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State Representative, District 69

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Ashley Elizabeth Herrmann

A lifelong Floridian, community organizer, mother, and Socialist is running for the Florida House to address the state’s affordability crisis. Drawing on experience at FDOT, in schools, and in local neighborhoods, she pledges to challenge special interests and fight for working families, farmers, and communities in Tallahassee.

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Position on major issues

Abortion and reproductive policy

Abortion Is Healthcare, Full Stop: Repeal the six-week abortion ban and write the right to abortion straight into Florida law.

Artificial intelligence

Put Guardrails on Big Tech: Require real community benefits and require AI systems to loop in a real human when someone's in danger.

Make Them Pay Their Way: End the tax break for massive data centers and stop them from draining our drinking water.

Civil rights and freedoms

Leave trans people alone: Repeal the care ban, the bathroom bill, and the classroom censorship law.

Queer rights are non-negotiable: Pass a real statewide law banning discrimination against LGBTQ+ Floridians everywhere in the state.

Teach the Truth: Repeal what's left of the Stop WOKE Act and fund an honest African American history curriculum.

Everyone Belongs Here: Set a real statewide floor for religious accommodation, publish hate crime data, and require real consultation with Florida's tribes.

Reckoning With the Past: Fund real review of wrongful convictions and study reparations for Florida's own history of racial violence.

Criminal justice and policing

End Private Prisons: End Florida's private prison contracts and stop rewarding companies like GEO Group.

Real Police Accountability: Win real civilian oversight committees statewide, giving the public a vote before police get military gear, and a real path to accountability when officers cross the line.

Get ICE Out of Our Communities: Repeal the state mandate forcing local police into ICE agreements and ban them outright.

Reckoning With the Past: Fund real review of wrongful convictions and study reparations for Florida's own history of racial violence.

Economy, jobs and wages

Give Power Back to Workers: Repeal the state bans on water breaks, local living wages, and union dues deduction.

A Real Safety Net for Working Families: Win real paid family leave, a living wage floor for home care workers, and a wage theft unit with teeth.

Invest in Working People: Make community college actually free for the students who need it.

Elections and voting

Let the People Vote: Undo the barriers to ballot initiatives, restore a simple majority for amendments, and end the pay-to-vote requirement for past convictions.

Energy

Protect Clean Energy: Lock in rooftop solar rates so families who go solar keep what they were promised.

Environment and climate

Stop Reckless Development: Repeal the law blocking stronger rebuilding rules after a hurricane and stop the state from weakening wetlands protections.

Defend the Everglades and Our Coasts: Fight new offshore drilling, end sugarcane field burning, and fund buying land to protect our water.

Make Them Pay Their Way: End the tax break for massive data centers and stop them from draining our drinking water.

Healthcare

Healthcare Everyone Can Afford: Expand Medicaid, cushion the coming premium spike, and fix the funding gap hurting kids' mental health care.

Abortion Is Healthcare, Full Stop: Repeal the six-week abortion ban and write the right to abortion straight into Florida law.

Housing

Bring Back Home Rule: Repeal the state bans that keep our own city from capping rent hikes or reining in Airbnb.

Real Renter Protections: Fund a Right to Counsel pilot for eviction defense, pass a statewide source-of-income anti-discrimination law, and cap deposits and fees with interest-bearing escrow.

Protect the Housing Trust Fund: Statutorily mandate full appropriation of the Sadowski Trust Fund (SHIP/SAIL), ending two decades of the Legislature sweeping it for other uses.

Local Control Over Local Development: Repeal the law that stripped our county's power to say no to bad development.

Immigration

Get ICE Out of Our Communities: Repeal the state mandate forcing local police into ICE agreements and ban them outright.

Infrastructure and transportation

Real Transit Investment: Fix the loophole that let the state kill our own voter-approved transit tax.

Fares Everyone Can Afford: Win free or reduced transit fares for students and working families.

Housing For The People: Build publicly owned housing for teachers, nurses, and service workers, not just luxury towers.

Local Control Over Local Development: Repeal the law that stripped our county's power to say no to bad development.

Technology and privacy

Put Guardrails on Big Tech: Require real community benefits and require AI systems to loop in a real human when someone's in danger.

Make Them Pay Their Way: End the tax break for massive data centers and stop them from draining our drinking water.

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