Karla Kemp

Establish a universal, service-based healthcare system that prioritizes care over profit by eliminating investor prioritized profits, ensuring immediate payment of medical claims, and providing full coverage for all people. Guarantee comprehensive care, including mandatory basic immunizations, complete women’s healthcare (including abortion & IVF), cancer care, and robust support for disabled and challenged individuals. Transition to this system by expanding Medicaid for all until universal coverage is complete, and strengthen the medical workforce by offering free medical school to doctors who commit to ten years of public service. If we have the ability to save people and make lives better, it should not be about profit margin.

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The most recent issue the current District 18 Senator, Nick Deciglia, is piloting a bill that will strip localities and the people of the right to deny AI Data Centers. They want to control that in the Governor’s office. They do not want us to have a say in the impact it will have on our drinking water, despite the 10” we are currently short on rain and the extreme drought. They do not care about what it will do to our electric bills and our water bills, not to mention the incredible strain it will put on the existing infrastructure that already needs millions of dollars of repair work. Most importantly, they don’t care that these data centers are intended to take your jobs!

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Biography & Career Taxpayer dollars should go back to those who chip in, not to those who are making billions of dollars as a result of our money going to support their businesses! Corporations should be paying for the ability to come into our community, use our resources, have our citizens as employees, stakeholders, and customers. Communities have the right to determine how they are run. Communities have the right to say “no” to a development that they do not want. This sneaking in of the elimination of local rights by Ron DeSantis and the GOP in the FL Legislature via the anti-“woke” agenda, and the anti- people of color movement is a violation of our Constitutionally given rights. There are many ways to improve the cost of living here. But, forcing a bill onto the people while misinforming them about the real intent and the real result, but tempting them with reduced taxes is just another of the many fascist moves that DeSantis has pulled. Planted in the back of the bill is the reassurance that the state, The GOP controlled Tallahassee, would provide the money that they would determine to be used by each and every community and for the uses that they deem worthy.

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Protect housing and affordability by banning corporate ownership of residential housing and creating low-interest, government-backed loans. Regulate natural gas exports and domestic energy pricing to protect Americans. Restore and strengthen FEMA to ensure communities are prepared for and can recover from disasters—prioritizing people over privatization to achieve shared prosperity. Property Insurance & Housing Stability Reform property insurance by mandating that all valid claims are paid promptly, with fraud addressed through the courts—not denied claims—while banning contractor liens and stock buybacks. Prohibit premium increases if insurers have paid investors or conducted stock buybacks within the past five years, and eliminate hurricane exemptions that shift risk onto homeowners. Reduce homelessness by redirecting funds from law-enforcement clearances into housing and comprehensive social services, cutting costs while reducing homelessness by at least 60%. Establish work-for-rent housing programs that include trade education, creating long-term stability, workforce readiness, and pathways to independence.

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Where are the police when we need them? Currently, they are apparently helping ICE, so much so, we are #1 for Immigrant abductions. As it is, the citizens did not receive the covid money given to this state to help with unemployment or food needs. Instead, they used that money to illegally transport LEGAL migrants from Texas to the Cape of Massachusetts. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have gone to education, to healthcare, to the homeless, to vets, to low income housing, to TANF for low income families. Then, they withheld our FEMA money and spent MILLIONS of dollars on an illegal camp, commonly referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz”, rather than helping those of us who have been shorted by our outrageously priced insurance!

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Break up monopolies and eliminate “too big to fail.” Hold corporate and financial executives accountable for abuse, price gouging, and tax avoidance. Require companies to reinvest in the communities they operate in through direct dividends and protections against price gouging. Protect workers by strengthening unions and redefining “right to work” as the right to fair pay, safe conditions, freedom from abuse, and protection from being fired without cause. Enact laws ensuring equal pay for women, workplace protections for LGBTQ++ and disabled, paid parental leave, and affordable childcare. Pass Women’s equality amendment.

