David Jolly

His campaign website says Florida should expand Medicaid.⁷

In a statement on transgender Floridians on his campaign website, he says a governor should have no say in a family's medical decisions and that government should stay out of the doctor's office.⁸

His campaign website says Florida should sharply increase investment in public schools, including higher teacher pay.⁷

1. Increase state funding for public schools
2. Hold funding near current levels
3. Reduce state school funding or slow its growth

His campaign website says the state's private school voucher program should be limited by income to families with economic need, and that schools taking vouchers should meet public school standards, provide the same specialized services and not charge extra tuition.⁷

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

His campaign website says he does not think biological men belong in competitive women's sports in high school, college or scholarship competition and does not intend to change Florida's current law, while saying the governor need not regulate sports leagues and parents should be free to allow co-ed neighborhood youth leagues.⁸

His campaign website calls for an immediate moratorium on building hyperscale data centers until their environmental impact is studied and protections for water and nearby communities are shown to be sufficient.⁷

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

His campaign website says Florida should require its public utilities to use more clean and renewable energy.⁷

His campaign website says the long-standing bipartisan agreement to keep offshore drilling away from Florida's shores is under attack from an administration determined to drill closer to shore, and that drilling in the Gulf should be ended rather than expanded.^9,10

His campaign website says Florida should adopt sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform, including limits on corporate contributions, rules showing who funds campaigns, a ban on lobbyist gifts and closing the revolving door between office and lobbying. It also cites his 2016 co-sponsorship in Congress of the Stop Act, which would have barred members of Congress from personally asking for contributions.^7,11

His campaign website says that during his seven years as an independent he organized voters around ending gerrymandering and opening primaries.⁵

His campaign website says that, without federal legislation restoring them, Florida should write the protections of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood into state law. Its reproductive freedom page says that would mean replacing Florida's six-week ban with a state law allowing abortion until fetal viability, around 23 to 24 weeks.^7,12

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says Florida should ban the sale of new assault weapons, while people who already own them could keep them.^7,13

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says Florida should require universal background checks for gun sales.⁷

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says Florida should keep and expand the red flag law passed after the Parkland shooting.⁷

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign website says it should be easier for voters to place constitutional amendments on the ballot, and that the governor should work to carry out amendments that win more than 50% of the vote.⁷

1. Make it easier to get measures on the ballot, and limit lawmakers' power to change voter-approved laws
2. Keep current rules
3. Make it harder, such as by requiring more signatures or 60% approval for constitutional amendments

His campaign website says he would protect marriage equality in Florida and supports repealing the state's 2008 constitutional amendment against it.¹⁴

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says he supports a pathway to legal status and work for immigrants already here without legal status, particularly long-term residents and those with US citizen children, and a pathway to permanent legal status for Dreamers, which it says requires action by Congress.¹⁵

His campaign website says local police should focus on public safety rather than deportation, and that state laws turning local police into deportation agents should be opposed.¹⁵

His campaign website opposes state laws that require employers to use E-Verify, saying they hurt Florida's workforce.¹⁵

1. Keep it optional for most employers
2. Require it only for larger employers or certain industries
3. Require all employers to use it

His campaign website says he would reform rather than abolish mandatory minimum sentences, letting judges weigh individual circumstances through state changes similar to the federal FIRST STEP Act.¹⁶

His campaign website says he would expand down-payment help for first-time buyers along with workforce and affordable housing construction.¹⁷

His campaign website says local decisions, including zoning, should belong to local communities without the state overriding them.¹⁸

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

His campaign website says he has proposed property tax relief for first-time buyers through a homestead exemption of up to $250,000 for qualifying households, with additional exemptions of $50,000 to $100,000 for seniors and first responders, and has called for a three-year statewide pause on property tax increases.¹⁹

1. Eliminate property taxes on primary homes
2. Cap yearly increases or expand homeowner exemptions
3. No new state caps or exemptions; leave property taxes to local governments