Anti-Regulation Governor Rick Scott

Except when it involves The Citrus Taliban 

Scott loves to say we need less government regulation — and less government intrusion — in our lives. That is his mantra. Yet there he was recently, signing a bill into law that imposes dramatic new regulations over abortion clinics and likely will intrude on women's abilities to find a provider. here

Iceland Photographer Henthorne In Tampa

                April 14 at 5 PM
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
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Local Musicians: Marie Tess

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Sweet and Sour Chicken

With Soup At China Wok in Spring Hill

Visit them here

Rick Scott's Office of Piss Poor Propaganda

Now Is the Time For a Revolution

We need to start a peaceful revolution in our country by electing a president who knows why our country was created, who believes that American freedom and beliefs are exceptional, and who understands WHY capitalism has done more to eliminate poverty than any government program. I have already announced my support for Donald Trump in this presidential election. here

Please Support this Activist/Preacher/Organizer

I am asking for people to committ to ongoing support for the work I do with Activism, Community Organizing, Homeless/Poor Outreach. This is going to my personal support, I am trying to raise $900 a month, including support of the Revolutionary Road Radio show, and as an activist/organizer. Have never appealed like this before and really could use your monthly support. Any amount per month would help. Please tell your friends. 
Your help is needed. I 
can be reached at 727 278 1547 
or bruce@stpeteprogressives.org. 
Never asked for help in this way before. No longer have funding and want to continue this work, but need your help. This urgent as we have many outreaches, organizing efforts in the works. Checks can be made to the Refuge for my support and sent to 3705 58th Ave. north, St. Petersburg, Florida. If you want to give direct help for expenses, please contact me. info

Pat Kemp for Hillsborough County Commission Campaign Fundraiser

4.7 - 5:30PM

RSVP here

Victor Licata: Ybor City's Axe-Murdering Marijuana Addict

An American murderer who used an axe to kill his family in Ybor City on October 16, 1933. The killings, were reported by the Press as the work of a 
"axe murdering marijuana addict". 
Evidence that there was a link between recreational drugs, such as cannabis, and crime. Despite evidence Licata had a pre-existing history of mental illness, police and the press made unattributed claims that he was “addicted” to marijuana. On October 17, 1933 the Tampa Bay Times wrote:

W.D. Bush, city chief detective, said he had made an investigation prior to the crime and learned the slayer had been addicted to smoking marijuana cigarettes for more than six months. However, a day later the Chief of Tampa Police Department downplayed the role the drug had in the murders, although he pledged himself to the cause of marijuana prohibition.

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"Maybe the weed only had a small indirect part in the alleged insanity of the youth, but I am declaring now and for all time that the increasing use of this narcotic must stop and will be stopped."

An October 20, 1933 editorial on page six of the Tampa Morning Tribune was entitled "Stop This Murderous Smoke". The editorial writer called for the prohibition of marijuana. here
83 Years later Tampa Decriminalizes Marijuana. here

Vote NO On Amendment 1

The amendment -- called Consumers for Smart Solar -- local and state regulators would maintain control over solar energy. 

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The utility-backed amendment would allow monopolies to maintain the status quo in how solar energy is regulated. here

More FDOT Propaganda In Tampa

Robert W. Saunders Sr. Public Library

Florida DOT Piss Poor Propaganda

What a beautiful Library! here

Florida INC. - Seismic Testing To Begin In Florida

A Texas oil company could begin seismic testing within weeks in Calhoun and Gulf counties now that Florida INC. has signed off on the plan. here

DEP announced it was dismissing a legal challenge to the testing filed recently by a Clarksville resident and a board member of a living history museum in Blountstown.

Panhandle residents we got your back!

PACK THE HOUSE: Marijuana Decriminalization - Pinellas County

4.5 - 9AM

315 Court St. Clearwater

This is a big one! We're going to be mobilizing for the first discussion of the Pinellas County commission about civil citations for marijuana posession. If we can pass this on the county level, it will pave the way for the 24 cities in Pinellas to follow suit! Be there!

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STOP TBX Coalition Gathering In Tampa Heights

James E Shirk with Local Treasure Linda Saul-Sena

The ever-present Pat Kemp with friends

Tampa Heights Junior Civic Center

The march was postponed till next week 
because of the weather. here 

Join Sunshine Citizens

Trump Supporters In Pinellas County

Tiger Bay Club Luncheon

All Florida GOP present 
State Sens. Jack Latvala - Clearwater
Jeff Brandes - St. Petersburg
State Reps. Larry Ahern - Seminole 
Chris Latvala - Clearwater
and Kathleen Peters  South Pasadena
promised they would support Trump as the nominee. here

Tampa Road Pig

This asshole needed two spaces to park his 

piece of shit Mercedes.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Eatonville

Rick Scott suspended Eatonville Mayor Anthony Grant following his indictment on voter-fraud charges earlier in the week. Grant, and two others are accused of intimidating and bribing voters in the 2015 election that led to Grant's victory. In six cases examined, a grand jury found that Grant, Mia Antionette Nowells and James Randolph unlawfully marked absentee ballots or forced people to vote for them, according to the 25-count indictment released Monday. here

Florida GOP Jeff Brandes: Let’s Make a (Corrupt) Deal

An activist group is running a radio ad in the Tampa Bay area against St. Petersburg-based state Senator Jeff Brandes that questions his ethics. The ad from Florida Strong is called “Let’s Make a (corrupt) Deal.” It attacks the Pinellas Republican for receiving campaign contributions from companies like Duke Energy and insurance lobbyists, and then claims that he voted on issues on behalf of those companies at taxpayers expense. here

Stop TBX Spreading In Tampa

Corner of Hillsborough and Florida

Join Sunshine Citizens

Florida GOP Ends Prohibition On Slungshots

Scott signed measure HB 4009 that deletes part of state law which has prohibited the manufacturing or sale of a maritime tool known as a slungshot.

