Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Old trial with Jeb Bush resurfaces
From the Tampa Bay Times…This issue regarding Bush could have been a major talking point in campaign 1998, but Buddy MacKay, a dignified and humble public servant the likes this state has rarely seen since choose not to drag the campaign into the mud. MacKay’s efforts to elevate the discourse by talking about issues and […]
Zest of the Day: Zimmerman trial: Man carrying loaded handgun shoots and kills unarmed teen
Great op-ed in today’s Miami Herald.
Poor 2nd quarter fundraising raises questions about FDP operation
The Florida Democratic Party’s second-quarter finance report has raised many eyebrows across the state. While Chairwoman Allison Tant can rightfully take credit for strong Jefferson-Jackson dinner, the fundraising unrelated to the party’s marque event this quarter was very poor in fact the poorest we’ve seen in some time. This quarter was the worst Q2 for […]
Zest of the Day: New Finance Team for the FDP
Continuing with the theme of staff changes under Chairwoman Allison Tant, the FDP has named a new finance team. Let’s hope this kickstart the fundraisng apparatus for the party, which recently completed its worst second quarter fundraising performance since the scandal plagued Q2 in 2005.
Zest of the Day: Charlie Crist memoir to explain why he left the GOP
We take it with a talented and seasoned co-writer in Ellis Henican he came up with something better than “despite manipulating and controlling the RPOF, Marco Rubio came from nowhere and was going to deny me the GOP Senate nomination I was owed by the party.” Story for the Tampa Bay Times is here.
Throwback Tuesday: History of the Florida Turnpike Part 1 (South Florida and other Southern Florida Expressways)
Editors Note: Portions of this piece originally ran in the Political Hurricane last year. The post has been updated and released as a Throwback Tuesday piece. Next week, Part II focusing on Central Florida will run. Since south Florida is made largely of transplants many locals don’t know nor care about the complicated history of […]
Florida Democrats, Race and Civil Rights; 1964 to today
Unfortunately I have been busy the past several days so I have not gotten around to posting anything new since last Wednesday or commenting on a thread that developed on one of my historical posts over the weekend. The debate on the “Snapshot of Florida Politics in 1979” posting devolved into little more than several […]
Zest of the Day: A Rising Concern: The impact of sea level rise on Florida
A must read special report from Florida Trend.
Snapshot of Florida Politics in 1989
As I wrote yesterday, I am an avid collector or Michael Barone’s Almanac of American Politics series. Today we will look at the 1990 Almanac of American Politics (published in 1989). The Florida narrative focuses on the migration patterns of northerners. As we discussed in the 1979 snapshot the first migration in the 1940s […]
Snapshot of Florida Politics in 1979
I am an avid collector or Michael Barone’s Almanac of American Politics series, going back to the 1970s. The fact that Barone has turned his once solid and unrivaled commentary in conservative hack writing in the 2010′s should not detract from his earlier works. Barone still posses an uncanny knowledge today which makes his Almanac […]
The Florida Squeeze 