GOP Sandy Murman Fact Check

In her new attack ad she claims Commissioner Pat Kemp is texting lobbyist, May we see
 proof of this.

She claims she is ethical....

Florida Ethics Commission Investigation

HERE

Campaign contributions from developer

HERE

LEARN MORE ABOUT SANDY MURMAN

HERE

Eyes On The State in Ybor City

Brian Gregory Laxton of Riverview

Is accused of fatally running down a bicyclist and then driving off. The impact of the collision threw the bicyclist to the sidewalk. He died at the scene. HERE

---

First Friday Of Bars Open In Ybor

It was crazy out there last night .... looked like back to normal tho ... no masks lol no social distance bars were over 50% hope this is the end of the plandemic here.

Vigil For Immokalee Man Fatally Shot by Collier Sheriff's Office

About 100 people gathered at Farmworkers Village in Immokalee on Friday, just a few feet away from where 37-year-old Nicholas Morales-Bessannia was fatally shot by a Collier County Sheriff’s deputy. HERE

Get ready to vote in Florida

HERE

AOC responds to RBG passing

Last night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and offered her take on what Democrats and activists should do next.

Spanish-language disinformation intensifies among Florida Latinos

Conspiracy theories around the "deep state," billionaire Democrat philanthropist George Soros and QAnon have become a constant fixture on Spanish-language YouTube programs, WhatsApp clips and pro-President Donald Trump Facebook groups aimed at a Latino audience. HERE

Anti-Maskers at Florida Wal Mart

Our Sandy Murman Disaster

Check out her resume here

 sandramurman.com

Ella & Jaeden of St. Pete

MaskUP St. Pete is an inspired collection of gender neutral face mask, designed and produced in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The line was born during the Covid-19 quarantine while Ella & Jaeden were quarantined and watching the pandemics chaos unfold. With so little known about Covid-19, you could observe debate everywhere concerning wearing mask and the following panic over the lack of availability of mask. 

Looking for a solution this brand has since become Ella & Jaeden's passion project and primary focus.
---
VISIT THEM HERE

Tampa Protesters Gather around CAR they accuse of trying to run them over

Vibes of the Bay Festival

September 26, 2020 at 2 PM – 10 PM

Celebrating its 6th year, the Vibes of the Bay Festival is a one-day festival, presented by Symphonic Distribution.

This year we are taking the festival VIRTUAL and highlighting the best in new and emerging music from our community of clients from Florida, Brooklyn, Nashville, Bogota, and the Caribbean. In addition, we’ll be offering curated vendors, food, break-out sessions and more!

This year we will be raising money for Tampa Bay’s iconic music venue, Crowbar, and The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) which are pushing the Save Our Stages campaign. Without our help, they’re sinking.
Fast. Now, it’s up to us to do our part.

Let’s connect, enjoy some great music for a good cause. INFO

Ruth Bader Ginsburg RIP

1933 - 2020

DeSantis Nominates Right-Wing Christian Extremist to State Supreme Court

Florida GOP Ron DeSantis, an ally of Trump and one of the most irresponsible state leaders in the nation when it comes to his handling of COVID, has seen two of his state’s Supreme Court justices get appointed to an appellate court by Republicans in Washington. HERE

Florida Dems Kathy Lewis Confusion

Most of the confusion about why the state Democratic Senate leadership isn’t championing more challengers converges on Kathy Lewis, a writer and disability-rights activist who ran in a red district in 2018 and came closer to winning than anyone expected, taking 46.5 percent of the vote in this traditionally Republican, rural, urban, and suburban district, even though she was outspent more than 10-1 by a longtime 
GOP incumbent. HERE

HELP HER HERE

Hillsborough County's Over Staffing Myth

Hillsborough County School District Superintendent Addison Davis says some schools are living beyond their means and staffing cuts have to be made. 

---

Teacher and School Board District 3 candidate Jessica Vaughn said when she visits schools she’s seen frustration with understaffing, 
not an excess.

“This over-staffing myth is something that I have yet to see or experience or really understand where that’s coming from,” Vaughn said. Both Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins with the Hillsborough classroom teachers association and Vaughn agreed that the District should look at recent software spending before threatening teaching and support jobs. HERE
---
With just a few months on the job under his belt, Davis has already spent more than $12 million on computer-based learning systems for the district, including a $3.7 million purchase from a company that employs his brother
 as an executive.

Ivanka Trump Rewriting History At The Columbia In Ybor City

With Pam Bondi

No word on Nancy Milan's attendance 

Florida GOP Voter Suppression

In 2018, Florida voters agreed by a nearly 2-1 margin that ex-felons who have served their time should be permitted to participate in the political process. They approved a referendum (Amendment 4) 

---

Afraid that ex-felons would disproportionately vote Democratic, the Republican-controlled Florida legislature quickly acted to gut Amendment 4 by enacting a law (Section 0751)

---

 In a split that exactly tracked the party of the President who appointed them, six Republican-appointed judges outvoted four Democratic appointees to uphold Section 0751. HERE

An Accurate Census? Don’t Count on It!

