Monday, February 10, 2014

Charlie Crist: It's time to end the U.S. embargo against Cuba

"The embargo has done nothing in more than 50 years to change the regime in Cuba. If we want to bring democracy to Cuba, we need to encourage American values and investment there, not block ourselves out and cede influence to China......more>
End the embargo against the Cuban people!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

1st Pot College Opens In Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Fish with yellow rice and yuca.
At Liborio's Latin Café On Causeway Blvd, in Tampa

The City of Gainesville

Requested permission from the state to use the University of Florida’s student union as an early voting location for upcoming municipal elections, Scott’s handpicked
Secretary of State Ken Detzner said "no."
Gov. Rick Scott has been doing everything in his power to make it harder for Floridians to vote ever since he got into office.
His latest effort to undermine our fundamental right to vote? here
More at Pushing Rope

Ashton Kutcher Blasts Miami


Friday, February 7, 2014

'Justice for Jordan Davis

Jacksonville activists rally outside the Duval County Courthouse
demanding 'Justice for Jordan Davis' here

Sad State Of Hillsborough County

County Commissioner
Dist. 4: Rick Cochran - Janet Lee Dougherty - Stacy White All GOP
 Dist. 5: Ken Hagan GOP
Dist. 7 All GOP 

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Florida Legend Buddy MacKay Endorses Nan Rich

Sen. Nan Rich brought her dark-horse campaign for governor to the University of Tampa on Tuesday, trumpeting the endorsement of former lieutenant governor and congressman Buddy MacKay, a Democratic elder statesman.....more>

Mr. MacKay, now retired in Marion County, was a state legislator, U.S. House member, lieutenant governor under the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, and briefly governor after Chiles’ 1998 death. He lost the 1998 governor’s race to Jeb Bush. He’s one of the last remaining members of the group of progressive Democrats, including Chiles, Reubin Askew and Bob Graham, who dominated
Florida politics during the 1970s and 1980s.

EPA Abandons Lakeland

The Environmental Protection Agency
is walking away after a decades-long battle with
 Florida politicians and industry officials
over cleaning up phosphate-mining waste around Lakeland that could expose more than
100,000 residents to cancer-causing radiation levels......more>

Charlie Crist: "Guys Like Rick Scott"


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Vanessa Guzman Of Boyton Beach

A Florida middle school teacher was suspending after assigning homework using Lil’ Wayne lyrics. The explicit lyrics to his hit “6 Foot 7 Foot”
were printed and passed out to an eight grade class, and
it made one parent very upset.....more>

Florida Frackers Attack The Everglades

Florida Frackers
The Everglades,
The Keys,
Migrating Birds. Tourists,
Fracking?

Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"


What Stogie Had For Lunch


Guiso Mexicano
With beans and rice.
At The Strawberry Palace in Plant City