Age
52
Education
Associates' of Arts (AA) Eastern Florida State College, Diploma Radiologic technology, U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence
Hometown
Lake City
County
Columbia
Instagram
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LinkedIn
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Campaign Phone
(352)756-7882
1. Border security is a piece to the solution. The country has an interest in ensuring contraband does not cross into our country.
2. Legal pathways is the next piece. There needs to be a method or procedure for people to legally migrant to America. Our strength is in our diversity. Along the same line our work visa program needs to be expanded. The current system limits or obstructs business's ability to grow.
3. There has to be pathways to citizenship or legalization for illegal immigrants that have been peacefully living among us for years. There is a greater harm to our economy by deporting these immigrants then there is by bring them out of the shadows.
4. Bottom line is this. The last time Congress passed immigration laws was in 1996. It has been thirty years now. The technology has changed. The country has changed. The world has changed. Now it is time for the law to change.
Yes, climate change is real. Yes, climate change is a financial threat to the economy.
Weather phenomena are increasing in frequency and intensity. As temperatures rise droughts last longer and are more intense. Crop growth or production is limited at best.
As sea levels rise floods reach further and further inland. These floods destroy everything in their paths.
The first priority is the economy. It is all about jobs. The high unemployment rate combined with a high inflation rate mixed with a restrictive trade policy is chocking the economy. People need to work to be able to put a roof over their head, food on the table, and clothes on their baby's backs.
The second priority has to be protecting people's benefits. Protecting veterans from having their benefits terminated. Ensuring Social Security benefits are honored and paid. Protecting Medicare and Medicaid receipts from harassment and termination of their benefits.
Freedom of speech means that each person has the right to express themselves. This expression should be free from government interference or criminal sanctions. This idea is a core or bedrock principle in our society. This right can be regulated but cannot be interfered with. For example, a person cannot yell fire in a crowded theater, yet people cannot be criminal prosecuted for saying something controversial.
Congress has oversight of federal agencies. It is the responsibility of the President to run or operate the federal agencies. It is congress that has control over the purse strings. Congress allocates money for each federal agency. It is inherit duty that congress ensure tax dollars are spent properly.
The problem is in the question. The United States of America does not issue citizenship documents to it's people. This entire issue is being used as a tool to disenfranchise voters. Not every person in America has a birth certificate. For example, people born abroad have a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) issued by the State Department. They way to help voters would be to vote against this idea at every opportunity.
The first issue is to reestablish the Department of Education. It is the role of the federal government to ensure that every state in the nation is held to the same standard. That is a student in one state receives the same education as a student in any other state.
Age
47
Education
BA - Western Michigan University
Hometown
Gainesville
County
FL
Instagram
www.instagram.com/harpforcongress/
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/sethharp
Campaign Phone
3522789064
One lesson we should learn comes from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, signed by be all people Ronald Reagan!
Even Reagan recognized that the United States could not simply deport millions of people who were already living and working here.
The law provided legal status and eventual citizenship opportunities to nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants while also strengthening enforcement against employers who knowingly hired unauthorized workers.
While the 1986 law was not perfect, it reflected an important principle: immigration reform works best when it combines enforcement with practical solutions.
We have spent decades arguing about immigration without fully addressing the reality that millions of people have built their lives, families, and careers here.
According to NOAA, the United States experienced 27 separate weather and climate disasters in 2024 that each caused more than $1 billion in damages. These storms, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts cost Americans tens of billions of dollars and disrupted local economies.
Homeowners in states like Florida are facing skyrocketing insurance premiums or losing coverage altogether as insurers struggle with the growing costs of climate-related disasters.
Agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, and public health are all increasingly vulnerable. Rising temperatures, stronger storms, and changing weather patterns threaten crop yields, damage roads and bridges, reduce productivity, and increase healthcare costs.
Ignoring climate change will not make the costs disappear. The question is no longer whether climate change impacts our economy, it is how much we are willing to pay if we don't address it.
My top two legislative priorities for the next Congressional term would be:
1. Social Security Stabilization Act
Social Security is a promise that millions of Americans have paid into throughout their working lives. I would make strengthening and protecting Social Security my first priority by ensuring the program remains fully funded for current retirees and future generations, while opposing any effort to cut earned benefits. Seniors should be able to retire with dignity and financial security.
2. One Nation-Health Care Act
No American should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying their bills. My national health care plan, the One Nation Health Care Act, would guarantee affordable, comprehensive health coverage for every American while reducing administrative waste and lowering overall costs. Health care should be a right, not a privilege tied to employment, income, or geography.
