08/19/2026
If youre voting Jolly because Donalds won, will you please read this to the end. I know it's long but I'd like to give you some things to really think. 🙏
First, I understand the concern. He was not my first choice either.
We've been programmed over the past several months to think Donalds is going to put Hyperscale AIDCs in our backyards and cement over Florida, and our preferred candidate was going to be a savior.
But that thinking would be incorrect. Wouldn't matter which candidate got into office, there are going to be AIDCs built in Florida, and every other state in the nation, regardless of ANY governor.
GOV DESANTIS has signed into law SB484.
(can read here https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2026/governor-ron-desantis-signs-law-protect-floridians-subsidizing-data-centers).
HEAR THIS👉 It is not up to a governor to decide whether an AIDC will be built or whether it will be built in your backyard. That decision lies with LOCAL governments.
Be very vigilante in voting for your local COUNTY and CITY Council/Commission. Get involved, go to meetings, look up the agendas and speak out.
Not a single Gubernatorial candidate would have or could have banned AIDCs.
I hope you'll read the process and why the 4 AIDCs that are already in the pipeline have been "stalled," here: https://www.gainesville.com/story/business/economy/2026/04/30/four-huge-florida-data-centers-are-planned-but-people-are-against-them/89854779007/
In anger you want to vote Jolly. Let's think that out...
Jolly owns his own LOBBYING FIRM. He is a professional LOBBYIST.
He knows how the "buy a politician and influence legislation" game works, and is FULL ready to play the get rich quick game.
He is VERY smart and cunning! He knew not to accept contributions from ANY companies that could be considered questionable, and he campaigned on that. He will be able to continue to point fingers at Donalds and say "but look how clean I am" but he wont tell you he will do the what youre most afraid of. He KNOWS exactly how to play the game!
One would be an absolute fool to think Jolly will get into office and refuse to take money from every single Real Estate Developer, Tech Company, Energy, and Gambling Mogul that Byron Donalds has, and possibly more.
Dont forget, he will be getting his marching orders from the Democrat Party, and setting Florida up for future Democrat elections. Expand your thinking BEYOND AIDCs.
The plans for Florida development are sadly ALREADY in the pipeline. Donalds (in his arrogance, backed by Trump) took his money upfront, but Jolly, as political strategy, is waiting to take his once he is in office.
Lastly I urge you to consider California's history. How the political climate changed the state from Red to Blue, how the demographic changed, how the middle class and working class were forced to exile to other states, how constantly rising Democrat policies affecting state income tax, gas tax and Commuter tolls have strained families and affordability, and why Middle Class almost doesnt exist in California anymore. There are the wealthy, the upper middle class, and the working class peasants. Realize the working class, and even the upper middle class, have to drive 2 hours in traffic each way to work and back (because they cant afford to live within 100 miles of cities or beaches). Consider why CA has over 400,000 homeless people. Read how the Democrat that "started it all," Gray Davis, literally ran CA into the ground his first term, which escalated in his 2nd term, imposing HIGH TAXES, corruption, budget mismanagement, so badly to the point of RECALL.
Sadly, once Californians opened the door to the Democrat who ran the state into the ground, democrats never left. Instead they gained ground and CA became a democrat supermajority.
CA is now a sanctuary state with a hispanic majority, roughly 40% of the population is mass-taxed to provide 60% with public services, you pay up to 14% payroll and wage in State Income Tax, $.73 gas tax per gallon, energy cost is 90% HIGHER than the national average. It is overrun with homelessness. 2 hour traffic commutes because you cant live within 100 miles of work, Tolls up to $27 ONE WAY. .....
is this really what you wan to open yourself, your kids and your grandkids up to?
Sure, Jolly will bang heads with the Republican State house..this term...but once you let a democrat in the door, they're like roaches. They increase and eventually take over. Please think about it.
Tracy
Here’s where things stand with some proposed hyperscale data centers in Florida.