The Ybor City Stogie

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Florida GOP Cowards Bought And Paid For By The NRA

Florida republicans attempted to relax gun legislation the day after 17 people were killed in a school shooting. The Republican cowards bought and paid for by the National Rifle Association tacked on some gun related legislation to the bottom of a 98-page agriculture bill,
SB 740.
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If passed, the bill would force the Florida Department of Agriculture to grant concealed-carry permits within 90 days of filing...even if the background check of the applicant has not been completed.

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Thanks to the League of Women Voters and Moms Demand Action for catching the buried bit of legislations.

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Ybor City Homeless

Meet Glen

Hillsborough Republican Party Shootout In Lithia

Chance to win guns!

NRA Sellout Adam Putnam: Opie of Open Carry

If you want to get elected to office in Florida, a politician is obligated to grovel before the great and powerful National Rifle Association, which views Tallahassee as a wholly owned subsidiary
of its interests.

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Adam Putnam is currently Florida's Agriculture Commissioner. He's also a Republican candidate for governor and a self-described "NRA sellout."

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He thinks it's a swell idea it is to permit gun owners to carry their little friends on college campuses, as well as endorsing proposals to allow the open carry of weapons in public places. That the protest against the NRA is merely "a classic progressive move.

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The NRA thinks that more citizens need to be locked and loaded because the nation is on the cusp of a violent revolution that it hinted former President
Barack Obama is leading.

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Opie tweeted about how he's proud to be an #NRASellout and even created a petition on his site encouraging anyone who is also an
#NRASellout to sign.

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Pasco Activists

Join our neighbors to the North

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David Jolly: Want Mass Shootings Stopped? Vote Republicans Out Of Office

Former Rep. David Jolly on Wednesday argued American voters must flip the House of Representatives to a Democratic majority if they want Congress to address gun control in the wake of a Florida high school shooting that left 17 people dead and others injured. here

Friday, February 16, 2018

Bruce Wright Takes On The City Of St. Petersburg And Wins

A Florida appeals court ruled that the City of St. Petersburg violated Florida’s Sunshine Law when it reached a decision to amend a city ordinance at a meeting that was not open to the public. The Sunshine Law protects the right of the public to bep resent and heard during all phases of decision-making by government boards and commissions.

The court sided with Rev. Bruce Wright, who initiated this lawsuit. Wright felt vindicated by the court’s ruling, saying, “I am pleased the City’s secret dealings are laid bare in this decision. The City’s failure to hold a public debate about this ordinance is undemocratic to its core.”

Wright was represented in this lawsuit by Southern Legal Counsel, a Florida statewide nonprofit public interest law firm. Kirsten Anderson, lead attorney for the case, said, “This decision is a great victory for government in the sunshine. We will continue to fight to protect the public’s right to government that is transparent and accountable
to the people.”

The First Amendment Foundation, Florida’s premier Sunshine Law organization, filed an amicus brief in support of Wright’s case before the appeals court. Read a copy of
the court’s decision here

Tampa Democrats For Straz

Vince DiMaio - Democrat

Tampa Tiger Bay Club president,
a Straz supporter

and a Democratic political consultant? source

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Consulting the Democrats to their graves.

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Yolie Capin Democrat

Tampa City Council District 6

Filed to run for the Hillsborough County Commission District 1 but dropped her bid to head David Straz's exploratory committee for a possible 2019 mayor's race. Source

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With her candidate having no chance of wining,

now a political has-been.

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Tampa Bay Homeless

Little Wolf

She is Apache

Florida GOP Pam Bondi Enthusiastically Backs The NRA

In 2013, Florida GOP Pam Bondi enthusiastically backed the #NRA's bid to overturn a 45-year-old federal law prohibiting 18-to-20-year-olds from buying handguns & ammunition from firearms dealers. here

WRITE NOW Florida

Florida native and East Tampa Community Activist, Miss Connie Burton started a Letter Writing Campaign called "Write Now" which sends greeting cards with uplifting words of encouragement to Black & Brown men and women incarcerated in the Florida prison system.

This fundraiser is so that we can purchase a quantity of 300 custom printed 5" x 7" Greeting cards that will have a pair of Brown Lips on the exterior and an uplifting message on the interior. The amount raised will also included the envelopes and postage required to mail them. Thank you so much for contributing to this effort, especially during Black History Month! here

Straz Campaign Finance Report Misinformation

The five-month financial report filed by the Straz for Tampa PAC contains glaring omissions and possibly intentional misinformation. here

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Medicare For All Rally - Tampa

Being warned that they are not allowed

on (Their?) property!

Sam M. Gibbons U.S. Courthouse

Florida GOP Jackie Toledo Endorsed By The NRA

"I am honored by this endorsement and

I stand with the NRA" Jackie Toledo

To The Point: Andrew Gillum

Ybor Paparazzi

Hank bartender at The Reservoir

NRA Whore Marco Rubio

Rubio tweeted frequent updates on the shooting at the high school in his home state. Authorities say there are at least 17 killed.

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Rubio has received $90,205 in campaign donations from gun rights groups during the 2015-2016 campaign cycle and received an "A+" grade from the NRA. Rubio has received $3,303,355 over the course of his career as an elected official.

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"Today is that terrible day you pray never comes," Rubio tweeted

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