Jordyn Guadalupe Balderas

What Jordyn will do Invest in after-school programs, mentoring, and summer learning in the communities where kids need it most. Support state policies that dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, including alternatives to suspension, restorative justice practices, and real access to mental health care.

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What Jordyn will do Repeal the Schools of Hope co-location law and block any expansion of charter takeovers that force districts to share buildings and services without full, fair reimbursement. Keep public dollars in public, neighborhood schools instead of subsidizing rent-free facilities and parallel systems for a handful of charter operators whose accountability to parents and taxpayers is an afterthought. Ensure accountability and reasonable standards for tax-subsidized homeschooling.

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What Jordyn will do Move toward a future where teaching in Florida is a six-figure profession, because that is the only way to attract and retain the talent our children deserve. Invest in our children's emotional development by funding school counselors, social workers, and mental health professionals who can guide students through the most difficult years of their lives. End partisan interference in classrooms. Teachers are professionals, not propagandists.

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What Jordyn will do Invest in after-school programs, mentoring, and summer learning in the communities where kids need it most. Support state policies that dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, including alternatives to suspension, restorative justice practices, and real access to mental health care.

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Fight to repeal the Jim Crow-era laws that have prevented small Black communities like Gifford from incorporating as cities.

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Oppose blanket preemption bills, like the ones authored by Robert Brackett, that strip power from counties and cities trying to protect their residents, especially around growth management, environmental protections, and tenant rights. Put tenants first by fighting for legislation that protects tenant unions and the right of renters to organize.

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What Jordyn will do Expand state investment in lagoon restoration through innovative, proven solutions: mangrove planting, living shorelines, and stormwater infrastructure that treats the problem at its source rather than downstream. Protect and restore mangroves and wetlands as natural barriers against storm surge and flooding, and oppose any rollback that makes it easier to rip them out for short-term profit. Hold the state accountable for the promises it has already made, fighting for binding appropriations, transparent timelines, and independent monitoring so that every dollar committed to the lagoon actually reaches the water.

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What Jordyn will do Use existing state appropriations to fund septic-to-sewer conversions so that the cost falls on the state budget, not on individual homeowners who had no say in the system that was installed before they moved in. Provide income-scaled assistance so that fixed-income homeowners and working families are protected from assessments that amount to a second mortgage. Publish a clear, public timeline for conversion neighborhoods so that residents know what is coming, when it is coming, and what it will cost, before the bulldozers show up.

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What Jordyn will do Work with local governments to oppose the use of surveillance technologies and industrial installations that threaten environmental health and civil liberties without meaningful community input or independent oversight. Require that any major industrial or technology project pays its full environmental and infrastructure costs up front, instead of passing the bill to taxpayers after the damage is done.

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Eighty-one percent of independent voters in this district want stricter gun laws. The current representative co-sponsored a bill to lower the purchase age. Jordyn stands with the 81 percent. He is not interested in taking anyone's Second Amendment rights away. He is interested in making sure that right comes with the responsibility to keep weapons out of children's hands. What Jordyn will do Make it unambiguous in Florida law that minors in high school cannot legally purchase or carry firearms. No loopholes. No exceptions crafted by lobbyists. Support legislation requiring adults to safely secure their firearms in the presence of minors, because a child who finds an unsecured weapon is not exercising a right.

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What Jordyn will do Move toward a future where teaching in Florida is a six-figure profession, because that is the only way to attract and retain the talent our children deserve. Invest in our children's emotional development by funding school counselors, social workers, and mental health professionals who can guide students through the most difficult years of their lives. End partisan interference in classrooms. Teachers are professionals, not propagandists.

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Oppose blanket preemption bills, like the ones authored by Robert Brackett, that strip power from counties and cities trying to protect their residents, especially around growth management, environmental protections, and tenant rights. Put tenants first by fighting for legislation that protects tenant unions and the right of renters to organize.

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What Jordyn will do Prioritize restoring and reusing vacant and abandoned properties for affordable homes instead of rubber-stamping high-rent megacomplexes that drive uncontrolled growth. Protect and expand truly affordable options, including workforce housing, so that the people who keep this county running can actually afford to live in it.

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Fund sidewalks, drainage, streetlights, and safe housing in neighborhoods that have been neglected since before Jordyn was born.

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What Jordyn will do Use existing state appropriations to fund septic-to-sewer conversions so that the cost falls on the state budget, not on individual homeowners who had no say in the system that was installed before they moved in. Provide income-scaled assistance so that fixed-income homeowners and working families are protected from assessments that amount to a second mortgage. Publish a clear, public timeline for conversion neighborhoods so that residents know what is coming, when it is coming, and what it will cost, before the bulldozers show up.

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Stop Tallahassee from stealing the revenue that belongs to our hometowns. Every dollar taken from local budgets is a pothole unfilled, a streetlight unlit, a first responder underpaid, and a community left in the dark.

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What Jordyn will do Expand state investment in lagoon restoration through innovative, proven solutions: mangrove planting, living shorelines, and stormwater infrastructure that treats the problem at its source rather than downstream. Protect and restore mangroves and wetlands as natural barriers against storm surge and flooding, and oppose any rollback that makes it easier to rip them out for short-term profit. Hold the state accountable for the promises it has already made, fighting for binding appropriations, transparent timelines, and independent monitoring so that every dollar committed to the lagoon actually reaches the water.

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What Jordyn will do Work with local governments to oppose the use of surveillance technologies and industrial installations that threaten environmental health and civil liberties without meaningful community input or independent oversight. Require that any major industrial or technology project pays its full environmental and infrastructure costs up front, instead of passing the bill to taxpayers after the damage is done.

jordynforfl.com · Sources

What Jordyn will do Work with local governments to oppose the use of surveillance technologies and industrial installations that threaten environmental health and civil liberties without meaningful community input or independent oversight. Require that any major industrial or technology project pays its full environmental and infrastructure costs up front, instead of passing the bill to taxpayers after the damage is done.

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