Continue commuter toll rebates and sales-tax relief while backing exemptions and holidays aimed at families, students, and seniors.
Adopt a more progressive tax system, end tax preferences benefiting the wealthy, and require corporations to reinvest in communities where they operate.
Issue with the biggest divide
Immigration enforcement
Supports legislation prohibiting sanctuary-city policies and expansion of the E-Verify employment-verification program.
Opposes unchecked ICE enforcement, family separation, and Florida funds for migrant transportation and immigration-detention facilities.
Public education funding
Voted for the 2023 expansion of Florida’s state-supported school-choice scholarship programs.
Provide tuition-free undergraduate education, forgive existing student-loan debt, fund graduate stipends and childcare, and expand paid internships, apprenticeships, and technical training.
Energy utilities
Voted for 2024 legislation addressing grid resiliency, nuclear-energy feasibility, hydrogen infrastructure, and restrictions on certain wind facilities.
Accelerate wind, solar, microgrid, and hemp-based energy development while converting utility monopolies into community-owned cooperatives.
Homelessness response
Prohibit local governments from authorizing regular public camping or sleeping outside specified arrangements while allowing regulated sites certified by the Department of Children and Families.
Redirect homelessness-clearance funding toward housing, social services, and work-for-rent programs that combine housing with trade education.
Who's backing them
Endorsements
Experience
2023 to presentCEO, Hope Villages of America
2022 to presentState Senator- District 18, Florida State Senate
1996 to presentOwner, Solar Sanitation Inc.
2018 to 2022Representative - District 66, Florida House of Representatives
