The Florida Division of Elections has confirmed that United for Care has turned in the 683,149 valid petitions to qualify for the ballot. With a petition drive that began in the summer of 2015 and ended at the New Year, over 1 million people in Florida signed a petition to put medical marijuana back on the ballot. here
Friday, January 29, 2016
Medical Marijuana will be on the 2016 Ballot in Florida
Florida Frackers Win
The Florida state House passed a controversial measure to regulate fracking, despite significant opposition from Democrats who said the practice could harm the state’s natural resources. here
Michael Schiavo: Jeb Bush ‘Put Me Through Hell’
Michael Schiavo knows as well as anyone what Jeb Bush can do with executive power.
He thinks you ought to know too.
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He is slamming a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC for invoking her in an ad touting the former Florida governor's record as a social conservative. In an interview with POLITICO, he repeatedly calling the ad “disgusting.” “It sounds like it’s a last-ditch effort to get the right-wing constituents,” here
He is slamming a pro-Jeb Bush super PAC for invoking her in an ad touting the former Florida governor's record as a social conservative. In an interview with POLITICO, he repeatedly calling the ad “disgusting.” “It sounds like it’s a last-ditch effort to get the right-wing constituents,” here
Florida GOP Rene Garcia Of Hialeah - Gut Sunshine Law
The Florida GOP approved a bill that would weaken public records law by stripping out a guarantee that people could recover legal fees if they won court fights to obtain records.
The bill was sponsored by state
Sen. Rene Garcia of Hialeah. here
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Marco Rubio Does Not Support Policy Aimed At Curbing Climate Change
He told a crowd in Iowa, he also called environmental groups “radical,” adding that options such as nuclear energy is the cleanest, carbon-free, but you can’t build a nuclear power plant.”here
Deborah Newell: She’s An American Girl
Nicole Sandler Show
On most Wednesday mornings, I’m joined by my friend Deborah Newell for a segment in which we make fun of our state, which we knowingly refer to as FloriDUH. But if you listen carefully, you’ll hear that Deborah has a distinctive accent which sounds nothing like the variety of accents.
That’s because, although she’s lived here for many years, attended college in Gainesville, is married and has raised her three boys here, she never went through the process to become a citizen…. until now.
As she told us this morning, Deborah always said that if Bernie Sanders were to run for president, she would become a citizen. He is, so she did and is now an American citizen! We celebrated this morning! here
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Deborah Newell Tornello,
Nicole Sandler
Ban Fracking In Florida: Support Rep. Evan Jenne
Rep. Evan Jenne,D-Hollywood, is sponsoring legislation that would ban fracking in Florida. He condemned House Republican leaders. He said the election-year push for more fracking was designed merely to placate the oil and gas industry, a steady GOP contributor. Jenne said the House will “do anything, if it’s going to help their backers make a buck.” here
WMNF Tells You How To Vote
Florida GOP Always Trashing Obama
Marco Rubio maintains that President Barack Obama is more interested in providing money to Planned Parenthood than for the nation's armed forces.
Jeb Bush says the Obama administration has "gutted" every weapons system in the U.S. military's inventory.
FACTS
Jeb Bush says the Obama administration has "gutted" every weapons system in the U.S. military's inventory.
FACTS
Money spent on weapons modernization is on par with the George W. Bush administration. The military cuts were approved by Republicans and Democrats. The military budget is being squeezed by the insistence of lawmakers in both parties that money be spent on bases and equipment that the Pentagon says it doesn't need. here
And the government spends roughly 1,000 times more on the armed forces than on Planned Parenthood.
Stop Giving Your Money To Disney
They are laying off American workers and replacing them with immigrant workers. here
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Florida DINOS Back Hillary over Bernie
Alex Sink and Other Conservative Florida Democrats Who Have Been Losing Statewide Races for Years Back Hillary over Bernie. here
Their leader had this to say:
"It's okay to be right, but it's more important to win. And if you don't win, you can't govern. When all is said and done — certainly in Florida — Hillary has a much, much better chance of prevailing than Sen. Sanders." Bob Buckhorn
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Garlic Parmesan Wings
Just the right size and awesome flavor.
At WING KING Chicken Shack In Englewood
Florida Ghost Towns: Mannfield
Read more about it here
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Florida Ghost Towns,
Florida Trailblazer
Florida GOP Carlos Curbelo owes Planned Parenthood an apology
"DISGUSTING"
"A DISGRACE"
"CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR"
"DISCONCERTING"
"ABUSING THEIR POWER"
"TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE IN VULNERABLE SITUATIONS"
"ASSAULT ON HUMAN DIGNITY"
"A DISGRACE"
"CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR"
"DISCONCERTING"
"ABUSING THEIR POWER"
"TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE IN VULNERABLE SITUATIONS"
"ASSAULT ON HUMAN DIGNITY"
That’s how Congressman Carlos Curbelo talked about Planned Parenthood in an official press release.
