The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, television’s premier place for people more famous than they are funny, played host to newly minted Presidential candidate Jeb Bush last night, and the former Florida Governor did more than just sit on the couch for an interview. He joined Fallon for a special…
For the first time in history, Florida has two of it’s politicians running for President, but according to a new Quinnipiac poll that doesn’t mean either of them are guaranteed a win in their home state. The poll, released today, shows that Hillary Clinton still holds leads over both Jeb…
A band of five farm workers and their seven children from Polk County woke up before sunrise on Monday. They then drove over 200 miles to Miami Dade College, just in time to witness Jeb’s presidential announcement. But that never happened, because an hour before Jeb went on, his security…
Hundreds of signs were sprawled inside Miami-Dade College’s Kendall campus Monday afternoon for Jeb Bush’s presidential announcement. On one side they read “!Jeb! 2016” and on the other “#TodosPorJeb.” But 20 minutes into Jeb’s big announcement, it became clear that todos were not por Jeb. In a single row atop…
Jeb Bush unfilled his new campaign logo this weekend ahead of his official entrance into the presidential field, and it shouldn’t be anything new to any longtime Floridians. It’s essentially just an update of the same “Jeb!” logo he’s been using for every race since 1994. Asking my father what…
Jeb Bush has spent months as a not-quite presidential candidate, leading most early polls while raking in unprecedented hundreds of millions in cash — all conveniently outside the bounds of campaign fundraising laws, since he wasn’t officially a contender yet. That charade ends today as Miami’s favorite dynastic politician finally makes…
A recent poll of Floridians found that the majority support the idea of taking federal money to expand Medicaid in the state, but it also found that a plurality of Floridians support Rick Scott’s lawsuit against the federal government to stop Medicaid expansion in the state. The results of the…
Republicans in Tallahassee have slowly chipped away at women’s ability to easily access abortion services in the state of Florida, and this year they were successful in following the lead of a number of other Republican controlled states by passing a bill that requires woman to undergo counseling 24 hours…
The New York Times recent odd reports of Marco Rubio’s traffic tickets and personal finances have caused something quite odd. Even the most progressive voices are rallying around Rubio to critique the Times’ stories. Last night even John Stewart got into the fun last night, wondering, “How is this frontage…
Is Rep. Alan Grayson about to shake up the 2016 Florida Senate race? He’s just staffed up with a formidable election team, singled out Rep. Patrick Murphy, a moderate Democrat who is already in the race, in a news release, and recent polls show he could indeed have a shot…
Last week The New York Times published the traffic infraction history of Marco Rubio and his wife that was widely panned. The “shocking” findings: the Rubios are typical Miami driver. The piece was widely panned by other outlets, and even spawned a Twitter Hashtag — #RubioCrimeSpree — mocking the lowball…
Last week, the New York Times dropped an election-season bombshell: Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, have gotten a few traffic tickets over the years in Miami. The horror! The story has been universally lampooned, with conservatives questioning whether the Times took the traffic info from a liberal opposition research group…
The New York Times, the paper of record with a combined 114 Pulitzer Prizes, has really outdone itself with its latest shocker. It’s the kind of in depth investigation that could change the course of American politics for ever. They’ve found that Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette have —gasp—…
For more than six months, Jeb Bush has been furiously crisscrossing the country to give speeches in key primary states while raising unprecedented campaign millions. He even told reporters at one stop in Nevada: “I am running for president in 2016.” But believe it or not, through it all Jeb…
Almost a year ago, Governor Rick Scott signed the “Charlotte’s Web” bill into law, legalizing a non-euphoric strain of marijuana for medical use in Florida. Though, so far Floridians who need that medical treatment have not yet been able to receive it. The law has been held up by legal…
Marco Rubio, the Republican “boy” wonder, is 44-years-old today! The Presidential candidate will spend the day in Las Vegas, his other childhood home (the Rubio family lived there between 1979 and 1985 before returning to Miami). He’ll celebrate later at a birthday party-slash-fundraiser hosted at the home of Rick Harrison, the…
Earlier this month, the Miami Beach Police Department was hanging its head in shame when the State Attorney’s Office announced that two officers had used work accounts to send hundreds of explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic emails and text messages. When news of the scandal broke, one of the officers, Captain Alex…
To hear Marco Rubio tell it, the secular recognition of gay marriage in America is the start of a slippery slope that will one day have all of the teaching of Christianity being dubbed hate speech. That’s his most recent take on gay marriage anyway which he outlined in a…
On its website Monsanto, the St. Louis-based biotech corporate giant, calls itself a “sustainable agricultural company” that’s focused on empowering farmers and conserving natural resources. An advocacy group says the company is an evil “Biotech Bully” with a “dastardly plan to lie and cheat its way to more profits and power.” …
The Low Income Pool is a unique, complicated agreement between the Federal and State Government of Florida in which the Feds provide money to hospitals who treat people who are uninsured or underinsured. The deal was struck when Jeb Bush was Governor and George W. Bush was President, but President…
Pam Bondi, champion of traditional marriage, practitioner of…yeah, whatever.
Politically, Alan Grayson is progressive Floridian’s wet dream. Many are still holding out hope that he’ll jump into the Senate race against establishment favorite and boringly moderate Rep. Patrick Murphy. There’s just one little problem with Grayson: his personality. The hot tempered Orlando-area Democrat is currently in the process of…
