Florida: The Two State Solution

The folks over at The League of the South have started a Petition Calling for Independence for the State of Florida. They have even put a Billboard up in Tallahassee. We here at the Stogie have a better idea, lets draw a line across the state and they can have the northern half. You know what they say,

"The further north you go in Florida the further south you are."

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare

Rick Scott once turned down billions in federal money to bring high speed rail to Florida. Now he wants to give "Florida East Coast Railway" hundreds of millions of our dollars to do the same thing.

Lopsided Income Growth In Florida

The nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute released

 “The Increasingly Unequal States of America”,

with a dedicated section called “Lopsided income Growth in Florida“.

The wide-ranging 120-page report paints a very different picture of the state of the state of Florida than the one that Gov. Rick Scott and other Republican legislators are painting as they seek reelection this year.

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Friends Of Stogie

Meet Erin, hard working server at Mama's Kitchen III in Tampa.

The Awesome People Of South Florida

Health Mutt In Seminole Heights

6116 North Central Avenue Tampa

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Parents of Jordan Davis Fight Back

Tampa Bay Inequality For All Watch Parties

Join us as we watch Robert Reich's award-winning film, "Inequality for All" at Watch Parties happening in communities across Tampa Bay and America. Secretary Reich will also join us for a special conference call to change the conversation on income inequality. info

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Italian sub

At the Philadelphian on the Tamiami Trl in Port Charlotte

Rick Scott's Possible Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Violations Of Law

Florida's Sen. Bill Nelson is calling for an investigation into Rick Scott's Florida Department of Economic Opportunity's handling of their new unemployment website that failed as soon as it launched back in October, delayed benefits for months,

 and is still facing problems.....more