Can you call Sen. Nelson now? Tell him: "Don't join Republicans to sabotage President Obama's diplomatic efforts. Reject any legislation that threatens diplomacy with Iran."
Senator Bill Nelson
Phone: (202) 224-5274
Phone: (202) 224-5274
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
United for Care: why you should care
You may never have smoked it or know anyone that has.
But chances are, you know someone that will have the kind of serious, debilitating medical condition that could be helped, or alleviated somewhat, by medical marijuana. The science is there. That medical marijuana helps people was largely undisputed in the last election.
If someone close to you has or unfortunately develops cancer, glaucoma, epilepsy, ALS, MS, severe neuropathic pain, PTSD, AIDS, or similar ailments - they may benefit from having access.We are fighting for that access in both the state legislature and on the streets.
Please help us fund this fight. If we're going to fight it out again on Election Day, 2016, we need to raise $10 million between now and then.
We can't rely on big donors alone. Even $25, $50, and $100 donations kept us close. We need your help again. Please help us fund the fight for medical marijuana
by contributing today.
If you haven't yet signed the new petition, please click here.
Florida GOP: John Wood of Winter Haven
“CO2 in my opinion is not a pollutant,“ God gave us C02 to grow plants, for us to exhale, everything else.” here
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Tell AG Bondi: Withdraw Florida from partisan lawsuit attacking immigrants!
With Republicans in Congress failing to pass immigration reform, President Obama was forced to act on his own. Now immigrant families will soon have a chance to come forward and register, get permits to work legally and contribute to our system, and finally get a chance to live without the daily fear of deportation.
But rather than embracing immigrants, AG Bondi joined in a partisan lawsuit against the federal government over the President’s program. here
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Ten More Words For Florida to Ban
Ecosystem-- substitute wording: toilet
Justice-- substitute wording: priceable opportunities
Peace-- substitute wording: lost profit opportunities
Greed-- substitute wording: Ayn Rand libertarian number one value
sharing-- substitute wording: socialism, parasitism
corruption-- substitute wording: corporate value system
Elitism-- substitute wording: money as earned privilege
Taxation-- substitute wording: theft
personal choice-- substitute wording: baby murder
Diplomacy-- substitute wording: wimp alternative to war
welfare -- substitute wording: bumming
here
Justice-- substitute wording: priceable opportunities
Peace-- substitute wording: lost profit opportunities
Greed-- substitute wording: Ayn Rand libertarian number one value
sharing-- substitute wording: socialism, parasitism
corruption-- substitute wording: corporate value system
Elitism-- substitute wording: money as earned privilege
Taxation-- substitute wording: theft
personal choice-- substitute wording: baby murder
Diplomacy-- substitute wording: wimp alternative to war
welfare -- substitute wording: bumming
here
Call-In to Support Driver's Licenses 4 All Bill (SB 300)
Transportation Committee Chair
Rep. Jeff Brandes
Call his Tallahassee Phone:
(850) 487-5022
Tweet him: @JeffreyBrandes support #SB300 now!
#Not1More deportation!
Call his Tallahassee Phone:
(850) 487-5022
Tweet him: @JeffreyBrandes support #SB300 now!
#Not1More deportation!
Take Action To Save The Everglades From Big Sugar
It’s time to protect our water by ending the deadlock on Everglades restoration once and for all. What has been called "the most critical piece of land ever for Everglades restoration" could be bought this year, but Big Sugar, who agreed to sell this land to the public in 2010, is trying to run out the clock, hoping you won’t notice.
Sign the petition to the Florida Legislature today and tell them to buy this critical land south of Lake Okeechobee. We can help save the Everglades from Big Sugar and protect Florida’s drinking water all at the same time. here
Drop by Representative Kathy Castor's district office today
Can you drop by
Representative Kathy Castor's district office today,
Wednesday, March 11,
while the House is on recess this week and urge her to stand with Elizabeth Warren against Fast Track and the TPP (and thank her if she does)? here
Wednesday, March 11,
while the House is on recess this week and urge her to stand with Elizabeth Warren against Fast Track and the TPP (and thank her if she does)? here
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Artisan Grilled Chicken Ciabatta and Shrimp Scampi Linguine with a Bloody Mary
At Applebee's in Brandon
Florida DEP Workers Banned From Saying 'Climate Change'
Employees of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection claim they were ordered to refrain from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming" in official communications, according to he Florida Center for Investigative Reportin. The unwritten policy went into effect shortly after Gov. Rick Scott, a global warming skeptic, took office. here
Monday, March 9, 2015
Support Alan Grayson,s Bill to "Shut Down the Shutdowns
Show Your Papers Before You Pee In Florida
Using the restroom is not a crime. Need to use the restroom in Florida? Be sure to bring your birth certificate.Florida state Rep. Frank Artiles just proposed a bill that would jail people for using the “wrong” restroom. here
Sunday, March 8, 2015
International Women's Day 2015
Jan Kaminis Platt - Pat Kemp - Betty Castor
Darden Rice - Kathy Castor - Betty Reed
Arthenia Joyner - Mary Mulhern - Lisa Montelione
Gabrielle Perham - Leilani Polk - Marisol Marquez
Bianca A Garza - Mariella Smith - Alicia M. Gazga
Linda Saul-Sena - Nadine Smith - Deborah Newell Tornello
Helen Gordon Davis - April Griffin - Ella K. Coffee
Catherine Durkin Robinson - Dawn M.Morgan - Jadell Kerr
Susan Smith - Becky Rubright - Cathy Salustri
Linda Saul-Sena - Nadine Smith - Deborah Newell Tornello
Helen Gordon Davis - April Griffin - Ella K. Coffee
Catherine Durkin Robinson - Dawn M.Morgan - Jadell Kerr
Susan Smith - Becky Rubright - Cathy Salustri
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Marco Rubio
Improper use of credit cards
Double-billing flights
Political committees
The "Taj Mahal" courthouse
Friendship with David Rivera
The official Raíces en Tampa #MayDay shirt!
