What Stogie Had For Lunch

Seak Fajitas with beans and rice 

At El Rincon Mexicano in Plant City

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Rick Scott: Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Scott,  rejected $2.4 billion in federal transportation money to develop a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando. The architect of Scott's opposition to high-speed rail was Adam Hollings­worth, then an adviser to the governor on transportation issues. Hollingsworth then went to work for Parallel Infrastructure, a company owned by Florida East Coast Industries, which also owns All Aboard Florida, the project to develop a private rail line between Miami and Orlando.
"The state has no involvement in this railway." 
Pay no mind the $1.5 billion federal loan that All Aboard Florida wants. 
Avert your eyes from the more than 

$250 million in state money 

that has been set aside for projects that will assist this train. Ignore the $44 million in direct state-funded grants the company plans to seek. 
It could end up costing us $1.8 billion 
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This happens when a self-deluding governor has his chief of staff book a seat for him on the Last Train to Cronyville. Tallahassee is truly a mystical place.  Daniel Ruth

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Rick Scott "What's Your Plan, Gov?"

A campaign made up of Latino, business, academic, community, and faith leaders who want to ask Governor Rick Scott what his plan is to address climate change. We want to promote the benefits of reducing Florida's carbon footprint and investing in renewable energy.

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Poop In The Water At Tampa Beaches

The Hillsborough County Health Department 

advises beachgoers not to wade in the waters at Picnic Island and Davis Island beaches. Water samples taken Monday detect the presence of shit in the waters. The county says the pollution may have come from stormwater runoff, wildlife waste, or human sewage. here

Meet Holly Fisher of Charleston, WV

A Lying Right-Wing ‘Christian’ Taliban Extremist here

Hobby Lobby Tampa Protest

Awake Pinellas Rally  

in Front of the Tampa Federal Courthouse.

Florida students demand end to Israeli terror

 

University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine held a solidarity protest in Gainesville  for Palestinian teens under attack by the Israeli state.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Philly Cheese Steak

At Sam's Subs in  Port Charlotte

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Gwen Graham On Tour With The Legendary Bob Graham

Gwen Graham later this month will launch an extensive tour across Florida’s 2nd Congressional District, visiting all 14 counties with members of her family, including her father, the former governor and senator 
Bob Graham. here

The Ritz Ybor

Tampa Blogger Slams Peter Schorsch

Pushing Rope

Ask Charlie Crist If Peter Schorsch Is Working On the Campaign

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Florida Dems Kicking Butt In November

The state party is coming into this 

year’s elections two years after the 

2012 cycle turned out to be one of their most successful campaigns in Florida’s political history. Barack Obama was powered 
on by an 

explosive Latino vote 

to become the first Democrat since FDR 

to carry Florida twice.

 in Florida, the question is no longer what Florida Democrats can do to survive. The real question is whether or not they can build on this momentum, or see it evaporate in a midterm election 

with miserable turnout. more>

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Native American Shuts Up Anti-immigration Radicals

Minimum Wage Hurts Everyone

Per Andy Puzder 
head of the parent company of 

Hardees,and Arby’s

He made $4.4 million in 2012. His restaurants brought in $1.28 billion dollars. 
Imagine some of that money staying here. 

Helping our small businesses. more

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Twice Divorced Pam Bondi Says Gay Families Unstable

WMNF Summer Membership Drive!

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Video: Israelis Beating Tampa Kid

Florida is the first state to privatize Medicaid

Florida is not the first state to make the move to this type of Medicaid privatization but it is the first to do it on this scale here 

Florida GOP Congressman Steve Southerland: Southern Fried Chicken

Something Fishy Going On In District 4

Christopher Weaver's campaign strategy

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Florida GOP Brand: The Beginning of the End

Minor Party and NPAs outnumber 

GOP registrants 

in Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Orange more>

Rick Scott's Florida

Charlie Crist's Daytona Car

A campaign gift of a NASCAR sponsorship for the nationally televised Coke Zero 400 was called off not because the rival Florida GOP complained, but because the registered owner of the race car in question, record producer 

Mike Curb, used to be a Republican lieutenant governor of California and asked that the Democrat's decals not appear. here

Israeli Army Brutally Beats Tampa High School Student

The Florida chapter CAIR today called on the U.S. Department of State to demand that Israel immediately release 15-year-old Palestinian-American high school student 
Tariq Khdeir so that he may receive emergency medical attention after being brutally beaten by Israeli forces. here