Allen West Condemns Rep. Alan Grayson's Tea Party - KKK Comparison

Wait, isn't this the guy that in 2011 compared the Democratic Party to the Nazis.....here

 What cojones this guy has.

I Am Dennis Ross

New national poll suggests Dennis Ross could be in trouble. Ross’ approval rating is also upside down at 23% approve/38% disapprove. Two-thirds of voters in this district opposed the government shutdown. Against a generic Democrat, Ross trails 38% to 45%; he is down 42% to 50% when the respondent is informed Ross supported the government shutdown........more

Democrat George Sheldon Enters Florida AG Race Against Bondi

Former Department of Children & Families Secretary George Sheldon has announced he’ll run against Attorney General Bondi, criticizing her judgment and performance in office.

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“Taking on predatory lenders, human traffickers and those who engage in deceptive practices is the job of the Attorney General,” he said, “not working full time trying to deny health insurance to children and anyone with pre-existing conditions.”

Charlie Crist: Tell me how I can help

Vulnerable Florida House Republicans

Rep. Daniel Webster (FL-10) -- This guy defeated Alan Grayson in 2010, but now has 33% popularity and is losing to a hypothetical Dem opponent. 

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McResources "Help" Line

Why I don't eat at McDonalds.

McDonald's just bought another $35-million-dollar luxury jet. Yet their employees make so little they rely on public assistance just to get by. This costs taxpayers $1.2 billion a year!

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Pam Bondi Contesting Medical Marijuana

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is contesting a proposed ballot initiative for a medical marijuana constitutional amendment and has asked the Florida Supreme Court for an opinion. Bondi contends the proposal from People United for Medical Marijuana, a group led by high-profile attorney John Morgan, is misleading the public and is presented in a way that does not convey its “true meaning and ramifications.”......more

University Of Florida SDS Demands Tuition Equity

On Oct. 17, student activists at the University of Florida (UF) officially launched their tuition equity campaign by having a demonstration at Tigert Hall, the University of Florida’s administration building. Around 40 students gathered in front of Tigert Hall to demand in-state tuition for undocumented students who have graduated from Florida high schools. The delegation made speeches calling for the university to implement DACA (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals process) at UF and live up to its claim of being a flagship university and open the door to undocumented students........more

FL-02: Steve Southerland - "Their Games"

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Update: New poll of FL CD 2 shows Gwen Graham leading Steve Southerland, 44% to 41%
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FL Man Kills Black Teen For Refusing To Turn Down Music!

Michael Dunn

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200 Gather In Tampa To Urge Hillary Clinton

200 people packed into a Mise en Place meeting room in South Tampa on Tuesday night to join a grass roots campaign that is urging the former secretary of state to run for president in 2016.....more

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Alan Grayson Maintains Firm Grip on Race

The latest race ratings for Florida's 9th Congressional District affirm that Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) remains a heavy favorite to win re-election in 2014. "These nonpartisan prognosticators understand the reality of this race. We are in a heavily-Democratic district. We won in record fashion in 2012. We have some of the best field and fundraising operations in the entire country. But most importantly, I work hard, pay attention, and get things done for my constituents. They want a ‘Congressman With Guts' representing them," Grayson said.......more

Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas

This Cop Caught a Woman Shoplifting Food 
So She Bought Her $100 Worth of Groceries!

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Hillsborough County Commissioners Honor Jan Platt

The Hillsborough County Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to name its popular land-preservation program for its originator, former board member Jan Platt. Commissioner Kevin Beckner acknowledged that the proposal he floated last month was spontaneous. It came as the board was celebrating the 25th anniversary of ELAPP, and Beckner said he realized during that presentation that the program and environmental stewardship are among Platt's most enduring legacies.....more

Allen West: Obama Turning United States Into A Monarchy

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Fish

With yellow rice and yuca.

$5.95 at La Teresita Grocery, on Boliche Blvd. in West Tampa

Rep. Alan Grayson: "Tea Party is no more popular than the Klan"

Jessica Ehrlich Not Welcome

In an email shared with Peter Schorsch of Saint Petersblog  Mrs. Young, Bill Young's widow advises Ehrlich, who ran against Rep. Young in 2012, that she is not “welcome at any of my husband’s memorial services.”

