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🚨 Florida taxpayers are paying $1.8 MILLION a year for Senate President Ben Albritton advisors. Some make over $200K a year. If you doubled Albritton’s salary, 10 of his 12 employees would STILL make more than him. Taxpayers want relief, not a bloated government payroll.

🚨 Florida taxpayers are paying $1.8 MILLION a year for Senate President Ben Albritton advisors. Some make over $200K a year. If you doubled Albritton’s salary, 10 of his 12 employees would STILL make more than him. Taxpayers want relief, not a bloated government payroll.

Matt The Welder

25,008 views • 1 day ago

Need another reason to vote YES on Amendment 3? Margate commissioners voted to raise their combined salaries from $202,297 to $225,000 and DOUBLE their car allowance. Where are Blaise Ingoglia (Blaise Ingoglia) and Florida DOGE, and why hasn’t anyone been held accountable for wasteful spending? Florida voters approved a government efficiency task force in 2006. It took nearly 20 years to start talking about millions wasted by local governments. So much for government efficiency.

Need another reason to vote YES on Amendment 3? Margate commissioners voted to raise their combined salaries from $202,297 to $225,000 and DOUBLE their car allowance. Where are Blaise Ingoglia (Blaise Ingoglia) and Florida DOGE, and why hasn’t anyone been held accountable for wasteful spending? Florida voters approved a government efficiency task force in 2006. It took nearly 20 years to start talking about millions wasted by local governments. So much for government efficiency.

Matt The Welder

14,471 views • 2 days ago

🚨 Florida sheriffs defended flock cameras so hard, they told the public they could track you through your CELL PHONE. Sounds innocent… until you look at the technology behind some of these devices. Devices such as cell-site simulators can trick your phone into thinking it’s connecting to a legitimate cell tower. Instead of only identifying a targeted individual, they can collect information from other phones within the device’s range. That means the technology sweeps up data from thousands of people who were never the target. How many phones are being caught in the net?

🚨 Florida sheriffs defended flock cameras so hard, they told the public they could track you through your CELL PHONE. Sounds innocent… until you look at the technology behind some of these devices. Devices such as cell-site simulators can trick your phone into thinking it’s connecting to a legitimate cell tower. Instead of only identifying a targeted individual, they can collect information from other phones within the device’s range. That means the technology sweeps up data from thousands of people who were never the target. How many phones are being caught in the net?

Matt The Welder

62,746 views • 11 days ago

🚨 2 DAYS LEFT 🚨 Ron DeSantis ordered ALL automated license plate readers removed from state road rights-of-way by Sept. 30. Instead, some sheriffs’ offices are simply MOVING them. In Polk County, Flock cameras were moved onto private property while still scanning vehicles on a state road. Other counties removed Flock cameras and found numerous unpermitted cameras nobody knows who owns. The deadline is 2 days away.

🚨 2 DAYS LEFT 🚨 Ron DeSantis ordered ALL automated license plate readers removed from state road rights-of-way by Sept. 30. Instead, some sheriffs’ offices are simply MOVING them. In Polk County, Flock cameras were moved onto private property while still scanning vehicles on a state road. Other counties removed Flock cameras and found numerous unpermitted cameras nobody knows who owns. The deadline is 2 days away.

Matt The Welder

53,667 views • 15 days ago

Higher fertilizer prices aren’t an accident. Lobbyists pushed for tariffs on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer, and farmers are paying the price. Florida is full of invasive aquatic plants choking our waterways. Harvest them. Turn them into fertilizer, livestock feed, and compost to rebuild our soil instead of spraying herbicides into our lakes. Regenerative agriculture can solve more than one problem. Robert F. Kennedy Jr

Higher fertilizer prices aren’t an accident. Lobbyists pushed for tariffs on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer, and farmers are paying the price. Florida is full of invasive aquatic plants choking our waterways. Harvest them. Turn them into fertilizer, livestock feed, and compost to rebuild our soil instead of spraying herbicides into our lakes. Regenerative agriculture can solve more than one problem. Robert F. Kennedy Jr

Matt The Welder

182,232 views • 3 months ago

A rural Florida resident living behind a pasture says this about what’s coming next: “The biggest heartbreak of my life will be watching all this land behind me turn into houses. I think the most depressing part of it all is the commissioner of agriculture in the state of Florida owns that land, but unbeknownst to us. He also owns part of a real estate development company” She says the land is tied to Wilton Simpson and is headed toward housing development. Rural Florida is watching every pasture line disappear.

