(Mailer image from Equality Florida)
ORLANDO | Equality Florida (EQFL) announced Oct. 8 that it is making its largest investment ever in a state race to defeat the Republican candidate, a former state representative with an anti-LGBTQ record, running for the state senate seat in Florida’s 9th District.
In 2015, former state Rep. Jason Brodeur sponsored a bill that would have allowed adoption agencies that discriminated against gay and lesbian couples to still receive state funds as long as the discrimination was done because of “religious or moral convictions.”
Brodeur’s sponsorship of this bill is the subject of a campaign by EQFL’s Action PAC which is spending $125,000 on direct mail and digital ads targeting 130,000 voters in Florida’s Senate District 9 to remind them of Brodeur’s anti-LGBTQ record.
“Not only did Jason Brodeur try to bring back Florida’s ban on gay and lesbian adoptions, now he’s trying to rewrite history,” said Joe Saunders, Senior Political Director for Equality Florida, in a press release. “But Jason Brodeur can’t reinvent his record for an election. … Every chance he’s had, he’s sided with radical far-right interests over equality and fairness — even when it meant putting discrimination above the best interests of children in foster care.”
The mailer being sent to thousands of voters features an image of Brodeur with the headline “Jason Brodeur tried to bring back Florida’s ban on gay and lesbian adoption.”
Two digital ads will also make the rounds online; one featuring Longwood couple Tatiana Quiroga and Jennifer West, mothers to two boys, and one featuring Margot Logan, adoption agency professional from Oviedo.
Brodeur is running against Democrat Patricia Sigman, an attorney from Longwood, to replace Republican state Sen. David Simmons who cannot seek re-election due to term limits.
Election day is Nov. 3. Florida’s early voting runs Oct. 19-Nov. 2.
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