James Fishback

The economy has to work for working people.

It has to work for young couples.

It cannot exclusively work for the biggest companies.

That is my platform.

As I ended my campaign video, my name is James Fishback.

I'm running for Florida governor as a fourth-generation Floridian because I believe, Patrick, that Florida is our home, America is our birthright, and no one should ever be able to steal that from us.

Yes.

So there is an issue here with citrus screening.

I was in Frost Proof in Southern Polk County with...

five generations of different citrus growers.

And what I found was that there's this greening that came from China about 15 years ago.

It is an infection, a disease.

And much like COVID, the Republicans and Democrats just pointed the finger and said, it's China's fault.

We're just going to give up.

We're just going to give up on citrus in Florida.

Citrus used to be 245 million boxes every single season.

In the most recent one, it's only 14 million.

Guess what?

That means fewer jobs, fewer local industries, fewer local businesses, and a sense of pride in our communities like in Highlands County and Sebring and Frostproof.

And so what I've said is if you're a scientist anywhere in the world, and I mean anywhere, you could even be in Iran, if you're a scientist anywhere in the world and you have discovered the scientific cure,