Dianne Barrette Of Winter Haven Lies About Obamacare

By now everyone has heard Dianne Barrette’s sob story about how Obama “lied” to her when he said that she could keep her health insurance plan if that was what she wanted. Barrette has been making the rounds since the CBS report, The plan that she has is hardly an insurance plan at all, which costs her $648 per year As Van Susteren of FOX, yes FOX points out "this is a “bare bones” policy (junk health insurance) and even suggests that there might be better options available to her, saying, “If you’re walking across the street and someone runs a red light, you’re in deep trouble under your existing policy.” Barrette may be eligible for a subsidy under the ACA, Susteren asked if she has looked into any other possibilities for insurance,  Barrette admits that she had received emails with other options, but that she has not yet looked into them........more and here

Jacksonville Protesters Rally At Courthouse For Marissa Alexander

Protesters from across Florida gathered in front of the Duval County Courthouse on October 31 for the first status hearing in the retrial of Marissa Alexander.......more

Florida GOP Attacks SaintPetersBlog

I really don’t know what to say about this other than to laugh … to laugh at the irony of the Republican Party of Florida attacking me. Peter Schorsch

EMILY’s List Throws Jessica Ehrlich To The Curve

Emily's List today endorsed Alex Sink in the race to replace the late Rep. C.W. Bill Young. Ehrlich, ran against Young in 2012 and had declared her intentions to take him on again, Yesterday, the group erased her from its website........more

Anti Drone Protest In Jacksonville

More than 20 war veterans and community allies from the North Florida area gathered outside of Jacksonville's Naval Air Station (NAS) to protest a new drone operations base run by the Pentagon. The protest, organized by Occupy Jacksonville and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), drew supporters from as far away as Gainesville and Pensacola.......more

ROC UNITED Miami

One in 12 people in the US is a restaurant worker

ROC-Miami is a member led local restaurant workers’ org founded in 2009 that has 500 restaurant worker members. We build power and voice for restaurant workers.

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Communist Lesbian Girl Scout Cookies

Religious Right activists have long campaigned against the Girl Scouts of the USA, and pastors Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner of Generations Radio have now joined in by urging listeners not to purchase Girl Scout cookies. “Please, I beg of you, do not buy Girl Scout cookies,” Swanson said. “Please, I beg of you, stop buying Girl Scout cookies.”.......more

What Stogie Had For Dinner

 Spaghetti and sausage with salad and bread $9.99

at the Spaghetti Warehouse in Ybor City.

Latino Donors Target GOP Lawmakers

A Latino political action committee has kicked off a $20 million campaign to eject from office Republicans who oppose immigration reform being pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers.  The Latino Victory Project, a key fundraising player in efforts to help re-elect the president, is targeting members of Congress who represent sizeable Latino communities, but remain against comprehensive immigration reform. The committee was created by actress Eva Longoria, Puerto Rico lawyer Andres Lopez, and San Antonio businessman Henry R. Muñoz III.

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John Morgan's Jack Russell Terrier

“She knows about as much about constitutional law
as my Jack Russell terrier does”

Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan said of Florida's Right Wing Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi after Bondi argued to the Florida Supreme Court last week that the ballot summary for the medical marijuana question fails to inform voters of the “breathtaking scope” of the amendment......more

Well she does love dogs.

ONE Tampa Meetup And 5K Bayshore run

Tuesday, November 12, 6:00 PM

Four Green Fields

205 W Platt St in Tampa

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Susan Smith On Leberals And Charlie

Smith talks to Nicole Sandler about progressive disapproval of Crist.

At Pushing Rope

Friends Of Stogie

Meet Shannon, she is a bartender at The Pegasus Lounge in Tampa

Mitch Mallett For Congress

A self-described “practical liberal” has announced he will challenge one of the country's most corrupt politicians U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan of Sarasota........more

Visit him at Facebook.

Alan Grayson Plans Agenda For GOP Conference

 Florida’s Congressman, Alan Grayson, addressed the state party faithful Saturday and likened some Republicans to Confederate flag-waving “bigots.”
Grayson made his comments during a mock reading of a fake Republican Party agenda in which he suggested conservatives were also gay marriage-bashing gun nuts. “At 8:30 a.m., the morning breakout sessions,” Grayson said, reading the made-up GOP agenda. “Ballroom A: the bigots. Ballroom B: the paranoids. And Ballroom C, the largest group of all: the gullible.”......more>
Congressman Alan Grayson

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Michael Hussey: Charlie Crist And Nan Rich

I say let Crist and Rich both run and we have a healthy debate on the issues in the Democratic primary. Democrats need to support the winner of the primary. People are worried about if Crist is progressive enough or can Rich raise as much money as Gov. Rick Scott. The answer to both questions is no. If you decide to sit this election out then Scott gets a second term. Think about that for a moment......more

They Eat Their Own: Tea Party Hit List

Florida's Daniel Webster, Gus Bilirakis, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

and Mario Diaz-Balart are on it.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Vaca Frita ("Fried Cow")

With Moro and Yuca

$9.99 at Las Margaritas in Tampa.

Great, some of the best Cuban food in Tampa.

Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio Talks With Charlie Crist

Ybor Paparazzi

Meet Debbie

Kathy Bates: The Ultimate Tea Partier

Voices For Children Of Tampa Bay

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2013 Guavaween - Ybor City

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Tampa Police Raid Sulphur Springs Church

On the afternoon of Wed., July 31,  TPD took a battering ram to the front door of Bishop Chuck Leigh's Apostolic Catholic Church of Christ the Servant in Sulphur Springs. The dramatic door-smashing was captured by ABC Action News. The door was unlocked. TPD keeps sending girls wearing wires to him to get him to sign off on community service hours in exchange for sex. One of the arresting officers told him the orders for his arrest came straight from Mayor Buckhorn’s office. The mayor’s office denies the claim. Leigh had followed one of the girls from a distance and saw her walk toward two Tampa police cars and a waiting ABC Action News van. She leaned into the open police window and spoke to the police.

TPD spokesperson Laura McElroy condemns the notion that the city is out to get Bishop Leigh. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. McElroy initially told CL that the television crew “just happened to be there” during the raid of Leigh’s church. After being caught in a lie by CL she called back to amend her comment.  “The news media was invited along for the raid,” she explained,
“but we did not tip them off.” What is the difference between an invite and a tip?

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Also there is this, Reverend Russell Meyer, executive director of the Florida Council of Churches, suspects there is more going on than meets the eye with the made-for-media police raid. “There is a real attempt to silence Bishop Leigh,” he says. “The picture painted by the local media is not only a fabrication and an insult, it’s an attack on the Church and its relationship with the poor.” Meyer is one of several following the case who have floated the theory that activists like Bishop Leigh are standing in the way of the city’s gentrification plans for Sulphur Springs and have thus become targets. Citing Mayor Buckhorn’s Nehemiah Project to demolish houses considered havens for drug dealers and prostitutes and the city’s aggressive code enforcement and plans to “repopulate” the neighborhood, some see the work of Leigh’s Apostolic Catholic Church as antithetical to the administration’s vision.

Tampa Bay Homeless

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