David Jolly: Incompetent Cradle Robber

Washington Republicans

Have described Jolly’s campaign as a Keystone Cops operation,
marked by inept fundraising,
top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in
The state capital
and the poor optics of a just-divorced, 41-year-old candidate
accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend 14 years his junior.

 The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity.

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Right Wing Venezuela In Tampa

Palm River

Florida Man Shoots Cop, Invokes Stand Your Ground!

If there’s two things Florida residents know to fear, it’s anyone with a badge, a gun or both. These days, stories of Florida police kidnapping, raping, murdering or otherwise brutalizing unarmed people are so commonplace that “fleeing and eluding” officers has become less of a crime and more an act of self-preservation......more

 

Bookies in Tampa are now making odds on how long it will be before the state legislature either drops SYG, or modifies it so it doesn’t apply to police officers. Current odds are 26-to-1 on the latter by the end of the month, and 26,000-to-1 on the former through eternity.

Florida GOP Wants To Wipe Out Small Town

The Florida state government is so embarrassed by the

City of Hampton

and it takes a lot to embarrass those folks up in Tallahassee

it wants to wipe the small town off the map.

 Drug dealing Mayor, cops sitting along 301 in lawn chairs  pointing radar guns at passing cars, and an estimated $1 million missing from the town’s coffers.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

Bombay Martini (2) With Shrimp Ceviche

At Tequilas in Ybor

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Pinellas County Beware: Jack Latvala

At the urging of state Sen. Jack Latvala,

the Senate will take up voting law changes that include preventing counties from using satellite locations where
voters can drop off absentee ballots.......more

The proposal is aimed at Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections
Deborah Clark

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless Living In Tampa

Protest Bar On Free Speech: Florida Rabbi, Bruce Warshal

Open Hillel movement banned all liberal Jews who love Israel but disagree with the current

Netanyahu government....more

Ybor Paparazzi

Tazz visiting Ybor from Michigan with Gaby from Mace Multimedia.

Crackercide In Boca Raton

Florida KKK: Mr. Hayes

Is upsetting neighbors by flying the usual combination of the Confederate and KKK flags outside his mobile home along with a “Members Wanted” sign......more

Moral Monday Rally At Florida State Capitol

More than 200 people from Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami met at the steps of The Old Capitol in Tallahassee for Florida’s first Moral Monday rally, March 3. The rally was modeled after the giant Moral Monday rallies in North Carolina. Moral Mondays are a response to the North Carolina General Assembly’s extreme right-wing attacks on working people, women, immigrants and African Americans. Facing the Florida legislature's equally extreme right-wing politicians and Republican Governor Rick Scott, protesters demanded a state government committed to justice for working

and oppressed people.......more>

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 Boliche

With Moro and Yuca at Pipos in Town n' County

Been eating here since 1980

Will Weatherford: Fuck The Poor

According to his father,

the family accepted more than $100,000 in Medicaid dollars to pay the bills of Weatherford’s cancer-stricken 13-month-old brother,
who died in 1995.

 Weatherford has refused to consider having Florida accept $51.3 billion in Medicaid funds. Weatherford has vowed that no bill for increased Medicaid dollars will pass through the Florida House of Representatives. There are currently 3.3 million uninsured in Florida.

  Floridians are still getting taxed for Medicaid.

Regardless of whether or not they receive the benefits.

 once again making the poor suffer for GOP policies.

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Wake Up Pasco County!

 

Ybor Surveillance

Peds Rule In Ybor City

FLORIDA PEDESTRIAN LAW

Farid Khavari: Independent Candidate For Florida Governor

Sick of the GOP and the Dems? Check out this guy.

He supports Medical Marijuana, and thinks Legalization should follow.

Welcome To Florida

Two new billboards in Florida call out Governor Scott for not fighting to expand Medicaid and keeping more than 763,000 Floridians from accessing health care......here

Ybor Paparazzi: Tampa Legend Joe Redner

Still Fighting,
Awake The State Rally, Centennial Park,Ybor City

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

$300,000

To ensure that two major film productions make their movies in the county.

