I enjoy walking around in the nude, so to speak, so I don’t pretend to live in a glass house.  I am truly, truly sorry to see misfortune befall anyone in the political industry, but… Last week, Tea Party, um, leader Doug Guetzloe was decrying the ‘culture of corruption’ in Tallahassee in a column for [...]

Turning in nearly 6,000 signed petitions by the May deadline, Jupiter Democrat Patrick Murphy – a CPA and small businessman challenging Rep. Allen West – has officially made it on the ballot for the August 14th primary and November 6th general election.  The petition count almost triples the 2,298 required by the Florida Division of [...]

Sen. Lindsey Graham says Jeb Bush is the GOP VP candidate who could most likely put Mitt Romney over the top in the November elections. “He’d be an outstanding pick. It’s up to Gov. Romney but if I had to recommend a single person it would be Jeb,” Graham told The Hill via Newsmax. Chatter is [...]

Editor’s note: While I disagree with the general thrust of the following post — to preserve the current St. Petersburg Pier — I am hard-pressed not to post such a well-researched article.  Bob Wilson of the Bill Foster Watch has quite a case here.  Last Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Council voted to move forward [...]

After I put to bed the eighth (!) edition of Sunburn, my morning read about what’s hot in Florida politics, I read that Politico is marking the 600th edition of ‘Morning Score’, it’s all-encompassing, agenda-setting email which, along with The Playbook, is the godfather to every email by which political aficianados begin their day. Now [...]

This blogger took a few days off to visit St. Augustine with his beautiful wife and — SURPRISE — the sun still rose in the east. What a nice break before the six-month campaign sprint just about to begin. Still, there were interesting developments in several local races.  Here’s where sh*t stands. One of the [...]

Matt Yglesias: One of the useful things the federal government does for the economy is produce information as a public good. And the American Community Survey is chock full of information that’s useful to researchers, companies, curious individuals, policymakers at different levels of government, etc. But House Republicans have decided that they want to kill it, [...]

A morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. NEW SUNBURN FANS: “I love your news service” – Gail D. Cordial, Executive Director, Florida Partners in Crisis; ”This is a great read!” — Sonya Dean, VP, JM Family Enterprises; ”It’s a great way to start the day! Sunburn cuts through the clutter and gives you what you most [...]

Three years ago, Jose Vazquez qualified as a write-in candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives that includes parts of Tampa and Hillsborough County. In papers then filed with the state, Vazquez listed his address as a prison facility near Lake Okeechobee, where he was serving time on a felony conviction for driving with a [...]

Gov. Rick Scott is headed off to Spain and the dog days of late spring have arrived. State emergency workers will prep for hurricane season – and the scary possibility that a storm might blow in during the Republican National Convention in Tampa. The most newsworthy meeting of the week may be in Daytona where [...]