In an interview with Time, Charlie Crist and his senate campaign manager Eric Eikenberg say that in the face of Marco Rubio’s right-wing threat, the Governor new tactic will be to bolster his conservative credentials while casting doubts on Rubio’s. [Crist and Eikenberg] described a counterattack for 2010 that will…
In the interest of showcasing other voices here on Riptide, we’re presenting this editorial from 22 year-old Kymberly Morgan, who is totally not actually real.My name is Kymberly Morgan, and I am a proud Tan American. Recently, I heard that instead of taxing plastic surgery to pay for health care…
Leave it to the Diaz-Balarts to possible have screwed this up. Yesterday’s announcement that they were withdrawing their support from Charlie Crist was supposed to leave egg on the Gov’s face. But they didn’t mention why they were doing it, and it appears the popular emerging theory is pretty damn…
It’s no secret that Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart are, in congressional Republican terms, more moderate guys. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when they endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate back in July over fellow Miami-Dade Cuban Republican Marco Rubio. They did practically the same thing in 2004, endorsing…
According to a recent survey of “Washington Insiders,” South Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the house member with the brightest political future (as in prepare for Speaker Wasserman Schultz someday), but a group of net-roots liberal wackos with internet access have found a hero in another Florida congressman: Alan Grayson. They want…
Poor Charlie Crist. As he tries to make the move from governor to senator, he finds himself in quite the political quagmire. Much of which has been brought on by primary foe Marco Rubio hitting Crist from the right every chance he gets. So in response, Crist, whose reputation has…
Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not…
Considering the chief financial officer job is the only statewide position up for re-election in 2010 that the Democrats currently hold, they should be eager to keep it. But with CFO Alex Sink running for governor, no big-name Dem has stepped forward to run. In fact, the only one who has…
How is it that two generally respected political polling companies have come to such a different conclusion on the state of Florida’s Republican Primary with numbers released with in a day of each other? Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll found that Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist were in a tie, with 42…
The John Birch Society is co-sponsering this years Conservative Political Action Conference. Don’t remember them? They’re the conspiracy-happy, paranoid anti-communist group that emerged in the late ’50s, and then preceded to circulate a letter calling Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, of all people, “a dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy,” had…
South Florida attorney Scott Rothstein might have run a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme and is, in general terms, a giant asshat with gaudy taste, but if he had his way, no one in the lower 48 would have ever heard of a certain pit bull in lipstick.Bob Norman at New…
Whoa, boy. Marco Rubio was once written off as a long shot in his race against Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination for Senate, but Rasmussen says the two are now neck-and-neck.They’re tied at 43 percent — in that poll anyway. Also according to Rasmussen, Democrat Alex Sink is slowly closing…
[jump] “I agree with the letter that was just received from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. Accordingly, I have directed Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel to conduct an inquiry of the Department of Transportation,” Crist said in a statement.Meanwhile, we will eagerly continue to cover this scandal using the most…
Stephanie Kopelousos, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary, seems to like her breakfast food. So much so that in order to get her attention you have to put something like “Pancakes” or “Waffles” in email headlines. Or so says her staff.The Palm Beach Post infers that those wholesome hearty breakfast staples…
Florida is such a swing state that we’re even polarized on whether or not we think spanking children, aka “Corporal Punishment,” is acceptable or not.Seems Talking Points Memo has found a correlation between child spankers and John McCain voters in 2008. Florida is almost directly on the trend line, with…
We know Alan Grayson only has a tenious connection to our local readership, but important news on our favorite hot liberal mess has just come to our intention: He has told former Vice President Dick Cheney to, and we quote, “STFU.”Dick Cheney occasionally pops out of his underground torture dungeon…
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio’s Senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president’s stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including more colorful and conservative characters such as…
At first glance, it seems a little strange that despite the fact Florida is a classic swing state that actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans, the GOP controls both houses of the state legislative by large majorities and sends more Republicans to the House in DC.That’s because after the…
Gov. Charlie Crist is a Noles fan, but it’s not so surprising that he can relate to Gators quarterback Tim Tebow.UF had high hopes of repeating its national championship and was the favorite throughout the regular season. Tebow, meanwhile, was talked about as a potential Heisman double winner, but this…
Former Florida Sen. Paula Hawkins died yesterday at the age of 82. A Republican, Hawkins was a trailblazer for female politicians in the state of Florida.In 1972, Hawkins was the first woman elected to a statewide office when she took a seat on the Public Service Commission, then an elected…
Florida KidCare provides health insurance to children, but if you ask Charlie Crist for the phone number, he might send you to a sex line.The Palm Beach Post called the Gov and got a pre-recorded message in which Crist rattles off a bunch of numbers for state services. But the…
The Florida Supreme Court today approved Gov. Charlie Crist’s request for a grand jury to investigate and deal with corruption in local politics, two days after his initial request was rejected.”The Statewide Grand Jury will add to the great work already being done by Florida’s 20 State Attorneys to target…
