Saturday, April 23, 2016
Local Walmart Worker David Alvarez Needs Your Support!
OUR Walmart member David Alvarez needs your support!
Call his district manager. 813.872.6992
Friday, April 22, 2016
Mel Sembler Wants To Save Your Brain
Today, The Tampa Bay Times reported that Mel Sembler plans to raise at least 10 million to to kill proposed Amendment 2, Use of Marijuana for Debilitating Medical Conditions. In response,
Ben Pollara, Campaign Manager at United for Care stated:
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Mel Sembler can spend whatever he wants to try and deny sick and suffering Floridians relief in the form of medical marijuana, but the will of the people is stronger than his money. Mr. Sembler and his allies tried this once already in 2014, they spent $7.5 million dollars attacking medical marijuana and while they were successful in defeating the amendment, an overwhelming, 58% majority of voters still voted “yes”.
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The misleading campaign Sembler oversaw in 2014 won’t work again in 2016. This version of Amendment 2 received unanimous approval by the Florida Supreme Court. Editorial boards of Florida newspapers that opposed Amendment 2 in 2014 now endorse it in 2016. The most prominent and visible opponents in 2014 - the Florida Sheriff’s Association - hasn’t yet taken a position this year.
Mel Sembler can spend whatever he wants to try and deny sick and suffering Floridians relief in the form of medical marijuana, but the will of the people is stronger than his money. Mr. Sembler and his allies tried this once already in 2014, they spent $7.5 million dollars attacking medical marijuana and while they were successful in defeating the amendment, an overwhelming, 58% majority of voters still voted “yes”.
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The misleading campaign Sembler oversaw in 2014 won’t work again in 2016. This version of Amendment 2 received unanimous approval by the Florida Supreme Court. Editorial boards of Florida newspapers that opposed Amendment 2 in 2014 now endorse it in 2016. The most prominent and visible opponents in 2014 - the Florida Sheriff’s Association - hasn’t yet taken a position this year.
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The opposition is going to have to create a new set of lies to oppose Amendment 2. The people of Florida will see through those lies. United for Care will wage a statewide campaign to counter Sembler’s dishonest attacks, and medical marijuana will pass in November.
For press inquiries please contact Bianca Garza at press@unitedforcare.org
The opposition is going to have to create a new set of lies to oppose Amendment 2. The people of Florida will see through those lies. United for Care will wage a statewide campaign to counter Sembler’s dishonest attacks, and medical marijuana will pass in November.
For press inquiries please contact Bianca Garza at press@unitedforcare.org
The Liberals In Tampa Demand
Tampa Liberals
GO Hillsborough - Our demands
BUY CSX tracks immediately
And some trains.
Pedestrian friendly with bike trails
Turanchik Bay Ferry
And give the rest to HART
And Stop TBX
When Rick Scott Slithers Out Of The Governor’s Mansion
Ever wonder what will be left of natural Florida when Rick Scott slithers out of the Governor’s Mansion for the last time? Look at the Indian River Lagoon. Once a 150 mile-long bay of clear water filled with manatees, sea grasses and oysters, it has become a brown, stinking monoculture where only algae thrive. The fish are dying or dead. Look at the St. Johns River, or the Santa Fe River or Wakulla Springs and Silver Springs — all choking in toxic algal bloom fed by filthy runoff courtesy of Big Ag, Big Development and Big Sewer. No, not all of our environmental degradation happened on Scott’s watch. Previous governors have had a hand in it. here
Last year, the FWC Foundation gave him its top conservation award. That’s like giving Richard Nixon a merit badge for honesty. It’s absurd, appalling and entirely in keeping with the obsequious political vandals with which this governor surrounds himself.
Last year, the FWC Foundation gave him its top conservation award. That’s like giving Richard Nixon a merit badge for honesty. It’s absurd, appalling and entirely in keeping with the obsequious political vandals with which this governor surrounds himself.
Alan Grayson: Organize. Organize. Organize.
Alan Grayson has introduced legislation that would make it easier for workers who want to form or join a union, and make it harder to employers to stop. The Florida Democratic Representative’s Employer Free Choice Act of 2016 (HR 5000) says that if a majority of workers in a workplace sign cards authorizing a union, they get a union. here
Florida GOP John Mica's Taxes
Mr. Mica ripped into the District's finances at a hearing on Metro last week, fuming that he won't "bail out Washington, D.C." by funding the transit system. District tax records reveal that Mica isn't so fiscally responsible when it comes to his own share of the city's tax money. Between them, Mica and his wife Patricia Mica own six units on Capitol Hill. Between 2006 and 2013, they've racked up $1,071.81 across 17 penalty payments for paying their property taxes late. In 2006 alone, the Micas were hit with $608.29 in combined late penalties. here
Tampa Vote No on Go Hillsborough
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Rick Scott Big Trump Supporter
“Donald Trump will either have a majority of delegates or he will be very close. If we want to win in November we don’t want four more years of Barack Obama’s policies that are injuring our families. If Trump is in that position we need to rally around him.”
Grayson vs. Jolly Debate
Ask Congressman David Jolly and Congressman Alan Grayson about the issues that are most important to you -- then vote and tell others! Watch the Florida Open Debate for U.S. Senate right here on Monday, April 25, at 7:00 pm EDT. All questions will be chosen from among those that receive the most votes online. here
Feds Say Florida Can't Block Medicaid Funding To Planned Parenthood
A key federal health agency on Tuesday notified Florida that they may not ban Medicaid funding for family-planning services at clinics that also offer elective abortions. here
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Hillcrest Healthcare In Hollywood Hiring Scabs At $18 Per Hour
The Hillcrest Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in Hollywood is hiring scabs at $18.00 per hour to replace strikers making $11.00 per hour. here
Please note: They are only looking for seasonal workers until the strike ends.
