Colonel Darren McCauley
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And then public records are very clear that she's taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from FPL as well.
So she is not serving the citizens of Central Florida, but is instead serving herself in her own campaign.
I am running, in direct contrast to that, as a 25-year Air Force veteran, currently the state air surgeon for Florida, the highest ranking physician in the Air National Guard in Florida, to bring the Air Force Corps value of service before self to D.C.
And I am running to unseat Congresswoman Lee, who has been self-serving ever since she got to Washington.
Well, I was a VA physician for 10 years working at the VA.
I'm a pain management physician by training.
I've received a tremendous personal satisfaction and professional satisfaction taking care of my patients, helping them to alleviate their suffering with advice, medication, and sometimes even injections.
Seeing the cuts to the VA, the dismantling of our organization.
The terror and the bullying of VA employees, people that I'd worked with for years.
Now, the VA, like every other organization, has its warts and has things that we can improve to be more efficient.
But to villainize patriots who go to work every day in order to take care of those who have taken care of us.
and fulfill America's promise to our veterans was completely uncalled for.
Seeing the effects that firing people at the VA and allowing early retirements had on my patients themselves, watching their new patient visits go from a month-long wait to a 10-week wait,
Seeing folks unable to get disability exams, the privatization of that process where it was incentivized so that folks would no longer get their VA disability.
I watched that happen in real time to my patients, my coworkers, and I realized that this was happening all over the federal government.
I just had a front row seat to what was happening in the VA.
And it pushed me into a position where I said, somebody's got to do something about this, because what they're doing to the federal government is going to take decades to unravel and try to put back together.
I'm a proud father of three.
I have a nine-year-old and five-year-old twins.
And I see in our country...