Free Dinner With Florida GOP John Mica

U.S. Rep. John Mica likes taking constituents out to lunch (or breakfast, dinner or coffee). He also loves having his re-election campaign pay for it. The latter preference has Mica, a 12-term Republican from Winter Park, explaining why his re-election campaigns are paying for scores of “meals with constituents” tallying tens of thousands of dollars a year in food and drink, when other members of Congress rarely, if ever, do so. here

Weed Legal In Florida If You Can Prove You Are Dying In 12 Months

Rick Scott signed a bill making medical marijuana legal for people who can prove they're dying within 12 months.   
The law is a total mistake, and here's why:
By passing this illogical, limited bill which does nothing for the vast majority of patients (whether they are dying or not), Scott and his cronies in the legislature will try to say they've already passed medical marijuana and therefore we don't need Amendment 2.   They probably think this law gets them off the hook and/or will distract the public into thinking the job's done.   They're wrong. While they've acknowledged that marijuana is medicine, the new law does nothing for people who are fighting to stay alive, who need marijuana to help inspire hunger and alleviate pain, or alleviate life threatening (but not necessarily fatal) seizures. The new law denies medical marijuana to soldiers with PTSD and to those with MS.  Amendment 2 gives access to those who are seriously debilitated, whether or not they are dying within an arbitrary period of time.   We MUST pass Amendment 2 for those patients and more. Please support our efforts and our drive for 1000 new donations between now and April 30.  We only have 755 to go!  Click here to support our 1000 donor drive with a contribution of any size.  Thank you for everything you're doing to support medical marijuana in Florida. 
Ben Pollara Campaign Manager United for Care

Lee's Grocery Paparazzi

Gaby of  The Centre for Girls and Ashley of Fight For 15

Cuban Bloggers

Yoani Sánchez: Generacion Y

 Lis García: La Cachaza del Otoño
Elaine Díaz: La Polémica Digital
Carlos Alberto Pérez: La Chiringa de Cuba
Harold Cárdenas Lema: El Toque
more

Children's Board of Hillsborough County Welcome Video

Free Bicycle Tune Ups/Oil Changes @ 'The Field'

3.31 - 4PM @ The Field in Suitcase City. info

Florida Fish Kill Voters Fault

The massive, horrendous, shocking and sad fish kills happening in and around the Indian River Lagoon represent the political corruption infecting the state of Florida. Blame the Florida legislature, its leaders like Agriculture Secretary Adam Putnam, Florida Representative Matt Caldwell, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, Senator Joe Negron, to start. Blame the most clueless, radical governor in Florida history — the anti-people governor Rick Scott. here

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We know exactly what is wrong: voters who don’t care, don’t vote, or vote for candidates and incumbents who represent institutionalized corruption.

Red Star Rock Bar In The Heights

Co-ed bathrooms, both of them!

Visit them here

Florida Millennials: The 58%

Florida millennials make up a strong majority — 58 percent of the eligible voters in the state. 

But 40 percent of them are not registered to vote. here

Prison Gerrymandering” In Florida

A federal district judge has ruled “prison gerrymandering” in Jefferson County, Florida, to be unconstitutional.

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The practice of counting prison inmates (who cannot vote) as local residents when drawing district maps for elections dilutes the clout of voters in other districts without prisons. And, given the demographics of incarcerated populations are disproportionately heavy with people of color (especially blacks), these prison-gerrymandered districts appear on paper to have more minority voters than is actually the case. What that amounts to is a bleaching of the districts around the prison-gerrymandered ones, giving an edge to Republicans in those districts. here

Florida GOP Voters Are Rebelling

Republican voters are in full rebellion against the GOP in Florida. In last week's presidential primary, GOP voters treated Marco Rubio as a stand-in for the special interests who dominate party politics. They might not know the names but they know the outcomes.

As a result, the party establishment has been thrown into a panic. This one is filled with voter anger at both Florida coasts coated by a layer of toxic scum, as the state's rivers, bays and estuaries are turning to collateral damage by the state's most powerful special interest group, Big Sugar. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Filet Mignon

With Baked Potato @ Frontier Steak House

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Fight for 15 Community Meeting - Tampa

3.31 - 7PM

Seminole Heights Library

info

Tampa Pride 2016 in Ybor City

Kelly Benjamin with Zora

Dave Cutler

LGBT Champion Pat Kemp

Mike Reedy with supporters

Brian Willis with supporter

Alan Grayson, Lisa Montelione, Mike Suarez

and Pam Iorio. Not one republican attended. 

Well, Bob Buckhorn was there.

more

What is polluting Biscayne National Park?

Yuge thanks to Susan Smith and the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida

"Yuge thanks to Susan Smith and the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida for stepping up for fairness in our elections!!! Access to the voting list should be available to all Democratic candidates."

