The insurance and energy industries are already spending big to influence the October election for Governor, Secretary of State, and local House and Senate races - many supporting a corporate bailout.

I join with my community in opposing the proposal to add $45 million to the insurance incentive program that has failed before.   This is nothing but a taxpayer funded bailout for big insurance corporations doing nothing to address the underlying causes of the insurance crisis - an aging housing stock that can't keep up with increasingly frequent and severe storms.

Instead of funneling even more taxpayer money to these big corporations as part of a short term Band-Aid, we should invest in things that will bring insurance rates down permanently, such as weatherizing our homes, businesses, and the power grid to make our state more storm resilient.

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