A rural Florida resident living behind a pasture says this about what’s coming next: “The biggest heartbreak of my life will be watching all this land behind me turn into houses. I think the most depressing part of it all is the commissioner of agriculture in the state of Florida owns that land, but unbeknownst to us. He also owns part of a real estate development company” She says the land is tied to Wilton Simpson and is headed toward housing development. Rural Florida is watching every pasture line disappear.

Matt The Welder

185,889 views • 3 months ago

Florida’s aquifer is being drained, and our springs are showing it. Poe Springs has stopped flowing. Lithia Springs is very low, while Mosaic uses water from the property for fertilizer production. Kissengen Springs is now little more than a mud hole. Yet politicians tell us, “Don’t worry, data centers don’t use that much water.” I’d encourage them to visit Florida’s springs.

Florida’s aquifer is being drained, and our springs are showing it. Poe Springs has stopped flowing. Lithia Springs is very low, while Mosaic uses water from the property for fertilizer production. Kissengen Springs is now little more than a mud hole. Yet politicians tell us, “Don’t worry, data centers don’t use that much water.” I’d encourage them to visit Florida’s springs.

Matt The Welder

43,617 views • 1 month ago

One lobbyist’s connections reach into the Legislature, the Senate President’s office AND the Florida GOP . Employees of the firm and their associates have significant influence within the Florida GOP. The firm owner’s daughter has served as the Senate President’s office manager for years. The Florida GOP executive director used an address belonging to the lobbyist while claiming a Leon County homestead exemption. Put all those connections together, and it sounds an awful lot like the definition of a CABAL. Meet the Prestigious Society of Self-Appointed Somebodies. 👇

One lobbyist’s connections reach into the Legislature, the Senate President’s office AND the Florida GOP . Employees of the firm and their associates have significant influence within the Florida GOP. The firm owner’s daughter has served as the Senate President’s office manager for years. The Florida GOP executive director used an address belonging to the lobbyist while claiming a Leon County homestead exemption. Put all those connections together, and it sounds an awful lot like the definition of a CABAL. Meet the Prestigious Society of Self-Appointed Somebodies. 👇

Matt The Welder

26,294 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Florida’s waterways are being sprayed with herbicides by government agencies, including FWC, and many voters have serious questions. This is exactly the kind of issue that should have been discussed in a Republican primary debate. Instead, Evan Power and the Florida GOP changed the rules and canceled debates. What are they afraid of? 🎥 Watch the video below, and tag the Florida governor candidate you support in the comments. Let’s see who is willing to address this issue.

🚨 Florida’s waterways are being sprayed with herbicides by government agencies, including FWC, and many voters have serious questions. This is exactly the kind of issue that should have been discussed in a Republican primary debate. Instead, Evan Power and the Florida GOP changed the rules and canceled debates. What are they afraid of? 🎥 Watch the video below, and tag the Florida governor candidate you support in the comments. Let’s see who is willing to address this issue.

Matt The Welder

64,338 views • 3 months ago

Troubling reports are coming out of Milton, Florida. Residents say animals and wildlife have died following helicopter spraying along power lines, reportedly involving a chemical believed to be an herbicide. These claims should be investigated immediately. Wilton Simpson Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services

Troubling reports are coming out of Milton, Florida. Residents say animals and wildlife have died following helicopter spraying along power lines, reportedly involving a chemical believed to be an herbicide. These claims should be investigated immediately. Wilton Simpson Florida Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services

Matt The Welder

68,561 views • 4 months ago

Florida: the Free State turned Surveillance State. Flock cameras seem to have no trouble getting funded, while our parks struggle to get basic repairs. Now there’s a Flock camera pointed at the entrance to the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area. Soon, there won’t be anywhere in Florida where the government isn’t watching you. Welcome to the Surveillance State of Florida.

Florida: the Free State turned Surveillance State. Flock cameras seem to have no trouble getting funded, while our parks struggle to get basic repairs. Now there’s a Flock camera pointed at the entrance to the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area. Soon, there won’t be anywhere in Florida where the government isn’t watching you. Welcome to the Surveillance State of Florida.

Matt The Welder

25,521 views • 1 month ago

“Trust a farmer.” Meanwhile, Wilton Simpson sold his chicken farm, then became a real estate developer in the middle of Florida’s urban storm. Now he’s buying farmland with another well-known Pasco County family, removing agricultural protections, and turning Florida farmland into houses. Maybe the news outlets will finally start calling him what he is: The real estate developer from Trilby. Florida needs an Agriculture Commissioner who protects farmland, not one who helps pave it over. Matt Taylor for Florida Agriculture commissioner.