Freedom of speech means that Americans have the right to express their opinions, beliefs, criticisms, and ideas without fear of government censorship or punishment. It protects speech we agree with and speech we strongly disagree with, because a free society depends on the open exchange of ideas.
That freedom, however, is not absolute. The government can place limits on speech that creates a "clear and present danger", such as inciting imminent violence, making true threats, or causing immediate harm to public safety. Freedom of speech protects debate, dissent, and criticism.
Yes! As a 7th grade Civics teacher, I can't wait to answer this.
Congress. While the President manages executive branch agencies, Congress has the constitutional duty to oversee them. Congress creates agencies, funds them, conducts investigations, holds hearings, and ensures federal agencies are following the law and properly spending taxpayer dollars. Effective oversight is a critical part of the system of checks and balances.
If documentary proof of U.S. citizenship becomes a requirement to register to vote, then the burden should not fall on citizens to pay for it. Voting is a constitutional right, not a luxury purchase.
If Congress imposes a nationwide citizenship documentation requirement, the federal government must fully fund and provide free voter identification and citizenship verification services to every eligible American. That means covering the cost of birth certificates, marriage certificates, name-change documents, and any other records needed to prove eligibility.
Women who have changed their names through marriage, seniors who may have lost documents decades ago, low-income Americans, rural residents, and disaster victims should not face financial or bureaucratic barriers to exercising their right to vote. If the government creates the requirement, the government should pay the cost of compliance, not the people.
As a 7th-grade Civics teacher, I see education as one of the most important investments we make in our future.
The federal government should not dictate every decision made in a classroom, but it does have a responsibility to ensure that every child, regardless of zip code, has access to a quality education.
Pre-School:
The federal government should help expand access to affordable, high-quality early childhood education.
K-12 Education:
Education decisions should primarily be made by local school districts, teachers, parents, and states. The federal government should ensure equal opportunity, enforce civil rights protections, support students with disabilities, and provide resources to underserved communities
Ultimately, I believe education is a shared responsibility. The federal government should be a partner that helps expand opportunity.
Age
67
Education
B.A. in Chemistry & Psychology, University of Pennsylvania (1980); M.Ed. in Instructional Technology, University of South Florida (1994)
Hometown
Gainesville, FL
County
Alachua
Campaign Phone
352-354-2613
Immigration, in four parts:
• Citizenship clock: starts at identification, not before; speeds up with work, English, and service; stops at a violent crime; sneaking in adds time that good choices earn back.
• A legal lane for the seasonal farm labor our district depends on, so the same crews return each year, on the books.
• A legal ID that brings the law-abiding into the system: work credits roll onto Social Security at citizenship, and a child raised in it graduates a citizen.
• Root cause: give Americans a real way out of poverty. Fewer then turn to drugs, and less of that money flows south to the cartels whose violence pushes families north.
Yes. In Florida it isn't a someday threat, it's a bill we're already paying:
• Home insurance is collapsing, and property values sit exposed to flood and storm.
• Stronger storms and rising seas force coastal towns like Cedar Key to spend just to stay above water.
• Heat drives utility bills up, while drought and flood both hit our farms.
• Saltwater is creeping into the aquifer we drink from.
• And it lands hardest on working people, as cost and as stress.
Pretending otherwise doesn't lower the bill; it hands it to our kids. The fix that cuts the risk also cuts the cost: clean energy we own ourselves, not one big grid that fails when the storm hits.
Both are one idea: securing our independence.
• Economic independence, ahead of the crash I see coming. We were told to put all our eggs in one basket, the market, and call it retirement. That basket won't hold. I'd bring investment home and build an economy this district owns: local co-ops, community-owned broadband and energy, and a floor no one falls below, including healthcare a crisis can't take away, with mobile clinics that reach rural counties, not just the cities.
• Data independence: our own information should belong to us. Companies harvest it, sell it, and use it to steer us, with no say and no share. I'd give people real ownership of their data, plain consent instead of buried fine print, and the right to say no.
One fight on two fronts: putting control back in our hands.
At its core, free speech is equal rights and equal opportunity: the same voice for everyone, powerful or powerless.
• It's the golden rule. We protect the speech we hate, because that's the only way the speech we love stays free.
• Government can't punish us for what we say, above all for criticizing those in power.