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They have already stripped our schools to the point of being non-functional.

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Build a European-style education system that treats learning as a public good: provide free undergraduate education, forgive all existing student loan debt, and pay graduate students—including a funded international study year—with monthly stipends and on-campus childcare. Expand technical education through paid internships and apprenticeships, with wage support during the first two years after graduation during internships or apprenticeship training completion. Ensure equity and accountability by restoring DEI initiatives, strengthening support for disabled and challenged students, and capping public-university executive pay at no more than 30% above the lowest-paid instructor.

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Environmental Protection & Community Controlled Energy Rejoin the Paris Accords, permanently. Hold chemical, agribusiness, and other corporations accountable for cleaning contaminated soil and waterways, providing healthcare to affected communities, and ending monopolistic control over seeds and treatments. Restrict industrial chemical and polluting-industry executives from holding positions within the EPA to prevent regulatory capture. Reform and strengthen the EPA to prioritize human and environmental health, maintaining protections unless clear evidence proves no harm. Ban herbicides, pesticides, and petroleum contamination of waterways, require full disclosure of fracking chemicals, and fund comprehensive cleanup of residues affecting land, water, food, and people. Accelerate the transition to renewable energy through wind, solar, microgrids, and industrial hemp–based fuels, and return utility monopolies to community-owned cooperatives to ensure local control, resilience, and long-term environmental stewardship.

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Protect housing and affordability by banning corporate ownership of residential housing and creating low-interest, government-backed loans. Regulate natural gas exports and domestic energy pricing to protect Americans. Restore and strengthen FEMA to ensure communities are prepared for and can recover from disasters—prioritizing people over privatization to achieve shared prosperity. Property Insurance & Housing Stability Reform property insurance by mandating that all valid claims are paid promptly, with fraud addressed through the courts—not denied claims—while banning contractor liens and stock buybacks. Prohibit premium increases if insurers have paid investors or conducted stock buybacks within the past five years, and eliminate hurricane exemptions that shift risk onto homeowners. Reduce homelessness by redirecting funds from law-enforcement clearances into housing and comprehensive social services, cutting costs while reducing homelessness by at least 60%. Establish work-for-rent housing programs that include trade education, creating long-term stability, workforce readiness, and pathways to independence.

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The most recent issue the current District 18 Senator, Nick Deciglia, is piloting a bill that will strip localities and the people of the right to deny AI Data Centers. They want to control that in the Governor’s office. They do not want us to have a say in the impact it will have on our drinking water, despite the 10” we are currently short on rain and the extreme drought. They do not care about what it will do to our electric bills and our water bills, not to mention the incredible strain it will put on the existing infrastructure that already needs millions of dollars of repair work. Most importantly, they don’t care that these data centers are intended to take your jobs!

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Environmental Protection & Community Controlled Energy Rejoin the Paris Accords, permanently. Hold chemical, agribusiness, and other corporations accountable for cleaning contaminated soil and waterways, providing healthcare to affected communities, and ending monopolistic control over seeds and treatments. Restrict industrial chemical and polluting-industry executives from holding positions within the EPA to prevent regulatory capture. Reform and strengthen the EPA to prioritize human and environmental health, maintaining protections unless clear evidence proves no harm. Ban herbicides, pesticides, and petroleum contamination of waterways, require full disclosure of fracking chemicals, and fund comprehensive cleanup of residues affecting land, water, food, and people. Accelerate the transition to renewable energy through wind, solar, microgrids, and industrial hemp–based fuels, and return utility monopolies to community-owned cooperatives to ensure local control, resilience, and long-term environmental stewardship.

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The most recent issue the current District 18 Senator, Nick Deciglia, is piloting a bill that will strip localities and the people of the right to deny AI Data Centers. They want to control that in the Governor’s office. They do not want us to have a say in the impact it will have on our drinking water, despite the 10” we are currently short on rain and the extreme drought. They do not care about what it will do to our electric bills and our water bills, not to mention the incredible strain it will put on the existing infrastructure that already needs millions of dollars of repair work. Most importantly, they don’t care that these data centers are intended to take your jobs!

