He can’t do it right now. Congressional lawmakers have to apply for a D.C.-specific permit if they want to be armed in the city.
But they are working on that.
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For Yoho, carrying a concealed gun is just like having a cell phone in his pocket. He’s usually armed when he’s home, and he was packing at a recent constituent event in his northern Florida district. here
Local politicians have made similar trips to Charlotte and other cities over the past decade to evaluate those systems and how something similar can happen in Tampa Bay. And they have learned nothing.here
Tampa's Pepin Distributing, distributors of foreign owned Anheuser-Busch products hosted a fundraiser for Florida GOP Hillsborough County Commissioners Victor Crist and
Tampa Bay Rays principal owner, Stu Sternberg, donated $1,000 to the 2018 re-election campaign of Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan, the county's biggest cheerleader for a new Rays stadium in Tampa.
The Walt Disney Co. is betting big on Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. Since 2015, Disney has given $400,648 to Florida Grown, a committee supporting Putnam, but has also donated $70,000 to a committee run by state Sen. Jack Latvala and $35,000 to a new committee set up by House Speaker Richard Corcoran. U.S. Sugar Corp. and Duke Energy have given to Putnam, Corcoran and Latvala’s committees, as well.
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Disney’s donation to Corcoran could be considered surprising since the speaker led a blistering battle against the state paying their advertising bill.
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Disney and other companies haven’t given anything to the three major Democratic candidates already in the race.
info --------------------------------- "I'm humbled to be asked to share my information on the state of Sea Level Rise in the Bay Area. Bottom line: since 2010 the water has been coming up much, much faster than before - exceeding virtually all "official " predictions. Just one more reason to immediately stop adding to atmospheric carbon Right Now! Fossil fuels are Dead. And they are Killing Our Planet!" Kent Bailey
On Friday, July 7th, Dane Powell became the first victim of the #DisruptJ20 arrestees to be struck with a jail sentence. Please support Dane by donating to his commissaryhere. Write to Dane Powell: Mailing address Dane Powell DCDC #358 530 DC Jail 1901 D Street, SE Washington, DC 20003
In 1877 William Glass established a settlement based on equality. All Tristan families are farmers, owning their own stock and/or fishing. All land is communally owned. All households have plots of land at The Patches on which they grow potatoes. Livestock numbers are strictly controlled to conserve pasture and to prevent better-off families from accumulating wealth. Unless the community votes for a change in its law, no outsiders are allowed to buy land or settle on Tristan; theoretically the whole island would have to be put up for sale. her -----------------------
Local activist Dane Powell, a J20 defendant, was sentenced in D.C. Superior Court to serve 4 months of two 36 month sentences, with 2 years of supervised probation to follow.here
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"we can’t live our lives hoping for someone else to come and fix things for us. When we, or anyone else, is faced with insurmountable oppression we must use our own two feet and hands to dismantle it." Dane Powell
Florida GOP Marco Rubio seems likely to vote for the Senate's Obamacare replacement that effectively puts poor people through a meat grinder and turns them into Soylent. Both the Senate and House plans sharply cut Medicaid funding for the poor while giving rich people massive tax cuts, and are among the least popular bills in American history, according to recent polls.here
More than 7,000 Floridians have signed petitions urging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deny permits for seismic airgun surveys.here
Rubio logged onto Twitter to tell his constituents that he'll never, ever support "government-run" health care, a stance that should surprise nobody in light of the fact that Rubio has taken more than $2.5 million in combined donations from health care, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies since he first ran for Senate in 2010, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Nothing motivates quite like a few million bucks.here
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Rick Scott wants toappoint three new Florida Supreme Court justices literally on his way out of office.
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A decade ago, justices issued an advisory opinion saying a governor shouldn’t make such appointments while walking out the door.
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Voters have overwhelmingly said the same thing. In 2014, a solid majority rejected a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative that would have given outgoing governors the power to appoint “prospective vacancies” to the Supreme Court or district courts of appeal.