Age
42
Education
Spring Hill College — B.A. in English and Secondary Education; Florida International University — M.S. in English Education and Education Specialist degree in Curriculum and Instruction
Hometown
Miami Beach
County
Miami Dade
Instagram
instagram.com/luciabaezgeller
LinkedIn
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Campaign Phone
7866712179
Florida families are facing two connected crises: affordability and the weakening of public education. In my first six months, I will file or co-sponsor legislation to bring real accountability to property insurers, expand workforce and affordable housing, cut taxes on essentials, expand Medicaid, and lower prescription drug costs. I will also fight to fully fund neighborhood public schools, raise teacher and school employee pay, reduce class sizes, expand career and technical education, and stop politicians from diverting public dollars without equal accountability. As a former teacher and School Board Member, I know these are not abstract issues. They determine whether families can stay in their communities and whether every child has a fair chance to succeed.
I oppose creating new barriers that could deny eligible citizens their right to vote. If documentary proof becomes mandatory, Florida must make compliance free, accessible, and fair. I would support waiving fees for certified birth, marriage, naturalization, and name change records; creating one-stop assistance through elections offices, libraries, and community organizations; allowing secure electronic verification with state and federal agencies; and providing mobile outreach for seniors, people with disabilities, rural residents, and women whose names have changed. Voters should receive clear notice and a meaningful opportunity to cure missing documents. No eligible Floridian should lose their voice because records are expensive, difficult to locate, or do not match a current name.
Florida must treat housing as essential infrastructure. I support fully funding the Sadowski affordable housing trust funds, expanding workforce housing for teachers, first responders, healthcare workers, and service employees, and using state and local public land for permanently affordable homes. We should strengthen down payment and homeownership assistance, preserve existing affordable units, encourage responsible housing near jobs and transit, and restore local flexibility to address community needs. Renters also need protection from excessive application and junk fees, unsafe conditions, retaliation, and sudden displacement. State incentives for developers must require clear affordability periods, local hiring, transparency, and enforceable results—not giveaways without accountability.
I support access to abortion before viability and after viability when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health or when a pregnancy is not viable. Survivors of rape or incest should never be forced to continue a pregnancy. Florida’s six-week ban takes away a deeply personal medical decision before many women even know they are pregnant. Abortion is healthcare, and these decisions belong to a woman, her doctor, and her faith—not politicians in Tallahassee. I will fight to restore reproductive freedom, protect access to contraception and IVF, and ensure that patients and medical professionals are not criminalized for providing or receiving lawful care.
Florida has moved too far toward blanket preemption. Cities and counties are closest to the people they serve and should be able to respond to local needs involving housing, growth, transportation, environmental protection, public safety, and workforce standards. Statewide consistency is appropriate when there is a clear and compelling statewide interest, but preemption should not be used to override local voters or block communities from adopting stronger protections. I would require a specific justification for any proposed preemption, meaningful public review, and a demonstration that uniformity is necessary. My default will be to respect home rule and preserve local accountability and flexibility.
Florida should expand Medicaid and bring our federal tax dollars home to cover working people who fall into the coverage gap. If federal marketplace subsidies decline, the state should create targeted premium assistance, strengthen enrollment outreach, and prevent families from being priced out of coverage. We must also lower costs by investing in primary and preventive care, maternal and mental healthcare, community health centers, and better care coordination for chronic conditions. I support stronger oversight of managed care plans, adequate provider networks and reimbursement, lower prescription drug costs, and aggressive action against waste and fraud. Fiscal responsibility and access to care are not competing goals—keeping people healthy prevents more expensive emergency care later.
I agree that property insurance is the more immediate crisis for many Florida families. A homeowner can budget for relatively predictable property taxes, but cannot absorb premiums that double, a policy that is suddenly canceled, or a claim that is delayed after a storm. Eliminating or sharply reducing property taxes would also threaten schools, public safety, infrastructure, and local services without guaranteeing meaningful relief for renters. Florida should focus on insurer accountability, transparent rate reviews, timely claims payments, stronger consumer protections, home hardening grants, responsible reinsurance support, and a stable insurer of last resort. Relief must reach policyholders—not become another blank check for the insurance industry.
