President Obama to Visit Miami on April 15

Apparently there’s very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House’s political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have exciting news and wanted you to be the…

DNC Jumps on Back Wax Gate With Web Ad

The Democratic National Committee couldn’t keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist’s war of the wax, and produced this “rapid response” web ad to basically paint the Republican primary race as a giant mess of unadulterated silliness…

Charlie Crist Accuses Marco Rubio of Back Waxing

Charlie Crist went on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show to talk about the allegations brought up in yesterday’s negative front-page New York Times story about his controversial deal that might or might not “save the Everglades.”We didn’t learn much from the interview, other than that Crist dropped religious allusions a…

Blind Item: Gay Republican Coke Parties in Miami?

So listen. Read this with the same grain of salt you read a Michael Musto column. Or perhaps a bit more, because we don’t even know if it’s true.Anyway, after yesterday’s news that an anti-gay Republican state senator in California was charged with a DUI after leaving a gay club,…

Meet That Developer Guy: A Tiger Beat-Style Peek at the Millionaire Tied to Spence-Jones’s Bribery Charges!

What do we really know about Armando Codina? You know, aside from his role in suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones’s alleged bribery. Her indictment, filed yesterday, claims she solicited $25,000 from the self-made multimillionaire developer, who then poured $12,500 into her non-profit. Codina has not been charged criminally. Still, Riptide…

Mark Foley Opens a Cute Little Consignment Boutique

Next time you make a shopping trip to West Palm Beach to stock up on your Lily Pulitzer sundresses and whatnot, be sure to hit up the hottest new store in town: former Congressman Mark Foley’s new “Celebrity Consignment” boutique.After getting caught sending naughty messages to twinky male interns, the…

How Liberal or Conservative is Your Representative? In Miami They’re Probably Moderate

Phrases like “bleeding heart liberal” and “conservative ideologue” get thrown around in political discussions like slurs, but the National Journal’s annual congressional vote rankings actually show you how liberal and conservative each congressman and senator is.The 2009 rankings are in, and there are a few surprising results from Florida.First off, “hot…

Report: Charlie Crist May Run as an Independent

With Gov. Charlie Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 18 points in the latest poll of likely Republican primary voters, the biggest question in Florida politics is whether or not he’ll ditch the GOP in his bid for the Senate.Well, two anonymous sources close to Crist tell the Sun-Sentinel’s Jack Furnari…