David Jolly's position is grounded in principles over party affiliation. He supports local control, private sector leadership, individual freedom from government interference in personal decisions, and government action when markets fail. Jolly's approach to Florida's challenges in housing, insurance, health care, education, and affordability focuses on solutions that work regardless of whether they originate from the right or left.
Political parties change. Principles don't have to.
David Jolly spent much of his life as a Republican. He represented Florida in Congress as a Republican. And many of the principles that shaped his view of government then still shape it today.
Government closest to the people knows best.
The private sector should lead wherever it can.
Government should protect individual freedom and stay out of deeply personal decisions.
Public officials should be accountable to the people they serve.
And when markets or institutions fail to meet a challenge, government has a responsibility to help find a solution that works.
David describes himself today as being in a post-ideological place. Florida faces enormous challenges in housing, insurance, health care, education and affordability. His argument is straightforward: those problems require solutions at the same scale.
The question isn't whether an idea came from the right or the left.
The question is whether it works.
You Don't Have to Be a Democrat to Vote for a Democrat.
Some of these ideas used to be called Republican ideas.
In discussing local control, David has described what attracted him to the Republican Party in the first place.
Less government.
Local control.
Keeping government out of your doctor's office.
Keeping government out of your bedroom.
Keeping government from overruling communities simply because politicians in the state capital don't like the decisions those communities make.
David's political affiliation changed.
Those principles didn't.
What does that look like today?
Government closest to the people.
Florida is a big, diverse state. What works for Key West may not be what Jacksonville wants. David's position is that local communities should have meaningful authority to make local decisions.
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The private sector should lead.
Government doesn't have to run everything to make people's lives better. Businesses, entrepreneurs, workers and communities create growth and opportunity. Government should create the conditions for that to happen. But when a market is clearly failing Floridians, the answer cannot simply be to watch it fail. David's housing and insurance proposals include public-private approaches and government intervention where Florida's insurance market is no longer delivering affordable outcomes.
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Freedom should mean freedom.
Freedom means trusting people with their own lives. Government shouldn't claim to support freedom while increasingly inserting itself into personal decisions, local communities and private lives. David's platform explicitly frames individual agency and freedom from government interference as a governing principle.
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Government should work.
Limited government doesn't have to mean ineffective government. Floridians pay taxes and expect basic institutions to function. Schools should work. Roads and infrastructure should work. Insurance markets should work. Health care should be accessible. Public safety should work. And when something isn't working, government should be willing to fix it rather than defend a broken system because the solution doesn't fit neatly inside an ideological box.
See the planFLORIDA DOESN'T NEED SMALLER POLITICS. WE NEED TO TRUST ONE ANOTHER AGAIN. WE NEED TO BELIEVE IN BETTER.
Florida's challenges in housing, insurance, health care, education and affordability have moved beyond the traditional left and right argument. The real question is whether government is willing to meet problems at their actual scale.
Where the solution comes from matters less than whether the solution works.
A conservative idea that works? Use it.
A progressive idea that works? Use it.
A private-sector solution? Great.
A public-private partnership? Let's talk.
Government action where the market has failed? Put it on the table.
Florida's problems are too consequential to reject good ideas because somebody on the "other team" thought of them first.
You don't have to fit into a box.
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