Well, with Rick Scott set to take the Governor’s chair and Republicans with super-majorities in both houses of the legislature, it was only a matter of time before the Florida GOP got cracking on delivering Arizona-style immigration laws in the sunshine state. Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, fired…
While freshman Rep. Frederica Wilson has more important things on her priority list she’s still trying to get presumptive Speaker of the House John Boehner to let her wear her trademark hats while the House is in session. Well, she’s found an unlikely alley in a conservative Republican freshman congressman…
Florida Democrats desperately need a Marco Rubio of their own, and 31-year-old Andrew Gillum, a commissioner for the City of Tallahassee may be the answer. He’s not running for statewide elected office (yet, anyway), but has entered the race to replace Karen Thurman as the chair of the Florida Democratic…
Florida’s democratic senior Senator Bill Nelson is about as even keeled and congenial guy as you’re likely to find in DC. He’s not much for political grand standing or fiery rhetoric, but according to Politico his feisty side peaked in uncharted territory behind closed doors in a meeting with several…
Our fellow Floridians in the Orlando area resoundingly kicked Rep. Alan Grayson out of office this election in a 19 point defeat. Apparently they do not care that the rest of America enjoys being entertained by his off-the-wall speeches on the House floor. He’s already told Dick Cheney to literally…
The Christian Family Coalition, a Miami-based group that hems way to the right on social issues, is calling Gov-elect Rick Scott to stop selling pornography to Latinos. So when reviewing Scott’s business past they weren’t, like every other sane person, so much concerned that he ran a company that was…
Representative-elect Frederica Wilson has arrived in DC, and one of her first matters of business seems to be to overturn a rule dating back to the 1800s that forbids members of Congress from wearing hats while the body is in session. You see, Wilson simply loves hats. She is never…
After the failed debacle of his Independent senate run Charlie Crist’s legacy is in grave danger, so it’s no surprise he’s decided to become the “guy who finally pardoned Jim Morrison.” After indicating he was open to pardoning The Doors frontman of indecency charges stemming from an infamous 1969 Miami…
Probably the greatest let down of not electing Charlie Crist to the Senate is not getting to watch him navigate through DC as an independent. He aggressively courted Democrats in the final weeks of the campaign, at one point seemingly open to the idea of Kendrick Meek dropping out and…
Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll’s ethics record may have looked squeaky clean compared to Gov-elect Rick Scott and his former company’s record setting Medicare fraud, but it appears that Carroll’s company may have been involved in scamming a government program too. The Florida Times-Union reports that Carroll’s companies may have fudged…
Dubya is in Miami! To be more exact, he’s downtown at the Miami Book Fair International, shilling his new memoir, Flapjacks: My Favorite Breakfast Treat. No, that’s not right. Decision Points! It’s all about the Decider’s finest moments of deciding, apparently.Riptide is here, too, to bring you the minute-by-minute, awkward-chuckle…
Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman has offered her resignation letter. Even though she had reportedly been telling several folks even before this month’s elections that she was preparing to retire, the election results drove home the fact that the state party desperately needed a shake up. …
Can’t say this is much of a surprise. Joyce Kaufman, South Florida talk radio’s own answer to the Michael Savages and Rush Limbaughs of the world, has resigned as Broward and Palm Beach-area Congressmen-elect Allen West’s chief-of-staff. The resignation comes after a number of controversial remarks Kaufman made came to…
Riptide doesn’t usually care much about what goes on in Broward and Palm Beach. Hell, we’ve got a sister blog up there to deal with this stuff, however I guess we’ve decided to make an exception for Tea Party fav Representative-elect Allen West. He’s just named right-wing Broward radio host…
Back in 1969, The Doors came to the Dinner Key theater in Miami and gave one of the more infamous concerts in Rock’n’Roll history. Lead singer Jim Morrison ended up getting arrested for allegedly whipping out his peen, shouting obscenities, performing a simulated beej on a bandmate, and being drunk as…
We know you’ve been wondering: How exactly did Marco Rubio stir the conservative fire in his belly before jumping onstage during the campaign? Reading George Will? Watching O’Reilly grill some hapless liberals?Nope: Straight-up gangsta rap. Rubio liked to crank Tupac and NWA before his speeches, the Weekly Standard reports in…
Is Alex Sink chewing on a bushel of sour grapes following her loss to Rick Scott or is she accurately hitting on some of the political and messaging failures of the Obama White House and the Democratic party in general? In an article on Politico this weekend, Sink lays some…
After nearly 22 years in the House and becoming the Republican’s longest serving female member of that body, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is about to get her biggest taste of power yet in DC. When the GOP assumes control of the House in January, Ros-Lehtinen will become the chair of the Committee…
Depending on your point of view Marco Rubio looks like a lot of things: a red blooded American hunk set to save the county, an overgrown 12-year-old with a Justin Bieber mop haircut, or, apparently, a Central American dictator. Liberal web empress Arianna Huffington stands accused of throwing the latest,…
What the hell did you have going on Tuesday where you couldn’t vote? Yes, I’m talking to you, South Florida. Because a stronger turn out in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach which happen to be the most populace counties in the state and all voted super strongly for Alex Sink…
Lost among the noise of a thousand tea baggings at the polls yesterday was the runaway victory of Frederica Wilson, the cowboy-hat rockin’ Democrat who picked up 86 percent of the vote to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress. Wilson has never shied away from a fight — her political career…
The most famous author coming to the Miami International Book Fair this year is a guy so devoted to a good read that he refused to put down a children’s book even as the Twin Towers fell. We’re talking, of course, about George W. Bush, who will be coughing up…
