Florida Trump Voters Lash Out

Longtime Florida Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 admitted they have no intention of helping him stay in office when they vote in November.

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With polls showing the Trump trailing in the all-important Sunshine State.

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According to retired banker John Dudley, 77, he voted for Trump last election and the president promptly “blew it.”

HERE

Florida GOP Bullshit

Florida Dems called on GOP Ron DeSantis to require the use of face coverings in public statewide to curb the state’s surging pace of coronavirus infections.

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DeSantis has said repeatedly, and recently reiterated, that he will not mandate mask use, leaving it to local governments and individuals to decide for themselves.

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Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Orange County, Leon County, Hillsborough County and St. Augustine have adopted mask mandates.

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Meanwhile, state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a Lake County Republican, is filing lawsuits against local governments that impose 
face-mask ordinances.

HERE

Happy Birthday Andrew Joseph III

"There’s not a day that passes by that I don’t think of you and Remember that I still have a son and I named him Andrew Joseph, III ... he is forever 14 years old. Today and Always. I love you son and miss you so damn much." Deanna Hardy-Joseph

Andrew Joseph, III Memorial Foundation

Florida Dems Beware

Trump is scheming to retain power in the event of an electoral loss in November, according to a former Senator from Colorado.

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Trump will attempt to retain power through voter suppression. The Senator alleges there is a strategy to suppress voter turnout by purging voters - especially inner-city voters - from registration rolls and to suppress mail-in voting. He also believes physical polling locations will be limited, especially in urban areas, in an effort to create long lines on Election Day and discourage voting. HERE

Self Isolate Blues

The Right-Wing Cuban Diaspora in Miami

The fury over French director Olivier Assayas’s new film “Wasp Network,” inspired by the real story of a Cuban spy ring operating in the U.S. in the 1990s.

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 The feature film has reignited ideological passions across the Florida Straits. The vociferous right-wing Cuban diaspora in Miami has led a petition drive #RemoveWaspNetwork (18,000 signatures as of July 2) for Netflix to take down the film. HERE

Happy 4th of July

Tampa Hoods

Downtown

Floridians Reminiscing

Now that we finally got around to treason and are in a patriotic mood. Let's recap shell we. On this date this man could of put a stop to this madness and 
he didn't. HERE

THIS DEM WANTS HIS JOB. 
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Happy Independence Day!

Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba’s Children

Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent by their parents who were alarmed by rumors circulating amongst Cuban families that the new government under Fidel Castro was planning to terminate parental rights, and place minors in communist indoctrination centers. HERE

Fort Lauderdale Police Body-Cam

Florida's Ron DeSantis Disaster

One recent survey has some troubling news for DeSantis. HERE

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His unfavorable rating has shot up from 28.5 percent to 40.5 percent. The reason? 

More and more people know who DeSantis is and have formed an opinion about him. Wish voters had know that before they 
voted for him.
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2018 Florida gubernatorial election
Ron DeSantis 4,076,186
Andrew Gillum 4,043,723

Ybor Life

7th Ave

Florida History: The Tampa Mafia (Part One)

Who Is Ron DeSantis? Narrated By Yedoye Travis

Tampa Berner Running For School Board

Jessica Vaughn

Endorsed by Our Revolution - Tampa Bay

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Self Isolate Blues

Tampa Locavore: Dairy Joy Tampa

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Tampa Locavore

Pork Chop Kings: Getting Tested with Val Demings

Pork Chop Kings

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One of my favorite Star Wars film. Learn how Han and Chewy became friends. Great train robbery attempt at the beginning. Nice cast. Directed by Ron Howard.

Our Revolution - Tampa Bay Endorses Jessica Vaughn

I’m so incredibly honored to be endorsed by “Our Revolution”. Now is the time to elect people-powered candidates who are ready to work for all of their constituents - equally, and not just wealthy developers who can afford to make giant campaign contributions in exchange for votes; votes which will ultimately hurt our district and our schools. Please join our campaign - because when we organize, we win!

Please donate to our campaign 
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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Italian Sausage with Ziti

At Westshore Pizza

Florida Presidents Men

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Self Isolate Blues

Tampa Bodega Food: The Latin Spot Cafe & Market

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Ybor Rob at Tampa Tank

The Red Wedding of Tampa Bay

Ron DeSantis vetoed millions in Tampa Bay area programs. Here’s what got cut. It's been referred to as the "Red Wedding" of budget cuts.
Hillsborough County

$1.5 million for Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority Operations
$1 million for the Straz Center for the Performing Arts

$1 million for the Italian Club of Tampa

$500,000 for the renovation of the Jackson House in Tampa

$200,000 for the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative

$1 million for a new boardwalk and path near the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital

$300,000 to make Lois Avenue in Tampa safer for pedestrians and cyclists

$500,000 to expand the Florida Aquarium’s threatened coral archive and

 reproduction program

$500,000 for ZooTampa

$958,000 (Cut) for a new irrigation sprinkler system at the (Private) Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club

$250,000 that would have shored up the wastewater system in some of

Tampa’s older homes

$250,000 to improve the draining system in Tampa’s Anita subdivision

$500,000 for a master water plan for Plant City’s McIntosh Park

$250,000 for a new vehicle for Tampa Police Department’s bomb squad

$546,250 for a new vehicle for the the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office explosive ordinance disposal team

$950,000 for Hillsborough Community College’s a day on service initiative

$50,000 for the Tampa Museum of Art’s community outreach program

$255,000 for a job training program through Feeding Tampa Bay

$500,000 to enhance a county’s STEM education program HERE

DeSantis has lost control of Florida’s COVID-19 response

Stogie Approved Progressives in Vermont!

Hello friends! It is time for some more Ybor City Stogie endorsed candidates! This time we will cover a couple of Vermont candidates for statewide office. These two people are progressives to their core and are running to help heal Vermont!

Brenda Siegel is running for Lt. Governor of Vermont. She is a community activist who has been instrumental in hurricane relief for the Town of Brattleboro and steadfast for relief with regard to the opioid epidemic. She supports improving our state by focusing resources on helping people out of opioid addiction, and taking an approach more similar to that of Portugal—which has done well with a less draconian drug policy. She is also in favor of pushing environmental protection & strong labor laws. I support her bid for Lt. Governor!
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Lt. Governor David Zuckerman is running for Governor of Vermont. He has been a longtime advocate for expanding cannabis liberties and he will be in the best position to do so as our Governor. He can help put Vermont on the map for tourism, tax revenue, jobs, and medical benefits on the cannabis platform alone! He is also in favor of securing universal healthcare for the people Vermont. I support his bid
for Governor!
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Who should The Ybor City Stogie 
endorse next? Let us know and stay groovy. 
— Asher

Kevin Beckner for Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court Campaign Kickoff

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Florida Joke Pam Bondi

Democrats, such as presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, are advocating for the mandatory 
wearing of masks.

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Pam Bondi believes that Biden’s proposal is really a harbinger of Marxist totalitarianism.

“What’s it similar to? In Cuba, where Castro makes all school-aged children wear a Pioneer Scarf,” Bondi said Friday night on Fox News’ Hannity. HERE

Self Isolate Blues

Tampa Locavore: Roosters Cafe Brooksville

Brooksville

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