Warning to anyone who wants to believe MSNBC reporter Carlos Watson’s recent profile of Marco Rubio, in which the former House Speaker is praised as the “GOP’s Barack Obama”: It’s a trap! Watson, a Miami native, proclaims, “He’s young. He’s attractive. He easily connects with crowds. Remind you of anyone we know? Ten-to-one, this guy…
If you’re already tired of 2010 election news, well get ready for 2012. State Rep. Marcelo Llorente officially announced his intentions today to run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County. Currently Mayor Carlos Alavarez won’t be vacating the position for more than three years, but it never hurts to get a head start. Llorente,…
For the past year, in the dimly lit corridors of congressional office buildings the very men and women we’ve elected to make the laws of this fine country sit in front of their computers, trying to makes sense of this twitter thing. This phenomenon that was first embraced by the…
Woah boy, that Marco Rubio sure is doing some interesting political gymnastics. Today, on the heels of his Senate endorsement from uber-conservative Senator Jim DeMint, Rubio affirms that he supports making English the official language of the United States. DeMint is a strong supporter of the English only movement, supports offering…
We don’t even know why we’re trying to meet our energy needs with oil anymore, when we all know if we could tap into the source that powers Sen. Bill Nelson, we’d be able to meet the global projected power needs for the next two centuries, at least. Bill Nelson is…
Hey now, not every Republican Senator is ready to warmly welcome Charlie Crist into his or her little club. Nope. Jim DeMint, the junior Senator from South Carolina, is ready to endorse Crist’s fledgling primary opponent Marco Rubio, according to Politico, at least. Lets see what wonderful things Sen. DeMint stands for. …
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz’s time as head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors has come to an end, and usually the sitting American president sends administration officials to the conference — this year held in Providence, Rhode Island — but the Obama administration pulled out. The reason: Providence Mayor David Cicilline…
We’ve blogged a few times about generically named politician Bob Smith’s threat to run for Senate, but it seems we never got around to mentioning that he officially declared. This is probably because it doesn’t actually matter. Smith used to be a New Hampshire senator but then retired to Florida. He occasionally creeps…
The Buzz takes there “5 Questions” video series to Democratic Attorney General candidate Dave Aronberg. The first few minutes are all blah-blah “this is why I should be elected stuff,” then some talk about who has the bumper sticker advantage (?), but then at the 3:22 mark Aronberg takes time…
Rep. Kendrick Meek added another impressive entry to his list of endorsement of US Senate today as City of Miami Mayor, and president of the US Conference of Mayor, Manny Diaz announced his endorsement. The press release came with equal amounts of back patting on the part of both men. “Congressman Kendrick Meek is…
Forty years ago at the (soon to be demolished) Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove Jim Morrison, a man who became famous for his music when he wasn’t busy be addicted to drugs and alcohol, allegedly attempted to masturbate on stage and got slapped with public exposure charges. He was sentenced to…
We figured the best solution to the Marco Rubio “situation” was for the GOP to tack him on as Bill McCollum’s running mate to quell any anger amongst the conservative wing for the party bending over backwards for Charlie Crist in the senate primary. Well, Naked Politics reports another young Cuban…
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) has a dream about Cuba:”I can imagine American tourists, our young kids, playing their hip-hop and letting the world see what America stands for.”He was on CNN last night debating Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Campbell Brown’s “The Great Debate” segment about the Cuban embargo. Sometimes Ros-Lehtinen is called a one-issue…
We all know Miami Police Chief John Timoney likes to get out of town every chance he gets, so he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden and talk up President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. “She’s done all right for herself. She’s the quintessential American…
Quinnipiac released a new poll! You know what that means? It’s time for us to pluck out interesting bits and pieces. Until now, every poll we’ve seen on the Florida governor’s race gives Republican Bill McCollum the advantage, but according to Q Democrat, Alex Sink has 38 percent and McCollum 34. Down here…
Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative group that helped push Sen. Arlen Specter into the Democratic Party with the threat of a primary challenge, sure does not like Gov. Charlie Crist. Now that ol’ Arlen is gone from the party, Crist might be the group’s number one GOP target. This…
There are a few quirks in the practice of democracy here on the state and local level that I just don’t get. Two of which Gwen Margolis knows all to well. Last November Gwen ran for Miami-Dade property appraiser and convinced 281,899 of you to vote for her, far more than…
When Corrine Brown announced she was interested in running for Senate last week we had a little fun reminiscing about her bizarre appearance on the House floor “gradulating” the Florida “Gator” for their BCS title. Well, this lady is a serious sports fan. As you probably know some other professional basketball…
Running for U.S. Senate against Charlie Crist isn’t an enviable task, and when you’re not even guarenteed to win the primary, it’s probably a smart move to get out. That’s what state Sen. Dan Gelber (D-Miami Beach) did, and now he has changed lanes and entered the attorney general’s race…
Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and current MSNBC host, laughed away talks he might run for Florida Senate: “I don’t really think it would be good to run in 2010 with a party that is actively associating itself with the Taliban.” Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon William F., left…
The News Service of Florida’s article about Alex Sink’s appearance at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner this weekend on Miami Beach contains some praise from an unlike source: former Republican Party of Florida chairmen David Johnson. “The farming background could help in North Florida and the working mom thing could be very…
So today, some guy, literally some random conservative person, calls Marco Rubio the “Cuban Newt Gingrich.” And then someone who used to actually work with Gingrich calls Rubio’s uphill battle against Charlie Crist “stupid.” Matt Towery used to be a political strategist for Gingrich himself and heads up a new non-partisan polling corporation when he’s…
