Sunday, April 6, 2014

Pam Bondi Destroying Emails

A Tallahassee attorney engaged in a bitter property fight with the state is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of destroying emails, failing to retain text messages and violating the state’s public records laws......more>

pambondi.info  

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 
Fish and Chips
With Cole Slaw at Sweet's Diner in Port Charlotte

Florida Blue Revolution 11.4.14

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Gainesville GOP Blood Sucker Running For Congress


Judithanne McLauchlan Needs Volunteers

GOP LUNCHEON

Dade City

Gay Key West men sue for right to marry in Florida

A gay couple in Key West sued Monroe County Clerk Amy Heavilin on Tuesday after her office refused to issue the men a marriage license. “We want the right,” said Aaron Huntsman, bartender at 801 Bourbon Bar on Duval Street who has been partnered for more than a decade
with William Lee Jones......more>

Friday, April 4, 2014

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 
Bloody Mary (2) and Hot Wings
At Buffalo Wings and Rings in North Port

Florida Governor Rick Scott and his Secretary of State Kenneth Detzner

 Federal Appeals Court
Florida officials'
attempts to remove noncitizens from voter rolls
clearly violated federal law!

The Ybor Update - Michael Valdes

Michael Valdes is a born and raised Tampa Native
With 14+ years experience in the Tampa real estate market
Michael has one of the top producing real estate teams in the Tampa area
Call Michael Valdes & Associates today at (813)756-1036
 or visit his site, The Ybor Update

Stogie's Smoke Shop

 Ybor City, Florida
Spread the word boys and girls. VOTE 11.4.14
Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

Thursday, April 3, 2014

TOOL: I Am GOP Ritch Workman Of Melbourne

Florida Senate committee on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment for the November ballot that would give tax breaks to businesses that install

Solar panels,
but it is unlikely to come before voters:
The chairman of a powerful House committee believes
the solar industry isn't ready for it.
 Mr. Workman's attitude is more proof of the clout of Florida's electric utilities, which view rooftop solar as the beginning of the end of their
monopoly control over Florida's energy market.
 
 

Caroline Kole At Skippers

Florida GOP's Desperation on Hispanic Outreach


Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Dana

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

McDonald's Cheat Their Employees



Stay Local

Want fish?
 Try a Tampa Grouper Sandwich 
Stay Local, Visit Tampa Bay Locavore

Florida 11.4.14

 

The 33rd Annual WMNF Tropical Heatwave

Ybor City
info

Tampa Bay Low In Health Rankings


We Are Not A Center-Right Nation

Americans know the rules are rigged (69%), and the rich and special interests have too much power in Washington (63%).
Americans want to raise the minimum wage (72%), rebuild our infrastructure (71%) and make the hedge fund managers and corporations pay their fair share (68%).
Americans want to invest in public education (69%) and for Congress to protect programs that provide help for the most vulnerable (86%).

Americans (69%) think the policies of the Republican party generally

favor the rich

 
Meet the Populist Majority
The Grand Old Party Was Grand.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Free Florida Sunshine

Non-Power Slave In North Port

Cesar Chavez: An American Hero


GOP-Controlled States Are the Biggest Federal Government MOOCHERS!

A popular question among liberals is how in the world Republican politicians and business owners get so many people to go against their better interests........more>
 
The former confederate states would be a third world country if they were their own nation today. That terrible fact is dragging the rest of the country down.

UCF: The Committee

The Committee
Made by University of Central Florida students and professors, was recently named best documentary at Sanford's Love Your Shorts Film Festival. It tells the story of how a Florida legislative committee led by state Sen. Charley Johns from 1956 to 1965 targeted homosexuals at state universities.
 
Its effects on the state's universities were long-lasting. Its efforts "degraded the national standing of the universities in Florida and had a lingering effect that was felt several decades after the Johns Committee went out of business," says former Sen.
 Bob Graham in the documentary.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Tallahassee Is Stealing Our Money

Those are local dollars
 Locally-raised money, shouldn’t be used to assist other communities that didn’t have the political foresight to provide for the
care of their most needy residents.”
 Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandra Murman
 
Because Hillsborough’s share is “diluted,” it won’t get as much federal money as it would have, said Tony Carvalho, the hospital alliance’s president  “It’s like forcing them to share their money
with everybody in the state,”......more>
 
“The goal of the formula is to take local public health funds provided by certain communities, and the federal match they earn, and share those benefits with communities that provide no local health funds to Medicaid, and to hospitals that provide little care to Medicaid patients,”
Tampa General spokesman John Dunn

Share, share, share, sounds like  socialism to me.

The Florida GOP "In Your Dreans Team"

AKA:The GOP Florida Hispanic Outreach Team
Reserved a room at a Cuban restaurant in Doral last week to present its chosen team to engage Hispanics across the Florida in state campaigns
— and nobody really noticed.......more>
 
Or nobody cares
The way this party treats women how does Anitere Flores sleep at night.
This brand is  soiled, there is no going back!

Join the ACLU of Tampa at USF

We're being watched.
The NSA is tracking phone conversations and online communications, local agencies are using surveillance cameras to follow people in public, and
Florida police are tracking cell phones
without warrants.
Join the ACLU of Florida's Greater Tampa Chapter
on Saturday April 5 for our Annual Meeting to find out
what you can do to fight back:
Greater Tampa Chapter Annual Meeting
Saturday, April 5, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Westside Conference Center E.
University of South Florida

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's Awful Poll Numbers May Lead To GOP Doom


Turn out the vote, lets be Scott free.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Tara

Tampa Redneck Road Rage


Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Jimmy Patronis

 Rep. Jimmy Patronis GOP Panama City
 Every year during the legislative session in Tallahassee, he pushes a bill to destroy Florida's environmental regulations, 
Last Year
 Bill to block local governments from protecting thousands of acres of wetlands. Which passed
This Year
 He has  introduced a destructive bill that will prevent local governments from being able to protect their own water supply. 
HB 703 not only prohibits local governments from enforcing wetlands, springs or storm water protections – it takes the decision-making powers out of their hands and gives it to Tallahassee politicians.
 
Frank Matthews, who lobbies on behalf of developers, phosphate miners, boat manufacturers, sugar growers, power companies and a garbage company said 
"I can't say enough good things about him He couldn't be more accommodating. That's the appealing thing to me."
 
Wake Up Panhandle

 

Tampa Pub Crawl

 Saturday, April 5th
Pickup location: Crispy’s Beer & Wine Bar, at 8:15AM.
The list of breweries includes…
Cigar City Brewing
Cigar City Brew Pub
7venth Sun Brewing
Dunedin Brewery 
Rapp Brewing Company
3 Daughters Brewing 
Green Bench Brewing 
Cycle Brewing

Friday, March 28, 2014

Wage Theft In Florida

Corporate special interests
are pressuring the Florida House to
stop local governments from cracking down on
employers who steal from their workers.
How disgusting is this?
more>
The Florida Retail Federation, representing mom & pop operations such as
 Walmart and Macy’s,
made upwards of $2 billion in “campaign contributions” from 2004-2012.
Most — 77 percent — went to Republicans, including Scott and the current crop now in legislative session.  
Call your state representative today at 888-714-5779 and tell them to vote NO on HB 957.

 Florida is one of the few states in the US that doesn’t have a
 Labor Department.

Tool: State Rep. Erik Fresen GOP Miami

Florida School Voucher Expansionist

USF What Are You Thinking?

 $60,000 Plus Expenses?
My friend could of found you a coach for $100
Go Bulls

Raíces Event At USF

April 2nd
Raíces en Tampa along with Tampa Bay SDS will be hosting
a powerful event at USF!