Florida GOP: Tammany Hall South

Were plenty steamed over being slapped around by the state Supreme Court 
for attempting to cook the electoral books.

How dare the Florida Supreme Court! 
How dare these justices do their jobs! 
Oh, the oppression of it all!
Just how far out of touch with reality are they?

"We are under direction by a court that continues over and over again to exceed their constitutional authority."

That onerous provision guaranteeing the public ought to have access to open government, violated his right to speak freely to his legislative colleagues?

freelube@yborcitystogie.com

Daniel Ruth

Rick Scott's Tab Climbs To $1 Million Dollars

Florida’s legal bill to defend Gov. Rick Scott grew Wednesday, as the governor’s office released documents showing he has agreed pay  lawyers $300,000 for defending him in two open government cases that were settled. here

$700.000 + $300.00 = $1 million dollars
here

Pat Kemp: Time for a Tampa Bay High Speed Ferry!

"As a Hillsborough County Commissioner, I will get the Tampa Bay High Speed Ferry Project done without any more delay. This is a "no-brainer" and I'm embarrassed for our county and our region that isn't underway now."

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Visit and support Pat Kemp here

Solidarity With Medical Marijuana In Tampa Today

 12PM

Hillsborough County Courthouse

Downtown Tampa

See you there!

Also At 
Miami-Dade County Courthouse
73 W Flagler St
Miami, FL 33130

Orange County Courthouse
425 N Orange Ave
Orlando, FL 32801

Lake County Courthouse
550 W Main St
Tavares, FL 32778

Florida Capitol 
400 S Monroe St
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Broward County Courthouse
201 SE 6th St
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Pinellas County Justice Center
14250 49th St N
Clearwater, FL 33762

Osceola County Courthouse
2 Courthouse Sq
Kissimmee, FL 34741

West Pasco Judicial Center
7530 Little Rd
New Port Richey, FL 34654

Alachua County Civil Justice Center
201 E University Ave
Gainesville, FL 32601

Polk County Courthouse
255 N Broadway Ave
Bartow, FL 33830

Collier County Court house
3315 Tamiami Trl E
Naples , FL 34112

Citrus County Courthouse
110 N Apopka Ave, #101
Inverness, FL 34450

Being Honest Gives Florida GOP Tom Lee Of Brandon Heartburn

 Stung by the court ruling that ordered that eight congressional districts be drawn because the map was tainted by 

Improper partisan intent

We think being honest and doing his job right is getting the best of him. After all this is the third time since 2012 that the Legislature 

has drawn new congressional maps. here

"There are more Democrats in Florida than Republicans but the congressional delegation includes 17 Republicans and 10 Democrats. "That's hardly parity."

Papa Johns Is Pizza With a Side Of Climate Change

Thom Hartmann to dish on one attendee in particular: 

John Schnatter, 
the founder of Papa John’s Pizza
 You can watch the segment here

Remember the Mitt Romney fundraiser at his home.

The Koch brothers themselves are billionaire oil barons who bankroll the climate denial movement, so every time you order Papa Johns, ask yourself if you really want your pizza with a side of climate change. Like American Family Voices on Facebook for more Koch news as we name names… and #ExposeKoch.

Help us spread the word on Facebook and Twitter, 
that Papa Johns is pizza with a side of climate change…here

We only eat local pizza!

CDB's, New York, New York Pizza in Ybor City
and Lee's Grocery in  Tampa Heights.

Glenn Beck Honors St. Pete

Beck issued a list of 15 cities to avoid

St. Pete falls at number six on the list behind left-leaning cities including Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and Phoenix.

A proud Rick Kriseman took to Twitter saying,

 “Woke up, sun shining, & @glennbeck lumping #StPete in w/ Portland-San Fran-Seattle-Denver-Phoenix as cities to avoid. An honor! #ThanksGlenn.”
here
"Great company, nice job St. Pete!" YCS 

Hillsborough County Finds Money For Mass Transit

Hillsborough County collected a record 

$2 million 

in tourism development taxes just in June.

 The bump in travelers who stayed in Hillsborough County 

hotels is up 44 percent.

 Hillsborough County
has collected just over
$23 million
 in bed-tax revenue for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

here 
Nice, us locals should be living well!