The slungshot consists of a weight affixed to the end of a long cord of being wound into the center of a knot called a monkey’s fist. Although the slungshot is a maritime tool, it became an improvised and very effective weapon, widely used by street gangs in the 19th Century.

The bill removed slungshot from the definition of a concealed weapon and also lifts a prohibition of the sale or transfer of a slungshot to a minor. here

Fight For 15 In The Heights

Tim Heberlein,  Kelly Benjamin and Brother John

Pat Kemp with friends

Where was Tom Scott, John Dicks and Brian Willis?

We missed you guys!

Local Legends Kelly Benjamin and Ronny Elliott

Seminole Heights Library - Tampa

Join them here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Opa-locka

Feds target Miami-Dade city in major corruption investigation

"Dante (Starks) is the unofficial mayor of Opa-locka,” former Vice Mayor Steven Barrett said. “He has more power than [Mayor] Myra Taylor. He controls every department.” Now, Starks is at the center of a federal investigation that threatens to topple him and a cadre of elected leaders in the most comprehensive corruption probe in Miami-Dade in decades. rhere

Act Of Kindness At The Field In Suitcase City

Meet Nathalia Estrada

She is the one responsible for this act of kindness.

Tuning up, fixing and oiling bikes.

Visit them here

HART To Get 15 New Buses

They will run on natural gas
They are needed to support the fixed route fleet to keep up with a continued growth in ridership.

The Feds are paying for the buses.

here

Scott, Bondi Tight Lipped About Trump's Thug

Both Trump supporters 

Good Luck! Dezeray Lyn

"Tomorrow morning I begin the journey north for several weeks for an EMT intensive gaining skills to advance me on the volunteer street medic path and eventually towards dreams of joining Doctors Without Borders. I am only able to take this intensive due to comrades and friends donating and supporting me in numerous ways. That means everything. 

To all those engaged in revolutionary struggles and movements who have captured my heart and who have my blood, sweat and tears in our fight for a kind, fair and empowering world for all, you will have my skills too... Food not Bombs, Love Has No Borders, Black Lives Matter, Earth First!, International Solidarity Movement and many more. No Walls. No Borders." Dezeray Lyn

Millennials Welcome to Tampa

Millennials,  are America’s up-and-coming workforce. Tampa,  is putting this group — born between 1982 and 2001 — under a microscope. The Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. has commissioned a survey of millennial CEOs and workers in competing markets to ask what would persuade them to relocate here for a job or to move their company 

to Hillsborough County.

here

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Please make sure our transit options are on the survey. 

Warning From The Florida GOP

"The grassroots leaders of the Republican Party of Florida have been working overtime over the last year and a half getting this state ready to defeat Hillary and elect Republicans up and down the ticket in November," State party chairman Blaise Ingoglia. here

Florida Taxpayers Pay For Foreign Journalists To Party In The Keys

$78 million

Florida taxpayers have paid thousands of dollars for Chinese and other foreign journalists to vacation in the Keys and unknown amounts of money on secret contracts for celebrities, race car drivers and soccer teams to promote the Sunshine State. here

Visit Florida, a public-private group will get $78 million.

Florida Right Wing Blogger Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge

Javier Manjarres, publisher of the right wing blog The Shark Tank, was detained by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest form the 43-year-old was charged with one count of attempted murder and two counts of burglary conveyance with battery.  He was arrested for leaving his sister’s boyfriend, Jason Holowinski, with a broken nose and bullet holes in his pickup truck. here

Bigot Free Church In Tampa

Faith Family United Church Of Christ

Check them out here

Pic: Tampa Pride in Ybor.

Marco Rubio's Secret-Money Legacy Lives On

The senator’s allies found a way for donors to spend millions to support his presidential campaign while remaining anonymous — forever. here

Local Musician Marie Tess In Ybor

Check her out here

Dear President Raul Castro

If you want the support of the Left in the US, there are 
a few things you are going to have to do.

1.Release all political prisoners.

2. Allow the people access to ALL media.

3. Stop Citizen/Tourist Apartheid.

4. Free Elections.

5. Stop harassing protesters.

Florida GOP Tweak HIV Numbers

The figures now show a slight decline in new cases from 2011, when Scott took office, to 2014. The previous report showed the number of new infections rising. here

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The previous tally from 2014 represented a significant uptick as diagnoses nationwide were declining. It was enough to make Florida the national leader in new HIV cases, an embarrassing distinction for the state, Gov. Rick Scott and the health department, and more importantly, a serious public health concern.