Showing posts with label TAMPA BAY CHAPTER 119. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TAMPA BAY CHAPTER 119. Show all posts
Monday, February 1, 2010
Tampa Bay's Self-destructing Economy: Part 1
St. Petersburg has been a Republican stronghold as long as Rightardia can remember. In this video the show multiple vacant prime location commercial properties located throughout the greater St. Petersburg area.
Please forward the video to your contacts. The State of Florida has also been run by Republicans for nearly 12 years. Florida's unemployment rate for December hit 11.8 percent, inching closer to breaking the state record of 11.9 percent set nearly 35 years ago.
In the Tampa Bay area, the jobless rate was 12.4 percent, driven in part by Hernando County's whopping 14.9 percent rate, second-highest in the state.
In past decades florida was able to withstand recessions because of the tourism industry. Initially this industry did not do well when the Bush recession stated because galoine prices were high. Gas prices have recovered, but tourism is till lagging.
In additon, the Republicans cut takes back while Jeb Bush was governor and have now been forced to layoff teachers, police and fire fighters as a result of their wayward tax policy.
Democrats needs to hang the Florida recession onto the Republicans. They can win in Florida with this strategy.
source: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/workinglife/florida-unemployment-hits-118-shrinking-labor-pool-masks-deeper-problem/1067308
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Veterans For Peace protest Rep. Gus Bilirakis's 3rd Annual Military Fair
AUGUST 26, 2009
by The Major
Rightardia comment: The Major attended this event and noticed plenty of protesters as he entered the school grounds. Attendance was light compared to last year and fewer people visited the displays in the school set up by a variety of veterans organizations. Another big difference was that some of the protesters entered the event grounds and were talking to the vets.
The major did not attend the rally in the auditorium because he no longer buys into right wing patriotic events. Some of the people who were leaving the rally indicated the protesters had disrupted it and police had to be called in. The Major saw the police talking to some of the protesters, but he didn't see anyone get arrested.
If the Astroturfers, Birthers, Deathers and Tea Baggers can't be civil in town hall meetings, Rightardia suggests turnabout is fair play.
by The Major
Rightardia comment: The Major attended this event and noticed plenty of protesters as he entered the school grounds. Attendance was light compared to last year and fewer people visited the displays in the school set up by a variety of veterans organizations. Another big difference was that some of the protesters entered the event grounds and were talking to the vets.
The major did not attend the rally in the auditorium because he no longer buys into right wing patriotic events. Some of the people who were leaving the rally indicated the protesters had disrupted it and police had to be called in. The Major saw the police talking to some of the protesters, but he didn't see anyone get arrested.
If the Astroturfers, Birthers, Deathers and Tea Baggers can't be civil in town hall meetings, Rightardia suggests turnabout is fair play.
TAMPA BAY CHAPTER 119 TO PROTEST WEAPONS DISPLAY ON PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY
Rep. Gus Bilirakis's Military Fair violates the public school system's ZERO-TOLERANCE policy against weapons.
WHAT: CODEPINK, St. Pete for Peace, Veterans For Peace, and local activists will protest the use of public school property to display weapons.
WHEN: 11am to 2 pm, August 29th, 2009
WHERE: Rep. Gus Bilirakis's 3rd Annual Military Fair, East Lake High School, 1300 Silver Eagle Drive, Tarpon Springs FL
The annual Military Fair, hosted by Congressman Gus Bilirakis, is used to glorify the military to children. Advertised as a "family" event, the fair includes multiple displays of military machinery and weaponry.
Public schools should be centers of academic and personal growth, we won't allow them to be used to showcase and glorify the military. At last year's event, Bilirakis allowed gun dealers on the school grounds; the dealers brought display guns, and allowed children to point them at each other.
The law states that if a child so much as displays a plastic pirate sword during a Halloween party on school grounds, he or she gets expelled. Yet the military is allowed to set up weapons displays and invite gun dealers to showcase their weaponry. We will not raise our children to kill another mother's child, and we refuse to allow our schools to become centers for military indoctrination.
For more information and exact schedule, please call Heidi Ferrara of CODEPINK Tampa Bay, (727) 967-7535 or Dwight Lawton at dlawton2@tampabay.rr.com.
source: http://stpeteforpeace.org/militaryfair.html
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