• CANDIDATE RESPONSE

    Florida Representative District 119

  • Libby Perez (REP)


  • ABORTION - PARENTAL CONSENT: Requiring parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion? (Currently, Florida law requires only parental notification.)
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: I strongly support parental rights

  • AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Appropriating Sadowski Affordable Housing trust funds generated by documentary stamp taxes on real estate transactions to the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) and State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) programs?
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: Although I am against raising taxes, existing taxes should be used more efficiently to help our needy families in our community.

  • IMMIGRATION: A policy against incarcerating undocumented persons who have no criminal record or against whom no criminal charges are filed?
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: The state does not have the money to incarcerate, nor should they

  • PARENTAL EMPOWERMENT: Allowing parents to designate an approved percentage of the State's per-pupil funding for each school-age child that can go toward tutoring, dual enrollment, prepaid college, virtual schooling, and nonpublic school tuition?
  • OPPOSE
  • Candidate Comments: Although I support School Choice, per-pupil funding has been significantly reduced in recent years. School districts would have no way of maintaining sound fiscal practices if they could not project FTE (per pupil funding).

  • PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Maintaining funding for supportive services for persons with disabilities to live in the community?
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: Need more specific information in order to fully answer this but overall, we must help our most vulnerable.

  • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Allowing individuals and businesses, including religious organizations, to offer employee benefits and services to the public in accordance with their religious beliefs?
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: Freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of religion...all good things. It is the American way!

  • UNANIMOUS JURY RECOMMENDATION FOR DEATH SENTENCE: Requiring a unanimous jury recommendation to sentence someone to death? (Currently, Florida law requires at minimum a simple majority vote (7 to 5) of the jury to recommend a sentence of death.)

  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: Society has a grave responsibility to incarcerate or even worse take a person's life. With the forensic advances available at this time, we should make every effort to ascertain if someone has committted a crime before taking their life.

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