I got to bring Lola with me as my date to the Kennedy King Gala this weekend ❤️
I'll be honest, my heart is full and I'm completely proud and content with the work we've already accomplished. With my family with me, over these last two years we fought for and delivered:
🚧 Hundreds of millions of dollars in road and infrastructure projects for Brandon, Riverview, and Lithia
- Resurfaced and widened US-301 and Bloomingdale and the I-75 onramp
- Started construction on Big Bend Road and I-75
- Started contstruction on MLK and I-75
- Finished construction on SR-60 and I-75
- Secured funding for the Boyette and I-75 intersection project
- Repaved hundreds of miles of local roads
- Passed Safe-Routes-to-Schools for pedestrian improvements to get kids to school safely
🏫 Improve our kids' schools
- Passed military-friendly schools legislation to help our transitioning military families
- Secured over $200m to increase school bus driver, cafeteria worker and janitor (among ALL support staff) pay state-wide
- Fought off attacks to cut our local teacher's pay
- Passed term-limits on school board members
- Passed VPK accountability standards, childhood literacy funding, and kept our schools afloat during the pandemic
💸 Bring down costs on families
- I fought against powerful interests to bring down homeowner insurance costs and rent
- Passed a gas-tax repealer to save us all $$$ at the pump (it was watered down to just one month in October, but I fought for more)
- The American Rescue Plan stabalized our economy, saved our small businesses, and has led to the fasted economic recovery in American history.
- We took on big drug companies and FINALLY allowed Medicare to negotiate for lower perscription drug costs saving the average American family over $1000 per year!
- We helped 3,450 local small businesses with Paycheck Protection Program loans saving 33,826 local jobs.
- Untold thousands of our neighbors needed help with unemployment during the pandemic... we got 100% benefits owed, paid.
But now, the Florida GOP is running someone against me who marched on the Capitol on January 6th, who will:
❌ Vote to overturn Florida's election results
❌ Criminalize abortion care in Florida and prosecute women
❌ Push for permitless carry of assault weapons in our schools, grocery stores, and streets
The stakes couldn't be higher. My family is with me, and I know you are to. Let's go win this thing, together!