Hillsborough County GOP Assault Weapons Ban

and Sandy Murman - Victor Crist

Al Higginbotham - Stacy White

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Not on our watch!

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Remember This In November!

Hillsborough County Right Wing Infestation

Right wing Hillsborough County Commissioners Lesley Les Miller, Ken Hagan, Sandy Murman, Stacy White, Al Higginbotham and Victor D Crist intend to restrict the number of medical marijuana dispensaries to 13.

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Florida GOP Commissioners Ken Hagan and Sandy Murman made unfavorable comparisons to the dispensaries resembling the state’s notorious pill mills. 

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Can we clone Pat Kemp?

Letters From GOP Hillsborough County Commissioners

Letter I sent our county commissioners 

on the issue of transit.

"I have been a HART rider for over 10 years. More roads does not help me at all. STOP spending our money on roads. We want more buses and rail. We have one of the worst transit systems in the country. With the exception of Ms. Kemp are you all in developers pockets?"

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Thank you for contacting the office of Commissioner Crist about funding for public transit.  I will be sure to share your thoughts and concerns on the issue with the Commissioner. 

Sincerely,

Chris Heintz

Legislative Aide

Commissioner Crist, District 2

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Thank you so much for contacting our office regarding Transit. Your input regarding this issue is important  to the Commissioner. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions with us. Have a great day and please don’t hesitate to call our office if we can be of further assistance.  

Sincerely,

Ms. Eli Rodriguez

Aide to County Commissioner Al Higginbotham

Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners

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Thank you for your email. Commissioner Hagan is just as frustrated as you are about the need for funding adequate transit in Tampa/Hillsborough county. That is why he was the only Republican on the Board to support placing the sales tax referendum on the ballot last year. Unfortunately, a majority of board members opposed that plan.

The hard truth is that we have billions of dollars in unmet infrastructure needs in Hillsborough county and the only way to begin to address that is to have a dedicated funding source of tax dollars—this has been very hard to come by. But Commissioner Hagan is committed to continue fighting to address our transportation needs in a meaningful and rational way. In the meantime, the Board will soon finalize a transportation plan that will dedicate $700 million over 10 years to improve existing roads and provide congestion relief where possible in Hillsborough county. Feel free to share with us any questions you may have concerning this plan. And please let us know if we can ever be of service to you. Have a great day.

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Cordially,

Eric Denney

Legislative Aide to

Commissioner Ken Hagan – District 5

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Sandy Murman did not write me back.

Hillsborough County GOP Loves Developers

Despite calls from residents
to implore commissioners to put more money into the county’s bus system and to find other ways to move people without building more roads. here

Florida GOP 
Sandy Murman
Victor Crist
Al Higginbotham
Stacy White
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and Ken Hagan
approved a road-centric $812 million, 
10-year transportation plan.
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They could care less about what you want. Next time they are up for reelection
we hope you remember this.

Also remember this guy

Les Miller

He is a Dem and he also voted for this.

Thank you Pat Kemp

“We cannot build our way out of congestion. It’s time we make some wise investments." 
Pat Kemp

Corporate Welfare: Hillsborough County Pays $350,000 For 30 New Jobs

The exemption for NewSouth Window Solutions would save the company nearly $50,000 a year in ad valorem taxes and cost the county nearly $350,000 in lost revenue over the seven-year proposal. In return, NewSouth would have to create at least 30 new jobs in Hillsborough County. here

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The Hillsborough County Commission
unanimously approved 
this giveaway!

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“This is a great story of a manufacturer expanding in our community,” said Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandra Murman.
Murman said criticism to past incentives stemmed from a lack of accountability. The NewSouth deal would require the company to create at least 30 jobs or the deal is off.

Cojones-Less Hillsborough County Commissioners

Exception Kevin Beckner

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The Hillsborough BOCC has voted 6-1 in favor of the $600m plan to raid the existing budget to further subsidize sprawl. Outgoing commissioner Kevin Beckner was the lone no vote. Virtually 100% of the spending will occur in areas where developers are building houses, but are not providing adequate infrastructure. Instead, the county is increasingly taking money from taxpayers in established neighborhoods (Tampa), and using it to subsidize new growth. here

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After a show of force by citizens at Wednesdays meeting they still voted against us. Hillsborough Dems wake up, you have the power, 
do the the math. 

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Registered voters in Hillsborough County

GOP 265,073 - Dems 330,614

On November 8th you can keep 
Mr. Beckner's seat and get rid of the 
god-awful Sandy Murman. 

Sandy, Al, Ken And Stacy Avoiding Jim Norman

Four Republicans have quite noticeably stayed on the sidelines as Norman seeks the party nomination for a return to the county commission: His would-be colleagues.

Commissioners Ken Hagan, Al Higginbotham, Sandy Murman and Stacy White won’t make an endorsement in Norman’s race against Tampa businessman Tim Schock for the open District 6 seat. here

GOP Hillsborough County Commissioners: "A Profile In Cowardice"

Tea Party rules around here!
The county commission voted 4-3 on Wednesday night to reject the proposed 30-year, half-cent sales tax, refusing to put it on the November ballot and letting voters decide.
here

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"Sadly tonight a majority of the County Commission has refused to give the citizens of Hillsborough County an opportunity to decide for themselves whether their future includes a better transportation system. Rather than a profile in courage this vote was a profile in cowardice." Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn

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"I am very disappointed that after years of work this board was not able to build consensus, I do look forward to the continued dialogue at our upcoming meeting and I'm hopeful that we might still be able to come to a consensus on such an important community issue as transportation." Kevin Beckner

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Matthew Durshimer was all for the 30-year sales tax. He said it was the only way Hillsborough would attract corporate relocations and a younger workforce. Only the 30-year tax, he argued, would allow the county to build a real transit system. "And if the answer is no, then expect all the problems of today to get worse tomorrow," Durshimer said, "and expect all the young professionals like myself to leave this commununity.

