U.S. Democratic Party Politics

Delegating Denver - Will Florida Attend?

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

The Nomination Goes To Obama

Are Hillary Hold-Outs Still a Concern?

CBS 4 Schedules a Diaz-Balart Debate Double Header

The D Word

Say anything you want, but just don't call them Democrats

Pelosi Power

Say anything you want, but just don't call them Democrats

And What of The State Legislature?

Say anything you want, but just don't call them Democrats

The Even Less Likely Cabinet Rumors

Say anything you want, but just don't call them Democrats

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 ... More >>

Take This Commissioner, Please!

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Inside Feature

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 lo ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 see ... More >>

Politics and Prosecutors

Why is it that naming a U.S. Attorney for Miami seems to be one of the world's most complicated tasks?

Hugh Had to Be There

He's inexperienced. He's hefty. He's the First Brother-in-Law. And he's coming soon to a ballot near you.

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 larges ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 h ... More >>

Hillary Clinton Would Be Prez

If Florida counted in the primaries.

Ozomatli

If Florida counted in the primaries.

Acute Democratitis

Jimmy Morales ponders the disease with no known cure

BEST MEMOIR

The Summer That Changed Miami Beach by Seymour Gelber

Basshead

The Future

Count All Votes -- Except Those for Nader

The Reform Party's presidential candidate makes some people crazy

Democratic Mayor or Republican Mayor?

The county mayor's race is nonpartisan -- on the surface

Pay to Play

In this political season, Miami's high-profile campaign contributors favor Republicans and Democrats

Armesto Watch

In this political season, Miami's high-profile campaign contributors favor Republicans and Democrats

The Meek Shall Inherit the House

And in the process dynasty trumps democracy

Space Cowboy

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

Best Mob

Republican hooligans

Democracy Is Messy

And it doesn't get any messier than a gaggle of Democrats gathering to elect their own leaders

The Dead-End Kid

Alex Penelas has gone AWOL, and the Democratic Party faithful are furious

Donkey Demise

Miami-Dade's Democratic Party is a shambles. Blame Joe Geller, candidate and chairman.

Best Local Boy Gone Bad

Alex Penelas

DeFede

Friends (and Money) in High Places

The Case of the Invisible Candidate

, The 107th District state House race provides a mystery worthy of Dashiell Hammett

Inside Feature

, The 107th District state House race provides a mystery worthy of Dashiell Hammett

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. Th ... More >>

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 featu ... More >>

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 ... More >>

The Haitian Twoubadou

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 ... More >>

Alex Penelas Wants To Finish His Job Of Ruining Miami-Dade

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez -- explains why a reru ... More >>

Alex Penelas: Mayoral loser

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez -- explains why a reru ... More >>

Former Senate Candidate Jeff Greene's Infamous Party Yacht Is for Sale

This, for some reason, is the only image we have on file of Summerwind. ​Would you like to own a yacht that once hosted the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Mike Tyson? Would you like to to be the captain of a boat that was described as something like a Studio 54 of the seas for dorks complete with alle ... More >>

Do Florida Democrats Have a Hispanic Outreach Problem?

​Democrats in Florida have a huge registered voter advantage over Republicans, but you couldn't tell that by looking at the leadership in Tallahassee and the Republican super majorities in both house of the state legislature. There's a few reasons for that situation (including the Republican-contr ... More >>

Carole Crist Privately Asked if Charlie Should Run for Governor As a Democrat

​Florida's own Lady Macbeth, Carole Crist, apparently isn't a big fan of being just a simple trial lawyer's wife. She married a superstar politician after all, so maybe it's no surprise she's privately asking about the possibility of hubby Charlie Crist making a return to politics -- this time, ho ... More >>