Fire up those spliffs, DMV workers of Florida: A Miami federal judge has ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to randomly drug test all state employees is unconstitutional. Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled today that random tests of 85,000 state employees would be an unreasonable search and seizure and issued a…
The political world has come down with a crippling case of Rubio-mania. A junior member of the glee club United States Senate, Marco Rubio is Latino, has Tea Partiers in his pocket, and represents Florida, the most important state in the 2012 presidential election. Name him as Mitt Romney’s veep,…
Is Mitt Romney surging ahead of Barack Obama in Florida? Has the Sunshine State officially joined Mitt Nation? Did Obama really get zero bump by slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon?Uh, no. It’s only April, so we probably shouldn’t pay attention to any presidential polls yet. Still, a new nonpartisan…
As if Marco Rubio’s attempts to moderate the GOP’s immigration stance weren’t difficult enough: A Washington Post reporter has released part of a biography revealing that Rubio’s grandfather ignored deportation orders from a Miami immigration court — a detail that, combined with Rubio’s own call for immigration reform, is sure…
Marco Rubio at the moment is trapped in that strange limbo — let’s call it the Biden Zone — where half of America assumes he’s going to be a vice presidential nominee but nothing is official yet. That means despite daily national press and a starring role this week sharing…
In my quest to become the commissioner of Surfside–the beach hamlet just south of the haughty nihilist province known as Bal Harbour– I’ve run into a problem: A lot of the older residents don’t want to open the door for me. Maybe it’s only because I’m a relatively young man…
In late August, hundreds of thousands of Republican heavyweights will descend on Tampa to officially crown Mitt Romney their presidential nominee and celebrate their policies, which include abstinence-only education, limiting women’s reproductive health choices, and an aversion to birth control and gay rights. Oh, yeah, they might also enjoy some…
Carlos Miller isn’t shy about his M.O. — he believes photographers have the right to photograph police on the job, and he’s more than willing to get arrested to prove his point. So it’s not necessarily a surprise that cops are well aware of the 305’s most rabble-rousing photog. Yet…
Attention residents of North Miami: Would you like to learn how to prevent your home from going into foreclosure? Your esteemed mayor, Andre Pierre, would like to teach you how to avoid the pain and mounting legal costs of fighting a bank trying to take away your home, so he’s…
Dwyane Wade was recently in New York, where he defeated the Knicks, hung out with Tim Tebow at a Yankees game, and, as we’re just learning, dropped in a street ball game being played by some NYC kids in SoHo. There’s video…
Michele Bachmann sure loves talking, but after her flameout in the Republican primary, no one really wants to talk to her so much right now. So she’s apparently just giving interviews to random Florida conservative blogs such as the Shark Tank.During that interview, she accused President Obama of “waiving a tar…
Two separate polls now have shown that Florida’s junior senator, Marco Rubio, wouldn’t give Mitt Romney much help in his home state against President Barack Obama in November, but that hasn’t stopped voters in the rest of the nation from thinking he’d be a pretty decent Republican running mate. He…
This weekend the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald got their two top political reporters together to pen a piece about Republicans who weren’t all that enthused about Rep. Connie Mack IV’s Senate candidacy so far. Of course, Mack IV’s biggest advantage in the race so far seems to…
Gov. Rick Scott championed a controversial law that required all recipients of state welfare to submit to drug tests, claiming it saves the state money. We’ve known for a while now that in fact the program actually cost the state money, but supporters pointed to potential “hidden savings” of potential…
Florida’s next gubernatorial election is more than two years away, but if Gov. Rick Scott’s popularity remains below sea level, there’s a good chance a Democrat could emerge victorious for the first time since 1994. The question is, of course, which Democrat?State Sen. Nan Rich, the top Democrat in the…
No one really disputes the facts: While he was a powerful state representative, David Rivera accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars for an obscure post as a state “committeeman.” Investigators say he spent at least $65,000 from the funds on dry cleaning, dental bills, pet care, and even travel costs…
As always, Florida will be a critical swing state in the 2012 election. According to the latest Public Policy Polling survey, President Barack Obama currently has a 5-point lead over Mitt Romney. So what could Romney do to improve his chances? Well, he certainly shouldn’t take Sarah Palin’s advice and…
Zeddie Little, the dashing being captured mid-marathon looking like Derek Zoolander, is sweeping the internet as “the ridiculously photogenic guy.” Well, what do you know, we’ve found another interesting photo of a, uh, distinguished mug running right on Rick Scott’s Flickr. Unfortunately for Scott, people do not love him nearly…
In our latest example of why we hate politics in Florida because way too many people involved act like children, let us now examine the letters sent between the chairs of the Florida Democratic Party and the Republican Party of Florida this morning over GOP Rep. Allen West’s comments about…
Florida’s 2012 Senate election is shaping up to be as ridiculous as ever. Connie Mack IV, whom you might remember has been characterized by his Republican opponents as “the Charlie Sheen of Florida Politics,” released a web ad today linking incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to coked-up monkeys. …
Apparently the spirit of Sen. Joseph McCarthy lives on in South Florida Rep. Allen West. While President Barack Obama was speaking yesterday in Boca Raton, West spoke to supporters in nearby Palm City and said he’s heard that up to 80 of the 190 Democratic members of Congress are actually…
Congratulations, Mitt Romney! You’ve won the least sought-after endorsement in the Republican Party. Perennially unpopular Florida Gov. Rick Scott officially endorsed Romney today just hours after Rick Santorum announced he was suspending his campaign — a move that finally leaves Romney as the unquestionable Republican nominee. …
