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Audie Rowell, Florida D2 GOP Candidate For Congress · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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Speaker 1: And welcome third hour the Morning Show, with President Scott
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Speaker 1: literally turning the page to the rundown. Here this morning,
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Speaker 1: Jose over there in Studio one A. I am here
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Speaker 1: in Studio one B. It is show fifty six thirty.
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Speaker 1: But who's counting? I am. I'm gonna quote Rush. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna keep doing what I'm doing until I convince all
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Speaker 1: of you that I'm right. That's I'm just gonna keep
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Speaker 1: talking until I convince you that I am right. And
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Speaker 1: so good to have you with us this morning. I
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Speaker 1: am joined by one of the candidates for the Republican
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Speaker 1: nomination for the second congressional district. And for those of
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Speaker 1: you listening on broadcast radio other than those of you
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Speaker 1: in South Georgia, this is your congressional district. And it's
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Speaker 1: a big one. It is a large one by geography.
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Speaker 1: And that candidate is Audi Raul and he joins us
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Speaker 1: here the website Audifo Florida dot com spelled Audie Audi.
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Speaker 2: How are I am wonderful, Thank you for having me
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Speaker 2: on my pleasure. We're gonna be here a little bit now.
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Speaker 2: You are correct, this is a big district. Most people
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Speaker 2: don't realize this thing runs about about one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty miles east to west from Walton County half of
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Speaker 2: Walton County all the way to Taylor County, with a
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Speaker 2: bit portion of Lafayette County. Yeah, community of Day and
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Speaker 2: everything in between. Some people will say, was there cut
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Speaker 2: out or is this part of it? It's all everything. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it's a huge district. It is the largest land district
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Speaker 2: in Florida.
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Speaker 1: I think that there is an opportunity here to form
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Speaker 1: a pretty strong congressional district between one, two, and three.
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Speaker 1: Big fan of Jimmy Patronis and District one, huge fan
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Speaker 1: of Cat Cammick and District three, and now we get
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Speaker 1: to District two. First, let's give everybody a little snapshot
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Speaker 1: because I'm guessing not a lot of people have heard
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Speaker 1: your name. So who are you? And tell us about
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Speaker 1: your background.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm an old Tallahassee boy and I'm a sixth
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Speaker 2: generation Floridian. So my Roal family migrated down from South
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Speaker 2: Carolina in the early eighteen hundreds through Georgia, Leon County,
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Speaker 2: Jefferson County, Madison County, and then wounded up in the
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Speaker 2: northern part of Taylor County in a little community called
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Speaker 2: Shady Grove. My dad was born in a house there
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Speaker 2: right off of nineteen in a little community called I Do, Florida.
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Speaker 2: And literally when you see the sign, you have seen
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Speaker 2: I do, and there's a sign that says I do.
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Speaker 2: And he was born in a house right there. And
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Speaker 2: he grew up in Taylor County and graduated, went into
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Speaker 2: the military, and got moved around a little bit, ended
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Speaker 2: up in Jacksonville I was born. Then in nineteen seventy two,
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Speaker 2: he brought his family back to Tallahassee, where I was
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Speaker 2: enrolled in North Florida Christian School in nineteen seventy two,
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Speaker 2: did the whole ride there thirteen years, graduated in nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty five, and then shortly afterwards that year later, I
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Speaker 2: began my law enforcement career that spanned nearly forty years.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for serving, Thank you so much. Started with
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Speaker 2: the Leon County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Eddie Booone gave me
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Speaker 2: that first chance, and every time I see him, always
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Speaker 2: thank him for what he did for me.
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Speaker 3: Just such a great individual.
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Speaker 2: Then went to TPD did you know twenty plus years
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Speaker 2: here in the Leon County Tallahassee area, and then ended
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Speaker 2: up in Walton County in two thousand and nine was
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Mike Atkinson. I had known him from the Tallisi
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Speaker 2: Police Department, but he was like a kind of almost
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Speaker 2: a fourth or fifth generation Walton County person. But he
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Speaker 2: ended up going back home and ran for sheriff one
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Speaker 2: and I went on property with him day one in
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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, did about almost seventeen years there
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Speaker 2: with him, and retired there as chief Deputy. I've graduated
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Speaker 2: from Florida State univerit well, graduated from Tallass Community College,
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Speaker 2: graduated from Florida State University, Southern Police Institute, FBI National Academy.
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Speaker 2: I'm married, four children, one grandchildren. My phone number is
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Speaker 2: eight five zero seven nine seven forty five four. But
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Speaker 2: the best part of that whole bio is that grandchild.
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Speaker 2: And I always tell people that if I knew grandchildren
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Speaker 2: were this good, I'd have had them first. Absolutely, they're blessing,
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Speaker 2: aren't they. They are a blessing, so so blessed, so blessed.
