In his young bid to become Haiti’s next president, Wyclef Jean has already weathered more criticism than Rick Santorum at a Dan Savage house party. Mostly, he’s been hammered for his record running his charity, Yéle, which paid hundreds of thousands in fishy fees to Wyclef himself or his friends. And mostly…
Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has so much money to spend on TV ads in his self-funded quest to buy the governor’s seat that it seems he has run out of issues that matter to Floridians. Now he’s just buying airtime to apparently talk about any old thing on his mind…
When Miami’s director of solid waste management quit earlier this summer, city officials were sent scrambling for a replacement. They quickly hired Fred Hobson, a former assistant director of solid waste who had retired in 2005.Problem is, Hobson’s resumé is itself solid waste — and the city should have known…
“We can ship them out to the middle of the country and put up high walls and leave them there,” Marg Baker says of illegal immigrants. The Tea Party candidate for the Republican nomination to a state house seat north of Tampa made the remarks at a rally for Glenn Beck’s “9/12″…
With millions of his own dollars at his disposal and an aggressive campaign, political outsider Rick Scott seemed he might take the Republican primary for governor over career politician Bill McCollum. Well, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll, McCollum is back on top, but Democrat Alex Sink now leads both…
Wyclef Jean is still waiting to find out whether he’s actually eligible to run for president in Haiti, a nation that doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. But that doesn’t mean his campaign isn’t already in full swing.Jean has released his first campaign video (apparently, he decided the “If I Were President”…
Anything related to the Republican primary for governor has long since stopped making sense. Bill McCollum supporters are now set to hold a protest outside the headquarters of a social networking website in which Rick Scott once invested. The site, QuePasa.com, has a business relation with Playboy Mexico, which the…
The crazed, Milwaukee sausage race of a contest to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress might finally be winnowing down to the real contenders, at least based on a poll released this afternoon.The survey of 400 Democrats shows activist Marleine Bastien and state Sen. Frederica Wilson in a virtual tie for…
We’re pretty sure that no one, not even hard-core Democrats, really likes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He’s this wishy-washy, spineless moderate with a habit of sticking his foot in his mouth. Yesterday he was back at it again by saying, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could…
When Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed “Teacher Tenure” Senate Bill 6 in April, teachers prayed the legislation was gone for good. Not so fast.SB 6 is back ahead of schedule, becoming a central talking point for Bill McCollum and Rick Scott, the two Republican candidates competing to replace Crist. Never mind the…
That Bill McCollum is a real piece of work. He finds himself, yet again, on the losing end of a statewide Republican primary, and now he has spoken with the Florida Baptist News and veered harder to the right on pretty much every social issue available. Not only does he not believe…
Matthew Bellamy, the man who bravely wore a LeBron James Miami Heat Jersey to a Cleveland Indians game only to get escorted out and allegedly berated by police, is now a first amendment martyr. And Cleveland fans absolutely hate the very Constitution of this fine country, at least according to…
Charlie Crist has a new backer, Mark Penn, and he used to be one of the closest and most powerful advisers to Bill and Hillary Clinton. In fact, as the chief pollster and senior adviser for Hillary’s 2008 presidential run, he is blamed for some of the worst tendancies of that campaign. Is…
We love our neighbors across the Gulf. Like bright, beautiful, nonsensical birds, they make the jail cells of our daily lives that much more colorful. Take their politicians. While Barack Obama is er-umming about the deficit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is disinterring a 200-year-old corpse and weeping about it, all…
As he campaigns for governor on an independent ticket, Lawton “Bud” Chiles III likes to trumpet his decade running HOPE Worldwide, a health-care charity. “We did immunization and health outreach for thousands of kids,” Chiles says.Sounds nice!But Chiles — who’s threatening to torpedo Democrat Alex Sink by nicking thousands of…
In exactly what world are we living when the breakup of a hip-hop group leads to drama in a presidential election? Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti (which seems like a tough job considering he can barely run his charity, career, or personal finances), and now his former…
With the primary election just weeks away, even previously boring races are beginning to heat up. The battle for the Democratic nomination for attorney general is getting slightly crazy, with Dan Gelber and Dave Aronberg, both Florida senators, making lawyer disses. Gelber dismissed Aronberg as a “junior lawyer,” and now…
Bill Clinton has been one of the biggest and earliest supporters of Kendrick Meek’s Senate candidacy. He’s been headlining fundraisers for Meek since early 2009 and is steadfast in his support. In fact, he’ll be in South Florida in a week and a half to campaign on behalf of Meek…
The first challenger has stepped up to take on Rev. Richard Dunn, the city commissioner who, in order to get an appointment to replace the ousted Michelle Spence-Jones, promised to relinquish his seat in November. That pledge lasted all of a hot minute before Dunn changed his mind, but Alison…
Surprise! Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum still opposes gay adoption — notwithstanding the spectacular downfall of his hand-picked anti-gay expert, George Alan Rekers. “I don’t believe the gay family model is good for kids,” McCollum said this week to the Sun-Sentinel — which duly noted that one…
Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp will betray the man who helped raise the former Ft. Myers-area state rep from political obscurity to, um, political semi-obscurity by announcing he’s endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate. Kottkamp was little known before Charlie Crist chose him as his running mate in 2006. Though now that…
With a bumper crop of utterly shady rich guys threatening to run off with our Senate and governor’s races, it’s been easy to forget that South Florida also has open House seats to fill.But if political theater is your thing, do not ignore District 17. Eight Democrats are locked in…
