Today, New York Times columnist Gail Collins tackled the tricky subject of billionaire Florida Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene. She calls the man’s 145 party boat the Summerwind the “Levi Johnston of Yachts” because it’s “an embarrassing, headline-making connection.” Riptide has regrettably been sleeping on the yacht-troversy as of late,…
Back in early 2009 it seemed that Charlie Crist was a guarantee to win the Senate race as a Republican, and Bill McCollum had the edge in the Governors race. Now the latest Quinnipiac poll shows that GOP candidates are trailing in both the Senate and Governors race. What happened?…
The wingnuts are coming! The wingnuts are coming! Yes, on September 17, all of America’s favorite right-wing airbags will descend upon the Doral Resort & Spa right here in Miami for WorldNetDaily’s Taking America Back Conference. Tom “Miami Is a Third-World Country” Tancredo, Michelle Bachman, Victoria “Obama Is a Communist” Jackson, and…
Short of hiring a medium to contact the ghost of Ronald Reagan for an endorsement, the best thing Republicans can get in the ways of a Reagan endorsement is getting the Gipper’s adopted son to back a candidate while raising his father’s specter another way. Lucky Bill McCollum.Meanwhile, “mama grizzly”…
With some polls showing Rick Scott now more than ten points behind Bill McCollum in the Republican primary, the billionaire candidate has decided to pull out all the stops in the final days before the election. He has sent out an ad attacking McCollum for hiring now-disgraced George Rekers to…
A day after ex-prez Bill Clinton turned on the smiles for U.S. Senate-hopeful Kendrick Meek, none other than President Obama himself is set to visit Miami today to stump for the Democratic candidate for governor, Alex Sink.And for those of you with $10,000 to burn and an empty picture frame…
According to two state papers, Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is set to announce Rod Smith as her running mate this Thursday at an event in West Palm Beach. Yawn. A former state senator, Smith lost the 2006 Democratic primary for governor to similarly boring Jim Davis. The move seems…
In his young bid to become Haiti’s next president, Wyclef Jean has already weathered more criticism than Rick Santorum at a Dan Savage house party. Mostly, he’s been hammered for his record running his charity, Yéle, which paid hundreds of thousands in fishy fees to Wyclef himself or his friends. And mostly…
Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has so much money to spend on TV ads in his self-funded quest to buy the governor’s seat that it seems he has run out of issues that matter to Floridians. Now he’s just buying airtime to apparently talk about any old thing on his mind…
When Miami’s director of solid waste management quit earlier this summer, city officials were sent scrambling for a replacement. They quickly hired Fred Hobson, a former assistant director of solid waste who had retired in 2005.Problem is, Hobson’s resumé is itself solid waste — and the city should have known…
“We can ship them out to the middle of the country and put up high walls and leave them there,” Marg Baker says of illegal immigrants. The Tea Party candidate for the Republican nomination to a state house seat north of Tampa made the remarks at a rally for Glenn Beck’s “9/12″…
With millions of his own dollars at his disposal and an aggressive campaign, political outsider Rick Scott seemed he might take the Republican primary for governor over career politician Bill McCollum. Well, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll, McCollum is back on top, but Democrat Alex Sink now leads both…
Wyclef Jean is still waiting to find out whether he’s actually eligible to run for president in Haiti, a nation that doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. But that doesn’t mean his campaign isn’t already in full swing.Jean has released his first campaign video (apparently, he decided the “If I Were President”…
Anything related to the Republican primary for governor has long since stopped making sense. Bill McCollum supporters are now set to hold a protest outside the headquarters of a social networking website in which Rick Scott once invested. The site, QuePasa.com, has a business relation with Playboy Mexico, which the…
The crazed, Milwaukee sausage race of a contest to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress might finally be winnowing down to the real contenders, at least based on a poll released this afternoon.The survey of 400 Democrats shows activist Marleine Bastien and state Sen. Frederica Wilson in a virtual tie for…
We’re pretty sure that no one, not even hard-core Democrats, really likes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He’s this wishy-washy, spineless moderate with a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth. Yesterday he was back at it again by saying, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could…
When Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed “Teacher Tenure” Senate Bill 6 in April, teachers prayed the legislation was gone for good. Not so fast.SB 6 is back ahead of schedule, becoming a central talking point for Bill McCollum and Rick Scott, the two Republican candidates competing to replace Crist. Never mind the…
That Bill McCollum is a real piece of work. He finds himself, yet again, on the losing end of a statewide Republican primary, and now he has spoken with the Florida Baptist News and veered harder to the right on pretty much every social issue available. Not only does he not believe…
Matthew Bellamy, the man who bravely wore a LeBron James Miami Heat Jersey to a Cleveland Indians game only to get escorted out and allegedly berated by police, is now a first amendment martyr. And Cleveland fans absolutely hate the very Constitution of this fine country, at least according to…
Charlie Crist has a new backer, Mark Penn, and he used to be one of the closest and most powerful advisers to Bill and Hillary Clinton. In fact, as the chief pollster and senior adviser for Hillary’s 2008 presidential run, he is blamed for some of the worst tendancies of that campaign. Is…
We love our neighbors across the Gulf. Like bright, beautiful, nonsensical birds, they make the jail cells of our daily lives that much more colorful. Take their politicians. While Barack Obama is er-umming about the deficit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is disinterring a 200-year-old corpse and weeping about it, all…
As he campaigns for governor on an independent ticket, Lawton “Bud” Chiles III likes to trumpet his decade running HOPE Worldwide, a health-care charity. “We did immunization and health outreach for thousands of kids,” Chiles says.Sounds nice!But Chiles — who’s threatening to torpedo Democrat Alex Sink by nicking thousands of…
