I have explored every candidate running for Governor of Florida. I have asked questions, dug into their past voting and character, and I have found the candidate I think is best for me.
None of these men are perfect, none of them ever are. But the ones that meet my basic criteria were Collins and Renner.
I have decided that I will be voting for Renner in the Primary. I feel he has the most legiislative experience of anyone running. His 23 years of service as a Naval Officer shows leadership ability, and accolades for the FLorida AG and the Governor himself, where he was praiised for being instrumental in pushing the Desantis agenda through the Legislature were key to FLorida being what it is today.
I would urge each of you to vote Renner, as our best choice to replace Ron Desantis.
@RogerJStoneJr Citizen of FL here I am insulted by the FL GOP. Investigate what they allowed in Brevard County
Appalling Let me make an informed choice not the Gop
Their job is to present ALL candidates before the primaries
Susie Wiles remains pissed that @RonDeSantis can’t be bought. Her solution is to INSTALL #ByronDonalds as governor for her LOBBYING clients (Trulieve, Lawyers, AI, Gambling). She’ll NEVER allow #TrumpInc to endorse DeSantis, and she’ll NEVER allow #NeverByron to debate.
I’m a stay at home mom. I homeschool our four young children. I manage our homestead and a large garden that accounts for 50% of our family’s food. I run a business and serve in our churches music ministry and at the local community theater. Like many of us, I’m busy. I find it hard to sit down and gather my thoughts long enough to write anything organized or coherent. But what is happening in our lives regarding Lucy and my husband is enough to make me take the time.
This is our first year studying the Constitution in our homeschool. I find it wholly important that we teach our children to truly understand individual liberty, natural rights, and the balance between government power and the freedom of ordinary people to live their lives in peace.
Ironically, while teaching these very principles, we have found ourselves living through a situation that has challenged them in real time.
At the heart of the American dream is the idea that we should be able to live our lives in peace without unnecessary intrusion from the government or otherwise.
That principle is woven throughout our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The Fourth Amendment protects the right of people to be secure in their homes and property from unreasonable intrusion by the government.
The Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments recognizing that Americans possess natural rights beyond those specifically listed in the Constitution—rights like the freedom to peacefully live on your property, rights to personal privacy, to raise your children according to your values, build a homestead, make decisions for your family, and exist without constant harassment or interference from neighbors or government officials.
The Tenth Amendment reminds us that governmental power is to remain limited, and that authority ultimately rests with the people—not with unelected bureaucrats or neighbors who attempt to weaponize the system to control every detail of someone else’s private life.
The overwhelming response from Americans across the country regarding Lucy has reinforced exactly that. Thousands of ordinary people from every background have spoken up and challenged what is happening, reminding us that the voice of the people still matters when systems fail to exercise common sense, restraint, or compassion.
Still, somehow, we have reached a point where a family—MY family—can be harassed for years, dragged through the system, publicly slandered, financially devastated, and have their beloved dog taken away over a situation that common sense should have resolved in five minutes.
We are supposed to be a nation where families can raise their children, care for their animals, work their land, and just live without becoming targets.
A free society cannot survive when laws, complaints, and bureaucracy are weaponized against ordinary people simply because others dislike how they live.
Live and let live should not be controversial in America. Yet here we are. Cameras being pointed into our yard. Multiple court visits because of our farm operations. Slander, libel and gossip being used to publicly smear our character and twist the truth. Lucy is locked away today because people, both in government and in our own community, refused to honor the simple principle of live and let live.
Quite frankly—I don’t care what others think about me. We all have to answer to God someday, and that truth is very real to me. I will continue to extend grace and to forgive. But what I will not do is watch my freedoms and those of my family be squashed because of weaponized technicalities of the law and bullies who abuse the system to intimidate and harass.
What has happened to our family should alarm every American—no matter your politics. Perhaps it does—and that is why our Lucy has become “Americas Dog”.
The fight continues—until Lucy is home and beyond. Laws needs to change so this is never allowed to happen to another family again. The future rights of our children depend on it.
#savelucy