FORT LAUDERDALE—Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that some $80 million was awarded to several South Florida cities through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s (DEO) Rebuild Florida Mitigation General Infrastructure Program. No sooner than Gov. DeSantis handed out the checks at a press conference at Port Everglades, Agriculture Commissioner and 2022 gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried, […]
Fort Lauderdale—As cold, gloomy weather rolled into South Florida on Friday ahead of a cold front that will all but put the state into a freeze, so did Gov. Ron DeSantis, who reaffirmed his office’s position of helping farmers who will undoubtedly lose crops. Gov. DeSantis said that the state has allocated resources to help […]
Anna Goes to Washington...Maybe The always perky and progressive Rep. Anna Eskamani says that she is not running the U.S. Congress in Orlando, but did she just hedge by saying that she didn’t know if she would or not? If the current proposed congressional maps stick, Rep. Eskamani should run for Congress. Why not? Well, […]
Tallahassee—During this week’s Senate Committee on Health, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo face intensive questioning from Senate Democrats, as he made continued the vetting process with state legislators. Sen. Janet Cruz (D) became increasingly agitated with Surgeon Genrera Ladapo during her questioning, accusing him of talking in circles before asking him to tell the committee […]
Rep. Anna Eskamani (D), the popular Progressive Democratic legislator from Orlando told The Floridian on Thursday that she did not know if she would run for Congress in the soon-to-be-open District 7. After Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D) decided not to seek re-election to the House, Rep. Eskamani and Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D), were both […]
Politics is a blood sport and every election cycle there are candidates for public office that feel that they have to push the envelope on social media to draw attention to their candidacy, and that is what has happened to Rep. Alex Andrade (R).
It's Marxism I tell you! Florida Democrats call the Republican commitment to completely ban Critical Race Theory from the state and county education curriculums racist against Black Americans. Republicans contend that Critical Race Theory pits kids against each other and that the controversial education concept is un-American and Communist. State Sen. Manny Diaz, Jr. is […]
A House panel is scheduled Thursday to consider a controversial proposal that would prohibit doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The proposal (HB 5), sponsored by Rep. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, and Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, R-Fort Myers, will go before the House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee after passing the Judiciary Committee last […]
TALLAHASSEE — The Committee on Judiciary in the Florida Senate voted along party lines to pass a controversial immigration measure that would prevent the state from doing business with companies like Greyhound or American Airlines, who transport illegal immigrants into Florida using "mystery flights." The bill is a staple in Gov. Ron. DeSantis’s overall “Florida […]
Arguably one of the most controversial, divisive, and important issues that Florida legislators will have to deal with during the 2022 legislative session is Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has railed against the education concept, asking the Republican-led legislature in 2021 to pass a measure to ban Critical Race Theory. […]
DeSantis vs. Trump? Florida Democrats are quick to say that Gov. Ron DeSantis is only governing to be able to put himself into a position to run for president in 2024. Now, his detractors want Republicans to believe that he and President Trump are at odds with each other, but DeSantis has put those rumors […]
Most visitors to the Florida Senate, as well as legislators, legislative aides, Capitol Police, and media reporters, do not notice a long-standing and deliberate misuse of the letter 'O" on the official seal of the chamber. What the heck are we talking about? Well, if you look at the official Senate seal, you will see […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared on the Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night where he was asked if he and former President Donald Trump were still on good terms. After stating that Florida was a “free state” and “ the rock of freedom in the United States, Gov. DeSantis said that the “corporate […]
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced his congressional redistricting map last weekend, it put the Florida Legislature on notice as to what he expected to see come out from the group. The Senate redistricting map that recently passed by a 16-12 vote margin is widely considered to be a "weak" measure, while the latest House […]
Show me the Maps After Gov. Ron DeSantis threw a curveball into the redistricting process by submitting his own map, Florida legislators must now find a balance that will include the “soft” State Senate map with the aggressive House map without bucking the most prominent and influential governor in the entire country. No pressure, of […]
With the Florida Legislature expected to finalize redistricting maps in the coming weeks, one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country is the contest to replace retiring Rep Stephanie Murphy (D). In the Republican congressional primary for Rep. Murphy’s soon-to-be-vacated District 7 seat, Combat Veteran Cory Mills and former Democrat and firebrand […]
Can I have Some CafĂ© con Leche to go with that Arroz con Pollo? We (I) have always described the unique political landscape of Miami Dade County as being Arroz con Pollo/Miami Mafia politics, with all of its seemingly non-kosher campaigning and questionable backroom dealings. We are not saying that illegal things occur in Miami, […]
The antisemitic and racist GOYIM TV appears to have decimated antisemitic propaganda on Miami Beach this weekend, claiming that the COVID pandemic is somehow a Jewish agenda. The flyer in question lists a number of COVID-related officials that are alleged to be "JEWISH," including officials of the two largest shareholders of COVID-19 vaccine makers Pfizer […]
