Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

Transportation impact fees developers pay for new development.

Hillsborough County: $770 for a new home

Pasco County: 10,000 for a new home
here

"The County Commission is now considering a major overhaul of the transportation impact fees developers pay for new development. For too long, the fees has left taxpayers burdened with gridlock and paying most of the cost for new roads. For the past two years, I have worked with Sierra Club and we have taken the lead in a campaign to have new development pay more of its fair share and to use transportation fees as a tool to encourage smart growth. This plan is a big break from the status quo." 
Pat Kemp

Marco Rubio: Climate Flip-Flopper

Mayor Cindy Lerner of Pinecrest explains, (Rubio) was once in favor of action to stave off the worst effects of global warming --- such as the sea level rise already encroaching on south Florida towns like Lerner's --- before he decided to run for President and become a climate change denier. here

"Marco Rubio and all the Republican candidates who are in denial, it's really part of a campaign strategy, an ideology, that ignores the reality of the consequences we're facing," Lerner notes that where Republicans in Florida had once actual lead on Climate Change, since Republican Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011, state GOPers have almost completely reversed course.

Love Has No Borders @ Sacred Grounds - Tampa

 A benefit show to support the work of Love Has No Borders in providing mutual aid and support for recently arrived refugees. here

Join them here

Thank you Jimmy Dunson 

For organizing this great event and inviting us.

Sacred Grounds Coffee House

Florida's Right Wing Infestation

The Right Wing infected Florida House passed a bill allowing some gun owners in Florida to carry openly in most public places and to carry concealed on state college and university campuses. here

Three Dems — Reps. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda of Tallahassee, Joseph Geller of Aventura and Randolph Bracy of Orlando — joined the chamber's Infestation in support.

Lee's Grocery Paparazzi

The folks from STOPTBX
Join them Feb. 6 in Tampa

Ybor City Musicians

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Tampa Roll and Florida Roll

With Soup

At Grille One Nine in NPR

Visit them here

STOP TBX - NPA

Libertarian Kevin O'Neill and Democrat Pat Kemp

@ A Stop TBX event in Tampa

Join Sunshine Citizens
They have a huge rally planned for 2.6
Get Involved, all parties welcome!

Florida Frackers Stay Out Of Hillsborough County

Florida Senate Appropriations Chair

Tom Lee’s home county has just come out against a fracking bill that will get its next hearing in that committee; on Wednesday the Hillsborough County Commission passed a resolution to oppose the bill to study and regulate hydraulic fracturing at the same time it forbids local governments from banning the drilling practice, as many have done. here

Street Preaching - Ybor City

Ashley From Tampa

I am voting  on November 8! Are you? 

Register To Vote Florida

Raíces en Tampa: Know Your Rights | Fight Back Workshop

2.13 - 4pm

Lutz - info

Team Pat Kemp

Team Leader Kate M Connolly

Join the team, we did!

Help Pat Kemp to the Hillsborough County Commission.
Need a yard sign? Let us know.

Stop TBX March In Tampa

TBX is a boondoggle! 

Express Toll Lanes are wrong for Tampa. 

But, it is NOT a done deal. 

Join us for a one-mile march to protest the loss of historic homes, churches, businesses, parks and green space. Our group's path will illustrate how wide the swath of detruction caused by the proposed widening of I-275 would be. RSVP and invite others. info

The Citrus Taliban: Pastor Protection Act

A debate is again building in the state Capitol about same-sex marriage as conservative lawmakers back a proposal known as the “Pastor Protection Act.”

Florida GOP Rep. Scott Plakon of  Longwood

Florida GOP Sen. Aaron Bean of Fernandina Beach

Carlos Guillermo Smith of the gay-rights advocacy group Equality Florida called the proposal “an invented problem” aimed at getting religious conservatives to the polls. here

Ybor City Top 7 Facts

The 35th Annual WMNF Tropical Heatwave

Early bird tickets!

Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Patrick Murphy

One of Chuck Schumer's and Steve Israel's front groups for tricking low-info grassroots Democrats into contributing to their Wall Street candidates disguised as Democrats calls itself EndCitizensUnited, a scam that funnels money into its own pockets and to right-of-center Democrats like Patrick Murphy. here

