The Awesome Collier County Commissioners

Collier County Commissioners 
decided Tuesday, June 10th, 

to stay the course and uphold their decision to file a petition against the consent order between the 

 Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the 
Dan A. Hughes Company.

Dan A. Hughes is the applicant for exploratory drilling in Golden Gate Estates - 1,000 feet from residences and less than one mile from the
  Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge
They are also the company involved in using
illegal fracking techniques
at the Collier-Hogan well
within the
Big Cypress Swamp Watershed. here

There's only one Everglades   

Check out Florida Fracker Ray Rodrigues

Clean Energy Rally in Tallahassee

WHO: The public -- including you!
WHAT: Sunshine State Clean Energy Coalition Rally 

WHEN: Monday, July 21, 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Public Service Commission, 2540 Shumard Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850

Questions: Contact Julia Hathaway at julia.hathaway@sierraclub.org or call 202-315-8211

More info

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Seak Fajitas with beans and rice 

At El Rincon Mexicano in Plant City

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Rick Scott: Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Scott,  rejected $2.4 billion in federal transportation money to develop a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando. The architect of Scott's opposition to high-speed rail was Adam Hollings­worth, then an adviser to the governor on transportation issues. Hollingsworth then went to work for Parallel Infrastructure, a company owned by Florida East Coast Industries, which also owns All Aboard Florida, the project to develop a private rail line between Miami and Orlando.
"The state has no involvement in this railway." 
Pay no mind the $1.5 billion federal loan that All Aboard Florida wants. 
Avert your eyes from the more than 

$250 million in state money 

that has been set aside for projects that will assist this train. Ignore the $44 million in direct state-funded grants the company plans to seek. 
It could end up costing us $1.8 billion 
here
This happens when a self-deluding governor has his chief of staff book a seat for him on the Last Train to Cronyville. Tallahassee is truly a mystical place.  Daniel Ruth

The Stogie Party

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Rick Scott "What's Your Plan, Gov?"

A campaign made up of Latino, business, academic, community, and faith leaders who want to ask Governor Rick Scott what his plan is to address climate change. We want to promote the benefits of reducing Florida's carbon footprint and investing in renewable energy.

here

Poop In The Water At Tampa Beaches

The Hillsborough County Health Department 

advises beachgoers not to wade in the waters at Picnic Island and Davis Island beaches. Water samples taken Monday detect the presence of shit in the waters. The county says the pollution may have come from stormwater runoff, wildlife waste, or human sewage. here

Meet Holly Fisher of Charleston, WV

A Lying Right-Wing ‘Christian’ Taliban Extremist here

Hobby Lobby Tampa Protest

Awake Pinellas Rally  

in Front of the Tampa Federal Courthouse.

Florida students demand end to Israeli terror

 

University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine held a solidarity protest in Gainesville  for Palestinian teens under attack by the Israeli state.

here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Philly Cheese Steak

At Sam's Subs in  Port Charlotte

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Gwen Graham On Tour With The Legendary Bob Graham

Gwen Graham later this month will launch an extensive tour across Florida’s 2nd Congressional District, visiting all 14 counties with members of her family, including her father, the former governor and senator 
Bob Graham. here

The Ritz Ybor

Tampa Blogger Slams Peter Schorsch

Pushing Rope

Ask Charlie Crist If Peter Schorsch Is Working On the Campaign

here

Florida Dems Kicking Butt In November

The state party is coming into this 

year’s elections two years after the 

2012 cycle turned out to be one of their most successful campaigns in Florida’s political history. Barack Obama was powered 
on by an 

explosive Latino vote 

to become the first Democrat since FDR 

to carry Florida twice.

 in Florida, the question is no longer what Florida Democrats can do to survive. The real question is whether or not they can build on this momentum, or see it evaporate in a midterm election 

with miserable turnout. more>

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Native American Shuts Up Anti-immigration Radicals

Minimum Wage Hurts Everyone

Per Andy Puzder 
head of the parent company of 

Hardees,and Arby’s

He made $4.4 million in 2012. His restaurants brought in $1.28 billion dollars. 
Imagine some of that money staying here. 

Helping our small businesses. more

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Tampa Bay Locavore 

Twice Divorced Pam Bondi Says Gay Families Unstable

WMNF Summer Membership Drive!

here

Video: Israelis Beating Tampa Kid

Florida is the first state to privatize Medicaid

Florida is not the first state to make the move to this type of Medicaid privatization but it is the first to do it on this scale here 

Florida GOP Congressman Steve Southerland: Southern Fried Chicken

Something Fishy Going On In District 4

Christopher Weaver's campaign strategy

here

Florida GOP Brand: The Beginning of the End

Minor Party and NPAs outnumber 

GOP registrants 

in Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Orange more>

Rick Scott's Florida

Charlie Crist's Daytona Car

A campaign gift of a NASCAR sponsorship for the nationally televised Coke Zero 400 was called off not because the rival Florida GOP complained, but because the registered owner of the race car in question, record producer 

Mike Curb, used to be a Republican lieutenant governor of California and asked that the Democrat's decals not appear. here

Israeli Army Brutally Beats Tampa High School Student

The Florida chapter CAIR today called on the U.S. Department of State to demand that Israel immediately release 15-year-old Palestinian-American high school student 
Tariq Khdeir so that he may receive emergency medical attention after being brutally beaten by Israeli forces. here

Best 4th Of July Parade: Sebastian, Florida

Sebastian Florida 

really knows how to put on a parade. 

