Sam Romain

Today I spoke to the Lakeland City Commission about Project Swan. I’m not against growth. I’m against blank checks. No NDAs. No tax incentives before public power, water, and traffic studies. One simple rule: if Project Swan creates a cost, Project Swan pays it — not Lakeland families. Floridians do not need to subsidize Big Tech. cc: @GOPPolkFL

Today, an advanced non-lightwater nuclear reactor reached criticality in the United States for the first time in more than four decades. Thanks to President Trump unleashing the American Nuclear Renaissance, this was made possible. 🇺🇸

This is concerning

Hard to not love this guy 😂

@Matt_The_Welder Spoke on this issue in Lakeland & Ft Meade x.com/Sam_Romain/sta…

🚨A word Florida’s development machine hates is spreading across the state: MORATORIUM. Residents are coming together and pushing back against Big Tech and out-of-state developers. From city halls to county commissions, local governments are starting to listen. The people are realizing they have more power than they think, and they’re beginning to take back their government.

@RealFrankFromFL @podiatristdon No, its literally a fake polling account for memes.

@podiatristdon Is this a reputable poll? lol

It’s a two man race. Fishback and Donalds.

@CroakyWasRight networkworld.com/article/417096…

Going live in 5 to discuss energy & data centers 👀

Shots fired! 🤯💥

@Fla_Pol @ByronDonalds @JayCollinsFL @Paul_Renner @AGGancarski So will there be debates?

.@ByronDonalds calls for GOP to 'unite' behind him in Governor's race as primary opponents @JayCollinsFL @Paul_Renner call for debates Reporting by @AGGancarski #FlaPol flapol.com/4oeLrIz

@MichaelThompson I was waiting for you to announce this was you after that cameo.

I had a bad dream.

That article is a paid attack and real but overplayed. Collins wasn't "boosting" data centers in the sense of lowering standards or handing out new incentives. He was preserving a threshold-heavy existing exemption that required $150M+ investment and 15MW+ IT load to access. That's a defensible position and actually consistent with a "play by our rules" framing. Supporting tax certainty for qualified operators is not the same as opposing community impact standards. The gap between SB 1264 and his current stance isn't hypocrisy, but a difference between economic development policy and regulatory oversight policy. Those aren't the same lane. Further, the tax-exempt status is reviewed every 5 years for compliance. This specific bill was setup for critical infrastructure, for example a data center at MacDill. I'm not here to defend him, and I am certainly no campaign surrogate I have friendly relations with most of the candidates but I do think truth matters.

@Sam_Romain @RationalPurview x.com/i/status/20632…

Biddle thinks Renner is a genius for chanting “ban AI data centers.” But thinks Jay Collins is “dumb” for talking energy demands, water usage, subsidies, ratepayer costs, local control, and an actual concern about dangerous code? This is the difference between slogan politics and actual governing. “I will simply ban the thing” isn't a plan. It’s Facebook comment cosplay Florida needs more leaders who inform about trade-offs and solve for them, not just spout unlikely policy position blurbs and sell them to this low-info crowd as "policy"🐊

Thats disingenuous, the candidates on the field offer different ideas (thats the point of a primary). Collins - neutral on development "has to be down by our rules" Donalds - Build baby Build, boasts economic opportunity. Fishback/Renner - Outright moratorium. Questionable on if it can be done given Floridas already pro development laws.

@RationalPurview The problem is that Collins was just in the FL Senate trying to fast-track these mega data centers last year. Collins seems no different from Donalds when it comes to the eyeblights. He'll just apologize and hedge more as he lets them pave over the state. That's not leadership.

@leslie_hileslie Reach out to me any time, happy to help.

@Sam_Romain Good job neighbor. We need to do this in Sumter County too.

Today I spoke to the Lakeland City Commission about Project Swan. I’m not against growth. I’m against blank checks. No NDAs. No tax incentives before public power, water, and traffic studies. One simple rule: if Project Swan creates a cost, Project Swan pays it — not Lakeland families. Floridians do not need to subsidize Big Tech. cc: @GOPPolkFL

It's protected political satire. It's obvious parody, it's labeled AI, Donalds is a public figure, and no reasonable viewer takes a "Byron Donalds in another timeline" Nazi-uniform image as a true factual depiction of something he did. No false statement of fact means no defamation. 106.145 doesn't apply to a citizen's organic post, and even if it did, the empty trigger (depicting a real action that didn't occur) isn't met by obvious costume parody, plus it's labeled anyway. Florida Anti-SLAPP would protect the citizen if Donalds or anyone else tried to sue. Stop your fake outrage and just let the primary play out.

@MichaelThompson @GatesMcgavick @SkylarSwanson @RyanSmithFL the Collins campaign is now depicting Byron as Hitler. Need to file a another elections complaint

Byron Donalds in another timeline.

.@PaulinaRomain I’m buying this.

@Real_miss_Jodie @ConservativaPol @stevinsaga I’m getting exhausted by all the feigned outrage by everyone choosing their candidate and digging in their heels.

@Sam_Romain @ConservativaPol @stevinsaga It’s does say “made with AI” at the bottom. Al cut that part off so he can bitch about something he made up

Ha ha ha ha ha... They corrected the part showing Collins live for Washington DC during a Florida hurricane, but they forgot to delete the old one and it doesn't say it's Ai as required by Florida law, a law Jay Collins voted for.

@Billhelmich Taco Bell did this already and it’s awful.

Reminds me of the first Stainless Steel Rat book by Harry Harrison. Totally automated fast food is next 🤷‍♂️

@KittyWiddy I was the first speaker in that 😅

Good job Lakeland. 👏

Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA