When Congress approved the creation of “opportunity zones” as part of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax code overhaul, it didn’t have half-billionaire Jeff Vinik in mind as the legislation’s sole beneficiary in downtown Tampa.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
YBOR Rob at Tampa City Hall
Florida GOP Michael Murphy Impeachment
University of Florida student president is facing his own impeachment inquiry after he helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month at a reported cost of $50,000.
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The school’s student government has served President Michael Murphy with the impeachment resolution, arguing that last month’s speaking engagement amounted to a misuse of student fees. They argue Trump and Guilfoyle were paid with mandatory student fees, making it an alleged violation of rules that ban the use of public student funds to support or oppose a “political party at any level.”
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Murphy has argued in the student newspaper, the Independent Florida Alligator, that the couple’s speech wasn’t a campaign event, so didn’t
violate rules. HERE
violate rules. HERE
Thursday, November 14, 2019
La Faraona Cigars in Ybor City
Florida Clown Matt Gaetz Greatest Hits
On Feb 7, 2019 Florida GOP Matt Gaetz was part of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, but after he was called out for making things up by a fellow Congressman, Gaetz decided to take out his fury on the group of Parkland survivors who were in attendance at the hearing. Gaetz made a fool of himself multiple times during this hearing, and he helped to expose the ignorance of the GOP with his outbursts.
Labels:
Florida Right Wing Infestation,
Matt Gaetz
Meet the 'Godmother of SWF GOP
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
HART Plot?
5:30 PM
They blocked Florida Ave northbound at I275
So people started using Marion
Was this a plot by HART to let drivers know there is an alternative way home? A lot of these people probably didn't know this
place was here.
Vote Blue No Matter What?
Orlando Gudes
Joseph Citro
Bill Carlson
Guido Maniscalco
John Dingfelder
Luis Viera
Charlie Miranda
Patricia Kemp
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All endorsed SUSAN VALDES, a candidate who voted against HOME RULE and protecting
our tree canopy!!
Joseph Citro
Bill Carlson
Guido Maniscalco
John Dingfelder
Luis Viera
Charlie Miranda
Patricia Kemp
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All endorsed SUSAN VALDES, a candidate who voted against HOME RULE and protecting
our tree canopy!!
Florida House District 62 Representative SUSAN VALDES (DINO) joined the Republicans in the legislature voted YES on HB 1159 which takes all local control away from the citizens of Tampa who want to preserve our beautiful
tree canopy.
tree canopy.
Labels:
Beth Eriksen Shoup,
Guido Maniscalco,
Joe Citro,
John Dingfelder,
Luis Viera,
Orlando Gudes,
Pat Kemp,
Susan L. Valdes,
Susan Valdes
Tampa Bay Trump Supporters
Check out Tara Sinatra of Wesley Chapel
Labels:
Donald Trump,
Florida GOP,
Local Idiots
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
The Chickens Of Ybor City
Recap of International Women's Day in Ybor City, 2018.
Grace VanderWaal - Vienna
When you come to Florida, please visit us!
Monday, November 11, 2019
Despicable Rick Scott & Marco Rubio
Voted to pass a sweeping budget measure—one criticized as both "despicable" and "horrific" for providing massive giveaways to corporations and the super-rich while eviscerating funding for social programs, healthcare, education, and
affordable housing. HERE
affordable housing. HERE
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Now available to corporate Democrats who think
they can work with these (things)!
Labels:
Florida GOP,
Marco Rubio,
Rick Scott
Tampa Surveillance
Councilmember Carlson
Councilmember Maniscalco
Councilmember Viera
Councilmember Gudes
Mayor Castor
Chief Dugan
Less than a year in on the Castor regime and not surprisingly, City Council is discussing adding unmanned drones, as they did on the November 7th agenda item. Thank to Nina of the Democratic Progressive Caucus for bringing this to light. I regret I did not see the notice before November 7. But there's still time. DRONES WILL ONLY ADD TO OVERPOLICING, SURVELLIANCE AND MARGINALIZATION OF BLACK, BROWN AND/OR POOR CITY COMMUNITIES.
CITY COUNCIL AND THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT WORK FOR US! On March 2018, the Policing Project released a survey. The community of all racial demographics, but especially the black community, emphasized a need for community policing, implicit bias training, cultural competency training and better use-of-force policies. Chief Dugan is WELL aware of this survey's results. (Survey: Bit.ly/tpapp0318 )
WE NEED ALL CITY OF TAMPA RESIDENTS TO WRITE TO CITY COUNCIL, THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF AND TELL THEM TO GET IT TOGETHER.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Silence of the Florida Lambs
Ron DeSantis
Marco Rubio
Rick Scott
Matt Gaetz
Neal Dunn
Neal Dunn
Sandra Murman
Stacy White
Stacy White
Ted Yoho
Ken Hagan
Ken Hagan
John Rutherford
Michael Waltz
Bill Posey
Daniel Webster
Gus Bilirakis
Ross Spano
Vern Buchanan
Greg Steube
Brian Mast
Francis Rooney
Mario Diaz-Balar
Jackie Toledo
Jeanette Núñez
Jeanette Núñez
Bill Galvano
José R. Oliva
Ashley Moody
Jimmy Patronis
So we never forget!
Talkin' 'bout my Generation
Kent State University - 1970
Kent State University - 1970
“Then I heard the tatatatatatatatatat sound. I thought it was fireworks. An eerie sound fell over the common. The quiet felt like gravity pulling us to the ground. Then a young man’s voice: 'They fucking killed somebody!' Everything slowed down and the silence got heavier… The guardsmen themselves looked stunned. We looked at them and they looked at us. They were just kids, 19 years old, like us. But in uniform. Like our boys in Vietnam”
~ Chrissie Hynde, Kent State student, later to become lead singer for The Pretenders ~
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard fired upon unarmed students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a protest against the bombing of neutral Cambodia by United States military forces. Four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Two of the dead, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest of about 500 students. The other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, were walking to class at the time they died. Schroeder was a member of the Kent State ROTC battalion.
~ Chrissie Hynde, Kent State student, later to become lead singer for The Pretenders ~
Two of the dead, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest of about 500 students. The other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, were walking to class at the time they died. Schroeder was a member of the Kent State ROTC battalion.
Click HERE for enlarged map
The Kent State Massacre followed four years of protests, sit-ins and walk-outs by Kent State students against the ongoing war in Vietnam and the invasion of Cambodia.
Just five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and the killing of unarmed student protesters. The Kent State shootings also led to protests on college campuses throughout the United States, and a student strike, causing more than 450 campuses across the country to close with both violent and non-violent demonstrations. A national study concluded that this was the first nationwide student strike in U.S. history; over 4 million students protested and hundreds of American colleges and universities closed during the student strikes. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks.
Richard Nixon expressed that those in the anti-war movement were the pawns of foreign communists. A Gallup Poll taken immediately after the shootings reportedly showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard and 31 percent expressed no opinion. Students from Kent State and other universities often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.
Though eight members of the Ohio National Guard were identified in videos and photographs as having fired upon the students, none of them ever faced criminal or civil trials.
Ex-Felon Voter Registration/Employment Opportunities in East Tampa
Please Join us Monday November 11 at
Bounce Boy Factory 5008-E.10th. 10-2pm
Voter Registration, Employment Opportunities!
Voter Registration, Employment Opportunities!
I've Always Liked David Jolly
"These are, in today’s Republican party, spineless politicians rotten to the core without virtue, without any level of human integrity, devoid of self respect, self reflection…Without courage and without the moral compass to recognize their own malevolence." David Jolly
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