In our nation’s capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama’s mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Hah!Last week, though, that…
Well, Norman Braman’s quest to unseat incumbent Miami-Dade County Commissioners was far from a smashing success, but one of his candidates will live to see another electoral day. Incumbent Bruno Barreiro barely missed the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff by just nine votes. So now he’ll face off…
Dave Gordon thought a seat on the board of the Orlando International Airport was all but his. He’s the president of an aviation logistics company and has a master’s degree in airline administration from Embry-Riddle.However, Gordon claims that he was told by a prominent Republican fundraiser that in order to…
Also read “New Voting Laws Could Take Out Obama This Fall.”It’s becoming a regular morning routine for Floridians: Roll out of bed, sip a cafecito, open the paper to read about the latest bananas Rick Scott law getting tossed out by a federal court. This morning’s edition comes courtesy the…
Several local candidates competing in Tuesday’s elections sought the endorsement of the controversial anti-gay group the Christian Family Coalition, but it turns out that the group’s endorsement isn’t worth much. Out of the dozens of candidates the group endorsed this cycle, only three of the non-incumbents they endorsed actually won…
Tampa’s strip club industry may be revving up for the Republican National Convention, but for those Republican dudes who aren’t exactly into the idea of seeing Sarah Palin’s porno double spread eagle, don’t worry, because GOProud, a gay Republican group, is hosting Homocon 2012.And of course, as every proper homosexual…
Most of the time, we get lousy politicians who refuse to go away no matter the evidence against them. David Rivera, for instance. Occasionally, however, we see a politician emerge from nowhere only to quickly disappear: too rare to survive a campaign, but too weird to ever really be forgotten.Such…
Sometimes Riptide realizes how woefully white we are. Did you know papaya is basically the Cuban equivalent of pussy? We did not! Neither did Mitt Romney! So, perhaps that’s why he ended up declaring his love for “papaya” at his recent Miami stop and was greeted with a bunch of…
Until last night, Florida was the largest state in the union to have never elected an openly gay candidate to its state legislature. Yes, even Texans elected an openly gay representative all the way back in 1991.That changed last night as voters in Florida 113th House district, which encompasses parts…
Miami-Dade voters went to the polls today to vote on a long ballot filled with primary battles for both federal and state level legislative races, and the first (and in some cases, possibly final) rounds of the county mayor race, and several county commission seats. Longtime Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine…
Also read “Pit Bull Ban Spurs Dog Fight”Even if dozens of party primaries don’t get your blood pressure up, there’s one compelling ballot item that should drive you to the polls today: For the first time since 1989, Miamians have a chance to strike down one of the nation’s dumbest…
It’s one thing that Mitt Romney passed over Cuban-American Marco Rubio for Paul Ryan, but it’s quite another that Ryan has a history of support for lifting the Cuban embargo. Ryan’s flip-flopping voting record on the issue certainly has Miami talking on the day Romney comes to town.Ryan arrived in…
In his campaign to win a seat as a circuit court judge, Victor De Yurre has pointed to his wide range of experience as a Miami city commissioner, a civil lawyer, and a traffic magistrate. One job he hasn’t mentioned, though, has been his most recent: owning a shop that…
From the first moment Marco Rubio toppled Charlie Crist in a senate primary in 2010, pundits have declared him a golden boy destined for a run at the White House. Rubio’s spent the last two years positioning himself for a national campaign, and a couple days ago Republican voters picked…
The sight of the image of America’s first black president juxtaposed next to a Confederate flag may be jarring to some, but 16-year-old Lee County resident Ryan Turner, the founder of the grassroots “Rednecks for Obama” movement (or something), says the use of the images together is meant to show…
Given Florida’s swing state importance, large population and Southern-but-not-quite status, you’d think that someone from this state would have been on a national presidential ticket by now, at least as a running mate.The media is currently rife with speculation that Senator Marco Rubio could be Mitt Romney’s veep choice. We’ve…
Mitt Romney’s still mum on who he’ll pick as his VP to share the stage at this month’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, but conservative voters sure aren’t conflicted about who they’d choose. A new poll by CNN finds GOP-leaning voters want Marco Rubio as the veep by a wide margin.Of…
Until recently, Jeffrey Goldmacher was just another Republican running for local office, a bald, mustachioed fellow promising to “streamline government” and cut spending. Now, thanks to an attack flier mailed to voters in his Orlando-area district, Goldmacher has become a true pioneer: An openly nudist conservative.”At least there’s one candidate…
Nowadays, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has got plenty of money. More than $200 million of it in secret accounts around the world, in fact. But when he launched Bain Capital in 1983, Romney had trouble raising the cash for the private equity project. So he turned to super-wealthy Central…
Republican Senate Candidate Connie Mack’s wayward youth spent getting into bar fights and road rage incidents is well known to those who have been following this race closely, but incumbent Bill Nelson is about to blast that history across the state with an attack ad.The Nelson campaign characterizes Mack as,…
Just because they can’t vote apparently doesn’t mean that Florida’s children shouldn’t be able to donate as much as an adult can to state and local campaigns. A Miami federal judge essentially lifted the two-decade old ban that limited the amount of campaign contributions minors could make, saying that the…
Who is Justin Lamar Sternad? The local Democratic establishment doesn’t seem to know, but he is running in the District 26 Democratic primary for the chance to take on controversial Republican Congressman David Rivera. Though, Sternad has nothing bad to say about Rivera. Oddly, he’s using right-wing talking points to…
