Yesterday, state. Rep David Rivera, who is running to replace seat-jumper Mario Diaz-Balart in congressional district 25, made headlines in the Herald for his friendship with Ariel Pereda. Pereda is the principal of the Havana Group, a firm that advises companies on trading with Socialist Cuba. This, of course, is tantamount to…
The Republican primary for the governor’s chair is quickly heading toward full-out insanity. Yesterday, billionaire “conservative outsider” Rick Scott attacked his rival, Attorney General Bill McCollum, for supporting “pro-homosexual” Rudy Giuliani. Now McCollum’s campaign has struck back by pointing out that gays use a social networking site Scott had invested in.Yes, it is 2010…
When Bill McCollum ran in the 2004 Senate Primary, Republican opponent and eventual victor Mel Martinez sent out a campaign flyer calling him the “new darling of the homosexual extremists. Now insurgent billionaire candidate Rick Scott is attacking McCollum for supporting supposedly “pro-abortion and pro-homosexual” Rudy Giuliani in the 2008…
Jim Greer, the disgraced former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is already in trouble for allegedly misdirecting $200,000 of party money to a company he owned. Now, during that investigation new, weirder allegations have popped up. Mainly that Greer held fundraiser events and meetings with a “No Girls…
We already talked about today’s profile of Jeff Greene in the Washington Post and highlighted a bit where he seems to say something controversial about the Muslim faith:”I’m not an expert on Muslims,” Greene said. But he added that anyone who knows anything about the Koran knows that it contains…
Billionaire Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene isn’t flying high in the polls — just yet. Like his Democratic rival Kendrick Meek, he finishes a distant third behind Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in three-way matchups. But he’s flying high above Florida in his $23 million Gulfstream V private jet equipped…
Billionaire GOP Governor candidate Rick Scott says he has conservative values, but the kind of companies he invests in don’t seem to. One company Scott invested in was shown to help send money from illegal immigrants back to Mexico even though he backs Arizona’s immigration laws. Another had a business…
Did you read Sunday’s profile of Jeb Bush in the New York Times? Our former governor pulled no punches in bashing the current president. “It’s kind of like a kid coming to school saying, ‘The dog ate my homework,’ ” Bush said of the administration’s tendency to blame his brother, former President…
Democratic senate rivals Rep. Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene met up for their first debate today hosted by the Palm Beach Post. Meek is the affable, but not exactly superstar, Democratic establishment pick, while Greene is a shady billionaire who plans on winning the election on the strength of his…
When Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for Senate, everyone kind of threw up their hands and thought, Well, guess ol’ Charlie is gonna be our next senator. But then he hugged Obama, and Marco Rubio and his brave battalion of Tea Partiers stormed his ships and threw all of his…
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.Presumably, the scene inside Real World GOP Tally included plenty of…
Suddenly surging Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has so, so much money we really can’t expect him to know what he has done with it all. Though, surprisingly for a guy who has built a sizable portion of his platform on adopting Arizona’s controversial immigration laws, which some people see…
The impetus for the latest Politico article about the Florida senate race must have gone something like this: “Hey, you know that Jeff Greene guy who’s spending $40 million to buy the Democratic Senate nomination — he’s kind of creepy with a bit of a shady background, right? And Charlie Crist…
When we first saw it, we so desperately wanted to show you this picture of our governor, Charlie Crist, looking at the be-thonged buttocks of a lady on Miami Beach yesterday, but, you know, copyrights and all of that. But here now is a fair-use thumbnail of the cover of…
We think billionaire Jeff Greene’s latest ad in his insurgent bid for the Democratic Senate nomination is trying to spell out the central theme of candidacy. We just can’t put our finger on exactly what it is. The guy who invented the iPod, maybe?Anyway, stay tuned for Greene’s next attack…
Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has come out of virtually nowhere to take an astounding double-digit lead in a recent poll against Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. This is thanks mainly to three things: (1) charisma-less career politician McCollum isn’t exactly the kind of guy to excite any…
When Carly Fiorina, a senatorial candidate from California, mocked U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s haircut last week as “sooo yesterday,” Boxer let political pundits do the barking for her.Instantly, talking heads and bloggers accused the former Hewlett Packard CEO of reviving stereotypes of female candidates’ cattiness. But when Fiorina criticized South…
Alex Sink is pulling out the big guns for her flailing gubernatorial campaign: swampthing James Carville. While her campaign has seesawed from bad to “who’s that?” since it kicked off, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. In this month’s Quinnipiac poll, she trails both her Republican opponents…
The same guy who said that half of all parents would abort their unborn children if they knew they’d be gay, had none other than Elton John–who’s been gay since he was a zygote–perform at his 4th wedding at the Breakers in Palm Beach over the weekend. That’s right we’re…
Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for Governor as a Republican, has tried to distance himself from anti-gay activist George Rekers, but recently released emails show that McCollum hired Rekers as an expert witness for the state in a gay adoption case even as top members of his staff…
Besides the monumentally important task of sitting around and waiting for the Governor to die, the Lt. Governor of Florida has very few duties actually spelled out by law. Usually the Lt. Gov and Gov work closely, but ever since Charlie Crist announced that he was running as an independent for Senate,…
Talking Heads leader David Byrne is still pursueing his lawsuit against Gov. Charlie Crist for using one of his songs in a YouTube campaign ad. He wants $1 million because he believes the ad suggests that he endorsed Crist and did harm to his reputation. Today he explained the situation to…
