House Speaker Richard Corcoran is at this moment in time the most powerful man in state politics and could become even more powerful in 2019. here
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Florida's Subhuman Rat Guy
When a congressional issue unites the following list of subhuman rat-people, you know it's going to be something awful. One bill this year has brought together U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (the dude who hates Iran), Jim Inhofe (the idiot who took a snowball inside the Capitol to disprove global warming), Rand Paul, Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell, the Zodiac Killer Ted Cruz, and
Miami's own Marco Rubio. here
Miami's own Marco Rubio. here
Friday, March 17, 2017
Local Treasures
Florida GOP To Deny Food Stamps To An Estimated 229,000 Floridians
The House Appropriations Committee passed a bill (HB 581) by freshman Florida GOP Rep. Frank White of Pensacola, that would restore income eligibility for households for food stamps to 130 percent of the poverty level, the minimum level set by the federal government. The household income standard was raised to 200 percent of poverty following the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. here
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btw: $253 million. That’s more than a quarter of a billion dollars. It’s how much the state has handed over in taxpayer dollars for private lawyers, and fees for the state’s legal opponents, since Scott took office
in January 2011.
Westboro Bigots Coming To Tampa
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Brian Mast
Florida GOP Rep. Brian Mast is linked to a Florida marketing company under investigation by federal regulators for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars in a patent scam. here
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Democracy At Tampa City Hall
Tampa City Council Chamber
Kate Connolly
Dayna Lazarus
Jaime Sykes
Cathy James
Michael Anderson
And Russell Patterson spoke in support of
an ordinance banning gay conversion therapy.
Our local bigot Terry Kimple spoke against it.
Love his patriotic tie! more on Mr. Kimple here
Dezeray Lyn spoke for the houseless
Tampa City Council
Local Treasures
Great job Guido!
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Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Frank Artiles
Florida Power & Light's paid nearly $2,000 in flights, food and beverage for Florida GOP Sen. Frank Artiles to travel to Daytona Beach and Disney's Epcot theme park last month, an expense the senator reported late Monday on his political committee's web site only after questions by the Miami Herald. He was invited by FPL parent company, NextEra, to wave the green flag at the ceremonial start of the NASCAR event on Feb. 24. The next day, he was seen at Epcot, touring the theme parks' Drinking Around the World Showcase with FPL lobbyist and others.
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and Public Utilities Committee.
The Ybor City Rooster
Protest The MAGA March Supporting Trump In Clearwater
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Florida GOP
The state’s largest electric utility is pushing two proposals — put on the fast track by Republican leaders — that amount to end-runs around recent court rulings, drawing outrage from consumer groups and large utility customers. here and here
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The Senate Communications, Energy and Public Utilities Committee unanimously approved both measures Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Anti-Trump Protest At The University Of Tampa
Stephen King - Awake the State Sarasota
Call-to-Action II: Ban Conversion Therapy of Minors in Tampa
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Phone Bank Against Fracking In Tampa
Ybor Paparazzi
Tamps's Third FNB Food Share
On March 9th, we established Tamps's third FNB share at a new location! From now on we will be sharing with our neighbors every
Thursday, 8am at 131st and 15th. info
Until every belly is full!
Florida GOP Spends $237 Million To Defend Their Right Wing Agendas
Rick Scott and other top Florida Republicans frequently complain about government spending, but they have quietly spent more than $237 million on private lawyers to advance and defend their agendas. here
Monday, March 13, 2017
Conversion Kings: Religious Proselytizing as the Second Wave of Hate In Tampa
The same frustration when I learned of a Christian
conversion movement’s religious proselytism in a grassy section of suitcase
city; bird of prey in a field of young, Muslim Refugees.
It was getting late when I sent the text to a person who, I
was informed, was sending lengthy messages to Refugees in my community, stating
they had previously made their acquaintance and wanted to arrange “small cell
groups” to hold Christian fellowship teachings in the Refugee’s living
rooms. (In all cases, the Refugees had
no recollection of meeting those texting them.)
Posing as Bibi, a young, Resettled Muslim in Tampa who had
gotten one of these messages, I began a half hour text exchange with a person
named David Radford. (He shared his name
with me after the third time I requested it.)
