Age
41
Education
University of Florida Bachelor of Arts in English, NSU Shepard Broad College of Law
Hometown
Miami
County
Miami - Dade
Instagram
ganttforflorida
Our communities are facing a real affordability crisis. Insurance costs, housing costs, and healthcare costs keep going up while wages remain the same. At the same time, we've watched an attack on voting rights, schools being under-resourced, and protections for the most vulnerable among us being stripped away.
In my first six months in the Senate, I will continue to build on the work I started in the Florida House: protecting seniors from fraud, defending tenant rights, and fighting for real accountability. I will also work across the aisle to bring the needed resources back to our district and make sure Miami-Dade families have a fighter in Tallahassee.
This issue is personal to me. My own aunt, Janette, couldn't renew her driver's license because of ID laws. She didn't have easy access to a birth certificate to prove something she's known her whole life, that she's an American citizen. I helped her get that documentation, but not every family has someone who can navigate that process for them. In this process I learned that my aunt’s story is not unique to her.
Women are hit hardest by these laws. Many have changed their names through marriage and need both a birth certificate and a marriage certificate just to prove who they are. If proof of citizenship becomes a requirement to register, I will fight for the state to provide easy access to these documents, streamlined processes for name changes, and real outreach to make sure no eligible voter is locked out of the ballot box because of this issue.
Every family deserves a safe, affordable place to live in. In the House, I worked to defend tenant rights and to make sure communities have a real voice in projects happening in their own neighborhoods. Too often, families are pushed out of the communities they built and the communities that they love.
As State Senator, I will keep fighting for tenant protections, for community input in development decisions, and for policies that create pathways to homeownership for working families.
Every American should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions without politicians standing in the way. Abortions are healthcare and women should be making decisions about their own bodies. I will fight against further restrictions that put Florida women and families at risk.
No. As evidenced by Live Local, too often in Tallahassee, we've seen the state strip away the power of local governments for their own communities. Local governments know their constituents the best. The state should not preempt local control.
As your State Senator, I will push back against overreach that silences local voices and support restoring the balance of power back to the cities and counties that know their residents best.
Every Floridian deserves access to healthcare they can actually afford. Instead, we're watching federal subsidies shrink while more of the Medicaid burden gets pushed down to the states and the burden falls on families and seniors who pay the price.
I will fight in the Senate to protect Medicaid coverage for Florida's most vulnerable residents.
The cost of property insurance keeps rising while families are getting the same, if not less coverage. This is a real problem for families all across the state. This burden is leaving families to either not be able to afford coverage for their properties or they are being face with leaving the homes that they love.
While property taxes are an important issue, insurance costs are pushing people out. That's why lowering costs has been the center of my campaign from day one, and it's why I'll keep fighting for real accountability in that market as your State Senator.
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Age
42
Education
Bachelor’s in Public Administration and Master’s in Business Administration from Barry University. Currently finishing my second Master’s in Public Policy at The University of Miami.
Hometown
El Portal
County
Miami-Dade County
Instagram
ChristineforFL
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-sanon-jules
Campaign Phone
954-329-4782
The cost of housing and the cost of healthcare are squeezing Florida families from both sides — and SD-34 feels it acutely. In my first six months, I will file the Florida Keys to Home Act to convert underused public land and vacant lots into permanently affordable housing stock, and push the Florida Stability Act ("Never Miss a Bill") to create an emergency bridge fund so families facing a temporary income shock don't lose their home or utilities over one missed payment. On healthcare, I'll introduce Telehealth for All to expand low-cost virtual care access in underserved communities, and fight to protect Medicaid funding as the state absorbs more federal cost-shifting. We already have the money in this state — we're just giving it to the wrong people. My job is to redirect it toward the families actually carrying Florida's economy.
This would personally affect me. No woman should lose her right to vote because she can't easily get a copy of a birth or marriage certificate — especially after a name change. I would push the state to fund mobile vital-records clinics through county Clerk of Court offices, partnered with community organizations already embedded in underserved neighborhoods, and to waive or significantly reduce certified-copy fees for voter registration purposes. I'd also support a state-run navigator program — similar to ACA enrollment assistance — that helps residents identify which documents they actually need and walks them through obtaining them at low or no cost. Disenfranchisement by paperwork is still disenfranchisement, and it falls hardest on women who've married, divorced, or remarried, and on lower-income residents who can't take a day off work to track down records.
I will introduce and support the Florida Keys to Home Act, to put public and underused land into permanently affordable housing through community land trusts — taking land cost out of the equation for both renters and first-time buyers. Beyond that, I support: state incentives (density bonuses, expedited permitting) for developers who build deed-restricted affordable units; stronger tenant protections including notice requirements before rent increases and eviction proceedings; a state-backed down payment assistance fund targeted at first-generation homebuyers; and introduce the Senior & Veteran Housing Security Act to protect older and veteran homeowners from being priced out of homes they've owned for decades by creating a voucher system that covers rent and mortgage payments. Housing is the single biggest driver of the poverty rate in Miami-Dade, and tax reform alone won't fix a supply and ownership-access problem. We need to build differently and protect renters in the meantime.
As a woman who has experienced two high risk pregnancies and a miscarriage, I believe this is a decision that belongs to a woman, her family, and her doctor, not the state legislature. I would support efforts to codify and restore that access in Florida law.
The balance has tilted too far toward Tallahassee. Local governments are closest to the problems — housing costs, wage floors, environmental protections, public health — yet the state has increasingly stripped cities and counties of the authority to respond to their own residents' needs. I don't believe one-size-fits-all preemption serves a state as geographically and economically diverse as Florida; what works in Miami-Dade is not what works in the Panhandle. I support restoring local authority on issues like affordable housing requirements, local wage standards, and environmental regulation, while reserving statewide preemption for genuinely statewide concerns — not as a tool to override local communities every time they pass something Tallahassee disagrees with politically.
As federal subsidies shrink and more Medicaid cost gets pushed onto states, Florida cannot keep refusing full Medicaid expansion — we're leaving federal dollars on the table while our hospitals absorb uncompensated care costs that get passed on to everyone else's premiums. I support full expansion, alongside Telehealth for All, my proposal to expand low-cost virtual care access for underserved communities where specialists and primary care are scarce. I also support protecting and expanding the Florida KidCare program so no child loses coverage due to a paperwork lapse or income fluctuation. The state needs to stop treating healthcare access as a federal problem to wait out, and start treating it as a state economic issue.
The public has it right — insurance costs are the more urgent crisis. A family can plan around a predictable tax bill; they cannot plan around an insurance premium that doubles or a policy that gets nonrenewed without warning. I support genuine reinsurance market reform, increased transparency on rate justifications, and stronger consumer protections against bad-faith claim denials, paired with continued investment in home-hardening grants so homeowners can lower their risk and their premiums. I also believe it's time to seriously study expanding the state's role — including strengthening Citizens Property Insurance and examining whether a more robust state catastrophe fund or public insurance option could offer Floridians a more stable, accountable alternative to a private market that keeps pulling out. I won't promise a quick fix that puts taxpayers at undisclosed risk, but families deserve a state government willing to explore every real option, not just wait out the private market.
