Jacksonville: 9th “Emptiest City” in the US

We can take comfort in the fact that Orlando is ranked 7th, I suppose, but a new Forbes article has tagged Jacksonville the nation’s 9th “Emptiest City.”  The survey is based on vacancies among homes and residential rentals.

That would explain all of the empty condo projects around the city, I suppose.

Filed under: Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa

Democratic Chairwoman Paid to Lobby Florida Democrats

I find this shockingly bizarre. How can this possibly be considered ethical?  (For interested Democrats, Al Cardenas is the former Chairman of the Florida Republican Party and a top fundraiser for George W. Bush.)

Karen Thurman, expected to easily win re-election as chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party on Saturday, has reconfigured her strange-bedfellows partnership with Miami lawyer/lobbyist Al Cardenas.

Cardenas, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was paying Thurman $3,500 a month to help his law firm lobby the Democratic-controlled Congress on behalf of MIami-Dade County.

Filed under: Florida Politics, Al Cardenas, Congress, Democratic Party of Florida, Florida Legislature, George W. Bush, Karen Thurman, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Republican Party of Florida