With all precincts reporting, former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina and former county commissioner Carlos Gimenez will be heading to a runoff election to determine Miami-Dade’s next mayor, to no one’s great surprise. Meanwhile, the noble campaign of our own columnist Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell seems to have fallen short with just…
Big night in Miami tonight. On one side, the Miami Heat hosting the Chicago Bulls in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. On the other, the Miami-Dade elections. What’s a good Miamian to do? Watch the game? Check on the election results?Well, don’t fret, good citizen. Just stay with us…
If Julio Robaina walks away with the County Mayor election today — despite scandals over Ponzi schemes, shady real estate deals and his support for the Marlins Stadium — there shouldn’t be all that much mystery about how he pulled it off. The latest campaign finance reports have come in,…
Yawn. What’s that? Tim Pawlenty is in town today? Who’s that? Some boring Republican from Minnesota who’s running for president, apparently. He’ll be holding a Facebook townhall and a news conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. He also seems to be getting the support of Coral Gables resident…
Want to know who will replace mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez on the County Commission? Too bad! The results will be secret thanks to a bizarre ruling last night by a judge who wants more time to decide whether candidates had enough time to file for the race. Even stranger is…
Most Floridians prepare for hurricane season by stocking up on plywood and canned goods. Our millionaire governor, Rick Scott, has prepared by having a second roof for his Naples mansion placed in storage in case the original gets blown away. Out of touch much?…
Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in Miami-Dade by more than 166,000, yet it’s not all that odd that the three main establishment candidates in the Miami-Dade Mayoral race are all registered Republicans. County politics are non-partisan, and candidates are legally not allowed to declare their political affiliation in their advertising. Yet,…
Eleven candidates are vying for the job of leading Miami-Dade County after the disastrous missteps taken by Carlos Alvarez that led to a historic recall. Whoever replaces him has the daunting task of rebuilding county hall’s relationship with residents, who these days seem wary of any local politician.So how will…
Conservative Republican Mike Hogan was expected to walk away with the Jacksonville Mayoral race. He comes from a family so entrenched in the area, there’s several streets that bare the Hogan name. He ran on a campaign promising no new taxes, smaller government, support for small businesses, and solid conservative…
It’s 2011, and the only candidate running for Miami-Dade mayor who is polling in the double digits to get perfect marks from Equality Florida’s voting guide on GLBT issues happens to be former-2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell. It’s odd indeed. The leading candidates Julio Robaina and Carlos Gimenez either…
The blogger-retaliatin’, Happy Holidays sign swindlin’, possibly ethics and campaign finance violatin’ reign of North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner has come to an end.Rosner lost a runoff vote last night to activist George Vallejo, who picked up 57 percent of the ballots cast. Au revoir, Myron! We’ll miss the…
We know the inner struggle you’re having. Whenever you picture yourself voting Luther Campbell for Miami-Dade Mayor, there’s a little persistent soundtrack playing in your head that causes hesitation: Oh, me so horny… So we put together this list to convince you that some totally ridiculous celebrities have gone on…
At this point the 2012 horse race the republican primary for the Florida senate seat sort of mirrors the party’s primary for the presidential nomination: a bunch of not-terribly-exciting politicians that no one seems to be all that excited about. The latest poll by Sunshine State Communications, a Republican polling…
Gabrielle Redfern could probably pull it off, but If Carlos Gimenez, Roosevelt Bradley, Marcelo Llorente, Julio Robaina, or José “Pepe” Cancio hit the streets of downtown Miami at 2 a.m. and went to a couple of clubs they’d probably get looked at like police, creeps, narcs, drunk lawyers, or weirdos…
Republicans up in Tallahassee are so used to giving money to things associated with Miami-based power lobbyist Ron Book that they ended up giving $1.5 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter Lauren Book that she didn’t even ask for or apparently need. The odd moves came as those…
When President Barack Obama wasn’t talking about important things like Cuba in his interview this week with Univision, he took time to discuss the very serious topic of Bulls vs. Heat. We’ll give you one guess as to what team the former Illinois senator is placing his wager…
“Rick Scott for president? It’s possible,” blares a headline for a non-story in today’s St. Petersburg Times. Oddly, the third sentence in the story is a quote from Scott saying, “I’m not running for president,” yet the Times political editor Adam C. Smith manages to drag the story on for…
President Obama has rolled back some of the strictest policies regarding Cuba, including easing travel restrictions and allowing for more remittances. Though, in an interview with Univision this week the president made clear that he will not normalize relations with the nation until Cuba makes “significant changes.”…
Florida has one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation at a staggering 11.1 percent, but a recent deal struck by Rick Scott and Republicans in the legislature will slash unemployment benefits for those millions of out-of-work Floridians. Liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow doesn’t like that one bit, and…
Regular people will probably not see Osama bin Laden’s final glamor shots, the one featuring a bullet hole somewhere in his face. At least not any time soon, but a select group of congressmen will get a chance to view those photos. Because Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio serve on…
After his failed Senatorial bid, we’ve been wondering what former Congressman Kendrick Meek’s next step would be? Would he follow his mother into the lucrative world of lobbying? Would he join a think tank or non-profit? What about an appointment in the Obama administration? Nope. Actually he’s heading into the…
On a slow news day the blogosphere will take anything they can get, and a post on a pretty obscure blog wondered if Florida’s anti-bestiality law will forbid sex between humans, since, you see, humans are members of the animal family. Gawker, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The Buzz, and The Huffington…
