Friday, June 19, 2015

Mary Mulhern For US Congress FL District 13

Mary Mulhern says she is “investigating” running for political office in 2016, and that includes the possibility of moving to Pinellas County this summer to compete for the CD 13 congressional seat currently held by Republican David Jolly. here

Check out our post on March 24th, 2015 here

Like her page on Facebook
You know she will have to move across the pond.
We will miss her!

A Note To Mr. Valdez

After talking to an old and dear friend about Florida GOP Jack Latava's tax break to yacht owners so they can repair their yachts, he told me he was ok with it. That he would not notice the extra taxes he would have to pay. We thought this note would be appropriate. 

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Spaghetti and Sausage
With Garlic rolls
Mannino's Pizza in Davenport

Florida Bush Supporters

  • state Rep. Seth McKeel ($13,000)
  • Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam ($10,000)
  • state Sen. Jack Latvala ($5,000)
  • state Sen. Wilton Simpson ($5,000)
  • state Rep. Dana Young ($5,000)
  • state Rep. Brad Drake ($1,000)
  • state Sen. Anitere Flores ($1,000)
  • The Committee for a Stronger Florida, which is associated with former Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford has given ($75,000)
  • The Treasure Coast Alliance, operated by influential Republican state Sen. Joe Negron — who is vying to be the next Senate president — has donated ($51,000)
     here
And the Florida Professional Firefighters labor union?

Ybor Radical Cinema Club - Battleship Potemkin

June 22 @ 7pm
Ybor Daily Market
Ybor City, Florida

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Free Lube For Jack Latvala Voters

Florida GOP passed a tax cut package that included a break for yacht owners who spend more than $1 million on repairs.

Florida GOP Sen. Jack Latvala of Clearwater, 
sponsored the amendment.
 He defended the proposed tax cut, saying that it was 
intended to create jobs. here

#Fight For Legalization Rally In Tampa

June 19th @ 6pm
La Mexicana, 2002 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa

Marco Rubio Yes On Torture

Florida GOP Marco Rubio who is also a contender for president, was the only member of the U.S. Senate not to participate in a Tuesday vote reaffirming a U.S. prohibition on torture.

Rubio’s office said the senator would have voted no on the amendment, which passed overwhelmingly. here
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/16/270097/senate-anti-torture-splits-gop.html#storylink=cpy

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chicken
With Rice and Beans
At Rubios Mexican Food Store in Mascotte
Visit them here

United for Care to Launch Statewide Paid Petition Drive

United for Care, the organization that brought medical marijuana to the ballot in 2014, is launching an aggressive, statewide petition drive to put medical marijuana back on the ballot in 2016.

The paid petitioning effort began this week and will be in full effect by July 1. This new, paid effort joins a volunteer based effort that has already collected tens of thousands of petitions since mid-January of this year.  Ultimately, 683,149 valid petitions need to be turned in by Supervisors of Elections to the Florida Department of State by February 1, 2016 in order to obtain ballot placement for the 2016 vote.  10% of that figure must be verified to trigger Supreme Court review.

"We collected over a million petitions in 2014 and nearly 3.4 million people voted “yes” for medical marijuana.  There is no question in my mind that we will get medical marijuana back on the ballot for 2016," said Ben Pollara, Campaign Manager for United for Care.

 The petition has only minor updates to its language - clarifying issues related to parental consent and the kinds of conditions that would qualify a potential patient, with a doctor's recommendation.

"The legislature had an opportunity to keep this off the ballot by passing a law. They turned their backs on the patients of Florida - but we can't and we won't.  We're going to win this war and help suffering Floridians in 2016," said John Morgan, Chairman of United for Care.

Morgan reiterated his commitment to seeing medical marijuana placed back before voters, “I will do whatever it takes to get this done. This is about compassion for hundreds of thousands of very sick people in Florida.”

Registered Florida voters who wish to sign the petition now, can fill it out, print it, and mail it in. Those who signed the petition in 2013 and 2014 must sign the new petition again, if they wish to see medical marijuana placed on the 2016 ballot. The petition can be found here: www.unitedforcare.org/petition
For press inquiries please contact Bianca Garza at press@unitedforcare.org 

Call Obama: "Legalization for all NOW!'

Call-in Day - June 19th
8 AM - 5:00 PM (Eastern Time Zone)
Phone: (202) 456-1111

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Demand Federal Criminal Investigation of Rick Scott’s Land Give-away to Koch Brothers

Georgia-Pacific/Koch Industries is permitted to discharge up to 60 million gallons per day of toxic waste into the St. Johns River, smothering the bottom with tons of solids and making the water unfit for human/animal use. The river should be held in trust by the Governor and Cabinet for the people of Florida, not given away for private use as dumping grounds and without just compensation. 

Dexter Barber, Of The Liberty County Board Of Commissioners Had To Wait Behind Niggers

Dexter Barber, chairman of the Liberty County (Florida Panhandle) Board of Commissioners, made the remark during a May 6 conversation with his brother, who remains jailed after he was arrested on four counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. here

Friends of the Planet Social at 3 Daughters in St. Pete

June 18 @ 6:30pm
3 Daughters Brewing
222 22nd St. S, St. Pete

We Are Ready For Bernie Sanders

Flesh-Eating Bacteria In Florida Waters

Visiting Florida? Stay out of the water
 Florida health officials are issuing their yearly warning to swimmers (and diners) about the dangers of a flesh-eating bacteria that’s caused two deaths already this year. There are two ways you can contract vibrio vulnificus — through swimming in infected water with an open wound or by eating raw shellfish contaminated with the bacteria. here

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Miami Cuban Mafia Backs Jeb Bush


Mario (Frado) Diaz-Balart
Ileana (La Senora) Ros-Lehtinen 

Two members of the powerful Miami Cuban Mafia are backing Bush over one of their own. 

