It’s looking more and more like Charlie Crist won’t survive the Republican primary. That’s a tremendous coup for Marco Rubio, but it’s looking more and more like he could be vulnerable against Democrat Kendrick Meek in the general election.A new poll from Daily Kos/Research 2000 (yes, Democrat leaning, but generally…
A senseless bill that would prevent adoption agencies from discriminating against gun owners overwhelming passed the state legislature, and is headed to Gov. Charlie Crist’s desk.The problem: there’s absolutely no evidence that prospective adoptive parents in Florida have ever been “discriminated” against based on gun ownership, and as The Post…
A bill that would classify certain attacks against the homeless as hate crimes is moving through the state legislature. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is championing it after a spate of unprovoked brutality on the homeless in his county, with security camera footage of some of the attacks making the local…
Is President Obama planning on taking away your right to fish? The short answer is no, but that hasn’t stopped a bunch of right wing bloggers from causing a fuss over it.ESPN Outdoors columnist Robert Montgomery wrote a slightly misleading piece about an obscure committee suggestion regarding marine wildlife management…
Haircuts and back-waxes have gotten a lot of attention lately on the campaign trail. In March, the Miami Herald mocked Marco Rubio for spending $134 on a haircut at flossy-flossy downtown Miami barbershop Churchill’s. Then Wednesday, Charlie Crist took a misguided jab at Rubio’s hairy back. Who could settle this…
Apparently there’s very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House’s political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have exciting news and wanted you to be the…
The Democratic National Committee couldn’t keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist’s war of the wax, and produced this “rapid response” web ad to basically paint the Republican primary race as a giant mess of unadulterated silliness…
Public Policy Polling is back today with its full-fledged Florida Senate general election polling, and it’s more or less bad news for Charlie Crist.Yesterday it was announced PPP’s new numbers show Crist losing the Republican primary by a whopping 32 points. In fact, as the numbers stand now, there’s no conceivable way…
Charlie Crist’s flippant suggestion that Marco Rubio got his back waxed on Republican donors’ money was certainly an ill-advised attempt at humor, but the conservative conspiracy theorists and fervent Rubio supporters at RedState.com wonder if the remark was somehow gay baiting or racist.Writes Erick Erickson:I don’t know if he was trying to…
Charlie Crist can talk about back waxing all he wants, but the polling situation he finds himself in is a hairy one.According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-aligned pollster, Crist now trails Marco Rubio in the Senate Republican primary by an astounding 32 points, with 60…
Charlie Crist went on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show to talk about the allegations brought up in yesterday’s negative front-page New York Times story about his controversial deal that might or might not “save the Everglades.”We didn’t learn much from the interview, other than that Crist dropped religious allusions a…
Poor Charlie Crist. The man who actively encouraged him to run for Senate in the first place, Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is now painting Crist’s role in the election as that of a political sacrificial pawn.Cornyn said he only recruited Crist for purely selfish…
Miami-Dade outlawed pit bulls in 1989, a year before the Florida Legislature passed a law banning all breed-specific dog laws. Our ordinance was allowed to stand, but 20 years later, the legislature might make it possible for other Florida counties to place restrictions on certain breeds as long as there…
So listen. Read this with the same grain of salt you read a Michael Musto column. Or perhaps a bit more, because we don’t even know if it’s true.Anyway, after yesterday’s news that an anti-gay Republican state senator in California was charged with a DUI after leaving a gay club,…
Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has unsurprisingly gone full tea bagger on us. The recipient of one of our Dirty Dozen “awards” has already endorsed Rush Limbaugh for president and compared President Obama to Hitler. Now she’s joined forces with the Pasadena Tea Party for her latest ukulele…
As Kendrick Meek leaves to pursue the Senate seat, just about everyone and their ex-spouse has filed to run for his congressional seat in District 17. Candidates Yolly Roberson and Phillip J. Brutus used to be married.Now, North Miami councilman Scott Galvin has thrown his hat into the crowded ring…
Ah, last night Florida’s hot liberal mess (who is actually, relatively not that liberal at all) Rep. Alan Grayson took on noted Conservative gaffe machine Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota on CNN’s Larry King Live. Unfortunately, for those of us who follow politics like the WWE, it did not break out…
What do we really know about Armando Codina? You know, aside from his role in suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones’s alleged bribery. Her indictment, filed yesterday, claims she solicited $25,000 from the self-made multimillionaire developer, who then poured $12,500 into her non-profit. Codina has not been charged criminally. Still, Riptide…
In this corner, wearing the blue trunks, we have the hot liberal mess who is not apologizing for himself. The man who told Dick Cheney to “STFU,” he could be a contender like Brando and he comes from Orlando — Alan Grayson!And in this corner, wearing the red trunks with tea stains,…
Next time you make a shopping trip to West Palm Beach to stock up on your Lily Pulitzer sundresses and whatnot, be sure to hit up the hottest new store in town: former Congressman Mark Foley’s new “Celebrity Consignment” boutique.After getting caught sending naughty messages to twinky male interns, the…
Because the US Senate is basically a crazy, semi-undemocratic body full of arcane procedural rules and bitter partisanship, one cranky old senator from Kentucky has blocked unemployment benefits for more than 200,000 Floridians.The Democrat-controlled congress is currently hammering out a new jobs bill, but in the meantime tried to pass…
A proposed committee bill has been introduced in the Florida House of Representatives that would block the release of recordings on 911 calls. What’s with the timing? Gee, could it have anything to do with the 911 tapes that were released in the wake of the Tiger Woods controversy?Currently, under…
