Tampa Pride 2016 in Ybor City

Kelly Benjamin with Zora

Dave Cutler

LGBT Champion Pat Kemp

Mike Reedy with supporters

Brian Willis with supporter

Alan Grayson, Lisa Montelione, Mike Suarez

and Pam Iorio. Not one republican attended. 

Well, Bob Buckhorn was there.

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What is polluting Biscayne National Park?

Yuge thanks to Susan Smith and the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida

"Yuge thanks to Susan Smith and the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida for stepping up for fairness in our elections!!! Access to the voting list should be available to all Democratic candidates."

Tim Canova

Trump Turning Miami Cuban Americans Blue

Support among Cubans in South Florida for Republicans has been slowly declining. They've chalked it up to generational change. Younger and newly arrived Cubans aren't quite as strongly Republican as the original exiles. The GOP's shift to the socially conservative positions of white evangelical voters has accelerated the trend. Then along comes 
Donald Trump. here

Great Job Rep. Kathy Castor

The presidents of the U.S. and Cuba acknowledged in their historic meeting Monday that their nations have different views on government and human rights, but found common ground on the U.S. embargo against Cuba: Both want it to end. The woman leading the effort to make that happen is U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, the Tampa Democrat who is part President Barack Obama’s congressional delegation to the island nation and the sponsor of the Cuba Trade Act. here

Florida GOP Jim Boyd of Bradenton To Keep Fighting For Corporate Welfare

$250 million

State Rep. Jim Boyd of Bradenton, promised the Manatee County Commission on Tuesday morning to keep fighting for Corporate Welfare funding after his bill to regulate its state funding died in the Senate this year. here

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article67515767.html#storylink=cpy

Tip For Lazy Florida Dems

Check this out

Absentee Voting

Absentee voting refers to voting a ballot received by mail or picked up by or for a voter who is unable or unwilling to go to the polls to vote during early voting or Election Day. Check it out

Florida Progressive Leader Mayor Rick Kriseman

St Pete 100% clean energy

"This is what progressive leadership looks like. Thank you, Mayor Rick Kriseman!" Susan Smith

This is the mayor by the bay that we need to run for governor. Great job St. Pete!

Tell "Debt Trap Debbie" Not to Sabotage Obama on Payday Lending Reform

Sarasota County GOP’s “Statesman of the Year” Award: Rick Scott

Gov. Rick Scott will receive the Sarasota County GOP’s “Statesman of the Year” award at a dinner next month. Trump received the statesman honor in 2012 and 2015. here

Florida GOP Locations For Gynecological Care

A bill passed in the Florida GOP legislature this week would effectively defund Planned Parenthood and other reproductive rights clinics.  several state lawmakers who have insisted that plentiful alternatives exist for reproductive and sexual healthcare have cited a list of health centers that includes 

Dentists, 

Optometrists, 

and Elementary Schools.

here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Pam Bondi

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013 was considering joining in a lawsuit against Trump University.  Shortly thereafter, a check for $25,000 was sent to Bondi’s campaign.  AG Bondi (who has since endorsed Trump) ended up not joining in on the Trump University lawsuit. here
She is cheap, only $25,000!

Florida INC. Rancid Corpses

Thousands of scaly, rancid corpses dot the banks of the Indian River Lagoon, in clusters from Titusville to Melbourne, likely casualties of widespread algae that's bloomed for months.

Scientists say excess nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers, septic tanks, leaky sewer systems, air pollution and other sources is fueling the blooms. here

President Obama: Thank You From Tampa Cuban Americans

We never thought we would live to see this. 

Your legacy is secure with us!

Dear Marco Rubio

Rubio called Obama’s historic trip to Cuba “one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world.”
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"Mr. Rubio, we have tried it your way for over 50 years. All it has done is make the Cuban people suffer. The change you were looking for did not happen. It should be up to the Cubans on the island to decide how they want to be  governed not the deserters in Miami. Dialogue over Isolation works everytime. 
Now we have a chance to show them what Democracy looks like." YCS

St. Pete Pledging To Work Toward 100% Clean Energy

St. Petersburg is the first Florida city pledging to work toward 100% clean energy; Sharon Wright is the City of St. Petersburg’s sustainability coordinator and joined the Sierra Club Tuesday morning to officially launch the “Ready for 100” campaign. here

Free Rolling Stones Concert

Ciudad Deportiva - La Habana, Cuba

400,000 fans are expected

here. We want to go! 

VPC Spreading Into Florida

Voter Participation Center (VPC) is mailing 626,000 voter registration applications into Florida this month.  

Unmarried women, Latinos, African-Americans and millennials make up a strong majority — 58 percent — of the eligible voters in the state.  But 40 percent of them are not registered to vote.  

And the number of unregistered young voters is even higher: 

54 percent of millennial Floridians are not registered to vote.

here

Florida Right Winger Todd Schnitt Attacks Alan Grayson

"Recently, a right-wing hate radio host in Florida said that I’m a “mental defect,” that I’m “obnoxious” and “disgusting,” and that I’m a “media whore.”

