Merrillee Malwitz Jipson
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Florida House of Representatives (120 members). Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget. A term is two years, eight years in a row at most.
- Occupation
- Owner, Rum 138 LLC (recreational tourism and art gallery)
- Lives in
- Fort White
Background
- Has lived in Fort White since 2002. source: news4jax.com
- Earned an A.A. from the University of South Florida (1985) and a B.F.A. from Ringling College of Art and Design (1991). source: news4jax.com
- Owns Rum 138 LLC, a recreational tourism business with an art gallery. source: news4jax.com
- Former registered lobbyist for the Sierra Club of Florida. source: news4jax.com
- Ran for this House seat in 2018 as a no-party-affiliation candidate. source: news4jax.com
In their own words
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- Clean and healthy water, air and land source: news4jax.com
- Affordable health care for all source: news4jax.com
- Public education resiliency source: news4jax.com
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