Higginbotham, Hagan, Murman, and Crist

The goal, is for Hillsborough County to “stop embarrassing us, and embarrassing itself.
“To stop a bully is really easy. But silence to a bully is encouragement. And right now there are too many people who feel the way we do, who are very silently shaking their head at the County Commission.

And we need them to be vocal and visible.”
Those were the words of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, speaking at a town hall meeting in Ybor on Tuesday night. The meeting was a response to the controversial 4-3 vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission, rejecting creation of a domestic partner registry.

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The Fix and the Best of Florida

Cillizza and the team from The Fix are back again, and they want nominations for best state political blogs:

Now, I certainly wouldn't complain if some generous reader out there wanted to nominate The Spencerian. It would be a genuine honor, and I would be grateful. However, there are a lot of great blogs in this state, and I think they and their writers (and readers, for that matter) deserve a shot. So I am asking you think about other Florida blogs first. Go ahead.You can do it.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Wings

With a Bloody Mary

At Beef o'Bradys in Temple Terrace.

Ashley Judd for Kentucky

A Hollywood Liberal?

Or This Guy? remember This?

Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President. 

 Karl Rove (This guy is still in business?) must be worried.

Friends Of Stogie

At Gaspar's Patio in Temple Terrace

Sue Carlton: Tampa is not such a bad city after all

At last, someone who gets us.

Like me, maybe you found yourself a little irked at how Tampa was portrayed nationally as the Bayshore backdrop to a scandal that took down a CIA director. If you too were a tad offended by jokes of us being Jacksonville south, and also hotter and uglier than the surface of the moon, take heart.

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The Tampa Personal Chef

My name is Cristian Feher, I am the head chef at Tampa Bay Chef Services here in sunny Florida.
 I love to write about food and invite you to visit my blog!

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Hot Cuban

I stopped at Excel Food and Fuel at Bay and S. Dale Mabry in Tampa last week and had some great tacos.
I came back to try a Cuban.

Tampa Receives Federal Grant for Transit

Tampa was awarded $234,281 from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Innovative Transit Workforce Development Program to implement "Meeting Today's and Tomorrow's Job Needs in Mass Transit," a recruitment and training partnership between the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc. (CDC of Tampa) and HART.

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Truth about Gov. Rick Scott

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