The Ybor City Stogie

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Equality Florida in Tallahassee

Parents of transgender children, youth advocates, and healthcare experts came out to the Capitol in FORCE to testify against the dangerous and mean-spirited "transgender youth medical care ban".

While the Florida House subcommittee did not vote on the bill (HB 1365), it was made clear during the hearing that this legislation is driven by people who have no concerns whatsoever for the lives and safety of transgender youth. The same groups who oppose anti-bullying efforts and basic legal protections for LGBTQ Floridians, now seek to put transgender young people into hiding by threatening their doctors with 15 years imprisonment.

Thank you to all the trans and enby advocates, parents (especially the mama bears!), healthcare experts, and partner organizations whose brave, honest, loving words drowned out the bigoted rhetoric of the anti-LGBTQ extremists the bill's supporters had flown

in to testify.

The bill is procedurally DEAD for the 2020 legislative session. But we need to stay vigilant to ensure this bill never sees the light of day.

#ProtectTransKids

Photo credit:Equality Florida

Vlogging with a Nikon in Tampa

Berners in Orlando

Our Revolution Tampa Bay

DELUSIONAL! Rick Scott

Dark Money Jeff Brandes

A St. Pete ordinance that is serving as a national model for dark money reform would be preempted under a last-minute proposal attached to a Senate bill by
Sen. Jeff Brandes. HERE

Calls on Jax Mayor Lenny Curry to resign

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

The Bernie Iowa Factor

The Iowa caucus has worked fine for a very long time. the party decided to use the app only after another proposal for reporting votes — which entailed having caucus participants call in their votes over the phone
was abandoned

On the advice of Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials, according to David Jefferson, a board member of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan election integrity organization.

Matt Blaze, a professor of computer science and law at Georgetown, said that introducing apps in the midst of an election exposed many problems. The consensus of all experts who have been thinking about this is unequivocal. Internet and mobile voting should not be used at this time
in civil elections.

Another form of voter suppression, are they trying to make us lose faith in the electoral process or the DNC didn't get the result they wanted? HERE
===
There Are Enough Irregularities in Iowa Caucus to Suspect Rigging Against Sanders: the Problems HERE