Here’s the good news: Florida is no longer the most corrupt state in the nation. Here’s the bad news: We’re still corrupt as hell. In the period from 2000 to 2010, Florida led the nation with the most federal public corruption convictions. Integrity Florida reworked the number from the period from…
It’s no secret that Republicans control Florida’s legislature thanks to big help from gerrymandering, but after the current state Senate districts were invalidated earlier this year the Senate scrambled to draw new districts. Well, in a major ruling today a state judge threw out the Senate’s new map and instead…
Let’s say you’re the Florida Democratic Party, and you notice that while your state’s most populous county has a strong Democratic voter advantage, its highest office, the County Mayor’s seat, has been held by a Republican for over 10 years. So what would you do? Probably try and get an…
Hoverboards were the numbers one gift for children of wealthy parents this holiday season, and a young member of Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s family was no exception. Curbelo’s nephew got a shiny new walking-avoiding-machine for Christmas, but when Uncle Carlos decided to take it for a spin he wound up in…
Looking back, it’s almost ironic that during the 2010 Senate campaign the Marco Rubio campaign and its surrogates attacked then-rival Charlie Crist for being too ambitious. Crist, they argued, was a professional politician of the worst kind who merely saw a Senate seat as a step to even higher ambitions…
This year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly sent correspondent Jesse Watters down to the art fairs to poke fun of attendees. Waters was operating under the assumption that anyone who loves art must be some sort of out of touch hippie liberal. Not only was…
Turns out if you scratch Rick Scott’s back, he’ll scratch yours. The Governor has now appointed failed Miami Commission candidate Teresa Sarnoff to the state’s Transportation Commission. The move comes after Sarnoff and her husband Marc made a surprising endorsement of Scott during his last run for Governor. Though Miami…
Florida Republican Primary voters continue to be fake as hell. They’re letting the men they at one point elected to serve as our Senator and Governor linger in polls of their home state. In the first poll of Florida Republicans taking since this week’s debate, it turns out that our…
A Florida mailman who broke several laws by flying a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol this past tax day is now planning a more traditional route back to the building. He’s running for congress. Though, he won’t say exactly where in Florida plans to run, and that depends…
Despite trying to position himself as the Anti-Trump, Jeb Bush’s campaign continues to struggle. A fact that was underscored last night when a photo purporting to be of Bush’s nearly empty official Miami debate watch party went viral. The image was first tweeted out by Washington Post national political reporter…
In light of thawing relations between Cuba and the United State, state Rep. Frank Artiles is now calling for an end to the decades-old “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” policy regarding immigration from Cuba. The Republican who represents portions of western Miami-Dade County, has filed a non-binding “memorial” ahead of next…
The latest drop of water splashing from the thaw of Cuba and America’s icy relationship: mail service. The US State Department announced today that for the first time in more than 50 years Cubans and Americans will be able to send mail to each other directly for the first time…
It’s weird enough that two major candidates for the GOP presidential nomination hail from Miami, but the slugfest between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush is even more localized. In fact, the birthplace of their epic struggle for Republican party dominance can actually be traced to a single luxury hotel in…
Here’s the difference between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump’s public personas: Jeb Bush is a self-admitted policy nerd. Donald Trump goes around ranting and then has his team draw up something resembling actual policies. Jeb Bush’s website lays out his position on 11 broad topics, many with multiple policies included…
While the world was aghast at Donald Trump’s latest discriminatory comments about Muslims, Marco Rubio more quietly recommitted himself to discriminatory policies against the LGBT community. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this weekend, the Miami Republican and surging presidential candidate announced he’d appoint anti-gay marriage justices to…
Wayne Rosen does not fit the bill of a low-income individual living in a blighted community. In fact, he’s the wealthy owner of Shores Development, one of the biggest homebuilders in southwest Dade. Rosen himself lives in a $3 million Coral Gables mansion and enjoys showering political allies with donations…
Florida politicians, as a group, aren’t exactly known for being on the rails to begin with, but Donald Trump has gone so far off the rails that Sunshine State pols on both sides of the aisle are calling him out in no uncertain terms. After Trump’s call for “a total and…
It’s been more than a month now since we fell back to standard time, but if you’re like, you still probably haven’t gotten used to it getting dark so early. Well, consider state Rep. Kristin Jacobs your new hero. The Broward County Democrat has introduced a bill that would keep Florida…
If you opened The Miami Herald yesterday, you might have noticed a giant full-page ad blasting Donald Trump as a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. The ad was paid for by Mike Fernandez, a Miami-based healthcare magnate and billionaire in his own right. Fernandez is also one of the…
There is nothing more that Rick Scott hates more than Florida’s corporate income tax. He’s made it his mission as Governor to try as best he can to completely eliminate those taxes. He wants to stalk those taxes around an art fair and stab them with an X-acto knife just…
At first glance, the tour bus looks like the real thing: It’s huge, it’s painted the right color blue, and covering one side, in all caps and that signature white font, it’s painted with TRUMP. But look again. A large period has been painted after the T, so the bus…
Welcome to Florida. Where we can’t even draw proper congressional districts. Every ten years the state legislature is entrusted with redrawing the boundaries of both state and federal congressional districts to account for changes in population. The process began four whole years ago, but the original districts drawn were thrown…
