“My specific policy is to create jobs, create more money, bring more money to the district. I mean, when you look at this district, Congressional District 20, is no different than the other district in America. The high cost of living, insurance, property tax, out of the roof. I could bring in subsidies, use federal dollars to bail out the over 50-year-old seniors who are suffering from the high cost of insurance. So people don’t get disenfranchised, that’s why when you look at my campaign, it’s not built off special interest groups. It’s not built off people who normally put money into PACs. You know, my campaign is a $5 campaign and we’re running it like that.

"The cost of living, so I need to bring in big, high-paying jobs like port expansion built by us. I need to deal with the affordable housing crisis with my plan called ‘Built by Us for Us’, affordable housing plan, so people can be able to live here. And that’s the main thing. My plan calls for, you know, a federal tax credit when it comes to the entertainment industry, attract those major networks and major corporations to come into the district to create those high-paying jobs. One thing I know, there is a budget and the budget has been approved. And then that budget, there’s a lot of money that I can bring back to my congressional district to help the people in my district.”

“Well, the biggest issue that we have with cost of living, especially for our district, is the economy. Several prices have gone up when it comes to food, and we're seeing that throughout the country. So that is one of our biggest things we're trying to attack: bringing the prices down. Also looking at what's going on with our seniors, our seniors who are on a fixed income now are suffering more than we've ever seen before. Many of our seniors are suffering with trying to figure out how to eat. Creating some kind of package or pot for them, so they can get more funding. That could be done with increasing the COLA. COLA is the cost-of-living adjustment that happens to Social Security. We have to do that immediately.”

“One, we must put more money into housing because that’s the biggest crisis that there is. How do we do that? The voucher system that we have from the federal government has not been expanded since 2017. There are a lot of people on waiting lists, some are now homeless, because we have not done so. That’s one that we must do right away. Two, we can use that same choice voucher system for housing to direct it towards building new units. If we build more units affordability can be reduced because you have more supply and it will meet the demand more. There’s so much more we can do in Congress to help partner with local government to build more affordable housing, to do a lot more to help our communities.

“Further, the child tax credit that had lifted so many people out of poverty need to be increased and made permanent so that young families, with children, can be supported to build the future of America. We are competing globally, we’re not just competing among states. China and India is producing more engineers than we do. And in a competitive world, we must do more to build and strengthen the future. Also, our unions around attack. Union wages are higher than other wages in the same workplace therefore, we must give unions the ability to organize themself rather than limit them to being able to organize. It is because of unions why we have a 40-hour workweek. It is because of unions that we have child labor laws. It is because of unions that we have safe workplace. So that’s a big part of what we must do to help lift the standards of living for people and create prosperity for all.

“The tax credit that we just gave to the wealthiest Americans need to be taken back. They must pay their fair share. If we want to grow economy, we put money into the pockets of working families, they will spend it and stimulate the economy.

“We also have the opportunity zone act that identifies high poverty, low income, high unemployment communities. That should be reformed.

“Investment towards helping those young people get technical training if they need it, get them into college, if they are able to, put it in place health centers in these communities so that we can reduce the cost. The health program that we have in our country is not good because if someone has no insurance, what happens? They depend on emergency care, which costs you and I more as taxpayers, because instead of getting primary care to prevent illness, they end up in the hospital and in emergency care, which is much more costly for us .”

“There’s an affordability crisis hitting our working families here in Broward County, and I want to address it by guaranteeing healthcare to all people as a human right through Medicare for All, bringing the cost of housing down, implementing rent control for our families, and making sure everybody makes enough money to live because right now the wages are too low for anybody to live off of.”

“We have to extend the enhanced premium tax credits that Republicans let expire in December. We’ve seen in our community premiums for affordable care at policies double, triple, and even quadruple. When we extend those premium tax credits, we will be able to make sure we start to bring those costs down. We absolutely need to make sure we bring this war in Iran to an end. Iran is now in control of the Strait of Hormuz and they weren’t at the start of this, so we’ve gone backwards, and that’s driven the cost of gas. Just that action alone will help to make sure we can get a handle on the cost of gas.

