Monday, June 16, 2014

The Awesome Wendy Davis In The Conch Republic

"I shelled out a hundred bucks just to be able to meet her, shake her hand and talk to her for a second," said Vicki Roush, 60, a Florida wine shop manager who's never lived in Texas but attended a Davis fundraiser in Key West. She said she cried while watching Davis' filibuster online last summer. "All the girls I know that were there were beside themselves." 

Right Wing Lovefest In Ft. Myers


The Young Republicans' annual convention
Welcome Ann Coulter 
Other notables guests and speakers
Sen. Lizbeth.Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers
Curt Clawson, Republican, the 19th District 
Byron Donalds, a Naples Tea Party leader
Leslie Dougher, chairman of the Florida GOP
Florida Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen, R-Fort Myers
Lee County Commission Chairman Larry Kiker
Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples
Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott
92.5 FM Fox News radio host Drew Steele here

Florida Fracker Ray Rodrigues, will be there.

New Port Richey Man calls for help during home invasion, gets voicemail

Countdown To The End Of Pam Bondi's Political Career

According to the latest survey from 
Public Policy Polling
Attorney General Pam Bondi 
holds small leads for reelection over her potential Democratic opponents: she’s only up 
38 to 35 percent on George Sheldon and 
40 to 33 percent on Perry Thurston

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Florida Republicans Crackerjack Idea

The geniuses running the Republican campaign effort in Florida have now decided that stirring opposition to medical marijuana will help Gov. Rick Scott win. The question is why the Republican brain trust thinks it’s a crackerjack idea to attack a popular social cause while Scott is fighting tooth-and-nail to save his job. The governor will be in deep trouble if thousands and thousands of marijuana advocates show up to vote in November. They’re not exactly his core constituency, so why get them riled? 
Get Loud, Spark The Vote

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/14/4176830/carl-hiaasen-high-turnout-wink.html#storylink=cpy

Candidate Needed To Challenge Republican Ken Hagan In District 5

No candidate has yet filed to challenge 
Republican Ken Hagan 
in District 5, countywide. 
Noon next Friday will be the last chance for candidates to qualify for the fall elections. here

GOP Doom

 A new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that Cantor is not the only GOP congressional 
leader in trouble. here
45 percent of Republican respondents said GOP leadership in Congress 
is not conservative enough.
They will primary themselves to extinction.

Ybeth Bruzual Calls out Rick Scott for Dodging the Media

Mayor Bob And The Belle Of Ballast Point

At Hooters, here

Sarah McLachlan 'Song For My Father'

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Rick Scott “Embarrasses” Florida

Once again, Rick Scott sits firmly on the wrong side of history, proclaims Charlie Crist’s latest email to supporters — and it is embarrassing Florida. here

Megan Elizabeth Everett Of Sunrise

Disappeared with her two-year-old daughter last month to avoid having the child vaccinated.  “If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right. I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. here

Tired Of Tea? Try Cannabis


November 4, 2014  7pm

Endangered Butterflies Released in Florida

Joe Mazzara is not happy with Judge Jack Helinger

He set up a website calling for
 Judge Helinger 
to be removed from the bench, made bumper stickers with his website’s URL on them, and then proceeded to post them all over street signs in various parts of
Pinellas County
Now the 67-year-old man faces 
12 counts of vandalism. here

Tim Fasano's RNC Documentary

This was my first attempt to be a documentary film maker. It was shot during the Republican National Convention in Tampa 2012.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Medical Marijuana Trial In Ft. Lauderdale

WHO:      Jesse Teplicki and his Attorney Michael Minardi
WHAT:    The launch of the first medical marijuana necessity trial to go before a jury in the State of Florida.
WHERE:  Broward County Courthouse, Courtroom 4870 (Judge Rothschild) 496 SW 3rd Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale FL, 33315
WHEN:    Monday June 16th, 2014 at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
WHY:      The facts of this historic case are emblematic of the need for medical marijuana reform in Florida. This is an important and timely issue as citizens debate the upcoming vote on Amendment 2, which would allow for the medical use of marijuana in the State. here

