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Votes with the Republican majority 98% of the time; Salzman’s 2 recent breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Republicans backed. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - Americans for Prosperity - Florida scores it 96.43, Florida Chamber of Commerce 79% (3 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 15 bills and co-sponsored 65 on record; most recently HB 755 “Areas of Critical State Concern” (Jul 1, 2026). bill records
What we don’t cover yet 1 gaps
What we don’t cover yet
Campaign finance filings for this office aren’t wired in yet - when they’re sourced, they’ll appear here.
The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
98%
Votes with the Republican majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Salzman’s vote matched the Republican position 98% of the time. That makes the 2 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Salzman actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Jun 2, 2026
1,318 votes · 1,146 yes · 155 not voting · 16 no · 1 absent
Where Salzman broke from the party - the high-signal votes
VOTED NO
Public Employees Relations Commission
Republicans voted yes, 72–7; Salzman was one of the 7 against · SB 1296 · Mar 11, 2026
roll call
VOTED NO
Transportation
Republicans voted yes, 72–6; Salzman was one of the 6 against · SB 1220 · Mar 11, 2026
roll call
Pattern: the breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Republicans backed.
Votes by topic: top topics first, the rest behind filters
conference committee16 votes · yes on 16, no on 0
state budget12 votes · yes on 12, no on 0
State Government8 votes · yes on 6, no on 0, 2 other
Transportation8 votes · yes on 6, no on 0, 2 other
Law Enforcement8 votes · yes on 7, no on 0, 1 other
One vote can touch several topics.
LATEST: YESSave our Homes from Excessive Property TaxesHJR 1F · Jun 2, 2026CommitteesChair · Housing, Agriculture & Tourism SubcommitteeAgriculture & Natural Resources Budget SubcommitteeCommerce CommitteeHealth Professions & Programs Subcommittee
3 ratings from advocacy groups, across 5 issue areas. Scores are shown on a shared 0–100 scale so groups can be read side by side, with each group’s own published score kept next to it. Every score is the group’s opinion, never our verdict, and every row links to the scorecard.
Taxes & Economy · 2
Americans for Prosperity - Floridaconservative · 2025
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
Shor-McCarty · votesConservative
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More conservative than 75% of Florida House members
Details
Score+0.60 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom roll-call votes
Party median0.04 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.56)
Compared with604 members of Florida House members (1996–2022)
Covers2021–2022
● This person Democrats (244) Republicans (360)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Shor, Boris. 2025. "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, January 2025 Update." Harvard Dataverse, V1. Method: Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3). Shor-McCarty ↗
DIME CFscore · donorsConservative
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More liberal than 55% of 2022 Florida House candidates
Details
Score+0.56 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom campaign donors
Party median0.43 more liberal than the Republican median in this group (+0.99)
Compared with311 members of 2022 Florida House candidates
Covers2020–2022
● This person Democrats (131) Republicans (175) Independents (5)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime DIME CFscore ↗
About these scores
These are third-party academic estimates of one left–right dimension, computed by researchers from roll-call votes or campaign donors. They are not Poliscope’s judgment. Each source uses its own scale, so compare people within a source rather than across sources.
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