Florida's Republican primary is tomorrow (AKA two weeks ago, since everyone votes in advance or by absentee ballot or from beyond/near the grave), and so the Mainstream Media is yucking it up in the Republican districts! For instance here is Politico's Mike Allen in South Beach today with some likely Republican voters (including a fellow named BurgerBillionz) who are having a 6 a.m. nightcap-dinner while "Morning Joe" prepares to live-broadcast. (Which looks less interesting.) Word of advice: don't actually eat at Jerry's Deli. (Picture by MSNBC's Lauren Skowronski.)

The small-town mayoral campaign covered everywhere from Maxim to the Times has ended with the easy reelection of the incumbent and with unimpressive voter turnout. 72-year-old Miami Beach mayor Matti Bower received 59.4% of the vote for her final term, which represents all of 4,096 votes. (In total, 6,888 people voted; of those, comedian-and-reality-show-dude challenger Steve Berke received 1612, almost a quarter.) Berke's entry into the race, with the management of Roger Stone (yes, him) was intended to engage younger voters, to promote Miami Beach as a hip resort town and to rile up the city. Berke's latest strategies were pretty vicious: his literature touted his Yale degree and referred to Bower as a high school dropout, and, for a pro-nightclub and pro-party candidate, he's come out real hard against Urban Beach Weekend, wherein black people from all over the country fill up the town's expensive hotel rooms and bring a great influx of cash to the city and non-black people complain about it and then the police harass, detain and/or shoot the visitors. Whether it was that message, or union support of the incumbent, or whether voters were not willing to be moved, it didn't result in a victory. READ MORE

"Detectives at Miami International Airport busted a London teen who they say was carrying nearly 30 pounds of cocaine — stuffed in 24 boxes of cake mix. Ayesha Olivia Niles, a waifish 5-foot-4, 105-pound student, had arrived in Miami on a night flight from Jamaica, two suitcases in tow. The teen claimed she did not know what the substance was but admitted 'she suspected that the activity she was involved in was suspicious but she did not question it,' according to the report." READ MORE

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"The Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort in Florida adds flash mob services to its amenities list."

Technically, it's Florida's monstrous, terrible governor Rick Scott's second killing, if you count all the money he made when he was forced out of his own company, as it made the "largest fraud settlement in U.S. history," as it had systematically defrauded the government of millions of dollars. But it's his first killing of a human being! Is everyone terribly upset about the death, six hours from now, of Manuel Valle? Actually, probably yes: even the makers of pentobarbital have written to Rick Scott to ask him not to kill Manuel Valle with their drug. But the victim's family is really very eager for someone to die so that they can feel better.