LIBERTARIAN PARTY TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA & DR. REX CURRY

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SCHEDULE CAPITALIST TOURS & TAMPA TOURS - learn about the libertarian heritage of Florida and the Bay area, and join Rex for skiing and wakeboarding on the Hillsborough River, in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.

    The Libertarian Club of Tampa has launched a new service for tourists: Capitalism Tours.  The Capitalist Tours highlight Tampa's libertarian history while criticizing the role of taxation and government.  The tour includes the following sites:

    Plant Hall - A privately built grand hotel, built by Tampa's foremost capitalist, Henry B. Plant, who put Tampa on the map.  The site is now a private university (It is unfortunate that there are periodic discussions about the university being taken over by the state).  The tour proceeds near the Port of Tampa and near the path of the private rail system that Plant built, giving life to the Bay area. It is unfortunate that the Port and rail system are now operated or subsidized by government, and that the private mass transit of commuter rail that capitalism provided in the past was put out of business by government taking over the road-building business.  Now, public officials want to tax everyone to rebuild rail transit as a socialized system, decades after they destroyed the private version.

    Ruth Eckerd Hall - A mostly private performing arts center in which everyone can take pride, as compared with the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in which everyone takes socialist shame.  Any establishment named after private individuals probably is more honorable than any establishment named after a governmental entity or politician.  Although Ruth Eckerd Hall included government money, it was largely a private initiative. Ruth Eckerd Hall began in November 1977 when June Baumgardner Gelbart donated a 38-acre parcel of land.  It is unfortunate that the land, which had been privately owned, was donated to the City of Clearwater.  Gelbart and her former husband, Richard B. Baumgardner, were owners of the Kapok Tree restaurants, private restuarants which attracted throngs of diners with family-style meals and remarkable decor.  Ruth Eckerd Hall, the first facility on the site, was named after the wife of Jack Eckerd (founder Eckerd Drug Stores, a private retail drug chain operating in 20 states) to honor the Eckerd’s for their donations.   We are all thankful that the government was not invited to participate in the restaurants and drug stores or Eckerd College.

    Eckerd College: the only private national liberal arts college in Florida, is located on a waterfront setting in St. Petersburg.  In 1972, Florida Presbyterian College in St. Petersburg was renamed Eckerd College to show appreciation for gifts totaling more than $10 million.

    Gorrie Elementary School - named after the great capitalist John Gorrie who (along with Willis Carrier) should be a state hero for creating and popularizing air conditioning.  Many people say that Florida exists because of Freon and pesticide. Florida's growth did not occur until air conditioning, and would not have, but for it. Florida would clear out if air conditioning ceased to exist.  John Gorrie Elementary School memorializes one of the men.  

    Davis Island - The walk proceeds east from Plant Hall, and pass Hyde Park Street for a view of Davis Island. The capitalist David P. Davis molded two lumps of silt and sludge (what environmentalists would glorify as a "wetland") into Tampa's most attractive and affluent neighborhoods.  Try doing that today. 

    Tampa's first sidewalk -  The walk continues east to the Southeast corner of Franklin and La Fayette streets where, in 1888, Archibald Ross, a popular Tampa banker, laid pavement 168 feet long and 8 feet wide around his brick building on that corner.  A memorial, with remnants of  Ross' historic marble sidewalk, still stands at the Southeast Corner of Franklin and Kennedy,  where City Hall now darkens the corner. 
    At the sidewalk, tour participants are asked to reflect upon the Gandy Bridge and Ben T. Davis Beach, both named after the capitalists responsible for the Gandy Bridge and the Courtney Campbell Causeway, respectively, George T. Gandy and Ben T. Davis. George Gandy even lived in his toll house that straddled his privately owned bridge.  It is unfortunate that both roadways are owned and operated by the government now, and helped destroy private mass transit in the area.

    Tampa's first library was built by the capitalist Andrew Carnegie.  Willie Lowry (that's a female Willie), read about the availability of Carnegie grants in a magazine and wrote for information.  Mrs. A.E. Dick of the Tampa Women's Club knew someone who knew the famous financier and the club received a positive reply from Carnegie. Later, the club discovered that Tampa City Council was unwilling to assume the library's maintenance even if the library was built tax free.  Nevertheless, the club persevered, and in 1917 Tampa's first library, in a beautiful building still standing near the downtown police station, opened to users. 

