After weeks of speculation, City of Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez officially announced today that he will challenge Mayor Tomas Regalado. Suarez is only 35, and has spent barely three years on the commission, but his family connections have given him a boost to the top of the city’s political landscape…
Among all the third rails in American politics — abortion, gun control, Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes speech — there is one truly untouchable area: Messing with cute dogs. Just ask Mitt Romney how the tale of strapping the family pooch to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip…
In Barack Obama’s televised press conference today as he prepares for yet another fight with Republicans over raising the debt limit, the president took aim directly at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Though, he managed to slam the Tea Party hero without directly mentioning Rubio by name…
While talk of the Tea Party dominated coverage of the 2010 election, the group’s influence took a massive nose dive in 2012 and the very term “tea party” just doesn’t carry the same weight it once did. So leaders of the South Florida Tea Party have decided to change its…
A group of people who usually worship the Dark Lord of Hell will convene latter this month lend their support to the Dark Lord of Tallahassee.Yes, members of the Florida-based Satanic Temple will gather on the steps of the Governor’s office on January 25 to rally in favor of Florida…
While one Democrat in Tallahassee has already filed a bill that would significantly alter Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, another one of his colleagues has now put forward a bill that would repeal the law completely…
Around 4 p.m. today, Florida governor and über-tool Rick Scott popped into the City of Miami Commission meeting to say “hello.” Why? We assume because it’s never too early to start campaigning for re-election.Introduced by Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, Rick Scott spoke for about 30 seconds to tell everyone how…
It’s not exactly news that Republicans have such a deep politi-crush on Marco Rubio that they’d like nothing more than to make him their 2016 nominee. Once again, Public Policy Polling has found that he’s Republicans top choice.However, PPP also ran a head-to-head poll matching up Rubio against Democratic favorite…
Loco Joe is back, baby.One of the City of Miami’s most infamous ex-mayors was shockingly appointed as the new city manager of Doral last night. He was nominated by Mayor Luigi Boria, and unanimously confirmed by the entire council after the briefest of discussions…
Whether you’re a Democrat, independent, or the apparently small number of Republicans left who realized that their party is still in control of the body and is probably better off in the long run without these two controversial South Florida schmucks creating distraction, can we all come together and agree…
Today is going to be a real bitch, Miami. No question about it. You’re back at work already, but those three bottles of champers you chugged on New Year’s Eve are not done with you yet. Right now, your head feels like Deadmau5 is spinning a set on your cerebellum.But…
Not only was Rick Scott’s zeal for drug testing just about anyone he could laughably bad policy, it’s also been quite costly to the state. In the four months a program to drug test welfare recipients was in practice it ended up costing that state just over $118,000. Then it…
Maybe it was the bungled Election Day, or the Stand Your Ground backlash, or the drug testing programs gone awry, or just the fact that he still looks like a cyborg sent from the future to slash entitlement programs. Either way, Gov. Rick Scott continues posting historically bad poll numbers.A…
Welcome to the first annual WTF Florida Awards ceremony. It’s the only award show celebrating the special brand of bizarre depravity we excel at down here in the Sunshine State. Black tie isn’t required. In fact, jorts and a NASCAR cap are preferred.We’ll be giving away awards in four categories…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott — a man who has signed laws forbidding doctors from asking about patients’ gun ownership and forcing municipalities to stop enforcing stricter local gun laws — was silent today about gun laws when asked about the Sandy Hook massacre…
What happens when you put a bunch of Florida Republican reps up in Disney’s swanky Grand Floridian resort in Orlando? Apparently some drunken, rowdy nonsense. No one knows exactly what went down on a night in November, but Speaker of the House Will Weatherford says he’s looking into it…
When Craig Lowe won a run-off two years ago to become Gainesville’s first openly gay mayor, many hailed it as a landmark of tolerance in conservative Central Florida. But not the local county’s GOP chairman. He saw Lowe’s election, he says today, as a victory by a vast liberal conspiracy…
Remember that crazy WhiteHouse.gov petition demanding that Florida be let free from the United State of America? Well, it’s been thirty days since the thing went live, and under the petition rules established Obama administration, any petition that gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days must get an official response. The…
Charlie Crist was officially wed to the Democratic party today in a quiet ceremony attended only be close friends and family. The pair had announced their engagement over the weekend at a White House Christmas party.Just kidding. The former Republican governor turned a Pinellas County elections office into a full…
We guess it’s a sure sign that you really are a political superstar when men’s magazine Esquire starts writing about your hair.The mag’s website points out that Marco Rubio’s hair is looking mighty thin up on top lately, and thinks the Florida senator is trying to overcompensate for it in…
After last month’s electoral loss, the Republican Party is desperately trying to make it self over as a Hispanic friendly group, but the fact that a group representing Hispanic Republican voters in Florida has now filed a lawsuit against Reince Priebus, the national GOP chair with a name that sounds…
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is unbelievably popular in his party. A full 62 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Rubio. Just 8 percent have an unfavorably opinion. That’s a positive 54 point split. Perhaps some of that appeal comes from the increasingly common idea floating in Republican circles…
