Showing posts with label Bob Graham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Graham. Show all posts

Friday, March 16, 2018

Is Bob Graham Calling the Shots on the Times’ Targeting of Andrew Gillum?

The relentless inaccuracies from the Tampa Bay Times regarding Andrew Gillum has gone so far over the top that local political observers are suggesting that former U.S. Senator Bob Graham’s is behind the paper’s defamatory, insulting, and racist reporting and headlines.

Friday, February 9, 2018

Gwen Graham’s Minions Spreading Propaganda

Florida gubernatorial hopeful Gwen Graham, her operatives, and allies view Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum as her primary threat for the Democratic nomination and are attempting to marginalize him through a nasty 
whisper campaign.
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Her minions are not so subtly telling Democratic voters that Gillum is one of the targets in the FBI investigation of City of Tallahassee contracts.  That rumor, fueled by Graham’s operatives in Democratic circles has filtered into social media.  Gillum’s lack of involvement has been chronicled but the Graham campaign, along with her Times ally perpetuate an outdated, discredited story.
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Graham’s media ally, the Tampa Bay Times reported the fiction.  Former senator and governor Bob Graham, Gwen’s father, sits on the board of the Poynter Foundation.  The Poynter Institute is the majority stockholder in the Tampa Bay Times.

By Jim Beyer - Tampa Bay Beat

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Florida GOP Steve Southerland Lies

Claims to be an advocate for women and says that he voted for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which is not true. Southerland voted for the partisan Republican version which didn’t extend protection to Native American, LGBT, or undocumented immigrant women. He was one of the 138 House Republicans who voted against the bipartisan Senate bill that eventually became law. here


Wake up panhandle, remember our great governor and senator 
Bob Graham, you now have a chance to elect one of his kids.
You are making the rest of us down here look bad. 

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Gwen Graham On Tour With The Legendary Bob Graham

Gwen Graham later this month will launch an extensive tour across Florida’s 2nd Congressional District, visiting all 14 counties with members of her family, including her father, the former governor and senator 
Bob Graham. here

The Ritz Ybor

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Pre-Iraq War Views Of Florida Legend Bob Graham

"On Oct. 9, 2002, Graham — the guy everyone thought of as quiet, mild-mannered, deliberate, conflict-averse — let loose on his Senate colleagues for going along with President 
Bush's war against Iraq.

"We are locking down on the principle that we have one evil, Saddam Hussein. He is an enormous, gargantuan force, and that's who we're going to go after," Graham said on the floor. "That, frankly, is an erroneous reading of the world. There are many evils out there, a number of which are substantially more competent, particularly in their ability to attack Americans here at home, than Iraq is likely to be in the foreseeable future."

He told his fellow senators that if they didn't recognize that going to war with Iraq without first taking out the actual terrorists would endanger Americans, "then, frankly, my friends — to use a blunt term — 
the blood's going to be on your hands." here

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Where Is Mayor Bob And The Kriseman Administration

Gwen Graham is holding a Tampa fundraiser tonight on Harbour Island.
Hosting the event is a variety of prominent Tampa Bay area Democratic leaders
,Rep. Kathy Castor, former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis and Alex Sink, as well as Florida Legend
Gwen’s father, former Democratic governor and 
Sen Bob Graham......more>

We hope he attends, He made it to  Pam Bondi's fundraiser

and  The Kriseman Administration Why didn't you guys get in on this?

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Bob Graham Land and Water Legacy Amendment

Florida voters will get a chance to steer as much as $10 billion toward environmental efforts over the next two decades through a ballot measure officially set Thursday for the November ballot. The Water and Land Legacy campaign’s proposal was officially designated as Amendment 1. 
U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, one of Florida's greatest governor helped launch
this great campaign.
here, Please vote 11.4.14

Friday, June 7, 2013

Sen. Graham: FBI Holding Back On 9/11 Probe

Former Sen. Bob Graham has accused the FBI in court papers of having impeded a joint congressional inquiry into 9/11 by withholding information about a Florida connection to the al-Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.The information includes a recently declassified FBI report that ties a Saudi family who once lived in Sarasota "to individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/1 1/2001.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: HB 999

