Tacos
With Rice and Beans
At The Taco Bus - Downtown Tampa
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Andrew Gillum: Bondi, Rick Scott on “Wrong Side of History”
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It should be lost on no one that they filed this appeal on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s tragic assassination. We still have much work to do in this state.” Andrew Gillum
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Friday, April 6, 2018
Tampa Dems Party At The Attic
Possible future Tampa city Councilman John Godwin
with Lisa Young
with Lisa Young
Florida House of Representatives candidate Heather Stahl
with local Progressive leader Beth Eriksen Shoup
with local Progressive leader Beth Eriksen Shoup
Ione Townsend and Tim Heberlein
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Downtown Tampa
Images by Jim Bleyer
Sandy Murman smells the stench of defeat
She has unveiled a proposal to change the board’s makeup. She wants to eliminate at-large seats. Some see it as a naked political move to shore up her future on the board.
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The motion by Murman to study the idea was
rejected by commissioners.
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"Blatant political move by a Republican running for a countywide seat in a Democratic year. #FlipTheCommission and send Murman into political retirement!" Dave Cutler President at Hillsborough County LGBTA Democratic Caucus
Florida GOP Federal Judge Does Not Play Games
Florida GOP challenged a federal judge’s order that Florida must change the process used to restore voting rights to former prisoners.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, acting on behalf of Rick Scott and the state’s clemency board, appealed the judge’s decision to block the state’s current system of forcing ex-felons to wait at least five years before they can ask for the right to vote. U.S. District Mark Walker had given Scott and state officials until April 26 to create a new process, but attorneys working for Bondi asked that Walker’s order be placed on hold while the case moves to a federal appeals court in Atlanta.
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Hours after the appeal was made, Walker turned down Florida’s request to put the case on hold and said this “court does
not play games.
not play games.
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“Rather than comply with the requirements of the United States Constitution, defendants continue to insist they can do whatever they want with hundreds of thousands of Floridians’ voting rights and absolutely zero standards,” Walker wrote. “They ask this Court to stay its prior orders. No.” here
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They can see the ass whooping coming!
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Las Vegas Rays?
After decades of being shaken down by sports franchises, their billionaire owners, and professional sports leagues, sensible cities are refusing to pay subsidies to keep or lure a professional sports team.
There is one exception: Las Vegas. It appears to be the most likely destination for a Tampa Bay Rays franchise desperate to feed at some public trough. here
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They can join my favorite team
since childhood
The Oakland Raiders!
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They can join my favorite team
since childhood
The Oakland Raiders!
Florida’s Rick Scott Busted In Corporate Welfare Scheme
His administration’s Department of Economic Opportunity in 2014 violated federal law to make a deal to provide financial incentives to a U.S. company with ties to the Russian maker of the Kalashnikov semi-automatic assault rifle, which at the time was subject to sanctions put in place by the U.S. government.
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it offered $162,000 in tax refund incentives to Kalashnikov USA for 54 jobs. It is located in a non-descript 40,000 square foot facility in
Pompano Beach. here
Pompano Beach. here
Words From Asher Edelson
"We have two more opportunities to advocate for term limits and police body cameras in the City of Tampa. I appreciate Charter Commissioners Michael Stephens and Bill Carlson motioning for bias training to ensure accountability among city officials." Asher Edelson
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Thank you Tim Canova
He’s leaving the Democratic Party and abandoning his primary challenge of Wasserman Schultz. He hopes to appear on the November ballot as a no party affiliation candidate against her.
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It's about time someone told the truth
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“I am not screwing the Democratic Party. It has screwed over too many ordinary Americans and it has screwed over too many progressive candidates.”
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is a “corporate, robot politician;” She “is the kiss of death. She is the albatross around this party.” He called her a “menace” to Florida, the nation and the world.
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"The party beats us up, robs us, violates our trust, lies, cheats and steals, and then it says you’ve got nowhere to go. It’s the Republicans or us.”
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