Yesterday was Cuban independence day, a holiday as ignored by Cubans as President’s Day is by Americans. But for every Florida politician with an election coming up, it was the perfect opportunity to suck up to the pickiest voting bloc in the state. The three enemigos — Charlie Crist, Marco…
The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and “researcher” Geroge Rekers’s ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor, and now Florida’s Democratic Party is demanding that McCollum…
Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon that will…
Hey, Democratic Party of Florida, you do realize that you’re supposed to win elections don’t you? You’re aware that President Obama won this state in 2008, and that you have a pretty hefty voter registration advantage over Republicans? You know that your main competitor in the Governors race is a…
When news broke that Charlie Crist would run for Senate as an independent, it was speculated that he’d spend the rest of his term as governor issuing a few controversial vetoes that would separate him from the Republican party. He already did so with the education bill, and is now…
Are you ready for Governor Lawton Chiles 2.0? Alex Sink sure isn’t.Naked Politics reports that Lawton Chiles III is considering making a late entrance into the governor’s race as a democrat. Alex Sink, the state’s CFO, has been running for nearly a year now and was considered a lock to…
Anytime a woman who doesn’t quite fit the norms of what society deems feminine gains some influence in American politics, it seems lesbian rumors follow. Go ask the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, or, for someone living who you might actually run into in Miami, Donna Shalala or Janet Reno.Though, the…
“We created this civilization — by ‘we,’ I mean the whites.” So says Gordon Baum, the CEO of the Council of Conservative Citizens — the CCC, for short. “Our local chapters would probably support a referendum to ban inter-racial marriage, I would speculate,” he says in a New Times interview…
Tampa, our slightly “off” cousin to the northwest, has been chosen to host the 2012 Republican National Convention in which the Grand Ol’ Party will nominate Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio or Ron Paul or someone else slightly “off” to take on President Obama in the election. Congratulations Tampa! Get…
So you’ve had a torrid love affair that imploded your political career, destroyed your family and cemented your spot in the Hall of Fame for GOP “family values” hypocrites. How do you follow it up? If you’re South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, apparently, you spend a steamy weekend in the…
When Charlie Crist announced he’d be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they…
After Charlie Crist announced he’d seek Florida’s open senate seat as an independent earlier this week his former party immediately begin trashing him. Oddly, the most powerful democrat in the Senate called to offer his congratulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Crist late last…
Democratic congresspeople Kendrick Meek and Jan Schakowsky both come from the kind of heavily left leaning, big city districts they could hold for life. Of course, Meek is cutting his tenure short to run for Senate, and Schakowsky almost saw her term –and life– ended Mama Cass style. Thankfully Meek literally…
Marco Rubio apparently won’t be enjoying a home field advantage in Florida’s senate race. The Miami born Republican who got his start in local politics isn’t too popular in Southeast Florida, and it’s the only region in the state where he polls behind both Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist. Mason-Dixon polling…
Sure, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez is king of a county where the hospital is bankrupt, one in ten residents doesn’t have a job, and mortgage fraud is the only growth industry.That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t ride in style!Alvarez has posted an official county bid notice for his new work car, and…
Hot liberal mess Congressman Alan Grayson is one of the Tea Party movement’s biggest congressional targets for 2010. Respected politician Dan Webster, who served in the state legislature from 1980 until 2008, is the biggest name and presumed front runner in the Republican primary. That hasn’t stopped a tea party-affiliated…
For months now Jeb Bush has had to keep his political love for Marco Rubio silent in deference to Charlie Crist. But now that Crist is running as an independent (a move that, at least in the short run, seems to be paying off), Bush is free to shout his…
Party? Charlie Crist don’t need no stinking party. The first major poll conducted since the Governor announced he’d seek election to the Senate with no party affiliation is out, and Crist leads republican Marco Rubio by four points. Meanwhile, Democrats and their presumptive nominee Kendrick Meek are in deeper trouble…
During the closing days of Florida’s 2010 congressional session, Senators were fiercely debating a controversial bill that tells women and their doctors what to do with their bodies. Republican Sen. Mike Bennett of Bradenton was thinking about women’s bodies all right. Unfortunately it was because he was caught looking at…
The Republican Party of Florida is acting like a woman scorned after Charlie Crist veered a little too far “to the left” for Tea Party activists’ tastes. So they sent him packing with everything he owns in that box to the left. But everything they bought — please, Charlie –…
After Democrats shut down the body yesterday and hours of heated debate (during which young children were advised to leave the chamber) the Florida House has approved controversial language in a health care bill concerning abortion. During the debate, one member even inappropriately brought up the specter of the Holocaust.The…
Talk about betrayal! Sen. George LeMieux says the he’ll support the Republican nominee over his old friend Charlie Crist: “I will support our Republican nominee and will continue to do everything I can both in Florida and across the country to increase the number of Republicans in the United States Senate.”A…
