Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Andrew Gillum Rally At USF
Adnan Aida Mackic
The Mayor
Beth Eriksen Shoup and Katie Mercury
Debra Bellanti
Orlando Gudes and Jennifer Webb
Sean Shaw
Kofi Hunt
Asher Edelson
Glen Eich
Jim Shirk
Marcus Klebe
Fight For 15
Fentrice Driskell Crew
University of South Florida - Tampa, Florida
Monday, October 22, 2018
Trying To Shut Pat Kemp Down
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Hillsborough’s fees are set so "appallingly low" that taxpayers have been effectively subsidizing developers for decades, Commissioner Pat Kemp said. here
Fraudulent Transit Plan Skewered at Tampa NAACP Meeting: They Will Vote ‘No’
There is one group in Hillsborough County that Jeff Vinik can’t buy.
The Vinik-inspired sales tax referendum came under heavy fire Thursday night when Tampa’s African American community attacked it as vague, promoting unwanted gentrification, and a bailout for development interests at the expense of the working poor.
Vinik’s three stooges—Rena Frazier, Brian Willis, and Michael Stephens—were envisioned by their boss as glib emissaries. At the end of the evening, the trio were tongue-tied and nonplused by incisive questioning and criticism over Vinik’s hidden agenda.
Tampa Bay Beat has learned from two independent sources that certain people close to the NAACP were offered cash to wheedle an endorsement of what amounts to a multi-billion dollar taxpayer swindle.
Tyler Hudson, Vinik’s point man in the grossly misnamed All For Transportation (AFT) effort, sat grim faced in the audience as criticism from Tampa’s black community rained down on the plan. Cristina Barker, Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s former protegé on loan to Vinik, sat frowning and scribbling notes. Kevin Thurman, the fourth stooge and relegated to the audience, ineptly tried to explain the glaring flaws in the $15 billion, 30-year developer bailout which would make Hillsborough County the Florida county with the highest sales tax.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
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