Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Flesh-Eating Bacteria In Florida Waters
Visiting Florida? Stay out of the water
Florida health officials are issuing their yearly warning to swimmers (and diners) about the dangers of a flesh-eating bacteria that’s caused two deaths already this year. There are two ways you can contract vibrio vulnificus — through swimming in infected water with an open wound or by eating raw shellfish contaminated with the bacteria. here
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Miami Cuban Mafia Backs Jeb Bush
Mario (Frado) Diaz-Balart
Ileana (La Senora) Ros-Lehtinen
Two members of the powerful Miami Cuban Mafia are backing Bush over one of their own.
Marco (El Guapo) Rubio
We Know Jeb Bush Well
- It was Bush who, in violation of the Florida Constitution, repeatedly tried to take control of Terri Schiavo's very private end-of-life decision.
- He signed the "stand your ground" law in 2006 at the behest of the National Rifle Association.
- He implemented massive curtailments of early voting, resulting in the wholesale disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Floridians, mostly African-American, in the 2008 election.
- He opposed gay rights.
- He ended affirmative action in state contracts and college admissions.
- Implemented a massive school voucher program.
- Signed any antiabortion bill the Legislature sent him.
- Billions in tax cuts to our wealthiest residents and corporations.
- To pay for his tax breaks, he shifted billions more in property taxes onto the backs of homeowners and borrowed at unprecedented levels.
- When he became governor, Florida had $13.2 billion in outstanding debt. When he left office in 2007, Florida's outstanding debt was over $23 billion, a 77 percent increase.
- Under his administration, everyday Floridians were left with higher property taxes and greater debt.
- Thank you Dan Gelber here
Florida GOP Approves More Corporate Welfare
$400 million in corporate welfare to special interest groups and targeted industries. Taxes would be slashed for boat and yacht repairs, jet fuel for aviation schools and gun club memberships
among them.
Florida GOP Jack Latvala of Clearwater, defended the tax cuts on boat repairs.
They did give us some scraps, cut our cell phone bills by about $20, give back-to-school shoppers 10 days of sales tax free shopping, and lower textbook prices for
college students.
"Please turn your dead brains back to the "on" position and start thinking critically about what the Legislature is doing. They give you $20 in your left pocket while stealing $100 from your right pocket by forcing you to subsidize their lobbyist friends." Susan Smith
college students.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Solidarity Sunday - Tampa Bay
Party On Central
Tampa Bay's leading activists
John takes care of us at Lee's Grocery
Central Ave, Tampa
Tampa Bay Acoustic Music Festival
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa is having a month long acoustic festival in June every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Check out one of our favorite. info
Jessica Rose
Friday, June 19th. 7pm
Visit her at http://www.jessicarosepowell.com
Hillsborough County School District Feeds Kids When School’s Out
Anyone age 18 and under is eligible for free breakfast and lunch on week days all summer.
To find a site near you, visit
or call 211.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
More Bullshit In Hillsborough County
The county paid a million dollars on focus groups, surveys and polls to tell them that more people would vote yes to a half cent sales tax hike than a full cent.
And their research showed residents want to see more of that money spent building and repairing roads than improving public transportation.
See chart above. This is a lie.
we want rail.
we want rail.
Rail wasn't even on the survey form. They told us to write it in. Check out our post on April 29, 2015 of the last meeting. here, It was all a sham.
At that meeting in Temple Terrace we were told that light rail, opponent and local Tea Bagger Sharon Calvert attends every meeting,
where were you?
Hillsborough County Commissioners don't waste our time
NO RAIL? NO NEW TAXES!
where were you?
Hillsborough County Commissioners don't waste our time
NO RAIL? NO NEW TAXES!
What Pilar And Stogie Had For Lunch
Chicken Tacos and Chicken Bowl
With Caesar salads and Bloody Marys
At Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Spring Hill
Visit them here
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Miami Cop Antonio Torres Murders Homeless Man in Front Of 50 Children
(Fritz Severe) was “armed with a metal object” in front of dozens of children at a city park and that one, a 20-year veteran of the department, “confronted the subject and shot him 5 times.
