Why I won’t be voting for Doug Holder for the Florida Senate

Here are just five reasons why I won’t be voting for Doug Holder for the Florida Senate.

First: I recently received an email from the Doug Holder for Florida Senate campaign with a headline in bold red letters stating “Florida Chamber Endorses Doug Holder for Senate District 23.” Holder believes this is a good thing. However, I do not.

Why? Because the Florida Chamber is pro-amnesty. If you go to the Florida Chamber website you will find this statement under IMMIGRATION REFORM:

The Florida Chamber believes that long overdue improvements to our nation’s immigration policies are essential to continued economic growth. Florida needs a well-rounded and competitive workforce to produce goods and services that will ensure a robust economic future for the state. To compete successfully in the future marketplace, Florida must plan for the labor demands resulting from an aging labor force, changing skills set needs and growth in global demand. Our state currently lacks an adequate population of skilled workers in technology, science, education, health and engineering and long-term forecasts indicate the problem will grow more severe.

Let’s analyse who Holder is now beholding to, i.e. the Florida Chamber of Commerce:

  1. “Improvements to our nation’s immigration policies” is code for more immigration, more refugees and more illegals in the Sunshine State.
  2. “A well-rounded and competitive workforce means more H1-B visas bringing in foreigners to take high paying jobs in Florida.
  3. “Plan for the labor demands” means more immigration to replace our “aging labor force” with young illegal workers, forcing our youth to leave Florida to find work.
  4. “Lacks an adequate population of skilled workers” is code for importing foreign workers and illegals to take jobs from citizens.

Second: Holder is will change his stripes as quickly as the Florida weather to take advantage of the political situation.  In May 2009 former State Rep. Doug Holder voted for a bill that would have allowed the governor and cabinet to permit drilling from 3 to 10 miles from shore.

After the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010 Holder changed his mind on offshore oil drilling. He joined with Hands Across the Sands to protest drilling off of Florida’s shorelines. The Hands Across the Sand solution for Florida is:

To replace offshore drilling, we must mitigate our need for oil as a transportation fuel and for natural gas as a heating and electricity fuel.

Doug joined hands with another Holder, Eric, Obama’s Attorney General who opened criminal probe of BP oil spill. Holder even joined with the “Say NO to dirty fuels and YES to clean energy” group Hands Across the Sand, as did Charlie Crist to stop energy development in Florida.

Third: Holder was on an anti-texting-while-driving kick and had no concerns that police will use a texting law as an excuse to pull over drivers based on their race or ethnicity for texting while driving. The anti-texting law passed with Holder’s support in 2013.

In July 2014 the Tampa Bay Times reported:

Statewide, law enforcement officials are on pace to issue fewer than 1,800 [texting] citations through the ban’s first year.

To understand how meager a figure that is, consider: A federal study published last year found that at any given daylight hour, 660,000 drivers nationwide are using cellphones or other electronic devices. If those figures are proportional state-to-state and you’re reading this before sundown, that means about 40,000 Florida drivers are at this moment distracted by technology.

Far more obscure infractions are cited at much higher rates, according to 2013 data: failure to dim lights (3,056 citations), improper parking (11,872), improper backing (21,376).

Fourth: Doug Holder Holder did little to help Governor Rick Scott in his re-election bid.

Fifth: According to HT Politics, “Big checks from large businesses helped boost Holder’s April fundraising total. The PAC supporting his campaign collected $10,000 from Florida Power & Light, $10,000 from Duke Energy and $10,000 from Anheuser Busch, among other high-dollar contributions.” Big money brings big promises to support them in the Florida Senate.

So if you want more illegals in Florida, higher energy costs, more government intrusion into your life, someone beholding to big business who won’t help his own governor then Holder is your guy.

For me, he is not. Holder is a Charlie Crist republican.

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2 replies
  1. George Fuller
    George Fuller says:

    Holder’s ad says he is “Fighting Illegal Immigration”………..in his sleep maybe……..

    How many immigration bills did he sponsor or vote for?……..

    The most important immigration legislation for Florida is E-Verify……….so all workers have to be legal……..Has anyone ever heard him even utter the words E-Verify?

    Meanwhile……Floridians are saddled with $5.3 Billion per year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens………….

    “An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought”……….Simon Cameron

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  2. Robert B
    Robert B says:

    I also heard Marco Rubio is running again to keep his seat. I wonder how that will go down after he agreed to step down to run for President, which he lost to Donald Trump.

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