Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Florida 6th Congressional District in 2025 Florida Consolidated General and Special Congressional Election.
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Get StartedI feel it is important to discuss abortion within the context of healthcare. An abortion is a medical procedure. Women need to be able to discuss options safely and privately only with their families and doctors. Having a child, or deciding to abort it, is a very personal decision. Learn more
Senior Credits - Make cost of living adjustments more frequent—quarterly COLA’s Learn more
Provide an additional insurance payment to families and businesses in geographic locations where a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, has occurred, and/or the State Governor or the President has declared an emergency. The amount to be determined by loss, etc. Learn more
Small Business or “gig” Credits - Offer $20,000 business loan assistance for development Learn more
Eliminating the U.S Department of Education, which the current administration has vowed to do, is not a wise idea. Money is not everything, but school funding levels reflect the value that we place on the education of our kids. Let’s not sacrifice our children’s potential on the questionable altar of cost-cutting. A federal Department of Education demonstrates how important education is to our nation’s future. Learn more
We must continue to monitor superfund sites for hazardous waste and clean up what we can. And in Florida, we have many nature preserves which must be protected from agricultural run-off due to the overuse of fertilizers. We cannot take nature for granted because the Earth can only absorb so much pollution before it spits it back out—contaminating our aquifers and ground water and potentially poisoning ourselves and our families. Learn more
Creating new jobs in green energy helps us address climate change while stimulating our economy at the same time. As your Congressman, I will work to pass the Green New Deal to help the people of Florida and America transition from the use of fossil fuels to clean, renewable sources of energy. I will also work to limit greenhouse gas emissions and control the amount of carbon that we release into the atmosphere. Learn more
The Affordable Care Act went a long way to improving our healthcare system. But we need to include everyone in a system, much like Medicare does. Creating a universal system that includes all of us will ultimately cost less because hospitals end up covering many indigent patients anyway—and then pass those increased costs along to us through higher insurance rates. Learn more
I believe that healthcare is a human right. No one should be denied medical treatment because they cannot afford it. Learn more
New Homeowner Credits - Extend $50,000 down payment assistance for first time home buyers Learn more
Lastly, there has been discussion, lately, that when a person is born here, he or she might not be a citizen if their parents emigrated illegally from a foreign country. But the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is very clear: if you are born in the United States, then you are an American citizen. Learn more
The United States immigration system needs to be comprehensively reformed. People should be able to enter our country legally if they follow the process of obtaining worker permits (green cards) or pursue citizenship. We also need to better fund the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol so that it can do its job of protecting us from real criminals such as drug runners (who, by the way, are usually not immigrants). Learn more
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