The Citrus Taliban - Stacy White

He wants state to ban all abortions

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare: $15.5 Million

On July 15, the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners, by a vote of 6 to 1, approved a proposal from the Tampa Sports Authority (TSA) to spend $10.4 million of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act money to implement Corona Virus safety measures at Raymond James Stadium.

The beneficiaries: the Tampa Bay Bucs, a highly profitable private company, who would be able to have more fans attend their games.

Well, we can’t have the Lightning and the Yankees (both also highly profitable private companies) feeling left out.

So early this month the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners, once again by a vote of 6 to1 (Stacy White being the only ‘no’ vote) approved a total of $4.1 million of CARES money for Amalie Arena and George M. Steinbrenner Field for safety improvements related to Corona Virus.  $2.4 million will go to Amalie Arena and $1.7 million will go to Steinbrenner Field. MORE

The total of CARES money given to professional sports franchises in Tampa is now $15.5 million.  One has to wonder how many small businesses in Hillsborough County, with legitimate and pressing needs, have been unable to get even a dime of this money.

Know Your Candidates: Gary Dolgin For Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge

Gary Dolgin candidate for Judge in Circuit Court 13th Division (Tampa) is an experienced trial attorney, and is board certified in marital and family law. I find Gary to be judicious and he will be a well qualified Judge. I will Vote for Gary Dolgin.

By-the-by you should now that Gary's opponent has been endorsed by Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White. Enough Said.

HELP HIM HERE

Local Bad Ass Dayna Lazarus

Who was escorted from a public hearing after raising questions of racial bias in a toll road project has filed suit against the man who ordered her removed: Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White. HERE

Hillsborough County Needle Exchange Program

Hillsborough County Commissioners are establishing the first ever needle exchange program in its history. 

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The vote was 5 to 1,  Stacy White was 

the lone dissenter. HERE

Silence of the Florida Lambs

Ron DeSantis

Marco Rubio

Rick Scott

Matt Gaetz 
Neal Dunn

Sandra Murman
Stacy White

Ted Yoho
 Ken Hagan

John Rutherford 

Michael Waltz

Bill Posey

Daniel Webster

Gus Bilirakis

Ross Spano 

Vern Buchanan

Greg Steube

Brian Mast

Francis Rooney

Mario Diaz-Balar

Jackie Toledo
Jeanette Núñez 

Bill Galvano

José R. Oliva

Ashley Moody 

Jimmy Patronis

Source

So we never forget!

Hillsborough GOP Attack Wimauma

We are getting a huge new subdivision in Wimauma. 

1,188 houses will add 10,920 more car trips per day on South County roads through Sun City Center, Wimauma, Balm, Riverview, Ruskin, and Apollo Beach. Thousands of cars will pour out of this development every day onto Hwy 301, Big Bend Rd., 19th Av., 674, US 41, I-75 and other roads; clogging them with more congestion.


Commissioners Les Miller, Stacy White, Sandy Murman, and Ken Hagan voted FOR approval of this project while Commissioners Pat Kemp, Kimberly Overman and Mariella Smith fought hard against it and voted NO. HERE

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SHAME-LES MILLER

Remember he is running for Clerk of Circuit Court

Tampa DINOS

In a move initiated by Commissioner Mariella Smith, the board walked back a vote at a workshop last Thursday approving a guiding document for creating “a balanced approach to community building.”

The vote to rescind the approval fell along the same lines as the initial workshop vote with Smith and Pat Kemp voting to overturn the vote and Commissioners Kimberly Overman, Ken Hagan, Stacy White, Sandy Murman and Les Miller voting against. HERE
UPDATE: HERE

Hillsborough County GOP Pulls A Fast One

At a Workshop where the public was not allowed to comment, the County rammed through a growth plan that includes "Sector Planning," which can result in tens of thousands of homes paving over our rural lands.

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This "Sector Plan" was not on the agenda, and was not included in the backup materials for the meeting, so neither the Commissioners nor the public had a chance to review it, and the public had no opportunity for input prior to the vote. The County Administrator, Mike Merrill, handed it out to the Commissioners when we were seated at the meeting. Soon after, Commissioner Stacy White made a motion for us to adopt the document.

