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Top 3 Issues: Affordability, Safety, and Education
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Bet-David gives each candidate 60 seconds to rank their top three priorities from third to first. Jay Collins goes first: affordability, safety, and education. Paul Renner echoes affordability but adds public corruption and constitutional freedoms. James Fishback's answer is the most provocative — he ranks law and order first, citing DeSantis's 50-year low in crime; data centers second, promising as governor to not merely regulate but reject and remove every experimental data center; and fighting communism third, using the New York mayor's COVID-era thermostat restrictions as a real-time example of socialist overreach. Fishback's data center stance — a total ban rather than regulatory guardrails — immediately sets up the night's sharpest policy divide with Collins, who will argue for local-level decisions.
Florida has the highest property insurance rates in America after more than 12 companies exited. Renner points to tort reform receipts and the My Safe Florida Home grant program; Fishback wants to personally call CEOs; Collins zeroes in on fraud.
More than 12 insurance companies cut back coverage or left Florida entirely between 2020 and 2024, leaving the state with the highest property insurance rates in America.
