Hollye Merton: My marketing campaign platform for Florida Home District 21 – Gainesville Solar

Our lives are a balancing act between requirements and calls for. As People, all of us work diligently to earn a residing, increase our youngsters and reside productive lives. 

Many take time to make their neighborhood higher indirectly, both via a neighborhood giving group or simply giving of our volunteer time. And all of us like spending time on the issues we love, corresponding to hobbies, sports activities or simply stress-free after we are ready.   

That is the everyday American life. Nevertheless, there’s a motion that’s working to alter this perpetually. It’s rooted in socialism and is antithetical to American principals. Till just lately, it has not been capable of achieve a lot traction. That has modified.

I converse in fact in regards to the onslaught of progressive actions which have discovered their method into our society by way of establishments, colleges and our authorities our bodies. Issues corresponding to Important Race Concept, cancel tradition, usurping a person’s medical autonomy, stripping mother and father of their rights and, lastly, our proper to maintain and bear arms are all within the progressives’ plan to alter the face of America.   

When one embraces these beliefs, they’re thought-about “woke,” a time period devised from misconceptions of a warped worldview. Other than this motion’s advancing foothold in our on a regular basis lives, it threatens to remake America into one thing it by no means was meant to be and Floridians, with the management of Gov. Ron DeSantis, have realized that these beliefs should be stopped.

My opponent has overtly known as for her followers to “keep woke.” I’m not positive if she buys into all of those malicious ideas, however her lack of management has netted the residents in her district nothing in the best way of significant laws that may make their lives higher. 

That doesn’t make her a nasty individual. Under no circumstances. She has fought for change — sadly, change that almost all residents in Florida wouldn’t contemplate of their greatest pursuits.  

I’ve little expertise drafting laws; nevertheless, I understand how to pay attention and discover out what individuals want, which I really feel is a vital precursor to writing good laws. Let or not it’s identified, I’ll adhere to the U.S. Structure and the Structure of Florida and work for all Floridians.

As your legislator, I’ll work to handle many points. Nevertheless, my platform focuses on three key points which are paramount, in my opinion, to conserving Florida free. They’re, securing our colleges to make sure the security of our youngsters, defending our Second Modification proper to bear arms and restoring parental rights.  

Our colleges ought to be a spot for our youngsters to be taught with out worry. Previous concepts haven’t labored. I do know what is going to.  

Whether or not or not somebody likes weapons, our proper to bear arms is an integral a part of why we’re America and free. It’s non-negotiable with me.  

As a dad or mum, I do know all too nicely that folks have the suitable to boost their youngsters within the method they deem applicable, barring neglect and abuse. To this finish, faculty officers not solely have an obligation to their college students, however to the mother and father that entrust their youngsters to them. I cannot abide by anybody indoctrinating them into wokeness, CRT, gender grooming or every other demented supreme.  

That is the place I stand. I hope we are able to discover frequent floor and cease the onslaught of those beliefs as we’re all People and most simply need to train our proper to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with out authorities interference. I hope you’ll stand with me on Nov. 8. A vote for Hollye Merton is a vote to maintain Florida free.  

Hollye Merton is operating for the Florida Home of Representatives, District 21. This piece is a part of a sequence of opinion columns written by candidates for workplace which are being revealed earlier than November’s election.

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