We Remember Andrew Joseph, III Memorial Weekend In Tampa

Feb 5, 2016 @ 2pm

 Protest of Student Day 

Florida State Fairgrounds-Tampa

Feb. 6, 2016 @ 9am

Middleton High School Old Track

22nd Street and Geneses, Tampa

more events here

Stop The Florida Frackers - Call Your State Senator

Sen. Joseph Abruzzo

850-487-5025

Sen. Thad Altman

850-487-5016

Sen. Aaron Bean

850-487-5004

Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto

850-487-5030

Sen. Rob Bradley

850-487-5007

Sen. Jeff Brandes

850-487-5022

Sen. Oscar Braynon

850-487-5036

Sen. Dwight Bullard

850-487-5039

Sen. Jeff Clemens

850-487-5027

Sen. Charlie Dean

850-487-5005

Sen. Nancy Detert

850-487-5028

Sen. Miguel Diaz De La Portilla

850-487-5040

Sen. Greg Evers

850-487-5002

Sen. Anitere Flores

850-487-5037

Sen. Don Gaetz

850-487-5001

Sen. Bill Galvano

850-487-5026

Sen. Rene Garcia

850-487-5038

Sen. Andy Gardiner

850-487-5013

Sen. Audrey Gibson

850-487-5009

Sen. Denise Grimsley

850-487-5021

Sen. Alan Hays

850-487-5011

Sen. Dorothy Hukill

850-487-5008

Sen. Travis Hutson

850-487-5006

Sen. Arthenia Joyner

850-487-5019

Sen. Jack Latvala

850-487-5020

Sen. Tom Lee

850-487-5024

Sen. John Legg

850-487-5017

Sen. Gwen Margolis

850-487-5035

Sen. Bill Montford

850-487-5003

Sen. Joe Negron

850-487-5032

Sen. Garrett Richter

850-487-5023

Sen. Jeremy Ring

850-487-5029

Sen. Maria Lorts Sachs

850-487-5034

Sen. David Simmons

850-487-5010

Sen. Wilton Simpson

850-487-5018

Sen. Christopher Smith

850-487-5031

Sen. Eleanor Sobel

850-487-5033

Sen. Darren Soto

850-487-5014

Sen. Kelli Stargel

850-487-5015

Sen. Geri Thompson

850-487-5012

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 Find your State Senator by clicking here.

Call your State Senator at his/her Tallahassee office, say that you live in the district, that you vote, and ask him/her to vote NO on fracking bill SB 318. (Leave a message if no one answers and call back during business hours.)

Love Has No Borders Benefit Show In Tampa

2.4 - 6 pm

Sacred Grounds Coffee House

info

Florida Keep It Civil, Tickets Not Arrests for Marijuana

here

Marco Rubio Believes In Sugar

As a Republican senator, voted with Democrats to preserve government aid even as he railed against "corporate welfare" in other 
parts of the economy. 
He calls preserving U.S. sugar subsidies a matter of national security. here

STOP TBX Education In Tampa Heights

Join them on 2.6 

Sunshine Citizens

Florida Ghost Towns: Centralia

Tampa Corners

Busch and Florida

If Marco Rubio Represents Mainstream Conservatism, The GOP Is Screwed

Marco Rubio has become the darling of the Republican establishment. 

Apart from his fresh face, virtually nothing about Rubio is new or endearing. His ideas are either conventionally Republican or uncommonly extremist.

HE IS: A Rabid Neoconservative,

Pro-torture.

Supports the unconstitutional surveilance program

Wants to dramatically increase defense spending even though America spends more on defense than the next eight nations combined. He represents the worst instincts of movement conservatism, and if his warmongering and tax cuts for the wealthy are what counts as moderate in today’s GOP, the Democrats should feel awfully good about their chances in 2016. here

Lee's Grocery Paparazzi

Cris and Norwood of Solidarity Sunday with Pat Kemp

Florida Climate Survivors Confront Marco Rubio

Hillsborough County Animal Shelter: Just Let Them Go

Animal lovers in Hillsborough County, are sick and tired of a county shelter that is not doing its job. For months, volunteers have been going public about serious issues with the shelter, the biggest issue being that with the new shelter director, Scott Trebatoski, 
it's all about the numbers and 
NOT about the welfare of the animals. here

Rick Kriseman 2016 State of the City Address

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chopped Steak

With Mashed Potatoes and Cole Slaw

At Maw's Vittles in Brooksville

Visit them here

Eat Local!

TPP Is Betrayal / March / Protest In Tampa

2.4 - 3 PM

Westshore Plaza
Tampa

info

Draft Linda Saul-Sena For Senate

“I’m flattered when people approach me, but I’m eager to see some fresh faces.”  
She believes the Senate seat is definitely 
viable for her party. 
She’s just not interested at this point in her life in going for it.
. “That’s the seat where we need to find a great Democrat for,” she says. “There’s a lot of conversation about a lot of people, and I’m personally trying to think of wonderful people.” She’s now involved in efforts to try to stop The Florida Department of Transportation’s 
Tampa Bay Express project. here

Ybor Paparazzi

Bryn and Robeto of Mobile Apps Media

And Manny of Mace Multi Media

This week in Floriduh

Florida GOP voted to:

 --allow open carry of guns 

--ban all abortions 

--prevent local governments from banning fracking 

--prohibit citizens from accessing public records
Aren't you proud?

Susan Smith

Josh From Riverview

I am voting  on November 8! Are you? 

Register To Vote Florida

Open Letters From Mayors Of 15 Florida Cities To Marco Rubio And Jeb Bush

Urge both would-be presential candidates to acknowledge the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and to take urgent action to remediate it. here

FBI Wants To Question Tampa Activist Jessica Schwartz

Tampa anti-war activist Jessica Schwartz says a family member handed her an FBI agent’s card. The card was stuck in the front door of the family home and belonged to FBI Special Agent A. Brett Fears. Schwartz found another card stuck in a car window on the driveway and she says, “My brother let me know the FBI left a message on our home phone asking me to contact FBI Special Agent Fears 
for an interview here, on Facebook

Medical Marijuana will be on the 2016 Ballot in Florida

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

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