Head Start In Volusia County To Close

John Mica's district

here

Terry Kimple, Beware Of This Man

After a nearly four-month delay, Hillsborough County commissioners voted Wednesday to seat a 22-member diversity advisory council that includes religious conservative activist Terry Kemple. In May, Terry Kemple blasted Commissioner Kevin Beckner, who is openly gay and proposed creating the diversity council.......more

About Terry Kemple: District 7 Candidate for Hillsborough County School Board

here

Tampa Tribune Mainstreams Islamophobic, Anti-LGBT Florida Family Association

The Tampa Tribune published an article on the Florida Family Association's (FFA) campaign against the cable news network Al Jazeera America, failing to note the FFA's fringe Islamophobic and anti-LGBT views. Al Jazeera America's journalism has been lauded by media critics, but the network's recent launch triggered a wave of right-wing, Islamophobic backlash. Most notorious among Al Jazeera America's critics is David Caton, head of the FFA, who has launched a crusade to stop corporations from advertising on what he describes as the radical Islamist network.

In a September 22 article, the Tribune reported on Caton and the FFA's campaign: here

Tampa Bay Times, See Ya

The Tampa Bay Times wants $12.00 a month to visit their website.

The Republican Taliban

Poverty and Slave Labor in Florida’s Corporate Farms

”In America today we are seeing a race to the bottom, the middle class is collapsing, poverty is increasing. What I saw in Immokalee is the bottom in the race to the bottom.” Senator Bernie Saunders

COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS
  Immokalee, (239) 657-8311

here

Rick Scott's Project Integrity

Last year, the Scott administration began a misguided effort to remove people from the voter rolls. The result was described by county Supervisors of Elections as an "embarrassment," "sloppy," and "disgusting." Now, Gov. Scott's Secretary of State is travelling across Florida trying to sell people on the idea that it should be tried again.

 

Stand up for the right to vote at the following meetings:

October 3rd, in Panama City

October 4th, in Jacksonville

October 7th, in Orlando

October 8th, in Sarasota

October 9th, in Broward

Who Is David McKalip?

The Florida neurosurgeon and healthcare reform opponent who sent a racist email showing President Obama dressed as a witch doctor with a loin cloth and a bone through his nose. He later sent apologize.....here

Dr. David McKalip Mr. Tea Party.....here

 Resurfaces as Expert on Glenn Beck.....here

David Mckalip speaks at Floridians Unite (Tea Party) Rally in Orlando.....here

Beware he is now running for St. Petersburg City Council District 4

'For those of us who attend St. Pete City Council meetings, this wingnut McKalip is the bane of our existence."..Alex Pickett

KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES | City Council District 4

here

The Power Of Right Wing Spin

Once You Go Indie You Never Go Back

Olive Garden saw a 4 percent drop in sales over the summer. Red Lobster is down 5.2 percent. And that’s in spite of efforts to promote new lighter dishes, small plates and better deals. Now their parent company, Orlando based Darden, is replacing its president and cutting 80 to 85 staff positions to save $50 million. Some analysts say the middle class isn’t eating out as much. Post-recession, that is true. The restaurant industry overall is in a battle with the fast-casual options of Noodles & Co., Chipotle and Panera. People want deals and they want quality. And more and more, we want local. Once I was exposed to indie restaurants and learned the awesome that is buying and supporting local, I just wasn’t interested in big-chain dining......more

Also check out Living Off Tips and Tampa Bay Locavore for a full list of local places to eat.

 more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/23/4503163/red-lobster-and-olive-garden-cannot.html#storylink=cpy

Alan Grayson To Host Tampa Fundraiser For Alan Cohn

Alan Cohn, a former investigative reporter at WFTS-Ch. 28 is running against U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, in Florida's 15th Congressional district. The fundraiser is scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.Oct. 7 at Mangrove’s Soho restaurant and lounge, 208 S Howard Ave., Tampa.

here

I Am John Mica

Accountability
Check out Nick Ruiz III in 2014.

Amanda Murphy & Bill Nelson In Holiday

                                            Event Hosts

Representative Mark Danish - Michael Cox - Dr. Larry & Ellen Floriani

John & Karen Ford - Raymond Gadd - Bill & Judy Gibson - Marvin
& Patsy Hickman - Beverly & Michael Ledbetter - Dr. Lynn Lindeman - Jose Ceballos - Ken Savich - Joe & Patty King - Elena McCullough

 With Special Guest

Senator Bill Nelson

Invite You to Join Them in Supporting

Amanda Murphy

Candidate for State Representative District 36

Friday, October 4th  3:30pm – 5:00 pm

Bailey’s Bluff Clubhouse

2021 Gulf View Drive

Holiday
 

Please RSVP to Brian Goff (561) 843-1824 Briandgoff@gmail.com or

Josh Weierbach (407) 697-0823 josh.weierbach@gmail.com 

If you can't attend you can donate by clicking here 

Florida's Panhandle Big City Homies

North Florida pols (republicans) have packed their state House districts with a particularly low-maintenance category of citizens. The kind who don’t show up at townhall meetings clamoring about too much traffic or lousy parks or crumbling bridges or under-funded schools or the need for more cops on the beat. They never, ever complain about too few cops. Best of all they don’t go around town grumbling that folks should vote for that other candidate. They can’t. They can’t vote. They’re state prisoners.......more

Artists for Darden Rice

 fundraiser for the Darden Rice City Council District 4 general election campaign at DM Glass Studios! Thursday: 6:00pm until 8:00pm. 
550 24th Street South, St. Pete
Support Ms. Rice www.votedardenrice.com
Lite food and drinks provided. RSVP here. For more info, ask info@votedardenrice.com

