Come next November, Michelle Spence-Jones will no longer be part of the Miami City Commission. Despite the fact that she spent 21 months out of office while on suspension as she fought two felony charges, an appeals court ruled today that since Spence-Jones was successfully elected to two consecutive terms…
Thanks to Anthony Weiner’s inhuman drive to keep sexy talking ladies online, Carlos Danger has ruled Twitter this afternoon. Based on screen caps posted to the Dirty — and partially confirmed in a statement from the ex-congressman — “Carlos Danger” was the hilariously dashing pseudonym he used in his latest…
The U.S. Department of Justice officially filed a lawsuit today against the State of Florida for its “deliberate indifference to the suffering” of disabled children and violating the Americans with Disabilities act. The DOJ first warned Florida about the matter two years ago, but has decided Rick Scott’s government, including…
On the one hand, we did kick out former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez in a historic recall election, so at the very least maybe we should let him live his post-public life in peace however he sees fit. On the other hand, the former mayor of the seventh biggest county…
When the most important verdict in his state’s recent history came down, Gov. Rick Scott was a thousand miles away in New York. He didn’t exactly rush back to Tallahassee to face protestors upset at George Zimmerman’s acquittal, finally returning to the capital on Tuesday, but quickly decamping for the…
Apparently there’s a small but growing effort among Florida Tea Party members to recall their former hero Marco Rubio. There’s just one problem: You can’t actually recall senators in Florida. So first they will try to get a law passed that would allow a recall election in the first place…
Right or wrong, the rest of the nation has been side-eyeing Florida ever since the George Zimmerman verdict came down. Even though the controversial “Stand Your Ground” law was not ultimately used as part of Zimmerman’s defense, a new petition is circulating online in which signees claim they’ll boycott Florida…
Just in time for the latest round of Jeb for Prez speculation, the juiciest scandal tied to Florida’s former governor is headed back to court. The courts are revisiting a two-decades old charge that a company Bush cofounded spent millions bribing Nigerian officials with federally loaned money to secure a…
It’s a story of broken trust, backstabbing, and revenge. It’s Charlie Crist’s upcoming book. Yes, Florida’s most famous Republican turned Democrat is penning a tell-all book about his journey from “Ronald Reagan Republican” to Obama-hugging Democrat, and it’s coming out this winter…
Just last year Marco Rubio was dubbed the “Republican Savior.” Now he’s getting booed by the Tea Partiers who first helped him come to power, and that fall is reflected in several new national polls. Over at Five Thirty Eight, Micah Cohen analyzes Rubio’s latest numbers. It’s not a pretty…
Former Miami-Dade County commissioner and failed mayoral candidate Joe Martinez has launched his own cologne. It’s called the Commissioner. It has top notes of anise and cardamom. It retails for $33.33 online. It comes with the tag line “There’s no future quitting.” It’s being sold in stores exclusively by Santayana…
Marco Rubio’s handling of the immigration bill may have left him bruised and beaten from both sides of the political spectrum, but that doesn’t mean Florida’s junior senator is about to shy away from controversial legislation anytime soon. For his next trick, the tarnished conservative Golden boy will take on…
Will Florida’s path to legalizing same-sex marriage come through the courts? Equality Florida is currently seeking plaintiffs to join a suit that would challenge Florida’s constitutional ban on any legal recognition of same-sex partner…
With last week’s Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage, Lady Gaga sensed an opportunity to get some free publicity once again publicly support the gay community by singing the national anthem at a New York City Pride kick-off event. Though, she noticeably changed the line “home of the brave,” to…
The Florida legislature arrived in Tallahassee with a historic batch of problems to solve: soaring unemployment, an unstable real estate market, crumbling infrastructure and failing schools. The 2013 session could have been a legendary breath of fresh political initiative. Instead, the Leg punted on medical marijuana, didn’t bother to consider…
Sure, Marco Rubio may have pissed off both sides of the political spectrum as the face of the U.S. Senate’s immigration reform bill, which includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and millions more in border security measures. But as he builds his case as a national political candidate…
The responses to the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage yesterday by Florida’s two senators couldn’t have been more different. Democrat Bill Nelson released a terse 17-word statement supporting the decision, while Marco Rubio spent 482 words explaining why he doesn’t he agree with it…
If Floridians went to the polls today, literally this very day, there’s a pretty good chance at least 50 percent of voters in the state would support gay marriage. Unfortunately, that still wouldn’t mean there’d be gay wedding chapels popping up in Wilton Manors and South Beach by the end…
Rick Scott didn’t have much to say today when asked about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act aside from correctly noting that nothing is really going to change all that much in Florida. See also: Defense of Marriage Act Is Unconstitutional, Supreme Court Rules…
Everyone already hates Marco Rubio, from Tea Party activists who think his immigration bill is too liberal to LGBT activists who think it’s too conservative. So why not alienate Cuban voters too? This seems like a surefire way to piss off Miami exilios at least. Rubio now says Cubans’ 47-year-old…
Marco Rubio is taking it from all sides this week. Today, LGBT activists are staging a sit-in at Rubio’s Tampa office. Tomorrow, he’ll face protests near the same office from Tea Partiers who claim his stance on immigration is too liberal and pro-immigration reform protestors who think his immigration bill…
When House speaker Will Weatherford last month blocked a bid for taxpayer-supported renovations at Sun Life Stadium, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross all but promised he’d find a way to have the politician’s job, ominously predicting that “this decision will follow Speaker Weatherford for many years to come.” Now it looks…
