• CANDIDATE RESPONSE

    Florida Representative District 87

  • Miguel "Mike" A. Rios (DEM)


  • ABORTION - PARENTAL CONSENT: Requiring parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion? (Currently, Florida law requires only parental notification.)
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: I am a father of two daughters, I strongly believed the parents are foundation of developing strong values at home.

  • 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: I would suggest that local government, private interests and nonprofit organizations all should get together and allocate funding to make sure the specific issues are follow through to provide adequate resources for affordable housing and the legislature adhere to and focuses funds for affordable housing and advocates the William E. Sadowski Afforda House Act of 1992. The local government should be held accountable and adopt a policy to eliminate any regulatory blocks to strongly promote rehabilitation of deteriorated, substandard house. Government should always provide an incentive to our developers and waived the impact fees, by introducing inclusionary zoning, making it an obligation by setting aside plan development that will ensure the development and production of stand alone or multiunit affordable workforce.

  • IMMIGRATION: A policy against incarcerating undocumented persons who have no criminal record or against whom no criminal charges are filed?
  • SUPPORT
  • Candidate Comments: As a former law enforcement officer and P/T US Custom Inspector this policy is unfair and prejudicial in every shape and form of discrimination.

  • 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?
  • SUPPORT

  • PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Maintaining funding for supportive services for persons with disabilities to live in the community?
  • SUPPORT

  • 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

  • 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: I do not support the death penalty

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