Hasta La Vista Marco Rubio: Booted From Tampa Office

Vocal crowds of demonstrators making weekly visits to the Tampa office of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio have gotten the Miami Republican booted from the building. here

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The owner of Bridgeport Center, a gleaming, nine-story office center at 5201 Kennedy Blvd., notified Rubio's office on Feb. 1 that it will not renew its lease.

Andrew Gillum For Florida Governor

Florida Right Wing Power Grab

GOP-backed bills in the Legislature seek to prevent local governments from regulating businesses and allow lawmakers to overrule judicial decisions. Other measures would make it harder for voters to amend the state Constitution and for average citizens and watchdog groups to challenge development. here

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Republican lawmakers seeking to wrest power from Washington seem to have no problem concentrating it in Tallahassee rather than on the local level. 

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They apparently only want local control when the locals are in complete ideological agreement with their far-right positions.

Awake the State Tampa

3.7 - 2pm

Gaslight Park - Downtown Tampa

Join us in Tampa as we Awake The State on the first day of Florida's legislative session! Gov. Scott and his allies are irresponsibly squandering our tax dollars. Their giant corporate tax giveaways costing our state billions are unjust and uncalled for while critical needs in education, health care, the environment, and infrastructure remain urgent. It’s time to Awake The State and fight for a just budget that works for every Floridian.

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Hillsborough County GOP Loves Developers

Despite calls from residents
to implore commissioners to put more money into the county’s bus system and to find other ways to move people without building more roads. here

Florida GOP 
Sandy Murman
Victor Crist
Al Higginbotham
Stacy White
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and Ken Hagan
approved a road-centric $812 million, 
10-year transportation plan.
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They could care less about what you want. Next time they are up for reelection
we hope you remember this.

Also remember this guy

Les Miller

He is a Dem and he also voted for this.

Thank you Pat Kemp

“We cannot build our way out of congestion. It’s time we make some wise investments." 
Pat Kemp

Check Out Rick Scott Committing Political Suicide

Scott is very proud!

Check out the best buds on Scott's 

Twitter page.

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless Living in Tampa

Florida GOP Block Trump's Tax Returns From Being Released

Carlos Curbelo

Mario Diaz-Balart

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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Opposed the bill to “request the tax return information of Donald J. Trump. here

Mariella Smith: Letter To Marco Rubio

Senator Marco Rubio sent me a galling fundraising letter. Now. He was just elected in November to a six-year term and he's already asking for money for his next election! Here's my response:

Dear Senator Rubio,

Your next election is 6 years away. Stop campaigning & fundraising and start doing your actual job: meet with your constituents and listen to us — all of us — left & right. It is seriously off-putting that you would be asking us all for money while you refuse to listen to us all. You refuse to hold town hall meetings because you can’t bear to hear some people who might disagree with you, yet you ask us all to support you financially. And please stop sounding like such a scaredy cat about the "barrage of attacks from Democrats.” You are supposed to work for ALL your constituents, from all parties. YOU are supposed to lead us together, toward healing our divides — not rile us up into fearing one another so you can profit off this fear-mongering.

You are our Senator. Start acting like a statesman, instead of a politician.

Sincerely,

Mariella Smith

What Stogie Had For Lunch

All you eat Chinese $6.95

At Tampa Buffet - Britton Plaza
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How nuch was your last value meal?
EAT LOCAL!

Political Suicide: Trump's Pal Rick Scott

They had lunch. They had dinner. They even took in the hit film "La La Land" together. here and here

“For a guy who grew up in public housing to be able to have lunch at the White House, watch a movie and go to dinner with the president at his hotel is pretty amazing,” Rick Scott

Dems Did Not Deserve Keith Ellison

"The Democratic Party did not deserve Congressman Keith Ellison as their chair. It's time for the left to start building outside of the party. Ciao Democrats, enjoy your Wall Street lunches." 

Laila Abdelaziz

Ybor Paparazzi

Dave Cutler

At The Bunker

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless living in Tampa

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Rick Scott

Top 10 Donors to Rick Scott’s Let’s Get to Work Committee

$790,052 
Florida Chamber of Commerce
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$335,000

Associated Industries of Florida PAC

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$325,000

 U.S. Sugar Corporation, based in Clewiston

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$310,000

The Geo Group Inc
private prison operator based in Boca Raton
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$277,503

Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts

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$250,000

Skye Lane Properties, a real estate management company in Clearwater and a subsidiary of Heritage Insurance Holdings.

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$250,000
Floridians for a Stronger Democracy. 

 A PAC with ties to Associated
Industries of Florida

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$250,000

 Voice of Florida Business - a PAC with ties to Associated Industries of Florida.

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$200,000
Jeffrey Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning

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$200,000
Daniel Doyle Jr. & DEX Imaging - Doyle is CEO of the document imaging equipment company Tampa based

SOURCE: Florida Division of Elections

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Bloody Mary

At The Hub

Marco Rubio Afraid Of Liberals

Marco Rubio won’t participate in town hall meetings because he says political activists will crash them to create a media spectacle of people who “heckle and scream at me in front of cameras.” here

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“They are not town halls anymore. What these groups really want is for me to schedule a public forum, they then organize three, four, five, six hundred liberal activists in the two counties or wherever I am in the state. Activists are instructed to go to town halls early and “take up all the front seats. They spread themselves out. They ask questions. They all cheer when the questions are asked. They are instructed to boo no matter what answer I give. They are instructed to interrupt me if I go too long and start chanting things. Then, at the end, they are also told not to give up their microphone when they ask questions. It’s all in writing in this Indivisible document.” Marco Rubio

A Critical Day For Hillsborough County

This Wednesday morning, March 1st is a critical day for Hillsborough County. If you cannot be there, PLEASE EMAIL your County Commissioners all at once ASAP with the link below to demand the County Commission FUND TRANSIT NOW!

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Email is the BEST way for written record of all comments but if possible please call, too!

Sandra L. Murman 813-272-5470 

Victor D. Crist 813-272-5452 

Lesley "Les" Miller Jr. 813-272-5720 

Stacy White 813-272-5740 

Ken Hagan 813-272-5725 

Pat Kemp 813-272-5730 

Al Higginbotham 813-272-5735

The Resistance In Downtown Tampa

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Florida GOP Web Of Lies

Martin County commissioners' public records sins finally came home to roost. Three commissioners, Sarah Heard, Ed Fielding and Anne Scott were caught red-handed in a web of lies, denying they conducted public business on private email accounts, hiding, even attempting to destroy records to which the public is entitled. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chinese to go

$7.05 At Tampa Buffet

How much was your last value meal?

Eat Local!

Coffee with Asher Edelson

Asher D. Edelson is the Vice President of the Democratic Disability Caucus of Hillsborough County. By the age of 12, Edelson was a published author with political ambitions. In 2014, Edelson was the youngest candidate in Hillsborough County’s history to run for School Board District 6 at age 19. Currently, Edelson is finishing his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at USF as well as serving as a Precinct Committeeman for the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee.

Asher is well-known in the Bay area’s progressive political movement for initiating conversations on potential candidates in addition to highlighting important local policy issues via Facebook and other social media outlets. The Ybor City Stogie recently sat down with Edelson to learn more about his work with the Democratic Hillsborough County Disability Caucus and discover his thoughts on the 2018 local elections. 

St. Pete For Peace In Tampa

Dale Mabry and Gandy