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District Rays Candidate Hagan Challenged As His Teflon Wears Thin

District Rays Candidate Hagan Challenged As His Teflon Wears Thin

Career politicians, especially those who park themselves in the same position for 16 years, know how to work and game the system.  Tampa, Fl From: Eye On Tampa Bay Posted by: Sharon Calvert After 16 too long years, District Rays Candidate Hagan is violating the spirit of term limits and running again for a single district seat he already held. He doesn’t care that he’s setting a horrible…

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Sport Analytics: MLB, Sternberg Using Extortion to Build Taxpayer Subsidized Stadium

Tampa, Fl Posted From: Tampa Bay Beat Author: Jim Bleyer   By Jim Bleyer Hillsborough County taxpayers, take a look around.  If you can’t find the sucker, it’s you. Anyone favoring a new taxpayer-funded stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays is either in the cabal of grifters that will share in the $600M+ windfall or baseball aficianados that have bought into the sport’s bribery/blackmail playbook. Major…

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Fast Track HB13 to Stop Subsidizing Stadiums and the Pay to Play

Fast Track HB13 to Stop Subsidizing Stadiums and the Pay to Play

Tampa, Fl From: Eye On Tampa Bay Posted by: Sharon Calvert According to this Floridapolitics.com article, House Bill 13, that bans Florida sports franchises from constructing or renovating facilities on leased public land, is heading to the House floor. It does have a companion bill in the Senate SB352. House Bill 13 is identical to one that passed the House last year but died in the Senate. The…

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