No smoke-filled rooms. No party bosses. A free concert in the public square.
Florida Politics covered Mike Klein’s formal campaign announcement for Florida’s 3rd Congressional District — delivered not at a partisan fundraiser, but at a free Independence Day concert in Gainesville, open to everyone in the district.
The reporting lays out who Mike is: a Desert Storm veteran and chair of Warrior Centric Health, a nonprofit advocating for veteran healthcare. And it lays out what he’s running on: a populist independent platform centered on campaign finance reform, affordability for working families, and keeping America out of unnecessary wars. His declaration that the district deserves a representative free from party bosses, corporate donors, and foreign interests is the independent veterans movement distilled to one sentence.
Florida Politics is candid that this is a tough district for any challenger. Mike Klein knows that too. Infantry officers don’t pick missions because they’re easy. IVA is proud to endorse a leader who is offering the people of North Central Florida something they haven’t had in years: a real choice.
Read the full Florida Politics story.
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