“Trust a farmer.” Meanwhile, Wilton Simpson sold his chicken farm, then became a real estate developer in the middle of Florida’s urban storm. Now he’s buying farmland with another well-known Pasco County family, removing agricultural protections, and turning Florida farmland into houses. Maybe the news outlets will finally start calling him what he is: The real estate developer from Trilby. Florida needs an Agriculture Commissioner who protects farmland, not one who helps pave it over. Matt Taylor for Florida Agriculture commissioner.

Matt The Welder

28,611 views • 2 months ago

🚨 The Republican Party of Florida is starting to look less like a political party and more like Evan power’s wedding guest list. Some of the political texts Florida voters received all summer trace back to one of Evan Power’s wedding guests, who was later appointed to the Manatee County Republican Executive Committee. That appointment came after the Republican Party of Florida removed the committeeman who had actually been elected by voters. That’s quite the guest list. 👀 Watch the video. Follow the money.

🚨 The Republican Party of Florida is starting to look less like a political party and more like Evan power’s wedding guest list. Some of the political texts Florida voters received all summer trace back to one of Evan Power’s wedding guests, who was later appointed to the Manatee County Republican Executive Committee. That appointment came after the Republican Party of Florida removed the committeeman who had actually been elected by voters. That’s quite the guest list. 👀 Watch the video. Follow the money.

Matt The Welder

22,380 views • 1 month ago

Florida’s surveillance problem keeps getting harder to explain. Oviedo: fake Flock cameras were installed without the mayor knowing. Pasco: a commissioner admitted she hadn’t read the license-plate-reader contract, then defended it against concerns about warrantless mass surveillance. Manatee County: the sheriff said there’s “a lot of misinformation” surrounding Flock cameras. Interestingly, Flock CEO Garrett Langley has also used the misinformation line in an NBC interview. Okaloosa County: Langley emailed the sheriff’s department claiming activists were trying to “weaponize” public-records requests. Yet politicians and Flock’s CEO still can’t figure out why people don’t trust license plate readers.

Florida’s surveillance problem keeps getting harder to explain. Oviedo: fake Flock cameras were installed without the mayor knowing. Pasco: a commissioner admitted she hadn’t read the license-plate-reader contract, then defended it against concerns about warrantless mass surveillance. Manatee County: the sheriff said there’s “a lot of misinformation” surrounding Flock cameras. Interestingly, Flock CEO Garrett Langley has also used the misinformation line in an NBC interview. Okaloosa County: Langley emailed the sheriff’s department claiming activists were trying to “weaponize” public-records requests. Yet politicians and Flock’s CEO still can’t figure out why people don’t trust license plate readers.

Matt The Welder

21,583 views • 1 month ago

🚨Florida’s lakes are trapped in a chemical cycle.🚨 Florida agencies hire contractors to spray herbicides like glyphosate, diquat dibromide, and 2,4-D into our waterways. Now aluminum sulfate is being dispersed into Lake Yale to combat algae blooms that a Lake County commissioner has attributed to persistent herbicide treatments. Perhaps this is one reason Evan Power and the Florida GOP didn’t want debates with anyone besides their chosen candidates? Florida voters deserve answers.

🚨Florida’s lakes are trapped in a chemical cycle.🚨 Florida agencies hire contractors to spray herbicides like glyphosate, diquat dibromide, and 2,4-D into our waterways. Now aluminum sulfate is being dispersed into Lake Yale to combat algae blooms that a Lake County commissioner has attributed to persistent herbicide treatments. Perhaps this is one reason Evan Power and the Florida GOP didn’t want debates with anyone besides their chosen candidates? Florida voters deserve answers.

Matt The Welder

42,409 views • 3 months ago

🚨 DATA CENTER MORATORIUMS ARE JUST THE FIRST STEP. A moratorium means PAUSE. While Florida pauses, let’s make sure our politicians keep us from becoming Northern Virginia. In Loudoun County, data centers surround cemeteries. You can sit on a bench in the cemetery and hear the constant whirl of the machines. They sit across from homes, turning backyard views into massive, noisy data centers. Residents were told the noise was temporary. It wasn’t. The generators never turned off. The buildings are only part of the problem. Data centers need MORE LAND for high-voltage power lines and substations. In Loudoun County, they’re becoming more common than 7-Elevens. Don’t let them Virginia our Florida.

