As the Republican Party of Florida implodes over new allegations of profligate spending, first revealed at The New Argument in November of 2008, Attorney General Bill McCollum is M.I.A.
Despite evidence that at least three party leaders - Chairman Jim Greer, his deputy Delmar Johnson, and former House Speaker Ray Sansom - abused their RPOF American [...]

Florida Democratic Senate candidates are finding that grabbing attention opposite the hottest political race of the primary season is no easy feat.
The high-profile contest between moderate Gov. Charlie Crist and former State House Speaker and conservative poster-boy Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate has obscured the primary race between U.S. Rep. Kendrick [...]

In November of 2008, I posed a question: will Jim Greer take down Charlie Crist?
With Governor Crist’s once seemingly inevitable Senate bid in dire straits and the the Republican Party of Florida publicly imploding before our eyes, it is time to revise and revisit this question.
Will cronyism take down Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign?
The Orlando Sentinel [...]

Before he was appointed to the U.S. Senate, George LeMieux benefited from a contract awarded in December 2007 by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to his law firm, Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, to advise the state on the purchase of right of way on the tracks of the Florida East Coast Railroad.
Gunster Yoakley obtained [...]

Maurice Ferré, former Mayor of Miami and nephew of legendary Puerto Rico Governor Don A. Luis, could be the surprise winner of the 2010 Florida Democratic U.S. Senate Primary and the first Puerto Rican Senator if the extensive Hispanic voter registration plans of three non-profit voter registration foundations are successfully executed by August of 2010.
Democracia [...]

Maurice Ferre, el ex-alcalde de Miami y sobrino del legendario gobernador puertorriqueño, Don Luis A. Ferre, pudiera convertirse en el sorpresivo ganador de la primaria Demócrata en la Florida y en el primer senador puertorriqueño si los proyectos extensivos de tres fundaciones, sin fines de lucro, para inscribir votantes son ejecutados exitosamente desde ahora hasta [...]

William Daley took to the Washington Post on Thursday to implore the Democratic Party to “keep the Big Tent big.” But in Daley’s Big Tent, there is only room for one type of dissident - the kind whose views incidentally align with special interests.
There is room for so-called “moderates” like Joe Lieberman who seek the [...]

My first day of work at Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler was a unique experience. Scott Rothstein, now-accused Ponzi schemer extraordinaire, carted me around town in his Bentley Continental, stopping first at a local elementary school, where we met with Governor Charlie Crist, after he gave a short press conference.
Next, we ate lunch at Capital Grille, where [...]

In the criminal prosecution of Joe Bruno, US Attorney Andrew T. Baxter has put a self-admitted thief on the stand to testify against the former New York State Senate Majority Leader.
Patricia M. Stackrow, the Senator’s longtime senate secretary admitted she stole money from Joe Bruno during her tenure. In return for her testimony, the government [...]

TNA is back from an unofficial hiatus, prompted by an increased workload and an interesting turn of events at the law firm where I interned the past three summers. You see, the boss is accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme. I’ll ellaborate on this in a post momentarily. I’ve also been working on bringing [...]