Riptide started feeling really, really bad about all of these jokes we have been making about the wedding of Gov. Charlie Crist and Carole Rome. These are two actual people, with actual feelings for each other, who have decided to spend the rest of their lives together in holy matrimony…
So, remember how earlier in the year when we held a primary, but on the Democratic side it didn’t really count? Well now President-elect Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, is saying what a lot of people were thinking: If the Florida primary would have been an actual primary, Hillary Clinton…
You know what is really, really hot right now? Governor corruption! Especially involving governors who are quite particular about their hair. So the Democratic Party of Florida decided to get in on this hot political meme by issuing a memo from spokesman Eric Jotkoff charging Charlie Crist with his own…
Charlie Crist and his female love will only allow one reporter into the straight wedding of the century, and it’s The St. Pete Times’ Lucy Morgan. Fitting since the wedding is in St. Pete, but oh my god the Times has now come down with a heavy case of Crist…
Charlie Crist is in the unprecedented position of chosing his third supreme court justice in his first term, with a fourth pick coming up in March. Four picks for a Republican Governor would, of course, swing the balance of power on a bench that conservatives have derided for years as…
The straight-people wedding of the century is this weekend, and our beloved Gov. Charlie Crist will marry this fancy New York socialite/whoopee cushion heiress, Carole Rome. Are the woman of Florida not good enough for you, Charlie? They have elected you. Has this woman ever elected you?The Tampa Tribune says “Crist’s…
Welcome to biggest blatant political scandal in years starring Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. Basically the dude tried to leverage his power to be able to select the successor to Obama’s Senate seat for money (note to wingnuts: There’s no evidence that the Obama camp is involved in this at…
Florida’s education rankings continue to linger in the bottom half of the nation’s states, and who does Charlie Crist appoint to the State Board of Education? Oh, a former professional football player. ex-FSU Standount and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Peter Boulware ran for a Florida House seat as a Republican and…
Former Florida Senator Bob Graham stopped by The Colbert Report last night, to talk about a report he put out as chair of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (The video is above, scroll forward to the 7:30 mark). Colbert is supposed to…
“Sink not running against Martinez,” technically this Politico.com headline from Monday is correct, as no one will be running against Mel Martinez, ever again. But their assertion that she wasn’t throwing her hat in the ring to become Florida’s junior Senator in 2010 may have been off the mark. Naked…
Here is Sen. Mel Martinez’s first interview after announcing he won’t seek reelection. It was conducted by Republican Lobbyist, and former Jeb advisor Justin Sayfie, for his internet computer website The Sayfie Review. The Herald’s Beth Reinhard has already noted just how great it is for newspapers that politicians are giving exclusive…
If Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ever got an important 3am phone call of national importance, apparently she would hang up, and then put out a press release about it. Riptide has already written up Ileana’s now infamous Obama hang up, but let’s use the magic of bullet points to painstakingly detail just how…
So this Jeb Bush character wants to be our Senator, aye? What has he ever done for us? Oh, he was our Governor. Great, great. He was also the brother of that one guy, what is his name? I think he was the President for a little while, maybe. I…
It’s been our fear that something huge politic-wise would happen while we were away looking at pretty, little art things, and what do you know it happens on the first day. Sonofa. Senator Mel Martinez has announced that he will not run for re-election in 2010. His Senate seat was generally…
Miami Commissioner Joe Sanchez, a former cop, has opened an account to run for city mayor, opening the way to the best political contest in recent memory. Commissioner Tomas Regalado, who announced several months ago, is sure to attack, particularly as we get close to election day. Regalado’s ethical lapses…
Another Miami-Dade city, another city commission appointment controversy in the works. This time around, Miami Beach is trying to decide whether to fill Dan Gelber’s vacated seat with an appointee or hold a special election. An election would cost as much as $400,000, and Mayor Matti Bower told the Herald: “That’s a…
A group of devoted fans have already started a Draft Alex Sink website, but they were hoping Florida’s CFO would run for Governor. Turns out she may have her eye on Washington instead. The Hill is reporting that Sink will make an announcement very soon as to the future of…
Katherine Cue, of course, isn’t the only recent controversial appointment to an elected office. Yesterday, Delaware’s Governor announced that she would appoint Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff Edward Kaufman to his soon to be vacated senate seat. The Governors of Illinois and possibly New York will also name…
The shortlist for HUD secretary keeps getting longer. Mayor Manny Diaz is still on this list, released to the AP from ominous sources inside the party and transition team: Miami Mayor Manny DiazRep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.Renee Glover, head of Atlanta’s housing authorityNicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing StudiesShaun…
The venerable New York Times is selling prints of this picture of Barack and Michelle Obama in downtown Miami starting at the low, low price of $199 for the 11 x 14 size. But if you’ve got the big bucks, you can splurge $1,099 on the 20 x 24 that’s framed and “signed,…
The Miami Herald and teevee stations covered the news in the same human-interest tone they would a water-skiing squirrel. “Isn’t it just adorable that Little Miss Hialeah gets to play city council member with the big boys?” The Herald brushed aside questions of nepotism and conflicts of interest. Largely, they…
Poor Charlie Crist. Sure, he went out of the way to let it be known he wouldn’t mind being John McCain’s personal vice president, but he hasn’t done anything that indicates he really wants to stage his own presidential campaign in 2012. He must seem like a natural to the…
