Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Alex Sink Party In St. Pete

Hosting the party are local Progressive leaders, St. Petersburg City Council members Steve Kornell and Darden Rice, Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner and his partner Gil Sainz. Tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Birchwood Grand Ballroom, 340 Beach Drive NE in St. Petersburg.

Florida Speaks Tour

Meet Louis King

 
Local BBQ Master
You can reach him at 330.812.7656

Dine With Ted Cruz In Sarasota

Only $5,000.00
The Republican Party of Sarasota will honor the Texas Tea Party lawmaker.
 2014 Statesman of the Year
Joining a list of past Republican standard-bearers such as 
Sean Hannity and Donald Trump.
A HUGE crowd is expected! So Make sure to arrive EARLY

Ybor Paparazzi

Mark (Tea Cup) with Chef Arsenio, long time chef (50 years) at
the Columbia Restaurant at Hamburger Marys.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Florida Blog Wars

Tampa Bay Blog
Saint Petersblog
Is Under Attack From The Left And The Right
   The Left                                   The Right
Pushing Rope                              Shark Tank

Business is BOOMING at Colorado Marijuana Shops

Join The Party here
Visit Stogie's Smoke Shop here
NY is Latest to Legalize Medical Pot
 

 

GOP Family Values

 A wife and three grown children in St. Petersburg
and a mistress and a new born baby in
 Washington DC.
A married man has an affair with his secretary. He likes it so much he wants to keep her on as his mistress, they even have a child together while he is still married. The wife tells him no and she wants a divorce. Then he has no further contact with the children from that marriage after 1986. Less than a year later, he was awarded the Family and Freedom Award from the Christian Voice, the nation's largest conservative religious lobby.
 He received the award because of
how he voted on "key moral issues."

The Florida Charter School Scam

Dunedin's Life Force Arts and Technology
One of the most egregious cases of mismanagement in Florida charter school history: a public elementary school that enriched its administrators, impoverished its teachers, failed its students
and collapsed in disgrace......more>

Hanan Islam and her company, Art of Management, fired teachers, starved classrooms of supplies and distributed books and pamphlets written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
For months, Islam evaded warnings and visits from Pinellas County school officials, all the while steering more than $100,000 from the school to her private business accounts.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Florida Blue Revolution 2014

Join the revolution, turn Florida blue Nov. 4 2014 
Click here and pick a Candidate 

A New Breed Of Cuban-American

For more than two decades, running for Congress in this sun-soaked capital of Cuban exiles has required two things: a Republican registration card and a hard line toward the Castro regime. And then came Joe Garcia

In a break with the exile community, Garcia campaigned in support of loosening restrictions on Cuban-Americans who want to visit relatives on the island or send them money. Since taking office, he has pushed for U.S. trials of a Cuba-developed diabetes treatment and for easing travel rules for Cuban diplomats who visit the U.S. And while Florida Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, fumed when President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro last month, Garcia dismissed it as a simple courtesy.

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays
Mayor Bob should  stop worrying about Pinellas and take care of us.  
WE NEED Transportation Solutions NOW !

Candidates Wanted For Dist. 5

The only one running so far is this guy. Any Dem, Green out there want to run against him?

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Florida Tested, No One Approved


What Stogie Had For Lunch

 Meat Loaf
With yellow rice and veggies
At Hamburger Mary's on 7th Ave in Ybor City.

The Warmongering Wing Of The Democratic Party

A group of Democrats are joining Republicans in trying to undermine the White House's negotiations with Iran by imposing a new set of sanctions. Fifteen of them, actually, who prefer status quo bluster and threats to diplomacy that might actually do something to end Iran's nuclear ambitions. They are

Bob Menendez (NJ)
Chuck Schumer (NY)
Ben Cardin (MD)
Bob Casey (PA)
Chris Coons (DE)
Dick Blumenthal (CT)
Mark Begich (AK)
Mark Pryor (AR)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Mark Warner (VA)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Joe Donnelly (IN)
Cory Booker (NJ)
Joe Manchin (WV)

Charlie Crist Apologizes for Backing Gay Marriage Ban


Saturday, January 4, 2014

The Stogie Party

Ybor Paparazzi

Future Local Stars

Mayor Rick Kriseman

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman was sworn in. 

