FL Legislator's "Revenge" Bill Goes After Children Allowing ALL...
#161 of My Stupid StateThe Florida wingnuts just can't freaking stand not being in the spotlight. They couldn't give us ONE day for Indiana to take the heat off with their inane hate bill. We always...
View ArticleHELP! My Local Bakery Getting Death Threats for Refusing to Make Anti-Gay Cake!
Cut the Cake is a longstanding business in the Longwood community outside Orlando run by the ultra-polite Sharon Haller.Joshua Feuerstein is a disgusting bigot (who should not be trying to rock a...
View ArticleEven FL GOP Had Enough: Jeb Bush's Group STILL Screwing Over Our Schools
To say Bush was a horrible governor would be an understatement. Because of him we have the Stand Your Ground law, which has put every minority in this state in a gun nut's crosshairs. He illegally...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Rick Scott Became Socialist (no, seriously)
The teaparty darling who hates all things Obama has allowed his hatred to go so far that he is parting with his core ideology.Florida's healthcare crisis is sinking us. Scott refuses to accept the...
View ArticleFL GOP kills Medicaid AND refuses to stop their $8 gold packages. HERE'S WHAT...
The GOP teabagger-ruled Fl House refused a million people in florida the ability to get health insurance by killing the Medicaid expansion. They all complained about getting people dependent on...
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Tide Turns: Even SC/MS Face Confederate Toxin! Yet Here in Florida....
#167 of My Stupid StateMitt Romney might be a complete bastard, but he was the first major right-winger to call for the flag of our defeated enemy, the flag of white supremacy, to come down from SC's...
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Rick Scott "Not Offended" by Trump Racism
One of the things Rick Scott is well known for in Florida is dodging questions. Somewhere early on in his first campaign apparently someone told him that he was so bad at talking that he needs to...
View ArticleReceive Food Bank Donations? Get Eviction!!
#168 of My Stupid StateFlorida slum lord Tonia Sonju runs the Carlyn Estates Mobile Home Park in the city of Palmetto. She is a very wealthy investor who bought the park last year for $5.2...
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Jeb-Appointed Fl Judge (my own Seminole Co) Makes National News for being a...
#169 of My Stupid State It's never a good thing when you see the Seminole County courthouse on the frontpage of anything. The last time you saw it featured so prominently was because of the Trayvoyn...
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Florida GOP's New Stand Your Ground Expansion: Trayvon's Killer Would Get...
#170 of My Stupid State series As always, I have to begin my posts by pointing out that this is NOT a snark. In the Gunshine state, the NRA doesn't just get laws passed, they write the laws. At a time...
View ArticleReally Rick Scott? Secret Contract Payoff to Rap-Star Pitbull with Taxpayer...
Rick Scott is a huge Pitbull fan. Or at least he says he is. (He's not known for being too friendly with Hispanics, but we’ll take him at his word on this.)Since early this year, Rick Scott and the...
View ArticleMy Stupid State series to end next month
I started documenting the crazy on this site and my blog after the Teabag Tallahassee takeover in 2010. Several people asked that I keep all of the posts in one place, so I created the My Stupid State...
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The Seminole Democrat Blog Bids Farewell
The Seminole Democrat blog has been in existence since June 2006. It started as the official blog for the Seminole County Democratic Party, but broke off to be independent a year later.We have had...
View ArticleWho the hell is SemDem?
Who am I?You don’t care? I agree. I’m nobody, really. Yet since DKos made the mistake of hiring me; and since I still have a few readers who haven’t figured out I don’t know what I'm doing, I figure...
View ArticleFL GOP House Advances Bill Allowing Rick Scott To Take "Military Action"...
FL Representative Lake Ray is a raging bigot. (That's just another way of saying Florida conservative.) There is no shortage of problems to fix in this state—most of which were caused by the GOP...
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Florida Legal: Man Shoots Young Girl Neighbor In Her House From Homemade Gun...
The young girl had it coming. After all, she was on a gun range. Well, let me rephrase that: she was inside her own home in a quiet neighborhood. But thanks to Rick Scott and the NRA-controlled...
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FL GOP Lawmaker to Muslim Woman Visiting State Capitol: "Is It Safe to Ride...
Bigoted rednecks are rightfully shunned in most places. Yet here in the great state of Florida, they are often given legislative power.Laila Abdelaziz is the director of CAIR, Florida. She went to the...
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Google "Pokémon Go" plus your state. Notice anything, Florida?
Take a moment and google the words "Pokemon Go"--the latest national craze responsible for the rash of people walking into walls-—plus the name of your state. Look at the top choices.For most of you,...
View ArticleFlorida In Crisis: Teachers Are Leaving in Droves
This is a story that has gotten completely lost in Trump’s daily meltdowns and our state's weekly mass shootings. However, Florida is having a bona-fide crisis.Our public school teachers are "leaving...
View ArticleFlorida is not a red state. We are a blue state where Democrats have given up
In 2015, then-governor Mike Pence signed a law that allowed businesses to discriminate against gay couples. This was legislation that 70% of Indiana opposed, as did most of the state’s top businesses....
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