Mayor Pro Tem Clay Ford campaigns for Florida House

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Long time Gulf Breeze City Councilman Clay Ford has begun his campaign for the Florida House of Representatives, District 3.

Ford says his priorities are insurance reform, property tax relief, the Pensacola Sewage Treatment Plant, better distribution of state school funding and funding for local health programs.

"While our City Council has kept our Gulf Breeze city taxes to 1/3 the level of Pensacola, the property tax burden is crushing business owners, retirees with a rental property and frugal people who have invested in a vacation home," Ford said. "We need to reduce taxes district wide to extend the same kind of savings to all of District 3.

"The short time until the February 6th S p e c i a l E l e c t i o n makes a full evaluation of c a n d i d a t e s difficult, just as it will be difficult for the Legislature to completely solve the insurance crisis in one week. I look forward to working with our legislative delegation to complete the job in the regular session."

"A comparison of candidates' backgrounds and qualifications will reveal a choice of politics, inexperience, or public service," said Ford. For has served as city councilman, school board president, legislator, and elected delegate to rewrite a state constitution.

"My life has been one of public service, not high salaried jobs at the public's expense," Ford said. "I have served on the City Council for sixteen years at $1.00 per year and on a school board for 32,000 students for three years without salary. For the last 15 years I have been a legal aid attorney for low income people in spouse and child abuse cases, disability for the elderly and other public service causes," Ford said. For served in the military for 32 years.

"Gulf Breeze can send a neighbor to Tallahassee with the leadership and experience to provide real representation for us," Ford said.