Florida Call For An Investigation Into The King Ranch Scandal

Gov. Scott and his legislative allies have allowed sugar industry polluters to foul the Everglades and stick taxpayers with the tab to clean up their mess.
 Is it a mere coincidence they've done this while accepting expensive hunting trips to the exclusive King Ranch in Texas on Big Sugar’s dime? It’s time for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to quit her partisan antics and get to the bottom of the King Ranch political scandal that has engulfed Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Party. here

http://www.pambondi.info/

Florida's Culture Of Corruption "Fountain"

Investigate the 2012 death of Mr. Darren Rainey

On June 23, 2012 Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old mentally ill state prison inmate in Miami-Dade County, died after guards responded to his defecating in his cell by locking him into a 180-degree shower for two hours—at which point his skin was separating from his body. 

Local police, and the state, failed to properly investigate. The case was only brought to light in recent months by The Miami Herald. After two years, no one has been held criminally accountable, or even charged.

"He was crying, please stop, please stop, And they 
just said "Enjoy your shower, and left."

Only the U.S. Department of Justice can properly investigate this terrible crime, and a broader culture of abuse in Florida’s prisons that has led to other unnecessary deaths, and which falls especially hard on the mentally ill. here

Poppa’s Fresh Fish Company In San Diego

The Sea Urchin Ninja of San Diego

here

Tampa Bay—21 Years Ago this Month

On August 10, 1993, three vessels, the freighter Balsa 37, the barge Ocean 255, and the barge Bouchard 155, collided near the entrance of Tampa Bay. Over 32,000 gallons of jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline and about 330,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil spilled from the barges. Despite emergency cleanup efforts, the oil fouled 13 miles of beaches and caused injury to birds, sea turtles, mangrove habitat, seagrasses, salt marshes, shellfish beds,  as well as closing many of the waterways to fishing and boating. here

Tampa church cancels gay man's funeral

Tell Pam Bondi to End Her Fight Against Equality!

Pam Bondi wants LGBT Floridians to stop
pursing their civil rights because she’s tired of spending taxpayer dollars fighting equality. here

Vote Yes on Greenlight

The Level Of Corruption In Tallahassee

Judithanne McLauchlan

Florida's Culture Of Corruption "Shock"

Annette Taddeo Party In Wesley Chapel

Saturday, August 9th - 2:00 p.m.

5042 Prairie View Way, Wesley Chapel

RSVP

Ybor Paparazzi

Kush Liberty Advisory board

First Key West, then Miami, then Fort Lauderdale, and now Palm Beach

here

More Florida GOP BS

Rick Scott has tirelessly touted the evils of the ACA. After it was projected that premiums in the state could go up by 13.2 percent for the 2015 enrollment year, Scott said in a statement that 

“Obamacare is a bad law that just seems to be getting worse,” and “Florida families are going to be slammed with higher costs. Obamacare has failed to live up to its promises in nearly every way.”

Scott didn’t bring up that he and his Republican-controlled legislature have done everything they can to make sure that the ACA fails in Florida. here 

Florida Biologist Mark Tancig

Miami Cuban Mafia Thwart Art Exhibit of Cuban Hero

Continues threat by the Miami-based anti-Cuba circles against the local Sweat Records Gallery 

forced its owner Lauren Reskin to cancel the scheduled opening next Saturday of a paintings exhibit  by Cuban anti-terrorist hero 

Antonio Guerrero. here

Exhibit sponsor and member of the Alianza Martiana organization Max Lesnik said that a new place has been found but it would not be announced until the last minute.

Rick Scott It's Not Working

Ethics Free Florida GOP

Special Session Starting In Tallahassee
NOT to expand access to healthcare to over 

one million hard working Floridians. 

NOT to repeal the Nuclear Cost Recovery fee 

(Corporate Welfare).

NOT to help stifle the skyrocketing home owners 

insurance rates across the state.

They are using your tax dollars to call us all back to Tallahassee because their lack of transparency and ethics was finally drawn to light this past week. A Judge ruled that the Republican leadership made a "mockery" of the legislative process in drawing our Congressional districts in 2012. 
Now your tax dollars are being used
 to fix their mistakes.

Amanda Murphy

Do your thing on 11.4.14. Rid Florida of its Right Wing Infestation.

Celebration Party 7pm Ybor City, Florida

DESTINY'S BRIDGE Official Trailer - A Home for the Homeless

Floridians Flood Public Service Commission

This year, the PSC will decide for the next ten years how much energy Florida's big power companies will save, and how much solar power they will offer their customers.Tell the Florida PSC to support efficiency and solar. here

Florida Panther Rebound Upsets Ranchers

Marihelen Wheeler Sending Florida's Dumbest Politician Home

How a soft-spoken school teacher could send Florida’s most infamous Tea Partier packing 

here

How The Florida GOP Tried To Rig Our Elections

End the Cuban Trade Embargo

 On June 14th, President Obama sent a letter to the Cuban President Raul Castro, indicating that he wanted to negotiate the end to the Cuban trade embargo. While President Obama does not have the power to terminate this policy, I do applaud his efforts to normalize relations with Cuba because I too believe that the United States should end the trade embargo on Cuba. here

New Study Says Republicans Lie More

The Center for Media and Public Affairs 

at George Mason University here

Tea Party Scamming The American People

Move America Forward 
has collected millions 

to send care packages to U.S. troops. 

