Poor Republican legislators are surely going to be in a bind over this. On one hand, they’re used to bending to the whims of big business. On the other, they party has gone all in on the “Yeah, LGBT people are kind of icky” front. So what are they to…
After getting busted for cocaine possession and doing a stint at an outpatient rehab facility, Southwest Florida congressman Trey Radel is back to work on Capitol Hill as if nothing happened. Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, a well-known and often outspoken Republican figure in Radel’s district, however, isn’t about to…
Rick Scott has officially picked Miami-Dade property appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his next lieutenant governor. The office was vacant for nearly ten months. A solid conservative whose main issue throughout his career as both property appraiser and a member of the Florida House has been lower property taxes, Lopez-Cantera will…
With HealthCare.gov’s problems are so well known you’d think the Obama administration would make sure their next website would work correctly. Apparently not so. CuidadoDeSalud.gov, HealthCare.gov’s Spanish equivalent, was launched quietly in December and is plagued with some of the same problems found on HealthCare.gov. It also appears to have…
Florida hasn’t had a lieutenant governor for well over nine months, and the pressure is on Gov. Rick Scott to finally get around to picking a replacement. After several candidates on a leaked short list publicly removed themselves from consideration, Scott seems to have expanded the search and according to…
Remember how Charlie Crist was going to write a tell-all book about breaking up with the Republican Party? Well, it’s here. The Tampa Bay Times got an early copy and apparently it contains some juicy stuff, including an anecdote about Karl Rove calling the then GOP gubernatorial candidate “chickenshit” for…
Despite widespread local approval in the legal community and a surprising show of support from religious leaders, Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will not receive a promotion to the federal level with a spot in U.S. District Court for the Southern District. Thomas would have been the first openly gay, black…
It’s been over nine months since former Lt. Gov Jennifer Carroll resigned in disgrace, and Rick Scott has still not picked a replacement. Sure, it’s not like the lieutenant governor, and as long as Scott doesn’t bite the dust, Florida can run pretty smoothly without one. But new lawsuit claims…
Charlie Crist, the man of a thousand stances, recently sat down for his first interview with the gay press. While a Republican Governor in 2008 he publicly backed Amendment 2, which banned gay marriage and civil union in Florida. During his ill-fated 2010 Senate run he held firm on that…
For all those worried that O.J. Simpson is such an upstanding citizen dedicated to civic involvement that he’d try and vote despite his felony convictions and the fact he’s sitting in a Nevada jail cell can finally breathe a sigh of relief. He’s officially been scrubbed from Miami-Dade’s voter rolls…
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, himself the son of Cuban immigrants, has promised to champion immigration reform that would pave a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents. Though, many are frustrated that the Republican really hasn’t done much of any actual work on the issue, so they decided to send…
For Trey Radel, anything must seem possible. He’s already performed the insane mental gymnastics required to re-imagine Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” as a conservative anthem. And he was able to withstand the cognitive dissonance that must come from being a narcotics abuser and alcoholic who insists that food stamps…
There’s no such thing as a free ride. The popularity of the City of Miami’s 2-year-old free trolley system has surpassed expectations, but so has its budget. Though the city allocated $2.36 million a year to the system, operating costs are closer to about $3.8 million. So to fill the…
In addition to the public polls touted by the news media, politicians have pollsters taking the public’s pulse for their own internal campaign purposes. Usually when those internal polls get leaked to the press it’s because they’re more favorable to the candidate than the independent media polls. Well, Politico got…
Supporters of special interest group “Big Firearm” are at it again, trying to impinge on freedom-loving Americans’ constitutional right not to own a gun. Some fancy organized group calling itself the Marion County Campaign for Liberty is pushing for an ordinance in the Florida county of Marion that would require…
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…
