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21:03Now PlayingFlorida State Senator Shevrin Jones is running for Congress in FL-24, and if he wins the crowded August primary, he becomes Florida's first openly LGBTQ member of Congress. Resident Legal Diva Melba Pearson talks with Jones about the emotional 2022 floor speech that made him a national name, what he'd actually do if his own party splits on LGBTQ rights again the way it did on a recent national “Don't Say Gay”-style bill, and his record fighting against aggressive immigration enforcement tactics like the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. It's a conversation about history, affordability, and what Florida's culture-war playbook means for the rest of the country.
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