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Florida GOP Carlos Curbelo owes Planned Parenthood an apology

"DISGUSTING"
"A DISGRACE"
"CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR"
"DISCONCERTING"
"ABUSING THEIR POWER"
"TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE IN VULNERABLE SITUATIONS"
"ASSAULT ON HUMAN DIGNITY"

That’s how Congressman Carlos Curbelo talked about Planned Parenthood in an official press release.

A grand jury investigating the outrageous accusations against Planned Parenthood rejected all charges. And now: the anti-choice activists who created the slanderous videos accusing Planned Parenthood of selling fetal tissue are facing felony charges.
Carlos Curbelo owes Planned Parenthood an apology. Here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Troy

A local, homeless 1 year.

Pack Tampa City Hall for Marijuana Decriminalization

Please come show your support to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in Tampa. Let's have a rational conversation about drug enforcement in our communities.

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Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Charles Van Zant

By an 8-3 vote Monday afternoon, a House criminal justice panel voted to advance the more sweeping legislation (HB 865), which would make performing an abortion or operating an abortion clinic a first-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. 
Rep. Charles Van Zant, is the bill's sponsor. here

Vélo Champ: Heights Vibes #StopTBX Bicycle Ride

Starting at Vélo Champ on Central Ave. #StopTBX bike rides is a casual, informative bicycle ride through the Seminole Heights, Tampa Heights and the V.M. Ybor neighborhoods. The ride is intended to help realize a brick-by-brick understanding of just how destructive the proposed Tampa Bay Express (TBX) interstate expansion plan will be. The ride will visit key properties, streets and areas that will be impacted, demolished or completely eleminated by FDOT's plan to further expand I-275 and I-4 interstate systems. here

Florida INC. Welcomes Polluters

Dump hazardous materials

No Fines

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is not enforcing laws against companies responsible for hazardous materials pollution or collecting the fines it could from polluters, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental group. here

SUPPORT THE COMPETITIVE WORKFORCE ACT!

For the first time in history, this Tuesday, January 26, the Florida legislature will vote on the Florida Competitive Workforce Act.  Send a message to your legislators today and tell them to support this non-discrimination protection for LGBT Floridians! here

Jeb Bush: Rick Synder Is A “Great Governor For Michigan”

Jeb Bush said Sunday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should not have to resign for how the state handled the contaminated water crisis 

in Flint. here

Florida DOT Artsy Wall

I4 and 50th St. Tampa

Florida GOP On Climate Change

Marco Rubio “We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather, because America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,” 

Jeb Bush "President Obama’s climate rule, is “irresponsible and ineffective,” and private-sector innovation is “the source of a lot more solutions than any government-imposed idea.”

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Rick Scott’s Corporate Welfare Plan Doused With Cold Water

Rick Scott’s push to secure $250 million

 in economic incentive money this year 

was doused with cold water, 

as one of the state’s top economists said alternative plans would create more jobs and come with a 

higher return on investment. here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Andrew

A local, homeless 10 years.

Rick Scott Points Florida in Same Direction as Flint, Michigan

Public clamor for a veto and against Florida Governor Rick Scott's signing, of a new "water policy" bill lands in the governor's bubble like a muted, padded sound. Scott doesn't see and he doesn't hear, except through the filter of political ambition. Motivated by the same set of drivers that helped propel Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to the governor's office in Michigan in 2010: strip environmental rules and regulations that are enforceable and replace them with lawyerly garbage. here

Pam Bondi's Millennium Laboratories Scandal

Someone should be going to prison in the Millennium Laboratories fraud scandal that was aided and abetted by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office. here

DWS Has The Skin Of A Gator

"The party chair is going to absorb criticism from any candidates, partisans, and it's just the way it is,'' she said after a press conference on guns in the Florida Capitol. "These are people that simply are expressing the normal, understandable frustration over what they think is a sinister thing over every corner. I have to just block that 

noise out and focus on doing my job. 
I'm from Florida. 

I have the skin of an alligator."  
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare Package In Trouble

Tumbling financial markets are further clouding Gov.Rick Scott's push for $1 billion in tax cuts as the Legislature deals with a suddenly less rosy financial outlook and less money to divvy up. here