What Stogie Had For Lunch

Shrimp with Lobster Sauce With fried rice and a drink $4.99 at Taste of China in Tampa

Tampa Slumlord William A. "Hoe" Brown

Chairman of the Tampa Port Authority,a Rick Scott appointee and prominent Republican fundraiser, has been running an illegal rental property that Tampa's code enforcement director calls "deplorable" and "not fit for human habitation." "It's shocking. People shouldn't have to live like that," said Jake Slater, Tampa's director of neighborhood empowerment, who termed the squalor among the worst he's ever seen.....more

EMILY’s List Endorses Gwen Graham

EMILY’s List has endorsed Gwen Graham in her race to unseat Congressman Steve Southerland in Florida’s Second Congressional District. EMILY’s List, with more than two million members, works to elect strong female candidates who are willing to stand up for women and families in Washington......here

Rick Scott: Every Floridian Should Be A Republican

Rick Scott spoke to a bunch of Dixiecrats in Graceville, a North Florida town where folks still call themselves Democrats in part because their ancestors did, but they vote Republican in statewide elections. 100 people hung out with the Gov.dressed in jeans and a checkered shirt at the Circle Grill to shake his hand and hear him explain the benefits of Republicanism. It's difficult to find the benefits in Graceville's faded downtown. Lets give the panhandle to Georgia and Alabama or we can ask the Feds to let us become the 51st state. We can just draw a line across the state just below Ocala. .....here

The Lens In St. Pete

Supporters of the Lens have formed a political action committee and launched a website..... here

MacDill Air Force Base In Tampa

 Apparently all it takes to get into MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa which is home to two of the nation's premier combat commands - U.S. Special Operations Command and Central Command is a garbage can. Just ask Suzanne M. Jensen who has done it four times.....more

Flooded Bike Route

In Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Ropa Vieja
With black beans and yellow rice.
$3.99 at Las Palmas Supermarket In South Tampa.

"To Protect And Serve

Allen Daniel Hicks Sr
Poor guy, he has a stroke on I275 in Tampa and pulls over. When the the cops show up instead of calling EMS they pulled him out of the car, arrested him on a charge of obstructing a law enforcement officer when he did not respond to commands to exit his car and sent him to the Orient Road Jail where he did not receive a medical screening, but was put in a cell where he lay facedown on the floor or tried to crawl using the one working side of his body soaked in his own urine, his brain choked of blood, 36 hours later he was at last taken to Tampa General Hospital and diagnosed with an ischemic stroke. He slipped into a coma and died within three months. His family gets 1 million. How
 sad that we are treated this way by the people we pay to protect us.
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Tampa Bay Newspapers

The Tampa Bay Times on the left, the Tampa Tribune on the right
and Stars and Stripes in the center.

Marco Rubio A Piece Of Garbage?

According to the pitbull of the Republican Party Ann Coulter

It seems he is being courted by the right-wing to take up ban on abortions at 20 weeks. Remember his championing of immigration reform caused him to lose some luster among some conservatives. Rubio is considering becoming lead sponsor of legislation to ban abortions 20 weeks after fertilization. Anti-abortion groups have asked Rubio to take the lead, and while his office says no final decision has been made, the senator is expected to sign on this week after returning from a family vacation. I have always stayed away from this issue becouse i am a man and this is a woman thing and it is none of my business. I can say that i find 20 weeks more then enough time. I mean this is 5 months more then half of the 9 month term.

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Tampa And Miami In Cold War Over Cuban Trade

We Were Here First
Tampa, whose Cuban population first came from the island in the 1800s, has spent the past decade on a careful plan to build relationships with Cuban officials.
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Help, end the war on the Cuban people, they are being held hostage by a 
rabid  right-wing anti-Castro minority in South Florida.

The Stogie: 2073

A group of North Florida lawmakers met with governor Chiles in the South Florida capital "Progress" on monday to voice their concern with the large number of bars, casinos, marijuana dispensaries, brothels and womens health clinics that have sprung up along the state line on the South Florida side. Since the the creation of the new state of South Florida in 2026 North Florida residents have been flocking over the state line to get the services they cannot get at home. Governor chiles voiced concerns of her own. the north has installed checkpoints on interstates 75 and 95 and other major roads headed north. South Florida residents feel like they cannot leave the state without their cars being serched.
More on what this blog and the state of Florida might look like 60 years in the future.
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Work Will Make Tampa Roads Safer For Cyclists And Walkers

Work will be getting under way this summer to make some of Hillsborough County's most dangerous road segments safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Tampa Bay is one of the nation's most dangerous metro areas for pedestrians and bicyclists. According to a 2011 study by the group Transportation for America. Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner took note of the grim statistics and asked the Metropolitan Planning Organization to study bike and pedestrian safety in unincorporated areas of the county.

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The Heart Of America: Ocala, Florida

Larry Klayman the Judicial Watch founder, conservative attack dog and wingnut lawyer says he will save the legacy of the country’s founders with his “citizens’ grand jury” investigating the Obama administration. It was for that reason that I took it upon myself to exercise the God-given rights of citizens to control their own fate and initiate citizens' grand juries in a place that represents the heart of America: Ocala, Fla. Ocala, which sits in historic Marion County, is a place that is down to earth, generally conservative in its way of life and thought, and very religious and forward thinking. The list of criminal charges emanating from Ocala is growing, and it could prove endless. This is the same guy that said jews are behind gay marriage and the IRS Scandal.
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Religious and forward thinking?

Lakeland Preacher: Live Porn Free

Baptist preacher Jay Dennis of the First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, Florida launched a campaign at the Southern Bapstist Concention annual meeting in Houston this week to get “One Million Men” to destroy their porn stashes and live “porn free.”
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