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ORANGE COUNTY TABLE OF CONTENTS ORANGE COUNTY CANDIDATES FOR U.S. PRESIDENT U.S. Presidential candidates................................pg. 3 CANDIDATES FOR U.S.REPRESENTATIVE U.S. Rep candidates District 7..........................................pg. 4 U.S. Rep candidates District 8..........................................pg. 5 U.S. Rep candidates District 9..........................................pg. 6 U.S. Rep candidates District 10........................................pg. 7 CANDIDATES FOR STATE SENATOR State Senator candidates District 11...............................pg. 8 State Senator candidates District 13...............................pg. 9 State Senator candidates District 15..............................pg. 10 CANDIDATES FOR STATE ELECTION DAY | 03 | NOV 2020 REPRESENTATIVE State Rep candidates District 30....................................pg. 11 State Rep candidates District 31 ...................................pg. 12 State Rep candidates District 44....................................pg. 13 State Rep candidates District 47....................................pg. 14 State Rep candidates District 48....................................pg. 15 State Rep candidates District 49....................................pg. 16 State Rep candidates District 50....................................pg. 17 AMENDMENTS, LOCAL CANDIDATES, & MORE INFO Local candidates........................................................pg. 18-21 Amendments...............................................................pg. 22-23 Directory of candidates and research links.............pg. 24-25 Sign the pledge to vote & additional info.................pg. 26-27 2 CANDIDATES FOR U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN (D) **DONALD TRUMP (R) IMMIGRATION: Supports immediately IMMIGRATION: Block illegal immigrants reversing Trump’s family separation from becoming eligible for tax-payer funded practice at the border. Believes in protecting welfare, healthcare, and free college tuition. TPS and DED holders from being returned Opposes sanctuary cities and wants to to unsafe countries. Supports more restore our neighborhoods and protect our oversight and accountability on ICE and families. Wants to prohibit American CBP personnel. companies from replacing U.S. citizens with EDUCATION: Wants to ensure schools have lower-cost foreign workers. Supports equal funding and children of different mandatory deportation for non-citizen gang economic backgrounds, disabilities, races, members. and zip codes have the same opportunities. EDUCATION: Provide school choice to every Supports making public college and child in America. Supports teaching American universities tuition-free for families that make Exceptionalism. below $125,000 annually. HEALTH: Wants to cut prescription drug HEALTH: Supports giving all Americans prices, put patients and doctors back in access to affordable health insurance. charge of our healthcare system, and lower Supports a public option similar to healthcare insurance premiums. Wants to protect social security and medicare. Medicare. ENVIRONMENT: Continue to Lead the World ENVIRONMENT: Mandate new monitoring in Access to the Cleanest drinking water and for frontline communities who are more cleanest air. Partner with other nations to susceptible to climate change. Supports clean up our planet’s oceans. retrofitting buildings, upgrading schools, and ECONOMY: Wants to cut taxes to boost take- building homes sustainably. home pay and keep jobs in America. Wants to ECONOMY: Believes in ensuring the largest expand opportunity zones, enact fair trade corporations in the U.S. pay their “fair share” deals to protect American jobs, and continue of taxes while helping small businesses deregulatory agenda for energy recover. Supports incentivizing union independence. membership and collective bargaining. (D) = Democrat (R) = Republican ** = Incumbent 3 ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT 7 CANDIDATES FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES **STEPHANIE MURPHY (D) HEALTH: Introduced a bipartisan plan that will lower premiums for working families and small businesses. Wants to protect Medicare from privatization and voted to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. IMMIGRATION: Wants to create far-reaching migration change plan that secures borders and ports but strongly strongly opposes the President’s border wall, his Muslim ban, and his family separation policy. Believes in establishing a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants. EDUCATION: Strong supporter of early childhood education, announcing millions in early childhood education funding for Central Florida. Aggressively working to lower student loan interest rates, increasing Pell Grant funding, and making student loans more flexible, including the ability