Tuition Equity At USF

All Bulls Are Equal

In the state of Florida, thousands of young people are denied access to higher education because they are forced to pay out of state tuition, despite meeting the requirements for in-state tuition. Ask the USF Board of Trustees and administration to change this, joining FIU and states across the country in granting tuition equity at USF.......here

Tampa Bay Bike Share

Opening day is set for some time in April, the organizers of
Tampa Bay Bike Share
are now looking for places to park their fleet of rental bikes around
Tampa’s downtown core.......more>

Umatilla Republican

Alan Hays

The epitome of Florida conservatism

here

Three Amazing Florida Women

Progressive Florida

Three new amazing Democratic women 

threw their hat into the ring for countywide office around the state.
They are:

Pat Gerard for Pinellas County Commission

Daniella Levine Cava for Miami-Dade County Commission

Val Demings for Orange County Mayor

Rick Scott's Florida Suicide Epidemic

No more renting guns to kill yourself

A chain of gun-shops that has built gun ranges across

Central Florida

has announced it will no longer rent out guns in order to stop a string of suicides that occurred when customers borrowed weapons and used them

to take their own lives.....more>

The Lower Green Swamp Preserve

Citizens rallied four years ago to ensure one of Hillsborough County's largest land holdings stayed free of developers' clutches forever. This month the county will finally open a small portion of what is now dubbed the Lower Green Swamp Preserve to public exploration for the first time in decades. County officials are planning a
grand opening for the preserve at 10 a.m. Jan. 28......more>
BTW, Republican Ken Hagan had alot to do with making this happen. Great work everyone. 

City of Tampa's Free Mobile App

Bob connects you to Mayor Bob.

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Jim

He is from Brooksville. He has been homeless 3 months.

Auburndale Fights For Student Safety

US Highway 92 and Old Dixie Highway 
Over 150 community members gathered at the intersection to demand Polk County Florida commissioners take action for public safety for high school students.
Tenoroc High School
was built and opened up to Auburndale students in 2008. It is located near the intersection which has no sidewalks and lighting is almost non-existent Since the opening of Tenoroc High, there have been two students who, while walking to school,
were hit and killed by vehicles.......
more>

Stogie Party: Mr. Blue

296 Days and counting

Florida Blue Revolution

11.4.14 Ybor City

Join The Party

Stop Alex Sink Campaign

Michael Hussey - Pushing Rope

has created a Facebook group

looking to stop former state CFO Alex Sink from running

for statewide office in the future......more

Yea we are with that, lets bring Jessica Ehrlich back!

Florida Tea Partier Trey Radel

Our partier gets 1 year of probation
After pleading guilty to possessing coke, avoiding the possible year in jail and $1000 fine such a charge can bring in the nation’s capitol......more

Presently across the US, 500,000 non-violent drug offenders are sitting in America’s prisons for equal and sometimes even lesser crimes.
Please note, we have nothing  against congressmen getting coked up once in a while. Some of us spent the late 70's and early 80's on this wonderful drug. It's the hypocrisy that bothers us. 

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Boliche

With moro and yuca

At LA Teresita Grocery in West Tampa 

Gus Bilirakis Thinks He Is Slick

 Our very own Gus Bilirakis
is introducing a bill "to address Obamacare's security risks"
that he claims "could" happen, citing

FOX news and ALEC, Koch associated think tanks

 that are pushing that idea to right-wing websites and blogs........more>

Facts About Javier Manjarres

 Paid Attack Dog
Taking on political opposition leaving the client’s hands clean. His broad modus operandi is to attack Republican political candidates
who do not pay him.

here
 

Dedicated to the truth without his spin

Big Mistake Nick Ruiz

Nick Ruiz
Announces switch to run against Grayson, not Mica.

more>
Against Mica he might of had a chance, now he has no chance at all.

