Sunday, July 20, 2014

STOP The Everglades Walmart

ZONING HEARING OF MONDAY, JULY 21
PALMETTO BAY VILLAGE HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
9705 E. HIBISCUS STREET, PALMETTO BAY, HEARING STARTS AT 7:00 PM.
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Annette Taddeo On The Stogie 2007-2014

Florida Hate Group Leaders

In a decision some called “the beginning of the end” of Florida’s ban on gay marriage, a Monroe County judge ruled Thursday that two Key West bartenders and other gay couples must be allowed to marry. here

Anthony Verdugo, executive director of the Christian Family Coalition of Florida, called the ruling a “corrupt decision,” and a “judicial lynching of nearly 8 million Florida voters” who voted to ban same-sex marriage in 2008. John Stemberger, who led that 2008 campaign, said he would keep fighting. “This is an issue worth dying for,” said Stemberger, president and general counsel of the Florida Family Policy Council in Orlando. “Every domestic partnership, every single civil union, every couple that cohabitates, these arrangements dilute and devalue marriage.”


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/17/4240865/keys-judge-gay-couples-can-marry.html#storylink=cpy

I Will Vote Florida

Tampa Bay Locavore

A recent report finds CEOs of the top fast food restaurants make an appalling 721 times more than their impoverished minimum wage workers. here Pass On Fast Food, 
Stay Local

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Dean - Warren 2016

Hold On Hillary Not So Fast. 
you are just not liberal enough. 
We have other plans. here

Welcome To The New Everglades Walmart

One of the world’s rarest forests, a section of Miami-Dade County’s last intact tracts of endangered pine rockland, is getting a new resident: a Walmart. About 88 acres of rockland, a globally imperiled habitat containing a menagerie of plants, animals and insects found no place else, was sold this month by the University of Miami to a
Palm Beach County developer. here
Environmental protection is next to nonexistent under the Rick Scott administration. The oil industry wants to drill in the Everglades. Even the environmentally unfriendly Jeb Bush was never that bold. Michael Hussey

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.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Florida GOP in a New York state of mind

Rick Scott in the Canned Response Repetition Hall of Fame

Annette Taddeo Florida Lieutenant Governor

Awesome News

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


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

Thursday, July 17, 2014

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.

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

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

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

The stain on Hillsborough County's reputation

 A majority of the commissioners — four of the seven — have expressed to the 
Tampa Bay Times their qualified support for expanding Hillsborough's human rights ordinance to also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in hiring, housing and public accommodations. here

Democrat Les Miller and Republicans Victor Crist and Sandy Murman told the Times they support barring discrimination against gay and transgender people, but would need to see the actual ordinance in writing first. Commissioners Al Higginbotham and 
Mark (Sailors Haven) Sharpe, both Republicans, wouldn't weigh in before Wednesday.

One local conservative activist has started mounting an effort to defeat the ordinance. Terry Kemple, a Hillsborough School Board candidate, called the offices of several commissioners Monday to express his concerns. "It's bad policy, and this is a huge issue," Kemple said in a phone interview. "This puts government in the position of trampling on people's religious liberties in favor of people's sexual preferences."

Florida Racist Ronald White

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Florida GOP: Tony Ledbetter, abysmal failure and stinkin' hypocrite

Tony Ledbetter has proven himself to be an abysmal failure since taking the reigns of the Republican Party of Volusia County from Stan Escudero following the 2012 elections. Ledbetter's also proven himself to be divisive, polarizing and downright mean-spirited and even bigoted. He's alienated members of the media, the voting public and even people in his own party.

Dinosaur World - Florida GOP

I4 and Branch Forbes Rd. Plant City  here

Jeb's legacy is taking a huge hit

One of Bush's finest moments came in 2002, when he and President George W. Bush pledged a 50-50 state-federal partnership to clean up the Everglades. Gov. Bush did secure state funding. Federal funding, however, lagged. Republican deficit hawks played a part in that. And Gov. Bush significantly undermined his own work when he agreed to delay clean-water standards for a decade. here

The Sun Sentinel reported last week, oil companies are taking advantage of Florida's chronically lax environmental laws to begin a form of fracking — fracturing of underground rock to release oil — in sensitive areas close to the Everglades. Republicans who dominated the Legislature since Jeb's tenure have failed to approve rules to protect the Everglades from fracking 

Florida GOP Allen West

Obama Secretly Dispersing Illegal Immigrants Around the Country. Immigrant children being dispersed to all corners of the nation in under cover of darkness. here

Miami-Dade County to fire hundreds of Cops

Get Yourself Some Firearms Because You’re Going to Have to Protect Yourselves. 
Dade County 
may have to fire hundreds of cops here

Seguimos en la lucha amigos!

