With minimum public input, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been working for four years on a proposal that could let more cancer-causing toxins be released into the state’s surface waters. Most Floridians have been kept in the dark regarding the plan that will cause great harm to the state’s aquatic environment, residents and visitors, according to activists and some elected officials. here
Friday, June 24, 2016
Tourist Beware: Don't Drink Florida Water
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Register To Vote Florida
Spent the day registering voters with my new friends in Belmont Heights. Thanks, you guys are awesome!
Miami Women Visit Dentist For Reproductive Healthcare
A group of women in Miami walked into a dental office seeking pap smears and treatment for yeast infections. About a dozen women crowded into a dental clinic at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center in Miami. "I came to see the dentist," said Yolanda Davis. "I have a bad yeast infection." Rosalie Whylie asked the receptionist if she could make an appointment for a pap smear. A representative from the dental clinic, who did not identify herself, told the women the dentists do not offer those types of services. But the women insisted, saying that Florida's GOP-led legislature instructed them to come to a dental clinic for women's health care. here
Fire Marco Rubio For Not Doing His Job
Rubio has gained a reputation for hating his job and seems to have all but given up on doing it, racking up the Senate’s “the worst attendance record, missing 35 percent, or 120 of the 339 roll votes” last year. He even skipped votes on bills that he talked about on the presidential campaign trail. here
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Ybor Paparazzi
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi had shown that her priority wasn't the public.
Bondi joined the lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act. Last summer, Bondi also joined the lawsuit against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and sea level rise. According to a study no state faces a greater threat from rising seas than Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Jacksonville are the cities most at risk. Yet Bondi would block the program that allows states to create plans for reducing emissions by 2020. here
Given her resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the Clean Power Plan, it is no surprise that Bondi placed her political interests above the interests of Floridians who complained to the state that Trump University scammed them. The difference is the clarity of Bondi's selfishness.
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Florida's Culture Of Corruption,
Pam Bondi
Vote For Solar Florida
The Florida August Primary Election is right around the corner and Amendment 4, a proposal to remove taxes on solar power,
is on the ballot. here
To sign up to vote by mail, visit FloridaSolarVoter.com Don’t live in Florida? Share this blog with pro-solar family and friends in the Sunshine State!
Florida INC. Income Inequality
The top 1 percent of wage earners in Florida make $1.27 million on average, nearly 35 times more than the bottom 99 percent, for which the average income is $36,530. here
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Dezeray Lyn: Fuck Jails. Fuck Judges
"I have to let everyone in Tampa know that we are now safer... I sat in a courtroom this morning doing jail solidarity and watched the police/judge keep my community 'safe' by delivering 'justice' in the form of sentencing a young houseless man to a year in jail for stealing food worth less than ten dollars from 7-11.
This came from a judge who ten minutes earlier started shouting and had a young man arrested for his phone ringing in court. This is from the judge, "IF YOUR PHONE RINGS IN CHURCH, GOD SENDS YOU TO HELL! IN MY COURTROOM YOU GET SENT TO JAIL!"
One young man facing life in prison who wouldn't take a plea deal because he insisted upon his innocence was treated like absolute shit for it. And our friend... Navigating life with mental health issues and crushing poverty will have a year in jail to review his 'crime' of thinking that food was a human right. One might assume that the poverty driving people to steal food, and the fact that so many thousands of our community members are on the streets, food insecure, hungry and lacking adequate medical care, would be an indictment of the ciry rather than the community members themselves. Fuck jails. Fuck judges."
Dezeray Lyn
Dezeray Lyn
Rick Scott's Florida Neglect Of Children
Florida's children have fallen behind in economic well-being and health, earning the state the rank of 40th out of the 50 states in the latest annual report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. here
Walk with Kevin in the Brandon 4th of July Parade!
Monday, June 20, 2016
The Citrus Taliban In Tampa
A Christian local government employee in Tampa has claimed that flying a Pride flag in wake of the Orlando shootings has created a “hostile work environment”. here
Stop TBX Speak Up And Then Drink Up!
Several local establishments will thank those who attend and speak at the MPO Board meeting on June 22nd to StopTBX, by providing a free beer or soft drink after the meeting! here
6.22 - 6PM
MPO board meeting to vote on funding TBX here
Florida Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis A National Embarrassment
Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis posted on Facebook on Sunday that “All Orlando nightclubs should be permanently closed. With or without random gunmen they are zoos,; utter cesspools of debauchery.” here
Floridians Don't Like Marco Rubio
A survey, released Friday, found 30 percent of Floridians polled said they approved of Rubio’s job performance. Another 49 percent said they disapproved of the job Rubio was doing, while 20 percent stated they weren’t sure. here
Florida GOP Giving Away Free AR-15 Semiautomatic Rifle
Sen. Greg Evers a congressional candidate and state senator from Florida’s Panhandle announced a “Homeland Defender Giveaway” contest to give residents of the district a chance to win an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle on Independence Day. here
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For 14 years, Evers has earned an A-plus rating from the NRA.
For 14 years, Evers has earned an A-plus rating from the NRA.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Tampa Bay Alan Grayson Campaign Starts In Ybor City
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ALAN GRAYSON,
Becky Killik,
Wayne Schucker
Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Joe Kaufman
Joe Kaufman is running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova for Florida's 23rd Congressional District. On Sunday, he put out a call to shut down "every Florida radical Muslim institution" — though he couldn't say how he'd sort out "radical" from "nonradical" ones. Kaufman is running, in essence, on a platform that boils down to "Muslims are scary." He writes often for the ultra-right-wing FrontPage Magazine, where he calls Muslims "terrorists." here
What Stogie Had For Lunch
My last lunch in Cali.
Kafta Kabob with Rice
At Gyro Kabob Greek Cafe, Wildomar. Thanks Delany and Morgan
At Gyro Kabob Greek Cafe, Wildomar. Thanks Delany and Morgan
Saturday, June 18, 2016
MARCO RUBIO’S RECORD OF VOTING TO PROTECT THE TERRORIST GUN LAW LOOPHOLE
In the wake of Sunday’s gun tragedy in Orlando, the gun violence prevention organization Americans for Responsible Solutions issued the following statement today on United States Senator Marco Rubio’s record of voting to protect the loophole in federal law that allows known and suspected terrorists on the FBI’s terrorist watch list to pass a criminal background check and legally purchase guns at federally licensed firearms dealers: here
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Jeff Brandes
A St. Pete lighting company in which Sen. Jeff Brandes is invested received $65,000 worth of work as the result of a grant he helped secure in the 2013 state budget. here
Polls: Florida Supports Medical Marijuana
The numbers in eight polls taken since January 2015 vary widely as to whether people of Florida support the legalization of medical marijuana. But the polls all agree that over 60 percent — the percentage needed to pass Amendment 2 in November’s general election — said they were ready to vote yes on the change in the state’s constitution. here
Anderson Cooper Responds To Bondi's Interview Claims
Friday, June 17, 2016
Florida To Protest Bear Hunt
Conservationists, animal advocates, and other grassroots activists will gather in over 28 cities across Florida, on June 18 to protest the state's bear hunts. here
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