Hillsborough County GOP

Hillsborough County
Rick Cochran -  Stacy White
Janet Lee Dougherty - Ken Hagan
Al Higginbotham - Don Kruse
Robin A. Lester - Terry Kemple

As of 12/30/2013 there are
Democratic: 309,348
Republican: 245,522
Lets keep these people out of office.
Vote
Join The Party
Please consider Mary Mulhern, Donna Lee Fore

Friday, January 3, 2014

Local Bartenders: Shannon

Meet Shannon
She works hard at Pix Lounge, 10005 N Florida Ave in Tampa.
Stop in and say hello, She makes a great Bloody Mary.

National Repeal Day In Ybor City

This year, it was held in Ybor at the Don Vicente.
 A bartender from St. Louis had this to say.

Florida "No more sneaking around."

Floridians we can do it too.
11.4.14

Stop Fracking In Florida: Hydraulic Fracturing In Naples

Oil Drilling Truck Convoy headed for Naples 
One of the newest controversies in the field of oil and gas extraction is playing out in South Florida, just outside of the City of Naples. While there has been history of oil and gas development, both on- and off-shore in Florida since the 1940s, the risks of fracturing rock to extract hydrocarbons more than 10,000 feet below the surface, has been gaining much attention recently.......more>
 
Preserve Our Paradise, Inc. was formed when we learned that the Dan A. Hughes Company of Beeville, Texas had applied to drill a well that presents maximal threats to public safety and our natural environment.  It is positioned to drill under the City of Naples main water wellfield, the future Collier County water wellfield area, the Florida Panther National Wildlife Preserve, and the residential suburb of Golden Gate Estates.....here

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Rick Scott Ended 2013

In a crushing defeat for his endless assault on the poor, Florida Governor Rick Scott ended 2013 with a federal judge ruling that his policy of mandatory drug testing for all welfare recipients is unconstitutional, making a hold on the law in 2011 permanent after its brief roll out.....more

Rocky Mountain High


VOTE Nov. 4, 2014
Weed Sales Begin In Colorado
Colorado recreational marijuana retailers
Make it happen here
Florida's
Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act

Tallahassee Pay-To-Play Culture

A new report from Progress Florida and the Center for Media and Democracy describes how an out-of-state agenda is peddled in Tallahassee by local special interest groups with close ties to the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).......more>

It's Time for a New American Sunrise


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Countdown Clocks 2014

Tampa's Abelardo Arteaga

There was a time when his neighbors celebrated the support Abelardo Arteaga gave to the Cuba of the Castro brothers. Fifty-five years ago this Jan. 1, Cubans in Ybor City and West Tampa danced in the street when the Cuban revolution declared victory. Much has changed since that day in 1959. Yet through it all, Arteaga, a Tampa native, has never wavered in his support of the island nation. At 91, Arteaga is the elder statesman among those in Tampa who would eliminate the trade and travel embargo imposed by the U.S. He has challenged it from the beginning.......more>
End The Embargo On The Cuban People.

Pray For Allen West

To defeat progressive socialism, secular humanism, and radical Islamism, all of which are apparently embraced by Barack Obama. I ask that those who know the power of prayer, pray my strength and courage through God’s divine providence. Game on.  Steadfast and Loyal.......more> 
Who is Allen West?
While serving in Iraq, West had his soldiers arrest an Iraqi police officer, and beat the living daylights out of him. Then, for good measure, West took out his own gun, and shot it right next to the Iraqi police officer's ear. West was convicted of violating the Military Code of Conduct,
fined $5000, and ushered out of the U.S. Army.
West somehow parlayed that experience into a seat in Congress, proving that there is fine, fine line between fame and infamy. During West's one term in Congress, he:
Denounced Democrats as "chicken men, said that "about 78 to 81, Democratic Congressman are "members of the Communist Party,"  characterized Obama supporters as "a threat to the gene pool," called Rep. Keith Ellison the "antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established" simply because Ellison is Muslim, and called Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, "the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives."
Now he works part time for FOX News.

Tampa Bay LGBT Welcome & Youth Center


Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Florida Marijuana Measure Approaching 900,000 Signatures

Despite the Florida Supreme Court holding up the actual petition over charges that it deceptively would open the floodgates of outright legalization in the Sunshine State from the state attorney general.......more>
Ms Bondi is right. A PolitiFact report on Bondi's argument said it was "mostly true".

