Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! We hope that your Christmas season was joyous and blessed. It was good to be able to get some time back home with friends and family before the 2022 Legislative Session begins. We will return to Tallahassee to begin that work on January 11 and we plan to continue updating you on all that we will accomplish there.
These past few months, your Senator has had the privilege of traveling all over the state to be with our Governor as he continues to help keep Florida free and witness firsthand at what an amazing leader we have in him. We have Florida voters to thank for this! Without your hard work, involvement and commitment to the cause of liberty, we could very well be living in a lockdown state like California with a drug addict Governor in Andrew Gillum. Instead, we live in a state that continues to win on every front. From election law to COVID policies and taxes, Florida is leading the way and stands as a beacon of liberty in a country where there are places still half paralyzed with fear. Our working families need the freedom to prosper and overcome challenges together, not big government bureaucrats telling them what to do. Thanks to leaders like Governor DeSantis and a republican controlled legislature, Florida will continue to move forward without lockdowns and mandates.
Another focus of our Governor has been protecting parental rights. Rights that parents have to being directly involved in their children’s education. These are not the government’s children, they belong to their families and neither the state nor the federal government should have more say over what a child learns than those that care for them most. Things like Critical Race Theory have no business being shoved down our kid’s throats. Teaching a child to hate America, to despise freedom and to hate people because of the color of their skin is a giant step backward. Our country is not perfect, there never has been a perfect country, but our founding principles are solid and our children should learn about that in the classroom, not CRT! We are leading on this issue, and our Governor recently announced his intentions to work on combating CRT and variations thereof.
A quick note on Redistricting. We have been very pleased so far how this process is playing out. Our legislature is doing a wonderful job moving through this without any major hiccups and our leadership in the Florida Senate is committed to ensuring that our maps be fair and constitutional. This is not a time for politics; this is a time for doing our duty. Campaigning and political posturing can wait until we have fulfilled that responsibility.
As always, it is an honor to be your Senator and we look forwarded to continue serving constituents in Marion, Lake and Sumter counties.
Onward & Upward,
