Saturday, July 19, 2014
John Siegenthaler: A Southern man of vision
When the history of this era is written,
it will recount how so-called
conservatives gave aid, comfort and intellectual cover to the ugliest of human impulses under the guise of
political debate.
People will wonder how we could have seen all that ugliness without seeing a thing, how journalists could have been silent and supine to the point of malpractice in the face of such obvious and monumental misbehavior. here
it will recount how so-called
conservatives gave aid, comfort and intellectual cover to the ugliest of human impulses under the guise of
political debate.
People will wonder how we could have seen all that ugliness without seeing a thing, how journalists could have been silent and supine to the point of malpractice in the face of such obvious and monumental misbehavior. here
WMNF 88.5 Tampa Bay
WMNF has just finished their
Summer Membership Drive!
They raised more than
$200,000 in just seven days
and received over 1,800 individual contributions.
$200,000 in just seven days
and received over 1,800 individual contributions.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Give Gov. Rick Scott Credit
He knows right-wing, red-blooded Floridians love their guns. And Rick Scott has given them guns. In huge numbers. According to published reports, more pro-gun bills have been signed into law in Florida during Scott’s one term than during any other recent gubernatorial term. here
The
Florida Supreme Court is set to contemplate whether felons can claim "Stand Your
Ground" as a defense in a shooting. here
Jeb: Godfather of bogus high-stakes testing
Former Gov. Bush enjoys a national reputation as an education reformer — a neat trick considering the terrible harm he has inflicted on public education.
Although the Legislature and succeeding Republican governors share responsibility, Jeb is mostly to blame for the bad things that followed his 1999 arrival in office. here
Dems Help Drown South Florida
• Joe Garcia
• Patrick
Murphy
•
Vern Buchanan
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
• Bill
Posey
•
Dennis Ross
• Mario Diaz-Balart
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Losers of the week: Don Gaetz and Will Weatherford
The redistricting decision is a blow to the Republican
legislative leaders
legislative leaders
who oversaw the process and
defended it as fair and transparent.
Judithanne for State Senate
Join us at the Pinellas DEC 2250
1st Ave N, St. Pete at 9:30am or at
Fred Ball Park 2621 Bayshore Blvd, Tampa at 11:30am this Saturday, July 19th! info
"I don't want to be the mayor of some white-bread Southern city,"
Tampa has historically always been a racially diverse city, and never more so than today. Latinos make up approximately 25 percent of the population in greater Hillsborough County, and blacks account for more than 15 percent.
"When we're out competing for global business, the fact that our city was settled by Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrants who came to Tampa for the cigar industry, makes us a lot more competitive because we look like the world, with all of its shades and ethnicities, we speak multiple languages as you do here in L.A. That's good." Bob Buckhorn
Florida GOP Rich Nugent: Kids At Border “Gang Members” From Culture Of “Rape”
Undocumented immigrant children at the border not children at all but gang-affiliated persons from a culture of thievery, murder, and violence. here
Raíces En Tampa: Immigration Experience
Every Thursday, Raíces En Tampa will be releasing
an immigration experience from the people fighting right along with us. here
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Decades to justice for Florida man on death row
Paul Hildwin has spent 28 years fighting for
his life, waiting between cancer treatments for the state to acknowledge
decade-old DNA evidence supporting his claims of innocence. here
Democrats Poised To Kick Florida GOP Ass
Florida Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis has stricken down the congressional map favoring Republicans in Florida. Why this could reverberate for a decade– and threaten Republicans in time for the 2014 midterms. here
The stain on Hillsborough County's reputation
A majority of the commissioners — four of the seven — have expressed to the
Tampa Bay Times their qualified support for expanding Hillsborough's human rights ordinance to also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in hiring, housing and public accommodations. here
Democrat Les Miller and Republicans Victor Crist and Sandy Murman told the Times they support barring discrimination against gay and transgender people, but would need to see the actual ordinance in writing first. Commissioners Al Higginbotham and
Mark (Sailors Haven) Sharpe, both Republicans, wouldn't weigh in before Wednesday.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Florida GOP: Tony Ledbetter, abysmal failure and stinkin' hypocrite
Tony Ledbetter has proven himself to be an abysmal failure since taking the reigns of the Republican Party of Volusia County from Stan Escudero following the 2012 elections. Ledbetter's also proven himself to be divisive, polarizing and downright mean-spirited and even bigoted. He's alienated members of the media, the voting public and even people in his own party.
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Jeb's legacy is taking a huge hit
One of Bush's finest moments came in 2002, when he and President George W. Bush pledged a 50-50 state-federal partnership to clean up the Everglades. Gov. Bush did secure state funding. Federal funding, however, lagged. Republican deficit hawks played a part in that. And Gov. Bush significantly undermined his own work when he agreed to delay clean-water standards for a decade. here
The Sun Sentinel reported last week, oil companies are taking advantage of Florida's chronically lax environmental laws to begin a form of fracking — fracturing of underground rock to release oil — in sensitive areas close to the Everglades. Republicans who dominated the Legislature since Jeb's tenure have failed to approve rules to protect the Everglades from fracking
Florida GOP Allen West
Obama Secretly Dispersing Illegal Immigrants Around the Country. Immigrant children being dispersed to all corners of the nation in under cover of darkness. here
Miami-Dade County to fire hundreds of Cops
Get Yourself Some Firearms Because You’re Going to Have to Protect Yourselves.
Dade County
may have to fire hundreds of cops here
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Fruitland Park Police Links To KKK
A confidential FBI report reportedly links two
Fruitland Park, Florida police officers to the
Ku Klux Klan — one of whom was,
until recently,
the local police department’s deputy chief.
Deputy Chief David Borst resigned his office shortly after the FBI provided a copy of the report to
Fruitland Park, Florida police officers to the
Ku Klux Klan — one of whom was,
until recently,
the local police department’s deputy chief.
Deputy Chief David Borst resigned his office shortly after the FBI provided a copy of the report to
police Chief Terry Issacs. here
Monday, July 14, 2014
Mayor Of Tampa Wanted
If you plan to run for mayor of Tampa next March, now is the time to lay the groundwork.
Mayor Bob is doing just that, but there are
no signs anybody else is. here
Ban Fracking In Florida
Recently, the Dan A. Hughes Co. of Texas was given a minor slap on the wrist by Gov. Scott's Department of Environmental Protection for secretly and illegally fracking on endangered Florida panther habitat in the heart of the western Everglades.
Now more than ever we must act to protect the Florida we love.
Add your voice to the voices of Floridians saying it's time to end fracking by signing the petition. here
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Miami, the great world city, is drowning
Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. here
The GOP Disaster At The Border
The visual of a mob of angry white people in Texas screaming “USA! USA! USA!” at a busload of Latino children and the people supporting them is deeply imprinted on the mind of Latino voters. here
Hillsborough County is one of the biggest recyclers in the state
And Pasco County isn’t far behind. here
St. Pete looking for place to dock Bay ferry
The Kriseman Administration
is working to get St. Pete on board with the new
Turanchik Bay Ferry
the passenger ferry service based in Hillsborough County.
The proposed service would be focused on carrying servicemen and women and civilian employees between south Hillsborough and MacDill Air Force base. But outside of rush-hour travel, ferries will be used to carry residents and tourists between the downtowns of Tampa and St. Petersburg. more>
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