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Florida’s two most urgent challenges, especially in District 108, are affordability and economic opportunity. Rising housing costs, insurance premiums, utility expenses, and stagnant wages are making it increasingly difficult for families, seniors, young professionals, and small businesses to thrive. Addressing these issues requires expanding housing access, supporting responsible development, strengthening consumer protections, and creating pathways to homeownership and financial stability. If elected, my first six months will focus on advancing economic mobility by connecting residents to jobs, apprenticeships, certifications, workforce grants, and paid training in high-growth industries, while also supporting small businesses, expanding access to capital, strengthening education-to-career partnerships, and promoting targeted economic development that creates opportunity without displacing communities.
If documentary proof of U.S. citizenship becomes required for voter registration, I would support a Voter Access & Citizenship Documentation Support Plan focused on ensuring eligible citizens can register without unnecessary barriers. This approach would establish state-supported and community-based assistance centers to help residents obtain required records such as birth, marriage, divorce, and replacement identity documents; support fee waivers or reimbursement for low-income individuals, seniors, veterans, and those facing hardship; deploy mobile documentation clinics through partnerships with libraries, churches, community centers, and nonprofits; expand secure electronic verification and interagency record matching to reduce reliance on paper records; and create streamlined processes for individuals, especially women whose names changed through marriage or divorce, to ensure documentation differences do not prevent lawful voter participation.
Florida’s housing crisis requires increasing supply, protecting residents, and creating real pathways to ownership and long-term stability, not temporary cost reductions. I support accelerating affordable and workforce housing through expanded incentives, streamlined permitting, reduced regulatory barriers, and mixed-income, transit-oriented development located near jobs and essential services.
Dedicated housing funds should be protected and fully invested in affordable construction, rehabilitation, rental support, and down payment assistance. I support expanding first-time homebuyer programs, shared-equity opportunities, workforce housing, and financial education to help families build generational wealth.
I also support affordable rental development, targeted rental assistance, and long-term affordability commitments. Public land should be strategically leveraged through transparent partnerships, while infrastructure investments ensure sustainable growth.
I support protecting unborn life while recognizing that certain circumstances involve deeply difficult medical and personal realities that require compassion, responsibility, and careful judgment. Public policy should uphold the value and dignity of human life while allowing limited exceptions in specific situations.
I support access to abortion when the life of the mother is at serious risk, in cases of rape or incest, and when severe medical complications make survival outside the womb impossible or a pregnancy is determined to be nonviable.
At the same time, support for life must continue beyond birth through expanded prenatal and maternal healthcare, stronger postpartum care, improved maternal outcomes, adoption and foster care support, mental health services, childcare assistance, and family resources.
My approach prioritizes compassion, respect for life, and practical support for mothers, children, and families.
Florida’s Constitution should continue to respect home rule while preserving statewide consistency where necessary. I support a balanced approach: the state should establish clear statewide standards on issues that affect all Floridians, such as constitutional rights, election administration, broad economic policy, and major infrastructure; while local governments retain meaningful flexibility to address community-specific needs.
Preemption should be used narrowly and intentionally, not as a default tool. Counties and municipalities are often closest to residents and should maintain authority over areas such as housing implementation, local transportation, neighborhood development, public spaces, and certain quality-of-life policies, provided local actions do not conflict with statewide law or create unnecessary regulatory fragmentation.
My approach is simple: state government sets the framework; local government delivers solutions tailored to local realities.
As a nurse with more than 45 years of experience, I believe healthcare is a basic necessity, not a privilege determined by income or ZIP code. As federal subsidies decline and more Medicaid responsibility shifts to states, Florida must focus on protecting access while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
I support expanding access to affordable, state-supported coverage options and reducing barriers to enrollment and renewal. We should strengthen Medicaid sustainability through investments in preventive care, primary care, maternal health, behavioral health, and chronic disease management to reduce avoidable emergency costs.
Florida must also lower healthcare costs by increasing price transparency, expanding community health centers, supporting telehealth, and encouraging competition to reduce premiums and prescription expenses. Finally, we must invest in recruiting and retaining nurses, physicians, and healthcare professionals, especially in underserved communities.
I believe Floridians are signaling a real affordability concern. For many homeowners and renters, rising property insurance premiums, not property taxes have become the faster-growing and less predictable cost burden. Insurance increases affect monthly budgets immediately and often drive higher rents and housing instability.
My view is that Florida should address affordability through a balanced approach: strengthen oversight and transparency in the insurance market, encourage greater competition, reduce fraud and unnecessary litigation costs, improve resilience and mitigation programs that lower risk, and expand incentives for home hardening.
At the same time, local governments should remain disciplined with property taxes and ensure taxpayers receive value for public dollars.
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