“People like you are the exact people that makes this world a scary place to live in,” Young writes. “You should be ashamed of the games you attempted to play so you could secure a job.“

I will keep my words to myself on this one, RIP Mr. Young. 
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Consider Rep. Ted Yoho Of Florida

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Consider Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), a Tea Party freshman whose outspoken stupidity on a default’s potential benefits, such as an improved U.S. credit rating, has provided a bit of dark humor in these dark days. Yoho, a large-animal veterinarian, announced months ago that he would never vote to raise the debt ceiling. Like most Republican candidates, he had no problem raising contributions from business interests, notably including contractors, insurance companies, manufacturers and agricultural processors — all of which presumably share the horror of default expressed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But no doubt Yoho parroted the usual right-wing clichés about taxes, regulation, labor, and health care, so all the business guys wrote a check without caring that Yoho is an ignorant yobbo.......more

KKK Group Begs Florida Officials

A Ku Klux Klan chapter is fighting a grassroots effort to change the name of a Florida high school that honors the Confederate general who helped found the notoriously racist organization.....more

The Right Owes America $24 Billion

GOP Government Shutdown Cost $24 Billion

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Chicken

With mashed potatoes and baked beans.

$5.99 at Maryland Fried Chicken in Plant City

I Am Mario Diaz-Balart

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The GOP Carnage Has Begun

First Amanda Murphy a Democrat from New Port Richey beats Bill Gunter who had the support of the state GOP and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross,  who spent $75,000 in the last weeks of the campaign. And now Democrat Cory Booker slides into victory in New Jersey. A Tea Party Republican has been soundly defeated and thus denied entry into the Senate, The Tea Party guy Steve Lonegan ran an embarrassing campaign, resorting to questioning Booker’s sexual orientation in lieu of focusing on the issues facing the state and the country....more And their man Ken Cuccinelli up in Virginia is also losing. 

Hey Marco Rubio, The Christ Was A Liberal

He cared about his fellow man. He promoted peace. He cleansed his fathers temple of greed and profit. He would never condone you and your cohorts. You and the rest of the so called Christians are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. You guys would of been the mob screaming for his execution. Stop hiding behind our Christ, you are Insulting us.

Read what Mr. Rubio had to say at the Values Voter Summit.

Rick Kriseman For Mayor of St. Pete

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Rick Scott and his fellow 'walking dead'

What A Nice Time To Be A Liberal

Florida Republicans 

Rick Scott,  Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder, Pam Bondi, Jeff Atwater,  Adam Putnam,  

Steve Southerland, Ander Crenshaw, Ron DeSantis,  John Mica, Bill Posey,

Jorge Bonilla, Daniel Webster, Rich Nugent, Gus Bilirakis, Dennis Ross, Vern Buchanan, 

Tom Rooney, Mario Diaz-Balart,  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

               Remember these folks in 2014.                     

Ben Kirby On The Shutdown

On behalf of rational thinking people everywhere, I would like to call for a formal and official end to the news media and societal malpractice of false equivalence. The government shutdown was never about two equally aggrieved sides trying to find common ground.......more

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Pam Bondi And Donald Trump

The Donald made a $25,000 contribution to a political committee associated with Bondi. The donation came three days after an Attorney General's Office spokeswoman said Bondi was reviewing allegations in a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general against get-rich-quick seminars associated with Trump......more

Sharon Carter, Democrat for Florida House of Representatives

I am Sharon Carter, your candidate for Florida State Representative. As a long time citizen of this beautiful community, with the blessings of my family, friends, community leaders and you, my fellow supporters of the 61st district, I, Sharon Carter, want to represent you in the Florida House of Representatives.

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I Am Marco Rubio And I Voted No

I voted against the Senate bill to end the government shutdown. I was one of
18  republicans who voted no.
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Supporters Rally for Obamacare In Largo

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Hillsborough County Tea Party Takeover

Hillsborough County Tea Party leader Sharon Calvert and one of her political allies both won offices in the Hillsborough County Republican Party on Tuesday, leading one GOP leader to worry about a tea party takeover.......more

Liberals For Ted Cruz 2016

His PAC pulled in almost $800,000 and he is considered a front-runner for the Presidential nomination by some conservative Republicans.
We on the left would love for you folks on the right to nominate

Mr. Cruz for president in 2016. We wish you luck.
If you guys need any help please let us know.

