Campaign fundraising filings for the quarter that ended last week are due to the FEC next week. No candidate in the race to replace Sen. Mel Martinez has officially released numbers, but a report by the Hill claims Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek are each expected to…
Last week, a 12-foot-long pet Burmese python snuck into the crib of a 2-year-old Florida girl and killed her. Now, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson has taken to the Senate floor to push a ban on importing the potentially dangerous snakes. “Sooner or later, a Burmese python will get the endangered Florida panther…
Once apon a time, Jon & Kate Gosselin were folk heroes in the pro-life movement for refusing to selectively reduce a few embryos after Kate’s in vitro fertilization resulted in six fertilized eggs. Instead, they chose to take their chances with having sextuplets, which they promptly exploited on national television for fame, fortune, and the right…
Marco Rubio can collect all the endorsements of the Mike Huckabees and Jim DeMints of the world he wants, but Charlie Crist seems to be wracking up support from politicians who have been actually voted into office the Florida electorate. Today, Crist’s campaign announced the backing of Miami-area Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart. The…
Gov. Charlie Crist certainly put himself on the political line by appearing with President Obama in Fort Myers during the latter’s tour in support of his stimulus package. Meanwhile, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, met numerous times with administration officials to discuss the package. A lot of…
A new anti-Alex Sink political group — cleverly named Don’t Bank on Sink — has hired the worst Robin Leach impersonator for a new YouTube ad that hits the state’s CFO and Democratic candidate for governor for her questionable private plane use. The only thing funny about the ad: It fails to…
The atmosphere at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downtown Miami last November during the Republican Governor’s Conference was hopeful. The GOP governors where the only national wing of the party to actually gain membership in the 2008 election, and the line was it was they who would bring their party back on track, emerge as the leadership…
When Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtnin got the call that she was invited to the Oval Office for the signing of a bill she apparently didn’t hang up this time. Yesterday, President Obama signed legislation that would award Congressional Gold Medals to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. Ros-Lehtinen…
Markos “Kos” Moulitsas of the Daily Kos has a dream that one day Charlie Crist will do some soul searching, look deep inside himself, and finally come out… as a Democrat. And it will all be Marco Rubio’s fault. See, Rubio is calling upon the dark forces of the right…
The Palm Beach Post decided to check the time sheets of gubernatorial candidates and current cabinet members Republican Bill McCollum and Democrat Alex Sink. Turns out, in the past two months neither has been working that hard. McCollum averages about 22 hours of work a week as attorney general — a job…
The Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously declared Al Franken the winner of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race. Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty is widely expected to certify the results and send the SNL-alum to the highest legislative body in the land. The win will give Democrats a filibuster proof 60 seat majority in the Senate. Update: Politico reports…
Ron Sachs Communication commissioned Mason-Dixon to do another one of those polls y’all love. Nothing all that exciting, so let’s deal it out down and dirty: Gov: Bill McCollum is still leading Alex Sink 41%-35%. At this point, the advantage might be owed to the fact that McCollum, thanks to his three previous…
Mason-Dixon released another Senate poll, and like every single 2010 Florida Senate poll before it, it finds Charlie Crist is far and away the frontrunner. Ninety-seven percent recognize Crist’s name, and 49 percent of regular voters find him favorable. Marco Rubio is raising his statewide name recognition: 53 percent of…
EMILY’s list is an organization who’s soul purpose is to get progressive, pro-choice female candidates elected. Alex Sink is a progressive, pro-choice female candidate seeking Florida’s Governors chair. So surprise, surprise, EMILY’s list has endorsed Alex Sink! EMILY’s list (an acronym for ‘early money is like yeast’) should bring in…
Last time we checked in on the polling digits, Quinnipiac claimed Democratic CFO Alex Sink had a four-point lead over Republican AG Bill McCollum, but the latest poll from Rasmussen shows quite a different race. Its numbers show McCollum leading Sink 42-34 percent, with 18 percent still undecided. McCollum is beloved by…
It’s quite ironic that so many so-called liberal politicians still have such a hard time talking about or defending the rights of transsexual people. Why should it be such a struggle to pass legislation that ensures people won’t be discriminated against by potential employers on the basis of gender identity? You might not agree…
Word that this endorsement might be coming has been in the pipeline for weeks, but now it’s official: Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee has endorsed Marco Rubio in the Republican primary for Senate. Huckabee’s endorsement is as much a celebration of…
I don’t know if you’ve been following the recent mess going on in the New York State legislature, but one of the key figures behind it reportedly considering a run for Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be vacated senate seat. Lucky us!Tom Galisano is the billionaire founder of Paychex, a payroll processing company, and co-owns…
The Buzz posted this photo of some guy who jumped out of a plane in support of Marco Rubio that they found on Facebook. We often call some of Rubio’s more fervent supporters wingnuts, but this guy has taken it quite literally taping Rubio bumper sticker to his “wings,” in…
Warning to anyone who wants to believe MSNBC reporter Carlos Watson’s recent profile of Marco Rubio, in which the former House Speaker is praised as the “GOP’s Barack Obama”: It’s a trap! Watson, a Miami native, proclaims, “He’s young. He’s attractive. He easily connects with crowds. Remind you of anyone we know? Ten-to-one, this guy…
If you’re already tired of 2010 election news, well get ready for 2012. State Rep. Marcelo Llorente officially announced his intentions today to run for Mayor of Miami-Dade County. Currently Mayor Carlos Alavarez won’t be vacating the position for more than three years, but it never hurts to get a head start. Llorente,…
For the past year, in the dimly lit corridors of congressional office buildings the very men and women we’ve elected to make the laws of this fine country sit in front of their computers, trying to makes sense of this twitter thing. This phenomenon that was first embraced by the…