The verbal mugger in this case was Todd Schnitt, a hatemonger whose radio show is carried in both Miami and Tampa, the two largest media markets in Florida." 

Rep. Alan Grayson

USF Solar Fair

March 26 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
USF College of Engineering

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Join Team Pat Kemp At Tampa Pride In Ybor

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Walk with them at Tampa Pride in Ybor!

The Field: A Magical Place In Suitcase City

Once a month it turns into this!

Experience an alternative to capitalism: SHARING!

FREE food, books, toys, games, household items, skillshare, friendship, music, fun, and anything else! Offer what you can, take what you can use, while building community and loudly proclaiming 

REFUGEES WELCOME!!!!

Visit these wonderful people here

Loser Marco Rubio Continues To Attack President Obama

Republican voters have had their say. They rejected Marco Rubio’s candidacy which was built largely on his accusations that President Obama “lacked class,” had committed sedition by “deliberately weakening America”. Four years from now, thousands of American families can celebrate their daughters and sons being alive thanks to the rejection of Rubio and his neoconservative, warmongering policies  by GOP voters which almost certainly would have seen the United States in another Iraq-like quagmire. here

Florida's Right Wing Infestation: Judge Pamela Campbell

Campbell (Pinellas and Pasco Counties) is an ideologue, who in 2006 was appointed to the bench by another ideologue, then-governor Jeb Bush, after having represented the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in the politically-motivated case. here

Now working  the Hulk Hogan/Gawker Media trial

350 Pensacola In New Orleans

Members of the environmental activism group 350 Pensacola are in New Orleans today. The trip will coincide with the federal sale of leases to more than 42 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for new oil and gas development. here

Florida Is On The Extreme: Disenfranchise Prisoners

Florida voters weighed in on who should be the next president of the United States. But some 1.5 million Floridians are left out of that voting process: convicted felons. Florida is one of the worst states to commit a felony and expect ever to vote again, because you won’t be able to. here

Lee's Grocery Paparazzi

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Panama City: Police State

“It’s a police state “When there are blue lights in front of Spinnaker and La Vela every night, that’s not welcoming. The sheriff has put the message out on social media that if you come to Panama City and drink on the beach you are going to jail. Not get a citation, but go to jail.” Sparky Sparkman, the owner of Spinnaker Beach Club. here

His business is down 85 to 90 percent compared to last Spring Break as college students have found other destinations in the wake of new laws, including a ban on drinking on the beach in March. Sparkman said it’s not just the Spring Break laws that have taken its toll; it’s also the heavy presence of law enforcement that has chased away spring breakers. 

Tampa's Historic Ties To Cuba

 " With Tampa's historic ties to Cuba, its time for relations to open up. I went to Cuba in January." Pat Kemp

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Roadblocks

Tampa Mayor Supports The MCM

Cuban Spies In Ybor City

Tampa To Lose Cuban Consulate Because Of 

Bob Bucknorn

Ybor City May Lose Cuban Consulate 

to St. Pete

Cuban Americans have a message for President Obama

Tampa Bay Sierra Club On Our Transportation Planning

"The Tampa Bay region pays a high price to remain the only major metropolitan area in America without a viable public transportation system. Permissive development policies in Hillsborough County created sprawling, cul-de-sac subdivisions that frustrate public transportation planning. Tampa will not attract the best and brightest entrepreneurs and professionals so essential to a vibrant, thriving economy if we continue to ignore their desire for walkable, bicycle friendly communities and a modern public transit system." 
Kent Bailey 

Team Pat Kemp Party In The Heights

Red Star Rock Bar

Join The Team here

Dems Wanted For Hillsborough County District 60

Florida GOP

Rebecca Smith and Jackie Toledo 

want to replace Dana Young.

No Democrat has yet entered the contest. 

here

11 Appalling Laws Pushed By Right-Wing Republicans: Florida #3 And #9

#3. Florida SB 1722/HB 1411: 
Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception, 
Anti-Women’s Health

#9. Florida HB 191: 
Fast Track to Fracking

here

Florida Thanks You President Obama

Over the past two years, 

more than 100 local governments, 

100 members of Congress, 

1,000 small businesses, 

and hundreds of thousands of residents 

have voiced a bi-partisan call to protect 

our coast from the impacts of offshore drilling. Together we have stood up for the quality of life we enjoy on the Southeast coast and the booming tourism economy, which are dependent upon 

clean and healthy 

beaches and marshes. here

There Is Nothing Wrong With Ybor City's Image

The Chamber needs to do their job!

Tampa Keep It Below 20 Grams

The City Council on Thursday eased the penalties for carrying misdemeanor amounts of marijuana, creating the option of imposing a civil fine instead of arresting offenders. The ordinance would effectively decriminalize in Tampa the consequences of possessing up to 20 grams — or about three-quarters of an ounce — of marijuana.. here