With little advanced notice, Governor Rick Scott quietly signed the budget passed by the Republican-controlled legislature during special session, and used his line-item veto power to slash $461 million in funding from the original $78.6 billion state budget. Now several notable Republicans are criticizing Scott’s spend-thrift ways, noting that he’s…
The Florida Democratic Party has a history of placing bets on safe moderates, so its no surprise that the party establishment has clustered around Rep. Patrick Murphy as their favored candidate to run for Marco Rubio’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. The problem is that those safe moderates don’t actually go on…
When Jeb Bush was governor, Florida was roiled with the kind of debate that only happens in Deep South states with long histories of Civil War strife and segregation. As activists pushed for Florida to stop flying the Confederate flag — a symbol of racism to many African-Americans — Bush…
Bill Nelson is a 72-year-old man who has spent a total of 32 years in public office. He is Florida’s longest current serving state-wide elected politician. He flew on the space shuttle Columbia. He has literally been to space. He is a former Army captain. The man deserves some measure…
Though, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s home-state advantage in Florida may not guarantee victory in a general election (they’re both trailing Hillary Clinton in Florida), it certainly seems to be helping them among Florida primary voters. Another new poll released today by Quinnipiac shows that Bush is the frontrunner in…
In a sea of Jeb supporters at his announcement Monday, Lucy Orlando stood out as a particularly impassioned. The 71-year-old grandmother of nine was decked in a red T-shirt of Jeb’s smiling face above “We love you, Jeb! From the Lucy Orlando Team.” “Jeb is Unique…He loves people…He loves education…
Even as Donald Trump announced his campaign for President of the United States of America earlier this week, his actions were still under review by the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission. Coincidentally, the Commission cleared Trump of any wrongdoing in a meeting yesterday. Back in late 2013, Donal Trump just happened…
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, television’s premier place for people more famous than they are funny, played host to newly minted Presidential candidate Jeb Bush last night, and the former Florida Governor did more than just sit on the couch for an interview. He joined Fallon for a special…
For the first time in history, Florida has two of it’s politicians running for President, but according to a new Quinnipiac poll that doesn’t mean either of them are guaranteed a win in their home state. The poll, released today, shows that Hillary Clinton still holds leads over both Jeb…
A band of five farm workers and their seven children from Polk County woke up before sunrise on Monday. They then drove over 200 miles to Miami Dade College, just in time to witness Jeb’s presidential announcement. But that never happened, because an hour before Jeb went on, his security…
Hundreds of signs were sprawled inside Miami-Dade College’s Kendall campus Monday afternoon for Jeb Bush’s presidential announcement. On one side they read “!Jeb! 2016” and on the other “#TodosPorJeb.” But 20 minutes into Jeb’s big announcement, it became clear that todos were not por Jeb. In a single row atop…
Jeb Bush unfilled his new campaign logo this weekend ahead of his official entrance into the presidential field, and it shouldn’t be anything new to any longtime Floridians. It’s essentially just an update of the same “Jeb!” logo he’s been using for every race since 1994. Asking my father what…
Jeb Bush has spent months as a not-quite presidential candidate, leading most early polls while raking in unprecedented hundreds of millions in cash — all conveniently outside the bounds of campaign fundraising laws, since he wasn’t officially a contender yet. That charade ends today as Miami’s favorite dynastic politician finally makes…
A recent poll of Floridians found that the majority support the idea of taking federal money to expand Medicaid in the state, but it also found that a plurality of Floridians support Rick Scott’s lawsuit against the federal government to stop Medicaid expansion in the state. The results of the…
Republicans in Tallahassee have slowly chipped away at women’s ability to easily access abortion services in the state of Florida, and this year they were successful in following the lead of a number of other Republican controlled states by passing a bill that requires woman to undergo counseling 24 hours…
The New York Times recent odd reports of Marco Rubio’s traffic tickets and personal finances have caused something quite odd. Even the most progressive voices are rallying around Rubio to critique the Times’ stories. Last night even John Stewart got into the fun last night, wondering, “How is this frontage…
Is Rep. Alan Grayson about to shake up the 2016 Florida Senate race? He’s just staffed up with a formidable election team, singled out Rep. Patrick Murphy, a moderate Democrat who is already in the race, in a news release, and recent polls show he could indeed have a shot…
Last week The New York Times published the traffic infraction history of Marco Rubio and his wife that was widely panned. The “shocking” findings: the Rubios are typical Miami driver. The piece was widely panned by other outlets, and even spawned a Twitter Hashtag — #RubioCrimeSpree — mocking the lowball…
Last week, the New York Times dropped an election-season bombshell: Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, have gotten a few traffic tickets over the years in Miami. The horror! The story has been universally lampooned, with conservatives questioning whether the Times took the traffic info from a liberal opposition research group…
The New York Times, the paper of record with a combined 114 Pulitzer Prizes, has really outdone itself with its latest shocker. It’s the kind of in depth investigation that could change the course of American politics for ever. They’ve found that Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette have —gasp—…
For more than six months, Jeb Bush has been furiously crisscrossing the country to give speeches in key primary states while raising unprecedented campaign millions. He even told reporters at one stop in Nevada: “I am running for president in 2016.” But believe it or not, through it all Jeb…
Almost a year ago, Governor Rick Scott signed the “Charlotte’s Web” bill into law, legalizing a non-euphoric strain of marijuana for medical use in Florida. Though, so far Floridians who need that medical treatment have not yet been able to receive it. The law has been held up by legal…
