To the editor:<\/p>\n
Lincoln would vote for Florida Democrats on Nov. 3!<\/p>\n
Republicans have controlled the state government since 1966 and many local offices for as long or longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Worse home price drop of America\u2019s 129 largest cities, Cape Coral down 9 percent in a year, and four of the seven biggest metro declines in America are Southwest Florida<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Highest homeowner\u2019s insurance in America, $8,292 a year, up 18 percent<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Cost of living is the third most expensive state in America<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 59 percent of Florida renters are cost burdened, the worst in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 DeSantis\u2019s Utility Commission appointees who Donalds will retain approved a $6.9 billion Florida Power and Light rate increase, the largest in company history, hitting 12 million Floridians<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 47 percent of Florida households, more than 4.2 million, cannot afford rent, food, child care, health care and transportation<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Florida wages rank 20th while costs rank 48th. Florida workers earn about 7.6 percent less than the national average<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 52 percent of Florida\u2019s tested waters fail Florida\u2019s own water quality standards. Only 30 percent pass<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Florida teacher pay is second lowest in America, $56,663 against $74,495 nationally, and fell 12.4 percent in real dollars over a decade<\/p>\n
Donalds to retain Florida Surgeon General Ladapo.\u00a0 At least, 58 measles cases in 2026, the most in 25 years. Whooping cough more than doubled, to 1,454 cases in 2025 from 715 in 2024.<\/p>\n
No Floridian is better off except the Republicans in office and their very rich donors.<\/p>\n
Ray Allen<\/p>\n
Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Lincoln would vote for Florida Democrats on Nov. 3! Republicans have controlled the state government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-429261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}