Billionaire Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene isn’t flying high in the polls — just yet. Like his Democratic rival Kendrick Meek, he finishes a distant third behind Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in three-way matchups. But he’s flying high above Florida in his $23 million Gulfstream V private jet equipped…
Billionaire GOP Governor candidate Rick Scott says he has conservative values, but the kind of companies he invests in don’t seem to. One company Scott invested in was shown to help send money from illegal immigrants back to Mexico even though he backs Arizona’s immigration laws. Another had a business…
Did you read Sunday’s profile of Jeb Bush in the New York Times? Our former governor pulled no punches in bashing the current president. “It’s kind of like a kid coming to school saying, ‘The dog ate my homework,’ ” Bush said of the administration’s tendency to blame his brother, former President…
Democratic senate rivals Rep. Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene met up for their first debate today hosted by the Palm Beach Post. Meek is the affable, but not exactly superstar, Democratic establishment pick, while Greene is a shady billionaire who plans on winning the election on the strength of his…
When Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for Senate, everyone kind of threw up their hands and thought, Well, guess ol’ Charlie is gonna be our next senator. But then he hugged Obama, and Marco Rubio and his brave battalion of Tea Partiers stormed his ships and threw all of his…
Long before Marco Rubio and David Rivera became two of the highest profile Republican candidates in Florida, the Miami politicos shared a nice shady suburban house in Tallahassee, a few miles from the state capitol, just off the Apalachee Parkway.Presumably, the scene inside Real World GOP Tally included plenty of…
Suddenly surging Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has so, so much money we really can’t expect him to know what he has done with it all. Though, surprisingly for a guy who has built a sizable portion of his platform on adopting Arizona’s controversial immigration laws, which some people see…
The impetus for the latest Politico article about the Florida senate race must have gone something like this: “Hey, you know that Jeff Greene guy who’s spending $40 million to buy the Democratic Senate nomination — he’s kind of creepy with a bit of a shady background, right? And Charlie Crist…
When we first saw it, we so desperately wanted to show you this picture of our governor, Charlie Crist, looking at the be-thonged buttocks of a lady on Miami Beach yesterday, but, you know, copyrights and all of that. But here now is a fair-use thumbnail of the cover of…
We think billionaire Jeff Greene’s latest ad in his insurgent bid for the Democratic Senate nomination is trying to spell out the central theme of candidacy. We just can’t put our finger on exactly what it is. The guy who invented the iPod, maybe?Anyway, stay tuned for Greene’s next attack…
Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has come out of virtually nowhere to take an astounding double-digit lead in a recent poll against Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. This is thanks mainly to three things: (1) charisma-less career politician McCollum isn’t exactly the kind of guy to excite any…
When Carly Fiorina, a senatorial candidate from California, mocked U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s haircut last week as “sooo yesterday,” Boxer let political pundits do the barking for her.Instantly, talking heads and bloggers accused the former Hewlett Packard CEO of reviving stereotypes of female candidates’ cattiness. But when Fiorina criticized South…
Alex Sink is pulling out the big guns for her flailing gubernatorial campaign: swampthing James Carville. While her campaign has seesawed from bad to “who’s that?” since it kicked off, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. In this month’s Quinnipiac poll, she trails both her Republican opponents…
The same guy who said that half of all parents would abort their unborn children if they knew they’d be gay, had none other than Elton John–who’s been gay since he was a zygote–perform at his 4th wedding at the Breakers in Palm Beach over the weekend. That’s right we’re…
Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for Governor as a Republican, has tried to distance himself from anti-gay activist George Rekers, but recently released emails show that McCollum hired Rekers as an expert witness for the state in a gay adoption case even as top members of his staff…
Besides the monumentally important task of sitting around and waiting for the Governor to die, the Lt. Governor of Florida has very few duties actually spelled out by law. Usually the Lt. Gov and Gov work closely, but ever since Charlie Crist announced that he was running as an independent for Senate,…
Talking Heads leader David Byrne is still pursueing his lawsuit against Gov. Charlie Crist for using one of his songs in a YouTube campaign ad. He wants $1 million because he believes the ad suggests that he endorsed Crist and did harm to his reputation. Today he explained the situation to…
Three way action seems to be all the rage in Florida politics this year, and now the Governor’s race is about to get a some-what high profile third wheel. Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, the son of former Democratic Governor and Senator Lawton Chiles says he plans to run for Governor…
Jim Greer, the divisive former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been arrested and charged with six felony counts stemming from allegations that he siphoned money from the party for his personal use. Greer is the first arrest stemming from a grand jury examining public corruption called for…
Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be “inclined” to support repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. It’s just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former party, and his own…
Gov. Charlie Crist is being sued by the Talking Heads’ David Byrne for copyright infringement, and no it’s not for rocking the same style of gentlemanly premature white hair. Crist’s campaign used the Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere” in an attack ad against Marco Rubio without bothering to get…
Now that Jeb Bush doesn’t have to share a party with Charlie Crist, he’s letting his true thoughts on the made who proceeded him in the governor’s chair known. Talking to the Weekly Standard, Bush doesn’t spare much.”He doesn’t have a set of guiding principles to share with people. This…
