Thursday, January 7, 2016

Help Bernie @ CityCon II In Auburndale

January 22 - January 23

We want to be Bernie at Auburndale, Florida's, 2nd annual ComicCon: CityCon II, passing out flyers and spreading the word that Florida can help elect the people's candidate for President! The convention will be held over two days and there are many interesting things to see and people to meet. This is a perfect place to share Bernie's message!

here

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Florida GOP: Father-Son Duo Don Gaetz Of Niceville And Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach

The Florida GOP is downright excited by two new permissive gun measures likely to pass in the upcoming legislative session. Never mind opposition from police chiefs, college presidents, campus police, professors and student organizations.seems hell-bent on adopting a campus carry bill, plus, there’s an open carry bill, which would allow Floridians with a concealed-weapons permit in Florida — all 1.4 million of them to carry to carry their guns openly, anywhere they’re already allowed to carry concealed weapons. here and here
University of South Florida-Nielsen Sunshine State Survey last summer found 48 percent of Floridians would favor, instead, more restrictive gun laws, while only 7 percent thought Florida gun regulations were “too restrictive.” (Another 42 percent considered existing laws “about right”). An overwhelming 73 percent opposed campus carry. But lawmakers consider gun rights sacred stuff in Florida.
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Niceville and Fort Walton Beach, we got your back!

Justice For Kobvey In Tampa

Like their page on Facebook

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Smothered Chicken

With Mashed Potatoes and Salad

@ Up 4 Breakfast in Spring Hill

Visit them here - Eat Local!

Florida GOP: Lake Ray

Here's a bill he introduced this week

House Bill 1095:
Prevention of Acts of War

Authorizes Governor to exercise certain powers; authorizes Governor & Attorney General to challenge specified federal laws & regulations.

Wanna call him? 850.717.5012

He is on Facebook

Discuss it? here & here

Pic: Lake with some of his friends. Ron DeSantis, Rubio and The Donald.

Jacksonville, we got your back!

Ybor City's Las Novedades To Be Torn Down

For a Swank hotel

here
Remembering
Las Novedades
Jeff Houck

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Faith Olivia Babis: How people should respond to open-carry gun-rights activists

We should all leave. Immediately!

Leave the food on the table in the restaurant.
Leave the groceries in the cart, in the aisle.
Stop talking or engaging in the exchange. Just leave, unceremoniously,

and fast.

But here is the key part: don’t pay.

Stopping to pay in the presence of a person with a gun means risking your and your loved ones’ lives; money shouldn’t trump this. It doesn’t matter if you ate the meal. It doesn’t matter if you’ve just received food from the deli counter that can’t be resold. It doesn’t matter if you just got a haircut. Leave. If the business loses money, so be it. They can make the activists pay. here

Solidarity Sunday In Tampa Heights

6pm Lee's Grocery info
Mad Mirth, Long Eating, Hard Drinking, Rude Reveling:
Tampa's first Monthly Worker Meetup of 2016.

The Once-Mighty Republican Party Of Florida

Ominous developments

Money woes

Weak leadership

Unprecedented selfishness

Finger-pointing

The start of a train wreck. here

Central Florida NORML In Ybor

Join

Peter Schorsch: Ted Cruz will be the Republican presidential nominee

Peter Schorsch: 5 bold predictions for 2016. here

Go Ted Go

The people Trump didn't scare, Cruz will.

Looking good Dems!

Protest Ringling Bros. Circus in Tampa

Amalie Arena

Wednesday, January 6, 6–7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 7, 6–7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 8, 6–7:30 p.m
Saturday, January 9, 4:30–7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 10, 1–3 p.m. info
Alec Baldwin: Boycott Circuses That Use animals

Monday, January 4, 2016

Tampa Bay Freedom Fighters

Join them in this new year

They are fighting for you!

Sunshine Citizens
Raíces en Tampa - Black Lives Matter
Central Florida NORML
Florida Consumer Action Network
The Heights Collective

Florida Voices for Animals

Friends of the Hillsborough River

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” MLK

Ybor City (Never Let It Go)

Local Artist Christine Eckerfield

Visit her here

Stop TBX: Downtown Tampa

On Tuesday January 5th at 9 am the MPO Board will have their first meeting of 2016. As always, it's at the County Center at 601 E Kennedy Blvd. info

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Tourist Discovers Tracks In Ybor City

Tourist finds barely used train tracks in Ybor, leading downtown and out of town.

