Part-time Florida man Donald Trump stopped into the state last night to address his fellow Florida Republicans at a Pensacola rally. At least 11,000 people showed up to hear Trump speak, but the GOP frontrunner reserved his speech’s harshest anger for his microphone. “Five hundred and five billion, and by the…
Despite the fact that neither Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush are the frontrunner, the pair and the political PACs continue to duke it out in a fight that’s starting to seem as much like a playground fight as it does an odd personal matter. In today’s episode, Bush called Rubio…
The new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is planned as the centerpiece of the emerging bayfront area downtown, an eco-friendly tourist mecca with a jaw-dropping, enormous shark tank as its centerpiece. Miami-Dade County is so bullish on the plan it sank $160 million in taxpayer funds to help pay…
The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. the FEC paved the way for SuperPACs, independent political action committees that could raise unlimited donations and spend as much as they want in pursuit of their goals. Some predicted the development could forever ruin democracy as we knew it, but Jeb Bush, the…
Governor Rick Scott’s promise to bar Syrian refugees from settling in Florida has gotten an assist from a bill filed in the state Senate. Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, has filed a bill dubbed “Prevention of Acts of War,” that would effectively ban “certain” refugees from entering the state of Florida…
It’s been said that some Republican candidates run their campaigns on a politics of fear. They constantly, forcibly remind their base of any potentially scary issue in the world like they’re a Boy Scout troop leader telling ghost stories around a campfire, and then present themselves as the only person…
Registered Democrats in Florida far outnumber registered Republicans. The state has voted twice for President Barack Obama on the presidential level. Yet, up in Tallahassee, Florida’s state Government is currently controlled completely by Republicans. Governor Rick Scott and the entire cabinet belong to the party, and Republicans hold large majorities…
Florida Governor Rick Scott isn’t ready to make an endorsement in the Republican presidential nomination race, but he does have kind words for frontrunner and fellow shady businessman Donald Trump. Which should surprise exactly no one. In fact, he seems so impressed by Trump he wrote an entire USA Today editorial…
Here’s the good news: Florida is no longer the most corrupt state in the nation. Here’s the bad news: We’re still corrupt as hell. In the period from 2000 to 2010, Florida led the nation with the most federal public corruption convictions. Integrity Florida reworked the number from the period from…
It’s no secret that Republicans control Florida’s legislature thanks to big help from gerrymandering, but after the current state Senate districts were invalidated earlier this year the Senate scrambled to draw new districts. Well, in a major ruling today a state judge threw out the Senate’s new map and instead…
Let’s say you’re the Florida Democratic Party, and you notice that while your state’s most populous county has a strong Democratic voter advantage, its highest office, the County Mayor’s seat, has been held by a Republican for over 10 years. So what would you do? Probably try and get an…
Hoverboards were the numbers one gift for children of wealthy parents this holiday season, and a young member of Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s family was no exception. Curbelo’s nephew got a shiny new walking-avoiding-machine for Christmas, but when Uncle Carlos decided to take it for a spin he wound up in…
Looking back, it’s almost ironic that during the 2010 Senate campaign the Marco Rubio campaign and its surrogates attacked then-rival Charlie Crist for being too ambitious. Crist, they argued, was a professional politician of the worst kind who merely saw a Senate seat as a step to even higher ambitions…
This year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly sent correspondent Jesse Watters down to the art fairs to poke fun of attendees. Waters was operating under the assumption that anyone who loves art must be some sort of out of touch hippie liberal. Not only was…
Turns out if you scratch Rick Scott’s back, he’ll scratch yours. The Governor has now appointed failed Miami Commission candidate Teresa Sarnoff to the state’s Transportation Commission. The move comes after Sarnoff and her husband Marc made a surprising endorsement of Scott during his last run for Governor. Though Miami…
Florida Republican Primary voters continue to be fake as hell. They’re letting the men they at one point elected to serve as our Senator and Governor linger in polls of their home state. In the first poll of Florida Republicans taking since this week’s debate, it turns out that our…
A Florida mailman who broke several laws by flying a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol this past tax day is now planning a more traditional route back to the building. He’s running for congress. Though, he won’t say exactly where in Florida plans to run, and that depends…
Despite trying to position himself as the Anti-Trump, Jeb Bush’s campaign continues to struggle. A fact that was underscored last night when a photo purporting to be of Bush’s nearly empty official Miami debate watch party went viral. The image was first tweeted out by Washington Post national political reporter…
In light of thawing relations between Cuba and the United State, state Rep. Frank Artiles is now calling for an end to the decades-old “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” policy regarding immigration from Cuba. The Republican who represents portions of western Miami-Dade County, has filed a non-binding “memorial” ahead of next…
The latest drop of water splashing from the thaw of Cuba and America’s icy relationship: mail service. The US State Department announced today that for the first time in more than 50 years Cubans and Americans will be able to send mail to each other directly for the first time…
It’s weird enough that two major candidates for the GOP presidential nomination hail from Miami, but the slugfest between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush is even more localized. In fact, the birthplace of their epic struggle for Republican party dominance can actually be traced to a single luxury hotel in…
Here’s the difference between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump’s public personas: Jeb Bush is a self-admitted policy nerd. Donald Trump goes around ranting and then has his team draw up something resembling actual policies. Jeb Bush’s website lays out his position on 11 broad topics, many with multiple policies included…