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Sandy Murman wants the board to hold yet another transportation workshop in the near future. It passed unanimously. GO Hillsborough was meant to fail from the begining. It was all a sham. here

We can start with Murman! here
Please note, it was smart what they did. It would not have passed. 
To much for roads and not enough for rail.

Flip-Flopper Al Higginbotham

As a candidate for the Hillsborough County Commission last year, Republican Al Higginbotham promised to support a sales tax for transportation projects if it was approved by a city-county board called the Policy Leadership Group. 

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The leadership group voted 8-3 to recommend that the county commission put a half-cent-per-dollar sales tax on the November 2016 ballot. Higginbotham voted against the measure. More importantly, Higginbotham said he will vote against holding the referendum when the commission makes a final decision in December 

— an apparent flip-flop. here

Good work Joe Keel

Hillsborough County drops its attempt to charge Keel and Curley Winery owner, Joe Keel, for their defense costs in defending ethics charges against County Commissioner Al Higginbotham. here

"Good work Joe Keel of Keel & Curley Winery. Thank you for standing up for the right of people to take on the powers that be. It's never easy. I appreciate you standing up." Pat Kemp

Hillsborough County GOP Corruption

The Fox Guarding the Hen House

"The one essential advantage Dougherty had for the EPC gig was an intensive lobbying campaign on her behalf by influential business and development interests. In the real world, if powerful business and development types were aggressively pushing for their choice to lead an agency charged with protecting the environment from business and development concerns, one might well conclude such naked special interest arm-twisting would be a disqualifying factor. In Hillsborough County, such wheeling and dealing leads to a coronation."

Daniel Ruth on Janet Dougherty's new Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission gig. here

Hillsborough County Right Wing Infestation

Wage-theft ordinance

Democrat Kevin Beckner wants the 

Miami-Dade model

Bruce Nissen, the author of a Florida International University study examining the issue in Florida said, “There’s no real comparison between the two, If you’re looking for efficient government, I think there’s no question, go with the Miami-Dade model.”

The Republican members of the commission did the exact opposite, supporting their love for a Palm Beach County version that on its face appears to favor businesses and not the workers who aren’t receiving a full paycheck.
here

In Hillsborough County 

Democrats: 306,321

Republicans: 246,289

Others: 223,805

Who the hell votes for these people?
Wake up Hillsborough County Dems, 
are you so lazy you can't get out and vote?
Pat Kemp could be there now instead of Higginbotham.
And if the man is sticking it to you and you vote GOP, take it deep! 

GO Hillsborough Meeting Today In Temple Terrace

One of our last chances

"Good luck with that," That’s what one Tribune columnist said about Commissioner Hagan talking about a balanced transportation referendum for more options.

It’s a dare. Some think we won’t stand up to make sure we have options. 

We need to make it loud an clear to every doubter, naysayer, and tea party insider that it’s time to work together to create new transportation options for everyone. This is one of our last chances to be heard. Come out tonight for just 15 minutes:
Don't let these corporatist Republicans ruin our future.
If you Dems would of voted Pat Kemp would be in office and we would not be dealing with Higginbotham. No one even ran against Hagan.

Omar K Lightfoot Community Center
10901 N 56th St
Temple Terrace

http://connecttb.com/april28

Rid Hillsborough County of it's Right Wing infestation

Brand GOP: Victor Crist and Al Higginbotham

Two years ago hundreds of people demanded that we start the conversation on transportation, the commissioners responded by creating Go Hillsborough to find out what the public wants. 
The number one selection of 16 categories: transit.

Yet, two Commissioners 

Victor Crist and Al Higginbotham 
told the Tampa Tribune they intend to derail the Go Hillsborough public input process before it’s over. What's worse the public proposal isn't line with what citizens have already asked for: there is ZERO transit included.

County Commissioners, We join others in asking you do three things:

1) Keep your promise and listen to the public: they want a balance including transit

2) Work with other leaders to come up with a transportation proposal for all citizens 
& for future generations

3) Stop trying to derail the process by making proposals before it is over

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Hillsborough County - Got Traffic?

Thanks to Al Higginbotham, Tampa Bay's traffic nightmare continues to get worse. His strident opposition to any transit funding means that Tampa is the only one of the 25 largest urban areas in the country that doesn't have mass transit. Hillsborough County is gridlocked -- and it's time for change.

Pat Kemp is running for District 7 of the Hillsborough County Commission to bring change to Tampa. Please VOTE for her on 11.4.14. Check her out here.

Where do i VOTE?

Florida GOP Countdown Clocks

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I Am Al Higginbotham

Tired of traffic? Vote Pat Kemp for Hillsborough County Commission

She needs your help

BRAND GOP: Al Higginbotham

Here

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Pat And April At The Straz Center

Tiger Bay Debate

Republican control… or Democratic Invasion?

Pat Kemp vs. Al Higginbotham

April Griffin vs. Dipa Shah

Friday, October 17, 2014 11am

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In Hillsborough 
Democrat voters outnumber Republican voters by about 60,000,
So why do they get to rule?