Vote NO On Amendment 1

The amendment -- called Consumers for Smart Solar -- local and state regulators would maintain control over solar energy. 

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The utility-backed amendment would allow monopolies to maintain the status quo in how solar energy is regulated. here

More FDOT Propaganda In Tampa

Robert W. Saunders Sr. Public Library

Florida DOT Piss Poor Propaganda

What a beautiful Library! here

Florida INC. - Seismic Testing To Begin In Florida

A Texas oil company could begin seismic testing within weeks in Calhoun and Gulf counties now that Florida INC. has signed off on the plan. here

DEP announced it was dismissing a legal challenge to the testing filed recently by a Clarksville resident and a board member of a living history museum in Blountstown.

Panhandle residents we got your back!

PACK THE HOUSE: Marijuana Decriminalization - Pinellas County

4.5 - 9AM

315 Court St. Clearwater

This is a big one! We're going to be mobilizing for the first discussion of the Pinellas County commission about civil citations for marijuana posession. If we can pass this on the county level, it will pave the way for the 24 cities in Pinellas to follow suit! Be there!

info

STOP TBX Coalition Gathering In Tampa Heights

James E Shirk with Local Treasure Linda Saul-Sena

The ever-present Pat Kemp with friends

Tampa Heights Junior Civic Center

The march was postponed till next week 
because of the weather. here 

Join Sunshine Citizens

Trump Supporters In Pinellas County

Tiger Bay Club Luncheon

All Florida GOP present 
State Sens. Jack Latvala - Clearwater
Jeff Brandes - St. Petersburg
State Reps. Larry Ahern - Seminole 
Chris Latvala - Clearwater
and Kathleen Peters  South Pasadena
promised they would support Trump as the nominee. here

Tampa Road Pig

This asshole needed two spaces to park his 

piece of shit Mercedes.

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Eatonville

Rick Scott suspended Eatonville Mayor Anthony Grant following his indictment on voter-fraud charges earlier in the week. Grant, and two others are accused of intimidating and bribing voters in the 2015 election that led to Grant's victory. In six cases examined, a grand jury found that Grant, Mia Antionette Nowells and James Randolph unlawfully marked absentee ballots or forced people to vote for them, according to the 25-count indictment released Monday. here

Florida GOP Jeff Brandes: Let’s Make a (Corrupt) Deal

An activist group is running a radio ad in the Tampa Bay area against St. Petersburg-based state Senator Jeff Brandes that questions his ethics. The ad from Florida Strong is called “Let’s Make a (corrupt) Deal.” It attacks the Pinellas Republican for receiving campaign contributions from companies like Duke Energy and insurance lobbyists, and then claims that he voted on issues on behalf of those companies at taxpayers expense. here

Stop TBX Spreading In Tampa

Corner of Hillsborough and Florida

Join Sunshine Citizens

Florida GOP Ends Prohibition On Slungshots

Scott signed measure HB 4009 that deletes part of state law which has prohibited the manufacturing or sale of a maritime tool known as a slungshot.

The slungshot consists of a weight affixed to the end of a long cord of being wound into the center of a knot called a monkey’s fist. Although the slungshot is a maritime tool, it became an improvised and very effective weapon, widely used by street gangs in the 19th Century.

The bill removed slungshot from the definition of a concealed weapon and also lifts a prohibition of the sale or transfer of a slungshot to a minor. here

Fight For 15 In The Heights

Tim Heberlein,  Kelly Benjamin and Brother John

Pat Kemp with friends

Where was Tom Scott, John Dicks and Brian Willis?

We missed you guys!

Local Legends Kelly Benjamin and Ronny Elliott

Seminole Heights Library - Tampa

Join them here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Opa-locka

Feds target Miami-Dade city in major corruption investigation

"Dante (Starks) is the unofficial mayor of Opa-locka,” former Vice Mayor Steven Barrett said. “He has more power than [Mayor] Myra Taylor. He controls every department.” Now, Starks is at the center of a federal investigation that threatens to topple him and a cadre of elected leaders in the most comprehensive corruption probe in Miami-Dade in decades. rhere

Act Of Kindness At The Field In Suitcase City

Meet Nathalia Estrada

She is the one responsible for this act of kindness.

Tuning up, fixing and oiling bikes.

Visit them here

HART To Get 15 New Buses

They will run on natural gas
They are needed to support the fixed route fleet to keep up with a continued growth in ridership.

The Feds are paying for the buses.

here

Scott, Bondi Tight Lipped About Trump's Thug

Both Trump supporters 

Good Luck! Dezeray Lyn

"Tomorrow morning I begin the journey north for several weeks for an EMT intensive gaining skills to advance me on the volunteer street medic path and eventually towards dreams of joining Doctors Without Borders. I am only able to take this intensive due to comrades and friends donating and supporting me in numerous ways. That means everything. 

To all those engaged in revolutionary struggles and movements who have captured my heart and who have my blood, sweat and tears in our fight for a kind, fair and empowering world for all, you will have my skills too... Food not Bombs, Love Has No Borders, Black Lives Matter, Earth First!, International Solidarity Movement and many more. No Walls. No Borders." Dezeray Lyn

Millennials Welcome to Tampa

Millennials,  are America’s up-and-coming workforce. Tampa,  is putting this group — born between 1982 and 2001 — under a microscope. The Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. has commissioned a survey of millennial CEOs and workers in competing markets to ask what would persuade them to relocate here for a job or to move their company 

to Hillsborough County.

here

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Please make sure our transit options are on the survey. 

Warning From The Florida GOP

"The grassroots leaders of the Republican Party of Florida have been working overtime over the last year and a half getting this state ready to defeat Hillary and elect Republicans up and down the ticket in November," State party chairman Blaise Ingoglia. here

Florida Taxpayers Pay For Foreign Journalists To Party In The Keys

$78 million

Florida taxpayers have paid thousands of dollars for Chinese and other foreign journalists to vacation in the Keys and unknown amounts of money on secret contracts for celebrities, race car drivers and soccer teams to promote the Sunshine State. here

Visit Florida, a public-private group will get $78 million.

Florida Right Wing Blogger Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge

Javier Manjarres, publisher of the right wing blog The Shark Tank, was detained by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest form the 43-year-old was charged with one count of attempted murder and two counts of burglary conveyance with battery.  He was arrested for leaving his sister’s boyfriend, Jason Holowinski, with a broken nose and bullet holes in his pickup truck. here

Bigot Free Church In Tampa

Faith Family United Church Of Christ

Check them out here

Pic: Tampa Pride in Ybor.

Marco Rubio's Secret-Money Legacy Lives On

The senator’s allies found a way for donors to spend millions to support his presidential campaign while remaining anonymous — forever. here

Local Musician Marie Tess In Ybor

Check her out here