Will Weatherford

About half the people who would qualify for Medicaid expansion in Florida "can buy a health care plan for $30 a month" on the federal…

"One out of every three students currently today is ready for college before they go there."

New school testing standards "will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students."

"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."

"The average student in Florida, what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities" for tuition is as much or less than what…

"Almost 1,000 people a day" are moving to Florida "because they are more free here than they are in some other states."

Eighty-five percent of Floridians who will benefit from expanding Medicaid are "single, childless adults."  

The Legislature needs to spend $500 million to "shore up" the pension fund this year and the next 28 years to keep it "afloat."

Florida has "the second-lowest (campaign) contribution limit in the entire country."

"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court…