Hot on the heels of his announcement he’d file a lawsuit if any health-care legislation passes in Washington that would force people to buy insurance, Attorney General Bill McCollum finds himself with a ten-point lead in the gubernatorial race.According to a new poll from Quinnipiac, Republican Bill McCollum is up 41 percent to…
Another blow to Florida’s gay adoption ban was served as the third adoption since 2008 by a gay parent was approved by a Miami-Dade judge. The ruling follows a decision by Monroe Circuit Judge David J. Audlin in August 2008 to allow a gay lawyer to adopt a boy he…
FIU student Hannah Giles, who won the praise of conservatives and disdain of liberals when she posed as a hooker trying to solicit business advice from ACORN workers, now finds herself targeted by a lawsuit. Katherine Conway-Russell, a worker in ACORN’s Philadelphia office, claims that Giles and her partner James…
A full service casino resort may someday soon find itself on Miami Beach. Ironic considering the lawmaker baking the new gambling rules, Fort Lauderdale Republican State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, campaigned on an anti-gambling platform.Bogdanoff, backed by Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, wants to allow five to seven casino resorts to…
Predictably, Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for the politically divisive, anti-gay, and pro-choice group Focus on the Family is causing controversy.Focus has released few details about the ad, but it will likely feature UF’s Heisman winner and his mother, Pam Tebow. Pam notably carried Tim to term despite doctors’ health…
Tough day for Charlie Crist, ain’t it? First he lost his lead in the Republican Senate primary, and now it’s come to light that he is the Tea Party movement’s number one “Enemy of Liberty.” Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks PAC, which is tighter with the Tea Party movement (coincidentally, an army of…) than peanut butter…
It’s not exactly uncommon to hear someone floating around the political fantasy of South Florida becoming its own state. Not to say it’d ever actually happen, but c’mon, we all know the rest of Florida is holding us back. Well, a new political map that redraws the United States with the…
Tea Bag-approved Marco Rubio leads Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary for the first time, according to a recently released Quinnipiac poll. Forty-seven percent of registered Republicans now prefer Rubio, compared to only 44 percent who are still in the Crist camp. That’s a sea change since October, when…
City commissioners will appoint someone today to fill Michelle Spence-Jones’s empty District 5 seat. But the jockeying to replace the suspended commish was well under way Monday. David Chiverton and Dufirstson Neree, losing candidates in the election, made the rounds at city hall, pitching themselves to commissioners as credible seat-fillers…
These “Web Ads” that both state parties occasionally put up are almost all uniformly horrible, but this new GOP attack ad on Alex Sink seems to be, well, pretty flimsy and stupid. The attack? The Democratic candidate for Governor has, whadaya know, donated to other Democrats before! Washington Democrats! Zut alors! By pointing…
The Miami City Commission is expected to name a replacement for embattled commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones’s District 5 seat tomorrow, according to the Miami Herald. Spence-Jones was re-elected in November just days before turning herself in on charges of funneling county money to a family-owned business. She was suspended by Governor Crist, ran…
The Florida House is looking to finally secure the adoption rights for a discriminated-against group of people. No, not Homosexuals, they’re still 100 percent forbidden to adopt children in the Sunshine State. The bill currently cruising through committee is a silly little thing making sure that gun owners can adopt…
Former Mayor of Miami Maurice Ferre, who somehow thinks he is running for US Senate even though he is trailing in the primary race for the party that is trailing in the general election race, has announced that he doesn’t support the Democratic healthcare plan. “It is a special-interest plan…
It’s now two strikes for pugnacious Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. A Miami-Dade County judge today dismissed her temporary injunction against Charlie Crist’s suspension, setting February 12 as the day when she’ll actually decide if the Governor’s action is constitutional. A half hour later or so at Miami City Hall, Willy Gort…
Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek traveled to Haiti over the weekend to assist with the Miami-Dade Urban Search and Rescue Team’s efforts. The team rescued a 2-year-old girl who was stuck under debris for five days and reunited her with her father. Meek captured the moment on video from…
Sex with animals? Still technically legal in the great state of Florida. State Sen. Nan Rich championed a bill last year that would make bestiality a felony, but the prudish Florida legislature never got around to passing it. Miami Sen. Larcenia Bullard’s “People are taking these animals as their husbands?…
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ongoing Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones saga on behalf of five voters in her district. Just days after being re-elected in November, Spence-Jones turned herself in on charges of grand theft after accusations she stole money from the county. Gov. Charlie Crist quickly suspended…
The “tea party” might be one of the silliest names associated with a political movement, but that hasn’t stopped one Florida group calling itself the Tea Party from taking a similarly named group to court over the rights to the name.The Florida Tea Party, a grassroots movement not affiliated with…
Before those two failed Senate runs and his stint as attorney general, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum was a congressman for 20 years. During his freshman term in the House, a young McCollum had a dream. A dream that one day, there would never be a national holiday celebrating the…
Is Iowa Rep. Steve King aiming to be the most hated congressman from a flyover state since Tom “Miami is a Third-World Country” Tancredo?Late last year, King assaulted the ownership of our Miami Dolphins during a congressional hearing over much more important things, and now he’s gone and said something incredibly…
Every year, they arrive punctually on the same festive stationary, and every year, they’re tossed out faster than stale fruitcake. Well, dear reader, by throwing out your commissioner’s holiday newsletter, you’re trashing your own cash. Each newsletter costs the county 47 cents to produce, typeset, print, post, and mail. With…
Sometimes I’m not entirely sure if we understand “democracy” here in Florida. Besides some presidential election in 2000 that people are still talking about, we could also point to the fact that in the past ten years only six incumbent members of the Florida House have lost their bids for…
