#app-news

[cwnerd12]

Nearly 400 people buried in Tampa are missing. What happened to Zion Cemetery?

Were they moved? Or do these African-Americans still lie beneath the ground along North Florida Avenue where restaurant trucks and public housing residents come and go?

[rjzimmerman]

America's oil and gas industry is making a serious investment in Gov. Rick Scott's U.S. Senate campaign.

If you live in Florida, your Governor and republican candidate for Senator is having a love affair with the fossil fuel industry. They give him hundreds of thousands of dollars, and what will he give them in return? Don’t let us find out. Make sure he gets sent home to wherever he comes from (Tennessee, before he invaded your state).

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America's oil and gas industry is making a serious investment in Gov. Rick Scott's U.S. Senate campaign.

Scott's midyear campaign report shows at least $880,000 in contributions from oil, gas and energy executives and employees to his campaign and from the industry to a pro-Scott super PAC. The industry is generally aligned with Republican candidates.

Scott, a wealthy former hospital executive, has also been a major investor in oil and gas firms that in federal filings with the SEC have expressed strong opposition to stricter environmental regulations and climate change policies.

Scott's eight-year-long lack of interest in any climate change policy has won him support from the energy industry. Scott's campaign replied that Nelson's filing also included thousands of dollars from oil and energy industry employees and industry PACs.Scott's campaign has accused rival Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson of inconsistency on offshore drilling, and ran a TV ad with a video clip of Nelson saying he had "no objection" to drilling at a time when Barack Obama was president.

[verycleverboy]

Adam Putnam’s office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in

For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

Goddammit, Florida...

For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

A previously unreported Office of Inspector General investigation found that in February 2016 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using a FBI crime database called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that ensures applicants who want to carry a gun do not have a disqualifying history in other states.

The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.

During that time, which coincided with the June 12, 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub that left 50 dead, the state saw an unprecedented spike in applications for concealed weapons permits. There were 134,000 requests for permits in the fiscal year ending in June 2015. The next 12 months broke a record, 245,000 applications, which was topped again in 2017 when the department received 275,000 applications.

[shadow27]

Here’s what the NRA’s Marion Hammer had to say about Florida’s proposed assault weapons ban.

Spoiler: She’s not a fan.

“How do you tell a 10-year-old little girl who got a Ruger 10/22 with a pink stock for her birthday that her rifle is an assault weapon and she has to turn it over to government or be arrested for felony possession?” 

The NRA are LITERALLY the worst. Their argument FOR assault rifles is that children SHOULD HAVE assault rifles.

[saywhat-politics]

Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left

The GOP memo falsely pinned the El Paso massacre and other notable mass shootings on the left.

[gwlarson2002]

Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left

The GOP memo falsely pinned the El Paso massacre and other notable mass shootings on the left.

[tearsofrefugees]

Florida Democrats blast ICE raids: ‘It’s a war against immigrants’

Lawmakers in Washington say they haven’t been provided any information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the extent of the raids or the strategy ICE may use on Sunday.