Moving people for over 70 years!
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Bob Buckhorn Beware Of Rick Scott Bearing Gifts
In recent weeks, Scott has sent a flurry of political presents Tampa’s way — revealing a private company’s interest in a high-speed rail link between Tampa and Orlando, allocating $2.7 million for the city’s fledgling street car system, and pushing personally to place an Ybor City census tract on the state’s list for a federal tax break that may help pay for a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark.
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Plenty of Democrats are skeptical of Scott’s motives, including Hillsborough County Democratic Party chairwoman Ione Townsend.
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They see Scott’s largesse as a maneuver to cut the vote margins in November in a key Democratic stronghold. Scott is challenging Sen. Bill Nelson for his seat.
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"That’s probably the game plan, Hillary Clinton took Hillsborough by 41,000 votes. For a Republican to be making some political investments in our county? I’m sure it’s viewed by them as ‘we’ll reap some rewards down the road." Ione Townsend
Florida GOP Jimmy Patronis Wants To Know
How many different mothers an applicant has fathered children.
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Sean Shaw is calling for Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis to apologize for his “racially biased” questioning of an African-American applicant at the June 14 clemency hearing in Tallahassee.
TARPON SPRINGS GUY IS WALKING 55 MILES FOR CONGRESS
Stephen Perenich is running in Florida’s District 12 Congressional race and has set an ambitious goal this week to WALK THE DISTRICT. Mr Perenich and his team will be walking over 55 miles this week to knock on the doors of potential voters. It’ll be tough to get through this week in the hot Florida summer, but Mr Perenich and his team both believe that getting out his message and platform is worth it. With the help of gracious volunteers, the team believes this week will be a huge success. If you’d like to get involved with the campaign or volunteer,
please contact them. Here
please contact them. Here
Hillsborough Tax Hike To Fund Transit Is Looking Shaky
The petition itself violates state law, and the overall effort is sloppy in matters large
and small.
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By Tom Rask Tampa Bay Guardian
Monday, July 9, 2018
Women of Color SPEAK OUT! Sarasota
Sunday, August 19 at 1:30 PM
Hosted by Olivia Babis for FL Senate
Hosted by Olivia Babis for FL Senate
Fogartyville Community Media
and Arts Center
and Arts Center
Sarasota info
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Right Wing Blogger And Florida GOP Candidate Javier Manjarres
He is running for office in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District.
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He took aim at Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim 14-year-old
Jaime Guttenberg.
Jaime Guttenberg.
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“C'mon Fred. I can't only imagine the pain you are feeling over the loss of your daughter, but stop exploiting her death in the name of some political agenda,” Manjarres tweeted at Fred Guttenberg. here
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Florida Right-Wing Circus brought to you by Fox News and inspired by Donald Trump
“Before a nationwide audience, Adam Putnam and Ron DeSantis made clear that they only have one message: Trump, Trump, Trump.” MORE
Offshore Oil Lobby is circling Florida like Sharks
In the Crazy Town political atmosphere we now inhabit, you can get whiplash trying to follow the bouncing slime balls. Or, in this case, tar balls. Because when it comes to bizarre politics, look no further than the Florida coast and the prospect of oil rigs offshore. here
Friday, July 6, 2018
Tampa Bay’s first CBD Dispensary (Video)
Tampa
Bay’s first CBD Dispensary, Chillum Glass Gallery and CBD Dispensary, is now open
for business and ready to help local residents who may be suffering from pain, anxiety,
stress and a long list of other ailments
Cannabidiol,
commonly referred to as CBD, has demonstrated many benefits in treating
everything from cancer, epilepsy, pain, arthritis, and anxiety. Sales and
promotions of CBD products are exploding across the United States. The industry
is on track to exceed $2 billion a year by 2021 according to Cannabis research
firm Brightfield Group.
With
the recent surge of popularity in CBD products, Carlos Hermida, the brainchild
behind Chillum Glass Gallery and CBD Dispensary, hopes his business will be a
beacon for residents in need.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Welcome Asher Edelson
Good morning Tampa Bay!
I have not written for the Stogie before and I am excited to do so today!
For my inaugural Stogie posting, I would like to talk about Andrew Gillum. He is the best candidate running for Governor of Florida. He has a progressive platform and was the first major gubernatorial candidate in modern Florida history to endorse full cannabis legalization. Gillum has a solid background in Tallahassee as a trailblazer who won his first significant office at age 23 (an age which I will soon leave behind). He is quite electable, too, with the authenticity to win over more than the average base that will vote blue regardless; Gillum can bring it home for young people, progressives, and communities of color. He can win and be an excellent Governor.
