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)
  
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And the Florida Professional Firefighters labor union?

Dems Wanted For Hillsborough County District 60

Florida GOP

Rebecca Smith and Jackie Toledo 

want to replace Dana Young.

No Democrat has yet entered the contest. 

here

Tampa Bay GOP Report Card

The Florida Education Association, a consistent critic of Florida Republican education policy, has joined the growing list of organizations issuing lawmaker grades.

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Senate - House 

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Bill Gavano F - Tom Lee D

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Dana Young D- - James Grant F

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Shawn Harrison F - Jake Raburn F

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Ross Spano F - Jackie Toledo F

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Jeff Brandes F - Larry Ahern F

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Chris Latvala F - Kathleen Peters D

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Chris Sprowls F - Lawrence McClure F 

HERE

Pam Bondi: Florida GOP Pawn

Bondi is a party pawn intent on carrying out partisan agendas through selective 

legal enforcement  Her failed political causes have mounted:

Taking a gay marriage challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court, fighting tooth and nail against medical marijuana and Obamacare, and even punting on taking on the banks responsible for Florida's historic foreclosure crisis. Her quixotic battles have made her a national darling of conservatives. She scans as a smart, sane version of Sarah Palin. here

"She is the most substantive attorney general we have had in recent memory," says state Rep. Dana Young, a Republican lawmaker from Tampa
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"You get the sense that rather than being the watchdog for the state, she is a mouthpiece for national political organizations," says state 
Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat from Miami

Legislative Delegation @ Amalie Arena

Folks from Yellow cab, April Griffin, Pat Kemp with friend 

and local blogger Tim Fasano.

Chris and Alberto of Central Florida Norml

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Our thoughts
Tom Lee: Has a nice face and looks like he could be a nice guy, too bad he is GOP.
Dana Young: Is smart and hot! Too bad she is GOP
John Legg: Was more interested in his cell phone and eating his nuts 
then what was going on.
Ed Narain and  Arthenia Joyner looked bored. 

And Jeff Brandes looked shady.

Florida GOP May Get Clubbed In 2018

Rick Scott

Pam Bondi

Jackie Toledo

Dana Young - Dan Raulerson

Gus Bilirakis - Vern Buchanan

Curt Clawson - Ron DeSantis

John Mica - Jeff Miller

Rich Nugent - Tom Rooney

Dennis A. Ross - Ted Yoho

Lenny Curry - Don Eslinger

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Trump heads overseas for his first major trip as president, Republicans at the state level are looking at the wreckage he is leaving behind and wondering if he will kill the party before the 2018 midterms.
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Florida GOP consultant John McKager Stipanovich says if Trump doesn’t follow through on his campaign promises to repeal Obamacare and cut taxes, it will disastrous when the next election cycle comes around. If after all of the talk, after all of the chest-thumping, we can’t get anything done, we may get clubbed like baby seals in 2018.

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36 states have governor’s races next year, with incumbents and GOP challengers alike likely to be put in the awkward position of having to defend Trump. Additionally there may be the awkwardness of Trump offering to campaign for a local Republican — only to have the candidate ask the president of the United States to stay away. here

Dana Young Going Full Throttle While Janet Cruz Uses Cloak of Invisibility

Cruz’ late entry into the race infuriated the progressive wing of the party as she essentially forced attorney Bob Buesing to quit the race. 
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Self-styled kingmaker Alex Sink, corporatist and the state’s former Chief Financial Officer in what seems a lifetime ago, threatened Buesing with the denial of crucial endorsements and financial support if he contested Cruz in a primary. Sink’s power within the Democratic party is incomprehensible. 
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On balance, the candidates she has supported have lost. Sink has shown an uncanny ability 
to fail.

By Jim Bleyer more

Tampa Bay Needs Candidates

Senate District 17: 
Florida GOP John Legg, unopposed

House District 57:
Florida GOP Jake Raburn, unopposed

House District 58:
Florida GOP Dan Raulerson, unopposed

House District 60: 
Florida GOP Dana Young, unopposed

House District 64:
Florida GOP Jamie Grant, faces fellow 
 GOP’er Joseph Michael Wilkinson

House District 65: 
Florida GOP Chris Sprowls, unopposed

House District 66: 
Florida GOP Larry Ahern, unopposed

House District 67: 
Florida GOP Chris Latvala unopposed

House District 69: 
Florida GOP Kathleen Peters, unopposed

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Early Voting Day 12

Per Poll Watcher. 1 Hour Wait

Florida GOP Sandy Murman and Dana Young Scheming

Bud and Cathy

Came all the way from Virginia to help us.

Bud

Pat Kemp supporter Sally of the LGBT caucus

Our new friend Nick

Pat Kemp supporter Susan

Clinton supporters

Ray, Yes on 2

Jack is still here entertaining the voters

Jack's son Scott

Jan Kaminis Platt Library

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Early Voting Day 4

Hillsborough County great Jan Platt 

visiting her Library.

Pat supporter, famous writer Bob West

Yes on 2 supporter

Shirley of NO On 1

Dolgin supporter, Gary's wife

GOP Dana young must be getting nervous. 

Free Lube For Florida GOP Voters

So for those incurably truculent in Tallahassee, here is the reality of what happened:

You cheated. You got caught. And now you're pouting. What's infuriating is their arrogance. These are elected officials who willfully ignored constitutional amendments passed by a vast majority of Florida voters, and now they want to blame the state Supreme Court for calling them out on it?

here

“I  believe at my core that the Florida Supreme Court has grossly overstepped its boundaries,”
 Rep. Dana Young

Sen. Tom Lee pouted that the court maybe violated his First Amendment rights and muttered darkly about hiring a 
personal lawyer.

"Redistricting does not, it’s fair to say, bring out the best in people."





Registered Democrats in Florida still outnumber registered Republicans by 400,000, yet Republicans hold 17 seats in Congress to the Dems’ 10. Some might say that ain’t exactly genuine representation.
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Remember the class size amendment? Ignored. We passed  “Polluter Pays,” demanding that Big Sugar and Big Ag clean up their Everglades mess, in 1996. Still waiting on that one. More than 75 percent of voters said yes to conservation land acquisition last year. The Legislature’s response was to blow off the will of the people. Again.

As for Fair Districts, in 2010, Floridians approved two constitutional amendments instructing the Legislature to create districts that made geographical 
and community sense.

Instead, its members cut secret deals and lied. here

For the folks that keep voting for these people, 
we got your back!

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