• I swore an oath as a veteran to defend that against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The gravest threats now are domestic: a government punishing its critics, or a few platforms deciding who gets heard.
Congress, under Article I.
• Agencies exist because Congress created them, funds them, and writes the laws they carry out, so oversight is Congress's job.
• The President's role is to faithfully execute those laws, not to decide unilaterally what agencies do or defund what Congress ordered.
• For a generation Congress handed its authority to the executive, then complained about the result.
• I'd reclaim it: real oversight hearings, power-of-the-purse conditions, and sunsets so no authority runs on autopilot.
On the agencies voters pay for, the people's branch should do its job again.
• I'd fight any rule that strips the vote from eligible citizens over documents they once had: people who changed their name (most often women), the elderly, the rural, the low-income.
• The real fix is to use what the government already has. The Social Security Administration already records whether someone is a citizen, so let that record do the proving, not a birth-certificate scavenger hunt. Confirm it through a Social Security login or other secure government ID.
• And bring it to people instead of making them drive hours: mobile, host-site help at libraries and county offices for anyone without a smartphone.
That's the catalyst's job: completing the circuit so the right we already hold actually reaches us.
With an administration set on shrinking the federal footprint, my job is to be the catalyst: protect the money already flowing to our schools and bring more home with as few strings as possible, so the district decides its own path.
• College is the exception, where Washington already holds the purse. Use it to fund students with grants, not debt: a GI Bill for all.
• And the biggest thing Washington can do for a child isn't in the school at all: give the family a stable floor. A child whose family is one missed paycheck from disaster can't focus in class. Short term, restore and expand the safety nets being cut: SNAP, Medicaid, the ACA, Section 8 housing. Long term, build a financial floor under every family, enough to cover basic needs and bring the stress down.
Steady the families and the rest follows.
Age
75
Education
Ph'D in Theoretical Physics via CalTech and UMD College Park
Hometown
Gainesville, FL
County
Alachua
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tomwellsforcongress/
Campaign Phone
352-514-5467
The United States is a signatory to the 1967 UN Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. This is a treaty passed by 2/3 the Senate; hence, like the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the USA. Our legal obligation is formalized in US law by the Refugee Act of 1980. Explicitly the US is obligated to treat people presenting as refugees at the border as 'honored guests' pending trial (per 14A: "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.") We have never honored these obligations; neither Trump 1 nor Biden did so.
Trump-2 plumbs new deadly depths. What changed?
Trump requested that the Supremes overturn a lower court stay on Executive Order 14165 be overturned. Then a Shadow Docket, Kavanaugh decides that ICE can pick up anyone who might be Spanish
And in Trump v. CASA the Supremes ruled that lower courts cannot issue universal injunctions. . . Ergo the 28 universal injunctions issued during Biden's term are just WRONG.
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My top priorities are Universal Healthcare and tuition free public education from pre-K through graduate school. Every OECD country, except the US, has both. In the 60's-70's we were moving toward both. California public universities were excellent and pretty near free. Right now we are further from either than ever.
What happened? In '71 Lewis Powell wrote the Powell Memo and Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court. 5 years were spent in building out the ground work sketched in that Memo. The first toxic fruits from the Court: '76 Valeo and '78 Bellotti - respectively defining personal and corporate money given to candidates as political speech. But it is actually bribery - precisely as defined in Blackstone Book 4 Chapter 10 Paragraph 17; the common law definition known to those who wrote the Constitution.
For 30 years, until 2010 Obama ACA, no substantive people positive Act passed. To preclude recurrence, the $$ scale was bumped up by Citizens United.
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Traditionally federal agencies propose rules, and specify a time limit for public comment then either modify and repeat or schedule activation. My impression is that Congress generally accepts the agency's work.
There is a long history of Executive Orders. To have force of law they must be certified Constitutional by the Supreme Court. Which is problematic given that the Court has inverted our healthy democracy into a government of, by, and for corporate profits.
But the correct answer now is that the Court has usurped oversight of regulatory agencies. As is well known, the 7/1/24 ruling in Trump v US granted the President power to order the kill of an opponent. Less noted, the Court gave itself a trifecta. 1) Snyder: legalized arbitrary bribes to any public employee - so long as you called it a 'Tip', 2) Via Loper Bright overturned Chevron Deference to give itself domain over all regulatory actions, and 3) Corner Post giving corps a path to overthrow and existing regulation.
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I concur with Thomas Jefferson: "I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." Ergo: public pre-K through graduate school is the security for democracy.
