Archive reconstruction
The original Political Hurricane article body is missing from our recovered database. This page preserves the historical title, date and URL and reconstructs only the specific point preserved in later reporting.
The Political Hurricane published “Mike Horner: Florida’s Mitt Romney, Only Worse” on April 12, 2012, months before the Florida state representative withdrew from his reelection campaign amid a separate prostitution scandal.
When Miami New Times covered Horner’s September 2012 resignation, it cited a Florida political blog for a biographical detail that aligns with this Political Hurricane article: Horner had first sought elective office roughly two decades earlier as what the later report described as a “true liberal” Democrat, before becoming a pro-gun Republican.
That later citation preserves one concrete element of the original profile — its focus on Horner’s political transformation. The provocative comparison in the original headline is an opinion of the former publication and is preserved only as the historical title.
The remaining article body has not been recovered, so this restoration does not reconstruct the missing argument or add later scandal material as though the original April article had known it.
| Miami New Times — Mike Horner resigns | Later reporting cites a Florida political blog for Horner’s earlier political identity and confirms the historical context of the profile. |