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Marco Rubio

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Mitt Romney Beating Obama in New Florida Poll; Rubio VP Pick Would Boost Romney

    Took a little while to get to because Quinnipiac University's website is being duct-taped together today, but here are the results of its latest poll, taken May 15 to 21 with a 2.4-percentage-point margin of error.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 47 to 41 percent in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Connie Mack's Penny Plan: Where's the "Update"?

    Birthday wishes are in order! Best start baking the cakes now -- it's cool, you can just get the money out of the federal treasury.Last week, we wrote about Rep. Connie Mack's illegal mailers that he sent to 90,000 Floridians. The postcards said they were a "legislative update" to the "Mack Penny Pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Poll Finds Marco Rubio Wouldn't Help Mitt Romney in Florida, but Jeb Bush Would

    A new poll of Florida voters was released yesterday with all kinds of juicy numbers about politicians on both the state and national level. The full report is included at the bottom, but there are more facts in it than one blog post could ever hold.The poll was conducted by Democratic firm Public Po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets New Hairdo; Internet Goes Nuts

    Normally, the Pulp would never consider a politician's hairstyle news, but U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) is a special case. For some reason, the internet hates her hair. Her tightly spiraled, dyed-blond curls have been called "angry perm" and "nappy," and Rush Limbaugh once accused h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Allen West "Willing and Ready" to Be Vice President

    ​When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Marco Rubio: the Man Gingrich and Romney Love to Name-Drop

    ​The Republican presidential candidates at last night's debate were dropping the names of Floridian public figures as quickly as they could come up with them. In response to a question about Hispanic Americans the candidates would consider for their Cabinets, everyone (except Ron Paul) started rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Kim Jong Il: Marco Rubio Calls Him an "Evil Tyrant"; Bill Nelson Talks About Space

    tammybruce.comDead.​Florida's senators had quite different reactions to Kim Jong Il's death, with one calling the North Korean dictator an "evil tyrant," while the other wanted to talk about what stuff looks like from space.Off course, it was Florida's Democrat space-man Sen. Bill Nelson who t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Rick Scott Breaks His Record for Crappiest Approval Rating -- 26 Percent

    ​Gov. Rick Scott is still the least-popular governor in the country, but according to the latest poll released this afternoon, it's the crappiest approval rating he's ever had.Scott's approval is down to 26 percent of Floridians, according to the freshest numbers from Public Policy Polling, easily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Selling a Private Prison to Lawmakers: A Primer in Three Acts, by Southwest Ranches and CCA

    ​Oh, what fun it must be to be a congressional representative, traveling your home territory in search of causes to support, being bombarded at every turn by lobbyists and carefully crafted P.R. Balancing pork-barrel people-pleasers with national security interests (and those of your campaign dono ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Poll: Marco Rubio on GOP Ticket Would Win Florida, Unless Hillary Clinton Gets Involved

    saucesome.netFifty percent of Florida voters say otherwise.​According to a poll released yesterday evening by Suffolk University, Florida voters like highly unlikely vice-presidential scenarios.If Sen. Marco Rubio were to be the selection on the GOP ticket, pollsters say Republicans would carry Fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    President Obama Blamed for Stealing All of Marco Rubio's Internets

    ​Somebody call Al Gore.Sen. Marco Rubio's official website has been down for nearly an entire day, and the St. Petersburg Times thinks President Barack Obama is to blame.Obama asked last night that people call all of their legislators to ask them to find a compromise on all this debt-ceiling drama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Crist Has Risen -- Above Both Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, According to Poll

    Charlie Crist​Former Gov. Charlie Crist is still in the good graces of Florida voters, according to what we swear is the last Sunshine State News poll we're publishing this week.Crist was the only one -- between himself and Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson -- to receive a favorable rating above 4 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Marco Rubio's Brother-in-Law a Convicted Drug Trafficker, Which Is Completely Irrelevant

    Sen. Marco Rubio​Here's a tip: If you're digging up dirt on a politician, try to find something a little filthier than Sen. Marco Rubio's brother-in-law being convicted of drug-trafficking charges when the senator was a 16-year-old kid.This news, coming from Univision, ranks among Mike Huckabee's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Allen West Doesn't Rule Out Vice Presidential Bid

    ​The First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale: a place for worship, celebration, and a forum for Rep. Allen West to discuss his possible bid as vice president in the 2012 election.During the church's "Faith, Freedom and Fireworks" celebration on Sunday, Rev. Larry Thompson, on stage next to West, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Marco Rubio and Allen West on Bin Laden

    ​American fellow-feeling has been going down the shittah since mid-2009 or so, and for those few remaining true believers in the power of rational discourse and basic human decency, it's been a bum ride. Everything is political lately, it seems, and in the worst way. Left and right America agree o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Political Money Man Mendelsohn's Sentencing Pushed Back

    Wild art: The first edition of the official Tea Party mag. ​Hollywood lobbyist and political fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn won't be sentenced on his federal conspiracy conviction next week after all. The sentencing has been pushed back to April 28, according to court records. Sounds mundane ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Don't They Look Happy Together?

