2020 State Answers to Q10 & Q11

Chris Cause

10. I would like to see a reduction in the maximum allowable contribution to candidates and the elimination of corporate donations. When companies donate to campaigns, that money could come from anywhere. We need to close the loopholes in the campaign finance laws that are exploited by wealth and power. We need to eliminate the ability for candidates and incumbents to control their own PACS, where money is allowed to flow in from anywhere.
11. We need to expand credits to promote solar energy in the state. New construction projects should have incentives to add solar power throughout the state.  We need to add zero-emission public transportation options that take cars off our congested roadways. And we need to build self-sustaining water reclamation treatment plants to reverse the damage done by polluters across the state.

 

David Jones

10. The Florida business corporation ACT (Chapter 607) needs to be severely altered and/ or repealed to hold corporations accountable for their actions.  With the current political makeup in Tallahassee, this will not be legislative, but rather we will have to take our case to the people.  Veterans for common sense are dong this.  I will fully support your effort!
     
    Big money in politics is the main source of divisiveness we see in politics today.  We need to bring back the days when a person running for office knows they must look you in the eye and tell you the truth to get elected and certainly to get re-elected. Verifiable campaign finance reform is my goal.
11. Phosphates, Nitrates, and Carbons are what I call the environmental “axis of evil” when we talk of phosphates in the bone valley, we think of Mosaic.  Every time a group stands up to them they bully the lawsuit out of court.  Ending corporate constitutional rights should aid in holding Mosaic responsible “ Just tell the truth”.      When  we talk of Nitrates in Florida , we think of Lake Okeechobee and big sugar.  When we add nitrates to phosphates at a 16N -1Ph ratio.  We fertilize the blue-green algae that clog our estuaries and threatens our health.  We need to restore the natural flow of clean water to the south and let the everglades cleanse it for us.  Again all of your hard work towards ending corporate constitutional rights would pay off by holding big sugar accountable.  Carbons are the key to the greenhouse gases that are warming our oceans and threatening our coastlines with sea-level rise.  Carbon 350 parts per million should be our goal.  I believe in all renewable power grid by 2035.  Solar, wind and tidal abounds in southwest Florida.  We need to take advantage of all three.

 

Albert M. Griffiths

10. I would like to work with like-minded legislators to draft and introduce legislation to end corporate constitutional rights and big money in politics. I would vote in favor of such legislation.
11. I would like to work with like-minded legislators to draft and introduce legislation to would [sic] follow the initiatives of the Green New Deal. I would vote in favor of such legislation.

Additional Comments:

I would work within my district to bench of new candidates who share the policies outlined in this survey.

 

Keith Laufenberg

10. Write an initiative and take it to the people to sign enough petitions to  assure it passes into law.
11. First we must assume that Donald Trump is a fiction and global warming is a fact. We will get rid of the drilling and fracking in the Gulf and we will introduce and write initiatives the put the Everglades problem front and center on the agenda and pass a bill to ensure we are all on the same agenda and page to establish a [sic] Earth that will no longer destroy itself due to the human beings environmental mistakes.

 

Drake Buckman

10. I support any legislation and speak out against this ridiculous legal construct that corporations have the rights that human beings enjoy.
11. Propose a law requiring a timetable for all state buildings to be connected to solar power; Funding for the Phillipi Creek watershed in District 72; Punishing polluters criminally and civilly who create Red Tide. 

Additional Comments:

Thank you for this opportunity.

 

Dushyant Gosai

10. No response
11. No response

 

Laura Novosad

10. We should be able to put some laws on the books that would that limit spending in state or local campaigns. Promoting and encouraging my fellow Representatives to work toward state laws that limit corporate rights. But not sure how much could be done on a state level. Inform me on how I could help.
11. This is a core issue for me. If elected, I will work yo change building codes to solar & battery storage. Take on the electric companies and how they regulate and promote residential solar systems & net metering. Expand Fast Charging stations on Florida Hwys. If not elected, I will be doing a lot less. 

Additional Comments:

Thanks for your work, this is really important stuff.

 

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