Long before Marco Rubio and David Rivera became two of the highest profile Republican candidates in Florida, the Miami politicos shared a nice shady suburban house in Tallahassee, a few miles from the state capitol, just off the Apalachee Parkway.Presumably, the scene inside Real World GOP Tally included plenty of…
Suddenly surging Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has so, so much money we really can’t expect him to know what he has done with it all. Though, surprisingly for a guy who has built a sizable portion of his platform on adopting Arizona’s controversial immigration laws, which some people see…
The impetus for the latest Politico article about the Florida senate race must have gone something like this: “Hey, you know that Jeff Greene guy who’s spending $40 million to buy the Democratic Senate nomination — he’s kind of creepy with a bit of a shady background, right? And Charlie Crist…
When we first saw it, we so desperately wanted to show you this picture of our governor, Charlie Crist, looking at the be-thonged buttocks of a lady on Miami Beach yesterday, but, you know, copyrights and all of that. But here now is a fair-use thumbnail of the cover of…
We think billionaire Jeff Greene’s latest ad in his insurgent bid for the Democratic Senate nomination is trying to spell out the central theme of candidacy. We just can’t put our finger on exactly what it is. The guy who invented the iPod, maybe?Anyway, stay tuned for Greene’s next attack…
Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has come out of virtually nowhere to take an astounding double-digit lead in a recent poll against Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. This is thanks mainly to three things: (1) charisma-less career politician McCollum isn’t exactly the kind of guy to excite any…
When Carly Fiorina, a senatorial candidate from California, mocked U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s haircut last week as “sooo yesterday,” Boxer let political pundits do the barking for her.Instantly, talking heads and bloggers accused the former Hewlett Packard CEO of reviving stereotypes of female candidates’ cattiness. But when Fiorina criticized South…
Alex Sink is pulling out the big guns for her flailing gubernatorial campaign: swampthing James Carville. While her campaign has seesawed from bad to “who’s that?” since it kicked off, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. In this month’s Quinnipiac poll, she trails both her Republican opponents…
The same guy who said that half of all parents would abort their unborn children if they knew they’d be gay, had none other than Elton John–who’s been gay since he was a zygote–perform at his 4th wedding at the Breakers in Palm Beach over the weekend. That’s right we’re…
Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is running for Governor as a Republican, has tried to distance himself from anti-gay activist George Rekers, but recently released emails show that McCollum hired Rekers as an expert witness for the state in a gay adoption case even as top members of his staff…
Besides the monumentally important task of sitting around and waiting for the Governor to die, the Lt. Governor of Florida has very few duties actually spelled out by law. Usually the Lt. Gov and Gov work closely, but ever since Charlie Crist announced that he was running as an independent for Senate,…
Talking Heads leader David Byrne is still pursueing his lawsuit against Gov. Charlie Crist for using one of his songs in a YouTube campaign ad. He wants $1 million because he believes the ad suggests that he endorsed Crist and did harm to his reputation. Today he explained the situation to…
Three way action seems to be all the rage in Florida politics this year, and now the Governor’s race is about to get a some-what high profile third wheel. Lawton “Bud” Chiles III, the son of former Democratic Governor and Senator Lawton Chiles says he plans to run for Governor…
Jim Greer, the divisive former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been arrested and charged with six felony counts stemming from allegations that he siphoned money from the party for his personal use. Greer is the first arrest stemming from a grand jury examining public corruption called for…
Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be “inclined” to support repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. It’s just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former party, and his own…
Gov. Charlie Crist is being sued by the Talking Heads’ David Byrne for copyright infringement, and no it’s not for rocking the same style of gentlemanly premature white hair. Crist’s campaign used the Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere” in an attack ad against Marco Rubio without bothering to get…
Now that Jeb Bush doesn’t have to share a party with Charlie Crist, he’s letting his true thoughts on the made who proceeded him in the governor’s chair known. Talking to the Weekly Standard, Bush doesn’t spare much.”He doesn’t have a set of guiding principles to share with people. This…
Yesterday was Cuban independence day, a holiday as ignored by Cubans as President’s Day is by Americans. But for every Florida politician with an election coming up, it was the perfect opportunity to suck up to the pickiest voting bloc in the state. The three enemigos — Charlie Crist, Marco…
The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and “researcher” Geroge Rekers’s ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor, and now Florida’s Democratic Party is demanding that McCollum…
Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon that will…
Hey, Democratic Party of Florida, you do realize that you’re supposed to win elections don’t you? You’re aware that President Obama won this state in 2008, and that you have a pretty hefty voter registration advantage over Republicans? You know that your main competitor in the Governors race is a…
When news broke that Charlie Crist would run for Senate as an independent, it was speculated that he’d spend the rest of his term as governor issuing a few controversial vetoes that would separate him from the Republican party. He already did so with the education bill, and is now…
