GOP In Manatee County

The GOP controlled Board Of County Commissioners in Manatee County

 

 Voted Tuesday to eliminate a third of all voting locations. The commissioners voted 6 to 1 to accept the elimination of voting locations despite the fact that it would do away with half the voting places available for minority voters. Naturally the only person who complained was the Democrat who also happens to represent District 2,

a mostly minority district......more

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Marcus, he is from Virginia

Florida #1 Anti Women Destination

women change their vacation plans

Tourism is one of the biggest industries in so many of the states pushing attacks on reproductive health. Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Arizona, Michigan—all of them depend on tourism dollars, and all of them are on the front lines of the war on women.

Take Florida for example. For the last 3 years, Florida has been on the front lines in the War on Women. Mandatory ultrasounds. Budget cuts to rape crisis centers. Banning insurance coverage for abortion care. The list goes on.  
No politician wants to put one of their state's key industries at risk.

  Can you chip in to get this project off the ground?

Ybor Surveillance

7th Ave

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

Palomilla steak

With yellow rice and yuca

At El Paraiso Café in Ybor.

Where The Locals Eat. Stop in and let Ramona fix you something.

David Bastin of Jupiter

Fired one up at the Martin Medical Center Delivery Unit  in Stuart
after his girlfriend was admitted. The nurses caught a
whiff of spliff
being smoked and called the cops.....more>>>

The Stogie In Ybor

7th Ave.

Woman Films Wrong Way Driver On 275

Scott and Bondi: Florida's Culture Of Corruption

The state of Florida has joined a lawsuit aimed at blocking a massive cleanup plan for Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay.  And, no, you can’t make this stuff up.

Last week, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a brief — paid for with your taxes — attacking the legality of the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint.

Why would the state of Florida try to obstruct the cleanup of public waters hundreds of miles away from our own?

Because Bondi and Gov. Rick Scott are complete tools.

They aren’t suing on behalf of the citizens of Florida; they’re suing on behalf of big agricultural and development interests that don’t want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcing clean-water laws anywhere......more

ad more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/08/3920357/muddying-the-waters-far-from-home.html#storylink=cpy

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/08/3920357/muddying-the-waters-far-from-home.html#storylink=cpy

Ybor Paparazzi

Gaby 'The Mad Strategist'

At Mace Multimedia in Ybor.

Right Wing Drops Another $400,000 In Florida

Alan Grayson and Joe Garcia

Americans for Prosperity is intensifying the pressure on congressional Democrats by launching yet another round of TV commercials in Florida expanding its anti-Obamacare campaign into a new House district. The conservative advocacy group plans to announce that it will spend nearly $400,000 running ads hitting Reps. Alan Grayson and Joe Garcia for backing President Obama’s health-care law......more>

- The Day We Fight Back

Charlie Crist: It's time to end the U.S. embargo against Cuba

"The embargo has done nothing in more than 50 years to change the regime in Cuba. If we want to bring democracy to Cuba, we need to encourage American values and investment there, not block ourselves out and cede influence to China......more>

End the embargo against the Cuban people!

Florida Blue Revolution 11.4.14

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Ybor Street Food

 

 

Ybor Paparazzi

Charlie Walls old place on 7th Ave.

1st Pot College Opens In Tampa

here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Fish with yellow rice and yuca.

At Liborio's Latin Café On Causeway Blvd, in Tampa

The City of Gainesville

Requested permission from the state to use the University of Florida’s student union as an early voting location for upcoming municipal elections, Scott’s handpicked

Secretary of State Ken Detzner said "no."

Gov. Rick Scott has been doing everything in his power to make it harder for Floridians to vote ever since he got into office.

His latest effort to undermine our fundamental right to vote? here
More at Pushing Rope

Ashton Kutcher Blasts Miami

'Justice for Jordan Davis

Jacksonville activists rally outside the Duval County Courthouse

demanding 'Justice for Jordan Davis' here

Sad State Of Hillsborough County

County Commissioner

Dist. 4: Rick Cochran - Janet Lee Dougherty - Stacy White All GOP

 Dist. 5: Ken Hagan GOP

Dist. 7 All GOP 

Florida Legend Buddy MacKay Endorses Nan Rich

Sen. Nan Rich brought her dark-horse campaign for governor to the University of Tampa on Tuesday, trumpeting the endorsement of former lieutenant governor and congressman Buddy MacKay, a Democratic elder statesman.....more>

Mr. MacKay, now retired in Marion County, was a state legislator, U.S. House member, lieutenant governor under the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, and briefly governor after Chiles’ 1998 death. He lost the 1998 governor’s race to Jeb Bush. He’s one of the last remaining members of the group of progressive Democrats, including Chiles, Reubin Askew and Bob Graham, who dominated
Florida politics during the 1970s and 1980s.