to renegotiate your loan when interest rates fall. ENVIRONMENT: For clean air and water, and lessening our reliance on non-renewable energy sources. ECONOMY:Supports lower taxes for working families and small businesses. Supports smart trade deals that raise American wages and help our businesses export more of their goods and products to other countries. LEO VALENTIN (R) HEALTH: Believes in lowering drug costs. Supports preventing excessive government intervention in the healthcare market. Supports eliminating red tape in the healthcare system. Is a pro-life candidate. IMMIGRATION: Whether its lowering our taxes, strong national security or working to stop illegal immigration, Leo believes the Trump administration is creating a strong Florida and America and supports our President. EDUCATION: Believes in having special learning plans for students with special educational needs. Believes in a culture of shared responsibility in schools. ENVIRONMENT: No comment. ECONOMY: Promotes a low-tax environment. Wants to decrease barriers for small businesses in Florida. Wants to expand technological sector footprint. (D) = Democrat (R) = Republican ** = Incumbent 4 ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT 8 CANDIDATES FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JIM KENNEDY (D) HEALTH: Believes in a universal healthcare system. Supports lower drug prices for all, a cap for all life-saving medications like insulin, and more freedoms with paid maternal leave. IMMIGRATION: Believes in a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants without a criminal record. Believes in expanding family reunification and workers’ visas. EDUCATION: Believes in increasing funding for education and raising teacher pay. ENVIRONMENT: Support research into renewable energy and incentivizing transition to sustainable practices. ECONOMY: Believes in a national stimulus bill that includes a focus on working families and small businesses and follows science-based solutions to defeating COVID-19. **BILL POSEY (R) HEALTH: Believes that we should guarantee that those with pre- existing medical conditions do not lose their health insurance or their access to affordable coverage. Thinks we should allow those under age 26 to continue on their family plan until they have access to an affordable health plan of their own as was the law in Florida before Obamacare. Believes in allowing purchase of health insurance across state lines which would enhance competition. IMMIGRATION: Believes in securing the U.S/Mexico border. EDUCATION: Opposes common core standards. ENVIRONMENT: Opposes transitioning to renewable energy. Believes in the U.S. achieving energy independence. Believes in protecting the Indian River lagoon and investing in algal bloom research. ECONOMY: Believes in reducing taxes on small businesses and individuals. Opposes legislation like the Green New Deal and other sustainable actions which “kill America’s economic growth.” (D) = Democrat (R) = Republican ** = Incumbent 5 ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT 9 CANDIDATES FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILLIAM OLSON (R) HEALTH: Bill will work to open up interstate healthcare competition, repeal Obamacare’s disastrous regulations, and expand quality, market- driven healthcare for all Americans. IMMIGRATION: Bill supports strengthening our nation’s borders by finishing the wall, improving border surveillance, and eliminating illegal immigration “incentives” like the Visa lottery and chain migration. EDUCATION: Supports school choice and charter schools. Supports providing individuals and businesses federal tax credits for donations to state-based K-12 scholarship programs. ENVIRONMENT: Supports investing federal funds in renewable energy innovation. ECONOMY: Believes that the time has come for it to once again be possible to support a family on a single income. As your Congressman, Bill will fight to eliminate job-killing regulations, pursue American energy independence, and unleash our economy. **DARREN SOTO (D) HEALTH: Supports Medicare for All, providing a public option to complement the Affordable Care Act. Believes in building upon Obamacare (ACA) and expanding Medicaid. IMMIGRATION: Believes in a clean DREAM Act along with an extension of TPS and a pathway to citizenship for immigrant communities. EDUCATION: Believes every child should have access to high-quality K-12 public education and college/technical education. Federal funding must be ensured for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Title 1 economically disadvantaged schools, and equal access regardless of race, religion, sex, disability, or sexual orientation. ENVIRONMENT: Believes in investing in renewable energy resources and education. Fighting for a statewide ban on fracking and offshore drilling. Believes in building a clean energy economy and reducing