Florida candidate filing fees are not only the highest in the nation, but are twice the state with the 2nd highest fees, Georgia. The Cape Coral Breeze has a letter to the editor criticizing Florida’s filing fee amounts. The letter writer says he is considering running for legislature this year, but the fee is $1,700. He says he once was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, where the filing fee to run for state house is $2.
Ignoring the rise of Restore Britain is also being criticized.
16 February 2026, a few days after Restore Britain announced its launch as a political party, the organisation stated that it had reached 50,000 members. Two days later, party leader Rupert Lowe said that membership had risen to 70,000, and on 20 February he said on X that the party had reached 80,000 members.
Another missing story here is that the FBI has found a 20k vote discrepancy between counts in Fulton County GA.
Florida should expand its legislature so each representative represents the same number of persons as in New Hampshire.
Not if they continue to pay them more than NH.
@Noem,
California has a fixed spending limit for the Legislature as a whole. When the neighborhood legislature was proposed by John Cox, most of the 12,000 legislators would be paid $1 per year.
Thanks. If Florida had $1 per year pay for legislators, expanding its legislature so each representative represents the same number of persons as in New Hampshire seems fine to me.