But its assets have been used to benefit conservative political consulting firms 

close to its Tea Party founder. here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet John

He is from Georgia, has been homeless 10 years.

Gaza Rally In Fort Lauderdale

Over 250 people gathered at the 

Fort Lauderdale Federal Courthouse 

on Aug. 2 to protest U.S. support for Israeli terrorism in Gaza. As the bombs continued to drop on the people of Gaza, people of South Florida joined together to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel. 

This was the third major rally for Palestine in South Florida
 in three weeks. 

here

Ybor Surveillance

7th Ave.

GOP You Look Like A Bunch Of Fools

The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, 

has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in 
Benghazi, Libya. here 

GOP voters get your head out of your ass. 

The rest of us, 90 days till E-Day!
See you in Ybor, 7pm

Kush Liberty: Florida Vote Yes On #2

You Ready Florida? Only 90 days left! 
here

Communities Provides Over 7,000 Meals To Feeding America Tampa Bay

Thousands of residents and concertgoers from the Tampa Bay area contributed roughly 
3 tons 
of nonperishable food to 

Feeding America Tampa Bay 

during 
Newland Communities’ 
Concerts for a Cause series 
here
Great job FishHawk Ranch and Waterset

Florida GOP Made Mmockery' Of Process

After being humiliated 
by a judge

 "Florida GOP leaders destroyed documents and allowed political consultants to "make a mockery" of their self-described transparency in the redistricting process."

They have a new plan 
In an email late Friday to Senate members and staff, 

Senate President Don Gaetz asked everyone to 

"keep and do not delete" 

all redistricting records in light of the pending litigation over congressional districts. here, 

90 Days Till E-Day. Are You Ready?

Private Prison CEO Hosts Florida Governor Rick Scott At Fundraiser

Florida's Culture Of Corruption

Local Idiots: Krastina Yankova Gesheva Of St. Pete

Spends 4 hours in the 
Tryst Gastro Lounge
while  her 8-year-old son was in the car. 
Occasionally the boy would exit the car and
 go inside the bar, 

looking for his mom. 

As she was leaving she struck two parked cars as she was backing out and attempting to

leave the area.here

Stop letting SeaWorld manipulate our kids!

This petition is for everyone who has a child in their life that they care about. This petition is for 

Philippe Dauman, the President and CEO of Viacom, Cyma Zarghami, the President of Nickelodeon, and the rest of Viacom’s senior management. here

Florida GOP Shame

 Florida's Culture Of Corruption 
Will Weatherford 
has sent  Judge Lewis a letter. 
Florida GOP will do what he wants. 
They better get it right this time,
 everyone is watching
including the Feds. here

Do your thing on  11.4.14, VOTE!

Clean Mr. Ybor's Head

We mention this back on December 17, 2013

The bird poop is still there

Grilllin with the Grahams Tour In Apalachicola

North Florida do your thing on 11.4.14

Pathetic First Baptist Church of Royal Palm Beach

Had a homeless arrested for eating $2.50 worth of cookies out of the church’s cookie jar. here

Hillsborough County Transportation Overview for a Comprehensive Mobility Proposal

Thank You Derrick Brooks

From Pensacola to Tallahassee to Tampa to Canton.

here

The greatest Buccaneer ever!

DB 55

Florida GOP Ana Alliegro

Alliegro is charged with funneling about $80,000 to an unknown Democratic congressional candidate, Justin Lamar Sternad, who was running in the 2012 primary for the chance to challenge GOP incumbent Rivera in Florida's 26th congressional district. Prosecutors say Sternad, a low-paid Miami Beach hotel clerk with no political experience, was a ringer candidate intended to smear Democrat Joe Garcia, who is much better known and ultimately toppled Rivera in the general election. here

Rick Scott “Bought and paid for”

Ron Littlepage: Gov. Scott's sugar rush 

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills Beachgoer In Sarasota

Florida Billionaire Environmentalist

Vows to Take Rick Scott DOWN Tom Steyer 

has founded a Florida political committee, seeded it with $750,000 of his own money, and says he’ll spend far more to help Democrat 

Charlie Crist defeat Gov. Rick Scott. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/02/4268750/billionaire-climate-change-supporter.html#storylink=cpy

The Children Of Gaza

Rick Scott threw a party and women weren’t invited

Three years ago today, Gov. Rick Scott actually threw a party at the Governor’s Mansion to celebrate his commitment to restricting your access to reproductive health care. Scott and his allies rejoiced over his signing four anti-women’s health bills into law, including a new law diverting license plate funds to anti-choice organizations and one requiring ultrasounds that had been vetoed the previous year by then-Gov. Charlie Crist. here

