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We queried active members of the local Republican Liberty Caucus & Republican Party. These are the grassroots donors & volunteers upon whom candidates depend, and are among the Republican Primary super voters in Duval County. *Informal Straw Poll, 48 hrs *NO endorsement implied.

Mel Gibson: "I have 3 friends. All 3 of them had stage 4 cancer…and all 3 of them…don't have cancer right now at all…" Joe Rogan: "What did they take…? Ivermectin and Fenbendazole…" Mel Gibson nods in agreement.

In his 1938 work The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc devoted a chapter to Islam: "Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past."

This healthcare plan being floated in the governor’s race sounds good at first glance. It has all of the buzzwords: “Consumer control.” “Transparency.” “Lower prices.” But once you actually read it, the problems become obvious and they’re not small. This isn’t a conservative plan. And more importantly, it’s not even a state plan. Let’s start with the biggest issue: A governor cannot do most of what this plan promises. It relies heavily on: - Federal tax code changes (HSAs) - Federal legislation - National pricing models - Nationwide mandates Florida deserves leadership at the state level. This is just outsourcing responsibility to Washington. If your plan depends on Congress acting first, then you don’t actually have a plan. You have a wish list. Second problem: It uses market language while pushing government control. You’ll see phrases like: “consumer-driven” “competition” “transparency” But look at the actual mechanisms: - Mandates - Federal standardization - Government-influenced pricing models You cannot claim to support markets while also supporting centralized price controls. Those systems work in opposite directions. Markets rely on price signals and controls distort those signals. You don’t get efficiency. Instead you get shortages, reduced innovation, and hidden costs. Third - and this is where it really breaks: “Most Favored Nation” pricing is not a conservative policy. It ties U.S. prices to foreign governments! Think about that for a second. Instead of allowing prices to emerge from competition, you’re importing pricing decisions from countries that: - Ration care - Suppress innovation - Use heavy government intervention That’s not free-market healthcare. It's simply managed pricing with a different label. Fourth: It ignores what states can actually do right now. A governor already has real authority over: - Insurance markets (within federal constraints) - Medicaid design through waivers - Licensing and certificate-of-need laws - Price transparency enforcement That’s where reform should start. Instead, this plan barely touches those levers. Why? Because it’s easier to promise outcomes than to make hard, actionable decisions. And that leads to the real issue: This plan is politically convenient, not operationally serious. It avoids the tough questions: - What regulations do you remove? - What barriers do you eliminate? - What power do you return to patients and providers? - What do you stop doing? Those are the questions that define actual leadership. If we’re serious about healthcare reform, we need to start from a different place: - Push decisions closer to patients, not further away to Washington or worse, overseas - Enforce real price transparency at the state level - Remove barriers to competition within our own systems - Use state authority fully instead of waiting on Washington That’s what a governor can actually do. Bottom line: This plan tries to sound like it supports markets and consumer choice. But it relies on centralized control, federal dependency, and policies that contradict those principles. And most importantly, it’s not even executable from the office being sought. If it can’t be implemented at the state level, it’s not a governing plan. It’s messaging.

Our Florida First agenda includes reducing healthcare costs and improving wellness. As governor, I will promote the Great American Health Plan and implement this plan and other cost saving reforms at the state level.

The Hill doing a misinformation this morning. A talking filibuster changes no Senate rules (unless you’re a 2022 Dem trying to make it easier). Conservatives have proposed no rules changes to do this, and it is distinct from calls to nuke the filibuster entirely (which many conservatives oppose).