EPA Abandons Lakeland

The Environmental Protection Agency

is walking away after a decades-long battle with

 Florida politicians and industry officials

over cleaning up phosphate-mining waste around Lakeland that could expose more than

100,000 residents to cancer-causing radiation levels......more>

Charlie Crist: "Guys Like Rick Scott"

Vanessa Guzman Of Boyton Beach

A Florida middle school teacher was suspending after assigning homework using Lil’ Wayne lyrics. The explicit lyrics to his hit “6 Foot 7 Foot”

were printed and passed out to an eight grade class, and

it made one parent very upset.....more>

Florida Frackers Attack The Everglades

Florida Frackers

The Everglades,

The Keys,

Migrating Birds. Tourists,

Fracking?

here

Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Guiso Mexicano

With beans and rice.

At The Strawberry Palace in Plant City

Breakout

Palm River

Kirk Cameron, or CCOCK

Republican Threesome

In Durant

Bad News For Florida's Right Wing

Medical marijuana will be on the ballot in November,
which is bad news for Gov. Rick Scott and other Republican leaders
who oppose any relaxation of the state’s backward cannabis laws. public surveys continue to show landslide support for medical marijuana, and a majority favoring the decriminalization of small amounts for personal use. This is a thorny problem for conservative Republicans like Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who are up for re-election. They now have to sally forth and crusade against a popular cause, trying to stir fear and doubts among a constituency

that’s heard it all before........more>

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/01/3905731/dr-cheech-called-your-prescription.html#storylink=cpy

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cheech-called-your-prescription.html#storylink=cpy

Take Me To Your Leader

We look around

and all we see is GOP
Where are our new leaders? 

Derrick Brooks, Elected To Hall of Fame

It's about time. here, visit DB55.org

Right Wing Pouring Money Into Florida

Right-Wing groups from outside Florida
 are desperately pouring money into the race for the late Bill Young's seat,
and all that money is to boost

Republican lobbyist David Jolly

 who is running against Democrat Alex Sink......more>

Follow The Leader Florida

Florida We Can Follow 11.4.14
Please visit Stogie's Smoke Shop,

and enjoy the game.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

At Olde Town Pizzeria in Plant City

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TPD: How We Do It In Tampa

TPD Officer Van Treese

Save Tampa’s Jackson House

Tampa’s historic Jackson House

The local NAACP is rethinking how they feel about Mayor Buckhorn. It seems  Mayor Bob has thrown up one roadblock after another in the saga over saving the house. 

 Bubba the Love Sponge and Linda Saul-Sena

tried to save Jackson House from demolition last September.

Both maintain the city obstructed the deal with last minute,

unreasonable deadlines and charges......more>

 

“The mayor has a vision of downtown, and let’s be honest, it doesn’t include African-American people.”...former Buckhorn supporter, NAACP member Yvette Lewis

 

“Whatever plan he has is a lot more sexier than restoring a dilapidated house for African Americans,” Bubba

Hillsborough Democrats Near Surrender

Just one Democrat remains in the running with four Hillsborough County Commission seats up for election now that candidate Mary Mulhern, a Tampa city council member, has withdrawn from the District 7 race for health reasons. To some observers, this scenario raises serious questions about the Democratic Party’s ability to compete in local elections.

Democrats have 61,000 more registered voters in the county than Republicans, yet the GOP has a solid 5-2 majority on the commission.....more> 

“It starts with leaders recruiting candidates to run for office. There’s a lack of focus on the recruitment process at the state level. Their focus seems to be on getting people elected to Congress or statewide office.”  Kevin Beckner

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Tony, he is from Tampa.

Florida TParty Buster: Alan Cohn

Alan Cohn - Democrat for Congress

Busting Dennis Ross

Florida Ku Klux Klan