44 Facts About Randy Fine

Randall Adam Fine was born on April 20,1974 and is an American politician and former gambling industry executive who has served as the US representative for Florida's 6th congressional district since April 2025.

In 2016, Randy Fine was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in his first of four consecutive elections, and he served during the last two years of Governor Rick Scott's tenure and the first six years of the DeSantis administration.

In 2024, Randy Fine was elected to the Florida Senate from the 19th district, representing most of Brevard County.

Randy Fine was born in a Jewish family in Tucson, Arizona.

Randy Fine was raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Henry Clay High School in 1992, where he was co-valedictorian.

Randy Fine was named a Baker Scholar, Harvard's highest award for academic achievement.

Randy Fine then attended and graduated from Harvard Business School.

In 2015, Randy Fine explored a US Senate bid; he opted instead to run for the Florida state legislature.

Randy Fine won four consecutive elections in the Florida House of Representatives, in the 53rd and 33rd districts.

Randy Fine introduced a bill in the House to provide up to $50 million per year in matching funds to upgrade sewage treatment facilities in the area of the marsh.

Randy Fine can look good without trying to make others look bad with personal attacks.

Randy Fine was ordered to take an 8-hour anger management course.

In 2022, Randy Fine sponsored a bill to dissolve all six independent special districts in Florida established prior to November 5,1968, including the Reedy Creek Improvement District which at the time was the governing jurisdiction and special taxing district for the land of Walt Disney World Resort.

Randy Fine was officially sworn into office on November 19,2024.

Randy Fine earned a salary of $29,697 as a state senator.

On November 26,2024, Randy Fine declared his candidacy for Waltz's former seat representing Florida's 6th congressional district in the United States Congress.

Randy Fine had previously used this hashtag to call for violence in the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Haaretz deemed the announcement a threat, and it was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, but Randy Fine denied that he had any intent to threaten.

Randy Fine raised a 2015 case in which Weil, who is a teacher, was suspended for misconduct after a student accused Weil of slamming him to the ground.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Randy Fine asked local leaders in Brevard County to take the pandemic more seriously.

Randy Fine thought it was "a little bit crazy" that Brevard beaches were open to anybody.

Randy Fine opposed making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory, but he encouraged those who were not vaccinated to follow the CDC's recommendation and wear a mask in group settings.

Randy Fine recommended that parents who wanted mask mandates at school use the state's school voucher system and send their child to a private school with a mask requirement.

Randy Fine opined in 2022 that neither DEI nor critical race theory have any place in Florida's public schools.

Randy Fine is in favor of giving all Florida families the ability choose private or home schooling, with the help of taxpayer money, by expanding school vouchers.

Randy Fine proposed a bill which would legalize concealed carry on college and university campuses.

Randy Fine said that, "Adults should have the right to protect themselves on campus, particularly after so many universities across America chose to protect Muslim terror advocates over their own students".

In 2024, Randy Fine filed a bill pursuant to which undocumented immigrants would no longer be charged in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges and universities.

Randy Fine's office said that in 2021, $45 million in state monies went to provide the in-state rate to undocumented immigrants.

In 2018, Randy Fine demanded that venues in Miami and Tampa cancel scheduled concerts with the New Zealand singer Lorde because she had previously cancelled a concert in Israel after being urged to do so by activists from the BDS movement.

In May 2021, amid an ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine, Randy Fine made several posts and comments on his social media pages regarding Palestinians, including a celebration of the Israeli army's bombing of the Gaza Strip.

In October 2023, Randy Fine switched his endorsement in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries from Ron DeSantis to Donald Trump over their reactions to antisemitism and the Gaza war.

Randy Fine lauded Trump for moving the United States embassy to Jerusalem, and for brokering a peace deal between Israel and two Arab countries.

On October 10,2023, Fine arranged for "Regards from Randy Fine" to be written on an artillery shell to be fired on Gaza, and later arranged for messages on two more shells.

Randy Fine called Ireland an "antisemitic country" after it recognized the State of Palestine in May 2024.

Randy Fine pledged to introduce a bill to ban Florida government entities from contracting with Irish, Norwegian, and Spanish companies, after the latter two countries recognized Palestine.

In December 2024, Randy Fine introduced a bill in the Florida Senate which would ban "flags with a political viewpoint" from being flown in Florida government buildings.

Randy Fine targeted the flag of Palestine, LGBTQ pride flags, and Black Lives Matter flags, though the bill itself does not specify those flags.

Randy Fine planned to move to Israel along with his family had Kamala Harris won the 2024 United States presidential election.

Randy Fine proposed a 2023 bill to ban drag performances where children might be in attendance.

In 2023, the gala included a performances by Rainbow Circus Miami, and Randy Fine was one of the gala's prominent sponsors.

Al Jazeera said that Randy Fine has a long history of making anti-Muslim statements.

At a public hearing Randy Fine chaired in March 2025, he was booed by attendees after he said "enjoy your terrorist rag" to a member of the public wearing a keffiyeh.

Randy Fine responded by saying "I'm the chairman, I can say what I want".