Inside Donald Trump’s Ugly, Litigious History in Florida

John Taglieri is a self-described “blue-collar worker kinda guy.” In 2005, the now-70-year-old restaurant owner with a tan that sets off his blue eyes and white hair put money down for a one-bedroom condo in the preconstruction Trump International Hotel & Tower Fort Lauderdale. Lured by the New York businessman’s…

The Most Cowardly Things Marco Rubio Has Done This Year

On Thursday, Newsweek investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald revealed that Donald Trump had violated the Cuban embargo by sending consultants to the communist island in 1997. Though this wasn’t the first time Trump had been accused of illegally dealing in Fidel Castro country, Eichenwald’s report is certainly the most comprehensive evidence yet that Trump…

Newsweek Says Donald Trump Did Illegal Business in Cuba

Donald Trump will have a hard time showing his face in Versailles ever again. Just two days ago, Trump stood on a stage in Miami, said he had a deep love and respect for Miami’s Cuban community and added that Cubans immigrant deserve “the right deal” to renegotiate the American…

Campaign-Finance Reform Kept From Ballot, Lobbyists Celebrate Online

Miami’s Third District Court of Appeal yesterday declined to put a citizen-backed campaign-finance reform bill up for a public vote this November, according to documents published by blogger Al Crespo. The decision likely ends a summer-long fight between a union-backed group pushing the county to get money out of politics,…

Rich, White Men Dominate Miami Political Campaigns, Study Says

Miami is in the midst of the most spirited debate it’s had regarding campaign-finance reform in years. Barring the results of legal appeals and a counter-suit filed this week, a group of activists has forced Miami-Dade County to let its citizens vote on a measure that would cut political donations…

Will the 2000 Presidential Recount Repeat in 2016?

Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,…

Miami Billionaire Republican Donor Mike Fernandez Endorses Hillary Clinton

Mike Fernandez has not been shy about his contempt for Donald Trump. The Miami health care billionaire took out full-page ads in December calling Trump a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. In July, the Cleveland Plain Dealer refused to print Fernandez’s latest ad, featuring a scorpion in a…

David Rivera Won a Primary Because Miami Republicans Can’t Get Enough Scandal

Statewide, Florida voters mostly did themselves proud yesterday.  They rejected terminal blowhards Carlos Beruff, Dan Bongino and Alan Grayson, and backed a common sense solar power amendment. Our Jacksonville friends even booted longtime Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown, who is under indictment on corruption charges. So what exactly were Republicans in southwest…

Live Blog: Today’s Primary Election Results

Primary polls opened across Florida today, but voter turnout was not expected to be high, and the races pretty much seem decided already. The highest-profile incumbents running — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — are likely to score decisive victories. Still, the…