🚨 DATA CENTER MORATORIUMS ARE JUST THE FIRST STEP. A moratorium means PAUSE. While Florida pauses, let’s make sure our politicians keep us from becoming Northern Virginia. In Loudoun County, data centers surround cemeteries. You can sit on a bench in the cemetery and hear the constant whirl of the machines. They sit across from homes, turning backyard views into massive, noisy data centers. Residents were told the noise was temporary. It wasn’t. The generators never turned off. The buildings are only part of the problem. Data centers need MORE LAND for high-voltage power lines and substations. In Loudoun County, they’re becoming more common than 7-Elevens. Don’t let them Virginia our Florida.

Matt The Welder

16,380 views • 1 month ago

🍊🐄 Florida is about to spend nearly $200 million helping the citrus industry fight disease and storm damage. Meanwhile, one of Florida’s largest citrus producers, Alico Inc., announced it’s moving away from citrus production and toward land development. At the same time, lawmakers argued there aren’t enough places for cattle to graze and pushed legislation to allow grazing on state conservation lands. So why not connect the dots? Instead of watching old citrus groves sit idle or become subdivisions, why not help transition struggling groves into cattle pasture until a cure for citrus greening is found? A simple idea that could help both industries and keep more Florida land in agriculture.

🍊🐄 Florida is about to spend nearly $200 million helping the citrus industry fight disease and storm damage. Meanwhile, one of Florida’s largest citrus producers, Alico Inc., announced it’s moving away from citrus production and toward land development. At the same time, lawmakers argued there aren’t enough places for cattle to graze and pushed legislation to allow grazing on state conservation lands. So why not connect the dots? Instead of watching old citrus groves sit idle or become subdivisions, why not help transition struggling groves into cattle pasture until a cure for citrus greening is found? A simple idea that could help both industries and keep more Florida land in agriculture.

Matt The Welder

38,333 views • 4 months ago

10 days ago, Ron DeSantis ordered license plate readers removed from state roads. Now Hillsborough County has cellular trail cameras watching people inside a taxpayer-funded nature preserve. The cameras aren’t there for wildlife. The same preserve is being heavily sprayed with glyphosate.

10 days ago, Ron DeSantis ordered license plate readers removed from state roads. Now Hillsborough County has cellular trail cameras watching people inside a taxpayer-funded nature preserve. The cameras aren’t there for wildlife. The same preserve is being heavily sprayed with glyphosate.

Matt The Welder

12,449 views • 1 month ago

🚨 In the Free State of Florida, armed deputies on an airboat allegedly entered private property to spray herbicides into a privately owned waterway. Floridians deserve answers. These chemicals are linked to damaged fisheries, harmful algae blooms, and the destruction of the sandy-bottom lakes that make Florida unique. This is exactly why voters wanted debates for Governor and Cabinet candidates. Why did Florida GOP make sure they wouldn’t happen?

🚨 In the Free State of Florida, armed deputies on an airboat allegedly entered private property to spray herbicides into a privately owned waterway. Floridians deserve answers. These chemicals are linked to damaged fisheries, harmful algae blooms, and the destruction of the sandy-bottom lakes that make Florida unique. This is exactly why voters wanted debates for Governor and Cabinet candidates. Why did Florida GOP make sure they wouldn’t happen?

Matt The Welder

34,357 views • 3 months ago

🚨 YARD SIGN PSA: YOU’RE BEING WATCHED. 🚨 Removing political yard signs in Florida is a crime. If a police officer knocks on your door asking if you’ve been removing signs in the area, lying probably isn’t your best move. Chances are, that yard sign you grabbed had a GPS tracker/AirTag inside it. The fella driving around Plant City removing my signs recently had no idea some had AirTags. One last thing: If you get caught, don’t get a bad attitude with the police. They’re only at your door because you allegedly stole yard signs. 🤷‍♂️

🚨 YARD SIGN PSA: YOU’RE BEING WATCHED. 🚨 Removing political yard signs in Florida is a crime. If a police officer knocks on your door asking if you’ve been removing signs in the area, lying probably isn’t your best move. Chances are, that yard sign you grabbed had a GPS tracker/AirTag inside it. The fella driving around Plant City removing my signs recently had no idea some had AirTags. One last thing: If you get caught, don’t get a bad attitude with the police. They’re only at your door because you allegedly stole yard signs. 🤷‍♂️

Matt The Welder

19,560 views • 2 months ago