TBO.com - Tampa Bay Online
RSS Feed of the blog
Contributors:
Reporter William March has covered state and national politics since 1994. Email
Reporter Mike Salinero has covered Hillsborough County government for The Tampa Tribune since 2007. Email
Reporter Lindsay Peterson has been a general assignment reporter at the Tampa Tribune since 2005, focusing on higher education since 2009. Email
TBO RNC 2012 Section
Florida Political Blogs:
News Blog Search
Most Recent Entries
- Memorial Day weekend deals to honor military, vets
- How come the poll results don’t match?
- Q Poll: Mack has long lead in primary, ties Nelson in general matchup
- Mack campaign retracts Fortuno endorsement quotes
- Coburn backs LeMieux, answering Mack’s Fortuno
- Q Poll: Romney has significant lead in Florida
- Storm The Swarm: SOCCENT deputy chief asks for technology to stop threat of Iranian small boats
- Nelson disses Obama on Castro daughter
- Hoyer to campaign with Ehrlich
- Mack dumbest speaker in Congress? It’s complicated
- Guetzloe sentenced for not filing tax returns
- Mack asks feds to investigate LeMieux appointment
- Pentagon Reports Deaths of 7 Troops This Week in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom
- Mack demands investigation of LeMieux appointment
- Ross backs Mack
More
- Breaking News
- Command Post Tampa
- Fact Finders - Databay Blog
- Guestbook: Remembering The Fallen Soldiers
- Fresh Squeezed Politics
- RNC 2012: The Road to Tampa
- Political Safari
Monthly Archives
Michelle Obama in Tampa Thursday
Posted Jan 20, 2012 by William March
Updated Jan 20, 2012 at 01:38 PM
First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Tampa, Sarasota and Palm Beach Thursday, just as the Republican presidential primary race catches fire in Florida, to talk about healthy eating.
She will join Bob Unanue, president of Goya Foods, and other Latino organizations to promote their nationwide effort to encourage health and wellness, at National Supermarket at Armenia and Waters avenues Thursday morning.
Goya is the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, according to the White House announcement.
They’ll be promoting Mi Plato, or My Plate, a U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative to help families make healthy meal choices.
Obama will then attend Democratic fundraisers in Sarasota and Palm Beach.
Post a comment
Members:(Requires free registration.)
Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.
ADVERTISEMENT
Advertisement
TBO.com - Tampa Bay Online ©2010 Media General Communications Holdings, LLC. A Media General company. Member Agreement | Privacy Statement | Work With Us
Reader Comments
Por (mlemac) on January 21, 2012 (Suggest removal)
This trip next Thursday to Tampa by Michelle Obama is a taxpayer ripoff. We are paying the cost of the trip and Goya Foods gets some free advertising complements of the US taxpayers.
Then Michelle becomes a bag lady by visiting Sarasota and Palm Beach to collect campaign funds for her husband.
I think Goya Foods should pay for Michelle’s entire trip - not the taxpayers.
If not, I think everyone should boycott Goya Foods. In tough economic times we should not be wasting tax money on unnecessary advertising or political campaign expenses.
Suggest removal