Florida’s law denying the right to vote to anyone ever convicted of a felony is racist. Full stop. It was passed in 1868 by white-supremacist lawmakers enraged at the 14th Amendment, knowing full well that a crooked criminal justice system would ensure far more blacks than whites would be stamped with lifetime voting bans.
Floridians still don’t have an answer to what might be the most pressing statewide political question of 2018: What does Bill Nelson stand for? After Nelson voted yesterday to end the brief government shutdown without forcing Republicans to agree to protect undocumented immigrants, Floridians still don’t know the answer to that question…
Bill Nelson has been representing Florida in Washington, D.C., since 1978. He was promoted from U.S. representative to senator in 2001. But he might lose a reelection bid this year to Florida’s governor and ageless Lich-King, Rick Scott, unless the 75-year-old can make Florida voters feel some enthusiasm for the scarecrow-made-from-used-mulch that is Bill Nelson.
Donald Trump’s election in 2016 famously sparked mass protests all over the world, including Miami, a city previously known for lackadaisical activism and a population that doesn’t enjoy taking to the streets if the weather is too hot, too cold, or just warm enough to go to the beach. The city’s newfound protest spirit even prompted a few news pieces.
North Bay Village has a hard-earned reputation for political shenanigans. The tiny city, comprising three man-made islands between Miami and Miami Beach, spent its early years as a meeting place for mobsters and other shady characters. Since then, it’s been rocked by one sordid saga after another.
The central question facing the American empire in 2018 is whether Donald Trump has permanently broken U.S. politics or if the nation can revert to a country full of staid, run-of-the-mill public servants. Signs don’t look good: For one, even liberals now want Oprah Winfrey to run for president, which is a horrible idea.
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which lets you shoot anyone who threatens your life, even if you provoked the encounter, is so shitty it’s been clearly tied to a huge uptick in murders since it was passed in 2005. It sucks so bad it let George Zimmerman kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012…
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he probably would have hated all of the bullshit, racist Florida politicians quoting him today. And they likely would have despised him right back.
Donald Trump infamously visited Miami’s Little Haiti in 2016, stood in front of the city’s Haitian-American community, and promised to be a “champion” for Haitians. He was clearly lying through his teeth.
It’s about time someone apologized for bringing Donald Trump to Miami’s Little Haiti in 2016 and letting him blather on about how he planned to be a “champion” for the Haitian people. Asking Trump to apologize and reconsider his recent actions is a fool’s errand.
Commissioner Ricky Arriola is reportedly the subject of an investigation into attempted sexual battery, the Miami Herald reported minutes ago. Both Miami Beach Police and Arriola himself confirmed the existence of the investigation to the Herald. He has not been charged with a crime.
Broward and Miami-Dade County U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a leading Democrat, just helped hand Donald Trump, a man too dumb to tweet the word “tap” correctly, extra powers to spy on American citizens without a warrant. She joined 54 other Democrats in voting down a measure to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency’s unprecedented warrantless spying program.
When you’re pals with the dumbest person ever elected U.S. president, it’s pretty easy to convince the Leader of the Free World to do some stupid shit that makes you look good. Take Florida Governor Rick Scott: After Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, announced a plan this…
For one brief moment, it appeared the congressional race to replace retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in her central-Miami district would be boring. The Republican candidates, led by the charismatic-as-a-rock Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, couldn’t scrape together 10 cents among them.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to be governor, but the outlook is bleak.
Today marks the official beginning of the 2018 Florida legislative session (joy!), which means Tallahassee’s brightest and most powerful lawmakers are rolling out their signature legislative proposals for the year. In the leadup to today, Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, has filled out the equivalent of an entire “lunatic Republican” bingo card. During the past few weeks, he has:
Few American airports shuttle more travelers out of the country than Miami International. But many travelers who’ve flown internationally from MIA since September 1 have been stopped by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and guided to a small kiosk with a camera inside that resembles an iPhone the size of a shoebox.
The only definitive conclusion to be drawn from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s latest interview with the Southwest Florida daily News-Press is that a swarm of wasps didn’t immediately spill out when the state’s junior U.S. senator opened his mouth. Otherwise, he conducted himself like the pathetic, indecisive jackass we all know and love. Asked about the catastrophic tax bill he just voted for this month, he full-on admitted the entire thing was based on a pile of lies and not likely to grow the economy or help anyone except major corporations. Merry Christmas!
The president of the United States has spent more than a third of his time in office at his personal properties and a fourth at his golf clubs, Business Insider reported this week.
This was the year when Miami politics went full drunken circus. Donald Trump repeatedly gave prime seats to a notorious former Miami cult member who once stood trial for murder. His top adviser had a secret South Florida history tied to drug dealers and mystery apartments. And Marco Rubio continued to be a spineless embarrassment.
Ever since Republican Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted this year for the so-called “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” the much-maligned tax overhaul that cuts taxes for the country’s wealthiest people while doing relatively squat for the poor (and undermining the Affordable Care Act), he has repeatedly called the bill a…
It was early morning in the Florida Capitol, and Sen. Jack Latvala — among the most powerful men in the Senate — was furious. He wanted doughnuts, and there were no doughnuts to be found. He was so angry he berated a junior staffer for the Senate majority leader, who then called in Rachel Perrin Rogers, a high-ranking aide.
