Democratic congresswoman a "poverty pimp" to her face. Oh snap. He then blathers on, "If her constituents somehow became affluent -- in spite of her best efforts to fight such -- they would throw her out of office at their earliest opportunity. This is because her high tax and big government worldview is opposed to the idea of wealth creation." That's how Kevin

  November 18, 2008

• Take This Commissioner, Please!

  January 16, 1991

• Florida Democrats Lacking Latino Candidates

  Absent from the list of possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for either governor or senator in 2010 are Latinos. It's nothing new. The Democrats have never run a Latino for governor or the Senate, and they've never elected one to the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to name a high-profile Hispanic Democrat to ever come out of Florida. Meanwhile, Republicans have found electoral success with Mel Martinez and Bob Martinez (no relation, and, yes, Bob

  January 7, 2009

• Inside Feature

  February 19, 1992

• 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

• McCollum or Boyd Won't Be Your Next Senator

  Both sides of the Senate 2010 fray just lost significant rumored candidates. Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum and Democratic Congressmen Allen Boyd have both said they won't seek the open seat. McCollum has sought a Senate seat twice before. He claimed his party's nomination in 2000, but lost to Democrat Bill Nelson. He tried his luck again in 2004, but lost in the primary to Mel Martinez and got called "the new darling of the homosexual extremists" as a parting gift. Instead McCollum w

  January 28, 2009

• Rod Smith Might Be Considering Losing Another Primary Election

  When it comes to the 2010 Senate election, just about anybody who's nobody is getting in. Rod Smith, a former state Senator of the conservative Democrat variety, made a decent run in the 2006 Gubanotorial primary, but ended up losing to Jim Davis. Along the way though he picked up some key newspaper endorsements (Herald included) and support from Rep. Kendrick Meek. Meek, and Rep. Allen Boyd, broke with the rest of the democratic US House delegation, who all supported their former colleague Davi

  February 4, 2009

• North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns to Run for Senate

  In our very important four-point treatise on netroots campaigning, we predicted "gay candidates will be the hot new netroots cause, just watch," and now, right here in Florida, that theory will be put to the test. North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns will tomorrow officially kick off his campaign to seek the Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.And if Burns has any chance of winning, it's going to come from unbelievably strong netroots and grassroots support. In a Democratic field noted for zer

  February 16, 2009

• Politics and Prosecutors

  July 7, 1993

• Hugh Had to Be There

  March 9, 1994

• North Bay Village = Quid Pro Quo

  In the Fifties and Sixties, North Bay Village was a place where seedy mobsters and corrupt politicians came home to roost.  At one point in its 63-year history, a law-enforcement report concluded North Bay Village, a man-made three-island city along the John F. Kennedy Causeway, had "Dade's largest concentration of undesirables." The era cemented the village's reputation for criminal and political shenanigans that continues today with a former head of Miami-Dade's Democratic Party playing a l

  March 9, 2009

• Silly Porn Tax Remains Silly

  via Wikimedia CommonsCan we tax plastic surgery instead? The Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau has been following a proposed porn tax with quite some fervor lately, but the State Legislators can't seem to talk about the proposal with a straight face. Republican Sen. Carey Baker said he'd heard someone throw out the idea of an extra tax on porn, and thinks that's a good idea. He also might have heard someone say Carey Baker is the best state senator in history. He didn't say it, honestly, but he he

  March 17, 2009

• This Week in 2010 Speculation: Sink for Gov, Crist Still Mum on Senate

  It seemed like a foregone conclusion just a few months back that Gov. Charlie Crist would run for a relatively easy re-election. Then in November, the Republicans in Washington got their asses handed to them, and whenever Minnesota decides to get its shit together, the Democrats in the Senate will have a strong 59 seat majority. So even as the Republicans are telling their base they're going to move more to the right out of one side of their mouth, they're not so secretly wooing RINO of the year

  March 25, 2009

• Hillary Clinton Would Be Prez

  If Florida counted in the primaries.

  December 18, 2008

• Ozomatli

  November 3, 2005

• Acute Democratitis

  May 19, 2005

• BEST MEMOIR

  May 12, 2005

• Basshead

  November 11, 2004

• Count All Votes -- Except Those for Nader

  October 7, 2004

• Democratic Mayor or Republican Mayor?

  August 5, 2004

• Pay to Play

  June 3, 2004

• Armesto Watch

  August 8, 2002

• The Meek Shall Inherit the House

  July 18, 2002

• Space Cowboy

  August 16, 2001

• Best Mob

  May 17, 2001

• Democracy Is Messy

  December 14, 2000

• The Dead-End Kid

  November 16, 2000

• Donkey Demise

  July 20, 2000

• Best Local Boy Gone Bad

  May 11, 2000

• Farewell, Joel Hello, Marvin

  February 6, 1997

• DeFede

  June 6, 1996

• The Case of the Invisible Candidate

  August 31, 1994

• Inside Feature

  March 4, 1992

• State Stem Cell Funding Ban Upheld

  Last month President Obama repealed the ban on federal funding on stem cell research, but that doesn't necessarily open the door to state funding. Yesterday, the state house voted to keep language in a bill that would bar universities from using state money for embryonic stem cell research 68-46. The vote mainly broke along party lines, but five Republicans voted for the removal of the ban, while two democrats voted against. Amongst the Republican was J.C. Planas whose father has Parkinson's dis

  April 17, 2009

• Jesus License Plate Has Died for Your Sins, and No, a Brotha Can't Get a Plate

  The state has important issues to deal with. Yet the legislature is spending lots of time grappling with the pressing problem of license plate aesthetics and appropriateness. Jesus plate-gate will apparently soon come to an end, though. Sen. Gary Siplin (D-Orlando) has basically said the plate featuring Christ on a cross is dead, and there's little hope of it being resurrected three days later. An amendment was adopted yesterday that the "the plate shall not include any religious image," accordi

  April 29, 2009

• Genius DSCC Points Out Neither Sarah Palin Nor Charlie Crist Will Seek Second Terms

  Sorry Democratic Senatorial Campaign Comittee, but your latest little video project kind of  fails. The plan is to attack two Republican candidates for Senate, our own Charlie Crist and New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte (who?), by comparing them to Sarah Palin. Reason: They're all resigning. It's a really clumsy "Republicans are all Sarah Palin" attack. First of all, Crist has made no plans to resign and I doubt he will after the Palin bruhaha. Secondly, what about all those De

  July 17, 2009