The NCM On Cuba

La Familia

Marco (El Guapo) Rubio

Vows to roll back Obama's efforts to normalize relations once he is in the White House.

Mario (fREDO) Diaz-Balart

He has tried to undermine Obama's policy by attaching riders to spending bills—including a provision blocking flights and cruise ship 

routes to Cuba.

Ileana (La Senora) Ros-Lehtinen
Has slammed normalization with Cuba as a "propaganda coup for the Castro brothers.





Mel (El Jefe) Martinez
Has blasted the president's decision to normalize relations.
here

Seems like the family 
isn't as powerful as they use to be!

Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school

 here

Downtown Tampa On A Sunday Afternoon

Where is everybody?

Know Your Rights In St.Pete

8.14.15 - 8 PM

Enoch Davis Center - St. Pete

Jan Platt's Brilliant Idea

A Referendum To Kick Out The

 Hillsborough County Commissioners 

How have they failed us?
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 Corporate Welfare
$6.7 million To Ashley Furniture  in Ybor City
$100,000 To Tim Burton
$75,000 To IT expansion
$6.25 million To Pro Bass
$3.4 million To Citigroup

$2.1 Million to Johnson & Johnson Services

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TBX
Ken Hagan,  Sandra Murman, Stacy White 
and Kevin Beckner vote yes. here
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"Go Hillsborough" 

Focus Groups

This is a funny one

here

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 Hire a fox to guard our hen house

here
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wage theft ordinance

here
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Shifty Florida GOP Ken Hagan 

exploiting term limits loopholes.

here
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Misused almost a million dollars in grants during its "Fight the Blight. 
here
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Neglect of the 

Jan K. Platt 
Environmental Lands Acquisition
a referendum 80 percent of voters in 2008 approved!
HERE

The Hillsborough County Commissioners
On this blog since May 2006 here

So are you in? 
Someone start something!

www.yborcitystogie.com

Ybor City, Florida

Florida GOP Complain Their Rights Are Being Violated

 To ilegally 
gerrymandered districts.

Echoing the theme of a lawsuit filed last week in federal court by two Pensacola Republican Party officials, several lawmakers used their opening day speeches to accuse the court of violating the legislature’s First Amendment rights by requiring it to justify its map-drawing decisions in an open and transparent way. here

“We are under direction by a court that continues, over and over again, to exceed their constitutional authority,” 
GOP. Richard Corcoran of Trinity

Welcome Lenny Our New Tour Guide

He will be showing you around town. 

UNITED FOR CARE HOLDS DAY OF ACTION AT FLORIDA COURTHOUSES

August 14, 2015, Noon

HillsboroughCounty courthouse!

Also @ County courthouses in Leon, Alachua, Lake, Orange,

 Polk, Miami-Dade and Broward.

For press inquiries please contact Bianca Garza at press@unitedforcare.org.

Florida GOP "Cannot Be Trusted"

Florida’s new fatwa against Planned Parenthood

Gov. Rick Scott, like the police chief in the movie “Casablanca,” has dispatched his quislings to barge into the 16 Planned Parenthood offices in Florida to find something, anything, wrong. here

United for Care Slams Marco Rubio

"It's unfortunate that Florida's senior senator and leading Republican presidential contender, Marco Rubio, has taken a position in clear opposition to the rights of the states to determine their own course on marijuana laws. As a Floridian, it seems to me Rubio is proactively telling our state that he doesn't respect the will of the people. Can you imagine if a President Rubio sent federal agents to Florida to raid legal marijuana businesses and patients in the case that he became president and we passed a constitutional amendment?" Ben Pollara

"This man will never be President." YCS
 Have you signed yet?

here

For press inquiries please contact Bianca Garza at press@unitedforcare.org.

New "Welcome To Tampa Postcard"

Lenny will be your tour guide

Marco Rubio Is Going To Shut It Down

On Sunday, Marco Rubio told Meet the Press that he'd use Federal Law to go after states that have marijuana laws that contravene current federal law. here 

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Isiah

He is a vet from Dade City

Florida's Partisan Balance

The proposed map rolled out last week 

would affect most of the state’s 27 congressional districts and could 

result in a shift in the partisan balance 

of the state’s delegation. here

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Republicans now hold a 17-10 edge even though

 Florida has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

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This will mark the third time since 2012

that the Legislature has drawn new congressional maps.

