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…
A cavalcade of Hummers and F-150s headed down to the University of Miami on Saturday. They contained scantily clad female models bearing bullhorns, beer pong tables and boxes of pizza. Bros instantly materialized, got drunk and danced to the sounds of DJ Joey. And because no tailgate would be complete…
Last Tuesday, Miami Beach voters overwhelming voted in favor a symbolic vote for medical marijuana and a real vote to approve a queer- and trans-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance. It’s not exactly conservative-land. So it seems strange that a mysterious e-mail went out recently attacking commission candidate Michael Grieco for *gasp* living…
Philip Levine managed to narrowly avoid a runoff in Tuesday’s dramatic Miami Beach mayoral election, and because that margin was so low (just 0.47 percent), state laws mandated an automatic recount. The results of that recount are now in, and Levine is now officially mayor-elect. No runoff against Michael Gongora…
Shortly after Charlie Crist announced he’d be running for governor as a Democrat on Monday, word came that he’d be doing his first big cable news interview as a candidate on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Crist was likely hoping this would be a chance to raise his national profile…
This year has not been kind to Marco Rubio. It began with talk of Florida’s junior senator being the savior of the GOP. But then the prodigal son got parched on national television, and his insipid immigration reform was roundly rejected by fellow Republicans. In recent months, Rubio has begun…
Good morning Miami Beach. Are you feeling sore and tired from swilling too many flutes of celebratory champagne last night? Are you surprised to find yourself wearing a campaign T-shirt altered to say “Philip Levine Latrine”? Is your living room floor littered with more flyers than a Free Tibet rally?…
Today voters across the county went to the polls for elections in Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Homestead as well as a county-wide referendum concerning funding for Jackson Memorial Hospital. As always, we’ll be keeping an update post on those results as they come back. We’ll update results at the…