#ambushed

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INFO

Voting YES: Stacy White, Sandy Murman,

Les Miller & Ken Hagan.

Voter Registration in Hillsborough County;

 Democrats334,070; Republicans269,899; Others255,409

Florida GOP Stacy White

Joe Henderson:

Stacy White’s latest lawsuit shows his

 disdain for voter mandate

He doesn’t like Hillsborough’s All For Transportation tax, but 57 percent of voters approved it anyway. HERE

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WE warned you about him!

His nonsense has already cost us $158.000. 

Deflecting Tampa's Attention

A Hillsborough transit tax activist and noted conspiracy theorist has filed an ethics complaint against Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White in a transparent attempt to deflect public attention from just how misguided the special interest levy is and how it was sold to a misinformed public. 

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HERE

Stacy White Faces State Ethics Complaint

Alleging 27 violations 

The complaint stems from 

White’s All For Transportation lawsuit.

He deserves it for not respecting our wishes. Karma at it's best! HERE

Florida GOP Stacy White has costed us $158,000 and counting

Public agencies are spending thousands on lawyers to defend a lawsuit by County Commissioner Stacy White that challenges the voter-approved measure.

Hillsborough Circuit Judge Rex Barbas ruled last week that White could not challenge the tax in his official capacity as a county commissioner. HERE 

Community Forum on Transportation - February 13, 2019

Opening comments by Commissioners Mariella Smith, Kimberly Overman and Pat Kemp (left to right)
 

Please forgive me if the video and sound are slightly out of sync in these videos. In the rush to get this post out today, I neglected to preview the final edited versions of the videos. The sync should be close enough that you won't be distracted from the message.

Two days ago a Community Forum on Transportation was held at the Seminole Heights Library. It was hosted by the Sierra Club, a well recognized environmental advocacy organization that has been around since 1892. Considering the critical impact our new transportation initiative will have on the immediate and long range plans for transportation within Hillsborough County, I expected a huge turnout of both community activists, or advocates if you prefer, and public officials directly charged with implementing new plans for improving transportation here . I saw neither.

Questions and Answers

There were about 50 people representing the interests of the public and a grand total of 3 public officials on the panel. In this first serious attempt to establish a line of communication between our government officials and the public, of the 7 members of the County Commission, only 3 bothered to answer the open invitation to attend, Commissioners Mariella Smith, Kimberly Overman and Pat Kemp. Of the 14 members of the HART Board of Directors, only 3 members attended and coincidentally they were, Mariella Smith, Kimberly Overman and Pat Kemp. Of the 7 members of the City Council of Tampa, not one councilperson showed up. In the audience, there was 1 candidate for the upcoming election for mayor, Topher Morrison, and 2 candidates for councilmen, Walter L. Smith II and John Godwin. This dismal turnout of county government officials and candidates seems to me a clear indication that, despite the rhetoric to the contrary, the large majority of present and future hopeful officials have their own agenda of how they intend to spend this new transportation windfall and have no serious interest in the wants or needs the public, who voted for the initiative and is financing it in full. I have to add that John Turanchik, the son of Ed Turanchik, candidate for mayor, spent some time outside the event handing out flyers promoting Ed's "Go Plan", his agenda for transportation. John didn't attend the event itself. If your interest is in the people who actually rely on the bus system in Hillsborough County, I can only add that, when the host of the event asked for a show of hands of how many people in the audience had taken a bus to get to the event, only 1 person, myself, raised his hand. When he asked how many WOULD have taken a bus if there was one available to get them there, nearly half the audience raised their hands. I think the host was trying to make a point of how lacking our bus system is by asking these questions but I, personally, interpreted the responses completely differently. I found the responses rather odd because the HART MetroRapid has a stop 3 blocks from the event and I find it difficult to believe that I alone among the 50 or so attendees of the forum live near enough to a bus line capable of getting me to the event. I hope you get my point.