Every ten years the public is reminded, through news reports, commentary, and public service announcements just how important census-inspired statistics are to our economic well being and representative government.

---

Dozens of critical social services, education, and infrastructure programs depend on census-guided federal grants that provide many billions of dollars to states and local areas each year.

MORE

Support Local

Bill Person On The School Board Race

Come Tuesday, November 3rd General Election Day, voters in Hillsborough County have a major opportunity to save public education, as we know it, for decades to come. In early 2020, our current school board appointed a new leader, Superintendent Addison Davis, just prior to a district shutdown due to COVID 19. This leader has restructured the entire district, from instructional delivery, to support personnel and now he is implementing across the board unit cuts, including financial paring and key personnel adjustments to affect a leaner, more efficient school district. Now is a great time to change membership on our often dysfunctional and seemingly inept school board. Let's take a critical look at the four races in districts 1,3 5 and at-large 7.

District 3: Pro-privatization and supporter of for-profit managed charter schools, Incumbent Cindy Stuart, has resigned her seat to become the newly elected Clerk of the Circuit Court. The two winners in the primary are Jessica Vaughn, an educator and businessman Mitch Thrower. These two are polar opposites. Vaughn is a real people person with a  strong progressive stance toward improving public education for ALL students and instructional staff. She is opposed to vouchers, for-profit managed charter schools and privatization of public education.Thrower is supported by the private sector, which includes big bucks from the corporate world of for-profit charter schools, vouchers and privatization. He is funded by private sector friends and helpers in Tallahassee and developers and the like in our county. Thrower is another version of District 1 incumbent,Steve Cona III.

District 1 incumbent is a businessman, anti-union board member, promoter of for-profit managed charter schools,vouchers and Steve Cona, along with Stuart pressed hard in the past to privatize nearly 1500 district school custodians by moving to a contractor bid process for custodial services. He is being challenged by former teacher and educational business woman, Nadia Combs, a highly respected teacher and staff member previously employed by the school system. Combs dominated Cona in the primary election and she has a great chance to unseat this two-year incumbent who is supported by Mean-Girl Cindy Stuart and Mean-Girl Susan Valdes, a former school board member and current Florida State Representative. Valdes is also being challenged for re-election by Hillsborough classroom teacher, NPA, Laurie Rodriguez-Person and a Trump Republican supporter, Angle Urbina, in the general election.

District 5: This is an extremely heated race in the central Tampa/Temple Terrace/Seminole Heights areas between incumbent Tamara Shamburger and retired district Area Superintendent Henry "Shake" Washington. Neither have seemed greatly opposed to either Vouchers or for-profit managed Charter schools. Shamburger was initally opposed to the appointment of Superintendent Davis while Washington's campaign staff appears to be fully supportive of both Cona and Davis, Both Washington and his campaign staff and Superintendent Davis have stated publicly, "Charter Schools are here to Stay!" Political local office holder incumbents appear to lean in support of Shamburger but this race has proven to be a real show! Here, sparks really fly all the way to November.

District 7, at-large, county wide seat: This race is between incumbent and former teacher Lynn Gray and former school board member and former school district employee and private school owner Sally Harris. Gray has taught at many Hillsborough schools and also at Jesuit High School. She has the ear and support of the unions and school district employees. She is opposed to for-profit managed charter schools, generally, along with an aversion to vouchers and privatization. As a board member, she has been unafraid to "be an Army of One" pressing hard for kids, teachers and school communities. Harris was the fourth-wheel of the infamous "Mean Girls Four" along with long-gone, failed politican April Griffin, Susan Valdes and now Cindy Stuart. Harris lost her seat in 2018 to new board member and educator, Dr. Stacy Hahn, in South Tampa/South County/ South Shore areas.

As a three-time candidate, unsuccessful at that, for School Board District one in 2016, 2018 and in 2020 and as a 35 year teacher, principal, director and general director, I recommend you support and elect: Jessica Vaughn, Nadia Combs, Lynn Gray and Henry "Shake" Washington and help save our 
beloved school district.  Bill Person

Help The Crowbar - Ybor City

DONATE

#SaveOurStages

Tampa Dems Devoid of Ideology

"Democrats with NO POLITICAL IDEOLOGY whose ENDORSEMENTS 
CAN BE BOUGHT!!!"
---

Seeking Sanctuary?
Our Revolution is a ideological group,
not a political party group.
Political parties shift,
they do not. Join them HERE

---

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pu Pu Pplatter & Fried Rice

New China - 3801 W Gandy Blvd

(813) 837-6865

Trump/DeSantis Bromance Is Over

DeSantis has watched his approval ratings tumble through the coronavirus pandemic, and that growing unpopularity could cost President Donald Trump re-election.

---

“Everybody in the White House besides the president can’t stand Ron anymore because they realize, and now I think the president is realizing, that he made Ron DeSantis, 
and Ron isn’t really doing anything to 
help him win Florida.”  HERE

Cycling Through Tampa