What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

 

Ybor City Steak Sandwich

With Pasta Salad and Martinis. Great stuff at Bernini in Ybor City

I was in this building when I was a boy, it was a bank.
My friend Jon at The SOG Oracle was there recently.

GOPBS: Rick Scott Gives Us $8.47 Million in Bonuses

At a media event on Wednesday,

Rick Scott

announced that 98 schools in Hillsborough County will share $8.47 million in bonuses due to their improvements in learning outcomes, either receiving an “A” grade or jumping up a full letter grade over last year.......more>
 

 

  "that is why, as governor, I have made education a priority.”

Yvonne Clanton Miracle Worker In Zephyrhills

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attn: Orphan/adoption ministry.

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Constituent Chastises Florida Rep. Dennis Ross

 

Republicans are having a hard time at home this break,

now that they have to answer for those
50-plus repeal votes
of a law that seems to be working out pretty well right now.
That's captured perfectly by ThinkProgress,

which brings us Florida GOP Rep. Dennis Ross's latest town meeting.

 

 

Check Out Alan Cohn

Meet Florida Stock Broker Irvin Rosenfeld

He openly smokes 10 or so joints daily

and has done so for three decades using marijuana provided by the
U.S. Government.

the same government that considers any use of marijuana illegal and has jailed pot smokers ruthlessly for decades.

He does this for a rare bone disease and unusual thyroid condition.

He is a successful stock broker/financial consultant of 36 years,

 married with kids and living in  Ft. Lauderdale.

 

Vote 11.4.14 

Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

Miami Dade Sinks To New Low In Voter Suppression

Chick-fil-A In Port Charlotte

The Florida Ultra-Right Wing Legislative

This is the same Florida Legislature

that when it isn't crusading against abortion

burns the midnight oil

undermining the state's public education system.”

 Tampa Bay legend Daniel Ruth

here

Florida GOP Ted Yoho Announced That He's A Fucking Idiot

At a town hall meeting in Gainesville

(motto: "The ugly part of the Sunshine State")

here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

BLACKENED SNAPPER FILET

At The Crab Shack
Tampa Bay's Best Seafood

Everglades Victory

Last week the Sierra Club

and its allies scored a major victory when state water managers decided to move forward on a plan to restore water flow across

Florida’s state-owned Everglades.......more>

Braulio Valenzuela Of Miami

He lived in a trailer park next door to a lesbian couple named Norma Beteta Fonseca and Latanya Dinsy. The couple had eight children total.  He hated the couple passionately,  so he set fire to their trailer........more

China Builds Largest Solar Plant in the World

An American company called
First Solar

has involved itself in the construction of the world’s largest
solar power planet  in Ordos, China

here
WE ARE THE SUNSHINE STATE
WE WANT ONE

Florida House To Further Restrict Abortion

Tighten the state's already restrictive abortion laws.

Penalties to anyone convicted of a crime if the act harms
a fetus.

House Bill 59 passed 74-42 along party lines.......more>

Pee And Poop Before You Vote In Miami

The GOP will do any thing to keep us from voting

The Miami-Dade County Elections Department
has quietly implemented a policy to
 close the bathrooms at all polling facilities.

here

Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections

Penelope  Townsley

Elizabeth Belcher For BOCC In District 2

Now is the time to move Hillsborough forward
Join Elizabeth Belcher in her campaign to bring
Ethics, Equality, and Economy back to the Hillsborough County Commission.

Check Her Out Here

 

Ybor Paparazzi

Friends at Charlie Wall's old place.

Rick Scott's Florida

Attacks on our local public schools

Blocking access to health care

Giving our water rights away to Big Polluters
No High Speed Rail
We are the best state in the union,
everybody wants to come here,
we could have high speed rail from Tampa To Orlando right now.
Don't you remember? 
we don't need this shit. Vote 11.4.14 

here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

2 for 1 Bloody Marys with Prime Rib Sliders and Chili

Good Stuff At Whiskey Creek in Port Charlotte

The Hole-in-the- Donut region of the Everglades

Inholdings, an exhibition of new work by Miami-based artist Christy Gast

here

Rick Scott Is Sabotaging Our Health Care

Over 7 million Americans have signed up for
Obamacare

but 8 million working people in 24 states—including Florida

Continue to lack health insurance, simply because their state Right Wing Infestation declined the law’s Medicaid expansion. Even if it’s
funded by the federal government.....more>

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Neil

Years of Living Dangerously Premiere Full Episode

Ilya Goldberg's Guavaween Solution

  Owner of the Stone Soup Company on E Seventh Avenue

The solution is simple:

Guavaween worked best when it was a party.

