Charlie Crist, in his new form as a Democrat, is running against Governor Rick Scott, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be attacking his former Senate campaign rival Marco Rubio apparently. Crist and Rubio got into a public snit today after Crist said that Rubio had “endorsed” Obamacare…
If President Obama’s nomination of William Thomas is confirmed, Thomas would become the first openly gay, black man to serve as a federal judge. Senator Marco Rubio, the man who first recommended Thomas to Obama, however, is now blocking the nomination over his concerns with Thomas’s “temperament.” Well, now a…
We’ve come to associate former The Price Is Right host Bob Barker with one simple but steadfast political belief: “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.” But apparently it’s not just the price that’s right. Barker’s politics are too, and he’s starring in a new TV…
Gloria and Emilio Estefan are already pretty much the unofficial King and Queen of Miami, but the county commission is moving forward with a plan to give the regal couple officially recognized titles. If all goes as planned the couple is expected to be named Miami-Dade’s first official cultural and…
Fox News predicted that President Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro “could rile Cuban-American lawmakers,” and Marco Rubio and Ilean Ros-Lehtinen have sure enough delivered. According to the Hill, Rubio isn’t so much angry that the handshake took place, but rather that Obama didn’t take the opportunity to lecture Castro…
During Nelson Mandela’s funeral this morning, President Obama shook the hand of Cuban leader Raúl Castro. It’s not completely unprecedented. Bill Clinton shook Fidel Castro’s hand in New York in 2000. It’s still an odd sight. But what does it mean? Of course, the internet is buzzing with people trying…
Rep. Joe Garcia finally won a seat in the US House after several tries, but Republicans are hell bent on making sure his hold on District 26 is a short one. Though we’re still 11 months away from the election, several Republican challengers have already emerged. Carlos Curbelo, a Miami-Dade…
President Obama’s owes his reelection in part thanks to the Latino vote. But in the year since being elected to a second term, his approval rating has dropped a stunning 23 points among Hispanic voters. However, that’s in part thanks to the fact that his approval ratings among the demographic…
An amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Florida could find itself before Florida voters in 2014, but Attorney General Pam Bondi is trying her damnedest to make sure it doesn’t. The Florida Supreme Court today heard initial arguments in a case that will decide whether or not Floridians will get…
In a post Anthony Weiner-gate world, does this even count as a scandal? First-term Miami-Dade Congressman Joe Garcia made it onto TMZ’s television show last week for the *gasp* controversial act of being in close proximity to a woman wearing a thong while on the beach…
Last month’s elections in Miami Beach were a clear call for change. Four incumbents and past office holders were defeated at the polls in favor flesh blood. But that notably left Miami Beach, a city with a 53 percent Hispanic majority population, without a single elected Hispanic civil servant in…
While you may have spent Wednesday preparing for Thanksgiving, Jeb Bush was busy on Twitter spreading controversy-stirring conspiracy theories about President Obama on Twitter. Unfortunately these stubborn little things called facts got in the way of his criticism…
It seems almost too obvious to state that a key requirement of being lieutenant governor is actually wanting to be lieutenant governor, but that’s apparently something Gov. Rick Scott didn’t take into account during his long, dragged-out search to replaced disgraced ex-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. In the week since his…
While his colleagues in DC have remained quiet, two major voices in Florida have now called for Rep. Trey Radel to resign after his arrest for cocaine possession. Last night both Lenny Curry, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, and the Collier County Republican Executive Committee called for…
If you’ve got a baby on board you might want to start throwing your butts out. A Republican legislator from Jacksonville has filed a new bill that would make it illegal for anyone to smoke in their car or truck while a minor is also in the vehicle…
Florida hasn’t had a lieutenant governor for 256 days, but now Gov. Rick Scott has finally gotten around to forming a short list of candidates to replace the disgraced Jennifer Carroll. Naturally, one of the candidates in the running has already dropped out…
Smoke it if you’ve got a prescription. That’s what the vast majority of Floridians say about marijuana. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that 82 percent of Floridians support the use of medical marijuana. But only 48 percent support decriminalization of small amounts of pot for recreational use, which, hey, is…
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have gotten to satirize a lot of things over the years, but they’ve never gotten a chance to rip into a sitting member of the U.S. Congress getting busted for drugs. That’s because no such thing had happen during the shows’ runs until…
Well, the possibility of a rival team in Miami wasn’t the only thing that had soccer fans in Orlando booing last night. Rick Scott showed up to the announcement of the new Orlando MLS team and was promptly booed off stage…
Florida, usually North America’s go-to source for general bizarreness and political corruption, has been watching the saga of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford unfold with a bit of a smirk on our face. Hey, at least none of our mayors smokes crack. Then Southwest Florida Congressman Trey Radel had to ruin…
South Miami is a strange town. So strange, in fact, that Commissioner Bob Welsh seems to fit right in. Around town he’s known as “Bicycle Bob” for pedaling neighborhoods on a girl’s blue cruiser distributing flyers. During the Mariel boatlift, he handed out his own Spanish-language joke books to newly…
Charlie Crist has only been running for governor for 12 days, but he’s already raised nearly $900,000. And according to the first poll released since his announcement, he has a 10-point lead over incumbent Rick Scott…