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here

One thing about Republicans, they are persistent!

Florida GOP David Jolly And Ron DeSantis Back Legislation To Cut Off Federal Money For Planned Parenthood

Two Republican House members seeking the GOP Senate nomination — Reps. Ron DeSantis of Ponte Vedra Beach and David Jolly of St. Petersburg — back legislation to cut off federal money for 
Planned Parenthood. here 

Day of Black Community Action in St. Pete

more

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Hot Wings

Baked, No Grease 

With a new beer, we are trying to taste them all.

At where we eat the best Pizza in town. 

(Sorry, CDB's)

Lee's Grocery on Central Ave. in Tampa Heights

Visit them here, and like their page 

(but please don't tell anyone.) 

We Want A Referendum To Kick Out The Hillsborough County Commissioners Because They Ignored The Referendum

Nearly 80 percent of voters in 2008 approved a referendum to give up to $200 million to the Jan K. Platt Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program to purchase pristine, sensitive land for preservation. Now the program is broke and its leadership blames the county. here

"It's a disgrace,what are they waiting for, another referendum for the next election to kick them out because they ignored the referendum?" Jan Platt

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Two Republicans get it.

People overwhelmingly approved that amendment, that was the message and we can't forget or lose sight of what that message was." Sandy Murman

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Stacy White said he expects to unveil a new proposal within six weeks to fund and "revitalize" ELAPP. Where is Kevin Beckner on this? 

Does Ken Hagan need the money for  Corporate Welfare or to give to Hollywood filmmakers?
Remember White and Miller wanted to use some of the BP money. 

Marco Rubio Has Worst Missed-Vote Record In The U.S. Senate

In July alone, he missed more than half the Senate votes. In June, Rubio missed 67 percent of votes, including taking an entire week off for fundraising in California and to attend a candidate gathering in Utah. here

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article30426819.html#storylink=cpy

It's way past time to get serious about transit in Tampa Bay

In Tampa Bay cars are the #1 generator of greenhouse gases. The commission wants to ask us for a 1/2 sales tax that is 65%, at a minimum, for roads. The referendum even includes maintenance of roads, a core county function. That's not fiscally responsible. Why wouldn't we pay that out of our regular budget? We already have that money. We had almost $100 million unanticipated revenue this year and not a dollar for transit. What does that say? Email and call your commissioners 
at this link.

"It's way past time to get serious about transit 
in Tampa Bay."

Pat Kemp
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Join Pat Kemp Tonight For A Discussion Of The TBX Monster Highway
6:30PM at the Seminole Heights Library

Local Idiots: Randy Maggard

here

Rick Scott Owes Florida $700,000

Florida is paying $700,000 to settle allegations that Gov. Rick Scott and other state officials flouted the state’s public records laws. The state agreed this week to pay that amount to Tallahassee attorney Steven Andrews. Andrews sued the governor and other top state officials back in 2013. here

Marco Rubio's "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act"

At the debate Megyn Kelly suggested that the Florida Republican would "favor a "rape and incest exception" to abortion bans. "I have never said that," Rubio objected. "And I have never advocated that. What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection." But he appears to be wrong about never having advocated the exception. In 2013, Rubio cosponsored a Senate bill with wide-ranging Republican support called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, and that bill had exceptions for rape, incest, and in cases when the mother's life was threatened. here

Bush also touted his pro-life record, adding that 
He defunded Planned Parenthood 
while chief executive of Florida.  The St. Petersburg Times reported in 2003 that "Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida lost $124,000 last year from its family planning division. Bush diverted the funds to abstinence-only educational programs."

Crews List Most Corrupt Vern Buchanan Could Be Out Of A Job

Under a new redistricting map Buchanan would lose 150 thousand constituents from Sarasota County and gain 150 thousand from Hillsborough. Hillsborough County has more registered democrats than republicans, while Sarasota has more republicans than democrats. here

Named to CREW’s Most Corrupt 
in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012. here

Come on up Vern, we are ready for you.
This ain't Sarasota!

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