Hillsborough County GOP Votes To Continue The Infestation

GOP commissioners voted 5-2 to move ahead with a plan to overhaul the structure of the Hillsborough County Commission including the addition 
of two seats. 

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The proposal is being pushed by Republican Commissioner 

Sandy Murman. The proposal would give her more options to stay in office.

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The commission’s two Democrats voted against Murman’s plan. Commissioner Pat Kemp said the move is aimed simply at protecting Republican controlled at-large seats in what political pundits predict may be a tough election year for the GOP.

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"This is in my mind raw partisan politics, this is commissioners trying to draw districts for themselves to keep themselves on the commission." Pat Kemp

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Andrew Gillum: My family knows what it means

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Tampa Hoods

Downtown

Gwen Graham's anti-Obama Voting Record

Coffee with Adam Hattersley

It’s emotionally satisfying for Democrats to hear a young veteran candidate talk about the over 200 combat missions he has completed in Iraq while proudly wearing the Democratic badge. Then, throw in the fact that voters have historically seen candidates with a military pedigree as an appealing contrast to entrenched, career politicians. Enter Adam Hattersley, a political newcomer whose background and military experience read like the pages of a Tom Clancy novel. 

Hattersley, a former Nuclear Submarine officer in the US Navy and Iraq War veteran, is running for Florida State House, District 59. The former Navy officer rounds out his qualifications with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan as well as being a member in the 1999 NCAA champion men’s gymnastics team. 

Adam Hattersley is an ally of Main Street, not Wall Street. In 2016, Hattersley and his wife embraced the entrepreneurial spirit and opened the doors to their business, C-Suite Promotions, a print and promotional item distributorship. As a business owner, he understands the challenges small businesses are facing today and knows the importance of fostering local commerce.

Adam is a principled veteran who will work in a cross-partisan way to create a more effective and less polarized government for District 59.

Asher Edelson Speaks At City Hall

 Speaking to Tampa City Council demanding Audit 

to Investigate “Biking While Black."

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Another gentleman also spoke directing his anger towards 

Frank Reddick. He was stopped and told to direct 

his comments towards the whole body. He mentioned that Reddick had done nothing for Tampa's 

African American community. 

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Joe Citro was there and a few other people. 

Where was everybody?

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This is your government at work. I know it's hard for working people to be at City Hall on a weekday morning but what about retirees? Don't you you care about your children and grand children's future? What about students that don't have class?

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This is NOT What Democracy Looks Like!!

Not when party "movers & shakers, State Chess players, Puppet Masters, King & Queen makers" put pressure on any primary candidate to vacate their race because they don't want a primary. It's Bullshit and Business as usual. Why not let the constituents have a choice? Bob and Karen Meyer Buesing are class acts, and that's why my choice would have been to vote for Bob Buesing in the primary and general elections.
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We all know that some candidates are motivated to run because they want power, prestige, and to do well (for themselves), I believe that Bob's motive was driven by the desire to Do Good. I am not surprised that Bob would put party above himself. Bob may have done right by the party, but they have not done right by him, nor us, the people. 

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I am also pleased that he is returning donor contributions instead of funneling them into the party. I'm tired of candidates being shoved down my throat. Anybody who is reading this, don't misunderstand, I am not advocating for voting for Dana Young or any GOP candidate. I am exercising my freedom of speech, and criticizing a deeply flawed system. This is NOT What Democracy Looks Like!

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By Beth Eriksen Shoup

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chorizo

With Yellow Rice and Tostones

At El Puerto in Ybor City
Thanks Nick!

Ybor City Homeless

Meet Sergio

Local Merchants: Paramount Wigs

902 N Franklin St - Downtown Tampa

Visit them here

Coffee with Dave Cutler

Dave Cutler is a self-described rabid fan of all Tampa Bay and Florida State teams and a true blue progressive Democrat. 

For almost three years now, the Tampa Bay native has manned the helm of the Hillsborough LGBTA Democratic Caucus with an exceptional track record in tow. During Cutler’s tenure as President, he has earned continued praise from state and local party officials for his dedication, hard work and grass roots political activism.

Later this month, the Caucus will host their First Annual Bowl-A-Thon on Sunday, April 29^th. The fundraising event will be emceed by former County Commissioner Kevin Beckner and is expected to draw a large crowd. Tickets are available now for only twenty five dollars by visiting hclgbtadc.org. Cutler says that the event will be “phenomenal” and encourages the community to come out and join in the fun.

