Miami Animal Cops

John Siegenthaler: A Southern man of vision

When the history of this era is written, 
it will recount how so-called
conservatives gave aid, comfort and intellectual cover to the ugliest of human impulses under the guise of 
political debate. 
People will wonder how we could have seen all that ugliness without seeing a thing, how journalists could have been silent and supine to the point of malpractice in the face of such obvious and monumental misbehavior. here

WMNF 88.5 Tampa Bay

WMNF has just finished their  

Summer Membership Drive!

They raised more than 
$200,000 in just seven days 
and received over 1,800 individual contributions.

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Florida GOP in a New York state of mind

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Rick Scott in the Canned Response Repetition Hall of Fame

Annette Taddeo Florida Lieutenant Governor

Awesome News

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Give Gov. Rick Scott Credit

He knows right-wing, red-blooded Floridians love their guns. And Rick Scott has given them guns. In huge numbers. According to published reports, more pro-gun bills have been signed into law in Florida during Scott’s one term than during any other recent gubernatorial term. here

The Florida Supreme Court is set to contemplate whether felons can claim "Stand Your Ground" as a defense in a shooting. here

Charlie Crist's New Office In Tampa

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Jeb: Godfather of bogus high-stakes testing

Former Gov. Bush enjoys a national reputation as an education reformer — a neat trick considering the terrible harm he has inflicted on public education. 

Although the Legislature and succeeding Republican governors share responsibility, Jeb is mostly to blame for the bad things that followed his 1999 arrival in office. here

Dems Help Drown South Florida

• Joe Garcia 

• Patrick Murphy 

• Vern Buchanan 

• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 

• Bill Posey

• Dennis Ross

• Mario Diaz-Balart

• Debbie Wasserman Schultz
• Kathy Castor
• Lois Frankel here

Losers of the week: Don Gaetz and Will Weatherford

The redistricting decision is a blow to the Republican 
legislative leaders 

who oversaw the process and 

defended it as fair and transparent.

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Judithanne for State Senate

Join us at the Pinellas DEC 2250 

1st Ave N, St. Pete at 9:30am or at 

Fred Ball Park 2621 Bayshore Blvd, Tampa at 11:30am this Saturday, July 19th! info

"I don't want to be the mayor of some white-bread Southern city,"

Tampa has historically always been a racially diverse city, and never more so than today. Latinos make up approximately 25 percent of the population in greater Hillsborough County, and blacks account for more than 15 percent. 

"When we're out competing for global business, the fact that our city was settled by Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrants who came to Tampa for the cigar industry, makes us a lot more competitive because we look like the world, with all of its shades and ethnicities, we speak multiple languages as you do here in L.A. That's good." Bob Buckhorn

Florida GOP Rich Nugent: Kids At Border “Gang Members” From Culture Of “Rape”

Undocumented immigrant children at the border not children at all but gang-affiliated persons from a culture of thievery, murder, and violence. here

Raíces En Tampa: Immigration Experience

Every Thursday, Raíces En Tampa will be releasing 

an immigration experience from the people fighting right along with us. here

Rick Scott: The Man With No Answers

Decades to justice for Florida man on death row

Paul Hildwin has spent 28 years fighting for his life, waiting between cancer treatments for the state to acknowledge decade-old DNA evidence supporting his claims of innocence. here

Democrats Poised To Kick Florida GOP Ass

Florida Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis has stricken down the congressional map favoring Republicans in Florida. Why this could reverberate for a decade– and threaten Republicans in time for the 2014 midterms. here