Sunday, March 20, 2016

What Stigie Had For Lunch

Baked Fish
With Moro and Platanos
$5.95 At LA41 in Lutz, like them on Facebook
Nice value meal, eat local!

Floridians Walking Across The Everglades

The Everglades is ailing, so dozens of Floridians will walk 80 miles across the system to highlight things they say are destroying everything from wildlife habitat to sacred burial grounds. here

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Historic Ybor City, Florida

Tampa Bay Rays To Play In Cuba

St. Pete Mayor Kriseman will join President Obama for an historic game between the Rays and the Cuban National Team.  Local Treasure Mario Nunez along with his father, Felipe Nunez will also be there. here 
How cool is this!

Tampa Right Wing Attacks

Tampa tea party founder Sharon Calvert and conservative activist Sam Rashid have been relentless in their attacks on the Go Hillsborough transportation initiative, suggesting that rampant cronyism influenced the spending of $1.35 million in public funds. 
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But when county sheriff’s investigators last year asked Calvert and Rashid for evidence of wrong-doing, the critics came up empty. “Investigators asked if they had facts to support their claims and allegations but they had none to provide,” investigators said in records released Monday. here

Shit In The Water At Local Beaches

The Hillsborough County Health Department
Bahia Beach
Ben T. Davis Beach
Cypress Point Beach

Florida GOP Voters Stumped

Republican voters in the Sunshine State are wrestling with how they'll vote if Donald Trump is the GOP nominee. Some say a Trump nomination would force them to vote for a Democrat — or not at all. here

Friday, March 18, 2016

Upgrade Ken Hagan, Sandra Murman and Bob Buckhorn

GO Hillsborough 
Smoking Gun
Failure of Sheriff’s investigators to get deleted text messages.
After seeing the pattern of communication specifically around the PB selection timeframe, Investigators attempted to obtain any deleted text messages from the cell phones of Ms. Leytham, Commissioners Ken Hagan and Sandra Murman, and Mayor Bob Buckhorn. Investigators asked each person if they still possessed the cellphone they used during the 2014 time period. All four advised they had upgraded their cell phones and no longer possessed them. here

Stop TBX Spreading In Tampa

Hillsborough  and Florida

Lazy Florida Dems

Turnout on Tuesday was 46 percent, the highest for a Florida presidential primary since 1976. More than 2.3 million Republicans voted, blowing past the 1.7 million Democrats. here

Welcome To Tampa

Expect Delays!

Rick Scott: Republican On Republican Violence

"If we spend another four months tearing each other apart, we will damage our ability to win in November. It's time for an end to the Republican on Republican violence. It's time for us to begin coming together, we've had a vigorous primary, now let's get serious about winning in November."Scott endorses Trump here

Trump says it's time to rally around him or expect 'riots' here

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Tampa Bay Homeless

Meet Jimmy
He is from Augusta, Georgia. Homeless 2 years.

In Winter Haven You Can Only Vote Republican

They hid the Democratic ballots 
in a closet.
Theresa Wibert of Polk County was shocked to arrive at her polling station only to be handed a Republican ballot – and then told that Democrats couldn’t vote there. “The boss came over and said we could vote for Republicans only,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I told them I wasn’t leaving … It sure wasn’t politically correct. We pushed it a little further and the lady called a few people. Finally, she looked in the bottom of a closet and found a box with the Democratic ballots. here

Pat Kemp Talking To Voters In The Heights

Susan Smith Wing Of The Florida Democratic Party

"It's depressing how little the Florida Legislature (controlled by Republicans) cares about issues that impact the lives of working people. They only want to protect the interests of big business while coddling right wing religious nuts."

Susan Smith

sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and State Attorney Mark Ober found no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing in how county staff, commissioners, and private consultant Beth Leytham acted in the months leading up to the selection of Leytham's client, Parsons Brinckerhoff, for the lucrative "Go Hillsborough" project. But the report corroborates 10Investigates findings that Leytham made a habit of influencing decision-makers behind the scenes. 
And Ober suggested sanctions for Commissioner Sandy Murman - and training for other commissioners - over non-criminal public records violations. here