SHE DEVIL
I need a case of Maximum Strength Zantac 150!
It's time to send a strong message to the Hillsborough County Commissioners! ..... We need to stay away from Hillsborough County and spend our vacation and/or our leisure time in Pinellas County, where all are welcomed! I believe it's time for a BOYCOTT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY!
Never in my life have I been so pissed of as I've been this summer....... RONDA STORMS, "The Wicked Witch of Hillsborough County" or "She Devil" (I've bestowed these titles upon her ~ this is my opinion in my personal blog) continues to make headlines, and none of them favorable.
I began blogging about this pariah in June when the Hillsborough County Commission voted to bar county agencies from recognizing or participating in Gay Pride Month or any events that portray gay people in a positive light. “The commission’s actions today are an attack on gay people, an insult to the entire community and a national embarrassment for our state,” said Nadine Smith, Equality Florida’s Executive Director.
The policy introduced by longtime anti-gay antagonist Ronda Storms prevents Hillsborough county agencies from giving equal recognition to local events that present gay people in a positive light, including Gay Pride Month. The commission went even further and voted 6-1 to prevent the new policy from being repealed except by a super majority vote of the commission following a public hearing. (see my June 26, 2005 and July 18, 2005 blogs).
After Ronda was finished attacking the Gay community, it was time for Planned Parenthood!
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Jul 29, 2005
The idea came from Hillsborough County Commissioner Ronda Storms: eliminate funding for a teen educational program sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Commissioners went along with her Thursday, while expressing none of their personal feelings about the nonprofit group that supports women's reproductive rights.
Ronda Storms had made her feelings clear in a conversation last week, said Barbara Zdravecky, who oversees Planned Parenthood in 15 counties, including the Tampa Bay area. Storms supports life - Zdravecky remembers hearing her say - and Planned Parenthood supports death. "I have to say I was pretty shaken," Zdravecky said. "I'm used to taking hits. But I was surprised at her lack of humanity.
Planned Parenthood was not asking for much. They wanted commissioners to give them $39,500 during the next two years for Source Teen Theater, a $130,000 program in which Tampa teens educate other kids about such topics as sexual activity, drugs, gangs and family violence in attempting the break the cycle of unwanted/unplanned pregnancies, drug use, illegal gang activity and abuse within the family. Ronda would hear nothing of it!
And then.... more!
It was time to attack public transportation and the people who for one reason or other, mostly because they are disabled, elderly or just too poor, cannot afford a car.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Aug 20, 2005
With Hillsborough Area Regional Transit moving people in record numbers and gas nearing $3 a gallon, the county ought to be trying to strengthen the bus system instead of trying to kill it.
A path to ruin hatched by Commissioners Ronda Storms and Brian Blair was averted only after two of their Republican colleagues, Mark Sharpe and Jim Norman, brought perspective and restraint to the debate over a service that residents increasingly rely on and is crucial to the local economy.
Storms wanted commissioners to approve a referendum that could have obliterated the biggest chunk of HART's funding base. Blair complained that because the buses log most of their miles in the city of Tampa but county taxes pay most of the bills, county residents should have a vote on cutting their property taxes for HART.
That is a ridiculous argument. Buses run into the urban core because that it is home to the jobs, colleges, hospitals, airports, courthouses and other major facilities. Buses only make sense in densely populated areas - conditions that residents move to the suburbs to avoid.
It's time to send a strong message to the Hillsborough County Commissioners! ..... We need to stay away from Hillsborough County and spend our vacation and/or our leisure time in Pinellas County, where all are welcomed! I believe it's time for a BOYCOTT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY!
Never in my life have I been so pissed of as I've been this summer....... RONDA STORMS, "The Wicked Witch of Hillsborough County" or "She Devil" (I've bestowed these titles upon her ~ this is my opinion in my personal blog) continues to make headlines, and none of them favorable.
I began blogging about this pariah in June when the Hillsborough County Commission voted to bar county agencies from recognizing or participating in Gay Pride Month or any events that portray gay people in a positive light. “The commission’s actions today are an attack on gay people, an insult to the entire community and a national embarrassment for our state,” said Nadine Smith, Equality Florida’s Executive Director.
The policy introduced by longtime anti-gay antagonist Ronda Storms prevents Hillsborough county agencies from giving equal recognition to local events that present gay people in a positive light, including Gay Pride Month. The commission went even further and voted 6-1 to prevent the new policy from being repealed except by a super majority vote of the commission following a public hearing. (see my June 26, 2005 and July 18, 2005 blogs).
After Ronda was finished attacking the Gay community, it was time for Planned Parenthood!
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Jul 29, 2005
The idea came from Hillsborough County Commissioner Ronda Storms: eliminate funding for a teen educational program sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Commissioners went along with her Thursday, while expressing none of their personal feelings about the nonprofit group that supports women's reproductive rights.
Ronda Storms had made her feelings clear in a conversation last week, said Barbara Zdravecky, who oversees Planned Parenthood in 15 counties, including the Tampa Bay area. Storms supports life - Zdravecky remembers hearing her say - and Planned Parenthood supports death. "I have to say I was pretty shaken," Zdravecky said. "I'm used to taking hits. But I was surprised at her lack of humanity.
Planned Parenthood was not asking for much. They wanted commissioners to give them $39,500 during the next two years for Source Teen Theater, a $130,000 program in which Tampa teens educate other kids about such topics as sexual activity, drugs, gangs and family violence in attempting the break the cycle of unwanted/unplanned pregnancies, drug use, illegal gang activity and abuse within the family. Ronda would hear nothing of it!
And then.... more!
It was time to attack public transportation and the people who for one reason or other, mostly because they are disabled, elderly or just too poor, cannot afford a car.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Aug 20, 2005
With Hillsborough Area Regional Transit moving people in record numbers and gas nearing $3 a gallon, the county ought to be trying to strengthen the bus system instead of trying to kill it.
A path to ruin hatched by Commissioners Ronda Storms and Brian Blair was averted only after two of their Republican colleagues, Mark Sharpe and Jim Norman, brought perspective and restraint to the debate over a service that residents increasingly rely on and is crucial to the local economy.
Storms wanted commissioners to approve a referendum that could have obliterated the biggest chunk of HART's funding base. Blair complained that because the buses log most of their miles in the city of Tampa but county taxes pay most of the bills, county residents should have a vote on cutting their property taxes for HART.
That is a ridiculous argument. Buses run into the urban core because that it is home to the jobs, colleges, hospitals, airports, courthouses and other major facilities. Buses only make sense in densely populated areas - conditions that residents move to the suburbs to avoid.
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