You know what so many gays love? Lady Gaga! You know what most gays hate? Closeted politicians who vote against gay rights. These two passions have remained largely separate. Well, along comes drag queen Sherry Vine, who has never met a Lady Gaga video she didn’t want to spoof, to…
Bill McCollum can’t catch a break. He has twice run for senator, both times unsuccessfully. Finally found himself in the Attorney General’s chair, and is now running for Governor. He was ahead in the polls, too, until billionaire Rick Scott started attacking him from the right with his big help…
Either billionaire Senate candidate Jeff Greene is surrounded by so many scandal-plagued celebrities that it is impossible for him to remember them individually, or he is straight-up avoiding questions and deliberately being misleading about his apparent friendship with Lindsay Lohan. Even as more pictures have surfaced showing Lohan in a revealing swimsuit on…
Billionaire Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene sure has some interesting friends. Mike Tyson (convicted of rape) was the best man at his wedding. “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fliess (convicted of tax evasion) was a yearlong house guest.Now, it appears he once joined Lindsay Lohan (headed to jail for 90 days for violating…
Used to be when a politician had an embarrassing kid, he or she would exercise what’s known as the “Rosemary Kennedy option.” Nowadays, you just put your crazy kid in your commercials and let him sing, dance, and get his Glee on in the hopes it will somehow get you elected. That’s what Republican Florida…
Billionaire Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott visited the Little Havana Activities Center today to schmooze with Miami’s older Cuban-American constituency. He kept your abuelos entertained by playing dominoes, and he danced with your abuelas. Shockingly, though, Scott cannot dance. His moves are about as stiff as a domino. Is his…
Wanted: The Community Redevelopment Agency, in charge of revitalizing the blighted downtown and Overtown districts, seeks publicist. Pay: $27,000, including a $2,500 expense account. Only well-connected flacks apply. After that call went out in April, three firms applied for the job with the agency chaired by Marc Sarnoff, city commissioner,…
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…
