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. […]
Former Gov. Jeb Bush was in Homestead Friday to campaign for Gov. Rick Scott. But, knowing a good earned media moment when she sees one, Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell, former mayor of Homestead, got a well-timed photo op for her own re-election bid. Bell dropped by the B&K Installations, a company that builds custom-made greenhouses, where […]
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 MARGIE MENZELTHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 16, 2014 — Carlos Lopez-Cantera is the first Hispanic lieutenant governor of Florida. Gov. Rick Scott tapped him for the post in January, 10 months after the resignation of former Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, and Lopez-Cantera was sworn in Feb. 3. Lopez-Cantera represented part of Miami-Dade County in the […]
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 […]
By JIM TURNER of THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATHE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 2, 2014 — Richard Martinez, whose 20-year-old son was killed in a shooting rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara in late May, acknowledges that calling for tougher gun-control laws in Florida isn’t easy.But as Martinez travels the country crusading for political discussion on “sensible” […]
By DARA KAM of THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 2, 2014 — Winners of Florida’s five, highly sought-after medical marijuana licenses could be selected through lotteries, according to a draft rule released late Wednesday by the Department of Health.The 16-page document comes in advance of an agency workshop Monday in Tallahassee that is drawing heavy attention.The draft rule, […]
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 […]