Alan Farago's Great Idea

If you voted, you get a tax credit. If you register a car, you pay a penalty if you fail to vote. Shut down the stores. Turn off the traffic lights. Declared voting days a national holiday.

I'd favor turning off everyone's electricity on election day UNTIL people vote.  Tie it to the phone number on your electric bill. 
No Vote, No Light.

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Run Bernie Run

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Tampa: Then and Now

Becky For Mayor: Raise The Minimum Wage In Tampa

       This simple and elegant answer to income inequality must be used if we want to see real economic growth in our city. here

Move Florida’s gubernatorial elections to presidential years

That’s how it used to be in Florida—until segregationists in the 1960’s grew worried that increased voter turnout would threaten their grip on state politics. So they amended the state constitution to move gubernatorial elections to midterm years, Sign the petition

Don't Buy Koch

List of familiar Koch products and brands:

-American Greetings

-Angel Soft

-Angel Soft Ultra

-Brawny paper towels

-Dixie products

-Insulair cups

-Mardis Gras napkins

-Perfect Touch cups, paper products

-Quilted Northern

-Sparkle paper towels

-Vanity Fair napkins & paper towels

-Zee Napkins

-Georgia-Pacific Office products

-Spectrum paper

-Georgia-Pacific's enMotion paper towel dispenser

-Georgia-Pacific's engineered lumber

INVISTA Brands

-INVISTA’s PET polymer is used in oxygen-sensitive packaging for food and beverages.

-ADI-PURE® Adipic Acid

-ANTRON® Carpet Fiber

-C12™ Intermediates

-COMFOREL® Fiber

-COOLMAX® Fabric

-CORDURA® Fabric

-DACRON® Fiberfill

-DYTEK® Idea Intermediates

-FLEXISOLV® Solvent Solutions

-LYCRA® Fiber

-LYCRA HyFit® Fiber

-OXYCLEAR® Barrier Resin

-POLYCLEAR® PET

-POLYSHIELD® Resin

-SENZAA™ Additive

-STAINMASTER® Carpet

-SUPPLEX® Fabric

-SUPRIVA™ Fiber

-TACTEL® Fiber

-TECGEN® Garments

-TERATE® Polyols

-TERATHANE® Polyether Glycol

-TERRIN™ Polyols

-THERMOLITE® Fabric

-TORZEN® PA66 Resin
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Michael Brown’s Father Message to Ferguson and the Nation

El Centro Español De Tampa

Was the most affluent of the city’s social clubs — those organizations that provided immigrants with social services ranging from medical care to banking to entertainment from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. Centro Español had almost 10,000 members of Spanish descent, two cemeteries and two large clubhouses that measured over half a city block — one each in Ybor City and West Tampa. here

American's Priorities And GOP Lawmakers' Priorities: Not Quite The Same

American's Priorities
1.   Access to lower cost student loans--80% support.

2.   Increase spending on infrastructure--75%

3.   Raising the minimum wage--65%
4.   Emergency funding for fighting Ebola in Africa--60%
5.   Climate change/reducing carbon emissions--59%
6.   Building Keystone Pipeline--54%

GOP Lawmakers' Priorities
1.   Authorize Keystone Pipeline.

2.   Repeal ACA ("Obamacare")
3.   Pass the "Hire More Heroes" (veterans) Act.
4.   Pass Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement 

5.   Lower corporate taxes.
6.   Thwarting Obama on Immigration Executive Action.
7.   Reign in the EPA and roll back environmental regulations.

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Tampa Under Surveillance

Florida gives Bill Cosby standing ovation

GOP Propaganda

GOP Propaganda>Guess What Americans Thought About Obama's Speech here

Fact>Poll: Americans Broadly Back Obama’s Immigration Executive Action

Voters overwhelmingly backed President Obama’s move: 67 percent viewed it favorably, while just 28 percent viewed it unfavorably. The support was fairly bipartisan, with 91 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Independents, and 41 percent of Republicans viewing the executive action favorably. Among Tea Party Republicans, however, 64 percent opposed the policy while just 30 percent viewed it favorably. here

Protests Expected In St. Pete

When the decision of whether to indict Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson comes down, there are plans for protests and civil disobedience in St. Petersburg. On Friday WMNF interviewed Omali Yeshitela about those plans. He’s chair of the African People’s Socialist Party. here

Dean/Warren 2016

Democracy for America (DFA), a progressive group that grew out of former Vermont governor Howard Dean’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, just released an unscientific survey of their roughly one million members asking for their preferences in a hypothetical race for the Democratic nomination in two years. Elizabeth Warren, the former Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate was the clear favorite, garnering 42 percent of the respondents, while Clinton trailed a distant third with only 23 percent. We voted for Howard Dean. here 

The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest: New Film Captures Florida Prisoner's Shocking Ordeal Behind Bars

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Orange Chicken

With fried rice

At IAsia in North Port

Visit them here

The President Speaks on Fixing America's Broken Immigration System

Why the majority  voted for him, (twice).

The Blue Wall: Midterm Elections “was a dark week for Republicans

GOP strategist and

Columnist at the Houston Chronicle who goes by the handle GOPLifer, Chris Ladd, has declared that the week of the Midterm Elections “was a dark week for Republicans here 

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Teriyaki Steak

With soup and salad

  Kumo Japanese Steakhouse

Visit them here, Coming to New Port Richey soon.

What a wonderful place. Atmosphere is awesome and 

the food is great.

Hongkong Willies, Tampa home of Rick Scott's Ark

Tampa home of "Rick Scott's Ark"

Stop in and check it out. See Joe, tell him Stogie sent you.

Fletcher Ave  and I75 Tampa. more

"If He'd Ever Look Up" Caroline Kole

Illegal Trucks In Ybor City

Southbound 21th St. at 8th Ave.

Clinton Party At Emilio and Gloria Estefan's House In Miami Beach

Benefitting the Clinton Foundation

Thursday, December 11, 2014, 8:00 PM

The home of Emilio and Gloria Estefan

Miami Beach, Florida
Attend the Dinner, $5,000 per person

Includes Clinton Foundation Ambassador membership
Event Co-Chair |$25,000 per person or $50,000 per couple
Includes Chairs' Reception with the Clintons
Event Chair | $100,000
Includes Chairs' Reception with the Clintons and invitation to
the 2015 Clinton Foundation Annual Retreat info

Hail to our Great Esteem Leader! Barack Obama

In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration here