Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Bubba For Mayor Of Tampa

Tampa DJ Bubba the Love Sponge
is threatening to challenge Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn in 2015.....more>

Connect Tampa Bay Transportation Proposal


WHEN: Thursday, January 30 at 6 PM
WHERE: 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa Museum of Art, Downtown Tampa

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Florida Supreme Court Approves Medical Marijuana

The State Supreme Court has approved the ballot language 4-3 - and thus the voters of Florida will get to vote on Medical Marijuana in November 2014.....more>
On November 4th we can make history boys and girls
Tell your friends and VOTE
Stogie's Smoke Shop

The Panhandle Has Had Enough

Gwen Graham
Has outraised Tea Party Congressman Steve Southerland for the second quarter in a row, by more than $200,000 and now sit with a $200,000 cash on hand advantage over his campaign.

Help her out here, visit his countdown clock here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless Living In Tampa

The Florida Extortion Game

CNN devoted nearly 15 minutes in prime time Wednesday evening to a report on what anchor Anderson Cooper called "the extortion game" of pay-to-play politics -- and a case study in the piece was Gov. Rick Scott......more>

Monday, January 27, 2014

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Fried Pork Chop
With yellow rice, collard greens, mac and cheese and corn bread. $10 
A friend from Flint, Michigan was down to visit and wanted me to take him to the best BBQ in town. So I took him to Big John's on 40th street, a place I have been going to since I was a boy.  On Sunday only Mama Beth cooks soulfood.......more>

St. Pete Based Drug Free America Foundation


Opposes the medical marijuana  initiative and will mount a campaign urging resident to vote “no,”
"We believe that if this gets to the ballot, Floridians will vote wisely and reject it,”
Executive Director Calvina Fay
 May we remind Ms. Fay a recent poll found
65 percent support among Florida voters. Only 23 percent of voters say they oppose it.
VOTE 11.4.14

Florida Corporate Welfare State

Rick Scott wants to give $100 million 
To Busch Gardens, Sea World, Universal Orlando and Disney World. Scott wants to take "It's Your Money" as he refers to it, and hand it over to these companies in the promotion of tourism. He says he's doing it for "Florida families" in the name of his similarly named " Florida Families First Budget".......more 

Tampa HART

Hillsborough County leaders are drawing up plans to remake the HART bus system into an expansive agency that can oversee construction of countywide transportation projects ang the authority to build roads and rail and create new bus routes.....more
Commissioners Kevin Beckner, Mark Sharpe and Sandy Murman all nominated HART.
Mayor Bob likes the idea, so do we. If anything is right around here it is them. 
“When you’re talking about transportation, for me it’s logical to think HART, why would you recreate the wheel and create a whole new agency.” Kevin Beckner