The Ybor City Stogie

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Happy Holidays from the Stogie!

Happy Holidays to my friends who follow the Ybor City Stogie! Together, we are helping to empower progressives and leftist community, in Tampa & beyond!

What Holidays are you going to celebrate, if any? I personally will celebrate Hanukkah — as I do so, I will commemorate the sacrifices of great leftists from history; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Bayard Rustin, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman; as well as the iconic leftists and liberals of today; Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky, Elizabeth Warren, Dennis Kucinich, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ro Khanna, Andrew Yang, and many others!

Which leftists would you like to highlight this Holiday Season? What do you think about the presidential primary election and the various local elections? Who should run, who should we support, and why?

Cheers, and have a safe, happy, healthy Holiday Season!

May the god of your choice (or scientific alternative) bless you!

— Asher

Berners and DSA in Safety Harbor

Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America

Our Revolution Tampa Bay

Photo credit Jasmina Forcan

Andrew Gillum: ‘Voter disenfranchisement is much more insidious these days

Tampa Paparazzi

Buzz

Ybor Rob: Police Officer Gets Dismissed

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Gaby

Advice for Florida Senators From Republican Jeff Flake

Courageous GOP Senator Jeff Flake addressed his old Republican colleagues, saying,
"President Trump is on trial. But in a very real sense, so are you. And so is the political party to which we belong." He warns that, "the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when the coequal branch follows that president off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth... If there ever was a time to put country over party, it is now. And by putting country over party, you might just save the Grand Old Party before
it’s too late." HERE

Sacred ground: Uncovering Tampa’s lost cemeteries

Hillsborough County GOP Chairman Jim Waurishuk

Blasted the impeachment vote, saying that any member of Congress who did so “is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America’s Constitutional order.”

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On Trumps letter to Nancy Pelosi, he
said it was “spot on.

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He went on to add that the greatest consequence of the pursuit of bringing down Trump “will be the complete and utter destruction of the current Democrat Party.”

Is perhaps one of the last nails in their party’s coffin.

HERE
Mr. Waurishuk you do know you guys
are looking like fools right?

Republicans Can’t Win In 2020 Without Cheating

Rick Scott says he has little doubt President Trump will stay in office for the remainder of his term despite impeachment proceedings. The Florida Republican, a key Trump ally, says much of the Democrats’ arguments stem from “hearsay” and falsities. “The bottom line is, this is an impeachment trial and you have to think of it that way,” Scott says. “My conscience is clear.” HERE