Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam lost the Republican primary for Florida governor to U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in 2018. A former Republican Congressman from Congressional District 12 in Central Florida, was elected Florida Commissioner of Agriculture on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014.
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"Congressman DeSantis voted to cut Social Security and Medicare" and "voted to increase the retirement age."
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"Congressman (Ron) DeSantis sponsored legislation to increase sales taxes by 23 percent, hurting families, destroying jobs, devastating tourism"
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Says Ron DeSantis "voted in an agricultural bill to give food stamps to illegal immigrants."
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Florida taxpayers "pay tens of millions of dollars a year to feed and house in our prison system criminal illegal aliens."
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"Welders are coming out of their tech schools at $28 an hour" and "pipefitters are making six figures."
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Says Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum "wants to make Florida not a sanctuary city but a sanctuary state."
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"The No. 1 job vacancy in Florida every month for seven years has been nursing."
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San Francisco and Takoma Park, Md., are "allowing illegals to vote."
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"We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they…
An Obama campaign tactic for rallying voters is to "offer them cell phones."