Issue Position: Hold Our Leaders Accountable

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018

Buy a box of cereal and you know its ingredients. Shop for a car and a sticker will tell you where the parts came from. Why should our laws be any different?
In Florida and across America, many of our laws are not written by the people you elected. Those laws are strategically formulated and precisely written by anonymous, unelected lawyers and lobbyists who draft boilerplate state-level legislation that rewards special interests at your expense. Florida's workers, business owners, and seniors who still recall an era of honest government can easily recognize this as wrong, dangerous and, above all, irresponsible. Add to this gerrymandered districts drawn to stack the deck in an incumbent's favor, and the dream of a representative government fades further into the past.
As your senator, the first bill I'll introduce will require any legislation proposed by a member of any party explicitly state the origins of the proposed laws to reveal whether it was written to benefit the public -- or abuse the public trust by catering solely to special interests.


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