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10 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Extremist anti-choice politicians in Florida are already moving to copy Texas’s blatantly unconstitutional law with legislation that empowers bounty hunters to track patients and abortion providers.
The danger is not theoretical. We’ve seen anti-choice violence in Florida’s recent history. We must take action now to protect reproductive rights and the health and safety of Florida’s women.
I’m again calling on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass The Women’s Health Protection Act. Our right to control our bodies and our lives is a Constitutional guarantee and we must fight to protect our freedoms.
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9 Dec
The Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing genocide of the Uyghur ethnic minority in China is a crime against humanity.
 
Today I voted to crack down on goods made by forced labor in Xinjiang as part of the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghur people.
The Chinese Communist Party has lied and dissembled to cover up internment camps, torture, rape, and forced sterilization. They have attempted to eradicate the religious beliefs of the Uyghur people. It is evil, it is unacceptable, and we will fight it.
Despite efforts to politicize this issue, holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable has been a longstanding bipartisan mission, with both parties strongly in favor of cracking down on this authoritarian government and protecting the human rights of the Chinese people.
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8 Dec
Tonight we’re voting to prevent an automatic $36 billion cut to Medicare, plus a potential default that would wipe out six million jobs and $15 trillion in the retirement funds and other household wealth of American families.
Our tax dollars are precious, and we need to be responsible with our spending, not punish Florida seniors for Congress’ inability to come to reasonable solutions.
I believe in balanced budgets, and when I was Orlando’s Chief of Police we did more with less, working during the great recession to ensure that our dollars went directly to public safety initiatives.
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19 Jul
I am excited to announce that we have successfully obtained committee approval for major investments to Central Florida’s public safety, education, job training, affordable housing, & infrastructure services.

Funding for ten community projects is one step closer to reality (1/x)
As Orlando’s former Chief of Police, I saw that our community was safer and better when we stood for accountability and opportunity for all. I brought this same attitude to these community project designations, which I requested as part of this year's budget.
This funding will go to next-generation body cameras for the @OrlandoPolice, and help give youth in our region new educational and career opportunities.

Additionally, safe housing, drinking water, and streets should be a right for all our communities.
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2 Jul
Thread on #Surfside resources. Please share.
Miami-Dade residents in need of assistance, or wanting to provide assistance, should go here: miamidade.gov/global/emergen…
Survivors, families, first responders, and others affected by the tragedy can find important resources here: SurfsideStrength.com
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27 May
Do not claim to support the police and then vote against the January 6th Commission. Just don’t.
"We have heard all of this support for police, police, police, and then your own police force is battered and bruised and now you drag your feet?" said one officer. cnn.com/2021/05/27/pol…
“I kind of got lulled, I got fooled, I listened to (Senate Minority Leader Mitch) McConnell's words that same night when they reconvened (on January 6),” the officer said. “I bought into it, I thought, ‘Wow, we are really going to get some answers.’”
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1 Mar
In the late 1600s or early 1700s, a man was enslaved and brought to Boston. He was renamed Onesimus, meaning "useful, helpful, or profitable." We do not know his real name.
 
He would become one of the most important figures in American public health. #BlackHistoryMonth
In 1716, he taught Americans something he had learned in Africa: that a small, controlled infection of smallpox could protect from future serious disease. This "inoculation" was the precursor of vaccines.
 
It was practiced in China, the Middle East, and Africa, but not Europe.
Before its eradication in 1980 (a scientific and medical miracle), Smallpox was a blight on humanity, killing 500 million people in the last 100 years of its existence alone, and scarring and blinding survivors.
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