In the Post-American World Miami Will be a Second-Tier City-State

Remember the concept of city-states from the ancient Greek chapter of your middle school history book? When places like Athens or Sparta reigned supreme as the dominate governing, economic and cultural entity, and the concept of a central government of Greece didn’t even exist. Yeah, well, in his new book After…

I Want To Gradulate Corrine Brown On Her Possible Senate Bid

Rep. Corrine Brown strikes me as a relatively fearless politician. Which is why it’s not out of character that she’s thrown her hat in as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s open senate seat, even if it means challenging front runner, family friend, and colleague Rep. Kendrick Meek. A poll…

Dial C for Charlie Crist

Oh, the folks on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are so quirky. They’ve set up a new toll-free number pretending to be Gov. Charlie Crist’s scheduling office. Sure fooled us. We called the number, 800-403-2195, and were put on hold while some seemingly nice lady told us she’d try to locate…

Obama Appoints Miami-Raised Miguel Diaz as Envoy to the Vatican

President Obama’s relationship with religion is complex, but you can’t accuse him of not being thoughtful. When it comes to appointing an ambassador to the Holy See, all but President George W. Bush’s third and final appointee have been chosen much like any other Ambassador — big time donors, friends of the…

Dan Gelber “Steps Back” From Senate Race

The notion of any real divisive, state-wide primaries in Florida seems to be dead, as state Sen. Den Gelber has announced that he’s “stepping back” from the US Senate Race. Which more or less means he’s out. He made the announcement on his blog: It makes little sense — when we do…

Cleared of Wrongdoing, Spence-Jones Speaks To Her Flock

Cleared of public corruption charges last week, Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones will hold a press conference today at 5:30 p.m. We’re guessing Spence-Jones will gloat a little, maybe take a baseball bat and bash cardboard cut outs of ex-city manager Joe Arriola and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who both talked smack…

Florida Senate Delegation To Remain Firmly Anti-Burmese Python

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be touring the Everglades tomorrow at the invitation of Sen. Bill Nelson. The day will kick off with a briefing on the efforts to trip and track invasive Burmese pythons that make their home in the ‘Glades Most of the snakes loose in the National park are former pets that were…

Paula Dockery Looking into Governor’s Race

So much for the state Party’s efforts to playdown the importance of primaries during the 2010 election cycle. Attorney General Bill McCollum is the establishment favor to take the Republican’s nomination for the Governors race. So much so that it seems Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson was pressured out of the race, but the…

Will McCollum Get a Primary Challenge from the Right Too?

‘Tis the season for former speakers of the state house to run to the right of front runners in Republican primaries it seems. Marco Rubio is already in an uphill battle in the senate primary against Charlie Crist, and now March on Politics reports that former speaker and state Senator…

Obama Robot to be Set Loose in Central Florida

Growing up in Florida I’ve been to the Magic Kingdom a respectable amount of times, and yet I’ve never been to the hall of Presidents. By most accounts it’ can be a terrifying and awkward thing. One of the main points of the show, I’m told, is a speech by an animatronic version…

Is Bill McCollum Too Boring to be Governor?

If politics really does come down to which candidate you’d rather have a beer with, then Bill McCollum’s candidacy might as well be dead on arrival. The guy has never really screamed excitement or personality, but that hasn’t stopped him from seeking stat-wide elected office in Florida now for four time (loosing two, winning…

Man on Gas Pumps Will Not Run For Gov

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson will not run for Governor. Not that any one is that surprised, since the state party and major fundraisers were already congealing around Attorney General Bill McCollum. Bronson had earlier claimed that since his name was displayed on every gas pump in the state it would…

Charlie Crist’s Lame Attempt To Distance Himself From Obama

When Charlie Crist stood on stage with President Obama in February I wonder if Crist had any idea that he’d actually be running for Senate. As a popular incumbent running for re-election the political risk would be lessened. Well, the risk of standing with a popular, newly elected president who won your state…