When Charlie Crist announced he’d be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they…
After Charlie Crist announced he’d seek Florida’s open senate seat as an independent earlier this week his former party immediately begin trashing him. Oddly, the most powerful democrat in the Senate called to offer his congratulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Crist late last…
Democratic congresspeople Kendrick Meek and Jan Schakowsky both come from the kind of heavily left leaning, big city districts they could hold for life. Of course, Meek is cutting his tenure short to run for Senate, and Schakowsky almost saw her term –and life– ended Mama Cass style. Thankfully Meek literally…
Marco Rubio apparently won’t be enjoying a home field advantage in Florida’s senate race. The Miami born Republican who got his start in local politics isn’t too popular in Southeast Florida, and it’s the only region in the state where he polls behind both Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist. Mason-Dixon polling…
Sure, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez is king of a county where the hospital is bankrupt, one in ten residents doesn’t have a job, and mortgage fraud is the only growth industry.That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t ride in style!Alvarez has posted an official county bid notice for his new work car, and…
Hot liberal mess Congressman Alan Grayson is one of the Tea Party movement’s biggest congressional targets for 2010. Respected politician Dan Webster, who served in the state legislature from 1980 until 2008, is the biggest name and presumed front runner in the Republican primary. That hasn’t stopped a tea party-affiliated…
For months now Jeb Bush has had to keep his political love for Marco Rubio silent in deference to Charlie Crist. But now that Crist is running as an independent (a move that, at least in the short run, seems to be paying off), Bush is free to shout his…
Party? Charlie Crist don’t need no stinking party. The first major poll conducted since the Governor announced he’d seek election to the Senate with no party affiliation is out, and Crist leads republican Marco Rubio by four points. Meanwhile, Democrats and their presumptive nominee Kendrick Meek are in deeper trouble…
During the closing days of Florida’s 2010 congressional session, Senators were fiercely debating a controversial bill that tells women and their doctors what to do with their bodies. Republican Sen. Mike Bennett of Bradenton was thinking about women’s bodies all right. Unfortunately it was because he was caught looking at…
The Republican Party of Florida is acting like a woman scorned after Charlie Crist veered a little too far “to the left” for Tea Party activists’ tastes. So they sent him packing with everything he owns in that box to the left. But everything they bought — please, Charlie –…
After Democrats shut down the body yesterday and hours of heated debate (during which young children were advised to leave the chamber) the Florida House has approved controversial language in a health care bill concerning abortion. During the debate, one member even inappropriately brought up the specter of the Holocaust.The…
Talk about betrayal! Sen. George LeMieux says the he’ll support the Republican nominee over his old friend Charlie Crist: “I will support our Republican nominee and will continue to do everything I can both in Florida and across the country to increase the number of Republicans in the United States Senate.”A…
Florida’s senate race is already the hottest telenovela of the season. Imagine the actually open seat as a saucy and sensual young widower entertaining the advances of three men, but like every good soap opera there’s more melodramatic twists than a mountain road. Now a mysterious billionaire has emerged to try and…
Any moment now Florida Governor Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he’s running as an independent for Senate. A crowd full of reporters and supporters have gathered at Straub Park in St. Pete, Fl to hear his announcement. We’re watching CNN where Wolf Blitzer says they’ll be covering it…
Charlie Crist is set to announce his intention to run as an independent for Florida’s open Senate seat today. Independent politicians are incredibly rare in America’s two-party system. An independent win is even rarer, though not unprecedented. So Crist’s venture isn’t completely uncharted. Here are the top five successful independent…
Florida’s House of Representatives is pretty much closed for business today. That’s because Republicans decided to bring up a last-minute piece of pro-life legislation in the final days of the regular session. Democrats pulled a rare procedural move and have virtually shut the body down.Republicans added a measure that would…
Rep. Darryl Rouson, a former crackhead and current Democrat from Tampa Bay, has successfully headed his pet bill, which would make it virtually impossible for head shops to sell bongs and other paraphernalia, through the legislature, and it’s headed to Governor Crist’s desk.The bill says head shops would have to…
Charlie Crist is rumored to make a big announcement concerning his campaign for Senate this Thursday, and while no one has 100 percent confirmed it, it’s anticipated that he’ll declare his intentions to run as an independent. That announcement will likely be made in his home town of St. Petersburg.But the…
Last night, The Daily Show pointed out that even Tom Tancredo, one of the most zealous anti-immigration politicians and the man who called Miami a “third-world” country, didn’t approve of Arizona’s harsh new immigration laws. Now two of Florida’s own uber-conservatives, who happen to be the front-runners for the top…
Governor Charlie Crist is now publicly acknowledging that he’s considering pulling out of the Republican primary for the senate seat and running as an independent. But in classic Crist style he’s remaining vague on the details, and won’t even promise that if elected he’d caucus with the Republicans.Running for Senate…
Back when word came last year that there would be another bill filed in the Florida Senate to ban texting while driving we wondered why MSMing was being singled out when technology allows us about a million and one ways to distract ourselves while we should be keeping our eyes…
Each of the three main contenders for Florida’s open Senate seat have their charms. Marco Rubio has his unwavering conservative principals and his strong stump speech. Charlie Crist has shown he isn’t beholden to his party and its fringe elements, but to the people of Florida. Kendrick Meek has a…
