Tell Us Your Minimum Wage Story

"I met with minimum-wage workers in Tampa a few weeks ago. Before that, I had never taken an official position on a $15-an-hour minimum wage. But listening to them, I was left with no choice. They can’t survive on $7.25, and I couldn’t, either. Now, if you have something to say on this, I’d like to hear from you. You share your story. If it’s a good one, it will help drive us all toward social justice." 

Alan Grayson

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless living in Tampa

Fight For 15 Rally @ Dale Mabry Walmart

Meet local hero David. He is about to get fired for speaking out.

Read more about him here

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TBX: Lipstick On A Pig

Tampa Bay no need to worry, FDOT has offered to put dog parks, ball courts or other green spaces under or near the overpasses and try to enhance interstate walls and supports with brick, ornamental lighting or public art so when you are sitting in the patio at Lee's Grocery on Central Ave in Tampa Heights having your beer and pizza you will be able to enjoy the huge artsy wall in front of you. here

Shake Off Those Charter Chains!

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Ropa Vieja

With Yellow Rice and Yuca

At Cafe Masaryktown, visit them here

Florida Mayors For Corporate Welfare

Mayor Howard Wiggs - Lakeland

Mayor Randall Henderson - Ft. Myers

 Mayor Van Johnson - Apalachicola

Mayor Carlos Hernandez - Hialeah

The Brevard County Commission has also passed a resolution supporting Corporate Welfare.

here

Happy Birthday Howard Dean

Sign Gov. Howard Dean's birthday card.

here

Walmart Press Event- Real Wages NOT Food Bins In Tampa!

Tomorrow at 1:00pm

Walmart Tampa - 1505 N Dale Mabry Hwy

info

TBX Supporters

Bob Buckhorn 

Wants to be our governor.

And 

Lisa Montelione 

Is running for 

Florida State House District 63.

Remember them when you vote!

Stop TBX
Should we post this once a month to remind you?

Update: Huntersville Mayor Jill Swain and two town commissioners were booted from office in this week’s elections because of residents’ anger about the state’s plans to widen Interstate 77 with toll lanes. here

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article42986178.html?utm_content=buffer83c81&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#storylink=cpy

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Big Sugar and Corporate Welfare

For decades, the sugar subsidy has been lambasted as the worst form of corporate welfare. Big Sugar's perks amount to legalized corruption of the campaign finance system. In Florida, Big Sugar money influence is so great that the industry acts in the state capitol 

as a shadow government. 

What Big Sugar wants, it gets. 

These days, a solid GOP majority in the state legislature, 

Gov. Rick Scott, and Adam Putnam 

-- the agriculture secretary aiming to replace Marco Rubio in the US Senate -- are so deep in Big Sugar's pocket, you can't even see them. Not that Floridians are looking. here

artLOUD Tampa Bay

Visit them here

Extreme Right Wing Marco Rubio

He has long denied that human activity contributes to climate change.

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“I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. When I'm president, Keystone will be approved, and President Obama's backwards energy policies will come to an end.

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Rubio has repeatedly voted against ending tax breaks 

for oil companies.

here

Florida New Dem Darren Soto

Read about him here

Then check out this lady.

Susannah Randolph

Mayor And Two Commissioners Booted From Office Because Of Toll Lanes

Huntersville Mayor and two town commissioners were booted from office because of residents’ anger about the state’s plans to widen Interstate 77 with toll lanes. here

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"The citizens wanted to have their voice heard, and they did it through the ballot box. The incumbents who lost got complacent and weren’t really listening to the citizens.” Danny Phillips, a toll opponent and the top vote-geter in the board race.
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Looking good Guido! here
Don't forget Mayor Bob likes this idea too. Should we re-post this once a month to remind voters? Plant City and Temple Yerrace pay attention.

The Susan Smith Wing Of The Florida Democratic Party

Our generation — the triangulation generation — devised anti-crime policies and welfare reform, got nervous at the mere mention of same-sex marriage, was taught that government should work through market mechanisms, rather than act as a countervailing force, and learned to govern through inoffensive gestures like tax credits.
The Democratic Party, as an institution, had little meaning for this generation. It was not ideologically coherent — extremely conservative Southerners were still Democrats well into the Clinton years — and the party’s operatives did little to make it meaningful to young people." Susan Smith
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Join the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida