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While the Coast Flooded, She Was Busy Carving Trump into Mount Rushmore
By: Live from the Resistance
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Today’s Candidate Highlight
There are serious people in Washington, and then there are the influencers. In Florida’s 13th District, voters are currently represented by someone who seems confused about which one she is.
Anna Paulina Luna has spent her time in Congress prioritizing viral stunts over the basic safety of her constituents. While her district faces rising sea levels and insurance crises, she is busy filing bills to redesign national monuments.
But the grown-ups are finally entering the room.
Earle Ford isn’t looking for a television contract. He is a former Airborne Infantryman and an IRS litigator who spent years in the “Estate and Gift Tax” division. His job was simple: catch the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans who tried to cheat the system. He knows how to follow the money, he knows how to enforce the law, and he is exactly the kind of serious operator we need to replace the circus act in FL-13.
He is running to prove that government is for serving the people, not for building a personal brand.
1. While the Coast Drowned, She Sculpted the Mountain
You cannot make this up. In January 2025, while Floridians were still staring at blue tarps on their roofs and fighting with insurance adjusters after a brutal hurricane season, Anna Paulina Luna wasn’t fighting for their payouts. She was introducing legislation to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore.
This is not a joke. It is an actual bill she spent legislative time and resources drafting while her own district was still rebuilding.
But her failure to help began long before she started playing sculptor. In late September 2024, just days before Hurricane Helene made landfall, Luna voted against the stopgap funding bill that kept the federal government and FEMA operational.
The situation was dire. A catastrophic storm was bearing down on Pinellas County. A government shutdown would have paralyzed the very agency responsible for saving lives. Yet, Luna joined a small fringe of extremists to vote “NO” on funding the government. She was willing to turn off the lights at FEMA right as her constituents were bracing for impact.
Then came the hypocrisy. Days after voting to cut off the money, she went on television to scream that FEMA wasn’t