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Establish a universal, service-based healthcare system that prioritizes care over profit by eliminating investor prioritized profits, ensuring immediate payment of medical claims, and providing full coverage for all people. Guarantee comprehensive care, including mandatory basic immunizations, complete women’s healthcare (including abortion & IVF), cancer care, and robust support for disabled and challenged individuals. Transition to this system by expanding Medicaid for all until universal coverage is complete, and strengthen the medical workforce by offering free medical school to doctors who commit to ten years of public service. If we have the ability to save people and make lives better, it should not be about profit margin.

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As a licensed insurance agent, and a homeowner, I have seen firsthand the homeowner’s insurance issues and how the existing Senator who was the Vice President of the Insurance Committee when they made their most recent changes that did nothing for us, but empowered the insurance companies. I want to change this. I know what the companies are doing and how to fix it!

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Protect housing and affordability by banning corporate ownership of residential housing and creating low-interest, government-backed loans. Regulate natural gas exports and domestic energy pricing to protect Americans. Restore and strengthen FEMA to ensure communities are prepared for and can recover from disasters—prioritizing people over privatization to achieve shared prosperity. Property Insurance & Housing Stability Reform property insurance by mandating that all valid claims are paid promptly, with fraud addressed through the courts—not denied claims—while banning contractor liens and stock buybacks. Prohibit premium increases if insurers have paid investors or conducted stock buybacks within the past five years, and eliminate hurricane exemptions that shift risk onto homeowners. Reduce homelessness by redirecting funds from law-enforcement clearances into housing and comprehensive social services, cutting costs while reducing homelessness by at least 60%. Establish work-for-rent housing programs that include trade education, creating long-term stability, workforce readiness, and pathways to independence.

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Where are the police when we need them? Currently, they are apparently helping ICE, so much so, we are #1 for Immigrant abductions. As it is, the citizens did not receive the covid money given to this state to help with unemployment or food needs. Instead, they used that money to illegally transport LEGAL migrants from Texas to the Cape of Massachusetts. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have gone to education, to healthcare, to the homeless, to vets, to low income housing, to TANF for low income families. Then, they withheld our FEMA money and spent MILLIONS of dollars on an illegal camp, commonly referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz”, rather than helping those of us who have been shorted by our outrageously priced insurance!

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Biography & Career Taxpayer dollars should go back to those who chip in, not to those who are making billions of dollars as a result of our money going to support their businesses! Corporations should be paying for the ability to come into our community, use our resources, have our citizens as employees, stakeholders, and customers. Communities have the right to determine how they are run. Communities have the right to say “no” to a development that they do not want. This sneaking in of the elimination of local rights by Ron DeSantis and the GOP in the FL Legislature via the anti-“woke” agenda, and the anti- people of color movement is a violation of our Constitutionally given rights. There are many ways to improve the cost of living here. But, forcing a bill onto the people while misinforming them about the real intent and the real result, but tempting them with reduced taxes is just another of the many fascist moves that DeSantis has pulled. Planted in the back of the bill is the reassurance that the state, The GOP controlled Tallahassee, would provide the money that they would determine to be used by each and every community and for the uses that they deem worthy.

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I am running for the Florida Senate District 18 to restore accountability, fight for civil rights, and eliminate harmful Tallahassee overreach, including unchecked ICE enforcement that tears families apart.

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Where are the police when we need them? Currently, they are apparently helping ICE, so much so, we are #1 for Immigrant abductions. As it is, the citizens did not receive the covid money given to this state to help with unemployment or food needs. Instead, they used that money to illegally transport LEGAL migrants from Texas to the Cape of Massachusetts. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have gone to education, to healthcare, to the homeless, to vets, to low income housing, to TANF for low income families. Then, they withheld our FEMA money and spent MILLIONS of dollars on an illegal camp, commonly referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz”, rather than helping those of us who have been shorted by our outrageously priced insurance!

