Last month, Otis Wallace was once again elected mayor of Florida City. It wasn’t close. The reigning mayor won a whopping 71 percent of the votes cast in the small agrarian town south of Miami. Wallace has now been in office for 30 years, surviving hurricanes, the arrest of several…
Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas almost made history as the first openly gay, black, male federal judge when President Obama nominated him for a position on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District. His appointment, however, was derailed by Sen. Marco Rubio. Officially Rubio, who had recommend Thomas in the…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen showed up on the House floor yesterday in a white suit with a red shirt and a gold necklace. Apparently someone informed her that her sartorial sense seemed pretty close to Scarface’s Tony Montana, so she decided to have some fun with it on Twitter. “Two Cuban-Americans…
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When it comes to presidential candidates, Floridians greatly favor people who are related to someone who has already held the job. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are the presidential favorites among Democrats and Republicans respectively, with Hillary being the favorite in Florida overall. Meanwhile,…
Last time we checked in with polling for Florida’s gubernatorial race, Public Policy Polling showed a surprising Rick Scott surge in which he had pulled into a statistical tie with Charlie Crist. However, Quinnipac has come along and released a poll this morning that shows Crist still eight points ahead…
Because obviously the key to getting Rick Scott reelected is to show people lots and lots of pictures of Rick Scott, the Governor’s campaign has officially started its own Instagram account. Using the handle @ScottForFlorida (because @RickScott was taken by this very nice seeming husband and firefighter), the account promises…
Despite opposition from Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Florida Supreme Court officially ruled today that a ballot question that could approve use of medical marijuana is perfectly valid. This means the question will now all but certainly go before voters in November. Bondi had challenged the proposed amendment on the…
If Charlie Crist wants to rid himself of the reputation that he’s a political chameleon, willing to do anything for personal advantage regardless of who it betrays or damages — a new documentary released over the weekend won’t help his cause. In the Netflix documentary, Mitt, which daubs the fallen…
Maybe this governor’s race isn’t totally over before it even began. Back in August, when Public Policy Polling asked Floridians whether they plan to vote for Charlie Crist or Rick Scott, Crist had a 12-point lead. Now, for its first poll in the new year, PPP has found Crist’s lead…
Eighty-two percent of Floridians support the legalization of medical marijuana, but Gov. Rick Scott isn’t one of them. Apparently, despite the broadly supported issue heading to the ballot at the same time as his re-election, Scott announced he would vote against legalization…
Following the lead of successful lawsuits in Utah and Oklahoma in recent months, six same-sex couples in Florida plan to sue the state in order to overturn ban on same-sex marriage. Back in 2008, Florida voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that banned not only gay marriage but any recognition…
Bullies, beware. You could soon find yourself hit with a misdemeanor in Florida if bill introduced in the state House and Senate prove successful. The bipartisan-backed bills would punish anyone who “willfully, maliciously, & repeatedly harasses or cyberbullies another person.”…
Former First Lady Barbara Bush is no stranger to speaking her mind, and when it comes to rumors that her second son, Jeb, might run for president, she’s not afraid to make her opinion public. She just straight up doesn’t think he should do it. It’s not the first time…
Hillary Clinton will be stopping by the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus February 26 to address students, faculty and invited guests at the BankUnited Center. Of course, any time a rumored presidential candidate makes a high-profile appearance in a donor-rich swing state, there are bound to be rumors it’s…
Last year, an attempt to rewrite Florida law to legalize beer growlers went nowhere fast in the state legislature. But with the craft beer industry continuing to grow in Florida, lawmakers are going to give it another shot. This year, another related bill would also legalize beer tastings, which are…
Miami Beach’s “starchitect”-designed convention center is dead. And we have killed it. Well, technically, it was new Mayor Philip Levine and the equally new city commission who killed it. But it was a death foretold last November, when Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly backed opponents of the $1 billion project. The…
Poor Republican legislators are surely going to be in a bind over this. On one hand, they’re used to bending to the whims of big business. On the other, they party has gone all in on the “Yeah, LGBT people are kind of icky” front. So what are they to…
After getting busted for cocaine possession and doing a stint at an outpatient rehab facility, Southwest Florida congressman Trey Radel is back to work on Capitol Hill as if nothing happened. Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, a well-known and often outspoken Republican figure in Radel’s district, however, isn’t about to…
Rick Scott has officially picked Miami-Dade property appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his next lieutenant governor. The office was vacant for nearly ten months. A solid conservative whose main issue throughout his career as both property appraiser and a member of the Florida House has been lower property taxes, Lopez-Cantera will…
With HealthCare.gov’s problems are so well known you’d think the Obama administration would make sure their next website would work correctly. Apparently not so. CuidadoDeSalud.gov, HealthCare.gov’s Spanish equivalent, was launched quietly in December and is plagued with some of the same problems found on HealthCare.gov. It also appears to have…
Florida hasn’t had a lieutenant governor for well over nine months, and the pressure is on Gov. Rick Scott to finally get around to picking a replacement. After several candidates on a leaked short list publicly removed themselves from consideration, Scott seems to have expanded the search and according to…
