Barack Obama swept into town last night in full campaign mode. In a fundraiser at the Fillmore in Miami Beach, the president gave love to the crowd, props to the Heat, and a good ribbing to Republican rival Mitt Romney. (To read about Marc Anthony’s sultry pre-speech performance, click here.)During…
Barack Obama may have been the first sitting American president to announce his personal support of gay marriage. He may have repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and allowed gay citizens to serve openly in the armed forces. He may have been the first president to appoint a Transgendered…
Senator Marco Rubio stopped by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night to promote his new memoir, An American Son. After some brief talk about Rubio’s time as a college football player at a now bankrupt school, the two got into some real “Senateyish” discussion. Yes, Marco Rubio coined…
It’s always exciting when the president of the United States comes to town, but the downside is that the motorcade ties up traffic. President Obama drops by once again tonight for a private fundraiser, followed by an event at the Fillmore Miami Beach with singer Marc Anthony. Here’s his itinerary…
Golden Beach has a problem. Its town manager allegedly drives like a gin-addled Gary Busey, and he’s in bed financially with the one person — the mayor — who could fire him. Alexander Diaz, manager of the tiny, wealthy, and epically fucked-up town where Eric Clapton and Ricky Martin have…
It’s not the best public university in Florida. But soon it will be the most expensive. The State University System’s Board of Governors announced today that it’s approved a tuition raise of 15 percent for Florida International University, and full time students will pay $4,669 a year starting next semester. FIU…
Well, this is strange. Yesterday, someone presumably close to the Romney campaign leaked information to ABC News that Sen. Marco Rubio was not being vetted as a potential Romney running mate. It was a sloppy move that left both Romney and Rubio looking bad. Well, late yesterday Romney took the unusual…
So long, George LeMieux.The former interim senator has dropped his bid to return to DC, and has left Rep. Connie Mack IV as the likely Republican nominee to take on Sen. Bill Nelson in November. LeMieux was never able to overcome his connection to former Gov. Charlie Crist, nor Mack’s…
Before he was a Tea Partier, Marco Rubio was just a plain old hard partier. His new memoir, An American Son, is out today, and while reviews seem to indicate it’s what you might call sort of boring and politically safe, Florida’s junior Senator does admit to drinking and partying…
In 2008 President Obama got the unprecedented support of Oprah Winfrey. This time around he can add the support of Cristina Saralegui, “the Latina Oprah,” to his campaign. It’s the first ever presidential endorsement from the Cuban-American media mogul.”This is a critical time for our country and for the Hispanic…
Remember when Donald Trump and his friends were all, “Obama can’t be president, he was secretly born in Kenya!” Then Obama released his original birth certificate from Hawaii and they were like, “Never mind!”If you thought that was the end of the argument, oh how wrong you were. The latest…
A 60-year-old woman in Port St. Lucie was arrested after sexy times with her 45-year-old boyfriend turned violent. She asked her beau to get olive oil from the kitchen to use as lube, and when he got back also asked if he brought the PAM cooking spray. The man misunderstood…
Early in his surprise Senate run against Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio was being badly out-raised and was this close to dropping out to run for attorney general. Then Crist made a strategic error: He really pissed off Rubio. After Crist’s campaign leaked rumors that Rubio was soon to drop out…
Still bogged down by ridiculous student loans? Don’t even worry about it. Obviously, if you work real, real hard in the name of this great country of America and love capitalism enough you’ll pay them off in no time.Oh, wait, what’s that? Senator Marco Rubio, who is 41 years old,…
Rep. Connie Mack IV is abandoning his southwest Florida congressional seat to run for Senate, and he’s endorsed Tea Party favorite Henry “Trey” Radel III to succeed him. Oddly, Radel has a history of owning such fine websites as CasaDeLasPutas.com, Mamadita.com, and SexGuideOnline.com…
Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer is preparing for his trial on several corruption charges. His former friend and ex-Governor Charlie Crist is cooperating with the prosecution. So, in what seems like a pretty shady and downright desperate move, Greer’s camp is leaking several rumors to the press…
Time and again, Florida’s Police Benevolent Association has asked Gov. Rick Scott to write for its union newsletter, the Roll Call. Over and over, Scott has ignored the PBA (which, to be fair, did campaign heavily against the governor.) So the union took the mature, adult tact and wrote a…
Among the number of new voter registration shenanigans being pursued by Gov. Rick Scott, perhaps his new law that requires third-party voter registration groups turn in forms within 48 hours seems the most arbitrary and bizarre. The Daily Show doesn’t quite understand it either, so last night they sent correspondent…
We’re not sure whether former Gov. Charlie Crist is actually a rampant drunk and closeted homosexual, but we do know that former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer is a desperate, desperate man. Greer is currently awaiting trial for allegedly misappropriate party money. Crist is not cooperating with the…
Floridians continue to hate Gov. Rick Scott. In fact, 56 presently disapprove of his job handling, while only 31 percent approve. Things as polarizing as the Miami Heat and gay marriage are actually more popular in the state right now. Public Policy Polling decided to just ask Floridians how they…
Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski likes to say that he’s “political with a capital P,” meaning he doesn’t tow a particular party line. And in his two years in charge of South Florida Catholics he has, in fact, criticized everyone from Barack Obama to Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. But…
Barring any sort of crazy scandal or shakeup, you might as well refer to Rep. Connie Mack IV as the GOP’s presumptive senate nominee in Florida. He continues to poll heads and tails above his Republican primary competitors (and is now refusing to show up to debates, as he’s already…