The vote was unanimous, but the ringleaders were GOP

Ken Hagan who is backing "The Infiltrator"

and Al Higginbotham who is backing "Seven Hindustani"

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Meat Lovers Skillet

At Mama's Kitchen on Florida Ave. in Tampa.

Rick Scott 2012 Plan To Sell Out The Poor

Thanks to Scott’s reckless choices,

the federal government intends to penalize the state

by withholding a portion of its Medicaid funding,

once again making the poor suffer for GOP policies.

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Spread the Word to End the Word

Our annual day of awareness is upon us!

Make sure you have all the resources you need to end the R-word on 03.05.14! Get the resources

Awake The State Rally In Ybor City

Tallahassee Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts

It appears that at least one police department in Florida has failed to tell judges about its use of a cell phone tracking device because the department got the device on loan and promised the manufacturer to keep it all under wraps. So the ACLU and ACLU of Florida have teamed up to break through the veil of secrecy surrounding stingray use by law enforcement in the Sunshine State......more>

Patrick Coulton Of Mirama, Florida

 Was busted 6 years ago with smuggling cocaine and marijuana into the United States.

His family hired the two attorneys

Peter Mayas and Emmanuel Roy

They ripped him off and left him to rot in jail. Now he lives in their house.

here, We love happy endings.

Ready For Florida's Blue Revolution?

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Angela Corey Seeks 60-Year Sentence for Marissa Alexander

Florida State Attorney Angela Corey

announced on March 1, 2014, that her office is seeking a maximum 60-year sentence in the retrial of Marissa Alexander, beginning in late July.....more>

Academic Huckster: MaryEllen Elia

Hillsborough County School Board Meetings

The most entertaining show in town

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Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Scott is running Florida like a business, doing business with his friends

 "Before the Legislature convenes in Tallahassee next Tuesday, Coral Gables healthcare tycoon Miguel B. 'Mike' Fernandez will host a Sunday afternoon BBQ with Gov. Rick Scott, his wife Ann, and key members of the governor’s campaign finance team."

Fernandez, chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, is more than Scott’s friend. He’s also a huge contributor to his re-election campaign and the owner or co-owner of fast-growing healthcare companies that under Scott’s administration have been awarded multiple, multi-year state contracts potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars........more

Awake The State in Ybor City 3.4.14

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After Party At Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza

Why Joe Newman Is Running For U.S. Congress

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture: MacDill Air Force Base

Jonathan Hage sat on Gov. Rick Scott's education transition team.

He and his company, Charter Schools USA,

Have given more than $100,000

to Scott's Let's Get To Work fund and the state Republican Party.

Now it appears it was Scott — or someone very close to him — who suggested

Charter Schools USA run a school at MacDill Air Force Base.

Meeting minutes obtained by the Hillsborough County School District, which opposes the school, describe the origin of a plan that is at the heart of a

battle before the Florida Board of Education.....more>

Meals on Wheels of Tampa

why Tampa Is Amazing

History Bike Tampa celebrates one-year anniversary

Founder Eric Turner talks cemeteries, discovering your city,

and why Tampa is amazing......more>

Florida Led World In Shark Attacks In 2013

Top-Ten Most Mmiserable States Are Red

10. Louisiana
9. Oklahoma
8. Missouri
7. Tennessee
6. Arkansas
5. Ohio
4. Alabama
3. Mississippi
2. Kentucky
1. West Virginia, here

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Rescued Florida Panther Kitten

Hillsborough County's 2014 Homeless Count

Volunteers had a tough time Thursday as they fanned out in an attempt to tally every homeless person in Hillsborough County......more

Tegu Lizards Invade Riverview

The Tampa Bay area seems to be a fertile breeding ground for an exotic lizard that wildlife officials want to keep from becoming the state's next invasive species problem.

More than 100 black-and-white tegu lizards have been spotted in Hillsborough County, mostly in an area south of Riverview......more

The lizards are native to Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina,

and they are an invasive species in Florida.

Modern-Day Lepers" Living in a Remote Florida Town