Someone buy a train. Brandon commuters hop on board, no need for the Selmon. here

STOP TBX

Alan Grayson: Justice For Andrew Joseph III

In February of 2014, 14-year-old Andrew Joseph III from Riverview was killed as he tired to cross Interstate 4 on foot after he was ejected from the Florida State Fair
in Tampa.

Alan Grayson met with Andrew’s parents in Tampa and said he would pursue the Justice Department to investigate the tragic loss of life. On Thursday, Grayson followed up on his promise, penning a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling for both
a Justice and FBI investigation. here
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Grayson notes that this is the same Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office that provided security for the 2012 Republican National Convention and the 2009 Super Bowl. “It seems unfortunate that the same force could not provide adequate security for ‘Student Day. “I’m going to be honest with you – the idea of taking a 14-year-old boy, dropping him off out of a car from where he was, with no practical way to get back in touch with people, to get to any place of safety, seems like inappropriate conduct,” Grayson told reporters inside the Bricks of Ybor.

Ybor Paparazzi

Bryn and Robeto of Mobile Apps Media

And Manny of Mace Multi Media
@ Cristino's Restaurant

Stogie's Guide To 2016

Join The Susan Smith Wing

Of The Florida Democratic Party

here

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Join a cause, you gotta believe in something?

We recommend starting here

Sunshine Citizens

The Florida DOT wants to destroy Tampa,

these people are out to stop it.

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Central Florida NORML

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Black Lives Matter: Tampa
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Friends of the Hillsborough River
DFA Tampa Bay
Veterans for Peace Tampa
Solidarity Sunday
Raíces en Tampa
Food Not Bombs of Saint Petersburg
Tampa Food Not Bombs
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"This is the year of BIG change... let's aim high and make the difference our world deserves."
Erin Brockovich

The Real Ybor City, Florida

Visit Ybor City, the real one!

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Tony

Homeless 6 years, from Alabama

George Martorano On The Hope the Cannabis Movement Brings Those in Prison

Tampa Bay Buy The Damn Trains

The CSX presentation in September has fired up rail proponents, who see a gift-wrapped system that could move people from downtown Tampa through downtown Clearwater into downtown St. Petersburg, north through Pasco County as far as Brooksville in Hernando, with connections to the University of South Florida and Tampa International Airport. here

So what's the hold up?

"Without a better transportation system, tourism in the Tampa area is likely to shrink from its current record levels and the region will lose its capacity to draw businesses to the urban core, according to two groups that promote economic development." Visit Tampa Bay and the Tampa Downtown Partnership. Maybe we need Jan Platt's solution!

Andrew Joseph Foundation

"While the rest of the world engages in celebratory interactions, we continue to stand at the threshold of the unknown. We stand within a story of a little boy who was killed when he engaged in a school sponsored fair day and suffered a tragic death. Andrew Joseph, III will never see or celebrate days or seasons such as today. As parents to this child, before us lies a new year, and we are going forward to take possession of it. Who knows what we will find? What new experiences or changes will come our way? What new needs will arise? In spite of the uncertainty before us, we are fully engaged and committed to execute the plan for Justice and Accountability for our 14 year old son Andrew Joseph, III killed in Tampa, Florida on 2/7/14. From the beginning of the year to its end it will forever be our mission to improve the conditions of life for our children, no child should die a senseless death."

Deanna Hardy-Joseph

Please visit website

AndrewJosephFoundation.org

and offer your support.

The Merchants Of Ybor

Centro Ybor

Visit them here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Wings with Salad

@ Slice of Life in Spring Hill

Visit them here

Eat Local!

Rally to End Violence Against Muslims & Refugees

1.13.2016 - 6pm

Corner of 56th and Fowler Ave

Temple Terrace

info

Florida Speak Up For Monkeys Used for Experiments!

1.12.2016 - 4pm

Clewiston City Hall

info

PETA recently conducted an investigation into Primate Products, Inc. (PPI), and an eyewitness observed that workers violently handled monkeys—terrorizing them—and systemically neglected them. The notorious Hendry County, Florida, primate dealer imports, warehouses, and sells monkeys destined for experiments. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors confirmed PETA's findings, citing PPI for at least 25 violations of nine animal-welfare regulations.