Medical Tourism In Florida

The Florida Legislature 
is poised to expand health care 

Not for Floridians, for tourists. 

We’re not joking. A bill to spend Florida tax dollars to promote medical tourism is flying though the legislature. Yet, the Republican leadership won’t allow a single hearing on
using billions in federal tax dollars to expand
 health care 

to 1.1 million uninsured Floridians.

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Florida Wake Up, Doesn't This Piss You Off?

Florida Vote Yes On 1

Factcheck: GOP Obamacare Lies

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Bacon Cheeseburger

At Smack Daddy's in Port Charlotte

Proud sponsor of the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition

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Jessica Stewart - Florida Governor 2014

Born September 26,1976 in Tallahassee

A Florida Dem since age 18

Panama City Beach, Florida 

Check her out here

         

McPriceless

Eat Local

Tampa Bay Locavore

Miami Heat Corporate Welfare

NO WELFARE FOR BILLIONAIRES MIKEY ARISON 

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April Freeman for Congress

 Running for Congress as a Democrat in Florida’s

GOP Land 19th congressional district,

Which encompasses Boca Grande, Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, Cape Coral, 
Pine Island,

Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva, Bonita Springs, Estero, Naples and 
Marco Island.

here

“Like so many Americans, I just couldn’t go where the extremists were taking us,”

Florida's Right Wing Infestation

Stogie's Pest Control 

GOVERNOR

Nan Rich

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

 William Rankin

 STATE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER

Thad Hamilton

ATTORNEY GENERAL

 George Sheldon

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Florida GOP Don Gaetz Claims Democrats Are "Communists"

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Florida Pass A Clean Springs Bill!

Please call your Senator and urge them to support SB 1576, and then call your Representative to urge them to take up the Springs bill (which will be amended onto a bill that is moving in the House) and pass it without any amendments.  This link will give you the contact information for your 

State Senator and State Representative.

  Remember, phone calls are more effective than emails which can easily be deleted.

Rick Scott Changes The Rules

Regarding what falls under
“public records” 

 making it harder for citizens and journalists

to get an idea of how Florida is conducting “the people’s business.”

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Florida GOP Kelli Stargel

The Republican 
State senator from Lakeland's bill to restrict small craft beer brewers from selling directly to the public has made her a poster child for legislators appearing much
More concerned with protecting powerful special interests 

Than the free market and small businesses.

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Rick Scott: Cómo se dice "pander"?

Florida Hispanics Beware

Rick Scott campaigned in 2010 on his support for extreme Tea Party Arizona-style anti-immigrant legislation. He vetoed a bill to allow children of undocumented immigrants to get a temporary driver's license. So why is he now "considering" giving in-state tuition to these same young Floridians? Sounds like an awfully convenient election year change of heart as Scott looks to improve his dire standing among
Florida's Latino voters.

MC Film Fest

Bill Moyers on America's Mad Dash Toward Oligarchy

Florida Governor 2014

GOVERNOR:
Nan Rich (D) - Ex-State Senate Minority Leader, Ex-State Rep.
& amp Ex-National Council of Jewish Women President
Charlie Crist (D) - Ex-Governor, Ex-Attorney General, Ex-State Sen.,
 Ex-Republican & '10/'98 US Sen. Candidate
Farid Khavari (Independent) - Economist & '10 Candidate
Monroe Lee (D) - Civil Engineer & Frequent Candidate
Ryan Lipner (D) - Frequent Candidate
Dr. Marcelle Martelly (D) - Social Worker
Roland McCoy (D) - Salesman
Jessica Stewart (D) - Restaurant Worker &
Pro-Casino Activist
Randy Zapata (D) - Recent College Graduate
& '06 Candidate
James Fraleigh (Independent Party)
 Naomi Craine (Socialist Workers/Write-In) - Trotskyist Political Organizer &
'12 US Sen. Candidate
Joe Allen (Independent) - Retired Teacher & '10 Candidate
Rubin Anderson (Independent) - Baptist Pastor, Community Activist & Felon
Vassilia Gazetas (Independent)
                 Kyle "KC" Gibson (Independent) - Pastor
Herman Giger (Independent) - Pilot, Flight Instructor, Army Veteran & '10 Candidate
Mark Griffis (Independent) - System Administrator & Community Activist
Jefferson Horwath (Independent) - Waiter, National Guard Veteran & '08 Lake Mary Mayor Candidate
C.C. Reed (Independent) - Businessman & Frequent Candidate
Leonard Rolle (Independent) - Federal Disaster Housing Inspector & '10/'12 Pahokee Mayor Candidate
Charles Tolbert (Independent) - Minister, Retired Army Master Sergeant & Vietnam War Veteran
Lesther Trujillo (Independent) - Limousine Driver & '10 Candidate
Paul Murray (Write-In)
*Warning
Could be harmful to your health
Atlee Yarrow (American Freedom) - Press Operator, White Supremacist Activist
Steve LaBianca (Libertarian) - Activist & Business Consultant                 
John Wayne Smith (Libertarian) - Libertarian Activist, Awning Installer, Army Veteran & Frequent Candidate
Adrian Wyllie (Libertarian) - State Party Chair, Businessman & Veteran 
Rick Scott (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Yinka Adeshina (R) - Pharmacist & 12 Presidential Candidate
Vincent Angiolillo (R) - Limousines Company Owner & '12 Collier County Sheriff Candidate
Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder (R) - Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Florida President & Businesswoman
Tim Devine (R) - Frequent Candidate
Berthram Samuel (R) - '10 Candidate
Dr Joe Smith (R) - Chiropractor & Frequent Candidate

