James W. Shaw

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James Shaw believes Florida’s education system needs to get back to basics.

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Stand against AI replacing our jobs!

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I Will Protect Us... From Urban/Residential Sprawl

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I Will Protect Us... From Urban/Residential Sprawl

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James and Locals Fight off AI

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I Will Protect Us... Gun Rights

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I Will Protect Us... From AI Data Centers

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I Will Protect Us... Uninvited Guest

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I Will Protect Us... Safety Issues

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I Will Protect Us... Homeschooling

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I Will Protect Us... Faith

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I Will Protect Us... Florida Land

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My name is James W. Shaw married 44 years, 8 children, 27 grandchildren. I have a lot to protect! I'm in your corner.

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I love Florida, and I'm tired of watching it get paved over, roughly 45,000 acres of farmland a year, gone. I have 28 grandchildren who love this state too, and I want there to be a Florida left for them. I saw a headline calling the leading opponent "the $67 Million Man" — nothing about the people, just PAC money raised. That's not me. I'm completely self-funded, beholden to no PAC and no special interest. I report only to the people of Florida, not to the donors who write the big checks. Economic Freedom / Lower Living Costs Shaw supports business-friendly policies for agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism that create real opportunity for Florida families. Shaw will aggressively pursue lowering living costs by creating competition driven solutions such as researching promising peptide and anti-parasitic healthcare treatments. Family Security First – As a father of 8 and grandfather of 28, Shaw frames protecting food, water, and public safety as protecting Florida's families

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Stop AI Data Centers and Overdevelopment Shaw helped lead the coalition that defeated the “Okee-One” AI data center proposed near Lake Okeechobee, persuading the DeSantis administration to withdraw state funding and support. The project would have consumed millions of gallons of water annually, strained the local power grid, discharged chemical blowdown into already-stressed waterways, and created dangerous heat islands near environmentally sensitive land. Shaw calls it part of a larger fight: Florida is losing an estimated 45,000 acres of land a year, and he wants to keep farmland as farmland while protecting clean beaches, food, and water from unchecked expansion.

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As Governor, I will direct Florida's universities to research promising, lower-cost treatment options — including peptide therapies that show potential as more affordable alternatives to expensive brand-name drugs, and anti-parasitic medications being studied for broader medical use. Florida has world-class research institutions. It's time they worked for Florida families, not just for publishers and patent holders. Competition is only half the answer. The other half is prevention. My administration will make clean food, self-care, and access to essential vitamins and minerals a real part of healthcare policy — because the cheapest healthcare is the care you never need. Florida deserves a system that rewards prevention, drives competition, and puts patients back in control — not pharmaceutical middlemen.

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The Florida Cabinet, sitting as the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, holds a sacred responsibility: stewarding over 12 million acres of public land on behalf of every Floridian — not developers, not out-of-state corporations, not Big Tech. I've already shown I'll fight for that principle. When Big Tech tried to push through the 'Okee-One' AI data center project in Okeechobee County, I stood with local citizens to stop it — and the locals won. That facility would have drained hundreds of millions of gallons of water a year, strained our power grid, and paved over land that belongs to Florida families, all so out-of-state tech companies could turn a profit. As Governor, I will bring that same fight to the Cabinet. Florida's public lands are not for sale, not for lease, and not for exploitation — at any cost. I will oppose overdevelopment that threatens our water supply, our wildlife, and our way of life.

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Florida families aren't just fighting rising prices — they're fighting a system with no real competition, where a handful of players in every major industry set the price and everyone else pays it. I will treat Florida the way it deserves to be treated: as its own economic power. With nearly 24 million people, Florida is bigger than most countries. That gives us leverage — and I will use it. As Governor, I will bring that leverage to every major cost driver hurting Florida families: healthcare and insurance, homeowners' and auto insurance, food and grocery costs, energy, and housing. I will use the full negotiating power of a 24-million-person market to demand better prices, more competition, and more options — sector by sector, industry by industry.