{"id":17817,"date":"2012-11-01T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:39:56","slug":"march-from-park-to-polls-event-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17817","title":{"rendered":"\u2018March From Park To Polls\u2019 Event Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus (HCDBC) is being joined by some elected officials to host an event at the Belmont Heights Little League Park Complex, 2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Saturday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathy Castor, <\/strong>U. S. Congresswoman, and State Representative <strong>Betty Reed,<\/strong> will sponsor the Early Voting Rally. At 11:45 a.m., the \u201cMarch From The Park To The Polls\u201d will leave the park and walk to the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr., Branch Public Library, corner of N. 26<sup>th<\/sup> Street and E. Dr. M. L. King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. H. Bruce Miles,<\/strong> President of the State Democratic Black Caucus, said, \u201cThe Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus is working with local elected officials for the purpose of getting out the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get <strong>President Barack Obama, Senator Bill Nelson,<\/strong> <strong>Congresswoman Kathy Castor,<\/strong> and all Democrats running for public office elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraging everyone to vote early and we hope to be in the park throughout the day until the polls close. We\u2019re going to have an old fashioned march for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Reed<\/strong> said, \u201cSaturday is the last day of Early Voting. We are doing a very hard push to reach those who have not voted. It is so extremely important that everyone who can, vote. The lines may be long now, but they will be extremely long on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Dianne Hart,<\/strong> President of the Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus said, \u201cThis is a critical time in our lives and this country, It is crucial that we re-elect <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> so that he can continue to move forward. We must also vote to retain all three Florida Supreme Court Judges on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Hart<\/strong> further stated that representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have been invited to help with the application process.<\/p>\n<p>Others slated to attend include Hillsborough County <strong>Commissioner Les \u201cLes\u201d Miller, Jr., Otis Anthony, Mason Caine, Janesia Kelly, Macknum, <\/strong>Romantic Expressions,<strong> <\/strong>the Revealing Truth Ministries Drumline, <strong>Omar Davis,<\/strong> D. J. &amp; Keyboardist and <strong>Shemida J.,<\/strong> of Sir Pass Events. For more information, call (813) 748-0952.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor The Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus (HCDBC) is being joined by some elected officials to host an event at the Belmont Heights Little League Park Complex, 2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Saturday, November 3rd. at 10:30 a.m. Kathy Castor, U. S. Congresswoman, and State Representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}