 The proposed act, reported TCPalm, "would make sugar import quotas more flexible and protect taxpayers from government-funded buyouts of surplus sugar".Mast said he would "probably be the only representative in the history of this district to vote against the sugar industry".That said, Mast also accepted over $15,000 in campaign donations from the executives at Florida Crystals (sugar company) and the Fanjul family that owns the company.