Sunday, December 8, 2019

Hillsborough County Commissioners got taken by Amazon

Back in 2013 commissioners gave Amazon $225,000 in  Corporate Welfare to build a center in Ruskin. HERE
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 Murman likened the Amazon deal to a business hurricane. "It can really give us that long term that we need," she said, "and this will be feeder bands, you know we talk a lot of about hurricanes, this is our hurricane because the feeder bands that will come off of this
will be unbelievable."
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AOC got hers for free!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “waiting on the haters to apologize” after Amazon said it would open up corporate offices in New York City to house more than 1,500 employees. The announcement from the internet giant came less than a year after it abruptly dropped plans to build a second headquarters in the city following backlash to the some $3 billion in financial incentives that the government had offered to woo the company. HERE
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“Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway - *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

 More here

Ybor Paparazzi

Visiting Photographers

Florida Representative Val Demings Schools AG Barr On Policing Comments

Tampa Berner in Ybor City

Tampa Bay Homeless

Downtown Tampa

We cannot let them drill for oil in the Everglades

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried calls it “outrageous” to allow oil-drilling on-shore in the Everglades and Apalachicola basin, a move that would put “precious water, popular beaches, and wildlife at great danger of being tainted 
by an oil spill.” HERE

Friday, December 6, 2019

Tampa Climate Strike

























Tampa City Hall

One of These Climate Strikes is not Like the Others






One of These Climate Strikes Doesn't Belong

Ybor City Homeless

Kirsten

Tampa Hoods

Ybor City

Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message

 Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone
 can be saved.
And in some places, it doesn’t even 
make sense to try. HERE

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Ybor City Homeless

Meet Jake

Florida GOP: Patriots or Traitors

When does Republican partisanship turn into treason? We’re about to find out. HERE
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Don't forget their supporters!
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Remember you only get one reputation in life.

Open’ primary measure too complicated for Florida voters

Florida’s Republican and Democratic parties joined Attorney General Ashley Moody Tuesday in arguing before the Supreme Court that a proposed “open” primary constitutional amendment is too complicated for voters and should be removed from the 2020 ballot. HERE