No More Cheap Coke In Sunrise

The Sunrise Police Department has been luring outsiders to town for high-dollar cocaine sales, making millions for the authorities in the process. The Sun Sentinel published stories about it and put an end to that........more

GOP Surrender Roundup

"Speaker Pelosi Part 2:  Opening Jan 5. 2015".....Drudge

 “I was trying to think earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant,”......Rush Limbaugh

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Diaz-Balart And Rubio Pay Your Bills

Haydee Perkal holds a sign reading, "Tea Party Pay Your Bills I Pay Mine!" as she and others gather in front of the office of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Sen. Marco Rubio to protest against the partial government shutdown......more

I Am Alen West

Accountability

Former Congressman Allen West has told the Shark Tank that he will be launching his new website, AllenBWest.com, sometime this upcoming week. West, who is currently a Fox News Contributor, has recently stated that he would be interested in running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, if a seat opens up........more

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

Accountability

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Democrat Amanda Murphy Wins

What makes Murphy’s win impressive is Gunter had support of the state GOP, including a full-throated voter drive by state heavyweights Attorney General Pam Bondi, House Speaker Will Weatherford and Rep. Richard Corcoran. Gunter had a solid fundraising session, with a total of $165,440, including $211,423 of “in-kind” contributions, with state party and House leadership funds. Towards the end, the race against Murphy became negative, especially when two groups – Florida Jobs First and Citizens for Fairness — paid for pro-Gunter negative attack ads that may have helped Murphy more than hurt. One round of television spots attacking Murphy came from Florida Jobs First, a PAC started by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, which spent $75,000 in the last weeks of the campaign. The republican stench will linger. Congratulations Ms. Murphy!

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Fouling Florida's Environment

Here on the southeast coast, the Indian River Lagoon, the St. Lucie River and its estuary are being polluted like never before — perhaps irreversibly — by an algae slime that proliferates from excess manure, sewage and fertilizer released by municipalities and, of course, from Lake Okeechobee. Research clearly shows that most of the nutrients flowing into Lake Okeechobee come from tributaries in the northern Everglades. This is Big Sugar country, the Everglades Agricultural Area, where most of the nation's sugarcane is grown........more

Elected officials and others have known for more than 30 years about our nutrient-rich water problems, but they consistently have put business interests ahead of eliminating the sources of the pollution.

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

Accountability
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Accountability: Tea Party Traitors

In a piece written for Alternet last week, famed liberal economist Robert Reich turned his sights towards the Tea Party, attributing the backlash against their antics in Washington to the fact that the American people “don’t like traitors to our system of government.”.........more

No Tebow In Tampa

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I Am Gus Bilirakis

Accountability

Voters should remember that I voted  in favor of shutting the government down.

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Eric Cantor’s House Coup D’état Led by Koch-Funded Teahadists Sleeper Cell

New overlord Eric Cantor’s coup d’état of the House is burning up American airwaves right now — except, of course, over at Fox. John Boehner, the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers have been carefully positioning their pawns in preparation for this strike for years. Carefully, they moved, manipulated and bought their way into one of the most quietly powerful arms of our Congress: The House Rules Committee......more

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

Accountability
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Tampa Students Protest Homophobic Speaker

Members of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protested against Rosaria Butterfield, a self-described former “radical lesbian feminist turned pastor’s wife.” Butterfield now writes and gives lectures opposing homosexuality and advocating for evangelical Christianity. She believes that homosexuality is a sin and that her pride in being a lesbian was an even greater sin. Under the watchful guard of Tampa Police, private security and USF administrators, the protesters stood for the entirety of her speech as onlookers took pictures and gave approval to the protest act.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla Steak 

With black beans and yellow rice

$7.10 at Cuban Sandwich Shop on Florida ave in Tampa

Bill Gunter: Marching Orders From Tallahassee

Florida republicans Pam Bondi, Will Weatherford and Richard Corcoran will be in Port Richey for fellow Republican Bill Gunter.......more The political committee of billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, is funding a closing days TV ad blitz to help Republicans win. We intend to engage in House and Senate  races around the state in both general elections and primaries to ensure Gov. Scott has the partners he needs to create goods jobs for the people of Florida," On WEDU's Florida This Week Friday, Mike Fasano, who use to have the job but is now Pasco County's tax collector, formally endorsed Amanda Murphy over Republican Bill Gunter:

"She is a person that's way above Bill Gunter. She understands the issues. She gets it.... She will be that consumer advocate that we don't want to lose out of House District," said Fasano, who estimates Gunter will have $1-million spent on his behalf by the time the votes are counted. "He's a good guy, but there's no question he's getting his marching orders from the leadership and special interests out of Tallahassee........more

Sick of the GOP? Vote for Democrat Amanda Murphy

The GOP's Little Rule Change They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

The TEApublicans in the House have changed and rigged the rules in order to prevent the government shutdown from ending until they, and they alone, decide to end it.

