Echoing the ongoing “Occupy” movements from Wall Street to San Francisco, hundreds of sign-waving, drum-beating, flyer-hawking protesters gathered in Bayfront Park this afternoon, drawing supportive honks from cars pouring down Biscayne Boulevard and bewildered stares from tourists popping shrimp at Bubba Gump.The energy around the Torch of Friendship was palpable,…
Miami-native and SNL alum turned Tea Party sideshow attraction (and Riptide semi-obsession) Victoria Jackson decided to hit up the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Armed with a cheap digital camera, she decided to talk to the protesters about our Marxist president and capitalist Jesus. One of the…
Suggesting that yesterday’s national poll may not have been some sort of insane statistical outlier, a new poll from American Research Group of likely Florida primary voters shows that Herman Cain is now on top of the heap in Florida. He leads Mitt Romney by six points. Meanwhile, the rise…
Rick Scott’s bizarre attack on anthropology majors seemed completely random. Well, apparently his remarks may have had some family drama implications. Turns out that Rick Scott’s own daughter majored in anthropology and never found a job in her field…
Rick Scott’s central campaign promise seemed pretty simple: His economic plan would create 700,000 additional jobs on top of normal job growth over seven years. In the past month, Scott has been flip-flopping wildly on that promise, and this morning on a conservative radio show, he said, “I could argue…
Colorful characters involved in the Republican primary are about as common as minor scandals over at The Miami Herald, so it only makes sense that somehow those two worlds would collide.Remember back in 2009 when a Navy spokesman at Guantanamo Bay accused veteran Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg of sexual harassment?…
A conversation in a Panhandle Waffle House may lead to a barbaric change in Florida’s death penalty policy. After meeting with constituents, Rep. Brad Drake, a Republican from Eucheeanna, has introduced a bill that would do away with using lethal injections for the death penalty. Instead he’d like to see…
Rick Scott can’t open his mouth without causing some sort of controversy. While pushing the need to get more Florida college students to major in things like science and math, he dissed anthropologists.”Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so,” he said.Now…
Gov. Rick Scott’s latest target for major reforms: the state’s university system. It’s not like his concerns are without merit. The state could use more students majoring in things like engineering and science. And, yes, it would be nice if more classes were taught by actual professors and not graduate…
We know it’s hard to keep track of all the various scandals involving anti-gay Republican politicians being caught in gay sex scandals, but maybe you remember the tale of Indiana state Rep. Phil Hinkle. He promised to pay a teenager he met on Craiglist $140 for a “really good time.”…
Back when he was running for Governor, Rick Scott promised that he’d add 700,000 jobs in Florida over seven years in addition to what the economy would produce regardless of who was Governor. It seemed like a simple enough promise at the time, but now ten months into his term he’s still…
Who’s Florida’s political golden boy? Well, based on all the fawning press and attention he’s received, you might believe it’s our first-time Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Well, apparently the honeymoon is coming to end. Now more Floridians disapprove of the way Rubio is handling his job than disapprove of the milquetoast Democratic Senator…
Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, is tired of Florida’s Big Brother government standing in the way of people getting jobs. Jobs that include being tossed around by drunk dudes specifically, so he’s on a mission to repeal the state’s two-decade-old ban on dwarf tossing. …
Rick Scott’s pledge that he’d create 700,000 new jobs for Floridians in addition to expected job growth was perhaps one of the least controversial themes of his election campaign. Yeah, well, sorry — he’s flip-flopped on that. He’s no longer promising 700,000 jobs in addition to the jobs the state…
I never really knew that she could serve on presidential advisory boards like this. She makes Obama wants to speak Spanish. Como se llama? Bonita! Mi Casa Blanca es tu Casa Blanca!In a hip-shaking move surely aimed to help his Hispanic outreach efforts, Barack Obama has appointed international pop star Shakira to his…
Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed “one of the greatest public health achievements of the century” by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Party…
”Welcome to RazzleDazzle Barbershop,” the video says before cutting to a photo of a busty young woman in a skimpy Moulin Rouge-style outfit. “Haircuts with a view. Only $20.”As blogger Al Crespo pointed out last week, the video — found on the City of Miami’s homepage — is straight-up creepy…
Yes, there’s a million different polls coming from all different directions, but the latest from War Room Logistics, a Republican aligned firm bases in Gainseville, is worth a look. Unlike most polls this early in the race, the survey polled likely Florida voters and not just registered voters. The poll also…
They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.Ar-Miami-geddon didn’t happen, but more than a hundred “Occupy Miami” protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.With 700 protesters arrested on Saturday…
Brace yourself for waves of socially responsible hipsters.”Occupy Miami” — a protest against corporate greed modeled after the two-week sit-in currently clogging Wall Street in New York — will take over Bayfront Park tomorrow.But how will our soulless city respond? And will Miami Police bring out the storm troops like…
Sunshine or granite? Sex on the beach or maple syrup on hotcakes? “Welcome to Miami” or “Live Free or Die”?It’s been fun Florida, but you’re just too damn crazy for Jon Huntsman.After a three-month flirtation, the Republican presidential hopeful is ditching the nation’s dong and focusing on a state one…
The first poll of Florida voters taken after Herman Cain’s surprise win in the Florida Presidency 5 straw poll is out, and combined with his crazy straw loss and fumbling performances in two debates Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign seems to have hit a snag in the state. He’s fallen…