THANK YOU, RICK KRISEMAN

A Mayor in Florida using his Intelligence rather than following the philosophy of 
the Right Wing Christian Republican Party Cult.
WELCOME TO ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA,
where LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS CONTINUES TO EXIST...along with...The Constitution Of The United States Of America...here

THANK YOU, RICK KRISEMAN

Hillsborough Democrats Want DWS Out

Chris Cano speaks out on her vote a few weeks ago regarding a measure to cut funds for Drug Enforcement Agency raids on medical marijuana operations, in which the South Florida Representative was one of the few Democrats in opposition (It passed on a 219-189 vote in the House). That was before she came out against Amendment 2, the medical marijuana initiative that raised the ire of one of its leading advocates, 
Orlando attorney John Morgan. here

Florida Banana Republican Carlos Curbelo

Between 2010 and 2013 Curbelo, while representing District 7 on the board, voted roughly a dozen times to award school board contracts 
to companies that had donated a total of $25,450 to his well-funded 2010 school board campaign. here 

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Florida Medical Marijuana At 70%

Support is broad-based 
and spans the electorate regardless of 
partisan, regional, or racial lines,” here
Become a Freedom Fighter

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/06/bipartisan-poll-medical-marijuana-at-70-among-fl-likely-voters.html#storylink=cpy

Stop Oil Drilling In The Florida Straits

Black Horizon 
Millions of gallons of oil are spewing from a hole in the ocean floor after a deadly explosion aboard a massive rig. The rig was in Cuban waters, just sixty miles from Key West, and the biggest man made environmental catastrophe in history is headed not toward Havana, but straight for the U.S. coastline. here
 The Cuban navy threatens to fire upon American cleanup equipment as “hostile invaders

Gambling Mogul Adds Name to Anti-Amendment 2 Rogue’s Gallery

With a single contribution of $2.5 million, 
Las Vegas gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson 
has added his name to the list of questionable characters standing behind Drug Free Florida, an organization dedicated to denying patients with debilitating diseases access to the medical marijuana they need to ease their suffering. At Drug Free Florida Adelson joins former Reagan drug policy aide Carlton Turner, who once claimed marijuana use led to homosexuality, tobacco lobbyist Sarah Bascom, and 
Mel Sembler, whose controversial STRAIGHT Inc. drug rehab program folded in 1993 due to accusations of widespread cruelty and abuse. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Cheeseburger with fries

Hemp Staff - Florida's Medical Cannabis Staffing Agency!

here
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Check this out

St Pete Extra! Mirror Lake Park Dedication

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Thank You Tea Party

Eric Cantor was ousted from Congress in the 
Virginia Republican Primary. 
We Love you Tea Party, you replace candidates that are electable with ones that are not. here

Florida GOP Jeff Miller: Humans Don't Contribute To Climate Change

The Stogie Party

Florida GOP Wilton Manors Commissioner Ted Galatis

Wilton Manors Commissioner Ted Galatis apologized for hurling racial slurs at a woman in a parking lot over the weekend, but maintained that he did so because he felt threatened by the passengers in the car. The woman told WTVJ that that the commissioner began hurling insults at her in the parking lot of a Publix on Sunday, where he “began calling her and her passengers ’N*ggers’.” here 

A Cuban Oil Disaster And The Florida Keys

The scenario is fiction, but the high-level attention it is drawing to a looming Florida threat is real. “The Florida keys awash in Cuban crude. here 

Rick Scott's Florida: The Most Stressed-Out State In America

What stresses you out? 
A long commute? Check. 
Being unemployed? Check. 
Working long hours? Check. 
Living in Florida? Double check.

800,000 Bird Deaths in BP Gulf Disaster

Study to be released this summer by the 
Marine Ecology Progress Series 
indicates as high as 800,000......here