Age
45
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School
Hometown
Originally from Highland Park, Illinois. I've called Surfside and Miami Beach home for nearly two decades
County
Miami - Dade
Instagram
ashleylitwindiego
I have been knocking on doors for eight months for this campaign and I always hear the same two concerns from residents: there is an affordability crisis pushing families out of the communities they love and development in our area is being done without regard to local governments, neighbor input or our extreme weather.
In my first six months, to combat the affordability crisis I will work towards filing legislation to lower the costs of insurance for homeowners and renters and for legislation to create no-interest or low-interest loans for condo owners, so they can afford these brutal assessments. We also need a master plan for development and environmental resiliency. I will push for real, long-term resilience planning for smarter growth to mitigate flooding and protect our coastline and historic neighborhoods. I will try to bring back local control, so that local leaders can control what is being built, where and how.
Every eligible Floridian should be able to exercise their right to vote without unnecessary barriers. As a criminal defense attorney and the President of a non-profit that works with individuals after incarceration, I have seen firsthand how devastating it is to not be able to vote and how simple “paperwork requirements” are actually obstacles to be able to vote. After Amendment 4 passed, restoring the right to vote to many previously incarcerated individuals, I volunteered to help them navigate these “paperwork requirements”.
Requiring documents like certified birth or marriage certificates disproportionately burdens women, low-income residents, and seniors who may not have easy or affordable access to those records. I will push for the state to cover replacement document costs and streamline the process, because the right to vote should never be hindered.
One of the most effective tools we already have a model for is impact fees. We require developers to pay into funds that support roads, schools, and infrastructure, we should apply that same principle to housing.
I support creating a dedicated affordable housing trust fund, funded by developer contributions tied to new construction, so growth pays for the pressure it creates on our housing market instead of leaving families to absorb the cost.
I also support expanding affordable housing supply through smart incentives, strengthening renter protections, and supporting first-time homebuyers. We need to require meaningful affordable and workforce housing when developers receive public benefits. This isn't just a housing issue, it's an economic one. Florida can't grow a strong workforce if employees can't afford to live near where they work.
I was outraged when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Decisions about abortions should happen between a patient and their doctor. Not with a politician. Every person should be able to make healthcare decisions about their own bodies and what is best for them and their families.
No, it is not. The balance of power between state and local governments in Florida is greatly skewed. In Miami Beach, residents and local leaders alike are frustrated with how the Live Local Act has been handled. While in theory the law aims to address Florida's housing shortage, in practice it has stripped municipalities of the ability to protect their own communities.
It is not just on housing, the Legislature is increasingly overriding local decision-making on environmental protections (something that uniquely affects the barrier islands in District 106), our education system and worker protections.
I would oppose broad preemptions that strip local authority, push to reform provisions of the Live Local Act that ignore the realities of our communities, and restore decision-making power to local governments.
I support expanding Medicaid using available federal matching funds to close Florida's coverage gap.This is personal for me. I found my own breast cancer through a routine mammogram at 42. Preventive care saved my life. But even with insurance, the day before a procedure I got a call telling me it was canceled because of an insurance issue. I was fighting for my life and fighting the system at the same time. Sitting in waiting rooms during treatment, I met others facing impossible choices between their health and their financial security, decisions no one should have to make.
That experience is why access to care can't be an afterthought as federal subsidies shrink and costs get pushed onto states. Florida should invest in preventive care so more people catch things early like I did, improve price transparency, reduce administrative waste, and hold managed-care programs accountable when they prioritize profits over patients.
Property insurance has become the number one concern I hear from residents, and for good reason. Families across our communities aren't just facing rising premiums; many can't get coverage at all, or are hit with sudden, unexplained rate hikes and condo assessments that threaten their ability to stay in the homes and communities they love. I will push for real transparency in rate-setting, stronger oversight, and a more competitive insurance market, because businesses and families need certainty to plan for the future.