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I am also a believer that communities should be able to create their own laws and decide what happens where they live, not executive overreach and control by the Governor and the state. The Federal Gov’t is to support the state gov’t, and the state gov’t is to support the communities. Tallahassee is a place for the people’s representatives to go to assist their communities, not police it. At not point should our individual rights to protest or deny major construction be taken away from us. Particularly when it will dramatically impact our lives and livelihoods!

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Biography & Career Taxpayer dollars should go back to those who chip in, not to those who are making billions of dollars as a result of our money going to support their businesses! Corporations should be paying for the ability to come into our community, use our resources, have our citizens as employees, stakeholders, and customers. Communities have the right to determine how they are run. Communities have the right to say “no” to a development that they do not want. This sneaking in of the elimination of local rights by Ron DeSantis and the GOP in the FL Legislature via the anti-“woke” agenda, and the anti- people of color movement is a violation of our Constitutionally given rights. There are many ways to improve the cost of living here. But, forcing a bill onto the people while misinforming them about the real intent and the real result, but tempting them with reduced taxes is just another of the many fascist moves that DeSantis has pulled. Planted in the back of the bill is the reassurance that the state, The GOP controlled Tallahassee, would provide the money that they would determine to be used by each and every community and for the uses that they deem worthy.

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Adopt a progressive tax system where those who benefit most pay their fair share to support the communities, workers, and infrastructure that enable their success. End tax breaks that favor the wealthy while shifting costs to the public. Restore upper-tier tax rates that historically stabilized the economy, funded essential infrastructure, and strengthened the middle class.

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Nick DeCiglia and the GOP want to take away your right to say no. I want to restore your rights and strengthen them! I want to fight for what will ENHANCE our communities, reduce our cost of living, break up the monopolies who are driving the costs up, move the money from our taxpayer dollars to areas that actually help people!

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Where are the police when we need them? Currently, they are apparently helping ICE, so much so, we are #1 for Immigrant abductions. As it is, the citizens did not receive the covid money given to this state to help with unemployment or food needs. Instead, they used that money to illegally transport LEGAL migrants from Texas to the Cape of Massachusetts. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have gone to education, to healthcare, to the homeless, to vets, to low income housing, to TANF for low income families. Then, they withheld our FEMA money and spent MILLIONS of dollars on an illegal camp, commonly referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz”, rather than helping those of us who have been shorted by our outrageously priced insurance!

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Biography & Career Taxpayer dollars should go back to those who chip in, not to those who are making billions of dollars as a result of our money going to support their businesses! Corporations should be paying for the ability to come into our community, use our resources, have our citizens as employees, stakeholders, and customers. Communities have the right to determine how they are run. Communities have the right to say “no” to a development that they do not want. This sneaking in of the elimination of local rights by Ron DeSantis and the GOP in the FL Legislature via the anti-“woke” agenda, and the anti- people of color movement is a violation of our Constitutionally given rights. There are many ways to improve the cost of living here. But, forcing a bill onto the people while misinforming them about the real intent and the real result, but tempting them with reduced taxes is just another of the many fascist moves that DeSantis has pulled. Planted in the back of the bill is the reassurance that the state, The GOP controlled Tallahassee, would provide the money that they would determine to be used by each and every community and for the uses that they deem worthy.

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The most recent issue the current District 18 Senator, Nick Deciglia, is piloting a bill that will strip localities and the people of the right to deny AI Data Centers. They want to control that in the Governor’s office. They do not want us to have a say in the impact it will have on our drinking water, despite the 10” we are currently short on rain and the extreme drought. They do not care about what it will do to our electric bills and our water bills, not to mention the incredible strain it will put on the existing infrastructure that already needs millions of dollars of repair work. Most importantly, they don’t care that these data centers are intended to take your jobs!

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