Order yours now and get it just in time to participate in International Worker's Day!
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Florida's First Family of Corporate Welfare
Most Floridians don't even know who they are. I wish I didn't. You probably haven't heard of them. But you are paying them.
TIME magazine has called them the "First Family of Corporate Welfare"
John Ellis Bush (JEB), Rick Scott, and other GOP politicians kowtow to this family like no other. They were a top donor for W. And they are almost singlehandedly destroying our Everglades. Welcome to Keeping up with the Fanjul family of Palm Beach. here
Hillsborough for Transit
Hillsborough County's transportation system is broken and it's time to fix it. Help us draw up the principles to guide how we set our priorities for future investment.
Monday, March 9 at 6:30pm
St. James House of Prayer in Tampa
St. James House of Prayer in Tampa
Friday, March 6, 2015
Cuban Consulate In Ybor City
The board of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce recently unanimously passed a motion in favor of reestablishing a Cuban consulate in Tampa. here
Rick Scott Doublespeak
Once again, Rick Scott owes George Orwell a debt of gratitude. Without the classic novel “1984” and its primer on political doublespeak, the governor’s State of the State speech this week would have been way more…let’s say transparent, since that’s a word repeatedly and ridiculously run through Scott’s Orwellian propaganda grinder recently. here
Florida Have You Signed The Petition?
The legislative session has started in Tallahassee - which means the clock is
ticking for medical marijuana in Florida.
In less than 60 days,
the legislature will either answer the call of 3.4 million Florida
voters - or they will have put full responsibility for passing
medical marijuana squarely back in the hands of us - United for
Care, you and the rest of our supporters will carry the burden of
fulfilling the will of the majority.
That's a big
responsibility, folks. And we aren't waiting:
We can't afford to.
The more we can collect through volunteer efforts
and online, the more money we'll have to fight the lies our
opposition is surely going to push out from here until election
day.
One of the reasons we fell short last year is because
so much of our money went to gathering petitions; money we could
have spent answering lies on the airwaves.
Tallahassee legislators are watching carefully to see if our intensity has
dropped. The harder we work, the more pressure they'll be under to pass a good,
clean medical marijuana bill that helps people now, not 18 months from
now.
Thank you for your continued support.
- Ben Pollara
P.S. f you've already signed the new petition, please forward
this email to everyone you know!!! If you've already done that, DO
IT AGAIN!!! And if you've already done that, please consider a donation to our petition efforts!
Ybor City going from tobacco to marijuana?
Ybor City: its very foundation is based on taking a plant, rolling it up, and then smoking it.
Of course, that plant was tobacco and for decades, Ybor's prime product was cigars.
But now a group called Common Bond Collaborative is ready to cut in on Ybor's historical tobacco ties with its own smokeable, agricultural product: marijuana. here
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Activist Workshop In Clearwater
we're helping to organize an Activist
Workshop at Island In The Sun in Clearwater
(100 Hampton Road, Clearwater, FL 33759).
Hillsborough County Commissioners Approved a $2.1 MillionCorporate Welfare Package
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Broward County Court; Jury Rules Medical Marijuana Patient “Not Guilty” on All Counts
A jury in the 17th Judicial Circuit in Broward County, Florida ruled that Ft.
Lauderdale resident, Jesse Teplicki, was “not guilty” on all criminal charges
surrounding his medical use of marijuana for the treatment of his chronic
anorexia. Michael C. Minardi, partner at the Kelley Kronenberg law firm and
longtime medical marijuana advocate, successfully argued Mr. Teplicki’s medical
necessity defense in front of a jury of his peers. Today’s verdict is
groundbreaking in that it is the first time that the “medical necessity” defense
was successfully argued in a jury trial, since Florida courts established the
defense over 20 years ago.
Florida for Care Executive Director, Ben
Pollara, reacted to the verdict with elation, “This verdict that Mr. Minardi won
for Jesse Teplicki is a game changer on the eve of the start of the 2015
legislative session. Legislative leaders in Tallahassee now have to look at
medical marijuana through the lens of this precedent established by a Florida
jury, in addition to the 58% of Floridians who voted for medical marijuana at
the polls last November.”
He continued, “the medical use of marijuana is
no longer solely a political issue with wide popular support, it is legal
precedent in Florida courts. This ruling should be a message to the legislature
that they should act this session on establishing a medical marijuana system in
our state so that sick and suffering Floridians don’t have to fight in court for
the right to use the medicine recommended by their doctors, as Mr. Teplicki did
today.”
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Centre for Girls: First Fridays Seminole Heights Art Walk
Please join us this Friday from 7-10pm for our first showcase in the First
Fridays
Seminole Heights Art Walk. info
Hillsborough And Pinellas Leaders In “Wage Theft”
Surpassed only by more-populous Miami-Dade County.
Leave it to local Liberals Darden Rice and Kevin Beckner to do something about it. here
Monday, March 2, 2015
The Real Bob Buckhorn
He did not endorse anyone in Florida'governors race.here
His 6 foot rule here
Right Wing love fest in Tampa here
We do have a choice, VOTE for Jose Vazquez
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