South Florida Representative and Democratic National Committee chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords closest friends in the House. Giffords, who is still recovering after being shot in the head during a meeting with her constituents last year, offered her official resignation from Congress today in order…
Marco Rubio is sticking to his promise to stay officially neutral in the GOP primary, but earlier this week Newt Gingrich started running around the state and basically inferring that he was the Marco Rubio to Mitt Romney’s Charlie Crist. At least when he wasn’t busy calling Romney “anit-immigrant.”Well, Rubio…
The two leading lights of the Republican primary are stumping for votes all over the Magic City today, leading to the obvious question: When is someone from the Florida gay rights movement going to glitter-bomb these guys?We’re not saying it’s the right thing to do, throwing glitter all over Newt…
Before we spent way too much time with Victoria Jackson– the Miami-residing former Saturday Night Live castmember who has become a raving Tea Party luminary– we got to know her new she-can’t-be-serious persona the way the rest of America did: by gawking at online videos of her being bizarrely riveting…
No former speaker of the House knows better how to turn the tides against a well-funded, establishment-backed governor in a Republican primary in Florida than Marco Rubio, so it’s no surprise that Newt Gingrich is now publicly drawing parallels between his own campaign and Rubio’s 2010 victory. Gingrich, of course,…
Mitt Romney released his tax filings late last night as he desperately tries to run down Newt Gingrich’s ballooning lead in Florida, telling a Tampa audience: “I’m proud of the fact that I pay a lot of taxes.”But in the harsh light of morning, it’s hard to see how Floridians…
The 3 a.m. phone call has struck again. In tonight’s GOP primary debate, NBC anchor Bryan Williams asked the candidates what they would do if told that Fidel Castro had finally died and “half a million Cubans” were on their way to the United States. Mitt Romney’s hair mumbled something…
It’s not exactly like anyone was chasing the big Rick Scott endorsement anyway, but today Florida’s popularity challenged governor made it clear that he will not be endorsing anyone ahead of the state’s Republican primary. We doubt either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney will lose much sleep over being snubbed…
Twenty years ago, the state government passed a law that sounded good on a very simple, surface level: all sports facilities that receive public funding must be used as homeless shelters when not in use. Of course, since the law went into effect not a single arena or stadium in…
Last week, it seemed that Mitt Romney was poised to continue sweeping primary states. He was ahead in Florida by double digits, and a win in our January 31st primary would have all but cemented his status as the presumptive Republican nominee. Though, in the grand tradition of this wacky…
After stinging losses in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Rick Santorum came to Florida this weekend hoping to reboot his push toward the White House. But the ex-senator may want to vette his opening acts a bit better: At a Coral Springs rally yesterday, he invited local conservative Michael the…
Rick Perry has dropped out of the race and returned to Racial Slur Hideaway, Herman Cain is now making unwanted advances on his housecats, Rick Santorum’s last name is a synonym for booty juice, and Newt Gingrich is an angry, sexed-up troll with facial hemorrhoids. Even with Newt’s victory in…
Will Florida’s Evangelical voters line up behind a thrice-divorced serial adulterer with, reportedly, a thing for open marriages? Newt Gingrich’s campaign sure thinks so, and hopes that Mitt Romney’s flip-floppy past on things like gay marriage and abortion seals the deal with values voters. So, uh, Evangelicals would rather vote for a man…
It’s a big day in the GOP primary. Rick Perry, once perceived as a conservative savior has dropped out after one of the most hilariously horribly run candidacies of all time. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum has been revealed as the real winner of the Iowa Caucus. And yet, probably the juiciest…
Late on Tuesday, three Florida state senators — Mike Haridopolos, John Thrasher and Mike Fasano — pushed through a resolution honoring so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” a symbolic gesture that has outraged the abortion rights movement. The problem, advocates say, is that such centers have religious, not medical, aims and often…
Miami-area congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has finally made her position on SOPA clear: she’s against it. Unlike Marco Rubio, who changed his position on SOPA’s Senate companion, PIPA, earlier today, Ros-Lehtinen had never been a co-sponsor of the bill…
Maybe Marco Rubio is addicted to late-night Wikipedia binges. You know, the type where you go to look up the director of whatever movie you’re absentmindedly watching on cable and then somehow, an hour later, end up reading about the indigenous bird species of Alabama. Because this morning, the Republican…
We know you’re tired of polls. Mitt Romney has taken a commanding lead in Florida primary polls, and will all but certainly beat his rivals. After that, Florida polls are likely to show a neck and neck battle between Romney and Obama. This Tarrance Group poll conducted for the Everglades…
Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, and former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart have all lined up in support of Mitt Romney, which left little room for Romney’s primary opponents to line up a big endorsement that would resonate in Miami’s Cuban-American community. Well, Newt Gingrich now has the support of that black…
“People do not go to South Beach to see Mickey Mouse. They just don’t,” said state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Ft. Lauderdale) yesterday during a debate on her bill that would bring casinos to South Florida. “They go there for different reasons. We have the strip club capital of the world…
If you’d told Larcenia Bullard 35-years ago – back when she was teaching school kids for a living — that she’d one day use her lofty platform as a Florida state Senator to advocate for marijuana reform, she would have banished you to the principal’s office. “I would not have…
Last November, “Occupy FIU” gathered at the Deuxieme Maison pit on the school’s West Miami-Dade campus and decried excessive student loans, Wall Street bankers, and money in politics.Yesterday, they tried to do it again. This time, seven people — including two FIU students — were arrested.The arrests just might be…
