Melba Pearson’s impending run for Miami-Dade County State Attorney might be the worst-kept secret in local political circles of late. Last week she stepped down from her post as deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. And as rumors continue to swirl that her run is imminent, she is said to be privately telling allies she plans to throw her hat into the ring shortly.
These are not high-intensity drug-trafficking types of numbers.
“I don’t even watch it,” Rubio said of the impeachment hearings.
A larger Census count of minority residents could reduce GOP representation.
Rubio has twice voted against iterations of the Violence Against Women Act.
Hunter Biden’s drug issues are not something Matt Gaetz has any right to criticize.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the first Second Amendment case in almost a decade.
Rent-a-bank schemes are an age-old grift.
When you’ve got 30 days to recall the mayor, there are no days off.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren just picked up a major endorsement from the Sunshine State.
The day has finally come: Miami-Dade County might change the name of Dixie Highway, which is gross, racist, and a shamefully symbolic reminder of the state’s slaveholding past.
The secret to defeating Donald Trump? A big orange balloon, obviously.
To much heckling, City of Miami commissioners voted to sharply reduce pay and pensions for employees when the Great Recession nearly toppled the city’s economy a decade ago. They also closed the pension program for incoming elected officials, but commissioners unsuccessfully tried to quietly restore it three years ago.
In a November 19 interview with Fox Business, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida claimed the Trump impeachment proceedings lack due process and drew comparisons to “communist China or Venezuela.”
Walking into the United States Capitol Building does not magically remove the title of Florida Man or Woman. Here are some of the craziest Floridians running for Congress in 2020
Stone was found guilty on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing the investigation into Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
When voters get pissed off enough about what their local politicians are doing, they can try to oust them. It happened in March 2011 when then-Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez was removed from office following a high-profile campaign bankrolled by billionaire car dealer Norman Braman.
Once again, money tied to Publix Supermarkets’ founding family is propping up a hard-line conservative campaign.
The first week of Roger Stone’s criminal trial in Washington D.C. began with an impressive number of unfortunate events and theatrics. A courtroom spectator had a seizure, Stone left early the first day of jury selection because of “food poisoning,” InfoWars jackass Alex Jones threatened to out a juror (Hello, Justice Department?), and the presiding judge ordered the jury not to watch The Godfather.
Donald Trump’s first campaign for president was already bizarre before the appearance of Maurice Woodside, AKA Michael Symonette, AKA Michael the Black Man. At an October 2016 rally, political Twitter exploded after a group of men in white T-shirts reading, “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist!” stood behind Trump’s podium at a rally and waved signs reading, “Blacks for Trump.”
In 2013, then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she wouldn’t bring criminal or civil charges against Trump University, the online for-profit so-called college Donald Trump founded that did not actually offer university courses and was long accused of being a scam designed to defraud vulnerable people looking to get ahead.
There are tight elections, and then there’s yesterday’s race for the Group IV seat on the Miami Beach City Commission, which was so close it makes Gore-Bush look like a cakewalk.