I want to see Hillsborough County public officials endorse Andrew Gillum. Officials across the state from Orlando’s Carlos Smith to South Florida’s Frederica Wilson have done it, but so far as I’ve seen, none from Tampa/Hillsborough have endorsed him.
What about our progressives? What about County Commissioner Pat Kemp? City Councilor Frank Reddick? Former State Representative Ed Narain? State Attorney Andrew Warren? If people stand up and ask our elected politicians to make the endorsement, it will be more likely to happen.
Thank you for reading!
Asher Edelson
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Happy 4th Tampa Bay
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Thomas Jefferson
Francisco Pierre-Louis for Soil and Water Conservation
This is why I am running for Soil and Water Conservation - District 3. Not only am I running to encourage more people to run for office but because we are facing a behemoth. That behemoth is Mosaic.
We shouldn't forget that Mosaic is the same company that dumped 215 million gallons of radioactive waste down the Florida Aquifer. This is unacceptable. I am one of the few people currently running that is willing to work with local and statewide organizations to push Mosaic out of Hillsborough County because at the end of the day, water is life.
Visit him here
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Hillsborough County Democratic Party Exposed (Updated)
The DEC has sent out numerous flyers for candidates promoting their events. NONE of their flyers come with the disclaimer that they aren't endorsed by the DEC. I went to one DEC meeting where they even let a candidate put her flyer in the presentation and was projected
for all to see.
for all to see.
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Updated. Please see comment below.
Florida INC. $83 million in 2017
CEO Rick Scott had a very good year in 2017, as he saw his net worth increase by more than $83 million. here
Florida Dem Skull Session in Fort Lauderdale
There are more Democrats than Republicans in Florida, but that hasn’t helped the party win many statewide races over the past quarter century.
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Weak Candidates = Low turnout and tepid fundraising
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They are meeting in Fort Lauderdale to plan strategy to try to win in November.
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Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Penalosa said they did a poor job of turning out voters. That is changing, we have learned from our missteps — we are developing and employing a strategy that is working in 2018. here
Words For Florida Activist
The truth is: last Tuesday wasn’t just a victory for me. It was a victory for all of us. From the very beginning, we had a vision to build a broad-based coalition of organizers to educate and expand the electorate — and that’s
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
We didn’t buy this victory, and it was not luck. Thousands of people worked for it. It was built by those who volunteered, donated, and fought to bring our vision to Congress. Together, we showed the world that a progressive grassroots campaign can go toe-to-toe with the most powerful, established forces in America
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Florida Democratic Party Continues to Alienate Progressives
The Florida Democratic Party is going all in on its marginalization of its progressive wing.
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Progressives are roiling in several counties including Broward, Duval, Orange, and Hillsborough. All are populous, all have significant communities of progressive Democrats
and left-leaning NPAs.
and left-leaning NPAs.
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In Hillsborough and statewide, there is are racist overtones in the Democratic schism. Democratic National Committee member Alan Clendenin has attacked the party’s only black gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and the PAC of black businesspeople
that support him.
that support him.
Clendenin called The Collective Super PAC as a “Republican front,” a patent falsehood that was interpreted to mean that black candidates and contributors cannot function within the same parameters as white
Democratic candidates.
Democratic candidates.
Monday, July 2, 2018
The Millennial Socialists Are Coming
In May, three young progressive women running for the state Legislature in Pennsylvania, each endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won decisive primary victories over men heavily favored by the political establishment.
Michelle Goldberg
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Right Wing In Macclenny, Florida
At the ICE detention center protest in Macclenny, FL, one of our fellow activists was arrested and charged with “criminal mischief”. She was released today with charges dropped and her immigration status unaffected. But there’s more to the story...
At the conclusion of the protest, as we were walking to our cars, a woman who had been with the deputies in the Sheriff’s Office with the deputies, got in her car, drove up behind our group (about 50 people walking across the parking lot) and actually drove her car into the group, striking several people. No one was injured, but her car was surrounded and she was called to account for herself. Deputies came out of the building and with no investigation, arrested one of our people.
The Sheriff’s Office told the press that we had “attacked” her and “jumped on her car” as she was arriving. Bullshit. I was less than 20 feet away and NO ONE jumped on her car. Also, she was leaving, not arriving. They knew this because she had been inside with them until just before she drove into us.
Looks to me like it was a set up by the Baker County Sheriff’s Office in order to make an arrest and
“teach us a lesson”.
“teach us a lesson”.
Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka...here’s a video of the driver, along with a little extra information
...let’s make her “famous” Gene Anderson
...let’s make her “famous” Gene Anderson
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