For a guy whose artistic wheelhouse consists almost solely of gangster fantasy, Rick Ross seems to have a more sensible take on gun laws than some NRA fanatics. In a particularly head-scratching string of protests, some guns rights activists have taken to carrying around loaded semiautomatic riffles while doing things…
On Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a controversial Florida law that bans doctors from asking patients if they have guns in their homes. Following the decision, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a decision that pretty much encouraged Florida pediatricians to keep breaking the so called “docs…
Trying to get Floridians to all agree on something is damn near impossible, so the poll number for medical marijuana are impressive. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that about 9 out of every 10 Floridians supports legalizing medical marijuana, while a majority now also supports decriminalizing possession of small amounts…
Curt Clawson is Florida’s newest congressman. In fact, it’s his one-month anniversary on the job after winning the seat vacated by Trey “Cocaine Congressman” Radel. He positioned himself heavily in the campaign as an “outsider,” and, well, yesterday he certainly proved that he’s clueless to the inner workings and decorum…
In the late 1940s and ’50s there was no bigger American media star than Arthur Godfrey, who had become known and loved for his intimate, folksy radio news personality and went on to host programs like the wildly popular daily CBS variety show Arthur Godfrey Time. Beginning in 1953 Godfrey…
Who the hell is Adrian Wyllie? Well, he’s a military vet, an IT consultant and the host of a libertarian radio talk show in Pinellas County. He also might just be Charlie Crist’s worst nightmare. That’s because Wyllie is running for Florida governor on the Libertarian ticket and a new…
Daily Show alum John Oliver’s new HBO show Last Week Tonight is only on its 11th episode, but obviously a comedy program poking fun at politics and the news can only go so long until it features a few Rick Scott jokes. On Sunday’s episode, Oliver dug into America’s prison…
One morning in the summer of 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics were set to kick off, Juan Zapata, then a republican Florida state representative, found himself having breakfast with Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. The breakfast delegation was talking business, and someone floated the idea…
Charlie Crist hasn’t even won the Democratic primary yet, but he’s already picked his general election running mate. Crist tapped Annette Taddeo-Goldstein, a Miami businesswoman who has made a few unsuccessful runs at office before and now is the chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democrats and vice chair of the state…
When LeBron James announced he’s heading back to Cleveland, most high-profile Floridians responded with understanding and gratitude for what he accomplished here. Gov. Rick Scott, of all people, was one of the lone exceptions. In a cheap attack that’s as insulting to Floridians’ intelligence as it is completely idiotic, his…
What interesting timing. Just hours after LeBron James announced he was heading back home to Cleveland, allegedly crooked politician David Rivera had an announcement of his own. Rivera suspended his quixotic campaign to regain his seat in the U.S. House that he lost two years ago amidst scandal, and announced…
“Gerrymandering” is a big, strange word, but in Florida it describes a simple enough problem: The state’s legislative districts are so artificially drawn that one of the nation’s most purple electorates has a lockstep Republican state house that will never face a serious challenge. Four years ago, voters backed change…
David Rivera is a free man and running for his old congressional seat that he lost to Democrat Joe Garcia in the last election cycle. Justin Lamar Sternad, the man many suspect Rivera used as a ringer in the Democratic primary against Garcia, will spend the next seven months behind…
The photo is reminiscent of a poster for The Sopranos. Three men dressed in natty suits with slicked-back hair saunter down a dimly lit, brick-paved alley. They leave little room to pass. It seems like they are intentionally blocking someone’s path. The pretty boy on the left scrunches his face…
Florida’s first openly gay legislator will return to Tallahassee next year… because his GOP opponent’s filing fee check bounced. So much for Republican fiscal responsibility. David Richardson, who represents a district that includes parts of Miami Beach and the City of Miami, was elected to the house in 2012 as…
How dumb is the continued refusal of Florida’s GOP-dominated legislature to accept the federally funded Medicaid expansion? So dumb that even Gov. Rick Scott — who essentially ran on an anti-Obamacare platform — reversed course last year and admitted, yeah, a state full of uninsured poor folks probably should let…
Just days after launching a radio ad in the Orlando market blaming Charlie Crist for “for a lost generation of African-Americans,” the mysterious political group Progressive Voice is back with a new ad running in North Florida that calls one of Crist’s marquee political efforts as a Republican state legislator…
We’re still five months away from when Florida elects a new governor, but the latest round of advertisements in the race have gotten ugly. Florida Republicans are urging television stations not to air a new ad from Democrats highlighting the legal problems of Scott’s former companies. Meanwhile, a racially tinged…
Rick Scott, a man who ran the first time around on a later abandoned platform of bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida, is now desperate to get the Hispanic vote in November. Someone at Scott reelection HQ noticed that Hispanics tend to like soccer, and with this whole World Cup…
Earlier this month, disgraced ex-Congressman David Rivera got whacked by a state judge who found “corrupt intent” in the way he’d double-billed his campaign and fudged his spending records. His surprise bid to win the Republican primary for his old seat, meanwhile, has been stalled in the water with virtually…
The United States now has its first openly gay black federal judge, and he’s from South Florida. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Darrin P. Gayles’ nomination to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida was approved by the Senate today in a 97-0 vote. Gayles was nominated…
One of the hazards of having a governor who financed his way into office with his own immense fortune is that he probably has money stashed in all kinds of places that conflict with his political decisions. That certainly applies to our own magnate-turned-leader. New disclosures this morning show that…
