Miami Beach residents are happy, the city is a well-oiled machine and — despite a string of embarrassments by the police and a mass FBI corruption bust last month — the majority of city employees do good work. That was City Manager Jorge Gonzalez’s upbeat message, at least, to an…
In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama announced this afternoon that he now supports gay marriage. It’s a striking change from the commander-in-chief on the same day that North Carolina’s voters followed in Florida’s footsteps in passing a gay marriage ban. “I think same-sex couples should be able…
Plan B is not actually an “abortion pill.” It’s an emergency contraceptive intended to be taken within three days after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. However, many Republicans aren’t deterred from referring to it as a form of abortion. Mitt Romney, in fact, has referred to medicines like Plan B as…
Bad news, you guys: it appears the chances that Sofia Vergara will ever be Florida’s first lady have dwindled. “Wait,” you ask, “there was a serious chance Sofia Vergara could have been the first lady of Florida?”Well, she was dating Nick Loeb, some rich guy from a powerful and politically…
It’s official: Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest single fuck-up in office is not his spectacularly failed plans to drug test everyone in Florida, his botched ideas for fixing the economy or even his refusal to pee in a cup when the Daily Show asked him so nicely. No, his biggest catastrophe…
Left-leaning Floridians are probably not too enthused that the Republican Party is descending on Tampa to crown Mitt Romney as its official nominee in August. But don’t worry, you hippies — there’s now something for you to get excited about, too. The Daily Show has announced it’ll tape a week’s…
Mitt Romney will be tearing through Florida next week and hopes to leave the state with somewhere between $5 and $8 million in his campaign’s coffers. He’ll be making stops in Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Tampa, Jacksonville and Boca Raton during the fundraising flourish on Wednesday and Thursday, and Miamians…
Abraham Uccello, the man appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to head a task force to reduce waste in state government, once received a $400,000 no-bid contact from the state to provide “technology consulting.” Uccello, by the way, is close friends with Steve MacNamara, Scott’s chief of staff.Here’s a good idea…
Josue Larose is perhaps one of Florida’s most interesting political figures. He’s not particularly influential or powerful, mind you. He ran for governor in 2010 and got 121 votes. But he has run for multiple offices, including three at once. He’s also formed over 600 PACs and 64 SuperPACs. He’s…
According to a blog report, at an event promoting his support of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Republican Senate Candidate Connie Mack IV called a heckler a “jackass.” In a bizarre response today, Mack IV denied that he actually called the man a “jackass,” but then insinuated that he did…
Most polls of Florida voters taken in the past few months have shown President Barack Obama with a slim but definite lead over Mitt Romney, but now that Romney is all but the official nominee it seems that he’s now taken the slimmest of leads in the Sunshine State according…
May Day was supposed to mark Occupy Miami’s reemergence as a force for good. Instead, it raised questions about how much longer the movement will survive in Miami.City police arrested three protesters during yesterday’s downtown march, leading to another late-night protest outside the county’s pretrial detention center. Yet, while arrests…
Today, I consider myself the luckiest failed commission candidate on the face of the earth. After weathering a last-ditch smear campaign, I spent the rest of yesterday’s Election Day in Surfside– where I was running for commissioner in a very special election– parading around town with my dog, drinking victory…
Miami Police arrested at least two three Occupy Miami members today during a May Day protest downtown. Brian Tangherlini, 22, and Rolando Prieto, 23, were arrested after ignoring orders to get out of the street, according to a police report. Tangherlini was wrestled to the ground by several officers and…
If you’re the kind of Republican voter who finds yourself easily swayed by some of the more deafening but dimmer voices in your party, well then boy do we have a quagmire for you. Two of your favorite also-rans from the GOP presidential primary have chosen different sides in the…
Today, Surfside chooses its destiny. Mock naval battles, legalized marijuana, and blissful chaos in town hall — or a (let’s face it) pretty darn nice lady named Michelle Kligman. It’s been a bruising special election campaign for the open commission seat in the weird little beachfront town of 5,000 since…
Dr. Rudy Moise is as colorful a character as you’ll ever find in a congressional race. The millionaire physician has bankrolled B-movies to cast himself as the star and was accused of inserting his face into a memorial statue of Haitian soldiers that he’d paid for. There’s also a very…
Well, this seemed inevitable.Joe Garcia, the man who has run as a Democrat in Congressional District 25 in the past two elections, is letting it be known that he’s about to try one more time and will throw his hat in the ring. The move comes after Democrats have repeatedly…
Senator Marco Rubio can say he does not want to be Mitt Romney’s running mate a million times, but that won’t stop the media from buzzing about the possibility. Rubio could do cartwheels down the Senate floor before singing “I Don’t Wanna Be VP” to the tune of Aerosmith’s “I…
There’s an undeniable element of skin-crawling terror to the downward spiral of modern American politics. And who hasn’t felt like projectile-vomiting all over their dashboard while listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio rants? So kudos to a proud Miami auteur for dreaming up The Foxorcist — a mashup of a classic…
The email went out to a group of Miami-Dade cops February 22, just a couple of weeks after they’d busted up Occupy Miami’s downtown encampment. The subject line was in ominous military-speak: “Occupy Miami: Situational Awareness.” Inside, an MDPD Homeland Security detective named Maritza Aschenbrenner passed along her latest intel…
Conservatives tittered like giddy Limbaughs last week when Jeb Bush cracked open the door toward being a vice presidential candidate by telling Newsmax that he’d “consider” Romney’s overtures if they came. Rubio may be the rising star, but some in the GOP still dream lustily about a return to the…