    ​ During Obama's State of the Union speech last night, Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson sat together to show unity in light of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.  But enough about our dysfunctional Congress, let's move onto our dysfunctional Florid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Tea Party Leader Speaks Out On Sarah Palin

      Fort Lauderdale Tea Party leader Gabe Carrera, at right, with Rick Scott during the campaign. ​ By day Gabriel Jose Carrera works as a bespectacled immigration attorney but in countless off-hours during the past 18 months he had another callin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Swimming With Sharks: Rising GOP Blogger Is Funded by Campaign Cash

    Last year, Javier Manjarres was a landscape designer who'd had a couple of "chainsaw incidents" -- one of which severely gashed a leg -- and was thinking that maybe fate was telling him to change occupations. Facebook Manjarres, far right, with Rush Limbaugh.​That's when Manjarr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Allen West a New Face for Sarah Palin

    And so it begins. As Sarah Palin campaigns for 2012, she's already using Allen West as a symbol of the cringe-worthy change she will bring. Notice a theme among the newly elected GOP stars Palin's highlighting here. West and Marco Rubio hail from the political crucible of Florida, plus they fill all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Little Guys Beat Wayne Huizenga

    If you seen Wayne Huizenga this weekend, be nice to the guy. Our local mogul took a bad beating on Election Day. ​No he wasn't backing Alex Sink -- he put a lot of money into helping to elect Rick Scott to the governor's mansion, including $100,000 into Scott's PAC, Let's Get To Work (I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Concede? Hell No. Secede!

    ​It just happened. Florida has officially elected the man who oversaw the greatest Medicare fraud in U.S. history as its governor. You might think I would welcome this sort of thing. I remember when I covered the 2000 recount thinking at the end of it, after the U.S. Supreme Court gave t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2010

    "Michael The Black Man" Buys Sentinel Ad For West, Rubio

    I guess it was only a matter of time before "Michael the Black Man" made his mark on this election season. On page 9B of the Sun-Sentinel is a sixth-page advertisement headed: "GOOD BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT GOOD CANDIDATES LIKE: Allen West ..." ​The ad -- which has no disclaimer --als ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Charlie Crist Sends Pitch Sailing in Giant Metaphor of His Campaign

    Things already looked piss poor for Gov. Charlie Crist. The most recent poll had him down 12 points, and some speculated that Marco Rubio had the Senate race locked up.But Crist had political gold awaiting. The Tampa Bay Rays had invited the light-footed governor to throw out the first pitch in game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Florida Liberals May Have to Plug Nose and Vote Crist to Keep Rubio From Winning

    FlickrA vote for Meek may help Rubio take the Senate race.​Congressman Kendrick Meek has failed to galvanize the Democratic base, he failed to properly trounce wacky billionaire Jeff Greene, and now he may be abandoned by even the most die-hard Democrats, who may be leery of throwing him their vot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Fort Lauderdale Tea Party Declares Victory

    ​When David Gould, a 26-year-old Fort Lauderdale man showed up at the corner of Oakland Park Boulevard and Federal Highway -- the spot known to local tea partiers as "the corner" -- he expected some sort of confrontation. He's pretty liberal and this is, after all, the location of the self-proclai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Rubio Trying to Energize GOP Base Against Crist

    We've entered the home stretch in the race for U.S. Senate, and Marco Rubio is neck-and-neck with Charlie Crist. Which of these jockeys can whip his horse into a higher gear in the three months before the election? The momentum is clearly on Crist's side, as evidenced by this week's profile of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Alex Snitker's Senate Campaign Being Ignored, so He Calls on... Us

    snitker2010.comAlexander Snitker​There's an old saying that goes something like "never trust the media." At New Times, we take axioms as seriously as anybody. We don't even trust each other. For instance, the lunch I put in the fridge? It's a decoy. My real lunch is in the rafters. See how you lik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Republican Woman Swoon Over Marco Rubio; "Like Listening to Newt Gingrich Except Younger With a Cuban Accent"

    The date on this video is June 16. So what's Marco Rubio doing giving speeches for Republican women in San Diego during the heat of the Senate race? Don't tell me that this young whippersnapper would win the U.S. Senate only to leave his term early to run for president. Because that sounds like som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Rubio Hits Crist Over GOP Chair Scandal

    We knew that was coming, didn't we? Marco Rubio borrows footage from a Sun-Sentinel editorial meeting with Charlie Crist to show how the governor defended Jim Greer even as it became evident that the Florida Republican Party chairman had been mishandling -- if not stealing -- party money.There shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Does Crist Indy Run Help or Hurt Meek's Chances?