Merchants who complain about a party in Ybor shouldn't be in Ybor.
"They can go to Westchase, or up to Wesley Chapel,
and set up shop on a nice, quiet street,"

"For years, Guavaween worked as an adult-based event, a big party, and a good time. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that," he said.
"It's one night. We wake up, we have a hangover, we clean up and move on."

"It was just so dead," said Megan Hixon, assistant general manager at

Green Iguana Bar & Grill.
"There was nothing going on," said Evan Schiller, part-owner of
Gaspar's Grotto.

Guavaween use to get 60,000 to 80,000 Partiers

for booze, beads and exposed breasts

In the 2000s, in response to complaints that had made the event too raunchy,

Guavaween organizers started making changes.

 They got rid of motorized floats for the parade, then ditched the parade altogether.....more

Is there a right wing conspiracy in the Ybor City Chamber?  

 I was at Fantasma Fest last year and it was lame. Night time is for adults.

DFA Night School

Last week's Supreme Court ruling was a body blow

to our democracy.

The super-wealthy think they can buy our elections with

fancy TV ads and giant super PACs. Going door-to-door, actually talking to voters one-on-one, is how grassroots organizers like you will make our people beat their money -- and how we'll elect progressive champions together this November. --

 DFA Night School  

Friends Of Stogie

Meet Dawn

Hostess at Jimmy's Grill & Family Restaurant

on the Tamiami Tr in Port Charlotte.

Say Hello to McCutcheon

40 Years For Selling Marijuana

In Florida you kill someone you go free. But don't try selling weed. Michael Allen Babiarz, 42, of Sarasota, and Aaron Edwin Remaley, 39, of Riverview, have each been charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. If convicted, Babiarz and Remaley face up to 40 years in prison.....more>

The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and the Polk County Sheriff's Office

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2014/04/11/5098003/sarasota-man-indicted-by-feds.html?sp=/99/179/#storylink=cpy

GOP House Passes Ryan Budget

 It will slash more than $5 trillion 
from the poor and destitute in this country......more

1.2 TRILLION Dollars of Corporate Welfare

In this years US Budget
 Huge US Corporations Avoided Paying Taxes on 2.1 TRILLION in Profits!
here

 

Florida GOP BS

 Rick Scott: Has two campaign ads that falsely suggest 300,000 people in the state already lost their health insurance plans due to Obamacare.
Fact: Florida Blue, said in an email that the Affordable Care Act has not resulted in 300,000 of its customers being forced out of their plans. "To date, most of the members in our pre-ACA plans have kept their plans.....more>

  

Ybor Chamber To License Guavaween

The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce is considering licensing its nationally-known Halloween event, Guavaween, to a third party for 2014. "We think it's time for the Chamber to spin-off this unique special event,"

said David Alvarez, Chair of the Ybor City Chamber. 

The Chamber's Guavaween is now in its 28^th year.  This celebration has been an Ybor institution for almost most three decades; long enough to build a significant national reputation. outside of the district. Guavaween's very colorful and somewhat naughty reputation is a 22^nd century phenomena with a web presence that is "larger than life." The creators of Ybor's Guavaween were ahead of their time, capitalizing on what has become the second most commercialized holiday in America.

If you are interested in putting together a proposal to compete to license the rights to Guavaween 2014 and beyond, submit a Letter of Inquiry to the Chamber at

yborchamberchair@gmail.com

  Please, no phone calls at this time.

Declaration of War on Conservatives’

Stephen Colbert

Has inked a five-year contract to replace David Letterman on the Late Show.

more

USG, Adams Home Protester In North Port

North Port

The Sun Shines Here! A Vision Plan for St. Petersburg