Sen. Larcenia Bullard was just given a "Worst Person in the World" award by MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann for her confusion over the word "husbandry" in a bestiality ban bill.  â€œPeople are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?â€� she asked. Some senat...

Last week at the Sen. Higher Ed Appropriations meeting, Sens. Lee Constantine, Evelyn Lynn and Jim King all wanted to know: What new revenue sources would Gov. Charlie Crist approve of? "If you can get that message back," Lynn said to Crist budget guy, Scott Kittel, when she cut off his pr...

It's a House divided between Reps. David Rivera and Marcelo Llorente. The two Miami Republicans are co-pilots in building the House budget and both are battling for a Miami-Dade Senate seat in 2010 along with a third House member, Rep. Anitere Flores. This is a recipe for political disaster. Riv...

It's just before 6 p.m. in a small conference room in a remote area in the Capitol complex. Only three Republican members of the Senate higher education appropriations committee remain after a nearly two-hour meeting. Scott Kittel, the governor's education policy coordinator, steps to the po...

If you want more, you’ve got to spend more. It’s a simple tenet of the stimulus package. But if you spend more, do you have to tax more when it comes to unemployment benefits? Possibly, said Gov. Charlie Crist’s budget chief. So where does the Gov stand? Who knows. The Herald/Times had trouble...

Looks like former House Speaker Marco Rubio was half-right, half-wrong about who would win the mega-contract to control the overhaul and concession contract along the Florida Turnpike. It wasn't Host International (as Rubio repeatedly suggested), but it was a mega-corp: Areas USA, which wa...

Bismillah! Florida Muslim Capitol Day is scheduled for March 10. And House Republican leader Adam Hasner sees something nefarious afoot. He doesn't quite say what that is in an email he sent to Jewish lobbyists. But the day seems suspect nonetheless to him. So Hasner suggests that Je...

Gus Barreiro, the former Miami Beach state rep. fired from DJJ after pornographic images were found on his work computer, has filed to run for Sen. District 36. The porn images appear to be automatic downloads from whomever surfed on the adultfriendfinders.com website under the login name "cuba...

The Department of Juvenile Justice report on former state Rep. and director of res facilities Gus Barreiro says he was viewing conventional (i.e., non kiddie) porn from his state lap top. An IG report said about 300 to 400 sexually explicit images were found on Barreiro's computer as well as evi...

Former Hialeah Rep. Ralph Arza was walking in and around the Capitol yesterday, chatting with old friends (and the media who don't quite qualify) and considering a run for state Sen. in 2010. Arza left office in 2006 after he and a cousin were charged with witness tampering for leaving thr...