Florida Representatives Who Voted For Gov. Shutdown, All Republicans

Rep. Jeff Miller [R-D1] - Jim Bryan (D)

Rep. Steve Southerland [R-D2] - Gwen Graham (D)

Rep. Ted Yoho [R-D3]

Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R-D4] - Gary Koniz (Write-In)

Rep. Ron DeSantis [R-D6] - David Cox (D), Andrew Scott (D)

Rep. John Mica [R-D7] - Nick Ruiz III (D)

Rep. Bill Posey [R-D8] - Gabriel Rothblatt (D), Corry Westbrook (D)

Rep. Daniel Webster [R-D10]

Rep. Richard Nugent [R-D11]

Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-D12]

Rep. W. Bill Young [R-D13] - Jessica Ehrlich (D)

Rep. Dennis Ross [R-D15] - Alan Cohn (D)

Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-D16]

Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-D17] - Will Bronson (D)

Rep. Trey Radel [R-D19] - April Freeman (D)

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R-D25]

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-D27]

IHabit Heroes To Show Florida Kids How To Be Healthy

Marvel Custom Solutions has teamed with Well Point and Florida Blue to create a new comic focused on childhood wealth and wellness.......here

Kriseman Campaign

Obamacare Open For Business

Open For Business

here

I Am Rick Scott

Florida Counties Defy Scott On Affordable Care Act

Individual counties in Florida are resisting Gov. Rick Scott’s ban on a program designed to help Americans better understand their options under the Affordable Care Act. The Republican governor issued an order earlier this month to bar “navigators” trained to help people sign up for health insurance in Florida. Broward County, which contains 31 cities, is just one of the Florida counties defying the governor’s order. Both Pinellas County and Miami-Dade, Florida’s most populous county and the state’s second-highest uninsured population, have also announced they will allow navigators to assist residents in enrolling for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act........more

Where is Hillsborough County? Watch video here. 

Opt Out of Koch Propaganda, Not Obamacare

Free Shotguns In Florida

Members of a gun-rights group think they have the answer to combating crime — free shotguns and ammo to homeowners. Members of the Armed Citizen Project of Florida have been dropping leaflets on doorsteps in the Sunshine Gardens community near Orlando, offering to “arm volunteer households,” for free........more

GOP's Ransom Demands

The GOP’s Descent Into Madness

Ted Cruz: The GOP’s self-made monster......more

GOP Raises Money For Democrats By Accident......more

Providing Health Care For Seniors And Veterans Is ‘Un-American’........more

Gay Marriage Will Lead to Interspecies Marriage......more

GOP Self-Implosion Continues.......more

Larry Klayman Sets Date

The totally-not-delusional Larry Klayman has finally set a date for his proposed uprising to remove President Obama from office: November 19, rotesters will “descend on Washington, D.C., en masse, and demand that he leave town and resign from office if he does not want to face prison time” for pushing “his Muslim, socialist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-radical gay and lesbian agenda.”........more

They just convicted him in Ocala.
The Day the Clown Cried Wolf

Naples Goodwill Employee Andrew Anderson Arrested For Helping Poor

Goodwill says it no longer wants to press charges.

Congratulations To Rosario Dawson

Actress Rosario Dawson (A hero of ours around here) accepts the Outstanding Commitment to Cause and Community Award at the 2013 NCLR ALMA Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. Listen to her  Amazing Acceptance Speech.
Voto Latino, Visit her site here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

2 Real Tacos with rice

$5.00 At Don Julio's Cockteles in Wimauma.

more

Tampa Bay Homeless

Tampa's dancing homeless guy.

Florida's Right Wing Infestation

With Obamacare about to be implemented, Republicans are desperate to deny health care access to the uninsured. The deputy secretary of Florida’s Health Department has now ordered state health facilities to ban federal outreach workers—called “Navigators”—who are trying to sign people up for Obamacare subsidies. That’s right. The Florida Health Department—whose mission is to “protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida”—wants to deny the uninsured access to learning about federal health care subsidies they may be eligible for. Sign our petition, demanding that the Florida Health Department rescind this order—and allow health care Navigators in state health facilities to discuss the Affordable Care Act. here

Avowed Tea Partier Dan Tucker

Pinellas GOP state committeeman made fun of County Commissioner

 John Morroni’s health issues.

 “Doesn’t he have cancer of the brain… hmmm?”

Morroni does have cancer The  comment was made after Morroni’s endorsement of

Darden Rice for the St. Petersburg City Council.......more

Republicans are ‘Afraid that Americans Are Going to Like Obamacare’

In a few years they will be saying it was their idea.

here

Obama Convicted In Ocala

Sentenced to 10 years

On September 19, the Citizen's Court convicted President Barack Hussein Obama of lying to the American people about his birth certificate, which was alleged to be a forgery, after considerable investigation. This birth certificate, which was belatedly posted on the White House website after he was challenged about his eligibility to be president, since it was alleged that he is not a "natural born citizen" born in the United States to two American citizen parents, is not genuine but allegedly altered (see www.citizensgrandjury.com to view the verdict), Obama was indicted by a citizens' grand jury in Ocala, Florida. He was served with the indictment at the White House but refused to respond and plead his innocence, leading to a non-jury trial in Ocala for his false statements over his birth certificate to the American people and the people of Florida. These alleged false statements fraudulently allowed him to be placed on the Florida presidential ballot in 2008 and 2012, ultimately leading to his election and reelection........more