Bill McCollum Was Against MLK Day Before He Was for It

Before those two failed Senate runs and his stint as attorney general, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum was a congressman for 20 years. During his freshman term in the House, a young McCollum had a dream. A dream that one day, there would never be a national holiday celebrating the…

Rep. Steve King Proposes Deporting Haitians to Be Relief Workers

Is Iowa Rep. Steve King aiming to be the most hated congressman from a flyover state since Tom “Miami is a Third-World Country” Tancredo?Late last year, King assaulted the ownership of our Miami Dolphins during a congressional hearing over much more important things, and now he’s gone and said something incredibly…

Return to Sender: Commissioners Mail Holiday Greetings on Your Dime

Every year, they arrive punctually on the same festive stationary, and every year, they’re tossed out faster than stale fruitcake. Well, dear reader, by throwing out your commissioner’s holiday newsletter, you’re trashing your own cash. Each newsletter costs the county 47 cents to produce, typeset, print, post, and mail. With…

Jeb Bush: No Endorsement in Senate Race Soon, If Ever

via Dem UndergroundEven though the entire state knows Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are in total political love, Bush continues to remain neutral in the Republican primary for Senate.The Tampa Tribune asked Jebbers if he plans to make an endorsement soon. “I don’t know… I don’t know if I’m going to have…

Spence-Jones to Guv: See You In Court

After today’s executive order suspending her again, the next big date in the Michelle Spence-Jones saga is Tuesday afternoon.  Earlier this week, attorneys asked a Miami-Dade judge for an emergency hearing to prevent Governor Charlie Crist from suspending Michelle Spence-Jones. But the Guv pulled his trigger faster than the judge…

Crist Suspends Michelle Spence-Jones, Again

Charlie Crist isn’t even going to wait until Michelle Spence-Jones is sworn in again. He has already pulled the trigger on resuspension.Miami city Commissioner Spence-Jones turned herself in on November 13 on charges that she siphoned $50,000 of county money to a family business. Crist swiftly suspended her, setting up…

Vice President Biden to Meet With South Florida Haitians This Weekend

Owing to its proximity to Haiti and the large local Haitian population, Miami has become something of a domestic headquarters for U.S. efforts to provide relief to Haiti after being devastated by a massive earthquake.This morning, President Obama announced Vice President Joe Biden will be in the area this weekend.”I’ve…

Marco Rubio: Who You Calling a Tea Bagger?

This weekend The New York Times magazine asked if Marco Rubio is “The First Senator from the Tea Party?”Rubios Answer: apparently, “Umm, no, not really.” Rubio, at the end of the day, is much more interested in being the 35th Senator from Florida than being the First Senator of Tea…

Miami Election: Low Turnout Expected, Spence-Jones Chases Last Minute Voters

At noon today, Michelle Spence-Jones was at her Liberty City headquarters furiously calling supporters to come out and vote for her.Again. The message to her troops regarding today’s hotly contested Miami City Commission election was clear: “I just don’t want nobody sitting around doing nothing around the campaign office.” When…

Senator Storms Warns Against Evil Locker Room Sexting

Kids seem horrible these days. Probably because their parents are getting too high to raise them correctly.So much so that four students at a Tampa Bay-area middle school raped a 13-year-old flag-football teammate with a broomstick in a school locker room before a game in April.Let’s hope that’s an extreme example, but…

Crazy Joe Carollo Hints at State Senate Run

So Joe Carollo never did make that last-minute, dramatic entrance into the last mayoral race, but one of Miami’s most colorful former mayors is apparently gearing up for a return to elected office.According to Naked Politics, he has his eyes on a state Senate seat in District 36. But he’d…

Florida Circus: NY Times Dives Into the Crist-Rubio Race

The New York Times Magazine’s massive piece about the Marco Rubio vs. Charlie Crist race just went online. If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the race, and reading our nearly obsessive coverage, there’s not a lot new to learn besides some interesting color here and there. If you…

Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer to Resign

Jim Greer, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is expected to resign, according to the St. Pete Times. He was up for re-election to the post Saturday, but it now seems state Sen. Jim Thrasher will take the helm of the party. Update: It’s official. Read his letter of…

Move Over, Limbaugh and Drudge, There’s a New Head Wingnut

Whether you like it or not, South Florida is home base for two of America’s most influential conservatives. You’ve got the reclusive Matt Drudge, who takes time out of listening to Junior Vasquez records somewhere in Miami Beach to update the DrudgeReport, and you’ve got Rush Limbaugh, who takes time…