Fletcher Ave, Tampa here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Matty she is a local.

Fruitland Park Police Links To KKK

A confidential FBI report reportedly links two 
Fruitland Park, Florida police officers to the 
Ku Klux Klan — one of whom was, 
until recently, 
the local police department’s deputy chief. 
Deputy Chief David Borst resigned his office shortly after the FBI provided a copy of the report to 
police Chief Terry Issacs. here

Monday, July 14, 2014

Mayor Of Tampa Wanted

If you plan to run for mayor of Tampa next March, now is the time to lay the groundwork.
Mayor Bob is doing just that, but there are 
no signs anybody else is. here

Tampa Bay Homeless

Neet Winston, he is from Georgia

Raíces en Tampa Rally at El Rey De Oros

Parking Lot of El Rey De Oros
2002 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa
July 14 Today 7:00 pm info

Ban Fracking In Florida

Recently, the Dan A. Hughes Co. of Texas was given a minor slap on the wrist by Gov. Scott's Department of Environmental Protection for secretly and illegally fracking on endangered Florida panther habitat in the heart of the western Everglades.
Now more than ever we must act to protect the Florida we love. 
Add your voice to the voices of Floridians saying it's time to end fracking by signing the petition. here

Kush Liberty - Florida

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Net Neutrality: Gov. Howard Dean

Miami, the great world city, is drowning

Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. here

The GOP Disaster At The Border

The visual of a mob of angry white people in Texas screaming “USA! USA! USA!” at a busload of Latino children and the people supporting them is deeply imprinted on the mind of Latino voters. here

Hillsborough County is one of the biggest recyclers in the state

And Pasco County isn’t far behind. here

Bondi's Bungles

Submit yours here

St. Pete looking for place to dock Bay ferry

The Kriseman Administration  
is working to get St. Pete on board with the new
Turanchik Bay Ferry 
the passenger ferry service based in Hillsborough County.
The proposed service would be focused on carrying servicemen and women and civilian employees between south Hills­borough and MacDill Air Force base. But outside of rush-hour travel, ferries will be used to carry residents and tourists between the downtowns of Tampa and St. Petersburg. more>

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Rick Scott's Tampa Visit

 Hillsborough County Sheriff Deputies
in uniform took part in a 
Tampa re-election event for 
Gov. Rick Scott 
Florida lawpublic employees must avoid political activity during working hours.here
“It’s been publicly advertised 
as a campaign event to everyone,” 
including the invitations to law enforcement agencies, 
Scott campaign spokeswoman Jackie Schutz said. 
Florida statute 1094.31 says employees “of the state or any political subdivision may not participate in any political campaign for an elective office while on duty.”
Rick Scott Gets the Support of 40 Sheriffs
This is how we Get Ur Done'  in Rick Scott's Florida

Raíces en Tampa Rally

 July 15, 2014
Raíces or “Roots” 
An organization started in Tampa that 
is dedicated and committed in uniting 
all Latin communities of Tampa. info 

Disgraced Florida GOP Rep. David Rivera


Announced Friday he was suspending his bid for the congressional district he once represented Rivera, who lost to Democrat Joe Garcia in 2012, cited a Thursday court ruling holding that the Florida Legislature illegally redrew boundaries defining congressional districts to benefit the GOP in 2012. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pepper Steak
With Yellow Rice And Platanos
$5.00 At El Paraiso Cafe in Tampa

Florida: Broad public support for immigration reform

 Immigration reform has flatlined in Congress, but Florida voters overwhelmingly support changes and reject the Republican contention that a lack of enforcement of current law is reason not to act, a new poll released Wednesday shows. here

Florida GOP illlegally gerrymandered redistricting to favor party

The Florida Legislature illegally drew the state’s congressional districts to primarily benefit the Republican Party, a judge ruled Thursday as he ordered them redrawn. here

Judge Terry Lewis blasted the GOP-controlled state Legislature for working with political consultants to make a ‘mockery’ of Florida’s Fair Districts amendments — passed by voters in 2010 — that call for the decennial redistricting process to be conducted without taking into account partisan makeup or incumbent advantage. ‘Republican political consultants or operatives did in fact conspire to manipulate and influence the redistricting process,’ 
Lewis writes in the opinion.”



Friday, July 11, 2014

Pat Kemp Party

Thursday, July 17 - 5:30 – 7:00 pm
824 S. Orleans Ave, Tampa

Some of Tampa's finest will be hosting

Linda Saul- Sena - Mary Mulhern - Susan Smith - Yolie Capin - Lisa Montelione