One day, when we are all living under the Sink administration –no, no, not just in Florida, but in the entire nation– we can look back at this Washington Post blog post as the first public utterance of a possible Alex Sink presidential run. Chris Cillizza isn’t saying Sink will be President, or…
State Rep. Doug Holder filed a bill today, for the third year in a row, to ban texting while driving in Florida. We have a few questions. If we’re updating our Twitter status while driving, does that count? What about checking our email? Playing a game of solitaire? Can we take pictures on our…
Seems that Marco Rubio’s fledgling senate campaign has another group of detractors? The graphic design community. Last night we were browsing You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice, a blog dedicated to pointing out blatant design rip-offs. Six pages in we saw the name “Marco Rubio,” and seriously thought our weird obsession with…
In an unanimous vote yesterday, the City of Miami Comission passed a resolution condemning the military’s anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Introduced by Joe Sanchez, the resolution cited the dismissal of translators, inability to meet recruiting levels, and the blatant discrimination. The measure even went as far as to call some of…
Marco Rubio’s valiant fight to reclaim the GOP for people who refresh the Free Republic website all day and attend tea parties with “Obama Is a Socialist” signs isn’t going so well financialy. So much so he’s been forced to drop his campaign manager, Brian Seitchik, and top fundraiser, Ann…
Miami Police Chief John Timoney was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today weighing in on the Henry Gates dispute. If you’re not up to speed on the latest media-made controversy, Henry “Skip” Gates is a highly respected Harvard professor. Upon returning from a recent trip, he couldn’t get into his own…
It’s really sad there are so many high-profile Republicans out there sending out racist jokes about our president on their email that I’ve kind of gotten sick of reading them. It’s just depressing. So, I’ve seen this picture about a million times today online and finally decided to break down…
Every election cycle, both parties’ congressional election committees identify their weakest incumbents in order to throw massive amounts of cash at them and hope they don’t get booted out of congress. The cash is nice, but it’s never good news for those on the list. Too bad for Mario Diaz-Balart, who was recently…
Rep. Kendrick Meek has joined a small group of house Democrats asking that any health-care reforms not lead to federal funding of abortion, according to the Washington Post. The possibility of taxpayer money being used to pay for abortions is becoming a hot-button issue in the health-care reform debate — one that Republicans might…
Charlie Crist had been awkwardly mum on whether he would support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Now that it’s almost assured she’ll get confirmed, he has finally decided to let everyone know that, no, he would not vote to confirm this lady. Here’s his statement (via Naked Politics): “Judge…
Mustached Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp will file paperwork today to kick off his bid for attorney general, becoming the first high-profile Republican to do so. It seems likely, like many of the state races in 2010, the Republican establishment will rally around him, giving him a clear path through the primaries. The…
The Republican Party of Florida is hosting a big shindig for the youngins next month in Orlando called Drive the Discussion ’09, and they have concocted one of the most spectacular three ring circus of speakers ever to grace a political stage. Olympian turned Village People musical co-star turned plastic surgery victim turned…
Sorry Democratic Senatorial Campaign Comittee, but your latest little video project kind of fails. The plan is to attack two Republican candidates for Senate, our own Charlie Crist and New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte (who?), by comparing them to Sarah Palin. Reason: They’re all resigning. It’s a really clumsy…
Current FAU President Frank Brogan has bagged the unanimous recommendation of the search committee to be named the net Chancellor of Florida’s University System. His appointment is expected to be confirmed by the end of the afternoon.Brogan has headed Florida Atlantic since 2003. He served four years as lieutenant governor…
With Kendrick Meek resigning to seek a Senate seat, Florida’s 17th congressional district will have its first non-Meek representative since 1993. District 17, with a Cook pvi of D+34, is one of the most Democratic leaning districts in the entire nation, so the real race is poised to take place in the Democratic primary. State Sen. Frederica…
The Senate’s lone Hispanic Republican, Florida’s Mel Martinez, says he’ll vote for the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic nominee. Martinez is the second Republican senator to announce his intent to vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (Olympia Snowe quickly become the third after Martinez’s announcement.)Here’s his statement: “Given her judicial record, and her testimony this week,…
According to voter registration since Election Day, the State of Florida has 70,946 newly minted Republicans! But wait, there are also 100,019 newly registered independent voters, and 110,951 new Democrats. [The Buzz: Democrats continue beating GOP in voter registration]…
City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz has come out against the “Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009.” The bill, introduced by Sen. Jon Thune (R-ND), would allow citizens who have a license to carry a concealed firearm in their state to carry one in another state if that…
Embedded video from CNN Video You know why so many people tune out to politics between elections? Because a bunch of senators are sitting in a room this week grilling a Supreme Court nominee about some remark she made about being a “wise Latina.” Somehow saying, “I would hope that a…
Meet Josue Larose. He’d like your vote for governor… or maybe for the U.S. House? If not that, then maybe for the state Senate? Well, if you’re not going to vote for him, could you at least cut a check to one of his 160 political action committees? The Sun-Sentinel reports that Larose has organized…
In certain times and places in U.S. history, the answer to every political problem was probably “Let’s get a bunch of guys with guns together and solve this.” Nowadays, this idea seems to be seriously considered only in matters of Middle East diplomacy, but Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is suggesting a giant…
I know it’s so easy to make fun of Dick Armey’s name (Vagina Coastguard, thanks Family Guy), that even Dick Armey has done it himself. Dave Barry, of all people, once asked Armey if that was really his name. “Yes, I am Dick Armey. And if there is a dick army, Barney Frank…