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No More Cheap Coke In Sunrise

The Sunrise Police Department has been luring outsiders to town for high-dollar cocaine sales, making millions for the authorities in the process. The Sun Sentinel published stories about it and put an end to that........more

GOP Surrender Roundup

"Speaker Pelosi Part 2:  Opening Jan 5. 2015".....Drudge

 “I was trying to think earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant,”......Rush Limbaugh

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Diaz-Balart And Rubio Pay Your Bills

Haydee Perkal holds a sign reading, "Tea Party Pay Your Bills I Pay Mine!" as she and others gather in front of the office of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Sen. Marco Rubio to protest against the partial government shutdown......more

I Am Alen West

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Former Congressman Allen West has told the Shark Tank that he will be launching his new website, AllenBWest.com, sometime this upcoming week. West, who is currently a Fox News Contributor, has recently stated that he would be interested in running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, if a seat opens up........more

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Democrat Amanda Murphy Wins

What makes Murphy’s win impressive is Gunter had support of the state GOP, including a full-throated voter drive by state heavyweights Attorney General Pam Bondi, House Speaker Will Weatherford and Rep. Richard Corcoran. Gunter had a solid fundraising session, with a total of $165,440, including $211,423 of “in-kind” contributions, with state party and House leadership funds. Towards the end, the race against Murphy became negative, especially when two groups – Florida Jobs First and Citizens for Fairness — paid for pro-Gunter negative attack ads that may have helped Murphy more than hurt. One round of television spots attacking Murphy came from Florida Jobs First, a PAC started by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, which spent $75,000 in the last weeks of the campaign. The republican stench will linger. Congratulations Ms. Murphy!

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Fouling Florida's Environment

Here on the southeast coast, the Indian River Lagoon, the St. Lucie River and its estuary are being polluted like never before — perhaps irreversibly — by an algae slime that proliferates from excess manure, sewage and fertilizer released by municipalities and, of course, from Lake Okeechobee. Research clearly shows that most of the nutrients flowing into Lake Okeechobee come from tributaries in the northern Everglades. This is Big Sugar country, the Everglades Agricultural Area, where most of the nation's sugarcane is grown........more

Elected officials and others have known for more than 30 years about our nutrient-rich water problems, but they consistently have put business interests ahead of eliminating the sources of the pollution.

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Accountability: Tea Party Traitors

In a piece written for Alternet last week, famed liberal economist Robert Reich turned his sights towards the Tea Party, attributing the backlash against their antics in Washington to the fact that the American people “don’t like traitors to our system of government.”.........more

No Tebow In Tampa

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I Am Gus Bilirakis

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Voters should remember that I voted  in favor of shutting the government down.

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Eric Cantor’s House Coup D’état Led by Koch-Funded Teahadists Sleeper Cell

New overlord Eric Cantor’s coup d’état of the House is burning up American airwaves right now — except, of course, over at Fox. John Boehner, the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers have been carefully positioning their pawns in preparation for this strike for years. Carefully, they moved, manipulated and bought their way into one of the most quietly powerful arms of our Congress: The House Rules Committee......more

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Tampa Students Protest Homophobic Speaker

Members of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protested against Rosaria Butterfield, a self-described former “radical lesbian feminist turned pastor’s wife.” Butterfield now writes and gives lectures opposing homosexuality and advocating for evangelical Christianity. She believes that homosexuality is a sin and that her pride in being a lesbian was an even greater sin. Under the watchful guard of Tampa Police, private security and USF administrators, the protesters stood for the entirety of her speech as onlookers took pictures and gave approval to the protest act.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla Steak 

With black beans and yellow rice

$7.10 at Cuban Sandwich Shop on Florida ave in Tampa

Bill Gunter: Marching Orders From Tallahassee

Florida republicans Pam Bondi, Will Weatherford and Richard Corcoran will be in Port Richey for fellow Republican Bill Gunter.......more The political committee of billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, is funding a closing days TV ad blitz to help Republicans win. We intend to engage in House and Senate  races around the state in both general elections and primaries to ensure Gov. Scott has the partners he needs to create goods jobs for the people of Florida," On WEDU's Florida This Week Friday, Mike Fasano, who use to have the job but is now Pasco County's tax collector, formally endorsed Amanda Murphy over Republican Bill Gunter:

"She is a person that's way above Bill Gunter. She understands the issues. She gets it.... She will be that consumer advocate that we don't want to lose out of House District," said Fasano, who estimates Gunter will have $1-million spent on his behalf by the time the votes are counted. "He's a good guy, but there's no question he's getting his marching orders from the leadership and special interests out of Tallahassee........more

Sick of the GOP? Vote for Democrat Amanda Murphy

The GOP's Little Rule Change They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

The TEApublicans in the House have changed and rigged the rules in order to prevent the government shutdown from ending until they, and they alone, decide to end it.

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