Ybor City Homeless

Meet Mark

Something's wrong with the left

Something's wrong with the left remember freedom of speech! what happened to discussion, what happened to being critical thinkers, what happened to civil discourse. we on the left have lost our way. We're going to keep on losing until we return to the values of being a leftist.
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People are so quick to call others racist. I've been fighting for the rights of all minorities for years. I have never called someone a racist if I didn't believe it and there wasn't evidence of it. There is no intellectual Independence anymore. What being a leftist is about is empathy, it's about fighting for the people who need you to fight for them cuse they can't fight for themselves. We are living in critical times we were at the Edge, now
we have jumped off.

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I found a lot of you have not been taught what it means to be a fighter for the poor the oppressed was The Unwanted. We must have a critical inventory of our tactics and the motives of those who seek to destroy Liberty within the left. which is the basic concept of liberalism. You should have the freedom to offend, I may not like what you say but I don't want to live in a the Society where people cannot challenge the majority of thought. Return to being humble to having honor to telling the truth, even if it harms you. To never looking at the big picture and to always looking at the consequences of our actions.we must be able to be upright enough to stand up. If you are in total agreement with any one person or any group of people on everything, there is something wrong.
Wake up!!!!!

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How can we call others fascist when we control the very nature of speech and language. return to fighting for the truth return! return! return! before it's too late. I weep for the next generation your children of the millennials they will live in a disposable Society. proof by evidence of crime should be what convicts. not the accusation of criminality. Wake up men and women or whatever you are. We should never totally agree but we should be able to learn what compromise truly is. We should never compromise on fact what compromise I'm talking about is not a country divided but ideology but to have different people thinking differently working together at the same goal for liberty and justice for all.

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So what were going to do today and tomorrow is that we are going to have what I call the great conversation, that the left must have with itself or kiss our asses goodbye.

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By Jason Rodriguez

Florida Corporate Dems Win Again

Or should we say lose again?

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Progressive Democrat Bob Buesing announced that he'll withdraw from the state Senate District 18 race against Dana Young.

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Welcome Sen. Dana Young
The grassroots will not lift a finger to help in this race!

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Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless living in Tampa

Students Suing Florida GOP

Rick Scott, Adam Putnam and other state leaders face a lawsuit filed Monday by eight Florida students, and their legal allies, demanding action on 
climate change. here

Ybor Paparazzi

R. David Walker

Progressive Democratic candidate

for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture

Check him out here

2018 HOPE Nehemiah Action In Tampa

Advance Bible Based Fellowship Church - Carrolwood

Adnan Aida Mackic

Mariella Smith

County Commissioner Pat Kemp

Mark Nash

Community members unite to ask for our public officials' leadership in tackling problems of lack affordable housing and elder care services and to reduce youth arrests in Hillsborough County. here

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Thank you John Streater for inviting me to this beautiful event!

A Progressive Democrat Reflects on Bill Nelson

While campaigning recently in Tallahassee Senator Bill Nelson expressed his support for the U.S. Military’s missile attack in Syria  for alleged chemical attacks by the Assad regime.This before international inspectors could determine the Western Media’s supposed claims of authenticity. This should not really surprise anyone, as Senator Nelson recently voted against a resolution that would have pulled the United States support for the Saudi-led humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.
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I can only deduce that Senator Nelson likes to see human suffering and making our country less safe. He  voted for the Iraq War and the results of that egregious blunder, we’re still paying for: the destruction of the country of Iraq, the hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqi citizens dead or displaced,the rise of ISIS, all at a cost of a trillion dollars according to Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes.

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So, as a Progressive Democrat, when I look at his voting record, say, his committee vote against a Public Option during the ACA debate or his recent vote to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act-returning the Big Banks to their  pre-recession actions or refusal to insist on DACA protections before ending the government shutdown , leaving up to 1.8 million Dreamers vulnerable to deportations, there’s not much to get excited about with Bill Nelson. What’s a Progressive Democrat to do?  One thing I won’t do is go out and tell other registered democrats what a wonderful voting record Bill Nelson has in terms
war and peace and finance.
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Scott Shoup
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Finally, a Progressive with the courage to speak up.

Ybor Paparazzi

Syd Eastwin

Tour of Ybor City the Cigar Capital of the World

What Stogie Had For Lunch

A bunch of tasty healthy stuff

At  Vale Food Co. - Downtown Tampa