Running for U.S. Senate against Charlie Crist isn’t an enviable task, and when you’re not even guarenteed to win the primary, it’s probably a smart move to get out. That’s what state Sen. Dan Gelber (D-Miami Beach) did, and now he has changed lanes and entered the attorney general’s race…
Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and current MSNBC host, laughed away talks he might run for Florida Senate: “I don’t really think it would be good to run in 2010 with a party that is actively associating itself with the Taliban.” Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon William F., left…
The News Service of Florida’s article about Alex Sink’s appearance at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner this weekend on Miami Beach contains some praise from an unlike source: former Republican Party of Florida chairmen David Johnson. “The farming background could help in North Florida and the working mom thing could be very…
So today, some guy, literally some random conservative person, calls Marco Rubio the “Cuban Newt Gingrich.” And then someone who used to actually work with Gingrich calls Rubio’s uphill battle against Charlie Crist “stupid.” Matt Towery used to be a political strategist for Gingrich himself and heads up a new non-partisan polling corporation when he’s…
Happy Birthday to CFO and gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink. She is 61 years young today. What kind of birthday present do you get a politician? Why a campaign donation of course, but Alex’s party has gift bags. Anyone who donated $20.10 (get it?) by he end of the weekend gets…
“Adam Guillette was raised to believe in limited government. When other parents were telling their children stories of Hansel and Gretel, Adam’s father would tell him stories about the great achievements of Reagan and Churchill.”I am not kidding — that is the first paragraph of Mr. Guillette’s bio on the Americans…
The FBI is currently investigating a YouTube video set to the music of ‘N Sync’s “Bye, Bye, Bye” that apparently infers that Homestead Councilwoman Judy Waldman should either be killed or off herself. The South Florida times broke the story. As of this afternoon the video has been removed. Though the…
With no one coming forward to challenge Alex Sink in the Governor’s primary, and Kendrick Meek holding a sizable advantage on the fundraising front and Dan Gelber dropping out in the Senate race, it seems that the Democratic primary action may boil up in the Attorney General’s race. State Senator Dave…
Jeb Bush is only 56. That’s down right youthful in Republican politician terms. So much life ahead of him, that one. But what will he fill it with? That seems to be the question. He declined to run for Senate. A third-term as governor is nothing more than a fairy tale…
Remember the concept of city-states from the ancient Greek chapter of your middle school history book? When places like Athens or Sparta reigned supreme as the dominate governing, economic and cultural entity, and the concept of a central government of Greece didn’t even exist. Yeah, well, in his new book After…
Rep. Corrine Brown strikes me as a relatively fearless politician. Which is why it’s not out of character that she’s thrown her hat in as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s open senate seat, even if it means challenging front runner, family friend, and colleague Rep. Kendrick Meek. A poll…
Oh, the folks on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are so quirky. They’ve set up a new toll-free number pretending to be Gov. Charlie Crist’s scheduling office. Sure fooled us. We called the number, 800-403-2195, and were put on hold while some seemingly nice lady told us she’d try to locate…
I was reading I Can Has Cheezburger in my RSS Reader when I saw this ad below all the LOLcats. Apparently, Sen. Bill Nelson wants to raise the taxes on my wine by 233 percent! The ad leads to the Freedom Work’s website, where it explains “a massive new tax…
If you thought some of the things that came out of Newt Gingrich’s mouth were ridiculous, wait until you get a load of his Twitter. The former speaker tried on his best Tom Tancredo impersonation and Tweeted out this:”Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me…
President Obama’s relationship with religion is complex, but you can’t accuse him of not being thoughtful. When it comes to appointing an ambassador to the Holy See, all but President George W. Bush’s third and final appointee have been chosen much like any other Ambassador — big time donors, friends of the…
The notion of any real divisive, state-wide primaries in Florida seems to be dead, as state Sen. Den Gelber has announced that he’s “stepping back” from the US Senate Race. Which more or less means he’s out. He made the announcement on his blog: It makes little sense — when we do…
Cleared of public corruption charges last week, Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones will hold a press conference today at 5:30 p.m. We’re guessing Spence-Jones will gloat a little, maybe take a baseball bat and bash cardboard cut outs of ex-city manager Joe Arriola and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who both talked smack…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be touring the Everglades tomorrow at the invitation of Sen. Bill Nelson. The day will kick off with a briefing on the efforts to trip and track invasive Burmese pythons that make their home in the ‘Glades Most of the snakes loose in the National park are former pets that were…
I don’t hold personal grudges against many politicians. I mean, hell, I’d very much enjoy sitting down with George W. Bush for a chat and a game of Scrabble (if only because I know I’d win), but former Rep. Tom Tancredo, man, he’s a different story. This evil, mindlessly ideological shitbag never…
While Jeb Bush excused himself from the Senate race after a few days of speculation, his endorsement could be a potential game changer in the Republican race for the nomination. So it doesn’t bode well for frontrunner Charlie Crist that Jeb Bush Jr. sent his support to Marco Rubio. Rubio mentioned the endorsement…
Marco Rubio’s modus operandi during his long-shot Senate bid seems to be to turn to the hard right any chance he gets. So, it wasn’t much of a surprise when he was one of the first wonks in Florida to get up on a shout box and paint President Obama’s…
So much for the state Party’s efforts to playdown the importance of primaries during the 2010 election cycle. Attorney General Bill McCollum is the establishment favor to take the Republican’s nomination for the Governors race. So much so that it seems Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson was pressured out of the race, but the…