Tampa Wants Robust Urban Transit
“My proposal is we wait and do it later, we don’t want to kill it, we want to modify it,” Bill Carlson echoing the criticism among Tampa liberals that there is far too little rail in the plan. He insisted, adding that the only people who will gain from the proposal is the Tea Party and the consultants who will work on the campaign. “We should have robust urban transit, Go Hillsborough doesn’t do that.” Ed Turanchik here
We are about to take it deep!
The history of GO HillsboroughThe Skyway Trap & Skeet Club Is Dangerous To Our Health
For 60 years it has been polluting Sawgrass Lake Park
a public wetland that feeds
into Tampa Bay. An estimated one million pounds of the hazardous stuff fell on the property,They were told to build a wall but never did. here
a public wetland that feeds
into Tampa Bay. An estimated one million pounds of the hazardous stuff fell on the property,They were told to build a wall but never did. here
Pic credit - Skyway Trap & Skeet Club archive
The Citrus Taliban Infestation of Hillsborough County Schools
There are currently 40 Fellowship of Christian Athlete clubs operating in Hillsborough county, including those at 10 public middle schools, 25 public high schools and the University of South Florida.
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Tampa Tea Party Paid Agitator Sharon Calvert
Where's my money?
“Several of your county commissioners want to be re-elected or seek other office (sic), some of them this year. Nothing has a bigger impact on them than ordinary citizens (not paid agitators) showing up at their meetings,” local tea bagger Sharon Calvert writes in an email. here
We didn't get paid?
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Louisiana GOP Bill Cassidy: We Don't Want Your Shit On Our Shores
Florida great Bill Nelson won this round. But a Louisiana colleague sponsoring a measure that encourages states like Florida to open up their waters to oil drilling promises the issue won’t go away. here
We will keep fighting you!
We will keep fighting you!
Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Ben Albritton
Pam Bondi: Worst Attorney General Ever
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has added our great state to the lawsuit that is currently blocking the implementation of Obama's executive actions on immigration. While she would be quick to tell you that we need to fix our broken immigration system, her consistent refusal to meet with constituents to discuss the issue of immigration paints a different picture of her intentions. here
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A PPRI poll reports that nearly four out of five Floridians wish that immigrants "be allowed to stay" in the country. Moreover, the same poll indicates that Floridians view immigrants as assets to our country's customs and values. Bondi has shown that she is willing to ignore her constituents in Florida and embroil our state in a wasteful lawsuit that benefits no one but Republican hard-liners.
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In Florida, where up to 229,000 immigrants could benefit from the president's executive actions, this translates to an estimated $9.4 billion growth in our state's GDP. And that is not all: A report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that Florida's state and local tax coffers would grow by $17 million per year.
VOTE!
In Florida, where up to 229,000 immigrants could benefit from the president's executive actions, this translates to an estimated $9.4 billion growth in our state's GDP. And that is not all: A report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that Florida's state and local tax coffers would grow by $17 million per year.
Monday, April 18, 2016
2016 Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Annual Conference in Tampa
Saturday, April 30, 2016 9:00 AM
Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association
3102 North Habana Avenue, Tampa info
Florida GOP Tea Party Congressman Allen West Standing By To Be Vice President
Former one-term Florida Tea Party congressman Allen West is ready to stand up and serve his country as the Republican vice presidential nominee. If God is approving and my wife and my two daughters are of approval -he told talk radio host Jeffrey Kuhner on Wednesday. here
Orlando Sending Tampa Their Homeless
Hillsborough County is so successful at dealing with its homeless problem that social welfare organizations in other counties are taking notice and sending their homeless here,
local advocates say. here
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This past week, an Orlando agency that helps find jobs for the disabled bought bus tickets for a single mother and her three young children and sent them to Tampa with no money or idea where they would stay or how they would provide for themselves. The woman has no family or friends in Tampa and falsely was told that arrangements were made to put them up at Metropolitan Ministries.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Tampa police officers and a cadre of homeless advocates managed to put the family up in a motel for a night and feed them and then put them back on a bus to Orlando, where the agency that sent them here in the first place promised to take care of them.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Trashing Dana Young
Florida Strong, the independent advocacy organization, is going after South Tampa House Republican Dana Young, alleging that she is more aligned with her campaign contributors than her constituents. here
I4/275 Destruction Through Tampa
TCentral Avenue Black Business District was an area in the Central Park (South Nebraska) neighborhood in Tampa. It was a hub for over 100 black stores and restaurants such as the Cotton Club where famous performers such as Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald came to perform. Performers, minorities, and whites all could come and experience culture, get something to eat, shop,
or find a place to stay. In fact, Ella Fitzgerald wrote her hit "A Tisket a Tasket" at the historic Jackson House on Scott Street. In the 1960s the neighborhood became almost completely non-existent with the construction of Interstate 4 and I-275 through downtown Tampa. here
Check out this awesome interactive display at
New Transit Poll - No Rail
A new poll indicates a majority of Hillsborough County voters would support a half-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase for transportation improvements if a vote were held today. The ballot question does not mention light rail — a mode of transportation that opponents focused on and that was highly unpopular among suburban voters. here
Friday, April 15, 2016
Fighters for 15 in Orlando
Sand Lake Rd and International Drive
Ashley and Kofi
Elizabeth
Asher
Jasmina
Dan, trying to get Chuck O'Neil on the ballot
for senate. He says Chuck fully supports Fight For 15.
Dan thanks for letting me take your pic. Check Dan's stuff here
Our future looks bright!
Management
Thank you Eugene for taking us there
and getting us back safe.
Thank you Orange county sheriff deputies
for protecting us!
Another job well done.
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