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Jay Shooster
Jay Shooster (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 91. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Shooster completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jay Shooster was born in Coral Springs, Florida. He earned a high school diploma from J.P. Taravella High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in 2012, and a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 2016. His career experience includes working as a lawyer.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Florida House of Representatives District 91
Incumbent Peggy Gossett-Seidman defeated Jay Shooster in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 91 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R) | 54.5 | 52,858 |
 | Jay Shooster (D)  | 45.5 | 44,051 | |
| Total votes: 96,909 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jay Shooster advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 91.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Peggy Gossett-Seidman advanced from the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 91.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Shooster's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Shooster in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jay Shooster completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Shooster's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’ve spent my career as a consumer advocate where I took on major food companies that were misleading consumers about the safety and environmental impacts of their food products, and artificially inflating their prices due to their false claims.
My legal accomplishments, community involvement, and unwavering commitment to my personal values has positioned me to be a powerful force for positive change in the Florida Legislature. My work representing leading environmental, animal welfare, and labor rights organizations has been featured in major media outlets and has led to the removal of numerous misleading marketing claims.
Outside of my legal work, I have served as a volunteer and organizer with Moms Demand Action where I advocated for gun violence prevention in Tallahassee. I’m also a member of my local synagogue and serve as a co-chair of a program with the Anti Defamation League.
Guided by the Jewish principle of Tikkun Olam (“healing the world”) I am also an advocate for living organ donation and I donated my kidney through the National Kidney Registry in 2019.- Reproductive Freedom I believe that Floridians should have the freedom to make their own decisions about abortion and pregnancy. I’m going to work hard to stop Tallahassee politicians from interfering with these deeply personal decisions that should be left to women and their doctors.
- Property Insurance While extremist politicians in Tallahassee have focused on banning books and abortions , they have allowed the property insurance industry to take advantage of Floridians.Our legislature voted to give a billion-dollar-bailout to insurance companies. They made it easier for insurance companies to simply deny homeowners’ valid insurance claims. And after all of that, Floridians still pay the highest property insurance rates in the country. . As a consumer protection lawyer,I fought for years to hold corporations accountable for unfair business practices. As a legislator, I will continue to put Floridians first and work to get the property insurance crisis under control.
- Gun Violence Prevention I believe our law enforcement agencies must have the ability to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and domestic abusers. We also need to make sure the police have the resources to solve gun-related crimes when they occur. That’s why I support common sense gun violence prevention measures including background checks for gun purchases, an assault weapons ban, and firearm safety courses. I oppose extreme policies like getting rid of Florida’s minimum age requirement for purchasing firearms and allowing 18-year-olds to buy assault rifles. Finally, I want to invest in affordable housing, mental health counseling, education, and job training to help address the root causes of crime.
I also want to leave a legacy of finding bipartisan solutions to extremely important and neglected problems, and advocating for causes that don’t necessarily have a powerful interest group behind them. Through my work, I hope I can play a small role in fighting extremism in our politics and fostering a more collaborative atmosphere.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 11, 2024
