Yesterday the beleaguered presidential campaign of Jon Huntsman sent a mysterious notice to the press about a “major announcement” to be unveiled at Scotty’s Landing in Coconut Grove. Well, that announcement is happening as we type this post. The big hoopla was all about Jeb Bush Jr. joining the campaign. Yes,…
The morning after the police union overwhelmingly voted to back a recall of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, union lawyers are drafting a lawsuit to force the city to figure out how to make it happen. The problem, according to union chief Armando Aguilar, is that the city charter specifies officials…
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s campaign has promised that the struggling presidential candidate will make a major announcement tomorrow at, of all place, Scotty’s Landing in Coconut Grove. Our first instinct was that he’d be announcing his exit from the race, but that seems unlikely. Word is now that he’ll…
OK, I’ll be honest. It was hard logging onto my computer last week and seeing Mayor Tomás Regalado’s face pop up with an article listing ten reasons why he should be recalled. Every time his kindly mug cycled on the homepage rotator, I thought about my uncles and older cousins, the…
Have you ever listened to Tim McGraw… in zero gravity? The Tea Party — those jolly maniacs who use this communist, liberal, Rosie O’Donnell-edited rag to line their iguana solariums — has already conquered ‘Merica. Evidence: You recognize the name Todd Palin. Next stop: the universe. South Florida Tea Party…
Gov. Rick Scott’s popularity is climbing ever so slightly out of the toilet. Now 35 percent of Floridians approve of the way he’s handling his job. That’s up from only 29 percent in May. That makes Rick Scott probably the only politician in America who’s happy with a 35 percent…
We’re still in that uncertain season of the 2012 election cycle where every poll will show some different and somewhat surprising result. Quinnipiac is the latest to crunch the numbers and shows that Mitt Romney is the favorite to get the presidential nod from Republican voters in Florida. Meanwhile, a…
Still doubt that the beef between Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and his police chief Miguel Exposito has reached Biggie-vs-Tupac-ian heights? Here’s some more kerosene to toss on the campfire: Regalado has just sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to investigate the killing of seven black…
Al Cardenas, the Miami mega-lobbyist and lawyer who once headed the Republican Party of Florida and now head of the influential American Conservative Union, has exercised his right to be married to a woman named Diana for the past 32 years. Though, it seems Diana is dead set against extending…
Former Democratic governor and senator Bob Graham still reigns as one of Florida’s most respected and beloved politicians, and his workdays remain legendary. Throughout his career, Graham would make it a point to work full eight-hour days at common jobs throughout Florida. Stuck with some of the worst poll numbers…
As Banana Republican reported earlier this morning, following our story detailing ten reasons to recall Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, the Miami Police union’s chiefs voted last night to do just that. Now they’re not alone — the firefighters union’s executive board has voted to do the same.”It was a unanimous…
This past June, reporters from two of our sister papers, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and the Dallas Observer, hunted down a tip that Gov. Rick Scott has a brother residing in Texas who was living off government handouts and with a criminal record that included drug possession. It was mildly ironic,…
Let’s put it in perspective. The left is pretty much aghast today that President Obama has rolled over for a compromise in the debt ceiling debate that gives in to a staggering number of Republican demands. Paul Krugman is curled up in a ball somewhere whimpering about “economic disaster.” Daily…
We all know the Rick Scott administration isn’t big on creating new government programs, but Scott’s former chief of staff, Mike Prendergast, who now heads the state Department of Veterans Affairs, wants to institute a Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Scott signed off on a bill authorizing the creation of…
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) showed an inspirational clip from a movie at a closed-door Republican meeting Tuesday. It wasn’t from Rudy, nor was it the snow-jogging montage from Rocky IV. It was from The Town, about Ben Affleck trying to rob a bank or something. Apparently Blockbuster didn’t…
The race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination has barely just begun, and Florida has already seen numerous visits from moderate candidates such as Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman, but the candidates further to the right haven’t made their presence known here. That’s about to change when Michelle Bachmann, the Tea…
When Alan Grayson, a hot liberal mess of a congressman, was defeated last fall, we thought it would be a long time before Florida saw a politician quite as loud and un-apologetically boisterous. Of course, that was the same night Floridians in a different district elected Allen West. Alan and…
You’d think hiring freeze is a pretty cut-and-dried concept. In the private sector, at least, it means you’re doing twice the work because your company can’t afford any new faces; if you’re unemployed, it means no one short of the organ donation factory will offer you a contract.In the City…
“Vice President Marco Rubio.”Sound a little strange? 2012 Republican presidential hopeful (and early Florida frontrunner) Mitt Romney said he’s thinking about making it happen, according to conservative Virginia blog Bearing Drift…
Despite the fact Rick Scott used to owns shares in a social media company that partnered with Playboy, his prison chief was so distraught by the site of a Playboy centerfold hanging in a jail that he’s now banned all pornography from state prisons…
Florida Republicans don’t seem to know what to make of the rag tag bunch seeking the Republican presidential nomination, so much so that a recent poll shows that the favorite nominee in the state is a guy that’s not even running. Yep, apparently Florida GOPers can’t get enough of various…
The South Florida Tea Party posted some shocking statistics last week: Compared to England and Canada, Americans have better cancer survival rates, a larger proportion of healthy low-income seniors and better treatment of diabetes.It also said only 8 percent of President Barack Obama’s cabinet has experience in the private sector,…