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

Accountability

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The Keys Are Safe, For Now

Great news, an exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday......more

Why The Government Shutdown Was RIGHT

impending Crash Of The Republican Party

A 28% approval rating. That’s the lowest rating Gallup has recorded for EITHER party since it began taking party favor polls in 1992....more

 New polls show the number of Republican House seats vulnerable in

2014 has jumped from 21 to 29!

Pic: "Angry constituents gathered outside Rep. Daniel Webster’s (R-FL) Winter Garden office on Friday, to demand that he votes to end the government shutdown" -- West Orlando News

I Am Bill “Big Oil” Young

Accountability
One of his staunchest allies, GOP Congressman Bill “Big Oil” Young just announced his retirement. This is BIG NEWS for three reasons:

1. Congressman Young’s announcement comes just days after a new poll showing him LOSING his re-election race.
2. This is a winnable race -- President Obama won this district just last year.
3. Young’s not the only one -- there are 16 other House Republicans losing their races after the Republican government shutdown......here

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

 

 

Accountability
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The End Of The Republican Party

The Republicans have the shutdown. This is Week Two of the shutdown, and already we have seen the lowest approval ratings for the GOP in history. Indeed, I have heard faint, quiet whispers of a Democratic takeover of the House, the heavy price to be inflicted on belligerent Republicans. What will Week Three bring?

Ben Kirby

SHARON GLESS JOINS WITH EQUALITY FLORIDA

Multi-Award winning Actress Sharon Gless, a Florida resident, has joined Equality Florida in its Get Engaged campaign (www.GetEngaged.org), a statewide call to action with the goal of securing full marriage equality in the state of Florida.....more

Alan Grayson SILENCED After Comparing Republicans To Dog Poop

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

Accountability
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Steve Galvin's Robo Calls

His recorded call to voters attacking opponent Amy Foster in the District 8 race masquerades as a look at her record of public service. It is really a smear campaign against Foster, who is gay. The city has come too far in embracing and respecting residents regardless of sexual orientation to fall for such divisive baiting......more

Check out Ms. Foster here

Florida's Corporate Welfare Program

DC might be closed but Rick Scott is open for business.

Check out  Florida's Corporate Welfare Program here

DFA Endorses Rick Kriseman

St. Petersburg has it all -- it's a great city with tons of potential for growth and expansion. In fact, about the only thing it doesn't have is a forward thinking, progressive Mayor who knows that St. Petersburg can be even better and will fight to make it that way for every family. You can change that -- and that's why DFA is proud to endorse

Rick Kriseman for Mayor of St. Petersburg. Help him out here

Democracy For America

Florida GOP Leaders Back Cruz

While the government is shutdown hundreds of top state Republican Party donors and officials celebrated their party’s political success at a party in Disney World last week. The party is sending letters of support to Cruz and others in Congress who backed him. Hard-core party activists in the crowd weren’t worried about the shutdown, Jorge Bonilla, who hopes to run in 2014 against liberal bad-ass Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando, called the shutdown “regrettable” and “an unfortunate failure of leadership,” which of course he blames on the Democratic-controlled Senate and

President Barack Obama........more

Gay Florida Teen Kaitlyn Hunt Pleads No Contest

Florida Republican Ted Yoho

part of the faction who forced John Boehner to trigger the government shutdown and now wants to move along to default on the national debt. How bad will default be? "I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets,"

Yoho told the Post.......more

Ready For Hillary In Tampa

Former Tampa Mayor Sandy Freedman hosts a low-dollar fundraiser/informational session on Ready For Hillary political committee gearing up and pushing for a presidential bid by the former secretary of state. Suggested contribution is just $25......more

Oct. 22 - 5:30 to 7:30 pm

Mise en Place in Tampa

I Am Vern Buchanan

Accountability

I am from Sarasota. I am always on someones list of most  corrupt politicians.

 I am in the top ten over at Judicial Watch, and I am number 5 at CREW's most corrupt for 2013.

But somehow the nice folks down here keep electing me.

Obama's Revolution: We Are Winning

Lincoln Club in Tampa

STOP DUKE RIP OFF RALLY

A group of concerned citizens, all of whom are ratepayers of Duke Energy, will hold a rally & press conference in front of Duke Energy headquarters on

Saturday, October 12th at 11AM.
downtown St. Pete 299 1st Avenue North
The group, named “STOP DUKE RIP OFF” is calling for the defeat of the proposed settlement

between Duke Energy and the Public Service Commission which requires Duke customers to pay

$3.2 billion of the cost for two nuclear power plants that are not going to be built, costing each of the 1.7 million customers almost $2,000 in higher electric bills.

