Fix the roads. Stop the flooding. Protect taxpayers.
A licensed civil engineer and former State Representative, running to bring an engineer's discipline to Hillsborough County.
A Tampa engineer who gets things built.
Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Tampa. Gaither High graduate, USF civil engineer, mother of five. Six years in the Florida House passing laws that made our roads safer.
The plan
Traffic, flooding and your county tax bill are the County Commission's job. Here's how an engineer would do it.
Fix traffic. Plan for growth.
Growth is inevitable. Poor planning is not. Build the roads before the rooftops.
Drainage before the next storm.
Flooding is an engineering problem. Resilience and stormwater come first.
Protect taxpayers.
Families watch every dollar. County government should too.
Public safety first.
The most important job of local government, and the first line in the budget.
Core services first.
Infrastructure dollars should build infrastructure. Cut the waste before asking for more.
The choice
On the Nov. 3 ballot for Hillsborough County Commission, District 1: Jackie Toledo (Republican) and incumbent Commissioner Harry Cohen (Democrat). The County Commission sets your county taxes and fees, and decides how the money gets spent. Here's the record.
Keep the Rays, but infrastructure tax dollars should build infrastructure.
Voted for $796M in public money, including $360M of Community Investment Tax (Aug. 28, 2026; passed 5–2).
Source: WUSFTransparency, accountability and core services first.
Cast the only vote against joining the state's review of county spending (April 2, 2025; 6–1).
Source: Creative Loafing TampaShow the waste is gone before asking families for more.
Voted yes on six budgets as the county's yearly take grew from $1.0B (FY21) to $1.6B (FY27).
Source: Florida Dept. of RevenueSupports it: a much larger homestead exemption on county and city property taxes.
Warned it would force “major cuts in public safety expenditures” or new funding (June 17, 2026).
Source: Florida Politics
“Jackie knows that government doesn't have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.”
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This seat was decided by 827 votes.
It will be close again. Every contribution and every volunteer shift reaches the District 1 voters who will decide it.