Today is going to be a real bitch, Miami. No question about it. You’re back at work already, but those three bottles of champers you chugged on New Year’s Eve are not done with you yet. Right now, your head feels like Deadmau5 is spinning a set on your cerebellum.But…
Not only was Rick Scott’s zeal for drug testing just about anyone he could laughably bad policy, it’s also been quite costly to the state. In the four months a program to drug test welfare recipients was in practice it ended up costing that state just over $118,000. Then it…
Maybe it was the bungled Election Day, or the Stand Your Ground backlash, or the drug testing programs gone awry, or just the fact that he still looks like a cyborg sent from the future to slash entitlement programs. Either way, Gov. Rick Scott continues posting historically bad poll numbers.A…
Welcome to the first annual WTF Florida Awards ceremony. It’s the only award show celebrating the special brand of bizarre depravity we excel at down here in the Sunshine State. Black tie isn’t required. In fact, jorts and a NASCAR cap are preferred.We’ll be giving away awards in four categories…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott — a man who has signed laws forbidding doctors from asking about patients’ gun ownership and forcing municipalities to stop enforcing stricter local gun laws — was silent today about gun laws when asked about the Sandy Hook massacre…
What happens when you put a bunch of Florida Republican reps up in Disney’s swanky Grand Floridian resort in Orlando? Apparently some drunken, rowdy nonsense. No one knows exactly what went down on a night in November, but Speaker of the House Will Weatherford says he’s looking into it…
When Craig Lowe won a run-off two years ago to become Gainesville’s first openly gay mayor, many hailed it as a landmark of tolerance in conservative Central Florida. But not the local county’s GOP chairman. He saw Lowe’s election, he says today, as a victory by a vast liberal conspiracy…
Remember that crazy WhiteHouse.gov petition demanding that Florida be let free from the United State of America? Well, it’s been thirty days since the thing went live, and under the petition rules established Obama administration, any petition that gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days must get an official response. The…
Charlie Crist was officially wed to the Democratic party today in a quiet ceremony attended only be close friends and family. The pair had announced their engagement over the weekend at a White House Christmas party.Just kidding. The former Republican governor turned a Pinellas County elections office into a full…
We guess it’s a sure sign that you really are a political superstar when men’s magazine Esquire starts writing about your hair.The mag’s website points out that Marco Rubio’s hair is looking mighty thin up on top lately, and thinks the Florida senator is trying to overcompensate for it in…
After last month’s electoral loss, the Republican Party is desperately trying to make it self over as a Hispanic friendly group, but the fact that a group representing Hispanic Republican voters in Florida has now filed a lawsuit against Reince Priebus, the national GOP chair with a name that sounds…
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is unbelievably popular in his party. A full 62 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Rubio. Just 8 percent have an unfavorably opinion. That’s a positive 54 point split. Perhaps some of that appeal comes from the increasingly common idea floating in Republican circles…
Like most high profile politicians, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has a leadership PAC. His is titled Reclaim America, and has the stated purpose of ;”supporting candidates just like [Rubio] all across the country that will go to Washington to make a real difference for America’s future.”Unlike most pol’s leadership PACs,…
In the latest example of Marco Rubio giving confusing answers to basic questions that try to straddle the line between strict Bible bumpin’ and sane, the Florida senator says that his faith informs him that homosexuality is a sin. Though, he went on to clarify that lots of things are…
Your kids’ ride to school every morning could soon be sponsored by Coca-Cola, Kendall Toyota or Disney Channel. A new bill introduced in the Florida House of Representatives would allow school districts to sell advertising space directly on the school bus…
Three years ago, nine Miami-Dade County commissioners voted in favor of the Marlins Stadium deal, and to no one’s surprise a few of them now regret the decision. The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson called up eight of the nine and asked them how they feel about the deal now. Commissioner…
Are Democrats warming up to the idea of Charlie Crist becoming their 2014 nominee for governor? Over the weekend, two high profile Florida Democrats took the airwaves and seemed to have nothing but nice things to say about Crist, including Bob Graham, who even after years out of office remains…
Oh, you thought we were done with all that Birther nonsense? Nope, not by a long shot.Michael Voeltz, a Broward county man who claims to be a registered Democrat, has filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming that Barack Obama was not eligible to be on the state’s ballot because he’s…
Christin Slater was once on Hollywood’s A-List, but he wasn’t on Miami-Dade’s voter list.Like almost everyone in Miami-Dade, Slater (who lives here now, who knew?) had a hell of a time voting on Election Day. After waiting in line for four hours, he was told he wasn’t properly registered. He…
Sorry, guys. We won’t be getting any more info on the rumors that top Republican Party of Florida officials held a fundraising shindig in the Bahamas that featured a golf cart full of hookers. At least not anytime soon, it seems. A court today blocked the release of investigative reports…
This is an actual press release sent out by an actual political party. The Republican Party of Florida to be exact. Someone (or perhaps multiple someones) actually wrote this, and made a Photoshop and decided it would be a good idea to send out…
As Riptide reported yesterday, Barbara Jordan believes Miami-Dade public employees’ salaries shouldn’t be available online. She’s even introduced a resolution to strip that info from the web.Maybe it was the county commissioner’s commanding Aug. 14 re-election that emboldened her to make such a move. Or perhaps, as she claims, it’s…
