Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Ybor Paparazzi

Dave Cutler
At The Bunker

Tampa Bay Homeless

Homeless living in Tampa

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Rick Scott

Top 10 Donors to Rick Scott’s Let’s Get to Work Committee
$790,052 
Florida Chamber of Commerce
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$335,000
Associated Industries of Florida PAC
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$325,000
 U.S. Sugar Corporation, based in Clewiston
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$310,000
The Geo Group Inc
private prison operator based in Boca Raton
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$277,503
Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts
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$250,000
Skye Lane Properties, a real estate management company in Clearwater and a subsidiary of Heritage Insurance Holdings.
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$250,000
Floridians for a Stronger Democracy. 
 A PAC with ties to Associated
Industries of Florida
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$250,000
 Voice of Florida Business - a PAC with ties to Associated Industries of Florida.
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$200,000
Jeffrey Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning
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$200,000
Daniel Doyle Jr. & DEX Imaging - Doyle is CEO of the document imaging equipment company Tampa based

SOURCE: Florida Division of Elections

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Bloody Mary
At The Hub

Marco Rubio Afraid Of Liberals

Marco Rubio won’t participate in town hall meetings because he says political activists will crash them to create a media spectacle of people who “heckle and scream at me in front of cameras.” here
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“They are not town halls anymore. What these groups really want is for me to schedule a public forum, they then organize three, four, five, six hundred liberal activists in the two counties or wherever I am in the state. Activists are instructed to go to town halls early and “take up all the front seats. They spread themselves out. They ask questions. They all cheer when the questions are asked. They are instructed to boo no matter what answer I give. They are instructed to interrupt me if I go too long and start chanting things. Then, at the end, they are also told not to give up their microphone when they ask questions. It’s all in writing in this Indivisible document.” Marco Rubio

Monday, February 27, 2017

A Critical Day For Hillsborough County

This Wednesday morning, March 1st is a critical day for Hillsborough County. If you cannot be there, PLEASE EMAIL your County Commissioners all at once ASAP with the link below to demand the County Commission FUND TRANSIT NOW!
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Email is the BEST way for written record of all comments but if possible please call, too!
Sandra L. Murman 813-272-5470 
Victor D. Crist 813-272-5452 
Lesley "Les" Miller Jr. 813-272-5720 
Stacy White 813-272-5740 
Ken Hagan 813-272-5725 
Pat Kemp 813-272-5730 
Al Higginbotham 813-272-5735

The Resistance In Downtown Tampa












Florida GOP Web Of Lies

Martin County commissioners' public records sins finally came home to roost. Three commissioners, Sarah Heard, Ed Fielding and Anne Scott were caught red-handed in a web of lies, denying they conducted public business on private email accounts, hiding, even attempting to destroy records to which the public is entitled. here

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chinese to go
$7.05 At Tampa Buffet
How much was your last value meal?
Eat Local!

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Coffee with Asher Edelson

Asher D. Edelson is the Vice President of the Democratic Disability Caucus of Hillsborough County. By the age of 12, Edelson was a published author with political ambitions. In 2014, Edelson was the youngest candidate in Hillsborough County’s history to run for School Board District 6 at age 19. Currently, Edelson is finishing his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at USF as well as serving as a Precinct Committeeman for the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee.


Asher is well-known in the Bay area’s progressive political movement for initiating conversations on potential candidates in addition to highlighting important local policy issues via Facebook and other social media outlets. The Ybor City Stogie recently sat down with Edelson to learn more about his work with the Democratic Hillsborough County Disability Caucus and discover his thoughts on the 2018 local elections.