    Hillsborough High School in Tampa has eight tall stained-glass windows adorning its auditorium.  At first glance from outside, the windows appear to have some old religious purpose.  The details of the windows are not visible from the street, so further investigation requires entry into the school.  Thereupon, it is seen that there are no corpses on crosses, but pictures of Euclid, Galileo and other men of science (including Einstein), interspersed with microscopes, telescopes, amoeba and planets. What a surprise!  There, among that awe-inspiring church-like solemnity of glowing color is the glorification of reason and science, in a medium traditionally reserved for faith and religion.  Wouldn't that make an interesting "church?"  Hallelujah!?   Before I personally investigated those religious-looking windows I remember asking a former student what was depicted.  She said, "Gee, I don't remember, I never paid any attention."  I suspect the irony of it all has been lost on just about everyone who has ever been in the school.

    Harbor Island - another bunch of upscale homes built by capitalists on an island manufactured from muck.

    The Port of Tampa -used to be private, built by Henry B. Plant?

    The walk will end at Ybor City  -the entrepreneur Vicente Ybor brought the Cigar trade to Tampa, giving it the nickname "Cigar City," and turned a swamp, with dangerous bellowing alligators and vicious panthers (what environmentalists would glorify as a "wetland"), into Ybor City.

    Much of Ybor City was destroyed in the 1960's by government's "urban renewal" program. Today, local statists want to regulate the life out of Ybor City's recent revival.  If the area were a wetland today it would be impossible to develop.

    Tampa Florida is where Francis Bellamy died in 1931 and where Bellamy's pledge of allegiance died also, much later.   Bellamy's last residence is at  2926 Wallcraft Avenue where he lived from 1924 until his death.

2004 A proposal begins that Holocaust Museums can triple in size and scope as Wholecaust Museums, and that Francis Bellamy should be added to the museums as the origin of the straight-arm salute.


    The preceding anarchaeology tour is from the anarchaeological studies of the Society of Anarchaeologists.

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Legislators who tout the Pledge of Allegiance met defeat three times recently at the hands of Dr. Rex Curry of the Libertarian Party of Florida. Thanks to the nation's leading authority on the Pledge of Allegiance, Dr. Curry, a new Pledge of Allegiance law died in committee, a federal judge ruled that a school pledge law is unconstitutional, and pledge supporters in the legislature met defeat in a debate challenge. http://rexcurry.net/debate-florida-legislature.html  

In the following radio broadcast, Dr. Curry discusses the debate issues (and all Florida legislators, including Rep. Legg and Sen. Fasano, were invited to participate). http://rexcurry.net/rexcurry9a-the-edge-2006.mp3

The pledge was opposed because of new historical discoveries showing that the pledge was the origin of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

Florida's Legislators did not dispute the work of Professor Curry that proves the relationship of the pledge to National Socialism and totalitarianism. Even the sponsors of the proposed new pledge law, Representative John Legg and Senator Mike Fasano, were part of the debate challenge and they did not present any opposition. Senator Fasano was especially gracious in his response.

The controversies raised disturbing questions about legislators, and provide evidence that legislators are victims of government schools and the rampant ignorance that those socialist schools cultivate:

Many legislators were so ignorant of American history, that until they learned of Dr. Curry's research, they did not know that the early Pledge of Allegiance used a straight-arm salute. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html  

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LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE DR. REX CURRY

The incumbent Democrat and her Libertarian challenger have very different views on government's role.

Libertarian candidate Rex Curry and Democrat Arthenia L. Joyner agree the residents of state House District 59, one of the poorest districts in Florida, need help. They agree on nothing else.

Curry, a sixth-generation Floridian, said that the unchecked growth of government has actually harmed its citizens.

"Poor people hurt the most from taxes on goods and services, and from the loss of jobs when businesses are taxed and cannot grow," said Curry, a Tampa lawyer.

Joyner, a lawyer in Tampa since 1969, has dedicated much of her life to boards and agencies that serve the once vital and now blighted inner
city. In a district that is nearly 60 percent black and 59 percent female, Joyner was elected in 2000 with 70 percent of the vote.

She focused on economic development issues, which she sees as central to revitalizing the depressed east Tampa community.

Curry lives in the district, but his recipe for improving the plight of its needy residents is to shrink government. The state's population has doubled during the last quarter-century, he said, but the budget has increased more than 1,000 percent during the same period.

So why aren't people better off, he asked.

"In a healthy society, the need for government should constantly decrease as we solve our problems," Curry said. "The marketplace is how you make intelligent decisions. People spending their own money."

Joyner said the Legislature faces a budget crisis this coming year as it struggles to "fund recurring programs with nonrecurring funds." New taxes are already being discussed, she said, though it would be preferable to handle shortfalls with belt-tightening.

Curry proposes strangulation rather than belt-tightening.

"I encourage people to remove their children from government schools," he said. "My goal is to get them their money back."

District 59 State House
published October 31, 2002



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