Gov. Rick Scott has signed HB 999, a bill so detested by a host of environmental groups that they brought in former Sen. Bob Graham to try in vain to stop it.  The bill drew more than 350 letters or emails urging him to veto it, They don't care what we think. They care about people like Frank Matthews, who lobbies on behalf of developers, phosphate miners, boat manufacturers, sugar growers, power companies and a garbage company who said
 ""He couldn't be more accommodating, my clients appreciate the Legislature and the governor continuing to protect Florida's resources while promoting economic development and recovery. It's unfortunate regulatory reform is often sensationalized and characterized as anti-environment."
The bill won approval in the House 98-20, with some Democrats joining the Republicans.
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"I care a lot about the environment," the governor said. Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Panama City, sponsored the bill. (Patronis is ALEC’s leader in the Florida Legislature.)

Monday, April 15, 2013

Gwen Graham Running For Congress In Florida

The daughter of Florida treasure Bob Graham
Bob Graham was a wildly popular Florida governor from 1979- 1987 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 2005. Previously he had been a state rep and a state senator-- and he never lost an election in his life. He was an environmental champion in a state where real estate developers had ruled the roost. In his last Senate campaign he kicked Republican Charlie Crist's ass 63-37%. Socially liberal and one of the few Senate Democrats to oppose Bush's war against Iraq.
more, Visit her website here

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Crimes Against Humanity

It seems that my memory has been on  steroids these last few days. On this the 10th  Anniversary of the Iraq war there are so many things to remember. Not only the birth of this blog but how hard i tried to show my family and friends the huge mistake we were about to make. I remember Michael Moore and the way he was maligned and ridicule, i remember the Dixie chicks and the way they were treated. I remember the millions of protesters all over the world. I remember the ban on photos of soldiers' coffins as they returned.  I remember Free speech zones (also known as First Amendment Zones) or Free speech cages, I remember our  brave politicians who spoke up people like Florida's Robert Graham, Howard Dean, Lincoln Chafee, Barrack Obama, Carl Levin, Nancy Pelosi, The late Paul Wellstone, Daniel Akaka, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd,Ron Paul, Jon Corzine, Richard Durbin,Russell Feingold, Daniel Inouye James Jeffords, The late Edward Kennedy and many more. But most of all i think of this wonderful place called  The Hague in the Netherlands, a place where they take war criminals and people who have committed crimes against humanity. The sad part is there are people that belong there
 that never make it.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Bob Graham Opening Remarks To The Florida Wildlife Federation


The Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF), established in 1937 -- the same year that Bob Graham was born -- held its 75th annual meeting in St. Petersburg, FL on the weekend of June 15-17.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Senator Bob Graham in Ybor City

Tuesday, June 21 · 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Creative Loafing in Ybor City
info

Monday, January 17, 2011

Is Florida A Commodity Or A Treasure?

That is the question former U.S. Sen. and Gov. Bob Graham asked after his speech Friday to the Economic Club of Florida on the oil spill disaster in the Gulf. Although he chose his words carefully, his point is that the political climate today has revived the question which he believes was put to rest 40 years ago:
Is Florida for sale?

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Bob Graham Grayton Beach State Park

Florida lawmakers might change Grayton Beach State Park’s name to include former governor and
U.S. Sen. Bob Graham.......here

“I’m a Republican. Bob Graham is a Democrat, but my respect for his service to the people of Florida goes way beyond partisan politics,”........Don Gaetz, R-Niceville

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Bob Graham Endorses Alex Sink

Former Gov. Bob Graham has endorsed Alex Sink for Florida's next Governor. Graham is the most respected Democratic politician in Florida. The endorsement is symbolically huge for Sink.........here

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Joe Garcia Endorsed By Bob Graham

Some history lessons leap out at you with road signs. Well, today it was a sidewalk sign saying this building in the center of Miami-Dade College was the Dante Fascell Conference Center, and this was where Sen. Bob Graham was going to issue his endorsement of Joe Garcia for Congress in FL-25........here

Friday, June 8, 2007

Bob Graham Begged
Fellow Senators To Read The "Entire" NIE on WMDs
"Friends, I encourage you to read the classified intelligence reports which are much sharper than what is available in declassified form," Sen. Graham on the floor of the Senate in October 2002.......here

"We are going to be increasing the threat level against the people of the United States."
He warned: "Blood Is Going To Be On Your Hands"