Alan Grayson For Congress

here

Marco Rubio Blocks Gay Black Judge's Nomination

Who he previously recommended 
-- William Thomas, a gay black judge from Miami -- and, to the anger and puzzlement of many, is preventing the nomination from moving forward at all.......more>

Chris Hayes explores the possible motivation behind Sen.
Rubio's obstruction of William Thomas.
here

The Zombie Film Challenge

                                      Tampa info

Alex Sink Party In St. Pete

Hosting the party are local Progressive leaders, St. Petersburg City Council members Steve Kornell and Darden Rice, Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner and his partner Gil Sainz. Tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Birchwood Grand Ballroom, 340 Beach Drive NE in St. Petersburg.

info

Florida Speaks Tour

Florida Speaks Tour

Meet Louis King

 

Local BBQ Master

You can reach him at 330.812.7656

Dine With Ted Cruz In Sarasota

Only $5,000.00

The Republican Party of Sarasota will honor the Texas Tea Party lawmaker.

 2014 Statesman of the Year

Joining a list of past Republican standard-bearers such as 
Sean Hannity and Donald Trump.

A HUGE crowd is expected! So Make sure to arrive EARLY

Ybor Paparazzi

Mark (Tea Cup) with Chef Arsenio, long time chef (50 years) at

the Columbia Restaurant at Hamburger Marys.

Florida Blog Wars

Tampa Bay Blog

Saint Petersblog

Is Under Attack From The Left And The Right

   The Left                                   The Right

Pushing Rope                              Shark Tank

Business is BOOMING at Colorado Marijuana Shops

here

Join The Party here

Visit Stogie's Smoke Shop here

NY is Latest to Legalize Medical Pot

GOP Family Values

 A wife and three grown children in St. Petersburg

and a mistress and a new born baby in
 Washington DC.

A married man has an affair with his secretary. He likes it so much he wants to keep her on as his mistress, they even have a child together while he is still married. The wife tells him no and she wants a divorce. Then he has no further contact with the children from that marriage after 1986. Less than a year later, he was awarded the Family and Freedom Award from the Christian Voice, the nation's largest conservative religious lobby.
 He received the award because of
how he voted on "key moral issues."

At The Times, At Pushing Rope, At Saint Petersblog 

The Florida Charter School Scam

Dunedin's Life Force Arts and Technology

One of the most egregious cases of mismanagement in Florida charter school history: a public elementary school that enriched its administrators, impoverished its teachers, failed its students
and collapsed in disgrace......more>

Hanan Islam and her company, Art of Management, fired teachers, starved classrooms of supplies and distributed books and pamphlets written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
For months, Islam evaded warnings and visits from Pinellas County school officials, all the while steering more than $100,000 from the school to her private business accounts.

Florida Blue Revolution 2014

Join the revolution, turn Florida blue Nov. 4 2014 
Click here and pick a Candidate 

A New Breed Of Cuban-American

For more than two decades, running for Congress in this sun-soaked capital of Cuban exiles has required two things: a Republican registration card and a hard line toward the Castro regime. And then came Joe Garcia

In a break with the exile community, Garcia campaigned in support of loosening restrictions on Cuban-Americans who want to visit relatives on the island or send them money. Since taking office, he has pushed for U.S. trials of a Cuba-developed diabetes treatment and for easing travel rules for Cuban diplomats who visit the U.S. And while Florida Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, fumed when President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro last month, Garcia dismissed it as a simple courtesy.

here

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays
Mayor Bob should  stop worrying about Pinellas and take care of us.  
WE NEED Transportation Solutions NOW !

Candidates Wanted For Dist. 5

The only one running so far is this guy. Any Dem, Green out there want to run against him?

On You Tube

Florida Tested, No One Approved

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 Meat Loaf

With yellow rice and veggies

At Hamburger Mary's on 7th Ave in Ybor City.

The Warmongering Wing Of The Democratic Party

A group of Democrats are joining Republicans in trying to undermine the White House's negotiations with Iran by imposing a new set of sanctions. Fifteen of them, actually, who prefer status quo bluster and threats to diplomacy that might actually do something to end Iran's nuclear ambitions. They are

Bob Menendez (NJ)
Chuck Schumer (NY)
Ben Cardin (MD)
Bob Casey (PA)
Chris Coons (DE)
Dick Blumenthal (CT)
Mark Begich (AK)
Mark Pryor (AR)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Mark Warner (VA)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Joe Donnelly (IN)
Cory Booker (NJ)
Joe Manchin (WV)

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