Age
53
Education
Naval School of Health Sciences
Hometown
Melbourne
County
Brevard
Instagram
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Campaign Phone
321-802-2678
While discussing issues, voters’ biggest concerns are the economy, especially with insurance rates, as well as our children's safety and education. In my first session, I will sponsor legislation to shore up Citizens to ensure Floridians' safety net is secure, provide subsidies to ease the current burden instead of bailouts to insurance companies, and lay out plans to mitigate the root cause of our increases: severe storms caused by climate change.
For our children's safety and education, I will propose increased funding for public schools to ensure we can improve education across all demographics. I will introduce common-sense gun safety regulations that the majority of Floridians support.
The housing market, like any other, is subject to supply and demand cost increases. Two new laws have negatively impacted our affordable housing and homelessness crisis. Local governments are forced to criminalize the unhoused and are unable to introduce local protections for tenants. Reversing these hindrances, along with their ability to regulate short-term rentals, would be the first step. The second would be to provide subsidies for local governments to incentivize the development of vacant commercial real estate into affordable housing.
First, designating Election Day as a holiday would aid in allowing voters the opportunity to engage in the voting process. Public transportation should be available free of charge to and from polling locations to reduce financial and transportation burdens. Finally, recent restrictions imposed by lawmakers, such as the more frequent purging of voter rolls and requiring more frequent mail-in ballot requests, do nothing to improve Florida’s long history of safe and secure mail-in voting; they only hinder the voting process and should be repealed.
The recent omission of any reference to "climate change" from all official Florida documentation does not eliminate the condition as a threat to our economy, lives, and future. Florida has the potential to become a national and global leader in clean energy, utilizing its abundant sunshine and potential for tidal and ocean current energy production to mitigate our adverse environmental impact. Furthermore, it is imperative that we allocate funding to enhance the protection of our water resources, including lakes, the Indian River Lagoon, and the Florida Aquifer.
Healthcare decisions should be made collaboratively between patients and their physicians. Abortion is an integral component of reproductive healthcare, and its restriction, as implemented by Florida's ban, poses significant risks to women's health and well-being, particularly considering the time-sensitive nature of pregnancy detection. I firmly support Amendment 4 and will uphold the will of Floridians by ensuring its passage through the Senate. Additionally, I intend to sponsor the Reproductive Rights Act, which aims to safeguard access to abortion, prenatal care, IVF, and contraception.
Gun violence is the primary cause of death for our children. As a veteran, I firmly support the Second Amendment, but I must express concern about recent Florida laws. The introduction of permitless carry has heightened the risk to public safety by allowing the untrained to bear arms and endangers law enforcement by hindering their ability to identify individuals who should not be permitted to carry weapons in public. It is imperative that these laws are repealed, and we must implement widely accepted and sensible public safety measures, such as universal background checks and red-flag laws.
In education, we must immediately stop the systemic defunding of our public school system. Our public schools are losing funding, which is going to fund private schools. We must also end the government overreach that has resulted in more than $1 million in funds for book removals in Brevard County alone. We must stop the restriction of education and the promotion of false narratives, like Black people benefiting from their slavery. These only add to the stress on teachers and increase the challenges of providing qualified teachers for our children.
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