Paul Hildwin's 28 Years In A Florida Hell Hole

Paul Hildwin of Hernando County 

who has spent 28 years on death row has had his murder conviction and death sentence overturned after DNA evidence destroyed the prosecution case used against him almost three decades ago. Tenacious legal work by the Innocence Project of Florida 

fended off his death, and painstakingly revealed crucial details pointing to his wrongful conviction. here

Thank You Eric Holder

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder 
sent a scathing letter to 

Gov. Rick Scott over voting changes in Florida and issued a warning that the 
Justice Department is 

“carefully monitoring” the state. 

here
He has our back, you gotta vote 11.4.14

Friends Of Stogie

Old fan of The Stogie just had a son. Welcome Roman.

Republicans Vote to End DACA and Deport DREAMers

 GOP House votes to defund DACA and prevent the creation of more DREAMers. 
The bill passed will freeze the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and will work towards winding it down. If the bill is made into law, President Obama will not be able to add new children to the program, and those in the program will not be able to renew their status. here

Florida GOP Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen  

broke ranks to oppose it. Good Job!
Latinos On 11.4.14 Lets do our thing. VOTE!

How We Git-R-Done In Rick Scott's Florida

 A month after Gov. Rick Scott took a secret hunting trip to the King Ranch in Texas last year, he faced a big decision. A seat had come open on the board that oversees Florida's efforts on the multibillion-dollar project to repair damage to the Everglades caused by agriculture. To fill that position, Scott picked a corporate executive named 

Mitchel A. "Mitch" Hutchcraft.

 Hutchcraft's major qualification for a seat on the board of South Florida Water Management District: He is the vice president in charge of the King Ranch's Florida agricultural acreage. here
This is how things work in Rick Scott's Florida
You pay, you play! On 11.4.14 do your thing, VOTE.

Ybor Paparazzi

 Marisol Marquez of Raíces en Tampa 

United for Care Responds to Florida Police Chiefs Association Lies

The latest press release from the Florida Police Chiefs Association urging caution on medical marijuana legalization appears to be a test case in shoddy, unattributed research, incomplete data, outdated information and the expected misleading and disingenuous conclusions. The truth is that studies suggest medical marijuana laws have not led to higher crime rates, increased traffic fatalities or greater teenage consumption in those states that have adopted them. here

Florida GOP to blame for health insurance rate hikes

The state is not doing its job to protect consumers from health insurance rate hikes. After passing up billions of dollars from the federal government for the state to expand Medicaid, Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature callously enacted a new law that, in essence, prevents the state’s insurance commissioner from regulating health insurance rates. here

Fuck The Tampa Bay Fox Affiliate

Soon after the Tigers announced they were receiving pitcher David Price in a trade Thursday, a Tampa Bay TV station took a swipe at Detroit by tweeting an image of the abandoned Packard Plant next to 
a picture of a sunny beach.
here and here

Conservatism is always on the wrong side of history

The unbelievably ugly reaction of the right wing to desperate children seeking help at the southern border is just the latest clash of competing views of what 
America stands for.

On the one hand, we have “liberal” America in which the richest nation in the history of the world can easily afford to take in and shelter children fleeing the extreme violence of their homelands. An America that was built on immigration. An America that was once known as “The Melting Pot.” An America that would never even contemplate sending a child back to a country where their lives are in immediate danger.

On the other hand, we have “conservative” America in which the richest nation in the history of the world can’t afford one single more child with brown skin no matter how crappy their native country is. here
Except if they are fleeing Castro

Tthe Cuban Adjustment Act

Hillsborough County Beware

Once upon a time, an antigay, anti-Muslim, 

"pro-Christian" platform could do wonders for getting you elected in the conservative corners of Hillsborough County. But the world keeps turning. Sue Carlton

Angela's Story

Thousands of MoveOn members took an important action to help children seeking refuge in the United States. Together, we've raised more than $100,000 to ensure these children have the legal representation and support they need for the immigration hearings that their lives may depend on.

Tricks Conservatives Use to Manipulate Americans

Premise: If I am not a conservative, then I am a liberal

Premise: I am not a conservative, 
Conclusion: I am a liberal here

7-11 Coming To Ybor City

7th Ave. Central Ybor 

Florida The Bloodshed State

Doctors in Florida cannot legally 

protect children from guns. here

Crickets From Pam Bondi's Office

"This is what we hear when utility companies try to cut successful conservation programs and raise our rates.  Crickets from Pam Bondi's office. Pam Bondi repeatedly looks the other way when corporations and her big contributors try to rip off Floridians. If big companies want a favor from Bondi, she takes their money then cues the crickets." here

http://www.pambondi.info

Sen. Warren Calls for End to Corporate Welfare