My Name Is Joe Redner, And I Am Not For Sale

Good news on the local election front (unless you happen to be a candidate):

Joe Redner is seriously considering another run for office. So bring it on. We can only hope the city's best-known rabble-rouser, nose-thumber and kicker of shins will revive that campaign ad of him wrapped in the American flag with the slogan: My Name Is JOE REDNER, and I am NOT for sale.

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Joe Redner on the Rotation

Jump in Jump in the Rotation today at 3pm with Central Florida NORML as we welcome special guest Joe Redner, the man who is taking on Florida’s current medical marijuana regulations over prohibiting our right to grow our own medicine. Listen on 96.1-HD2 or 1150AM in Tampa, 97.5FM in Pinellas, WTMP on Alexa and TuneIn, or download the WTMP App from the iTunes or Google Play Store. tomorrow at 3pm with Central Florida NORML as we welcome special guest Joe Redner, the man who is taking on Florida’s current medical marijuana regulations over prohibiting our right to grow our own medicine. Listen on 96.1-HD2 or 1150AM in Tampa, 97.5FM in Pinellas, WTMP on Alexa and TuneIn, or download the WTMP App from the iTunes or Google Play Store. HERE

Joe Redner Wins Again

A Tallahassee judge has ruled in favor of Tampa activist Joe Redner in his fight against the state to grow his own 
medical marijuana. here
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"I'm lucky. I have money, I can afford this stuff. How about the people who need their medicine that can't get it? I'm a rich person. Don't they think about poor people?" 
Mr. Joe Redner

JOE REDNER
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY COMMISSION, DISTRICT 5

"The Most Progressive Candidate this fall on the ballot is Joe Redner!" - WMNF

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Help Me Ronda, For Stogie Is Also A Sinner

Candidates Forum At Bell Shoals Baptist Church
Ronda Storms leads a solemn prayer for Redner, asking the Lord to lead him in a better direction. "We know that you are still working with Joe Redner," she said, eyes closed. "We pray for forgiveness if we have not treated him with kindness."
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Joe Redner Wins Again

Joe Redner will go to trial to challenge the state’s ban on allowing Florida residents to grow their own 
marijuana plants.

A state circuit court judge on Wednesday denied a motion by the Florida Department of Health to dismiss Redner’s case. here

'Truth' Hurts: Chair Hits Redner On TV

A Jerry Springer moment hit community television this weekend when a chair was hurled at Joe Redner.....more

Watch it here

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Joe Redner: I Promise I Won't Tell Anybody

Joe Redner, Owner Of The Legendary Mons Venus

Tampa's most highly acclaimed strip club -- understands the importance of discretion. That's why he's promised the utmost secrecy to any potential 2012 RNC Convention-goers who might end up at his establishment......here

Home Of The Most Beautiful Women in the World
Rock On, Joe!

Strip Club King: The Story of Joe Redner .

He dropped out of school in the 10th grade. He has been arrested 150 times. He earned his GED in jail at the age of 40. And he has run for local public office 8 times. Take a journey into the life and career of the man who came from poverty, got into the strip club business, ended up owning the most notorious strip club in the world, the Mons Venus, and then continued to build a real estate empire, became a multi-millionaire and a 1st Amendment freedom fighter. Described as the Larry Flynt of the South, Joe Redner is the classic American- Dream story come true. He has been called a pimp, patriot, intellectual, self- promoter, humanitarian, hypocrite, publicity hound, pig, exploiter, criminal, narcissist, hero and genius.

The 2010 Tampa Bay Candidate Forum

At USF In Tampa
Best Speeches: Nina Hayden, Joe Redner, Neil Cosentino, Z. J. Hafeez, April Griffin
Awkward Moment: Jim Davis Accidently Turns The Lights Off In The Room As I Am Taking His Picture.
Priceless Moment: Charlie Crist's Entrance Interrupts Joe Redner's Speech.
Ugly Moment: Mike Prendergast's People Harassing Kathy Castor.

A Conversation about Marijuana with Chris Cano and Joe Redner in Seminole Heights

Hear about the history of cannabis prohibition and legalization 
from Chris Cano, Executive Director
of Central Florida NORML.

