by Sarah Rumpf | Oct 31, 2019
Looks like we have a little Halloween treat for Florida voters — an elected official actually keeping a campaign promise he made before he got elected. When Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL) first ran in 2012, he drew attention with an ad that portrayed “career...
by Sarah Rumpf | Jun 29, 2019
Three years ago today, The Capitolist officially launched, as the site “for people whose business is politics.” The vision of our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Brian Burgess, was to combine original content with comprehensive news aggregation into a...
by Sarah Rumpf | Jun 28, 2019
New York City’s groundhog-killing mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio was already unlikely to win his party’s nomination, but his trip to Florida this week was an especially epic disaster. Struggling to get attention in an insanely...
by Sarah Rumpf | Jun 1, 2019
Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had spent his afternoon doing what we want Members of Congress to be doing — holding a town hall meeting with his constituents — when he was assaulted by a liberal protestor who was caught on video dumping a drink on him....
by Sarah Rumpf | May 31, 2019
Florida State Rep. Mike Hill (R-Pensacola) has been no stranger to controversy in his time in the Florida Legislature, filing a bill to protect Confederate monuments, running viciously negative campaigns against his primary opponents, and generating a seemingly...