Ybor City
Friday, July 6, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Welcome Asher Edelson
Good morning Tampa Bay!
I have not written for the Stogie before and I am excited to do so today!
For my inaugural Stogie posting, I would like to talk about Andrew Gillum. He is the best candidate running for Governor of Florida. He has a progressive platform and was the first major gubernatorial candidate in modern Florida history to endorse full cannabis legalization. Gillum has a solid background in Tallahassee as a trailblazer who won his first significant office at age 23 (an age which I will soon leave behind). He is quite electable, too, with the authenticity to win over more than the average base that will vote blue regardless; Gillum can bring it home for young people, progressives, and communities of color. He can win and be an excellent Governor.
I want to see Hillsborough County public officials endorse Andrew Gillum. Officials across the state from Orlando’s Carlos Smith to South Florida’s Frederica Wilson have done it, but so far as I’ve seen, none from Tampa/Hillsborough have endorsed him.
What about our progressives? What about County Commissioner Pat Kemp? City Councilor Frank Reddick? Former State Representative Ed Narain? State Attorney Andrew Warren? If people stand up and ask our elected politicians to make the endorsement, it will be more likely to happen.
Thank you for reading!
Asher Edelson
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Happy 4th Tampa Bay
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Thomas Jefferson
Francisco Pierre-Louis for Soil and Water Conservation
This is why I am running for Soil and Water Conservation - District 3. Not only am I running to encourage more people to run for office but because we are facing a behemoth. That behemoth is Mosaic.
We shouldn't forget that Mosaic is the same company that dumped 215 million gallons of radioactive waste down the Florida Aquifer. This is unacceptable. I am one of the few people currently running that is willing to work with local and statewide organizations to push Mosaic out of Hillsborough County because at the end of the day, water is life.
Visit him here
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Hillsborough County Democratic Party Exposed (Updated)
The DEC has sent out numerous flyers for candidates promoting their events. NONE of their flyers come with the disclaimer that they aren't endorsed by the DEC. I went to one DEC meeting where they even let a candidate put her flyer in the presentation and was projected
for all to see.
for all to see.
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Updated. Please see comment below.
Florida INC. $83 million in 2017
CEO Rick Scott had a very good year in 2017, as he saw his net worth increase by more than $83 million. here
Florida Dem Skull Session in Fort Lauderdale
There are more Democrats than Republicans in Florida, but that hasn’t helped the party win many statewide races over the past quarter century.
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Weak Candidates = Low turnout and tepid fundraising
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They are meeting in Fort Lauderdale to plan strategy to try to win in November.
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Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Penalosa said they did a poor job of turning out voters. That is changing, we have learned from our missteps — we are developing and employing a strategy that is working in 2018. here
Words For Florida Activist
The truth is: last Tuesday wasn’t just a victory for me. It was a victory for all of us. From the very beginning, we had a vision to build a broad-based coalition of organizers to educate and expand the electorate — and that’s
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
We didn’t buy this victory, and it was not luck. Thousands of people worked for it. It was built by those who volunteered, donated, and fought to bring our vision to Congress. Together, we showed the world that a progressive grassroots campaign can go toe-to-toe with the most powerful, established forces in America
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Florida Democratic Party Continues to Alienate Progressives
The Florida Democratic Party is going all in on its marginalization of its progressive wing.
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Progressives are roiling in several counties including Broward, Duval, Orange, and Hillsborough. All are populous, all have significant communities of progressive Democrats
and left-leaning NPAs.
and left-leaning NPAs.
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In Hillsborough and statewide, there is are racist overtones in the Democratic schism. Democratic National Committee member Alan Clendenin has attacked the party’s only black gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and the PAC of black businesspeople
that support him.
that support him.
Clendenin called The Collective Super PAC as a “Republican front,” a patent falsehood that was interpreted to mean that black candidates and contributors cannot function within the same parameters as white
Democratic candidates.
Democratic candidates.
Monday, July 2, 2018
The Millennial Socialists Are Coming
In May, three young progressive women running for the state Legislature in Pennsylvania, each endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won decisive primary victories over men heavily favored by the political establishment.
Michelle Goldberg
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Right Wing In Macclenny, Florida
At the ICE detention center protest in Macclenny, FL, one of our fellow activists was arrested and charged with “criminal mischief”. She was released today with charges dropped and her immigration status unaffected. But there’s more to the story...
At the conclusion of the protest, as we were walking to our cars, a woman who had been with the deputies in the Sheriff’s Office with the deputies, got in her car, drove up behind our group (about 50 people walking across the parking lot) and actually drove her car into the group, striking several people. No one was injured, but her car was surrounded and she was called to account for herself. Deputies came out of the building and with no investigation, arrested one of our people.
The Sheriff’s Office told the press that we had “attacked” her and “jumped on her car” as she was arriving. Bullshit. I was less than 20 feet away and NO ONE jumped on her car. Also, she was leaving, not arriving. They knew this because she had been inside with them until just before she drove into us.
Looks to me like it was a set up by the Baker County Sheriff’s Office in order to make an arrest and
“teach us a lesson”.
“teach us a lesson”.
Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka...here’s a video of the driver, along with a little extra information
...let’s make her “famous” Gene Anderson
...let’s make her “famous” Gene Anderson
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