Also, Tampa businessman and progressive candidate Joe Redner will be talking about his recent court victory that allows him to grow his own marijuana and his efforts starting a cannabis business. 
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Joe Redner's Voice of Freedom Park

Joe Redner, a Tampa businessman and local hero, will allow Occupy Tampa to set up camp in his private park, Voice of Freedom. The park is located in economically depressed west Tampa, about a block from old downtown. Kelly Benjamin said he “got it straight from the horse’s mouth,” as the mayor and city council members have already given him “a firm no” on giving OT a downtown park.
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Joe Redner Hands Dana Young A Victory

Dana Young 48.23%

Bob Buesing 41.41%

Joe Redner 9.48%

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Strip-Club King Joe Redner Is Florida's Unlikeliest Folk Hero

It's a sweltering July afternoon in Tampa, Florida, and a small crowd of men are cooling off in the most notorious watering hole in the South, the Mons Venus. A tiny one-story building wedged between fast-food restaurants on busy Dale Mabry Highway, the Mons is known for its exotic dancers (and convenient proximity to Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers). But the star attraction is the 68-year-old dude with wire-frame glasses and a long gray ponytail talking on the phone in the back: Joe Redner........here

Best Of The Bay Local Hero: Joe Redner

The Father Of The Nude Lap Dance

Redner has been engaged in legal battles with the Tampa City Council, which has tried to place restrictions on the strip club industry for 25 years. Mons Venus and Redner have filed suits that have reached the Supreme Court and have become case law in many court cases. Redner ran for County Commissioner as an independent in 2004..........here

Strip Club King: The Story of Joe Redner

Loved...Admired...Hated!!! Charismatic to some and revolting to others. Joe Redner is most often associated with owning one of the most famous nude clubs in America...

Joe Redner begins campaign for Hillsborough Commissioner with a bang
Mitch E. Perry
One might consider liberal leaning residents of Hillsborough County to be excited about this fall's election, with a chance to alter the heavily Republican leaning slant of the current board.

"The Most Progressive Candidate This Fall On The Ballot is Joe Redner!"......WMNF EVENING NEWS

Local Treasure Joe Redner

Redner said he is running (again) because,

 "I just think I can have an impact on what's going on in the state of Florida. It upsets me. I think people aren't getting a fair shake."

The District 18 campaign will pit Redner against Republican Dana Young of Tampa. here
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Progressive Voices In Tampa Bay

Bloggers
Litbrit, Mad Floridian, Tampa Back Door Ways, Tampa Do-Gooder, Out In Left Field,
Progress Florida, Tiny Little Dots, Tampa Rail, The Spencerian, Pushing Rope,
St. Petersblog, Tommy in Seminole Heights, Deep Something, SOG City Oracle,
Finding Tampa, The Campaign Manager, The Evolution of Robby Wales, Side Salad,
Eric's SoulPunkFunk Experience, JordiScrubbings, Political Bloviation,
The World of Big Pauly and Ridiculously Inconsistent Trickle Of Consciousness.

Activist
Mariella Smith, Robin Milcowitz, Alan Snel, Tom Tito, Anita Stewart,
St. Pete For Peace, Curcus McGurkis, Tampa Bay Harvest and Jon Butts.

Voices
Joe Redner, Rob Lorei, Mitch Perry, Beth Bell, Cathy Salustri, Kate Bradshaw, Leilani Polk, Ray Seaman, Cube, Mad Mug, Michael Fox, Doug Hickman, Jan Platt, Jadell Kerr, Mary Glenney, David Warner,
Julia Gorzka, Alex Pickett and Joe Bardi.

Politics
Kevin Beckner, Ed Turanchik, Kelly Benjamin, Steve Kornell, Carrie West,
Mary Mulhern, April Griffin, Wengay Newton, Yvonne Yolie Capin, Lisa Montelione, Karl Nurse,

Leslie Curran, Pam Iorio, Steve Schale and Kathy Castor.

Look At This List, There Are Alot Of Us. We Are Loosing The Battle, We Need To Do More.

If You Belong On This List And I Left You Off, I Am So Sorry.

Joe Redner v. Ronda Storms

Rude Christians At Bell Shoals Baptist Church
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