Mary Mulhern at Mise en Place

Mary Mulhern for Hillsborough County
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Mise en Place
442 W. Kennedy Blvd.. Tampa
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Connect Tampa Bay

Connect Tampa Bay, a new transportation education and advocacy organization, was launched Tuesday. Connect Tampa Bay will engage citizens across Tampa Bay who want to invest in more viable transportation options to improve economic development and quality of life. "Connect Tampa Bay aims to bring people together to understand the challenges we face from the lack of transportation options and advocate for solutions from the bottom up."

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The State Of The Tampa Bay Blogosphere

Still Going Strong

Madfloridian - Litbrit - Tampa Do-Gooder - Tiny Little Dots

St. Petersblog - The Spencerian - SOG City Oracle - Finding Tampa

Bartlett Park - Pushing Rope - R/CT - Alan Snel - Clark Brooks
The Ybor City Stogie

We Miss You

The State Of Sunshine - Out In Left Field - Tampa Backdoor Ways
Deep Something

When Something Isn't Working - Try Something Else

Fla GOP's breath-taking hubris and entitlement hardly limited to Jim Greer

The whole sorry story of the Florida Republican Party under Jim Greer is exhibit A on how near-absolute power, combined with astronomical campaign accounts, can and did breed breathtaking arrogance and entitlement, if not outright corruption, among party leaders professing conservatism.

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Traffic tickets, fraud probes deaths — and state Rep. Daphne Campbell

She’s a Democratic state representative who has another way to deal with future red-light tickets: file legislation to ban the traffic-surveillance cameras that shot video of her husband’s Honda Odyssey breaking traffic laws.
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Stogie likes this party. Florida Greens

Gasparilla Arts Month

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In Temple Terrace

Florida Man Nation’s Worst Superhero

You know all those stranger-than-fiction news headlines detailing the bizarre exploits of someone identified only as "Florida man"? Imagine that all of those headlines referred to a single person, and that this person is superhero who causes mayhem wherever he goes.

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Mary Mulhern for Hillsborough County Commission, District 7

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Tampa Streetcar

Gulfport Waterfront

Dancing Everyday

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Burger and Fries
At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

ONE BILLION RISING Campaign

THE INVISIBLE WAR

A groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.
Wednesday, Feb. 13 @ 7:00pm. Free 
The L Train, 900 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
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Sweetbay Closings And Charities

Tampa Bay area organizations that assist the homeless and impoverished had come to depend on Sweetbay's donations of thousands of pounds of expiring produce, meats and baked goods from neighborhood stores.

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The Bass Pro Giveaway

14 people spoke against a proposal by the Hillsborough County Commission to dole out more than $6 million to a land developer for road improvements around a proposed Bass Pro Shops.

Local Views: The Cuban Advantage

Let me get this straight. Marco Rubio, current darling of the Republican Party, is going to be an authority on immigration? Isn't it a little ironic? As a son of Cuban immigrants, Cubans only need get to our shores and are granted full "amnesty." No evidence of moral character (whatever that means); no English as first language.We should start by addressing this arcane and unfair favoritism.

Leslie Sisto, St. Petersburg

Tampa Bay Rays

We Have No Money Over Here

Stay at the Trop where you belong. Ken Hagan will be out of a job soon and won't be able to help you.
We are not Miami-Dade or Arlington, Texas. If you get it on the ballot it will be defeated.

The Everglades Seafood Festival

Revenue Checkpoints Come to Florida

Get Well Mindy

Troubled country singer (Ft. Myers native) Mindy McCready has been committed to rehab for alcohol and mental health issues in the wake of her boyfriend, David Wilson’s, death last month. Addtionally, the 37-year-old’s two young sons have been removed from her Arkansas home. According to E!, a judge ordered McCready to treatment following an emergency hearing on Wednesday.
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Marco Rubio Not Concerned About Climate Change

Higginbotham, Hagan, Murman, and Crist

The goal, is for Hillsborough County to “stop embarrassing us, and embarrassing itself.
“To stop a bully is really easy. But silence to a bully is encouragement. And right now there are too many people who feel the way we do, who are very silently shaking their head at the County Commission.

And we need them to be vocal and visible.”
Those were the words of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, speaking at a town hall meeting in Ybor on Tuesday night. The meeting was a response to the controversial 4-3 vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission, rejecting creation of a domestic partner registry.

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The Fix and the Best of Florida

Cillizza and the team from The Fix are back again, and they want nominations for best state political blogs:

Now, I certainly wouldn't complain if some generous reader out there wanted to nominate The Spencerian. It would be a genuine honor, and I would be grateful. However, there are a lot of great blogs in this state, and I think they and their writers (and readers, for that matter) deserve a shot. So I am asking you think about other Florida blogs first. Go ahead.You can do it.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Wings

With a Bloody Mary

At Beef o'Bradys in Temple Terrace.

Ashley Judd for Kentucky

A Hollywood Liberal?

Or This Guy? remember This?

Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President. 

 Karl Rove (This guy is still in business?) must be worried.

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Sue Carlton: Tampa is not such a bad city after all

At last, someone who gets us.

Like me, maybe you found yourself a little irked at how Tampa was portrayed nationally as the Bayshore backdrop to a scandal that took down a CIA director. If you too were a tad offended by jokes of us being Jacksonville south, and also hotter and uglier than the surface of the moon, take heart.

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