Simple, Pick One And Vote

Politics1
The Stogie Party

Have the Homeless Become Invisible?

http://www.makethemvisible.com

Tampa Bay Homeless

Verizon Killed Net Neutrality

At the behest of Verizon

A federal appellate court struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order and internet providers are now free to discriminate – block or slow down – any web site or application they choose. But the FCC can save it.

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I'm Sorry But I Am Not Gonna Travel Beside A Negro

Florida GOP To Cost Business Millions

The Medicaid expansion refusal is the doing of one man:

GOP Speaker of the House
Will Weatherford
here

We're losing out on
Seven to ten million dollars a day
tax money sent to the federal government  that other states will now get.
It may be responsible for the deaths of as many as
Six Floridians a day. 

http://www.willweatherford.info
Wake Up Pasco County

Painfully Ignorant In Miami

Florida Is At The Center Of The Climate Crisis

Stand with Bill Nelson

who pulled an all-nighter to demand action on climate change.

here

Ask Senator Rubio to speak up about sea level rise issues that threaten Florida and urge him to protect Florida communities from the impacts
of climate change.
Take Action Today!

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Money Dictates Florida Legislative Agenda

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How Ft. Lauderdale Handles The Homeless

Florida is now, and always has been in the postcard business. Not literally, in the sense that postcard sales make up a significant portion of Florida’s economy — more in the sense that the state itself, at least the parts that are visible to tourists and outside money, should ideally look exactly as pictured on the postcards they see.......more>

Hillsborough Dems Want A Crist-Rich Debate

The Hillsborough County
Democratic Party 

Passed a resolution urging a debate between Democratic candidates 

 Charlie Crist and Nan Rich

here

The Un-Democratic Broward County Democratic Executive Committee
voted against a resolution calling for a primary debate.
here

Ybor Surveillance

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

Bacon Cheeseburger

At The Rainbow Restaurant in Mascotte

Florida Anheuser-Busch Distributors

There are 100 craft breweries in Florida,

and 31 of them are in Hillsborough County.

A bill backed by Anheuser-Busch distributors,

passed Monday by a state Senate committee

would put them out of business.

Commissioner Mark Sharpe tried in vain to help,

the other commissioners are sitting this one out.

Who is Anheuser-Busch?

They are owned by a Belgian-Brazilian

multinational beverage and brewing company headquartered in

 >Leuven, Belgium

 

Local distributors

Pepin Distributing -  Great Bay Distributors

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Why Are You Drinking Their Beer?

>Stay Local!

Florida Is 'Ground Zero' For Sea Level Rise

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What Tampa Bay might look like in 2073

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Florida Republicans are Rigging 'Voting REST-ROOMS'

Tampa Cabbie Goes To War With Lyft, Uber And Bob Buckhorn

I  have lived the life for 19 years and

I will fight for my livelihood.
This war has just begun.

 They are based out of Seattle and San Francisco. United and  Yellow were founded by local Tampons.

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Bob Buckhorn - the mayor of Tampa. This cat is the one that allowed the food trucks into downtown Tampa, completely ignoring the restaurants that pay taxes and are located downtown. He justified it, in the same way he is Lyft, that in this economy we need jobs. True, what we need are jobs that people can live off of. You are making beggars out of people Buckhorn. I guess  its good your wife had a good job before you got elected because you would have been flying a sign like the rest of the bums on the streets. No offense to bums. At least they work
and struggle every day.