I also hope that, in the near future, I will see a real concerted effort to establish a working relationship between our government officials and the citizens of Hillsborough County. I'd like to see the schools in the county handing out notices to their students, to take home to their parents, advertising upcoming forums in their school auditoriums. I'd like to see questionnaires on all the buses that can be filled out and returned to any driver, asking riders what they want from the new bus system and inviting them to future outreach events. I'd like to see an upsurge by the public, demanding of the county officials, who THEY elected and whose salaries they pay for, listen to their concerns about the future of the transportation system they are funding. I'd like to see an indication by our county representatives that they will at least make an effort to reach out to the public they supposedly represent. Voting for the transportation initiative is a fine example of talking the talk. County officials telling each other how important it is to establish a concerted program of community outreach is a fine example of talking the talk. I'm hoping to see many, many more of these people begin actually walking the walk......but I'm not holding my breath.

Finally, there are thousands of Hart patrons who rely on the buses to get back and forth to work or school every day and will continue to suffer a dismally broken bus system for at least another year thanks to a lawsuit, meant to completely undermine the intent of the transportation initiative, filed by the self-serving Commissioner Stacy White. Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or any other political affiliation, you must know that Stacy White does not represent you and should not have a seat on our county commission. I urge everyone to keep this in mind when the elections come around next year.

We warned You About this guy in 2014

Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White plans to sue the county and ask a judge to decide whether a citizens committee that will oversee the spending of the new sales transportation sales tax violates state law by usurping the authority of elected officials. The tax was approved by 57 percent of Hillsborough voters on Nov. 6. here
More on Mr. White here

Ken Hagan Racketeering Charges?

For years, county commissioner Ken Hagan has been negotiating a new Rays stadium behind closed doors, going so far to preserve secrecy that he refused to turn over public records even when the law required it.

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However, the secret details of where Hagan and the Rays were planning to put a new stadium were not secret to every member of the public – one key developer was given access to the information that should have been 
available to all.

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The developer used that information to buy land at a discounted rate, put himself in position to profit off the new stadium announcement, then became a significant contributor to Commissioner Hagan’s re-election campaign. At no time were Hagan’s fellow commissioners – or members of the public who requested the public documents – provided the maps. MORE

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"This arrangement to have Ken Hagan represent the entire Commission in negotiations with the Rays was approved by the BOCC before I became a commissioner. After I became a commissioner, I objected to this arrangement and urged that the County Adminstrator represent the BOCC in these negotiations instead. The only other commissioner in support of me was Comm. Stacy White." Pat Kemp

The Approved Balm Development

 A large housing development soon will encroach onto rural lands in the Balm area of eastern Hillsborough County despite the protests of area residents and the sympathy of several county commissioners.

Three commissioners — Pat Kemp, Lesley Miller and Stacy White — initially supported sending the Balm project back to the county’s hearing master for a rehearing on density issues raised by area residents, but were outvoted.

Efforts to delay the project were defeated and the project was approved with White joining those in favor. here

“I have very many concerns. I agree with the Balm community that this does not seem consistent with the rest of the area. We have turned this into a typical sprawled development. We should stop moving forward with things that don’t work for the betterment of the community,” said Kemp to loud applause from the audience.

Cornering The Marijuana Market In Tampa

Remember this?
Hillsborough County Commissioners say they will only allow 13 dispensaries. 

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"This all just seems like going to an extreme to the benefit of monopolies." 
Commissioner Pat Kemp

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A growing number of commissioners are saying capping new businesses will protect patients and residents. 

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Lobbyists for San Felasco Nurseries, one of the state's seven approved growers, huddled with several commissioners, including Stacy White, who had spearheaded the county's medical marijuana efforts, and Ken Hagan, who would ultimately request the re-vote.

"This is our community," said Commissioner Sandy Murman, one of several board members whose opinion has shifted since March. "And safety is first." here

"Ken Hagan, Stacy White, Sandy Murman, Commissioner Victor D. Crist, Al Higginbotham y’all need to take a deep look into your souls and speak among one another."
 Chris Cano

Redemption Date: 11.8.18

Hillsborough County Florida GOP Candidate Joe Wicker

"I support the president's agenda 100 percent."

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"If a candidate is not solidly behind the president, that is a death knell. Hillsborough County Republican party Chairman Jim Waurishuk

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Wicker has the backing of key GOP leaders like county commissioners Al Higginbotham, Stacy White and Ross Spano. here

Contact Stacy White and tell him to call Andrew Davis

 813-272-5740 or email him at whites@hillsboroughcounty.org