Senate 2010: Kendrick Gets in Quick, Sink Still Has to Think

Miami boy Kendrick Meek became the first official announced candidate for the 2010 Senate race, sure to be one of the most dramatic in the nation. As expected, he announced it this morning, and used much of the same “This is about Florida” rhetoric we commented about earlier. He’s not…

The Perfect Resumé for a Florida Senate Seat

Political math god Nate Silver put together a handy pie chart showing that the career stop for a majority of current U.S. senators is a U.S. House seat. Good news for Kendrick Meek, Connie Mack IV, and the handful of other representatives who might be angling for the seat, but…

Kendrick Meek Expected to Kick Off Senate Run Tomorrow

All the other potential Democrats with wet dreams of Senate subcommittee hearings are waiting until the mighty Alex Sink (mighty because she is one of two Dems who can get elected in this state) decides if she’s going to run for governor or senator or Florida’s first galactic empress. Not…

Bush’s Final Press Conference

Today our departing president held his last press conference, and it was classic Dubya: hokey jokes, strange grins, and a prickly defensiveness. The highlight: Bush admitted, for the first time, to making several mistakes during his presidency. Apparently he was the last to find out. “Clearly, putting a ‘mission accomplished’…

Miami Also Needs Dirt-Bike Trails

Not a day goes by when I drive through Miami that I don’t think to myself: You know what this place really needs? Some friggin’ dirt-bike trails! Hell yeah! Apparently, Manny Diaz thinks so too. He was up in D.C. yesterday along with a host of other mayors asking for handouts…

WaPo Video Serves Up Some Softballs for Diaz

The Washington Post is the only media outlet claiming Manny Diaz is “in the mix,” as some tend to say, to run for Senate, and earlier this week, the paper sat down with Diaz for a video. That subject wasn’t addressed; the interview was mainly about “leadership.”  It doesn’t show anything…

Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Care About Your Human Football Sports

This wicked, evil lady-thing who goes by the Earth name of “Nancy Pelosi,” but is actually known as Empress Bugeyes from the 5th dimension planet Stalintopia, does not understand the earthly pleasure of football. Because she does not posses human emotion she will never experience the thrill of rooting for teams vaguely connected to…

Rocketman Nelson Bets His Pipes on BCS Bowl

Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal. Which…

Florida Democrats Lacking Latino Candidates

Absent from the list of possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for either governor or senator in 2010 are Latinos. It’s nothing new. The Democrats have never run a Latino for governor or the Senate, and they’ve never elected one to the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, one would…

Jeb Won’t Run. Rubio Will?

During the last part of 2008, it seemed like Jeb Bush had already won the 2010 Senate race, but this afternoon he announced he won’t be running. “While the opportunity to serve my state and country during these turbulent and dynamic times is compelling, now is not the right time to…

Budget-Slashing Session Takes Aim at Education

Florida’s capitol has been completely controlled by Republicans for the past ten years, and with that regime has come tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. Jeb Bush cut taxes by $12.2 billion during his terms, with half of those savings going toward the wealthiest 4.5 percent. Charlie Crist…

Florida’s Congressional Delegation Shockingly Not That Old

USA Today reports that the incoming Congress will be the oldest on record for both houses. The average representative is 57, while the average senator is 63. New Times has the same high-tech tool as USA Today — a calculator — and decided to probe further. Since Florida has the oldest average population of…

Obama to Be Honored in Opa-locka Alongside Other Fake Arabs

It is probably for the best that respected newspapers such as USA Today (at this point respected not because of journalistic integrity but because it’s not on the total brink of bankruptcy and collapse) don’t yet allow their journalists to inject snark into stories, but sometimes you can tell they want…

Is There a Major Bush vs. Crist Feud Brewing?

Tucked away in the RedState.com post we linked to earlier is this delicious little nugget: “Charlie Crist has been on a roll lately undermining conservatives. Behind the scenes, he is trying to drum up opposition to Jeb Bush’s Senate run, not because he doesn’t want another Bush, but because he wants…

Richardson Is Out, and Manny Diaz Supporters See an In

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew from his commerce secretary appointment over the weekend owing to allegations that a company which donated to his presidential run was unfairly awarded a hefty state contract. Damn you, Rod Blagojevich, you’ve gone and made everyone extrasensitive about political taint. Richardson was Obama’s highest-profile Hispanic cabinet pick,…

George Sr. Seems to Think America Can’t Get Enough Bush

If anyone had any doubts that Jeb Bush’s possible run for Senate would be more about personal ambition and trying to save the GOP, look no further than George Bush Sr., who went on Fox News this weekend and said he’d like to see President Jeb one day.  “I’d like to see…