Now that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is mildly carpetbagging his way over to Congressional District 21 to run for the more Republican-friendly seat his elder brother is vacating, there’s a big void in District 25. Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi will announce his candidacy, according to Eye on Miami. The blog cites…
The chocolates include FIU fudge (with a pork-filled center and sweetheart job sprinkles), licorice lobbyist, and toffee tax increases. Because this is an actual democracy we live in, Rubio’s staff responded to each and every chocolate accusation in an email entitled “Charlie Crist and the Desperation Factor.”Rubio replies he’s always hated the taste…
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart has announced he won’t seek re-election in 2010. Diaz-Balart, only 55 years old, has spent the past 17 years representing Florida’s 21st congressional district.After the 2008 election cycle, when Miami’s three Republican Cuban-American congressman faced the strongest challengers of their careers but still won re-election, the 2010…
Maybe it was coincidental, but Barack Obama pulled ahead in Florida in the 2008 election shortly after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Does the Sunshine Sstate not like America’s most prominent hockey mom?Nate Silver, the respected poll guru of FiveThirtyEight.com, says conditions aren’t in Sarah Palin’s favor in…
Do you remember where you were when everything changed forever exactly one year ago? When the most important political event in Florida history went down? When Charlie Crist man-hugged Barack Obama? Riptide was there in the audience that unholy day, and we’ll never forget. Neither will Marco Rubio. In fact, Rubio is practically…
Most Senate primary debates are lucky to get aired on local channels, but the race for the GOP nomination for Florida’s Senate seat is so hot it might end up broadcast nationally on Fox News.According to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp Politics, Marco Rubio has already agreed to the arrangement. Gov…
We weren’t expecting Tim and Pam Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for Focus on the Family to feature the two marching in front of the Supreme Court with a stroller full of bloodied baby dolls and duct tape over their mouths, but — wow — the thing came off more like…
Breaking news: Charlie Crist 100 percent supports the idea of homosexuals having to hide or suppress their orientation in order to pursue their chosen career.In his State of the Union, President Obama promised to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the policy that prevents queer folk from serving openly in the…
Remember back in 2003 when California elected Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor and the rest of the world was like, “Wow, what a strange world we live in.” Well, he’s still governor, and he doesn’t have many nice words for Florida.While trying to talk up California’s tourism industry at a Silicon…
Marco Rubio, virtually unknown by most Floridians last year, has taken a stunning lead not only in the Republican primary but also in the general election without spending much on traditional campaigning. It’s thanks in no small part to a strong grassroots effort and Internet buzz, and Erik Erickson of…
Depending on how you look at it, one of the beauties of the Super Bowl is that all of America gets to put aside their non-NFL differences, turn the brains off, and indulge in massive amounts of chicken wings and beer for the night. But a Conservative Christian group, The…
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Last year when Barack Obama was in Florida, he engaged in the “man hug” heard around the right wing. Now his body language has caused another needless brouhaha, after an AP photographer caught the POTUS apparently bowing to Pam Iorio, the mayor of…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek’s last campaign report had some surprising names in it. Yeah, he snagged some usual suspects as donors: Swampthing James Carville, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Terry McAuliffe, and, um, Don King.But he also scored a constituency that would presumptively belong to Republican Marco…
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has some very vocal enemies among business-owners in the Coconut Grove parcel of his district, thanks in large part to his unwavering support of a 3 a.m. bar curfew there. Public officials — especially those with controversial stances — usually expect to take a smattering of public ridicule as part…
Armando Gutierrez Jr., son of local power player Armando Gutierrez Sr., has dropped his bid to challenge lovably insane Orlanda-area Congressman Alan Grayson. Gutierrez, who was born and raised in Miami, took up residence in Grayson’s congressional district this year with the intent of running as a Republican against the…
Traditional newspaper columnists get to enjoy things such as “taking time to write” and “thinking out ideas before they’re published,” which are practically unheard of here in the media ghetto known as blog world. Yet so many newspaper columns are just horrible, horrible things to read. We don’t know why…
Sometimes Riptide likes to reminisce about our long and circuitous relationship with Michelle Spence-Jones. Like the good ol’ days, last June, when she was still Overtown/Liberty City commissioner and we were trying to track her down for comment about her involvement in the case of since-convicted grand thief Rev. Gaston…
Last week, Quinnipiac delivered the stunning news that Marco Rubio was now leading Gov. Charlie Crist by three points in the Republican Senate Primary. Today’s Rasmussen poll shows the formerly little known Rubio with a mind-blowing 12-point lead over the popular Governor.Forty-nine percent go for Rubio, while only 37 percent…
The last web-only attack ad against Democratic candidate for governor Alex Sink by the Republican Party of Florida sucked big time. This one, however is pretty damn great, even if it takes things seriously out of context…
Most politicians’ pork scandals have little to do with actual pigs, but Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio is fending off accusations made by animal rights activists after he posted a photo of a dead pig on Twitter. According to Naked Politics, Rubio posted the picture Christmas Eve with the caption, “Working…
Ah, ladies’ night. The curious bar and nightclub practice of offering free alcohol to female patrons in the hopes that tons of guys with full pockets show up to get lucky with drunk women. It’s a time-honored tradition in this state, and it’s not likely to change anytime soon.Some folks…
After mentioning it in his State of the Union Address, President Obama traveled to the University of Tampa today to announce that Florida has been awarded funds for a high-speed rail system.The $1.25 billion will be used to build a train system between Tampa and Orlando that could eventually, maybe,…
