here “I find it an enormous problem that they go after something like this, Benghazi – tragedy that it was – and they don’t go after something that is a colossal tragedy like the war crimes of Richard Bruce Cheney.” Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell
A poll released Monday shows that 88 percent of Florida voters support allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes, bolstering the arguments of advocates who have placed a constitutional amendment on the November ballot seeking legalization.
The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, indicates widespread support across political and demographic lines --- Republicans and Democrats, men and women, young and old --- for legal medical marijuana......more> Fifty-three percent of voters support “allowing adults in Florida to legally possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use.......here
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The only way to change Tallahassee is
to change the people we send. Rick Scott, Pam Bondi, and the Republican
legislature spent the legislative session waging ideological crusades and short
changing Florida's middle class. It is wrong when we cut taxes for
corporations but don't raise the minimum wage. It is wrong when we get between a
woman and her doctor but don't expand access to Medicaid. And it's wrong when we
spend public dollars on private schools while cutting scholarships for our
students. We have to change it. But I need your help. here
The week started with Scott at a South Florida seniors event publicly trashing Obamacare only to be surrounded by elderly supporters of the Affordable Care Act.
The
Florida Department of Environmental Protectionordered the Dan A. Hughes
Company to cease all new drilling operations in Southwest Florida. The news comes a day after Senator Bill Nelson issued a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency calling for a federal investigation of the Hughes Company. more>
In Tampa Bay, the largest source of our air pollution is not from industrial activity or coal plants it's from tailpipe emissions from our cars and trucks.
Tell your county administrator to support the programs and incentives that will help us make the switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles!
is calling on the nation’s environmental chief to scrutinize oil drilling activities by a Texas-based company caught in what has been described as fracking at a well site in the shadow of the Everglades.......more
In just the past year and a half, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has granted about a dozen permits.
This is a big, bold opportunity for our community. We’re joining more than 100 communities across the country to raise millions of dollars for the greater good — all on a single day......here
The Republicans — who recently shot down $12 million dollars over the next 10 years to keep children out of the sex trade while voting for $310 billion dollars in corporate tax cuts in addition to shutting down any discussion on the minimum wage.
The U.S. government wanted to give Florida $50 billion in taxpayer money
Money you paid into the system through income taxes
To provide Medicaid to roughly 1 million Floridians who would otherwise go uncovered.
There was zero cost to the state for 10 years, after which we would have to kick in 10 percent.
Instead, Scott and the GOP blocked expansion and turned away the money, not because it was best for Florida, but because it was best for the GOP. Republican state legislators said no to free health care for 1 million Floridians, costing all of us taxpayer money in the end, as well as the associated jobs that would have been created.
And most importantly to most of us, costing lives.
This year's legislative session was another lost chance for the Florida Legislature to expand opportunity for families. Gov. Rick Scott and Tallahassee Republicans made it clear that re-electing the governor was more important than doing what's right for the middle class. more>
The Florida Legislature is poised to expand health care
Not for Floridians, for tourists.
We’re not joking. A bill to
spend Florida tax dollars to promote medical tourism is flying though the
legislature. Yet, the Republican leadership won’t allow a single hearing on using billions in federal tax dollars to expand health care