It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami’s general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 activists, including college students, concerned citizens borderline yuppies, people stylin’ with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hours ago. That’s right, two hours ago. Most…
American politics is a fickle bitch. One day you’re Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy and front-runner for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The next day, you’re just an asshole who distorted his family history to play on the sympathy of constituents, including fellow Cuban-Americans.According to documents unearthed by birthers earlier…
Adam Hasner is banking heavily on Tea Party support in his quest to secure the Republican nomination to take on Bill Nelson in 2012, but in a fundraising letter today he unleashed a very angry rant against another group of political protesters. Hasner pulled no punches in attacking, and in…
Florida will add two new congressional districts in 2012, and the Senate Reapportionment Committee is meeting to determine where to place those districts. One of the leading plans includes carving out a new district in Orange, Osceola and Polk counties that would create a strongly Hispanic-leading district.Well, Republican state Senator…
Occupy Miami is both smarter and more dedicated than you think.Yesterday, about 40 occupiers joined about 150 police officers to sit in on negotiations with the police union and county commissioners.The cops and the county did not come to an agreement, but it was a hopeful encounter.Terrence Dasher, who makes…
It’s like Republican voters don’t know what’s good for them. Poll after poll shows that Mitt Romney is the most viable candidate against Barack Obama, but they keep jumping around to the more conservative icon of the moment.The latest poll of Florida voters from NBC News and Marist [PDF] shows…
Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami– site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp– and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics in the right-leaning– or even mainstream– media are gonna…
We’re just surprised it took Stephen Colbert so long to give his opinion on Florida’s dwarf tossing ban. You might remember state Rep. Ritch Workman caused a hubbub by suggesting the ban should be repealed because it’s an example of “Big Brother government” that prevents “dwarfs from getting jobs they…
Even though the Occupy Wall Street movement entering its second month, and similar protests popping up around the globe, most politicians are remaining mum. Those of the Republican variety, in most cases, have been pretty flippant. Take Herman Cain’s “if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame…
Just ask those French malcontents belting out “La Marseillaise” after they stormed the Bastille — it ain’t a real revolution until you’ve got good song to rally the masses.Enter local rapper La Guardia, who picked up a mic a few weeks back after catching video of the Occupy Wall Street…
“I slept here last night during the Occupy monsoon,” protester Eduardo joked about his time of damp tent living. The torrential rains and some flooding of the campsite didn’t keep 60 people from spending the night outside. The numbers have increased, and new tents were being pitched this afternoon.On this,…
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Want to figure out what this whole Occupy Miami hubbub is about but are either busy slaving away at your cubicle for your one-percent master or a little adverse to rain? Well, good news, the occupation will be televised. Err, or streamed online rather. Watch the live feed below…
It appears the greatest threat to Occupy Miami’s tent city outside Stephen P. Clark Government Center, at this point, is the rain. After only one night, the dedicated activists are forming a little community complete with a medical tent, security teams, and clean up crews.Between 30 and 40 people slept…
Echoing the ongoing “Occupy” movements from Wall Street to San Francisco, hundreds of sign-waving, drum-beating, flyer-hawking protesters gathered in Bayfront Park this afternoon, drawing supportive honks from cars pouring down Biscayne Boulevard and bewildered stares from tourists popping shrimp at Bubba Gump.The energy around the Torch of Friendship was palpable,…
Miami-native and SNL alum turned Tea Party sideshow attraction (and Riptide semi-obsession) Victoria Jackson decided to hit up the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Armed with a cheap digital camera, she decided to talk to the protesters about our Marxist president and capitalist Jesus. One of the…
Suggesting that yesterday’s national poll may not have been some sort of insane statistical outlier, a new poll from American Research Group of likely Florida primary voters shows that Herman Cain is now on top of the heap in Florida. He leads Mitt Romney by six points. Meanwhile, the rise…
Rick Scott’s bizarre attack on anthropology majors seemed completely random. Well, apparently his remarks may have had some family drama implications. Turns out that Rick Scott’s own daughter majored in anthropology and never found a job in her field…
Rick Scott’s central campaign promise seemed pretty simple: His economic plan would create 700,000 additional jobs on top of normal job growth over seven years. In the past month, Scott has been flip-flopping wildly on that promise, and this morning on a conservative radio show, he said, “I could argue…
Colorful characters involved in the Republican primary are about as common as minor scandals over at The Miami Herald, so it only makes sense that somehow those two worlds would collide.Remember back in 2009 when a Navy spokesman at Guantanamo Bay accused veteran Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg of sexual harassment?…
A conversation in a Panhandle Waffle House may lead to a barbaric change in Florida’s death penalty policy. After meeting with constituents, Rep. Brad Drake, a Republican from Eucheeanna, has introduced a bill that would do away with using lethal injections for the death penalty. Instead he’d like to see…
Rick Scott can’t open his mouth without causing some sort of controversy. While pushing the need to get more Florida college students to major in things like science and math, he dissed anthropologists.”Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so,” he said.Now…
