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“Disco pole” approved, “spaghetti monster” applies for Capitol holiday displays

Published on December 10, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

A rainbow-colored pole with a disco ball on top has been cleared for display this holiday season in the state Capitol rotunda, its sponsor told FloridaPolitics.com on Thursday. South Florida blogger Chaz Stevens said the Department of Management Services, which oversees state property, OK’d his Gay Pride Festivus pole to be shown Dec. 21-28. Stevens was previously approved to put up a 6-foot-tall pole made of empty Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans, meant to mark Festivus, the fictional holiday from a 1997 episode of…

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Group files to place menorah in Capitol rotunda

Published on December 7, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

A rainbow-colored pole with a disco ball on top may not be the only holiday display in the Florida Capitol rotunda this season. On Monday, a Department of Management Services spokeswoman said one other group had filed to place a display: Chabad Lubavitch of Tallahassee and FSU filed to place a 9-foot-tall menorah, representing the traditional nine-taper candle holder used during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Hanukkah began Sunday evening and ends next Monday evening, Dec. 14. The application was not filed until this past Thursday and…

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Gay pride pole is only Capitol holiday display submitted so far

Published on November 26, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

T’is the season (almost), but so far the Gay Pride version of the Festivus pole is the only display to ask for placement in the Capitol Rotunda. As of Tuesday, South Florida blogger Chaz Stevens had submitted the only application for a holiday display, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Management Services, the state’s real estate manager. Even then, there’s no guarantee his offering for this year — a rainbow-colored pole with a disco ball on top — will make it…

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Festivus to make triumphant return to Florida Capitol with #MyGayPridePole

Published on November 20, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Festivus returns to Tallahassee, with a gay twist this year. Political blogger (and all-around s**t-stirrer) Chaz Stevens will once again bring his Festivus Pole — the unadorned metal pole made famous on “The Strike” episode of Seinfeld — as a holiday display in the rotunda of the Florida Capitol. But instead of a modest stack of 16 Pabst Blue Ribbon cans — in so much as anything Stevens does can be described as “modest” — the 2015 version celebrates Gay…

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