Tim Canova

Trump Turning Miami Cuban Americans Blue

Support among Cubans in South Florida for Republicans has been slowly declining. They've chalked it up to generational change. Younger and newly arrived Cubans aren't quite as strongly Republican as the original exiles. The GOP's shift to the socially conservative positions of white evangelical voters has accelerated the trend. Then along comes 
Donald Trump. here

Great Job Rep. Kathy Castor

The presidents of the U.S. and Cuba acknowledged in their historic meeting Monday that their nations have different views on government and human rights, but found common ground on the U.S. embargo against Cuba: Both want it to end. The woman leading the effort to make that happen is U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, the Tampa Democrat who is part President Barack Obama’s congressional delegation to the island nation and the sponsor of the Cuba Trade Act. here

Florida GOP Jim Boyd of Bradenton To Keep Fighting For Corporate Welfare

$250 million

State Rep. Jim Boyd of Bradenton, promised the Manatee County Commission on Tuesday morning to keep fighting for Corporate Welfare funding after his bill to regulate its state funding died in the Senate this year. here

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article67515767.html#storylink=cpy

Tip For Lazy Florida Dems

Check this out

Absentee Voting

Absentee voting refers to voting a ballot received by mail or picked up by or for a voter who is unable or unwilling to go to the polls to vote during early voting or Election Day. Check it out

Florida Progressive Leader Mayor Rick Kriseman

St Pete 100% clean energy

"This is what progressive leadership looks like. Thank you, Mayor Rick Kriseman!" Susan Smith

This is the mayor by the bay that we need to run for governor. Great job St. Pete!

Tell "Debt Trap Debbie" Not to Sabotage Obama on Payday Lending Reform

Sarasota County GOP’s “Statesman of the Year” Award: Rick Scott

Gov. Rick Scott will receive the Sarasota County GOP’s “Statesman of the Year” award at a dinner next month. Trump received the statesman honor in 2012 and 2015. here

Florida GOP Locations For Gynecological Care

A bill passed in the Florida GOP legislature this week would effectively defund Planned Parenthood and other reproductive rights clinics.  several state lawmakers who have insisted that plentiful alternatives exist for reproductive and sexual healthcare have cited a list of health centers that includes 

Dentists, 

Optometrists, 

and Elementary Schools.

here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Pam Bondi

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013 was considering joining in a lawsuit against Trump University.  Shortly thereafter, a check for $25,000 was sent to Bondi’s campaign.  AG Bondi (who has since endorsed Trump) ended up not joining in on the Trump University lawsuit. here
She is cheap, only $25,000!

Florida INC. Rancid Corpses

Thousands of scaly, rancid corpses dot the banks of the Indian River Lagoon, in clusters from Titusville to Melbourne, likely casualties of widespread algae that's bloomed for months.

Scientists say excess nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers, septic tanks, leaky sewer systems, air pollution and other sources is fueling the blooms. here

President Obama: Thank You From Tampa Cuban Americans

We never thought we would live to see this. 

Your legacy is secure with us!

Dear Marco Rubio

Rubio called Obama’s historic trip to Cuba “one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world.”
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"Mr. Rubio, we have tried it your way for over 50 years. All it has done is make the Cuban people suffer. The change you were looking for did not happen. It should be up to the Cubans on the island to decide how they want to be  governed not the deserters in Miami. Dialogue over Isolation works everytime. 
Now we have a chance to show them what Democracy looks like." YCS

St. Pete Pledging To Work Toward 100% Clean Energy

St. Petersburg is the first Florida city pledging to work toward 100% clean energy; Sharon Wright is the City of St. Petersburg’s sustainability coordinator and joined the Sierra Club Tuesday morning to officially launch the “Ready for 100” campaign. here

Free Rolling Stones Concert

Ciudad Deportiva - La Habana, Cuba

400,000 fans are expected

here. We want to go! 

VPC Spreading Into Florida

Voter Participation Center (VPC) is mailing 626,000 voter registration applications into Florida this month.  

Unmarried women, Latinos, African-Americans and millennials make up a strong majority — 58 percent — of the eligible voters in the state.  But 40 percent of them are not registered to vote.  

And the number of unregistered young voters is even higher: 

54 percent of millennial Floridians are not registered to vote.

here

Florida Right Winger Todd Schnitt Attacks Alan Grayson

"Recently, a right-wing hate radio host in Florida said that I’m a “mental defect,” that I’m “obnoxious” and “disgusting,” and that I’m a “media whore.”

The verbal mugger in this case was Todd Schnitt, a hatemonger whose radio show is carried in both Miami and Tampa, the two largest media markets in Florida." 

Rep. Alan Grayson