For weeks, Miami-Dade’s own Annette Taddeo has been crisscrossing the state to campaign as the running mate for former Gov. Charlie Crist, who wants his job back. The former chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party has been talking up voters in person at rallies and in diners. Finally, almost three months after she was named […]
In what is probably the best evidence that the two Florida gubernatorial candidates leave a lot to be desired (read: stink to high heaven), the Libertarian Party is making some major inroads with their candidate. Nobody really thinks that Adrian Wyllie can win, of course. Ladra doesn’t even believe that his people think that. But […]
Women have always been a sought-after voter bloc, even though the 2012 presidential election and the alleged Republican War on Women — that, between us girls, we really shouldn’t buy into — took it all to a whole new level. And, as expected, that trend will continue as Florida females become a hot commodity this […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott brought former Gov. Jeb Bush, one of South Florida’s most popular politicians, to campaign with him last month in Homestead. Friday, former Gov. Charlie Crist — who wants his job back — raised the ante and brought a former U.S. President to the battle for guv. And Bill Clinton can turn any […]
Forget the Kardashians. South Florida is seeming more and more like a playground for political celebrities, too, these days. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been to South Florida so much lately, real estate agents are angling for 15 minutes with him so they can sell him a weekend condo. This week, Scott returns with Lt. […]
By BRANDON LARRABEETHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE — Former Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday unveiled one of the first concrete policy proposals in his campaign to reclaim his old job, promising to use the state’s contracting power to boost wages for some workers and bar discrimination against gay and transgender Floridians.Crist, a former Republican running as […]
By MARGIE MENZELTHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 22, 2014 — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist announced last week that his running mate would be Annette Taddeo, chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party and a political consultant’s dream: a Hispanic working mom who runs a successful small business and hosted her own show, Taddeo2Day, on […]
It had to be a Hispanic. Everyone has been whispering that Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo Goldstein, who has been active supporting candidates but also on local county issues like taxpayer funded sports stadiums and the proposed cutting of library services by a mayor she said was stadium obsessed, was setting herself up to […]
By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 9, 2014 — Gov. Rick Scott appears nearly bulletproof right now in the eyes of the National Rifle Association. That assessment of Scott comes as the NRA notes that more pro-gun bills have been signed into Florida law in the past four years […]
Don’t write Nan Rich off just yet. There are mailers and emails being sent and phone calls being made on behalf of the gubernatorial candidate most people have already written off as the also-ran No. 3 — former Sen. Nan Rich, a Broward activist and legislator who is widely considered the underdog longshot in the […]