Kari Lerner's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Kari Lerner did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "A woman suffers while these sanctimonious tyrants debate her right to her own body. This is barbaric. This is why we must codify abortion care." (www.facebook.com)
- "Make no mistake, I will fight with every available resource to get politicians and judges out of the examining room. We must ensure that all Americans nationwide can make intimate decisions about their healthcare." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "No government can be allowed to dictate to any person what choices they can make about their own bodies. I trust women to make decisions about their own healthcare, reproductive or general. Adults consult with their physicians, clergy, and family members to make healthcare directives about their treatments every day, reproductive healthcare must be no different." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "This war on women is not ok. I will fight for reproductive freedom when Iâm the Congressional for #FL19" (www.instagram.com)
- "I pledge to make protecting Social Security a top priority, ensuring seniors that they do not need to live in fear for their financial future." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "Social Security has provided a much-needed safety net for everyday Americans, a promise that we cannot allow the radical extremists to break." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
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- "Activist Judges on the Supreme Court made "a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law." Send me to D.C and I promise to sponsor legislation to undo this travesty." (www.facebook.com)
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- "Currently, Florida faces a dire environmental crisis that demands our action. Nearly 1,000,000 acres of our estuaries and 9,000 miles of our rivers and streams are contaminated with fecal bacteria. 80% of our 1,000 springs are polluted with nitrogen. This pollution threatens our health and the biodiversity that thrives in healthy waters." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "Iâm so thankful for those fighting for clean water. When Iâm in Congress, I will ensure Florida has what it needs to protect our environment and keep our water clean." (www.instagram.com)
- "Currently, Florida faces a dire environmental crisis that demands our action. Nearly 1,000,000 acres of our estuaries and 9,000 miles of our rivers and streams are contaminated with fecal bacteria. 80% of our 1,000 springs are polluted with nitrogen. This pollution threatens our health and the biodiversity that thrives in healthy waters." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "Iâm so thankful for those fighting for clean water. When Iâm in Congress, I will ensure Florida has what it needs to protect our environment and keep our water clean." (www.instagram.com)
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- "As your Representative to Congress, I am committed to working to secure the Southern border by providing the following resources: Staff and judges to properly process those individuals who legally present themselves to authorities for asylum, ensuring that those who do not qualify are quickly turned away rather than detained or released to await processing, provide clear benchmarks for closing the border when inundated beyond capacity, increase the number of Border Agents and electronic surveillance capacity, work internationally to foster economic development and political stability in the regions that most migrants leave, and revisit the bipartisan bill hammered out over months in the Senate." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "I believe in securing the border. This bipartisan solution is tough but necessary to address the crisis there. You can't secure the border without additional border security." (www.facebook.com)
- "It is essential that the US borders be effectively and humanely secured. The situation at the Southern border is in crisis, and itâs up to Congress to provide the resources to adequately manage the security there. Refusing to provide adequate funding for the necessary steps needed to secure the border has contributed greatly to the chaos. Congress controls the purse strings." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
- "As your Representative to Congress, I am committed to working to secure the Southern border by providing the following resources: Staff and judges to properly process those individuals who legally present themselves to authorities for asylum, ensuring that those who do not qualify are quickly turned away rather than detained or released to await processing, provide clear benchmarks for closing the border when inundated beyond capacity, increase the number of Border Agents and electronic surveillance capacity, work internationally to foster economic development and political stability in the regions that most migrants leave, and revisit the bipartisan bill hammered out over months in the Senate." (www.karilernerforflorida.com)
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