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…
Maybe I’m the only person, but I’ve long wanted someone to cover politicians and their every move in the same shallow, passionate manner as celebrities. Today is my chance! So I’ll try to do my best Perez Hilton impression while wrapping up the bigger Florida political non-stories of the day.Seems…
A couple of Democrats have flirted with the idea, but so far no one has stepped up to mount a real challenge against Kendrick Meek in the Senate primary. Now, though, there’s buzz that former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre will enter the race next week.Beth Reinhard says Ferre will make…
You might have caught me early this morning on the Enrique Santos Show on 98.3 La Kalle. The “King of All Spanglish Media” graciously invited me on air to berate me over my story about Tomas Regalado raising boatloads of cash for a convicted terrorist.You see, Santos — along with…
Over the summer, while the entire country was caught up in health-care-reform fever, discussing death panels and public options, Sen. Bill Nelson was busy talking about the great python menace and Chinese drywall. Which would maybe make sense if he chaired the Senate Special Committee on Snakes and Drywall, but he…
If all of this talk about Charlie Crist facing an electoral backlash from the right wing of his party in his quest for a Senate seat amounts to anything, Sen. Bill Nelson should perhaps worry about a backlash from Florida’s progressive and liberally inclined voters.Nelson has basically called supporters of the…
Every once in a while, Gov. Charlie Crist remembers he is indeed a member of the Republican Party and not the sole member of the Crist Populist Party of Florida. As a Republican, he must occasionally take a swipe at the Democratic leadership. He decided to do so while pulling…
Tenacity. Vision. Honesty.Tomas Regalado seems pretty upfront about his core values. Those three words are printed in bold atop of hundreds of blue-and-red billboards and bus ads all over town proclaiming his run for mayor. So why won’t he admit that he once helped raise thousands of dollars for a…
So many rappers in the last year have spit some Obama-inspired verses about presidential politics, but it takes a truly politically involved wordsmith to keep a lyrical eye on state politics. But we all know that Trick Daddy is the real Mayor of Miami, so of course he’s keeping tabs…
For reasons we can’t quite comprehend, Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer just released another statement about kids being indoctrinated to praise Obama by citing a YouTube video. This after he made headlines for basically calling the president’s address to schoolchildren socialist propaganda and then admitting the speech was actually good.It’s…
Even some of the more heated Dubya-haters would concede a Jeb Bush presidency probably wouldn’t be worse than his brother’s terms in office. I’m not so sure they’d say the same about Sarah Palin. Yet Palin has a greater favorability rating throughout the land and a better, though still long,…
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has filed a lawsuit against FIU student Hanna Giles, accomplice James O’Keffe, and Breitbart.com, the site that posted their undercover videos.ACORN is seeking “a preliminary and permanent injunction against further distribution” of undercover videos as part of the suit filed in Baltimore,…
Despite rumors, Mark Foley and Charlie Crist say they weren’t roommates (or “roommates”) when they were in the state legislature, but we were under the impression the two were at least chummy. So why does Foley seem to be rooting for Marco Rubio?He attended a recent Rubio fundraiser and later…
Bill Clinton sitting down for a one-on-one with Jon Stewart should be enough reason to watch The Daily Show tonight, but the University of Miami’s official Facebook page promises the ex-prez will make an announcement concerning the school.”After tonight’s football game, watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central…
President Obama last night addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, where he touted the number of Hispanics he has appointed to high-level positions and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, and stressed that the problems Hispanics face are the problems America as a whole faces. An excerpt from his speech (full remarks available here): Now,…
Hannah Giles — the 20-year-old FIU journalism student, minister’s daughter, and fake hooker who, along with an accomplice, exposed some ACORN offices’ habits of offering business advice to pimps and hoes — is garnering praise from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even Jon Stewart. Giles and a male accomplice, posing…
The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn’t get the message they’re supposed to act civilly for the next week or…
Yesterday, from his Miami techno-hermit compound, Matt Drudge decided to run with “White Student Beaten on School Bus; Crowd Cheers,” as the top story on his website in all its race-baiting glory. The story about two high school students who happened to be black beating up another student who happened to…
Facing criticism that his mind has been elsewhere, Sen. Bill Nelson has finally given his talk about Chinese drywall, snakes, space, and Chinese snakes in space a rest to address the nationally pressing concern of health reform. The man does sit on the Senate Finance Committee after all, which yesterday released its…
The Florida Personhood Amendment we wrote about last week would not only outlaw abortion in the state, but also potentially ban birth control pills and other forms of contraception.The American Life League, one of the main groups behind the push (when it’s not busy printing tacky “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” signs) says…
