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…
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 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…
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 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…
With the saga of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway finally coming to something of an end, a new state law seeks to dictate not where registered sex offenders live, but rather how they dress. The Sun-Sentinel reports that criminals convicted of sex crimes involving children would be…
Ol’ Mittens Romney will endorse Marco Rubio. The once, and probably future, presidential candidate was sitting on the sidelines of the Senate primary between Rubio and Gov. Charlie Crist, but has decided to side with Rubio after Crist vetoed an unpopular, but conservative-backed education bill.Because if there is one person…
Last time we came across our old friend Victoria Jackson we wondered if her recent embrace of all things Tea Party and claims that President Obama was a communist Anti-Christ was “all some big performance art piece.” Well, Wonkette interviewed the Miami-native and asked her if she was doing an…
It wasn’t quite as ambitious of a declaration of President John F. Kennedy promising to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, but yesterday President Obama predicted that astronauts will land on Mars within his lifetime.”We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time…
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…
University of Miami will be hosting former President Bill Clinton’s third-annual Global Initiative University meeting this weekend, and while Clinton will be attracting the over-50 club to the event, plenty of those still not eligible for a social security check are gearing up for appearances by a flock of charity-conscious…
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…
Republican voters may be wild over Marco Rubio, but a new Quinnipiac poll shows that no matter what the situation Charlie Crist would be a more viable general election candidate. In fact, if he decided to run as an independent he leads in the polls. Which doesn’t do anything to…
The deadline to officially register to run for Senate is coming up, and speculation that Gov. Charlie Crist could shift out of the difficult Republican primary against Marco Rubio and run as an independent has reached a fever pitch. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Crist is being advised…
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has turned his back on the political process of the state he used to be governor of, Arkansas, and has apparently registered himself to vote in Florida. The Huckster doesn’t own property here, but he rents a beach house in the Panhandle, which is apparently…
Richard L. Scott, a businessman who lives in Naples, has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican’s gubernatorial nomination against Attorney General Bill McCollum and state Sen. Paula Dockery. Don’t know anything about him? Here’s some fun facts:He hates President Obama’s health care reform so much that he…
In the News Roundup each morning we’ve been keeping an eye on the plight of Diana Smith, a local mother battling a rare form of leukemia. Smith was almost denied a life saving treatment when Social Security disability payments made to her son raised her income enough to where she…
Days before Fountainbleau’s nightclub LIV sinks to a new low by hosting Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, they’ll be welcoming a slightly higher profile bold face name who was caught up in a super-sized infidelity scandal of his own: Bill Clinton…
Long before anyone in the lower 48 had ever heard of Sarah Palin, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s name kept coming up as a possible John McCain running mate, especially after his endorsement helped McCain win Florida and seal the nomination. Now Crist’s been reduced to trailing Marco Rubio in the…
State Sen. Frederica Wilson is currently running to replace Kendrick Meek in his North Miami congressional district. Apparently she’s going around telling everyone that she’s banned “dirty dancing in our community.” Now, last time we went out to a club, we’re pretty sure that we saw lots of people dirty…
Last week marked the five-year anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo. Just ten days before the March 31 anniversary, Family Guy, which basically stays relevant by creating controversy, poked fun of the entire Schiavo affair by including a storyline about Stewie’s pre-school class putting on a play which included the song…
A bunch of tea baggers held a rally on the steps of the Florida capitol up in Tallahassee today, and politicians including Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp came out and spoke to them while standing by a podium made to look like two crates stamped with the word “Tea.”Naked Politics reports…
