Category: Corruption
Transportation Tax Has Drained a Half-Billion from Hillsborough Economy

By Jim Davison, Contributor The pandemic and its economic impact have preoccupied most of the country since February but no more so than for the people of Hillsborough County. Since March of this year punishing job losses, social restrictions, family struggles and much more have all been heaped upon …
Make Sure Your Vote Counts in November

By Jim Bleyer If events leading up to 2020’s historic election tell Floridians anything, it is that voter suppression is highest on the agenda of powerful politicians, especially in presidential battleground states. Florida, with its 29 electoral votes, provides a rich, inviting target. From the ditching of sorting …
Hillsborough Directs CARES $$ to Billionaires
Recruiting Poll Workers Will Thwart Trump’s Fraud Claims

By Steve Rosenfeld, Editor, Voting Booth In 2000, Ion Sancho had a front-row seat to the partisan mayhem and legal posturing surrounding Florida’s presidential recount. The Florida Supreme Court asked Sancho, then supervisor of elections in Florida’s capital, to be its technical adviser—second in charge—of overseeing the recount, …
Your Taxes Will Promote MPO-IOC Transit Propaganda Deluge

By Jim Bleyer Twitter? Check. Facebook? Check. Special website? Check. Electronic media? Check. Graphics and imagery? Check. Any and all means of messaging to promote Tampa-centric transit plans including light rail? Check. The federally-funded Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization hatched such a comprehensive propaganda plan in anticipation of the …
Tampa Airport Violates Own Policy, Invites Lawsuits, in Hiring Flack
Clueless Trump Should Be Rooting For Sweden
Jim Davison to Challenge County Commissioner Pat Kemp

By Jim Bleyer Jim Davison, a conservative activist and emergency room physician, is expected to file papers this week for the Hillsborough County Commission District 6 seat held by Pat Kemp. The heavyweight matchup promises to be a referendum on countywide transportation which has been a fiasco for …
Policy-violating Transit Chief Axed in Policy-violating Board Meeting

By Tom Rask, from the Tampa Bay Guardian At a special meeting Thursday , the Hillsborough Area Regional Transportation Authority (HART) board of directors fired its $210,000 per year CEO Ben Limmer for violating several HART policies. The firing was “for cause,” meaning that Limmer will not get the severance pay …