A Liberal Orgasm

'Koch Brothers' Buy FSU

Patriot On Fletcher

Protester at the Tampa Woman's Health Center

Monday, December 30, 2013

Florida Blue Revolution 11.4.14


Susan Valdes Loves To Travel

 She loves it so much she spent $50,000 in taxpayer money on travel during her
first four-year term as a Hillsborough County school board member.
Triple what any of the other six board members recorded.......more>

County Commissioner, Dist. 4

Janet Lee Dougherty
Rick Cochran
Stacy White
The only Dem. running

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pot Steak with yellow rice and yuca.
$7.00 at  Super Saver Supermarket, 2001 E. Fletcher Ave. in Tampa 
Every time I am in Suitcase City I always eat here. Great Spanish food.


Sunday, December 29, 2013

Ybor Surveillance

Hillsborough County Environmentalists

New bins on wheels that take all types of recyclables are turning residents of unincorporated Hillsborough County into environmentalists, and the county is seeing green in more ways than one as a result......more>

The Right Has Lost Toby Keith

No Guns In His Restaurant
Now that they’ve lost Toby Keith, I guess it looks like these right-wingers will have to start a new petition to get Ted Nugent to open up a family friendly, gun-toting restaurant. “Kill and Grill” has a nice ring to it.......more
Visit his place here
Check out Ybor City for your next one Mr. Keith.

Racist In Daytona Beach

Larry Kenton
Was arrested after trying to pedal away
from police on his ex-wife’s bicycle.
 According to Kenton’s arrest report, police were called to a Whitney Street home Monday at 6:25 p.m. where an intoxicated Kenton was causing a disturbance. Kenton’s ex-wife reported that he came to the home to get some of his belongings but the ex-wife told him to go away.
 
Kenton then pushed his way into the home and started arguing with his daughter over her dating a black youth, calling his daughter a “(expletive) lover,” When Kenton exited the home he saw a black boy and yelled, “You are the one,” and grabbed the juvenile and hit him in the face and head area, then started choking him. Kenton then picked up a brick and struck the boy in the back of the head with it,  an unidentified man came to help the boy and Kenton then started making racial insults about at other children playing nearby, he picked pieces of brick and threw them at the children,
 striking two of them......more>

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Friends of SaintPetersBlog

are invited to a happy hour next Friday, January 3rd, to celebrate my Name Day (that’s Birthday for all of you non-Game of Thrones fans). The festivities begin at 5:00 p.m.
Green Bench Brewing Co. is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in St. Pete.
RSVP, Ben Kirby and Alex Sink might be there.

Cigar City Cabbie

Check out Tim Fasano's revival of the taxi blog he has published since 2007.
It has always been one of our favorite.

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Alex Sink Party In Seminole

Join Alex and Alex Sink for Congress staff and volunteers from 2:00 to 4:00 PM on Sunday, December 29 at 8940 Seminole Blvd; Seminole.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Join The Stogie Party

Florida Blue Revolution

Repent 2014

Ybor City

Progress Florida

Help Meet Our Goal For 2013
To give online click here, If you prefer to mail a check, make check payable
to Progress Florida and send to:
Progress Florida 1010 Central Ave. #209
St. Petersburg, FL 33705

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Scuba Diving Santa in Florida Keys


God In Hillsborough County Classrooms

Terry Kemple is a divorced family man from Valrico who believes that teachers should have the academic freedom to bring God into the classroom and that they should never, ever, be allowed to mention the theory of evolution.  Terry is vying to fill one of the 7 positions on the Hillsborough County School Board, a group which is responsible for overseeing the 11th largest School District in the US.
Learn more about Mr. Kimple here, on You Tube here
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Rick Scott's Florida

Don't let the right wing media fool you.
We live here and things are not good.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Jennifer Nettles & John Legend - "O Holy Night"


Happy Holidays

From The Ybor City Stogie, Join The Party 2014

Is America a Christian Nation?


Florida Under Water

A senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, Jane Long, has warned Florida residents that global warming will lead to them being under water. The remarks were made at a recent three-day conference targeting journalists and addressing the issue of global warming and worldwide climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)........more>
 
A new study published this Friday has revealed that conservative donors are more active than ever in funding efforts to block action on climate change — to a tune of more than $1 billion a year.....more>