As Zika has swept through Miami, residents have raged almost as much at Gov. Rick Scott as at the hated aedes aegypti mosquito. And with good reason. Scott slashed mosquito control budgets statewide then tried to blame Obama for the outbreak. And to top it off, his wife owned undisclosed…
Mike Fernandez has not been shy about his contempt for Donald Trump. The Miami health care billionaire took out full-page ads in December calling Trump a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. In July, the Cleveland Plain Dealer refused to print Fernandez’s latest ad, featuring a scorpion in a…
Why is it so hard for liberal candidates to get elected in South Florida? Tim Canova’s loss to Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District primary last night is a good place to start answering that question. Going into yesterday’s primary, Canova had quite literally everything going for him…
Statewide, Florida voters mostly did themselves proud yesterday. They rejected terminal blowhards Carlos Beruff, Dan Bongino and Alan Grayson, and backed a common sense solar power amendment. Our Jacksonville friends even booted longtime Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown, who is under indictment on corruption charges. So what exactly were Republicans in southwest…
Primary polls opened across Florida today, but voter turnout was not expected to be high, and the races pretty much seem decided already. The highest-profile incumbents running — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — are likely to score decisive victories. Still, the…
Today marks the statewide election primary, which means a slew of high-profile federal and local races across South Florida end today. Thankfully, by around 10 p.m. tonight, South Florida will likely be done hearing about Alan Grayson’s cowboy boots (and domestic violence accusations), Andrew Korge’s attempted non-bribery of his opponent, and accusations that Debbie…
‹ Left Center Right Resize Cancel Crop 67 x 100 ?i › Back in February, State Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla used his powers as chairman of the State Senate’s Judiciary Committee to prevent the senate from voting on two controversial pro-gun laws. One would have allowed 1.5 million…
The Miami-Dade County Commission will hold a special meeting on Monday to start counting 127,000 petitions demanding that the county reform its campaign-finance laws. It only took a week’s worth of protests (including a sit-in at county hall), a national Twitter campaign, and a full-on lawsuit for that meeting to…
We now live in a day and age where a former congressman running for his old job can’t peruse the sex toy aisle at Spencer Gifts in peace. Just ask Joe Garcia, who is leading polls in the Democratic primary for the 26th congressional district currently occupied by Carlos Curbelo,…
In Florida, Sean P. Jackson is about as rare as an August afternoon without a thunderous downpour: He’s a black Republican official who is proudly backing Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. But the head of the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida says Trump’s state campaign doesn’t seem…
Politicians have always found creative ways to deal with bubbling rumors that they’re up to no good. There’s the classic “I am not a crook!” finger wag on television, or the passive aggressive sprint through the hotel kitchen to avoid reporters with tough questions. Last night, North Miami Beach…
Time to play a guessing game: How much would it cost Miami-Dade County officials to search for a week’s worth of emails from commissioners, and then to print those messages out and hand them to someone? Would $21,600 sound reasonable? In what might be the most expensive printing operation ever…
Hop off your starfish-shaped bicycle from Burning Man and take a break from your home-schooling classes: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is coming to Miami tomorrow! Before this year, Johnson had mostly been famous for vetoing hundreds of bills as governor of New Mexico, smoking weed at a regular clip…
It’s not just about Hillary and Dim Donald. Florida’s August 30 primary is just around the corner. Though most local media attention has been focused on the race for Miami-Dade County mayor between incumbent Carlos Gimenez and School Board member Raquel Regalado, there are other local races significant to the…
When an activist group called Accountable Miami-Dade sent the county 127,000 petitions, each demanding the government reform its campaign-finance laws to help stop public corruption, the county — by law — had 30 days to start counting up the signatures. But so far, neither the commission nor the mayor will…
The numbers are starting to look as obvious as a Donald Trump spray tan: To have any realistic shot at the White House, the GOP nominee absolutely has to win Florida in November. But that possibility is looking more and more like a long shot. A new poll out this morning has…
On August 2, a group called Accountable Miami-Dade sent the county two U-Haul trucks packed full of signed petitions demanding a public vote on new campaign finance laws that would make it harder for wealthy contractors and lobbyists to donate wads of money to politicians. Two weeks later, those 127,000 petitions…
A few years back, in preparation for retirement, Illinois OB-GYN Jean Alexandre began looking for an investment property in Florida he could rent out to supplement his monthly income. In October of 2013 he sealed the deal, wiring $68,000 and writing a check for an additional $2,000 to North Miami…
If Marco Rubio wants to deny Zika-infected women the right to abortions, Alan Grayson has a suggestion for him: He should be willing to personally adopt every single baby born with microcephaly. In an interview Wednesday with New Times, the liberal Orlando congressman blasted the Florida Republican senator’s comment to…
Even for a shameless opportunist like Marco Rubio, agreeing to host an event by a virulently anti-gay conservative group in Orlando later this month went beyond the pale. After all, Rubio had used the massacre of gay patrons at Pulse Nightclub as an excuse to get back into his Senate…
Headlines about Donald Trump saying insane things have become as routine as morning weather reports. Yet Trump’s suggestion yesterday that “Second Amendment people” might “do something” if Clinton is elected feels different. The Secret Service is investigating it. Thomas Friedman called Trump “a disgusting human being.” Even his old friend…
To Hillary Clinton supporters, Donald Trump is a boogeyman, a know-nothing Kremlin stooge, and a borderline fascist salivating at the idea of raining nuclear bombs down on anyone who insults him online. To Trump fans, Clinton is an oligarch run wild, a conspiratorial murderer, and a war criminal. Tension between…
