When you’re a political underdog with just a few days before an election to drum up enough support and overcome odds to win, you might resort to some outlandish tactics. Some go on Saturday Night Live and make fun of themselves. Others pull out shameless attacks on their opponents. Miami Beach…
Miami Beach clubs might pay celebs ridiculous appearance fees every once in awhile, but few can get $1 million just for showing up. Count the president of the United States in the club, but of course that money isn’t going into his pocket. Instead, the funds raised from the Democratic…
Today marked the official beginning of election season, with early voting kick-starting around Miami-Dade for the November 3 general elections, and here at Riptide we’re feeling that democratic itch.But, frankly, we’re already looking forward to next August’s statewide races. Why, you ask? Because the Miami Vice lobby just weighed in,…
With a fragile local economy, tumbling real estate prices, a heated debate over a baseball stadium, and bonkers budget issues, the race to replace term-limited Manny Diaz as Miami’s mayor should have been a blockbuster.Instead, with just a little more than a week to go till November 3’s election, 42…
Generally, David Cross is a pretty funny fellow, but sometimes he seems so damn smug. I guess if I starred in Arrested Development and Mr. Show, I would be pretty self-satisfied, even if I had done some Hollywood bullshit like Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and the Amanda Bynes vehicle She’s the…
The big news in the latest Quinnipiac poll is that conservative wonder boy Marco Rubio has cut Charlie Crist’s lead in the Republican primary in half. But the poll also has the first theoretical head-to-head matchup of Democrat Kendrick Meek against Rubio in the general election, and Meek wins. I’m sure…
In a stunning turn around, a new poll from Miami firm Bendixen & Associates shows that a strong majority of Cuban Americans now support open travel to Cuba for all U.S. citizens.Fifty-nine percent support opening travel to all, while only 29 percent still oppose it. That’s a turn around from…
Marco Rubio, in his campaign to topple Charlie Crist in the Republican senate primary, has again nabbed an endorsement from a sitting senator, and again it’s a guy who may hold sway in the conservative movement but isn’t likely to be very influential in Florida: Oklahoma’s Senator Jim Inhofe.Inhofe is…
So how many jobs for his citizens did Charlie Crist get for hugging Preisdent Obama? Well, so far, just 1635. Which doesn’t go far in erasing the 11% unemployment in the state, but only represents a tiny poriton of stimulus funds. From The New York Times: The new jobs reported Thursday come…
Rep. Corrine “Go Gata!” Brown will not run for the democratic nomination for Senate, after months of teasing that she would. Brown had ruffled her former colleague and close friend Carrie Meek’s feathers by entertaining the idea of running against her son Rep. Kendrick Meek.Instead, she announced today she’ll run…
The steady stream of right wingers trying to rain of Charlie Crist’s parade continues, with some conservative have wet dreams of Crist switching races and retreating back to re-election to his Governor’s seat.The chatter started with The Herald’s political blog reporting that one, unnamed Crist supporter “speculated” that Crist might…
When it comes to gay rights in Florida, the Miami Beach is an island of awesomeness. It’s almost like discovering a San Francisco in a sea of Alabama. In 1992, city commissioners were among the first to advocate protecting LGBT folks from workplace discrimination. This past Wednesday, the commission unanimously…
Last time Michelle Obama was in Miami, she made her husband dance for the world as she mocked him. Well, not directly, but she had gone on Ellen earlier in the month to make fun of Barack’s dance moves, and then in a live link with Ellen from his Miami…
Oh, those poor young Miami Republicans with dreams of D.C. Unless they launch a long-shot Senate campaign against a popular governor, they’ll have to wait for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts to decide they’ve had enough of doing whatever it is they do with their congressional seats. (Seriously, what is…
Michelle Obama has a ridiculously difficult job. She has to raise a family and schmooze with googly-eyed dignitaries, all the while still having to share her shortbread cookie recipes with Good Housekeeping and her arm workout routine with Women’s Health.But some first ladies have not been so well adjusted. Some…
The Citizens Against Government Waste’s name pretty much says it all. The fiscally conservative think tank hates pork and government waste, which apparently includes programs such as expanding health care to kids in low-income families, providing low-interest loans to college students, and requiring insurance companies to cover mental health issues…
Alan Grayson continues to be our favorite hot liberal mess who is not apologizing for it. Seriously, he will not apologize. Alan Grayson, will you apologize?”I will not apologozie. I will not apologize. I will not apologize for a simple reason.”See!The Orlando Democrat took the House floor again yesterday to…
On what planet is it considered a joke to shoot at a target representing a sitting U.S. congresswoman who happens to be a mother of three and a breast cancer survivor? To what audience is that a knee slapper? Really?Apparently at the comedy club known as the Southeast Broward Republican…
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson continues to be a hot liberal mess and not apologize for it.The Orlando-area Democrat, who came to national attention for suggesting that Republicans want everyone to “die quickly,” recently sent this Photoshop job to supporters while asking for money, natch. Let’s hope he got permission from nonnie9999…
If you asked us a few months ago which Miami mayor would make a Senate run, we would have guessed Manny Diaz. Boy, would we have been wrong. Maurice Ferre, who was mayor from 1973 to 1985, has officially thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Kendrick Meek in…
Dick Armey, the former Republican House majorty leader who’s not currently making an ass out of himself on Dancing with the Stars, was in Palm Beach Gardens today speaking to teabaggers, um, Tea Party activists. According to the Palm Beach Post, Armey told the crowd of conservative activists to keep up the…
Marco Rubio is the pretend boyfriend of the conservative movement right now. Future Ann Coulters and Mark Foleys have his National Review cover taped to their ceilings so he’s the last thing they think about every night before they fall into deep dreams of a flat tax and no bilingual education.All…
