Most school districts in Florida have yet to finalize collective bargaining agreements with teacher unions to get teachers pay raises. So Gov. Rick Scott, in an effort to get people to really like him again so he can get reelected get things moving quicker, has sent out a letter to…
Just because you hate Rick Scott, that doesn’t automatically mean he won’t win reelection next year. (And we can, at this point, agree, that most of you hate him.) Let’s break down how and why: 1. This is Florida. 2. He Has Really, Really, Ridiculously Filthy-Rich Friends. 3. But, mostly,…
Florida GOPer Dennis Baxley, the same GOPer Representative that proposed ending a ban on guns in state schools following the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy, has now come out and said some awful things about lesbian mothers. SHOCKING, WE KNOW. During a panel about how to improve Florida’s middle schools, Baxley basically…
Ever get so angry at an ex for dumping you that you go out, get wasted, and then develop the nerve to call them and drunkenly rant at how angry you are that they ruined you, and what a total jerk they were to do that, and then you laughed,…
Forty-five states, including Florida, were all ready to implement the Common Core standards in public schools until a few factions got all riled up about it this year. Gov. Rick Scott abruptly abandoned the plan, and chaos erupted in the education system. Common Core standards have been in development for…
Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress, Rep. C.W. Bill Young, announced he’s retiring when his term ends in 2014. Young, who is roughly a billion 82 years old, cited wanting to spend more time with family as the main reason he’s calling it quits. Better late than never, we guess…
With the government shutdown entering a full week and no end in sight, Americans’ already unpopular view of Congress is reaching ludicrous speed. Florida Rep. Alan Grayson took to the floor Wednesday to introduce a resolution declaring the government shutdown a “mark upon the dignity of the House” by asserting…
Marco Rubio, who has been so good at saying what he would do if he were President without giving much detail, says that Obama needs to stop being a scared little ninny, and act like a President during this terrible government shutdown that Rubio’s own party is responsible for. Rubio,…
A 2016 Florida Senate race between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and former Rep. Allen West would be like the Super Bowl, Yankees vs. Red Sox, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Rocky vs. Clubber Lang, the Beatles vs. Rolling Stones, and Wrestlemania all rolled into one. Political junkies and douchey news bloggers collective…
The Everglades restoration bill is being threatened to be Hiroshima’d by the government shutdown, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Florida politics as a whole has traditionally screwed the state’s environmental priorities to begin with, but now the the Water Resources Development Act is about to lose its…
Ours can be a callous and unforgiving state. When health-care reform was initially passed, there were two major things it was to accomplish. First, it meant the federal government would provide to low- and middle-income earners subsidies on a new health exchange — which would mimic the free market on…
Florida is suing Georgia: What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are states with a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit, which was filed by Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, is over Georgia’s consumption of freshwater in a river…
Maybe you don’t know Tom Rooney. We wouldn’t blame you. It’s easy to forget the face of one ubiquitous, white, Southern conservative in a whitewashed mishmash of ubiquitous, white, Southern conservatives. But Tom Rooney, more than just about anyone else in Florida, is to blame for the government shutdown…
In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government is about to shutdown as politicians fight about Obamacare and yell loud things at each other and do things that politicians generally do. For the most part, people aren’t happy about it. And, on Monday, some took to going after Marco Rubio…
Equality Florida has slammed Sen. Marco Rubio for recently blocking Judge William Thomas’ nomination to the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Thomas would have been the nation’s first openly gay black judge — which would be the trifecta of terrifying for Rubio & The GOPers. A…
Rick Scott has been one tenacious little monkey when it comes to banning Obamacare navigators from Florida hospitals. So much so, he’s taken the fight all the way to Congress. But Broward County officials ain’t care about what Scott wants and have decided to go ahead and allow the navigators…
A Central Florida man named Mark Schmidter is being celebrated among libertarians after he was arrested September 14 while protesting red light cameras at an intersection in Apopka. According to a police report Schmidter posted online, officer Robert Campbell saw him in the intersection. The officer claims Schmidter was walking…
It looks like the Patte Atkins-Grad recall election won’t be necessary after all, because “Positively Patte” handed in her resignation to City Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Of course, that comes with a catch. Namely, that Atkins-Grad wants to be reimbursed her $8,000 in legal fees. Or else, no dice on…
As we have documented over and over again, Gov. Rick Scott is hellbent on purging Florida voters because of Rick Scotty reasons. And now, he’s all set to take his crusade on the road when he conducts public roundtable discussions with 67 supervisors of elections, including in Fort Lauderdale…
Gov. Rick Scott swung through Fort Lauderdale yesterday as part of a campaign-style “tax cut tour” to galvanize support for a quixotic $500 million tax cut he wants to jam through the state Legislature this coming term. Calling it his “primary goal” for next year, Scott again reiterated the apparent…
So, Secretary of State John Kerry was traveling in Britain yesterday and when a reporter asked him at a news conference whether there was any way that Syria could now avoid being struck as retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people. Kerry harrumphed, in a tone of…
Gov. Rick Scott is taking time out of his voter suppression crusade to launch his “Ain’t No One Got Time for Taxes” Tour 2013. It’s actually called the “It’s Your Money” Tour, but we think ours is snazzier. Scott kicks off the tour Tuesday morning right from our own backyard,…