Marco (El Guapo) Rubio

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Mike
He is from Sacramento, CA
Homeless 3 years.

We Know Jeb Bush Well

  • It was Bush who, in violation of the Florida Constitution, repeatedly tried to take control of Terri Schiavo's very private end-of-life decision. 
  • He signed the "stand your ground" law in 2006 at the behest of the National Rifle Association. 
  • He implemented massive curtailments of early voting, resulting in the wholesale disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Floridians, mostly African-American, in the 2008 election.
  • He opposed gay rights. 
  • He ended affirmative action in state contracts and college admissions.
  • Implemented a massive school voucher program.
  • Signed any antiabortion bill the Legislature sent him.
  • Billions in tax cuts to our wealthiest residents and corporations.
  • To pay for his tax breaks, he shifted billions more in property taxes onto the backs of homeowners and borrowed at unprecedented levels.
  • When he became governor, Florida had $13.2 billion in outstanding debt. When he left office in 2007, Florida's outstanding debt was over $23 billion, a 77 percent increase.
  • Under his administration, everyday Floridians were left with higher property taxes and greater debt.
  • Thank you Dan Gelber here 

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Florida GOP Approves More Corporate Welfare

$400 million in corporate welfare to special interest groups and targeted industries. Taxes would be slashed for boat and yacht repairs, jet fuel for aviation schools and gun club memberships 
among them. 

Florida GOP Jack Latvala of Clearwater, defended the tax cuts on boat repairs. 

They did give us some scraps, cut our cell phone bills by about $20, give back-to-school shoppers 10 days of sales tax free shopping, and lower textbook prices for 
college students.


"Please turn your dead brains back to the "on" position and start thinking critically about what the Legislature is doing. They give you $20 in your left pocket while stealing $100 from your right pocket by forcing you to subsidize their lobbyist friends." Susan Smith

Monday, June 15, 2015

Solidarity Sunday - Tampa Bay

Party On Central
Tampa Bay's leading activists

Local legend Ronny Elliott with host Orrick Norwood





John takes care of us at Lee's Grocery
Central Ave, Tampa

Marco Rubio Fact

Tampa Bay Acoustic Music Festival

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa is having a month long acoustic festival in June every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Check out one of our favorite. info
Jessica Rose
Friday, June 19th. 7pm

Right Wing Pest Control In Hillsborough County

Democrats:306,321
Republicans:246,289
Others:223,805
Are you ready to vote?
here

Hillsborough County School District Feeds Kids When School’s Out

Anyone age 18 and under is eligible for free breakfast and lunch on week days all summer.

To find a site near you, visit 
or call 211. 

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Bush 2016- Four More Years

Jeb's rejected new logo

More Bullshit In Hillsborough County

The county paid a million dollars on focus groups, surveys and polls to tell them that more people would vote yes to a half cent sales tax hike than a full cent. 

And their research showed residents want to see more of that money spent building and repairing roads than improving public transportation.

See chart above. This is a lie.
we want rail.

Rail wasn't even on the survey form. They told us to write it in. Check out our post on April 29, 2015 of the last meeting. here, It was all a sham.

At that meeting in Temple Terrace we were told that light rail, opponent and local Tea Bagger Sharon Calvert attends every meeting, 
where were you?

Hillsborough County Commissioners don't waste our time
NO RAIL? NO NEW TAXES!

What Pilar And Stogie Had For Lunch

Chicken Tacos and Chicken Bowl
With Caesar salads and Bloody Marys
At BeefOBrady’s Spring Hill
Visit them here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless living in Tampa

Jon Stewart Mocks NY Times over Rubio: ‘How Is This Front-Page News?’

Hillsborough County Young Democrats - June Meeting 2015 In Ybor

June 16 - 6:30pm
CoWork Ybor, 1901 E. 7th Ave, Ybor City

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Miami Cop Antonio Torres Murders Homeless Man in Front Of 50 Children

Police say  two officers responded to an emergency call that a homeless guy 
(Fritz Severe) was “armed with a metal object” in front of dozens of children at a city park and that one, a 20-year veteran of the department, “confronted the subject and shot him 5 times.

Witnesses, however, said Severe, a homeless 45-year-old who was familiar to local residents in the Overtown neighbourhood, was posing no threat to the children or the two officers who approached him, and was only waving his walking stick at them. here

“He was a homeless man, wasn’t bothering nobody. The man walks around, we see him every morning with his stick, the same little stick that he had in his hand when the police officer shot him five times.” Nichelle Green

A second witness, Stephanie Severance, said: “They really didn’t have to shoot that man. What happened to the tasers? Why couldn’t they tase him?”

 In The US: 479 People Killed By Police So Far This Year

John Morgan: Writing a Big Check

We all need to chip in. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Moo Goo Gai Pan
At China Wok, 8412 N Armenia Ave, Tampa

Cannathon 5K In Tampa

Culture Vultures: Preservation Advocacy

Friday, June 12, 2015

Wear The Canabis Band

Show you suport canabis
in Florida
Coming Soon
While you wait join 
Central Florida Norml
here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Sid
Told me he was homeless because his wife kicked him out.