The hardest thing you ever did was take your mutt to the dog park.

Gubernatorial Debate In Tampa

WEDU-TV, The Tampa Tribune and
Genesis Communications
have teamed up with community partners to host a Florida gubernatorial debate preceding this November's general election.
 

To be held at WEDU's Tampa studios 

And moderated by Local Legend
Rob Lorei
Managing editor of Florida This Week on WEDU-TV (PBS)
 

and co-founder of WMNF Radio.

GOP Selling George H.W. Bush Socks

ONLY $35.00

Critical Mass In St. Pete

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WHAT PAUL RYAN’S REPUBLICAN BUDGET MEANS FOR FLORIDA

20,921 millionaires would get an $87,000 tax break.

BUT...

Middle class families would pay
$2000 more in taxes.
290,401 seniors would pay more for medicine.
42,260 college students wouldn't receive Pell Grants.
3,569 domestic violence victims would lose access
to theSTOP Violence Against Women Program.
6,920 children would lose access to Head Start.

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Florida GOP Drunk At Taco Bell

Police in Tallahassee busted Florida GOP 
Rep. Dane Eagle 

Leaving a Taco Bell and nearly hitting a concrete median 
at 2 in the morning.

He got pulled over by Officer David Keller.

Despite refusing to take a field sobriety test, authorities said Eagle’s breath and vehicle smelled of alcohol. Eagle denied that he had been drinking, he rats on his friends  attributing the smell to friends who were riding with him earlier in the evening.

He also allegedly told Keller that he was “good to get home,”
despite stumbling
and falling when Keller asked him to walk to his patrol car. 

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Eagle, who was elected in 2012,
was arrested and charged with driving
under the influence. 

Florida: A Younger Population Is Pushing The State Left

Florida is getting younger

and thus a bit more politically liberal.

If a stroll down the Miami Beach’s famed boardwalk doesn’t persuade you, perhaps

U.S. Census data will.

In the 1970s, about 30 percent of Florida’s population was 45 or older. Today, those mid-lifers represent less than 5 percent of the Sunshine State’s population.

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Today In Pinellas: Greenlight Pinellas Millenials & Transit

PSTA will be hosting a special guest before their board meeting.

They’ll be hosting a discussion on

younger generations and transportation.
Poll after poll has told us that millennials and future generations are not as interested in cars as they are cell phones.  But, what transportation options do they want?

How can we make the case for more options?

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Floridian Charlene Dill

Charlene Dill, a hardworking young woman with

three children and three jobs,
Lost her life because
Florida GOP
Turn down $60,000,000,000.00
in federal aid that would have paid for her healthcare,

and the healthcare of one million other Floridians who comprise
the working poor.

After Congressman Alan Grayson told her sad story in a Tampa newspaper,

their Facebook page was inundated with over 600 comments. 

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Stop Fracking In The Everglades

A Texas oil company, Hughes Co.

was caught secretly and illegally fracking on endangered Florida panther habitat in the western Everglades. Their punishment?

A $25,000 slap on the wrist from Gov. Rick Scott

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The Gulf Coast, Four Years After The BP Disaster

900: Bottlenose dolphins found dead or stranded

500: Sea Turtles found dead or stranded 

20 percent: Portion of the Gulf’s bluefin tuna exposed 

778 miles: Amount of coastline BP says it cleaned before ending
“active cleanup”

$14 billion: Amount BP says it spent on spill response and cleanup activities

$12.9 billion: Amount BP says it paid in claims, advances, civil settlements, and payments for tourism promotion, seafood testing, marketing,
and health services

$23 billion: BP’s profits in 201

$105 million: Amount BP paid under a partial settlement for the oil spill to fund new healthcare centers and services for the Gulf

17 months: Time period BP was banned from all federal contracts

Two weeks: Length of time after that suspension was lifted before BP

had another oil spill

Five: Number of rigs BP had in the Gulf of Mexico before the spill

10: Number of oil rigs BP currently has in the Gulf

1.3 million: Barrels of oil produced daily in the U.S. Gulf in 2011

2 million: Barrels of oil expected to come from the U.S. Gulf daily by 2020

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Fight for Gulf Dolphins Against BP Lies
Tell BP to finish cleaning up the Gulf

Happy Earth Day