He quickly summoned me to his home, to ‘just say hi,’ at 9:16pm. (Prior to stating his name)
Beyond that, he requested my address numerous times.
During this conversation, I pretended to be ecstatic about
his “small cell group” proposal and stated that I wanted to share the Quran with
him, as he wanted to share the bible with me.
His response started with “Ok, um.”
After a very circular conversation; ‘Bibi’ expressing a commitment to Islam and Radford becoming increasingly frustrated, he proceeded to send me 22 text messages in a row in less than a minute. Each text with a single word, stating that the meeting would be at his home on his terms and he ended this prolific series with a tense
“Do.
U.
Get.
David Radford then ended his messages with Bibi, the person
he believed to be a young, enthusiastic Muslim Refugee with a very unfriendly
message stating that “I have a life to attend to. The more you know God, the more relatable you
will be with people. Bye Bye.” And when
I outed myself as not being Bibi, but a person intellectually oppositional to
religious predation, he said, “Oh I only say this because I love you.”
And so it is that the deeper phase of xenophobia and
disturbingly discriminatory behavior plays out from stage left; not by the
nativist Trump supporter groundswell but by those whose discrimination comes
layered under the guise of embrace.
Those inviting themselves to the living rooms of the vulnerable to
Bible-wash their roots, their Islam, their tradition away. Conversion kings who, seemingly, have little
temper to spare with those who value and embody the teachings of their own
Prophet.
Previous to our abrupt end in dialogue, Radford stated that
there were four of these small cell
groups currently carrying on in Tampa. Four
living rooms invaded. Four weekly
intrusions into the faith of a people.
Christian privilege, domination and hegemony that continues
to prey on Refugee communities needs to be confronted when and where it
persists. David Radford, along with the
“Arabic Fest” (there is a legitimate Arabic Festival, however the address
listed on the specific flyer referenced in this piece, ambiguous in most ways,
sans for desperation baiting with all of its ‘free’ offerings, was traced back
to a local, evangelical church) and the small cell groups invading the living
rooms of the Resettled are reminiscent of the Bible-washing xenophobia and
racism I encountered at the first Trump rally I attended to protest and
disrupt.
Trump’s televangelist pastor Mark Burns promptly took to the
podium and declared boisterously that “there are no Black people. There are no Asian people. There are no Arab people. There are no colors. There is
only red, white and blue.” This is
the sort of patriotic rhetoric that fostered in an epic, answered invitation
for white nationalists to arise from under their rocks and dip their feet into
the socio-political atmosphere to see if the temperature was right.
Attacking the dynamics of oppression includes an
explicit struggle against those sidling up to and brushing elbows with the
movement welcoming and embracing Muslims and Refugees joining our community as
a means to garner a foothold to deploy conversion agendas.
The outrageous arrogance of members of an oppressor nation, in most cases complicit in making other countries the ‘mouth of a shark,’ that people are fleeing from, includes a “disciple making” organization offering Muslim children money to read and memorize bible verses.
We welcome the extraordinary writer Dezeray Lyn
To Our Team!
The outrageous arrogance of members of an oppressor nation, in most cases complicit in making other countries the ‘mouth of a shark,’ that people are fleeing from, includes a “disciple making” organization offering Muslim children money to read and memorize bible verses.
The ‘free money’ bait is just the cementation of the
doctrinal pillage of those most desperate
and vulnerable, and the pillage in itself is blind to the traumas of displacement,
war and violence (experiences in which many turn to their holy texts and
spirituality for comfort and healing) the most heinous trait of this ilk. The British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s piece Home, declared by some to be a
rallying call for Refugees, intimates an angst of displacement in a visceral
way;
it's not something
you ever thought about doing,
and so when you did
- you carried the anthem under your breath, waiting until the
airport toilet to tear up the passport and swallow, each mouthful of
paper making it clear that you would not
be going back.
Enveloping arms do not seize. Nor do they porcupine and pressure away the
sacred parts of people to suit the height of a holy high horse. If you are in the business of conversion, you
are distinctly not in the community
of welcoming.
We welcome the extraordinary writer Dezeray Lyn
To Our Team!
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