A little more than a year ago, former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer made headlines by condemning President Barack Obama’s address to the nation’s schoolchildren on their first day of school as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Greer, at the…
Sure, there are pressing issues out there like health care, the economy and wars, but going by America’s ever growing obesity rate, the most important issue in all of America continues to be French fries. With the exception of the 2003 “freedom fries” controversy, politicians hardly address the issue that…
Yesterday we noted Alex Sink’s tricky new TV ad that put distance between her campaign and President Obama. Today on MSNBC, she explicitly sided with Republicans against Obama on the issue of permanently extending all of the “Bush Tax Cuts.” She claims they help small businesses, but the fact remains…
CNN and Time magazine just released the latest poll in both Florida’s Gubernatorial and Senate races. While the poll conducted by Opinion Research shows Democratic Alex Sink with a surprising and comfortable seven point lead over Republican Governor candidate Rick Scott, the poll still shows Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in a…
Anyone out there confusing Alex Sink, the white lady with the slight Southern twang who’s running for governor of Florida, with Barack Obama, the African-American man with a powerful speaking voice who’s running the country? Apparently Sink is worried that her opponent, Rick Scott, might be confused that the two…
According to several sources, Rick Scott is expected to announce state Rep. Jennifer Carroll as his running mate today. Looking just at her identity and life story, she’s an explosive pick: the first African American woman elected to the state legislature as a Republican, an immigrant from Trinidad, a 20-year…
There’s already the rather loose connection of Governor candidate Rick Scott to Playboy Mexico, and now it seems there’s a more direct connection between current Governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist to the raunchier Penthouse magazine. According to Politico, the CEO of the adult brand will be holding a $500-per-person…
They packed City Hall by the dozens this afternoon — the firefighters in bright yellow, the police in dark blue, the general service workers in civvies. They beat the floor, pounded the windows and whistled while their leaders excoriated the Miami City Commission over its proposal to slash salaries and…
As we put it last week “Lawton ‘Bud’ Chiles will run for governor until he realizes what everyone knows: he can’t win.” Now there’s considerable rumblings that the Independent candidate whose main qualification is that he shares a name with his late father, Gov. Lawton Chiles, is set to announce…
If a man is dating Modern Family star and Colombian bombshell Sofia Vergara, what more could he possibly want out of life? Well, according to Page Six, the man who is currently dating Vergara, Nicholas Loeb, one day wants to be Governor of Florida. As the gossip column is quick…
Like a blackjack fiend down to his last, filthy dollar bill at 3 a.m., the City of Miami has gone through most of the stages of grief over its budget disaster. First came denial (illegally shuffling money around to hide the problems), then anger (electing firebrand Tomas Regalado), desperate bargaining…
We’re of two theories about Charlie Crist’s latest string of “clarifications” (or flip-flops) on some positions: (1) The guy doesn’t know what he actually believes and is being as vague as possible to attract as many voters as possible. (2) He has always personally held these positions, altered them to…
Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, son of the last Democrat to hold the Governor’s office in Florida, is running for Governor as an independent. Why exactly? No one is sure. He was costing along getting double digit support in some polls, possibly thanks to name recognition, but hasn’t had much of…
Shut out of the Haitian presidential race, attacked everywhere for his financial mismanagement, and embroiled in a nasty celebrity feud with Sean Penn, Wyclef Jean is not exactly in a friendly mood these days. So when the Haitian authorities rejected his appeal and all but killed his presidential hopes Wednesday,…
It seemed for a while that Charlie Crist’s gamble by going Independent might have paid off as he lead many recent polls. However, Rasmussen Reports has released the first poll taking after Tuesday’s primaries and it shows the now official Republican nominee Marco Rubio with a 10 percent lead, and…
On Wyclef Jean’s personal list of “Things That Will Never, Ever Happen” — including playing a Fugees reunion show with Pras and winning a good taxpayer award from the IRS — the singer can now add a new entry with some confidence: serving as president of Haiti.The Haitian electoral council…
Remember Doug Giles? He’s the father of “ACORN ho” Hannah Giles, an aspiring conservative talking head, and senior pastor of Aventura’s Clash Church. Giles has always been unhinged, but his latest video is a bigoted, ignorant hate fest that attacks Muslims and undermines America’s freedom of religion. And, oh, yeah,…
Rick Scott, now the official Republican nominee for Governor, has made Arizona-style immigration laws a main issue in the election. The controversial laws are none-too-popular amongst Hispanic voters (in fact, some are theorizing that Bill McCollum’s hard right flip-flop in favor of them may have cost him the election), so…
Kendrick Meek will not miss Jeff Greene. Like that guy at your party who shows up uninvited, plays Kelly Clarkson so loud the cops come, and then bolts before you’re handed a noise violation, Greene has been a major headache.But Meek will miss Greene’s money. That’s because now that Meek…
Prediction: Next election, silly hats are in. Rival school board candidates will rock diamond-studded mitres and Budweiser-stocked beer helmets. Marco Rubio will demolish Charlie Crist after finding a totally sweet plaid Tam O’Shanter at a garage sale and wearing it on Fox. The arms race is on!All because of Frederica…
Today Florida went to the polls for the 2010 primary election. While tonight’s big theme involved controversial, self-funded billionaire outsiders taking on establishment career politicians in both the Republican primary for Governor and Democratic primary for Senate, there’s still lots of ballot action to watch. Both parties have contested primaries…
Like a pair of Tara Reid implants, some things are just too fake to pass. A few weeks ago, Riptide reported on the bizarre hiring of new Solid Waste Director Fred Hobson, handed a $100K job despite the fact that two of his former bosses say they fired him from…
