Happy Birthday to Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who has the distinction of having the last legislative birthday of the year.

How about for Chris Latvala‘s birthday, we all agree to think of UCF as a football powerhouse — at least for one day.  Chris frekin’ loves his Golden Knights, or whatever the hell the mascot is for the University of Central Florida. But that’s Chris Latvala: unfailingly loyal.  Loyal to his family. Loyal to his [...]

Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the Social Network, Michael Pinson, Douchebag, attacks me on Facebook and, puke, I am forced to read about all those damn “Radical Progressive Socialists” in the world. For a few days there, I think I had Pinball on the ropes.  He was laying off of [...]

Juris Doctorate candidate Nicholas Ortiz recently finished the onerous congressional redistricting task that Florida lawmakers just began. The work is based largely on the 2010 U.S. Census population for Florida of roughly 18.8 million. Ortiz’s challenge was to draw 27 districts instead of the current 25, each with the same population of about 696,345. In [...]

Like yesterday’s poll on the issue, Gallup’s new poll via Andrew Sullivan on marriage equality finds majority support, with the biggest annual shift in opinion since the poll began. The divide: Democrats’ and independents’ support for legalized same-sex marriage increased this year by 13 and 10 points, respectively. Republicans’ views on the issue did not change from [...]

Macho Man Randy Savage, who is considered one of the most famous wrestlers of all-time, died in a car accident Friday morning, TMZ is reporting. According to TMZ , Savage had a heart attack at the wheel of his car and lost control. Savage, 58, was famous for his flamboyant style and catch phrase, “Ooh YEAH!” [...]

When Gershom Faulkner ran against Wengay Newton in 2007 for the District 7 seat, many considered Faulkner the favorite. After all, it was Faulkner, a self-employed business and political consultant, who had the endorsements of then-mayor Rick Baker and other top officials. But it was Newton who won. Now, Newton will have to do it again. Since [...]

Not only was their no “mutiny” at Republican Party of Florida’s quarterly meeting, as Chris Ingram predicted, but Chris’ other brilliant prognostication this week failed to materialize.  From Ingram’s Twitter feed: @IrreverentView: I’m going to bed. still expext Hogan will be mayor-elect tomorrow in Jax. #jaxmayor #rpof #sayfie Of course, before going to bed, Ingram had already called [...]

Do the math with me… The now-in-effect changes to Florida’s elections pushes the date of the state’s primary to August 14.  State law requires ballots being mailed to military and overseas absentee voters to be sent no later than 45 days before the election.  Looking at the calendar, that means ballots will start flying no [...]

Why do Republicans oppose weekend voting and expanded early-voting hours on weekends? Look at the numbers below (from 2010) and you can quickly see that Democrat voters like to vote on weekends (probably right after they visit their local farmers’ market):