A grand jury investigating the outrageous accusations against Planned Parenthood rejected all charges. And now: the anti-choice activists who created the slanderous videos accusing Planned Parenthood of selling fetal tissue are facing felony charges.
Carlos Curbelo owes Planned Parenthood an apology. Here
Carlos Curbelo owes Planned Parenthood an apology. Here
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Pack Tampa City Hall for Marijuana Decriminalization
Please come show your support to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in Tampa. Let's have a rational conversation about drug enforcement in our communities.
Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Charles Van Zant
By an 8-3 vote Monday afternoon, a House criminal justice panel voted to advance the more sweeping legislation (HB 865), which would make performing an abortion or operating an abortion clinic a first-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Rep. Charles Van Zant, is the bill's sponsor. here
Rep. Charles Van Zant, is the bill's sponsor. here
Vélo Champ: Heights Vibes #StopTBX Bicycle Ride
Starting at Vélo Champ on Central Ave. #StopTBX bike rides is a casual, informative bicycle ride through the Seminole Heights, Tampa Heights and the V.M. Ybor neighborhoods. The ride is intended to help realize a brick-by-brick understanding of just how destructive the proposed Tampa Bay Express (TBX) interstate expansion plan will be. The ride will visit key properties, streets and areas that will be impacted, demolished or completely eleminated by FDOT's plan to further expand I-275 and I-4 interstate systems. here
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Heights Vibes,
Seminole Heights,
STOP TBX,
Vélo Champ
Florida INC. Welcomes Polluters
Dump hazardous materials
No Fines
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is not enforcing laws against companies responsible for hazardous materials pollution or collecting the fines it could from polluters, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental group. here
Monday, January 25, 2016
SUPPORT THE COMPETITIVE WORKFORCE ACT!
Jeb Bush: Rick Synder Is A “Great Governor For Michigan”
Jeb Bush said Sunday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should not have to resign for how the state handled the contaminated water crisis
in Flint. here
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Banana Republican,
Florida GOP,
Jeb Bush
Florida GOP On Climate Change
Marco Rubio “We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing to change our climate, to change our weather, because America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely,”
Jeb Bush "President Obama’s climate rule, is “irresponsible and ineffective,” and private-sector innovation is “the source of a lot more solutions than any government-imposed idea.”
Rick Scott’s Corporate Welfare Plan Doused With Cold Water
Rick Scott’s push to secure $250 million
in economic incentive money this year
was doused with cold water,
as one of the state’s top economists said alternative plans would create more jobs and come with a
higher return on investment. here
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Rick Scott Points Florida in Same Direction as Flint, Michigan
Public clamor for a veto and against Florida Governor Rick Scott's signing, of a new "water policy" bill lands in the governor's bubble like a muted, padded sound. Scott doesn't see and he doesn't hear, except through the filter of political ambition. Motivated by the same set of drivers that helped propel Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to the governor's office in Michigan in 2010: strip environmental rules and regulations that are enforceable and replace them with lawyerly garbage. here
Pam Bondi's Millennium Laboratories Scandal
Someone should be going to prison in the Millennium Laboratories fraud scandal that was aided and abetted by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office. here
DWS Has The Skin Of A Gator
"The party chair is going to absorb criticism from any candidates, partisans, and it's just the way it is,'' she said after a press conference on guns in the Florida Capitol. "These are people that simply are expressing the normal, understandable frustration over what they think is a sinister thing over every corner. I have to just block that
noise out and focus on doing my job.
I'm from Florida.
I'm from Florida.
Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare Package In Trouble
Tumbling financial markets are further clouding Gov.Rick Scott's push for $1 billion in tax cuts as the Legislature deals with a suddenly less rosy financial outlook and less money to divvy up. here
Saturday, January 23, 2016
After All The Shit! Floridians Still Want Alan Grayson
Grayson still holds a 7-point lead after months of negative press generated by the Patrick Murphy campaign throwing everything including the kitchen sink at him, while the former South Florida Republican has endured virtually no critical attention from the media. here
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ALAN GRAYSON,
Florida DINOS,
Patrick E. Murphy
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Florida Frakers: Ddisaster For The Everglades
Environmentalists are warning of a potential ecological disaster for the Everglades if state lawmakers approve a measure that would open the door to fracking in the sensitive wetlands. here
No Publix At USF
University of South Florida students, community members tell university administration: “Publix can’t set up shop on our campus until they respect farmworkers’ human rights!”
