At noon today, Michelle Spence-Jones was at her Liberty City headquarters furiously calling supporters to come out and vote for her.Again. The message to her troops regarding today’s hotly contested Miami City Commission election was clear: “I just don’t want nobody sitting around doing nothing around the campaign office.” When…
Kids seem horrible these days. Probably because their parents are getting too high to raise them correctly.So much so that four students at a Tampa Bay-area middle school raped a 13-year-old flag-football teammate with a broomstick in a school locker room before a game in April.Let’s hope that’s an extreme example, but…
So Joe Carollo never did make that last-minute, dramatic entrance into the last mayoral race, but one of Miami’s most colorful former mayors is apparently gearing up for a return to elected office.According to Naked Politics, he has his eyes on a state Senate seat in District 36. But he’d…
Has anyone thought Florida’s cold snap is the physical manifestation of the cold glare Hillary Clinton is sure to have shot Sen. Bill Nelson when she learned that while publicly supporting her in the Democratic primary, he was privately urging Barack Obama to run? The revelations in Mark Halperin and John…
Tea Baggers have long been complaining about soon-to-be-former RPOF Chair Jim Greer, but the Republican establishment didn’t get serious about showing Greer the door until a bunch of deep pocketed donors flaunted an open letter that it was time for a change in leadership.That hasn’t stopped the movement from claiming…
The New York Times Magazine’s massive piece about the Marco Rubio vs. Charlie Crist race just went online. If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the race, and reading our nearly obsessive coverage, there’s not a lot new to learn besides some interesting color here and there. If you…
Jim Greer, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is expected to resign, according to the St. Pete Times. He was up for re-election to the post Saturday, but it now seems state Sen. Jim Thrasher will take the helm of the party. Update: It’s official. Read his letter of…
Whether you like it or not, South Florida is home base for two of America’s most influential conservatives. You’ve got the reclusive Matt Drudge, who takes time out of listening to Junior Vasquez records somewhere in Miami Beach to update the DrudgeReport, and you’ve got Rush Limbaugh, who takes time…
You know what’s fun about Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer at this point? No one likes him. We could call him “a fat, pompous windbag whose skills at leading his party is only rivaled in the terribleness department by his skills at singing Elvis songs,” and the only…
With months to go before the primary elections, candidates are still locking down endorsement. One bit of support that none of the candidates want though is that of Cuba’s government controlled press. Luckily, Granma published a story yesterday critical of all four major candidates. In reaction to a lunch in…
In an interview with Time, Charlie Crist and his senate campaign manager Eric Eikenberg say that in the face of Marco Rubio’s right-wing threat, the Governor new tactic will be to bolster his conservative credentials while casting doubts on Rubio’s. [Crist and Eikenberg] described a counterattack for 2010 that will…
In the interest of showcasing other voices here on Riptide, we’re presenting this editorial from 22 year-old Kymberly Morgan, who is totally not actually real.My name is Kymberly Morgan, and I am a proud Tan American. Recently, I heard that instead of taxing plastic surgery to pay for health care…
Leave it to the Diaz-Balarts to possible have screwed this up. Yesterday’s announcement that they were withdrawing their support from Charlie Crist was supposed to leave egg on the Gov’s face. But they didn’t mention why they were doing it, and it appears the popular emerging theory is pretty damn…
It’s no secret that Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart are, in congressional Republican terms, more moderate guys. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when they endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate back in July over fellow Miami-Dade Cuban Republican Marco Rubio. They did practically the same thing in 2004, endorsing…
According to a recent survey of “Washington Insiders,” South Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the house member with the brightest political future (as in prepare for Speaker Wasserman Schultz someday), but a group of net-roots liberal wackos with internet access have found a hero in another Florida congressman: Alan Grayson. They want…
Poor Charlie Crist. As he tries to make the move from governor to senator, he finds himself in quite the political quagmire. Much of which has been brought on by primary foe Marco Rubio hitting Crist from the right every chance he gets. So in response, Crist, whose reputation has…
Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not…
Considering the chief financial officer job is the only statewide position up for re-election in 2010 that the Democrats currently hold, they should be eager to keep it. But with CFO Alex Sink running for governor, no big-name Dem has stepped forward to run. In fact, the only one who has…
How is it that two generally respected political polling companies have come to such a different conclusion on the state of Florida’s Republican Primary with numbers released with in a day of each other? Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll found that Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist were in a tie, with 42…
The John Birch Society is co-sponsering this years Conservative Political Action Conference. Don’t remember them? They’re the conspiracy-happy, paranoid anti-communist group that emerged in the late ’50s, and then preceded to circulate a letter calling Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, of all people, “a dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy,” had…
South Florida attorney Scott Rothstein might have run a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme and is, in general terms, a giant asshat with gaudy taste, but if he had his way, no one in the lower 48 would have ever heard of a certain pit bull in lipstick.Bob Norman at New…
Whoa, boy. Marco Rubio was once written off as a long shot in his race against Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination for Senate, but Rasmussen says the two are now neck-and-neck.They’re tied at 43 percent — in that poll anyway. Also according to Rasmussen, Democrat Alex Sink is slowly closing…
