Like a blackjack fiend down to his last, filthy dollar bill at 3 a.m., the City of Miami has gone through most of the stages of grief over its budget disaster. First came denial (illegally shuffling money around to hide the problems), then anger (electing firebrand Tomas Regalado), desperate bargaining…
We’re of two theories about Charlie Crist’s latest string of “clarifications” (or flip-flops) on some positions: (1) The guy doesn’t know what he actually believes and is being as vague as possible to attract as many voters as possible. (2) He has always personally held these positions, altered them to…
Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, son of the last Democrat to hold the Governor’s office in Florida, is running for Governor as an independent. Why exactly? No one is sure. He was costing along getting double digit support in some polls, possibly thanks to name recognition, but hasn’t had much of…
Shut out of the Haitian presidential race, attacked everywhere for his financial mismanagement, and embroiled in a nasty celebrity feud with Sean Penn, Wyclef Jean is not exactly in a friendly mood these days. So when the Haitian authorities rejected his appeal and all but killed his presidential hopes Wednesday,…
It seemed for a while that Charlie Crist’s gamble by going Independent might have paid off as he lead many recent polls. However, Rasmussen Reports has released the first poll taking after Tuesday’s primaries and it shows the now official Republican nominee Marco Rubio with a 10 percent lead, and…
On Wyclef Jean’s personal list of “Things That Will Never, Ever Happen” — including playing a Fugees reunion show with Pras and winning a good taxpayer award from the IRS — the singer can now add a new entry with some confidence: serving as president of Haiti.The Haitian electoral council…
Remember Doug Giles? He’s the father of “ACORN ho” Hannah Giles, an aspiring conservative talking head, and senior pastor of Aventura’s Clash Church. Giles has always been unhinged, but his latest video is a bigoted, ignorant hate fest that attacks Muslims and undermines America’s freedom of religion. And, oh, yeah,…
Rick Scott, now the official Republican nominee for Governor, has made Arizona-style immigration laws a main issue in the election. The controversial laws are none-too-popular amongst Hispanic voters (in fact, some are theorizing that Bill McCollum’s hard right flip-flop in favor of them may have cost him the election), so…
Kendrick Meek will not miss Jeff Greene. Like that guy at your party who shows up uninvited, plays Kelly Clarkson so loud the cops come, and then bolts before you’re handed a noise violation, Greene has been a major headache.But Meek will miss Greene’s money. That’s because now that Meek…
Prediction: Next election, silly hats are in. Rival school board candidates will rock diamond-studded mitres and Budweiser-stocked beer helmets. Marco Rubio will demolish Charlie Crist after finding a totally sweet plaid Tam O’Shanter at a garage sale and wearing it on Fox. The arms race is on!All because of Frederica…
Today Florida went to the polls for the 2010 primary election. While tonight’s big theme involved controversial, self-funded billionaire outsiders taking on establishment career politicians in both the Republican primary for Governor and Democratic primary for Senate, there’s still lots of ballot action to watch. Both parties have contested primaries…
Like a pair of Tara Reid implants, some things are just too fake to pass. A few weeks ago, Riptide reported on the bizarre hiring of new Solid Waste Director Fred Hobson, handed a $100K job despite the fact that two of his former bosses say they fired him from…
Despite being thousands of miles from Florida and having nothing to do with local politics, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” has become an issue in the sunshine state’s 2010 election. While even some Democrats (we’re looking at you Alex Sink and Ron Klein) have come out against the Islamic community…
CampusReform.org’s mission includes giving college “conservatives powerful new weapons in their fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of citizens, politicians, and members of the media” and helping “a new generation of student activism to identify, expose, and combat the radical left now.”In other words, the conservative…
With the primary election tomorrow, congressional candidate Rudy Moise’s bizarre campaign web ad only had a few hundred views on YouTube. That’s really a shame because it is just about one of the worst political ads we have ever seen. It features a bunch of supporters talk-rapping with their voices…
While Bill McCollum and Rick Scott tussle daily on the airwaves over who will be meaner to immigrants, a diverse group of state leaders — including Tallahassee’s first Colombian-American politico and the GOP chair of the House’s Hispanic caucus — pledged this afternoon to fight Arizona-style laws in the Sunshine…
Jeff Greene has used nearly $23 million of his own money trying to win the Democratic nomination for senator, and he’s not even done spending. But tomorrow is Election Day, and two recent polls show Greene’s candidacy is pretty much dead in the water…
Today, New York Times columnist Gail Collins tackled the tricky subject of billionaire Florida Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene. She calls the man’s 145 party boat the Summerwind the “Levi Johnston of Yachts” because it’s “an embarrassing, headline-making connection.” Riptide has regrettably been sleeping on the yacht-troversy as of late,…
Back in early 2009 it seemed that Charlie Crist was a guarantee to win the Senate race as a Republican, and Bill McCollum had the edge in the Governors race. Now the latest Quinnipiac poll shows that GOP candidates are trailing in both the Senate and Governors race. What happened?…
The wingnuts are coming! The wingnuts are coming! Yes, on September 17, all of America’s favorite right-wing airbags will descend upon the Doral Resort & Spa right here in Miami for WorldNetDaily’s Taking America Back Conference. Tom “Miami Is a Third-World Country” Tancredo, Michelle Bachman, Victoria “Obama Is a Communist” Jackson, and…
Short of hiring a medium to contact the ghost of Ronald Reagan for an endorsement, the best thing Republicans can get in the ways of a Reagan endorsement is getting the Gipper’s adopted son to back a candidate while raising his father’s specter another way. Lucky Bill McCollum.Meanwhile, “mama grizzly”…
With some polls showing Rick Scott now more than ten points behind Bill McCollum in the Republican primary, the billionaire candidate has decided to pull out all the stops in the final days before the election. He has sent out an ad attacking McCollum for hiring now-disgraced George Rekers to…