And they want you to help! Here’s how…info
Free Screening: Coal Ash Stories - Tampa
Friday, January 22, 2016
Jessica Rose - "Maybe"
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Jessica Rose,
Local Musicians,
Local Treasures
Pam Bondi: Florida GOP Pawn
Bondi is a party pawn intent on carrying out partisan agendas through selective
legal enforcement Her failed political causes have mounted:
Taking a gay marriage challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court, fighting tooth and nail against medical marijuana and Obamacare, and even punting on taking on the banks responsible for Florida's historic foreclosure crisis. Her quixotic battles have made her a national darling of conservatives. She scans as a smart, sane version of Sarah Palin. here
"She is the most substantive attorney general we have had in recent memory," says state Rep. Dana Young, a Republican lawmaker from Tampa
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"You get the sense that rather than being the watchdog for the state, she is a mouthpiece for national political organizations," says state
Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat from Miami
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"You get the sense that rather than being the watchdog for the state, she is a mouthpiece for national political organizations," says state
Rep. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat from Miami
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BRAND GOP,
Dana Young,
Florida GOP,
Pam Bondi
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Florida What’s So Bad About Fracking?
Besides leaking methane under and above ground, which makes people sick (ask Los Angeles), wasting millions of gallons of valuable water (ask California), causing earthquakes (ask Oklahoma), contaminated waste water no one wants, explosions that kill people (ask lots of places), there is one more big effect of fracking: undisclosed toxic chemicals put into our earth. here
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The current bills in our Florida legislation purport to “regulate” fracking, but as one representative stated, it is nothing more than a “welcome mat” to
promote fracking.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
The Peasants Of Florida INC.
With its low incomes and comparatively high cost of living, Florida ranks No. 5 on a list of states whose residents are most likely to live paycheck to paycheck.
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Florida trails only
Hawaii, California, New York and Alaska
on the list compiled by Go Banking Rates. here
Let's Get To Work
Hawaii, California, New York and Alaska
on the list compiled by Go Banking Rates. here
Let's Get To Work
Susan Smith To Talk Policy With Alan Grayson
"I'm very excited that Congressman Alan Grayson invited me, Nancy Carola Jacobson and Brook Hines to attend the Progressive Congress Strategy Summit in Baltimore next month. It's a great opportunity to network with other progressives and talk policy. Thank you, Congressman!" Susan Smith
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ALAN GRAYSON,
Progressive Florida,
Susan Smith,
Susan Smith Wing Of The Florida Democratic Party
Brand GOP
NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
42 percent of registered voters said the primary race has made them feel less favorable about the GOP, compared to just 19 percent who said they feel
more favorable.
more favorable.
A third -Republican primary voters - 33 percent
say they view the party more favorably now,
What Pilar Had For Lunch
Rick Scott Donors
Here’s a list of Scott’s donors who have given at least $100,000 in 2015: Florida Chamber of Commerce - $540,000 Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts - $252,500 Jeffrey Vinik, Tampa Bay Lightning owner - $200,000 Associated Industries of Florida - $150,000 Floridians for a Stronger Democracy, a political committee with ties to AIF - $150,000 Voice of Florida Business, a PAC with ties to AIF – $130,000 Florida Jobs PAC, a PAC with ties to the Florida Chamber - $110,000 Consulate Health Care, Florida’s largest nursing home provider - $100,000 Lawrence DeGeorge, runs a charitible trust in Jupiter, FL - $100,000 Daniel Doyle Jr., Tampa Bay resident and CEO of DEX Imaging Inc - $100,000 Intervest Construction, homebuilder based in Daytona Beach - $100,000 August Busch III, former Anheuser-Busch CEO from St. Peters, Missouri - $100,000 U.S. Sugar Corporation - $100,000 here
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
TBX: One Of The 12 Worst Highway Projects In The Country
A new report with a national scope calls the controversial Tampa Bay Express interstate expansion one of the 12 worst highway projects in the United States for expanding roads to little benefit.
here
here
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These two are for it
These two are for it
Bob Buckhorn
Wants to be our governor.
And
Lisa Montelione
Is running for
Florida State House District 63.
Remember them when you vote!
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Bob Buckhorn,
Lisa Montelione,
STOP TBX
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s First-Ever Primary Challenger: Tim Canova
In general, Wasserman Schultz is the living, breathing embodiment of everything rotted and corrupt about the Democratic Party: a corporatist who overwhelmingly relies on corporate money to keep her job, a hawk who supports the most bellicose aspects of U.S. foreign policy, a key member of the “centrist” and “moderate” pro-growth New Democrat coalition, a co-sponsor of the failed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was “heavily backed by D.C. favorites including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the music and motion picture industries” and would have allowed extreme control over the internet. here
Florida Frackers Attack On Environment Continues
Labels:
Florida Frackers,
Florida GOP,
Fracking In Florida
Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush: Climate Change Is Distant Threat
Not 15 miles from the homes of Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush on the mainland, Miami Beach work crews elevate the streets, turning ground floors effectively into windowed basements, to try to stave off the implacable rise of sea water. Up comes the powerful ocean, threatening people, property and the underground freshwater supply. here
“I don’t have a plan to influence the weather, can’t control nature." Marco Rubio
“It wouldn’t be on my first page of things that wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.” Jeb Bush
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Climate Change,
Florida GOP,
Jeb Bush,
Marco Rubio
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