Remember Linsanity? The New York Knicks point guard who took the world by storm because he came out of nowhere, and because the New York sports media are insane? Lin was hitting game-winning shots, putting up Steve Nash-like numbers and riding a wave of fan euphoria from America to China…
See also “Fort Lauderdale Proposes 2013 Budget; City Hall’s $300,000 Paint Job”Fort Lauderdale released its 2013-17 Community Investment Plan, a hulking document chock-full of expensive proposals. There are some noble and seemingly necessary ideas that could improve life in the city and give a much-needed boost to antiquated infrastructure. Then there are the…
According to a new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling (the PPP, y’all) after the RNC last week, 58 percent of 1,548 likely Florida voters polled said that Barack Obama gives better talk than Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who only got 32 percent favorability in the speeches department. The president…
See also: Voter purge havoc, good luck voting in FloridaRemember all those pesky voter-ID laws that state officials have been trying to enact? The embattled plan of Gov. Rick Scott to go through voter rolls with a fine-toothed chainsaw and excise anyone named Manuel Lopez*? All that was done in…
See also: Paul Ryan Isn’t Helping Mitt in Florida, Hasn’t Actually Run the Numbers on Budget Plan; Paul Ryan Talks Medicare, Uses Mom as Mascot to Make His Point; Poll: Floridians Not Down With Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan; What’s Really on Paul Ryan’s iPodAfter coming to Florida to introduce himself and his…
Tropical Storm Isaac might be gone and Palm Beach might be a little drier… but it’s about to get creepier! But in a good way. Maybe. Hopefully. Gov. Rick Scott is in town, armed with FEMA, a helicopter, and a smile. Isaac left a big heaping mess in Palm Beach…
Marco Rubio appeared on the Daily Show With Jon Stewart last night, on same the night that the rest of the GOP got together up in Tampa to hear Chris Cristie talk about himself while others threw peanuts at an African-American woman while saying, “This is how we feed the…
Marco Rubio was giving a speech to the Florida delegation at the Innisbrook Resort in Tampa today, when he was interrupted several times by members of Stand Up Florida. Among them was also former Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, who’s made it a regular practice to protest Allen West’s speeches…
Intratribal conflicts are the worst. A debate on the U.S. presidential election at the Ross Jewish Community Center in West Boynton Beach on August 21 should have been an occasion for reasoned discourse and public enlightenment. Instead, it was a hysterical (in both senses) screamfest, peppered with conspiracy-mongering and racial…
Charlie Crist is really taking this Republicans suck thing seriously. Coming on the heels of his endorsement of Barack Obama, the former Republican governor is now slated to be a speaker at the Democratic National Convention next week in Charlotte. Shocking? YES. Except that, no. Crist might be a huge…
With the RNC kicking off tomorrow — instead of today (thanks to that freedom-hating storm, Isaac!) — rumors began to swirl that Charlie Crist was going to formally announce his change to the Democratic Party in an op-ed piece for the Tampa Bay Times. Crist didn’t technically announce his party…
As the Republican Party kicks off its Tampa convention Sunday with “the world’s largest cocktail party” (stiffening its resolve to nominate the RomRy ticket) thousands of political activists from all over the country will be there to greet them and object. John Law will be there too.With such a highly…
See also: Dear Dems, Please Do Not Run Charlie Crist for GovernorIn probably what is the least-shocking news ever, former Governor Charlie Crist might be switching over to Democrat this week. Saint Petersblog’s Peter Schorsch tweeted out that a rumor is going around the Republican National Convention that Crist plans to write…
See also: Paul Ryan Talks Medicare, Uses Mom As Mascot to Make His Point He trotted out his mom like Sebastian the Ibis last week in front of thousands of retirees to tell them his Medicare plan is going to be a good thing, and that President Obama’s plan will…
Of course Florida is the hardest place to get unemployment benefits. Because that’s how we roll!The U.S. Labor Department is investigating complaints from unemployed Floridians that Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature’s labyrinthine gauntlet to receive unemployment compensation is one giant complicated maw of frustration. Applicants must fill out a…
The War Memorial Museum is usually used for gun shows, roller derby and MMA matches. Wednesday afternoon, it belonged to the First Lady of the United States. “If everybody in this room brings in one more person, that can make all the difference,” First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowd…
In a televised interview on Sunday, U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri said victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant. He then explained this by saying something about how a woman’s body magically saves the victim from getting pregnant from their attacker. Or something. Illegitimate rape victims are another…
Governor Rick Scott released a video earlier this week saying that he will work to make changes to Florida’s FCAT testing system. “No more teaching to the test,” he says in the video with that subtle-creepy demeanor of his. “It’s time we get a better measure of our children’s progress.”…
Jeff Littlejohn, the No. 2 man at Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection, is in violation of conflict-of-interest clauses contained within the federal Clean Water Act, according to a complaint filed with the Environmental Protection Agency.The complaint, submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is the latest in a string of…
Go long, Mittens. Miami Dolphin’s owner Stephen Ross has thrown down $133,000 in donations to support the Romney campaign. A $100,000 of that has gone to the Restore Our Future super pac, while the remainder was divvied up among Romney, the Republican National Committee, the Republican National Congressional Committee, and the Free and Strong America…
According to a new ebook by Politico writer Glenn Thrush, DNC chair, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, isn’t very popular in the Obama re-election team. According to Thrush, a secret poll done among Obama’s team to determine the popularity of the President’s campaign surrogates revealed that Wasserman Schultz was ranked at…
On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Lauderdale to rile up the masses and push the campaign’s newly minted “It Takes One” voter registration strategy. She’s slated to speak at the War Memorial Museum on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. It’s a free event, but you’ll need to get tickets from Organizing…
