That old adage may never be truer than in the case of the once-invincible Charlie Rangel, the colorful New York legislator who suddenly finds himself in a situation similar to the legendary congressman he ousted forty years ago. Not surprisingly, the embattled Harlem lawmaker who stepped down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year…
While much of the attention in next Tuesday’s California primary has been focused on the Republican governor’s race — an absurdly expensive contest in which billionaire Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, has opened a seemingly insurmountable double-digit lead against state insurance commissioner and ex-Silicon […]
Thirty years ago this week George H. W. Bush ended his grueling two-year pursuit of the presidency at a news conference in Houston. In a carefully prepared 750-word statement on May 26, 1980, Bush said that he was abandoning his campaign for the Republican presidential […]
Given the immense difficulty in unseating a sitting Speaker of the House, the June 8 primary battle between Republicans John Dennis and Dana Walsh in Nancy Pelosi’s 8th congressional district in San Francisco — a district that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama while giving Pelosi 72 percent of the vote in 2008 — wouldn’t warrant much attention were it not for the fact…
When it rains it pours. In Massachusetts, longtime community activist Grace Ross abandoned her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor last week after collecting only 5,700 of the 10,000 signatures necessary to appear on the September 14 primary ballot. Ross had hoped to capture […]
Declaring that “Roosevelts come and go, but Longs go on and up forever,” Gertrude Stein, the expatriate writer and poet living in Paris where she had befriended Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and other prominent figures in the arts and literary world, surprised the nation’s political pundits […]
The ranks of jobless Floridians, currently numbering more than a million, could triple by the end of next year as a result of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, says economist Farid A. Khavari, a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida.
With Governor Charlie Crist pondering a bid for U.S. Senate as a No Party Affiliation candidate, now seems like a good time to take a look back at the history of third party and independent candidates in Florida.
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