    Meek​Now that Crist has declared an independent candidacy for U.S. Senate, the likely Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek will have a general election challenge that's different than what he might have been anticipating a month ago. This week I quizzed some Florida Democratic Party insiders about whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Would LeMieux Endorse Rubio if Crist Goes Indy?

    If LeMieux wants another Senate office, he might have to throw Crist under the bus.​Sen. George LeMieux, the architect of Charlie Crist gubernatorial campaign, who owes his current job to the governor, is said to be considering giving an endorsement to Marco Rubio in the event that Crist declares ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    If Crist Runs as Independent, New Challenge for Kendrick Meek

    Flickr: cliff1066If Crist goes indy, Meek's in trouble.​The Quinnipiac poll released Thursday shows that if the general election for U.S. Senate were this week -- and if Charlie Crist opted to run as an independent -- he would earn a narrow victory (32 percent) over Marco Rubio (30), with Democrat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Cardiologist and Republican Fundraiser Bounced From State College Board

    Zachariah​Late last week, Gov. Charlie Crist removed Holy Cross cardiologist Zachariah P. Zachariah from the powerful Board of Governors overseeing Florida universities. It's another occasion for gossip in the state's Republican Party. Was Crist wary of insider trader allegations made by the Secur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Crist's "Split Attention" and the Haitian Crisis

    Flickr user: UNDP GlobalWill Haitian refugees be welcomed in South Florida?​It's hard to watch the footage of injured, homeless Haitians without remembering the desperate Katrina survivors on the rooftops of New Orleans. Soon, the Katrina refugees were taken in by sympathetic citizens across the U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Terrifying Numbers for Crist in Rasmussen Poll; Can He Save His Campaign?

    FlickrFor Crist, that shirt collar's fitting a little tighter these days.​So much for that insurmountable lead. Those are the latest numbers from Rasmussen, which finds Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio tied at 43.It's obvious that as Obama's popularity has plummeted among Florida Republicans -- and F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Note to Charlie Crist: In Making Case to Party's Right Wing, Best to Avoid Quoting Daily Kos

    Flickr: delusion256A baby performing its Crist impression.​Anxious to break Marco Rubio's momentum in their Senate race, Charlie Crist gave one of those "wide-ranging" interviews to the St. Petersburg Times yesterday, during which he invoked the sacred ancient text of The Gipper: I believe in Reag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Morning Juice: Insider's View of the Rothstein Scam; Crist Given New Game Plan for Victory

    ​Today's news in Broward and Palm Beach:In a three-part series, a Rothstein investor describes to New Times' Bob Norman exactly how the attorney made his treacherous pitch. [Daily Pulp]Teachers in Palm Beach County say that a new academic program in the district demands much more work within the h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Morning Juice: Adventures in Bad Parenting

    Time to get your Monday on. But first, a look back on what made news this past weekend.​Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner gave a short interview to WPLG about why he went over to his daughter Stacy Ritter's home with a gun last week: "I wanted to scare the crap out of her." Mission accomplished ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Senate Race Looking More Competitive -- on One Side, Anyway

    Flickr: maurice.ferreFerre​Charlie Crist continues to lead in polls, but former House Speaker Marco Rubio has all the momentum in the battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. During a quarter when he appeared on the cover of the National Review, dominated straw polls, and received hig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Crist's Bulldog in Lipstick

    George LeMieux: Looks better in a skirt than in a U.S. senator's seat.​Citing a Marco Rubio campaign ad, St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz earlier today asked whether Charlie Crist had "pulled a McCain" -- committing a tactical blunder that gives his opponent evidence that he's out of touch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Technical Difficulties: Elderly Senate Candidate Adjusts Antennae on His YouTube

    Here's a quandary: What do you do if you announce your candidacy for higher office, but nobody reports it? (Or at least nobody besides Juice?) If you're Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire now semi-retired in Sarasota, you sorta pretend you never made the first announcement, then... ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Conservative Blogosphere Stokes Mutiny After GOP Snubs Rubio

    Flickr User: Americans forProsperityRubioMoments after Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate last week, he received the endorsement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, with endorsements from leading Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell soon to follow. The intent wasn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Finally, a State Poll That's Relevant

    Flickr User: drewanteyeTill recently, every poll for the 2010 Florida election was filled with "ifs." If Crist runs for Senate will you vote for him? If Alex Sink runs for governor, will you vote for her? With the flurry of campaign announcements the last few weeks, the new poll from Mason-Dixon is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Rubio Fundraiser Mendelsohn Resigns from Medical PAC

    Alan Mendelson, a former close Charlie Crist aide and fundraiser, has resigned his post as treasurer of the Florida Medical Association PAC, a powerful political fund that has raised about $10 million in the past 12 years. MendelsohnWhile the Hollywood ophthalmologist -- who is probably ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Can Florida Governors Save GOP From Its Self-Destructive Impulses?

    Flickr User: marsdencartoonsMaybe Rush Limbaugh doesn't spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there's no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, gov ... More >>

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