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John Rutherford rushed out an official statement backing the war on the day the bombing of Iran started, so eager he misspelled the mission as "Operation Epic Furry" three separate times.
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Carlos Gimenez has spent 50 years getting rich off the taxpayer's dime.
Florida Bulldog found that the Republican nominee for Florida governor quietly amended his House financial disclosures twice this year, adding a CrossCountry Mortgage loan, up to $500,000 in student loans and his wife's retirement fund — omissions that run back to his first report in 2020.
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John Rutherford has been in office for ten years and hasn't held a single in-person town hall meeting.
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Carlos Gimenez's administration, while he was Miami-Dade mayor, quietly extended a $130 million airport contract for MCM just months after the company's pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami and killed six people.
Gimenez voted yes in May and again in July 2025 on the budget bill that cuts close to $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP. Since then Florida's SNAP rolls have fallen fastest in Monroe County, which is in his district, and on October 1 refugees and asylees started losing Medicaid. The biggest cuts are still to come.
MCM built the FIU pedestrian bridge that fell onto traffic in March 2018. The firm is run by cousins of Gimenez's wife, and both of his sons have worked for it. In early 2019, months after OSHA cited MCM and as the firm went bankrupt, Mayor Gimenez's administration extended MCM's $130 million contract at Miami International Airport.
His own financial disclosure shows a $145,902 Miami fire pension and a $79,751 Florida state pension. His wife draws a third. In January he qualified for a fourth, from Congress. As Miami-Dade mayor, he proposed cutting fire trucks while drawing the fire pension, and got commissioners to approve his own 67% raise, which grew his pension.
Gimenez's bill to protect a Miccosukee village in the Everglades from flooding passed both chambers without a single objection. Trump vetoed it to punish the tribe for suing over Alligator Alcatraz, and 188 House Republicans voted to keep it dead. It was the closest Gimenez has come to writing a law.