Besides the monumentally important task of sitting around and waiting for the Governor to die, the Lt. Governor of Florida has very few duties actually spelled out by law. Usually the Lt. Gov and Gov work closely, but ever since Charlie Crist announced that he was running as an independent for Senate,…
Talking Heads leader David Byrne is still pursueing his lawsuit against Gov. Charlie Crist for using one of his songs in a YouTube campaign ad. He wants $1 million because he believes the ad suggests that he endorsed Crist and did harm to his reputation. Today he explained the situation to…
Three way action seems to be all the rage in Florida politics this year, and now the Governor’s race is about to get a some-what high profile third wheel. Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, the son of former Democratic Governor and Senator Lawton Chiles says he plans to run for Governor…
Jim Greer, the divisive former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been arrested and charged with six felony counts stemming from allegations that he siphoned money from the party for his personal use. Greer is the first arrest stemming from a grand jury examining public corruption called for…
Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be “inclined” to support repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. It’s just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former party, and his own…
Gov. Charlie Crist is being sued by the Talking Heads’ David Byrne for copyright infringement, and no it’s not for rocking the same style of gentlemanly premature white hair. Crist’s campaign used the Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere” in an attack ad against Marco Rubio without bothering to get…
Now that Jeb Bush doesn’t have to share a party with Charlie Crist, he’s letting his true thoughts on the made who proceeded him in the governor’s chair known. Talking to the Weekly Standard, Bush doesn’t spare much.”He doesn’t have a set of guiding principles to share with people. This…
Yesterday was Cuban independence day, a holiday as ignored by Cubans as President’s Day is by Americans. But for every Florida politician with an election coming up, it was the perfect opportunity to suck up to the pickiest voting bloc in the state. The three enemigos — Charlie Crist, Marco…
The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and “researcher” Geroge Rekers’s ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor, and now Florida’s Democratic Party is demanding that McCollum…
Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon that will…
Hey, Democratic Party of Florida, you do realize that you’re supposed to win elections don’t you? You’re aware that President Obama won this state in 2008, and that you have a pretty hefty voter registration advantage over Republicans? You know that your main competitor in the Governors race is a…
When news broke that Charlie Crist would run for Senate as an independent, it was speculated that he’d spend the rest of his term as governor issuing a few controversial vetoes that would separate him from the Republican party. He already did so with the education bill, and is now…
Are you ready for Governor Lawton Chiles 2.0? Alex Sink sure isn’t.Naked Politics reports that Lawton Chiles III is considering making a late entrance into the governor’s race as a democrat. Alex Sink, the state’s CFO, has been running for nearly a year now and was considered a lock to…
Anytime a woman who doesn’t quite fit the norms of what society deems feminine gains some influence in American politics, it seems lesbian rumors follow. Go ask the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, or, for someone living who you might actually run into in Miami, Donna Shalala or Janet Reno.Though, the…
“We created this civilization — by ‘we,’ I mean the whites.” So says Gordon Baum, the CEO of the Council of Conservative Citizens — the CCC, for short. “Our local chapters would probably support a referendum to ban inter-racial marriage, I would speculate,” he says in a New Times interview…
Tampa, our slightly “off” cousin to the northwest, has been chosen to host the 2012 Republican National Convention in which the Grand Ol’ Party will nominate Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio or Ron Paul or someone else slightly “off” to take on President Obama in the election. Congratulations Tampa! Get…
So you’ve had a torrid love affair that imploded your political career, destroyed your family and cemented your spot in the Hall of Fame for GOP “family values” hypocrites. How do you follow it up? If you’re South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, apparently, you spend a steamy weekend in the…
When Charlie Crist announced he’d be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they…
After Charlie Crist announced he’d seek Florida’s open senate seat as an independent earlier this week his former party immediately begin trashing him. Oddly, the most powerful democrat in the Senate called to offer his congratulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Crist late last…
Democratic congresspeople Kendrick Meek and Jan Schakowsky both come from the kind of heavily left leaning, big city districts they could hold for life. Of course, Meek is cutting his tenure short to run for Senate, and Schakowsky almost saw her term –and life– ended Mama Cass style. Thankfully Meek literally…
Marco Rubio apparently won’t be enjoying a home field advantage in Florida’s senate race. The Miami born Republican who got his start in local politics isn’t too popular in Southeast Florida, and it’s the only region in the state where he polls behind both Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist. Mason-Dixon polling…
Sure, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez is king of a county where the hospital is bankrupt, one in ten residents doesn’t have a job, and mortgage fraud is the only growth industry.That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t ride in style!Alvarez has posted an official county bid notice for his new work car, and…
