That earthquake in Haiti? Vice President Joe Biden is totally going to be all over it. He’ll be in South Florida Saturday to meet with the Haitian-American community and relief workers, which we’re sure is not just a token gesture and an opportunity for a photo op. No, not at all. This is…
via Dem UndergroundEven though the entire state knows Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are in total political love, Bush continues to remain neutral in the Republican primary for Senate.The Tampa Tribune asked Jebbers if he plans to make an endorsement soon. “I don’t know… I don’t know if I’m going to have…
After today’s executive order suspending her again, the next big date in the Michelle Spence-Jones saga is Tuesday afternoon. Earlier this week, attorneys asked a Miami-Dade judge for an emergency hearing to prevent Governor Charlie Crist from suspending Michelle Spence-Jones. But the Guv pulled his trigger faster than the judge…
Charlie Crist isn’t even going to wait until Michelle Spence-Jones is sworn in again. He has already pulled the trigger on resuspension.Miami city Commissioner Spence-Jones turned herself in on November 13 on charges that she siphoned $50,000 of county money to a family business. Crist swiftly suspended her, setting up…
Owing to its proximity to Haiti and the large local Haitian population, Miami has become something of a domestic headquarters for U.S. efforts to provide relief to Haiti after being devastated by a massive earthquake.This morning, President Obama announced Vice President Joe Biden will be in the area this weekend.”I’ve…
Rev. Pat Robertson, host of The 700 Club, former Republican Presidential candidate, and influential leader of the Christian Right, seems to know the cause of the earth quake that devastated Haiti yesterday.He made these statement on TV today, via Politico: “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people…
This weekend The New York Times magazine asked if Marco Rubio is “The First Senator from the Tea Party?”Rubios Answer: apparently, “Umm, no, not really.” Rubio, at the end of the day, is much more interested in being the 35th Senator from Florida than being the First Senator of Tea…
Today’s special election to fill two vacant city commission seats resulted with two familiar names returning to City Hall. Or maybe not. Voters in District 1 gave Willy Gort one slot. He previously held a seat until 2001, when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Mayor’s office. He replaces…
At noon today, Michelle Spence-Jones was at her Liberty City headquarters furiously calling supporters to come out and vote for her.Again. The message to her troops regarding today’s hotly contested Miami City Commission election was clear: “I just don’t want nobody sitting around doing nothing around the campaign office.” When…
Kids seem horrible these days. Probably because their parents are getting too high to raise them correctly.So much so that four students at a Tampa Bay-area middle school raped a 13-year-old flag-football teammate with a broomstick in a school locker room before a game in April.Let’s hope that’s an extreme example, but…
So Joe Carollo never did make that last-minute, dramatic entrance into the last mayoral race, but one of Miami’s most colorful former mayors is apparently gearing up for a return to elected office.According to Naked Politics, he has his eyes on a state Senate seat in District 36. But he’d…
Has anyone thought Florida’s cold snap is the physical manifestation of the cold glare Hillary Clinton is sure to have shot Sen. Bill Nelson when she learned that while publicly supporting her in the Democratic primary, he was privately urging Barack Obama to run? The revelations in Mark Halperin and John…
Tea Baggers have long been complaining about soon-to-be-former RPOF Chair Jim Greer, but the Republican establishment didn’t get serious about showing Greer the door until a bunch of deep pocketed donors flaunted an open letter that it was time for a change in leadership.That hasn’t stopped the movement from claiming…
The New York Times Magazine’s massive piece about the Marco Rubio vs. Charlie Crist race just went online. If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the race, and reading our nearly obsessive coverage, there’s not a lot new to learn besides some interesting color here and there. If you…
Jim Greer, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is expected to resign, according to the St. Pete Times. He was up for re-election to the post Saturday, but it now seems state Sen. Jim Thrasher will take the helm of the party. Update: It’s official. Read his letter of…
Whether you like it or not, South Florida is home base for two of America’s most influential conservatives. You’ve got the reclusive Matt Drudge, who takes time out of listening to Junior Vasquez records somewhere in Miami Beach to update the DrudgeReport, and you’ve got Rush Limbaugh, who takes time…
You know what’s fun about Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer at this point? No one likes him. We could call him “a fat, pompous windbag whose skills at leading his party is only rivaled in the terribleness department by his skills at singing Elvis songs,” and the only…
With months to go before the primary elections, candidates are still locking down endorsement. One bit of support that none of the candidates want though is that of Cuba’s government controlled press. Luckily, Granma published a story yesterday critical of all four major candidates. In reaction to a lunch in…
In an interview with Time, Charlie Crist and his senate campaign manager Eric Eikenberg say that in the face of Marco Rubio’s right-wing threat, the Governor new tactic will be to bolster his conservative credentials while casting doubts on Rubio’s. [Crist and Eikenberg] described a counterattack for 2010 that will…
In the interest of showcasing other voices here on Riptide, we’re presenting this editorial from 22 year-old Kymberly Morgan, who is totally not actually real.My name is Kymberly Morgan, and I am a proud Tan American. Recently, I heard that instead of taxing plastic surgery to pay for health care…
Leave it to the Diaz-Balarts to possible have screwed this up. Yesterday’s announcement that they were withdrawing their support from Charlie Crist was supposed to leave egg on the Gov’s face. But they didn’t mention why they were doing it, and it appears the popular emerging theory is pretty damn…
It’s no secret that Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart are, in congressional Republican terms, more moderate guys. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when they endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate back in July over fellow Miami-Dade Cuban Republican Marco Rubio. They did practically the same thing in 2004, endorsing…
