@bullfrog35@einerdrake A lot of people don’t realize how much student activism is organized by foreign nationals in their 30s with mysterious sources of funding.
🇺🇸 OFFICIAL STATEMENT 🇺🇸 CHRISTI TASKER CANCELS SUNSHINE SHOWDOWN PLANS
After careful consideration, I have decided that I will not be attending the Sunshine Showdown sponsored by the @FloridaGOP unless Florida Lieutenant Governor @LtGovJayCollins and other known republicans requesting to speak are added to the speaker lineup and treated with respect 🫡
This decision is not about any single candidate, campaign or personality. It is about ensuring that Republican voters have the opportunity to hear from the leaders already entrusted with serving the people of Florida and shaping the future of our state.
If Florida’s sitting Lieutenant Governor—a Purple Heart recipient 💜 combat veteran 🇺🇸 accomplished legislator 📜 and one of the highest-ranking elected officials in state government—is excluded from the discussion, it raises a larger question:
Who else is being excluded from the conversation?
🤔 Are grassroots conservatives being represented?
🤔 Are veterans being represented?
🤔 Are the voices of parents, first responders, small business owners, and everyday Floridians being represented?
🤔 Are Republican voters being given the full opportunity to hear from all serious leaders and candidates before making important decisions about Florida’s future?
Florida Republicans have built the strongest conservative movement in America by embracing open dialogue, robust debate, and the free exchange of ideas. We should never fear hearing from more voices—we should welcome it.
As Republicans, we often champion transparency, fairness, and voter engagement. Those principles should apply equally within our own events and forums in which voters want to hear from ALL republicans.
I look forward to attending the Sunshine Showdown when the event reflects those values by including Lieutenant Governor @JayCollinsFL and ensuring that attendees have access to a complete and meaningful discussion about the future of Florida. 🌴
My position is simple:
Let Floridians hear from their leaders.
Let voters ask questions.
Let ideas compete.
Let every qualified voice be heard. 🇺🇸
May the best Republican win the August primary.
ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION
As an elected Republican Executive Committeewoman representing Miami’s District 17, I take seriously my responsibility to represent Republican voters within my district.
This statement reflects my personal position and attendance and should not be construed as an official position of the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee (REC). To my knowledge, the REC has not met, deliberated, or voted on the Sunshine Showdown, the exclusion of Lieutenant Governor @JayCollinsFL from the speaker lineup, or any related position concerning this event.
Under the Rules of Procedure of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), official positions of a county Republican Executive Committee are generally established through actions taken by the committee as a duly convened body, with proper notice, a quorum, and a vote of its members. As a result, absent such a meeting and vote, statements made by an individual REC member, the Chair, or any other officer should be understood as that person’s own views unless they are specifically authorized by the REC through its established procedures.
For the public’s understanding, the REC speaks collectively through actions approved by its membership, not through unilateral declarations by individual members. Therefore, unless and until the REC formally considers and votes on a matter, no individual no matter what capacity can legitimately claim that a personal opinion represents the official position of the REC as a whole.
Accordingly, my decision regarding attendance at the Sunshine Showdown is made solely in my individual capacity as a Republican voter, grassroots activist and elected committeewoman 🇺🇸
Christi Tasker
~ Miami GOP Republican Executive Committeewoman Dist 17
~Natl. Press Secretary @VFAFWarroom
*Affiliations listed for identification purposes only
BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's new claim that he reached an agreement to "cancel tonight's strikes" on Iran as "baseless," saying no agreement has been approved at all, and all of Trump's words should be disregarded like all his previous "38 times" deal-imminent announcements over two months, per Tasnim.
A senior Israeli official also tells Channel 12 they are "not aware of any agreement being reached," per N12.
I've been diagnosed with PTSD myself, so I don't say this lightly. Graham Platner using his diagnosis to excuse the things he's done is an insult to every veteran who carries the same weight and never used it as cover. I don't know one veteran who has acted the way he has.
@JenHeroldFL@EllenFL214 10% is an arbitrary number made up by the Florida GOP specifically for this election to protect Byron after demands for debates. They criteria was not given to the candidates
There are no recent polls past April that weren’t paid for by Byron
Probably won’t move the needle but it would behoove all of us to call or email the @TheFLGOP and demand that ALL qualifying Florida gubernatorial candidates debate
Contact the Florida GOP at this number (850) 222-7920 or via Email at [email protected]
You are out of your friggin mind. Even if Byron were to miraculously squeak by in the Republican primary, far too many conservatives have said that they will not vote for Byron in the general.
The voters are about to teach Evan Power and the Florida GOP a well deserved lesson about who is truly the boss and here’s a clue……it’s not Evan Power or the Florida GOP.
It’s our state, it’s our election and it’s our choice !
We are not going to Byron “OUR” Florida !
@TRobinsonNewEra@OecSmith Iain Dale needs to work outside the UK for a time.
In Middle Eastern and Asian countries, you can be unceremoniously deported in a heartbeat.
They literally don't give a sh$t.