Independent Party of Florida
Florida
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Full two-year term
Independent Party of Florida
Florida
Key dates
Full two-year term
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Constituents can ask the campaign to take a public stance on the issues that matter to them.
The Postal Service is on track to run out of cash within a year, and the people now running it were installed by an administration that has been open about wanting to sell it off. This is not a company that failed in the market. It is a public service, written into the Constitution, that reaches every address in America whether or not that address is profitable: the rural route, the veteran's prescription, the small business shipping its first orders, the mail ballot. Carve out the profitable pieces for private carriers and what is left is everyone those carriers were never going to serve, at whatever price they decide to charge. A Postmaster General who came off FedEx's board is not the person who should be deciding which routes are worth keeping. Fund the Postal Service, block any sale or privatization of its routes and facilities, stop closures and service cuts in underserved communities, and reject any interference with voting by mail.
Childhood vaccine schedules used to be set the boring way: an outside committee of specialists, meeting in public, screened for conflicts, leaving a paper trail anyone could read. That committee was fired and replaced by appointment, and the schedule is now being rewritten by executive order, not because new evidence arrived, but because one official decided. Pediatricians are fielding questions they can't answer about whether a shot will still be covered next month, and measles is back in places that hadn't seen a case in a generation. This is what it looks like when a decision that belongs to evidence gets handed to a person. Restore an independent, public, conflict-screened vaccine advisory process, keep the schedule with the science rather than the appointee, and guarantee every recommended vaccine stays free at the point of care.
In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments (the largest response to a federal rule in American history), the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
The Postal Service is on track to run out of cash within a year, and the people now running it were installed by an administration that has been open about wanting to sell it off. This is not a company that failed in the market. It is a public service, written into the Constitution, that reaches every address in America whether or not that address is profitable: the rural route, the veteran's prescription, the small business shipping its first orders, the mail ballot. Carve out the profitable pieces for private carriers and what is left is everyone those carriers were never going to serve, at whatever price they decide to charge. A Postmaster General who came off FedEx's board is not the person who should be deciding which routes are worth keeping. Fund the Postal Service, block any sale or privatization of its routes and facilities, stop closures and service cuts in underserved communities, and reject any interference with voting by mail.
Childhood vaccine schedules used to be set the boring way: an outside committee of specialists, meeting in public, screened for conflicts, leaving a paper trail anyone could read. That committee was fired and replaced by appointment, and the schedule is now being rewritten by executive order, not because new evidence arrived, but because one official decided. Pediatricians are fielding questions they can't answer about whether a shot will still be covered next month, and measles is back in places that hadn't seen a case in a generation. This is what it looks like when a decision that belongs to evidence gets handed to a person. Restore an independent, public, conflict-screened vaccine advisory process, keep the schedule with the science rather than the appointee, and guarantee every recommended vaccine stays free at the point of care.
In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments (the largest response to a federal rule in American history), the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
