Sen. Nelson asks feds to investigate fracking near Everglades

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson 

is calling on the nation’s environmental chief to scrutinize oil drilling activities by a Texas-based company caught in what has been described as fracking at a well site in the shadow of the Everglades.......more

In just the past year and a half, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has granted about a dozen permits.

NO Fracking in Florida

Florida Stand Your Ground FAIL

Give Day Tampa Bay

May 6, 2014

This is a big, bold opportunity for our community.  We’re joining more than 100 communities across the country to raise millions of dollars for the greater good — all on a single day......here

GOP Declared Economic War On The American People

The Republicans — who recently shot down $12 million dollars over the next 10 years to keep children out of the sex trade while voting for $310 billion dollars in corporate tax cuts in addition to shutting down any discussion on the minimum wage.

A Suckers Deal for Rubio

Florida GOP: Yinka Adeshina

Florida Governor 2014

here

Rick Scott's Florida

Ybor City

Demand the Florida Democratic Party support a Democratic gubernatorial debate

Florida Voters Deserve a Discussion:Call for a Gubernatorial debate, now.

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 Garlic Wings

At John Hall's Goal Post Grill & Sports Bar, 
3575 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte

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Florida GOP Is Costing Us $50 billion

The U.S. government wanted to give Florida $50 billion in taxpayer money

Money you paid into the system through 
income taxes

To provide Medicaid to roughly 1 million Floridians who would otherwise go uncovered.

 There was zero cost to the state for 10 years, after which we would have to kick in 10 percent.

Instead, Scott and the GOP blocked expansion and turned away the money, not because it was best for Florida, but because it was best for the GOP. Republican state legislators said no to free health care for 1 million Floridians, costing all of us taxpayer money in the end, as well as the associated jobs that would have been created. 

And most importantly to most of us, costing lives.

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Scott finds more Obamacare backers than critics at Boca event

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Raíces en Tampa Rally - Ybor City

2:00 pm on May 3, 2014

Centennial Park, Ybor City

For more information contact:
Marisol Marquez (Spanish contact) - Raíces en Tampa:
(813)846-6893 marquez.j.marisol@gmail.com
Jared Hamil - Raíces en Tampa:
(813)732-2733 hamil.j.a@gmail.com
Norberto Gazga - Raíces en Tampa

(239) 877-1792 nagazga@live.com 
RSVP HERE

Save the Florida Sea Turtles Film Project

Florida GOP Has Left Families In Need

This year's legislative session was another lost chance for the Florida Legislature to expand opportunity for families. Gov. Rick Scott and Tallahassee Republicans made it clear that re-electing the governor was more important than doing what's right for the middle class. more> 

Raíces en Tampa to host Tampa May Day Rallies

May 1st at 5:00 pm outside of the Immigration office in Ybor located
 on 1624 E 7th Ave.

For more information contact:
Marisol Marquez (Spanish contact) - Raíces en Tampa: 
(813)846-6893 marquez.j.marisol@gmail.com
Jared Hamil - Raíces en Tampa:
(813)732-2733 hamil.j.a@gmail.com

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.

here

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

more

Florida GOP Don Gaetz Claims Democrats Are "Communists"

here

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.”

here

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.

more

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.

here

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

here

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

more> 

 

Why Are You Drinking Their Beer?

>Stay Local!

Florida Is 'Ground Zero' For Sea Level Rise

here 

What Tampa Bay might look like in 2073

here

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.

here

 

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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