Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush’s dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa’s strictly conservative base was never a great fit…
There are 120 different speciality license plates available to choose from at your local DMV, but state lawmakers are looking to trim the selection. A bill introduced by state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican from St. Pete, would up the threshold of plates sold to keep speciality plates on the…
Despite the fact Roe v Wade has stood as the law of the land for over 40 years, a Florida House subcommittee passed a bill this week that would effectively make it a felony to perform an abortion in the state of Florida. The bill passed 8-3, but before taking…
Gray-haired abuelas roll creaky carts stacked with clothes inside Wash Time Coin Laundry, a bustling Little Havana storefront a mile west of Marlins Park. Angel Barrios, the owner, folds his arms across his chest and laments his bad luck that a kid he was arrested with 26 years ago has grown…
Rep. Alan Grayson may be Florida’s bluntest politician. He’s never short for words and always says what he means. Unless you ask him who he supports in the Democratic presidential primary. See, Grayson, who is currently running for Senate, accepted a spot on the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Florida Leadership Council,…
Rep. Charles Van Zant is one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the Florida House. It’s not surprising as the man is also a Southern Baptist minister. Every year since 2010 he’s filed legilsation that would criminalize abortion in Florida, in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He’s scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor. But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to…
Who could forget one of the biggest Florida political controversies of 2003? Jeb Bush’s nebulous scheme to raise fees on snake owners was all Floridians could talk about in the spring of ’03. It nearly tore families and friends apart. I can still clearly remember one particular tense family gathering…
Last year The New York Times dug into Marco Rubio’s ticket-strewn driving history, and the local response was, “Well, he pretty much drives like a typical Miamian.” Turns out the Times missed a pretty big part of Rubio’s legal history that The Washington Post only just dug up: he was…
Florida’s Republican-lead legislature has a reputation for passing laws favorable to the gun lobby, but some measures even go to far for them. A bill that would have allowed people to carry guns onto college campuses has died in committee just nine days into the legislature’s 2016 session, and doesn’t…
Oh boy, what did we ever do to deserve this? A day after the Democratic presidential candidates come to Miami for their final debate, the Republicans will follow suit to conclude what’s proving to be America’s favorite reality series. The Republican National Committee announced last year that they’ll hold a…
Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with what many saw as anti-Hispanic remarks. According to the latest poll from Florida Atlantic University, Trump is now strongly leading among the state’s Republican GOP voters. Trump is now the favorite candidate of nearly 48 percent of all likely Republican primary voters (a…
TV cameras encircled Pam Bondi outside Bennett’s Fresh Roast, a quaint shop a block from the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, one more stop on a statewide tour in the fall of 2014 with Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi flashed her trademark high-wattage grin, shook her blond locks into place, and…
It’s been an entire month since a major presidential preference poll was taking amongst Florida’s Republican primary voters. They’ve had weeks of new developments, another debate, numerous new wacky ads put out by the candidates, and, we’re sure, wonderfully illuminating discussion about the race with their relatives over the Holiday…
The Real Housewives of D.C. and Miami are the only two entrants in the Bravo franchise that have been cancelled, and yet somehow one of Miami’s representatives in Washington D.C. has snagged herself a cameo on one of the shows. This Sunday, Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat, will…
Part-time Florida man Donald Trump stopped into the state last night to address his fellow Florida Republicans at a Pensacola rally. At least 11,000 people showed up to hear Trump speak, but the GOP frontrunner reserved his speech’s harshest anger for his microphone. “Five hundred and five billion, and by the…
Despite the fact that neither Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush are the frontrunner, the pair and the political PACs continue to duke it out in a fight that’s starting to seem as much like a playground fight as it does an odd personal matter. In today’s episode, Bush called Rubio…
The new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is planned as the centerpiece of the emerging bayfront area downtown, an eco-friendly tourist mecca with a jaw-dropping, enormous shark tank as its centerpiece. Miami-Dade County is so bullish on the plan it sank $160 million in taxpayer funds to help pay…
The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. the FEC paved the way for SuperPACs, independent political action committees that could raise unlimited donations and spend as much as they want in pursuit of their goals. Some predicted the development could forever ruin democracy as we knew it, but Jeb Bush, the…
Governor Rick Scott’s promise to bar Syrian refugees from settling in Florida has gotten an assist from a bill filed in the state Senate. Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, has filed a bill dubbed “Prevention of Acts of War,” that would effectively ban “certain” refugees from entering the state of Florida…
It’s been said that some Republican candidates run their campaigns on a politics of fear. They constantly, forcibly remind their base of any potentially scary issue in the world like they’re a Boy Scout troop leader telling ghost stories around a campfire, and then present themselves as the only person…
Registered Democrats in Florida far outnumber registered Republicans. The state has voted twice for President Barack Obama on the presidential level. Yet, up in Tallahassee, Florida’s state Government is currently controlled completely by Republicans. Governor Rick Scott and the entire cabinet belong to the party, and Republicans hold large majorities…
