Today, I consider myself the luckiest failed commission candidate on the face of the earth. After weathering a last-ditch smear campaign, I spent the rest of yesterday’s Election Day in Surfside– where I was running for commissioner in a very special election– parading around town with my dog, drinking victory…
Miami Police arrested at least two three Occupy Miami members today during a May Day protest downtown. Brian Tangherlini, 22, and Rolando Prieto, 23, were arrested after ignoring orders to get out of the street, according to a police report. Tangherlini was wrestled to the ground by several officers and…
If you’re the kind of Republican voter who finds yourself easily swayed by some of the more deafening but dimmer voices in your party, well then boy do we have a quagmire for you. Two of your favorite also-rans from the GOP presidential primary have chosen different sides in the…
Today, Surfside chooses its destiny. Mock naval battles, legalized marijuana, and blissful chaos in town hall — or a (let’s face it) pretty darn nice lady named Michelle Kligman. It’s been a bruising special election campaign for the open commission seat in the weird little beachfront town of 5,000 since…
Dr. Rudy Moise is as colorful a character as you’ll ever find in a congressional race. The millionaire physician has bankrolled B-movies to cast himself as the star and was accused of inserting his face into a memorial statue of Haitian soldiers that he’d paid for. There’s also a very…
Well, this seemed inevitable.Joe Garcia, the man who has run as a Democrat in Congressional District 25 in the past two elections, is letting it be known that he’s about to try one more time and will throw his hat in the ring. The move comes after Democrats have repeatedly…
Senator Marco Rubio can say he does not want to be Mitt Romney’s running mate a million times, but that won’t stop the media from buzzing about the possibility. Rubio could do cartwheels down the Senate floor before singing “I Don’t Wanna Be VP” to the tune of Aerosmith’s “I…
There’s an undeniable element of skin-crawling terror to the downward spiral of modern American politics. And who hasn’t felt like projectile-vomiting all over their dashboard while listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio rants? So kudos to a proud Miami auteur for dreaming up The Foxorcist — a mashup of a classic…
The email went out to a group of Miami-Dade cops February 22, just a couple of weeks after they’d busted up Occupy Miami’s downtown encampment. The subject line was in ominous military-speak: “Occupy Miami: Situational Awareness.” Inside, an MDPD Homeland Security detective named Maritza Aschenbrenner passed along her latest intel…
Conservatives tittered like giddy Limbaughs last week when Jeb Bush cracked open the door toward being a vice presidential candidate by telling Newsmax that he’d “consider” Romney’s overtures if they came. Rubio may be the rising star, but some in the GOP still dream lustily about a return to the…
Fire up those spliffs, DMV workers of Florida: A Miami federal judge has ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to randomly drug test all state employees is unconstitutional. Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled today that random tests of 85,000 state employees would be an unreasonable search and seizure and issued a…
The political world has come down with a crippling case of Rubio-mania. A junior member of the glee club United States Senate, Marco Rubio is Latino, has Tea Partiers in his pocket, and represents Florida, the most important state in the 2012 presidential election. Name him as Mitt Romney’s veep,…
Is Mitt Romney surging ahead of Barack Obama in Florida? Has the Sunshine State officially joined Mitt Nation? Did Obama really get zero bump by slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon?Uh, no. It’s only April, so we probably shouldn’t pay attention to any presidential polls yet. Still, a new nonpartisan…
As if Marco Rubio’s attempts to moderate the GOP’s immigration stance weren’t difficult enough: A Washington Post reporter has released part of a biography revealing that Rubio’s grandfather ignored deportation orders from a Miami immigration court — a detail that, combined with Rubio’s own call for immigration reform, is sure…
Marco Rubio at the moment is trapped in that strange limbo — let’s call it the Biden Zone — where half of America assumes he’s going to be a vice presidential nominee but nothing is official yet. That means despite daily national press and a starring role this week sharing…
In my quest to become the commissioner of Surfside–the beach hamlet just south of the haughty nihilist province known as Bal Harbour– I’ve run into a problem: A lot of the older residents don’t want to open the door for me. Maybe it’s only because I’m a relatively young man…
In late August, hundreds of thousands of Republican heavyweights will descend on Tampa to officially crown Mitt Romney their presidential nominee and celebrate their policies, which include abstinence-only education, limiting women’s reproductive health choices, and an aversion to birth control and gay rights. Oh, yeah, they might also enjoy some…
Carlos Miller isn’t shy about his M.O. — he believes photographers have the right to photograph police on the job, and he’s more than willing to get arrested to prove his point. So it’s not necessarily a surprise that cops are well aware of the 305’s most rabble-rousing photog. Yet…
Attention residents of North Miami: Would you like to learn how to prevent your home from going into foreclosure? Your esteemed mayor, Andre Pierre, would like to teach you how to avoid the pain and mounting legal costs of fighting a bank trying to take away your home, so he’s…
Dwyane Wade was recently in New York, where he defeated the Knicks, hung out with Tim Tebow at a Yankees game, and, as we’re just learning, dropped in a street ball game being played by some NYC kids in SoHo. There’s video…
Michele Bachmann sure loves talking, but after her flameout in the Republican primary, no one really wants to talk to her so much right now. So she’s apparently just giving interviews to random Florida conservative blogs such as the Shark Tank.During that interview, she accused President Obama of “waiving a tar…
Two separate polls now have shown that Florida’s junior senator, Marco Rubio, wouldn’t give Mitt Romney much help in his home state against President Barack Obama in November, but that hasn’t stopped voters in the rest of the nation from thinking he’d be a pretty decent Republican running mate. He…