Witnesses, however, said Severe, a homeless 45-year-old who was familiar to local residents in the Overtown neighbourhood, was posing no threat to the children or the two officers who approached him, and was only waving his walking stick at them. here
“He was a homeless man, wasn’t bothering nobody. The man walks around, we see him every morning with his stick, the same little stick that he had in his hand when the police officer shot him five times.” Nichelle Green
A second witness, Stephanie Severance, said: “They really didn’t have to shoot that man. What happened to the tasers? Why couldn’t they tase him?”
In The US: 479 People Killed By Police So Far This Year
Friday, June 12, 2015
The Cuba Trade Act
Would finally end our outdated embargo policy and establish a new economic relationship with Cuba that will support increased trade for American businesses and help the Cuban economy and its people to flourish. here
66 percent of Americans favor ending the trade embargo. Latinos, in particular, believe the embargo should end with 73 percent favoring open trade. Many Republicans, and a few Democrats, oppose the Obama administration's push to reestablish relations with Cuba; most prominent among them is Florida Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
No Rail? No New Tax In Hillsborough County!
Mike Merrill is WRONG!
“Rail, per se, did not poll very well,”
County Administrator Mike Merrill
County Administrator Mike Merrill
When I atended the Go Hillsborough public input meeting in Temple Terrace on April 28th Rail wasn't even an option on my survey form. I was told to write it in on the back. It was all a sham.
As you can see on this chart Rail and
Bike Lanes are our biggest priorities
Read about their lies here
Read our post on April 29th here
Hillsborough County Commissioners don't waste our time.
NO RAIL? NO NEW TAXES!
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Open faced Roast Beef sandwich
With Mashed Potatoes and Cole Slaw
At Jersey Cafe in Brooksville more
I was in Brooksville and stumble upon this great little cafe on Hwy 50. Besides great food and service (Thank you Kaitlyn and Kim) they offer suspended meals
for the needy and homeless.
for the needy and homeless.
Thank you for all you do, you are an inspiration
to all of us here.
to all of us here.
Visit them on Facebook and like their page. here
Meet Lateresa A Jones
For US Senate
I Understand how America was built and who built this country, WE THE PEOPLE and that's why I'm asking to be elected to represent us the people and take care of "The People's Business" in Washington as your US Senator. Check her out here
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Hillsborough County GOP Corruption
The wage theft ordinance
(Miami-Dade model)
pitched by Hillsborough County Commissioner
Kevin Beckner was pushed aside by the five Republican members of the Hillsborough County Commission in favor of a watered down version that might cost the county more in the long run. They seem to favor an ordinance in Palm Beach County that sends $125,000 in public money to a local legal aid society to handle wage theft complaints. here
The Palm Beach model happens to be the one favored by the Florida Retail Federation, which lobbies on behalf of retailers and contacted
Hillsborough Commission Chair
Hillsborough Commission Chair
Sandy Murman
before the debate over Beckner’s proposal.
"The vote against adopting the Miami-Dade model seems more grounded in appearances and in appeasing a powerful lobby." Tampa Tribune
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Tracey Carver-Allbritton: Racist In McKinney, Texas
What really happened
It appears that this situation wasn't because of a "fight" started between a group of "unruly" black kids - the fight actually started when a white couple came into an ongoing party of classmates and kids who all lived in the area to verbally abuse them
with racial slurs
with racial slurs
Black fuckers
Go back to your section 8 housing
and slapped the teenage girl who hosted the party
after she tried to defend a 14-year-old white girl who was also at the party and had stood up to them. Then those people left and called the police on the party claiming the black kids were fighting each other. here
Pic: Tracey Carver-Allbritton, woman who assaulted the teenagers & used racial slurs. Works at @bankofamerica.
Bank of America has an Ethical Hotline
in case you want to let them know how you feel about her.
1.888.411.1744
Bank of America has an Ethical Hotline
in case you want to let them know how you feel about her.
1.888.411.1744
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