Ben Sorensen
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9,257 appearances
42 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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And I say that because we talk about affordability.
Everything that we hear folks say in Tallahassee is about affordability.
How are we helping Floridians?
How is that looking for Floridians?
And so I can't sit here with a straight face with you right now and tell you that I feel that the state is looking at things in an affordable way.
As you saw, we went back up for redistricting.
we went back up for redistricting.
And redistricting, that particularly impacts my district.
We see that while it is a target along party lines, it is also a target to silence black voters.
And I represent a good chunk of those voters.
And it is frustrating and it is maddening as a representative to have to
have to show time and time again the numbers of how that impacts us as a city down here.
And frankly, if I'm to be honest, I feel like my cities are being targeted.
There are certain things that you cannot even do now that help provide support.
We are a diversity melting pot here in Fort Lauderdale.
I love to see that I have white, black, Caribbean, Haitian, all the different diversities here in our community.
And the fact that we're putting a bill through and people are supporting this type of bill
It's shameful to say, you know, and so we talk about anti-DEI and how that impacts what you're able to do in supporting a lot of the events that go on in our beautiful city here.
You know, property taxes.
You all did such an amazing job in warning us about how this would affect us.
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