Eric Cantor’s House Coup D’état Led by Koch-Funded Teahadists Sleeper Cell

New overlord Eric Cantor’s coup d’état of the House is burning up American airwaves right now — except, of course, over at Fox. John Boehner, the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers have been carefully positioning their pawns in preparation for this strike for years. Carefully, they moved, manipulated and bought their way into one of the most quietly powerful arms of our Congress: The House Rules Committee......more

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Tampa Students Protest Homophobic Speaker

Members of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protested against Rosaria Butterfield, a self-described former “radical lesbian feminist turned pastor’s wife.” Butterfield now writes and gives lectures opposing homosexuality and advocating for evangelical Christianity. She believes that homosexuality is a sin and that her pride in being a lesbian was an even greater sin. Under the watchful guard of Tampa Police, private security and USF administrators, the protesters stood for the entirety of her speech as onlookers took pictures and gave approval to the protest act.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla Steak 

With black beans and yellow rice

$7.10 at Cuban Sandwich Shop on Florida ave in Tampa

Bill Gunter: Marching Orders From Tallahassee

Florida republicans Pam Bondi, Will Weatherford and Richard Corcoran will be in Port Richey for fellow Republican Bill Gunter.......more The political committee of billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, is funding a closing days TV ad blitz to help Republicans win. We intend to engage in House and Senate  races around the state in both general elections and primaries to ensure Gov. Scott has the partners he needs to create goods jobs for the people of Florida," On WEDU's Florida This Week Friday, Mike Fasano, who use to have the job but is now Pasco County's tax collector, formally endorsed Amanda Murphy over Republican Bill Gunter:

"She is a person that's way above Bill Gunter. She understands the issues. She gets it.... She will be that consumer advocate that we don't want to lose out of House District," said Fasano, who estimates Gunter will have $1-million spent on his behalf by the time the votes are counted. "He's a good guy, but there's no question he's getting his marching orders from the leadership and special interests out of Tallahassee........more

Sick of the GOP? Vote for Democrat Amanda Murphy

The GOP's Little Rule Change They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

The TEApublicans in the House have changed and rigged the rules in order to prevent the government shutdown from ending until they, and they alone, decide to end it.

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The Keys Are Safe, For Now

Great news, an exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday......more

Why The Government Shutdown Was RIGHT

impending Crash Of The Republican Party

A 28% approval rating. That’s the lowest rating Gallup has recorded for EITHER party since it began taking party favor polls in 1992....more

 New polls show the number of Republican House seats vulnerable in

2014 has jumped from 21 to 29!

Pic: "Angry constituents gathered outside Rep. Daniel Webster’s (R-FL) Winter Garden office on Friday, to demand that he votes to end the government shutdown" -- West Orlando News

I Am Bill “Big Oil” Young

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One of his staunchest allies, GOP Congressman Bill “Big Oil” Young just announced his retirement. This is BIG NEWS for three reasons:

1. Congressman Young’s announcement comes just days after a new poll showing him LOSING his re-election race.
2. This is a winnable race -- President Obama won this district just last year.
3. Young’s not the only one -- there are 16 other House Republicans losing their races after the Republican government shutdown......here

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The End Of The Republican Party

The Republicans have the shutdown. This is Week Two of the shutdown, and already we have seen the lowest approval ratings for the GOP in history. Indeed, I have heard faint, quiet whispers of a Democratic takeover of the House, the heavy price to be inflicted on belligerent Republicans. What will Week Three bring?

Ben Kirby

SHARON GLESS JOINS WITH EQUALITY FLORIDA

Multi-Award winning Actress Sharon Gless, a Florida resident, has joined Equality Florida in its Get Engaged campaign (www.GetEngaged.org), a statewide call to action with the goal of securing full marriage equality in the state of Florida.....more

Alan Grayson SILENCED After Comparing Republicans To Dog Poop

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Steve Galvin's Robo Calls

His recorded call to voters attacking opponent Amy Foster in the District 8 race masquerades as a look at her record of public service. It is really a smear campaign against Foster, who is gay. The city has come too far in embracing and respecting residents regardless of sexual orientation to fall for such divisive baiting......more

Check out Ms. Foster here

Florida's Corporate Welfare Program

DC might be closed but Rick Scott is open for business.

Check out  Florida's Corporate Welfare Program here

DFA Endorses Rick Kriseman

St. Petersburg has it all -- it's a great city with tons of potential for growth and expansion. In fact, about the only thing it doesn't have is a forward thinking, progressive Mayor who knows that St. Petersburg can be even better and will fight to make it that way for every family. You can change that -- and that's why DFA is proud to endorse

Rick Kriseman for Mayor of St. Petersburg. Help him out here

Democracy For America

Florida GOP Leaders Back Cruz

While the government is shutdown hundreds of top state Republican Party donors and officials celebrated their party’s political success at a party in Disney World last week. The party is sending letters of support to Cruz and others in Congress who backed him. Hard-core party activists in the crowd weren’t worried about the shutdown, Jorge Bonilla, who hopes to run in 2014 against liberal bad-ass Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando, called the shutdown “regrettable” and “an unfortunate failure of leadership,” which of course he blames on the Democratic-controlled Senate and

President Barack Obama........more

Gay Florida Teen Kaitlyn Hunt Pleads No Contest

Florida Republican Ted Yoho

part of the faction who forced John Boehner to trigger the government shutdown and now wants to move along to default on the national debt. How bad will default be? "I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets,"

Yoho told the Post.......more

Ready For Hillary In Tampa

Former Tampa Mayor Sandy Freedman hosts a low-dollar fundraiser/informational session on Ready For Hillary political committee gearing up and pushing for a presidential bid by the former secretary of state. Suggested contribution is just $25......more

Oct. 22 - 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Mise en Place in Tampa

I Am Vern Buchanan

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I am from Sarasota. I am always on someones list of most  corrupt politicians.

 I am in the top ten over at Judicial Watch, and I am number 5 at CREW's most corrupt for 2013.

But somehow the nice folks down here keep electing me.

Obama's Revolution: We Are Winning

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STOP DUKE RIP OFF RALLY

A group of concerned citizens, all of whom are ratepayers of Duke Energy, will hold a rally & press conference in front of Duke Energy headquarters on

Saturday, October 12th at 11AM.
downtown St. Pete 299 1st Avenue North
The group, named “STOP DUKE RIP OFF” is calling for the defeat of the proposed settlement

between Duke Energy and the Public Service Commission which requires Duke customers to pay

$3.2 billion of the cost for two nuclear power plants that are not going to be built, costing each of the 1.7 million customers almost $2,000 in higher electric bills.

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Dolphins Are Dying In The Gulf

It's been more than three years since the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began, yet bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf are still suffering.......more