The Ybor City Stogie

Monday, December 17, 2018

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Meatballs with Ziti

At New York, New York in Ybor

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EAT LOCAL!

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Candy Lowe Holiday Black Business Bus Tour 2018

Bus #3

Andrew Joseph, III Memorial Foundation

The Ms. Connie Burton

With fans

Beth Eriksen Shoup

Team Topher Morrison

John Godwin

Orlando Gudes with fans

Our host Candy Lowe

Our driver David

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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Ron DeSantis Undermining People's Will

The New Democrat Coalition: A group of 68 centrist, pro-business House Democrats. The group was founded in 1997 as an affiliate of the Democratic Leadership Council, a now-defunct nonprofit that worked to shift the Democratic party away from populist, left-wing policies and towards a more business-friendly, Clintonian agenda. HERE

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Twenty of the 30 newly-elected Democrats who pledged to reject corporate cash took campaign contributions from the corporate-funded NewDemPAC. In Florida: Darren Soto, Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Stephanie Murphy, Charlie Crist,
Val Demings,
Chris Hunter, Al Lawson, Lauren Baer,
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Randy Perkins,
David Shapiro, Nancy Soderberg HERE

Florida Amendment 4 Pause

Florida GOP might not be ready to put Amendment 4 — a measure approved by 64.5% of Florida voters that would give voting rights back to most felons who have completed their sentences — into action.

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According to WFTV 9, the state has put enforcement of the amendment on pause until the new governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, is sworn in. WFTV reported that lawmakers are waiting to see if the Florida Legislature might need to weigh in on the measure. The amendment, which would restore voting rights to more than 1.5 million felons, does not call for any involvement of this kind. HERE