This year the parade was longer than 2 hour with floats and flags everywhere. They gave out  out 

Free freeze pops and water 

everyone was well hydrated. 

"Happy 4th Of July from Florida Everyone"

Failed Florida nuclear plant’s costs keep rising

here

Charlie Crist: End the trade embargo against Cuba

"If you really care about people on the island, we need to get rid of the embargo and 
Let freedom reign," 

When Charlie Crist went to Miami's Little Havana recently, the Democratic candidate for governor stood before a crowd and said what few politicians have in decades of scrounging for votes in the 
Cuban-American neighborhood: 

End the trade embargo 
against Cuba

Florida Dems sense an opening with newer Cuban arrivals and
Second-generation Cuban-Americans 
who favor resuming diplomatic relations with
 the communist island. 

In a sign of just how much the climate has shifted, 

Hillary who backed trade limits when she ran for 
president in 2008,

 is now calling for the embargo to be lifted. Good for her. 

She described it as "
Castro's best friend"here

Lindsay Foster Photography

Meet Milo

Words can not tell you how wonderful it was to witness this amazing moment in time. 

But I am VERY hopeful that these images 

can make you feel the deep LOVE and admiration that everyone felt for this surrogate mom and the baby's new parents. 

These Daddies will most certainly be 

two amazing parents. here
Right Wing HATE Unleashed

America's Worst Politicians: Rick Scott

Rick Scott one of the worst politicians in America.Want a little old-school corruption? Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, who will soon be up for re-election, founded a health-care empire that was whacked with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history: $1.7 billion for stealing from the feds.here

There's only one Everglades

Vote Yes On 1

Florida GOP Fiscal Responsibility

Republican, Laure Levey's 

check covering the election filing fee has 'bounced.

here 

Gwen Graham: The North Florida Way

Pam Bondi Was Pleased

Yes, "pleased."

Pleased that five men inserted their personal ideology 
into millions of women's lives.

Pleased that the Court put corporations ahead of citizens once again. Pleased that employers are now involved in decisions that should be between a woman 
and her doctor here

PamBondi.info 

Florida Extremist Hispanic "Democrats

Equality Florida has posted a video interview with Eladio Jose Armesto, the chairman of Florida Democratic League, which is a group of extremist Hispanic "Democrats" that have been denounced by the actual state party.

Florida GOP Costs Florida 68,000 Jobs

A new study from the 

White House Council of Economic Advisers. here 

Homeless Bench

In Canada

In Tampa

here

Weatherford endorses Higginbotham

www.alhigginbotham.info 

www.willweatherford.info

here

Happy Birthday America

Florida Blue Revolution 11.4.14

Join The Party

Terry Kemple for School Board : Hillsborough County Beware

Vote 4 Kimple

Corporate Welfare: Jack Latvala

Florida State Sen. Jack Latvala wrote a bill that would qualify the Tampa Bay Rowdies for a tax subsidy for a new stadium. Bill Edwards, the 
Tampa Bay Rowdies 
owner, gave $50,000 contribution to Latvala's political action committee Florida Leadership Fund. here
How things work in Rick Scott's Florida

The Florida Keys and the Highway that goes to the Sea

What Stogie Had For Lunch

All you can eat at Hibachi Grill Buffet in Port Charlotte 

Tyrone Booker Of Jacksonville

Arrested in a drug bust tried to hide his money in an unusual place: his rectum. here

Move Over Sarasota County Deputy

A sheriff's deputy enforcing Florida's “Move Over” law received minor injuries when a passing driver who failed to obey that law struck his Sheriff's Office car. Deputies cited 77-year-old 
Robert Best of Ellenton. 

here 

Pam Bondi in Clearwater Hanging With Wealthy Scientologists

Bondi is a Republican and former prosecutor who was endorsed by Sarah Palin when she ran for election and won in 2010. On Tuesday evening, she’s having a campaign fundraiser at the home of 

Michael and Liz Baybak, 

wealthy longtime Scientologists who are known for donating large sums to the church and also for making donations to political campaigns. here

Is Jesus A Miami Heat Fan?

Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach is praying that he is. The church is looking to the Lord to keep LeBron James with the Miami Heat......here

Rick Scott's Executions

Scott has presided over 18 executions, 

 including 13 in the last two years,

the most executions carried out by any Florida governor 

in a single term since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s.

With another execution scheduled in 10 days, 

 Scott has already exceeded the 15 executions carried out in Gov. Bob Graham's second term. Only Jeb Bush, who oversaw 21 executions in two terms over eight years, remains ahead of Scott. here

Right Hand Films - Tampa

Nicholas Toth Of Tarpon Springs

Nicholas Toth, grandson of Anthony Lerios, owns a diving helmet shop on a seaside street filled with Greek taverns. The unique helmets he sells are handmade by him and are considered 

works of art by many. more>

Florida GOP Glo Smith: Before And After

A Florida Republican campaign sign 

vandalized with whiteface paint. 

The attack follows a string of bias incidents against black Republicans. here

Christian’ Conservatives Gleefully Celebrate

In a 5-4 partisan ruling the Supreme Court handed businesses the right to enforce their religious beliefs on their employees, so naturally the conservatives would be very happy about it. They get to punish women for having sex and appease their corporate masters. It’s a win all around! here
Best Liberal Memes in Response to the Stupid SCOTUS Hobby Lobby Decision
Florida reaction 

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