Surprise! Billionaire Democrat Jeff Greene Joins Florida Senate Race

Florida’s senate race is already the hottest telenovela of the season. Imagine the actually open seat as a saucy and sensual young widower entertaining the advances of three men, but like every good soap opera there’s more melodramatic twists than a mountain road. Now a mysterious billionaire has emerged to try and…

Charlie Crist Runs as an Independent: The Live Blog

Any moment now Florida Governor Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he’s running as an independent for Senate. A crowd full of reporters and supporters have gathered at Straub Park in St. Pete, Fl to hear his announcement. We’re watching CNN where Wolf Blitzer says they’ll be covering it…

Democrats Opposed to Anti-Abortion Legislation Shut Down Florida House

Florida’s House of Representatives is pretty much closed for business today. That’s because Republicans decided to bring up a last-minute piece of pro-life legislation in the final days of the regular session. Democrats pulled a rare procedural move and have virtually shut the body down.Republicans added a measure that would…

Bill Virtually Outlawing Sale of Bongs Heads to Governor

Rep. Darryl Rouson, a former crackhead and current Democrat from Tampa Bay, has successfully headed his pet bill, which would make it virtually impossible for head shops to sell bongs and other paraphernalia, through the legislature, and it’s headed to Governor Crist’s desk.The bill says head shops would have to…

Would Charlie Crist Caucus With Democrats if Elected as Independent?

Governor Charlie Crist is now publicly acknowledging that he’s considering pulling out of the Republican primary for the senate seat and running as an independent. But in classic Crist style he’s remaining vague on the details, and won’t even promise that if elected he’d caucus with the Republicans.Running for Senate…

Texting While Driving Remains Perfectly Legal in Florida

Back when word came last year that there would be another bill filed in the Florida Senate to ban texting while driving we wondered why MSMing was being singled out when technology allows us about a million and one ways to distract ourselves while we should be keeping our eyes…

Only 1.69 of 10,000 Miamians Are Tea Party Members

PBS’s Patchwork Nation project recently put together a county-by-county map comparing the concentration of residents who have registered as members of a Tea Party-affiliated group. Surprisingly, given Marco Rubio’s success, Florida had only three counties (Gilchrist, Flagler, and Sumter) where more than ten of 10,000 residents identify as members of the movement. Miami-Dade…

Dick Cheney’s Apocalyptic Endorsement of Marco Rubio

To hear former Vice President Dick Cheney tell it, if Florida voters don’t elect Marco Rubio as our next senator, we’ll soon live in a socialistic hellhole where terrorist attacks are scheduled every hour on the hour. Yes, the scariest vice president in history officially endorsed Rubio today and then took some…

Gloria Estefan Is About to Get Tea Bagged

Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s decision to hold a swanky $30,400-per-couple fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee featuring Barack Obama didn’t sit well with many in Miami’s largely Republican Cuban-American community. Hell, Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa even gave ink to the idea that some folks should throw out their entire Estefan…

Charlie Crist Chatter: He’s Either Running Indie or Dropping Out

Will Charlie Crist buck the two-party system and run as an independent in the face of declining poll numbers against Marco Rubio? Everyone seems to think so. Speculation is so rampant that President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was questioned about it this morning. (He said he wasn’t aware of any conversation the…

Bill Clinton Throws up ‘the U’

Bill Clinton was all over town this weekend leading conferences, partying at LIV, looking back on the Elián González saga, being interviewed by George W. Bush’s daughter, fixing up homeless shelters, and all that jazz. But really the most important thing he did was place four fingers on each hand upright, put his…

Is Jeb Bush Still in Charge of Florida?

Jeb Bush left office four years ago, but Associated Press writer Martin Merzer thinks he may still be in charge of the state — or at the very least still the most influential voice in the governing Republican party.”He’s become a legislative Wizard of Oz — thunder and lightning and…

Gov. Charlie Crist Vetoes SB6

Gov. Charlie Crist has vetoed the Jeb Bush-backed, controversial SB6. The education bill would have eliminated tenure for newly hired teachers, and would have tied a portion of teachers’ salaries to test score results.”I say we must start over. This bill has negatively affected the morale of our parents, teachers…