“Grocery prices, not only do we have grocery prices that too high, but the prices are different because they use dynamic pricing in in the same grocery chain from one side of town to another. We have to pass legislation to prevent collusion and price gouging from grocery store chains and make sure that they have equitable pricing across the board because they shouldn’t be allowed to charge customers more depending on what side of town they live on those.

“We have to focus on affordable housing. I passed an amendment that will become law that will take housing vouchers, right now housing vouchers can’t be used to pay for a security deposit, so people spend a year and a half on a housing voucher list, they get to the top of it, they have a place they want to live and they can’t use the housing voucher for the security deposit. That’s wrong and we have to change that, and that right there will be able to allow a lot more people to be able to get access to affordable housing. And when we implement the the road to Affordable Housing Act, which is now law even though President Trump refused to sign it, we’re going to be able to start to really aggressively implement all the affordable housing mechanisms that are included in that law.”

“That’s what makes me different to anybody else in this campaign. You know, the so-called experienced politicians, they have a career of fighting Trump, they have a career of fighting Republicans, MAGA, or whatever it is. I have no history in fighting those individuals. Anything that I’ve ever gotten past, whether it was through the school board, or whether it was through county commission, or whether it was through the city, I was always able to work with people not based on party affiliation, but just based on bringing common sense, real solutions that directly affect my community. So I’m not going to Washington to fight Trump. I’m going to Washington to bring the money back. I’m not going to fight Republicans. I’m not going to get on TV and CNN with all the catchphrases and all that. At the end of the day, my job is to bring resources back to Congressional District 20, to improve the quality of life for the individuals who live there.”

“We are going to have to stop being so extreme. It seems like the media only wants to cover drama. It seems like they only want to cover the person who's saying the most craziest comment. But the truth is, the people who are saying the craziest things and the most outlandish things,they don't get the work done. We need to start uplifting people who are reasonable, who are getting the work done. I dig my heels in, and I'm very reasonable of how we get to a solution, not how we get more political targeting, political games, or even getting political power and clout. And I think that's what we need. The community is asking for results. We just have to stop the petty politics and the personal attacks. Because when you're personally attacking someone every single day, no one cares. Their only concern is how are you going to help me and my family? We're trying to eat. We're trying to survive, and we're trying to have enough left for our future. And that's what this election is about.”

“I sincerely believe that together as Americans we can do better. I served on the county commission where we had a Republican on there and we work together to pass laws that was in the benefit of our people. If we have to reach across the aisle we ought to. That’s doesn’t mean that we give up on our principal, we must stand firm on fulfilling the needs of the American people. So we don’t need to cast dispersions on the other side, we must deal with the fact of the matter that face us, one issue or another. There are what the facts are, and this is where we need to be. So we must work together to do better as a nation and we’re a great country, but we certainly can do better than we’re doing right now.”

“You know, I don’t think that this country and this community is as divided as people say. I don’t think this is Democrat versus Republican or Black versus White. I think this is the billionaires versus working people. And when we all come together, regardless of our political party or what we believe, we can create a country that works for everybody. To me, this is not a time for the status quo or continuing politics as it is now. We need change, we need new people, and we need to get rid of the establishment in Washington.”

“I always reach across the aisle. Almost every bill I introduce I introduce alongside a Republican co-lead, whether it is my breast cancer legislation that will actually be on the floor this week, making sure we can find common ground. It’s important to develop relationships and to not treat the your opponent like the enemy, and so even though we have very significant differences, I have always tried to reach across the aisle to work together develop relationships with Republican colleagues so that we can work on the issues like fighting cancer and making sure that we work on children’s safety issues, so many different issues that we can find common ground on and I always try to make sure that I can do that from the very beginning.”