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Dolphins Are Dying In The Gulf

It's been more than three years since the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began, yet bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf are still suffering.......more

I Am Steve Southerland

Polls are showing that I am in trouble.

You see I belong to a group that is trying to destroy the Republican party and 
I made the mistake of following some wacko from Texas and now I will probably loose my job. You do have a choice you know, check out
Gwen Graham she is the daughter of one of Florida's greatest governors,
 she will serve you well.

Howard Dean Campaign Inspires New George Clooney Film

George Clooney stars in Sony Pictures' film "The Ides of March." Clooney portrays an idealistic presidential candidate and his character is loosely based on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

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David McKalip: Mr. Tea Party

St. Pete beware of this guy. He is part of a group that is trying to destroy the

 Republican party. You do have a choice, check out

Darden Rice

I am Rick Scott And I Plan To Win In 2014

This week, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner visited five Florida cities to discuss Gov. Rick Scott's plan to disenfranchise voters and steal future elections in Florida. As a Floridian, I know that elections in Florida have national consequences, and I believe all of my fellow citizens should be free to exercise their right to vote.......more

The Build Our Energy Barn

I Am Sandy Adams

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WEDU - Tampa Bay: Air Citizen Koch!

I'm Linda Michel White, and I live not far from you. I started a petition on MoveOn.org urging our local public television station, WEDU 3, to ensure that the documentary "Citizen Koch"—which exposes the billionare Koch Brothers who helped launch the Tea Party—gets shown to the public.Now that Tea Party Republicans have shut down the government, it's more important than ever that we expose the Tea Party and its funders.  We need "Citizen Koch" on the air in Tampa. will you sign the petition I created urging WEDU 3 to take action?

Will Weatherford Loves Jesus?

He’s a Republican. Which is going to become painfully obvious after you hear what he wrote to a public school superintendent the other day......here What does this man know about Jesus. Read our post of March 8, here Also visit willweatherford.info

62% of Florida Voters Would Back Medical Marijuana Amendment

There is good news from the Sunshine State. A new Public Policy Polling survey found that 62 percent of voters in the state would support a ballot measure legalizing medical marijuana. Only 26 percent said they would likely oppose one and 12 percent are undecided. Support for the idea is strongest among young voters and liberals.......more

I Am Bill Young

 Polls are showing he is in trouble here

Check Out Jessica Ehrlich in 2014

Visit my countdown clock here

Tampa Bay Women Rock

Amanda Murphy, Darden Rice and Jessica Ehrlich

Head Start In Volusia County To Close

John Mica's district

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Terry Kimple, Beware Of This Man

After a nearly four-month delay, Hillsborough County commissioners voted Wednesday to seat a 22-member diversity advisory council that includes religious conservative activist Terry Kemple. In May, Terry Kemple blasted Commissioner Kevin Beckner, who is openly gay and proposed creating the diversity council.......more

About Terry Kemple: District 7 Candidate for Hillsborough County School Board

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Tampa Tribune Mainstreams Islamophobic, Anti-LGBT Florida Family Association

The Tampa Tribune published an article on the Florida Family Association's (FFA) campaign against the cable news network Al Jazeera America, failing to note the FFA's fringe Islamophobic and anti-LGBT views. Al Jazeera America's journalism has been lauded by media critics, but the network's recent launch triggered a wave of right-wing, Islamophobic backlash. Most notorious among Al Jazeera America's critics is David Caton, head of the FFA, who has launched a crusade to stop corporations from advertising on what he describes as the radical Islamist network.

In a September 22 article, the Tribune reported on Caton and the FFA's campaign: here

Tampa Bay Times, See Ya

The Tampa Bay Times wants $12.00 a month to visit their website.

The Republican Taliban

Poverty and Slave Labor in Florida’s Corporate Farms

”In America today we are seeing a race to the bottom, the middle class is collapsing, poverty is increasing. What I saw in Immokalee is the bottom in the race to the bottom.” Senator Bernie Saunders

COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS
  Immokalee, (239) 657-8311

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Rick Scott's Project Integrity

Last year, the Scott administration began a misguided effort to remove people from the voter rolls. The result was described by county Supervisors of Elections as an "embarrassment," "sloppy," and "disgusting." Now, Gov. Scott's Secretary of State is travelling across Florida trying to sell people on the idea that it should be tried again.

 

Stand up for the right to vote at the following meetings:

October 3rd, in Panama City

October 4th, in Jacksonville

October 7th, in Orlando

October 8th, in Sarasota

October 9th, in Broward