Republican Liberty Caucus
St. Johns County
The St. Johns County RLC has a special meeting on May 15th with gubernatorial candidate James Fishback. We are excited to be co-hosting the meeting with the SJC Young Republicans!
The meeting will be from 6:00-7:30 PM on Friday MAY 15th.
We are meeting in the AIRPORT TERMINAL at the St. Augustine Airport! (Map) The meeting is open to the public.
We welcomed gubernatorial candidate Bobby Williams to another successful RLC meeting. He took Q&A from our members for over an hour and described his campaign and his plan.
Topics discussed included electing people of good character, overreach from Tallahassee, citrus greening, property taxes and the state of Bobby’s campaign.
Bobby Williams is a 3rd generation Florida native. He is married to his wife of 25 years. He is a dad to a daughter. He loves the outdoors and he likes to hunt. He is not a career politician. He is a working man with a long record of showing up for people.
Bobby Williams Jr. is the founder of The Freedom Tour, a grassroots food and disaster relief ministry that began in 2016. Starting under a carport in Eloise, Florida, the organization now distributes over a million pounds of food monthly and has delivered more than 100 million pounds of aid across the state. His work includes partnerships with the Polk County School Board and the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, and he has provided hurricane relief across multiple states.
Williams emphasizes his faith, community service, and non-politician background as central to his campaign. He states he was divinely called to run and aims to bring truth and compassion into government. His campaign has received an endorsement from Defending Rural Florida PC, which highlights his commitment to rural communities, agriculture, and environmental preservation.
Check out his web site for more info at bwflgov.com
We have an exciting January meeting with special guest Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins! RSVP required to attend. To be added, email rsvp@sjcrlc.org with your name and number of attendees. Space is limited!
About Jay Collins:
Jay served 23 years as a U.S. Army Green Beret medic, earning a Purple Heart and re-qualifying for active duty after losing his leg in combat. Following his military service, Jay took a position with Operation BBQ Relief, overseeing the distribution of millions of meals to Americans following natural disasters and helping veterans and their families.
In November 2022, Collins was elected to the Florida Senate after defeating the incumbent Democratic state senator. His district encompassed areas of downtown Tampa, south Tampa, MacDill AFB, and northwestern Hillsborough County. In 2023, Collins sponsored a senate bill to allow the permitless carry of concealed firearms in Florida. He supported the Heartbeat Protection Act in 2023 and opposed the 2024 Amendment 4. In 2025, he authored and led the effort to pass the “Pam Rock Act”; a bill requiring owners of “dangerous dogs” to register, microchip, spay/neuter their animals, and carry US$100,000 in liability insurance,
Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Collins as the 21st lieutenant governor of Florida on August 12, 2025.
Jay is married to his wife of 25 years Layla, a retired Veteran with 20 years of service in her own right, and a father to two young sons, Gabe and Colt.
The monthly SJC RLC Meeting on December 9, 2025 is with gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner and school board candidate (District 1) Kevin Allen.
About Paul Renner:
Paul Renner (campaign site here) was the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives during the 2022-2024 term. He is a U.S. Navy veteran, former prosecutor, and business attorney. He began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney, prosecuting serious felony offenses. Since 1998, Renner has represented individuals and businesses as their advocate in a broad range of commercial settings.
He served as a naval officer, both on active duty and in the reserves. Earlier in his career, Renner served in Operation Desert Storm during combat operations onboard the USS McInerney (FFG-8) and later during combat operations in Afghanistan in 2011.
Renner was raised in Northeast Florida, where he attended public school. He earned his Juris Doctorate at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and his Bachelor of Arts in history at Davidson College in North Carolina. He was elected to the Florida House in 2015 and was term limited in 2024.
Paul was a Scholar in Residence at the James Madison Institute, was a Senior Leadership Fellow at Florida International University’s Adam Smith Center for the Spring 2025 term, and served as a Senior Fellow of the Flagler College Institute for Classical Education. Governor DeSantis recently appointed Renner to serve on the Board of Governors for Florida’s State University System. He lives in Palm Coast, Florida, with his wife and two children.
St. Johns County District 1:District 1 is in the northwest portion of St. Johns County. Everything west of St. Johns Parkway and north of Route 210/Route 16A are part of District 1. You can check the district map here!