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Speaker 1: All Right, that's a snapshot of Audie Raul. When we
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Speaker 1: come to that's the pitch right there. Now, when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to get to the to what
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Speaker 1: I think is one of the most important questions, and
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Speaker 1: I actually posed it to him. This is the only
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Speaker 1: question he knows. I'm going to ask, why in the
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Speaker 1: world would you want to do this? And that is
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Speaker 1: be a member of Congress back with Audie raul It
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Speaker 1: is Audi four Florida dot com. So let's let's answer
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Speaker 1: the question that I ask everybody. I don't care what
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Speaker 1: office they're running for. It could be dogcatcher because and
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Speaker 1: you know this politics just stink today. The the the
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Speaker 1: decision to run for office is a family decision. It
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Speaker 1: is not to be taken lightly. We were telling the
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Speaker 1: young man Gabe, who works with you. You know, growing
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Speaker 1: old is in for sissies. Neither is running for office.
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Speaker 1: It is not why'd you do it?
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Speaker 2: Well, I am a little bit of an idiot, I
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Speaker 2: think sometimes for doing this. But to be honest with you,
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Speaker 2: there there's a that's a big question for me, and
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Speaker 2: it's it's not a short answer. So we got all
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Speaker 2: the time the world's not a short answer for me.
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Speaker 2: So there's when I look at this, this is really
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Speaker 2: about on a national level and even on a local level. Right,
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Speaker 2: So first of all, I want to make sure whoever's
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Speaker 2: in this position understands the culture and the challenges of
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Speaker 2: the district. I'm a sixth generation right here in the district.
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Speaker 2: I've been a public servant. I'm not a politician. I'm
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Speaker 2: not a political insider. I'm not an attorney. I've been
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Speaker 2: a public service inside this district for nearly forty years.
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Speaker 2: So I believe that I have the qualification to understand
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Speaker 2: the culture and the challenges of the district. On the
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Speaker 2: national level, and I'll come back a little bit more
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Speaker 2: to the local level, but on the national level, and
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Speaker 2: I've seen this shift to the left over the last
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Speaker 2: thirty years or so, and I'll talk about that as well.
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Speaker 2: But what I want to make sure is from on
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Speaker 2: national levels, I want to make sure that our country
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Speaker 2: stays grounded in the values that our country was founded on.
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Speaker 2: That is, our Christian family values, our constitutional values, our
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Speaker 2: capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values. They're all under attacked,
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Speaker 2: every one of them. They're under attacked from socialism, from communism,
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Speaker 2: from woke ideology. This needs to be the socialism, communism,
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Speaker 2: and woke ideology needs to be eradicated from our culture.
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Speaker 2: And especially when I talk about communism. So when I
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Speaker 2: was in high school, we had a class called Americanism
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Speaker 2: Versus Communism, and we actually had a book called The
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Speaker 2: Naked Communist and it's written by Cleon Skalzer. And I
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Speaker 2: learned all about communism, learned about collectivism or they want
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Speaker 2: to destroy the family, control private property.
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Speaker 3: All that stuff. And I actually still have the book.
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Speaker 2: I found it when I sided to run, I went
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Speaker 2: back and looked for it and found it. But as
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Speaker 2: I sat in that class, and I don't remember, you
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Speaker 2: know everything about the class, but but I do remember
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Speaker 2: thinking to myself, well, thank goodness, that's over there. Thank
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Speaker 2: goodness that I don't have to worry about this. It's
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Speaker 2: nice learning about it. But but it's it's over there,
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Speaker 2: it's way across there. So it's actually a little weird
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Speaker 2: or a little odd for me to to to talk
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Speaker 2: about communism right here at front and center with our country.
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Speaker 2: But it is real, it is happening. There's a there's
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Speaker 2: a mission creep uh, there's a movement too to change
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Speaker 2: our company, change our country.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to read a headline to you, mom,
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Speaker 1: Donnie backed socialists look to take New York Playbook nationwide
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Speaker 1: after primary victories.
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Speaker 2: So let's talk about that. So Mandamie is a great thing.
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Speaker 2: And first let me let me say this. I am
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Speaker 2: so proud a way our our founding fathers created our
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Speaker 2: country not just for our our constitution, republic, but they
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Speaker 2: have allowed the states to work into tanly of each other. Right, so,
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Speaker 2: as long as the state's not violating federal law, a
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Speaker 2: state can do what they want. And Governor's stantis said
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Speaker 2: it brilliant. One time somebody asked him, said, how do
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Speaker 2: you come up with your policies for Florida? How do
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Speaker 2: you come up with all this? He says, what's easy.
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Speaker 2: I look at New York, I look at California, I
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Speaker 2: look at Oregon and Washington, and I just do the opposite. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 2: So what I feel like is going to happen. And
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Speaker 2: Mndomie's a great thing. Mndomie does not want to balance
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Speaker 2: his budget. What he wants to do is grow his budget.
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Speaker 2: What he wants his more city services. That's what he wants.
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Speaker 2: And I've said this as well. I've put it on
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Speaker 2: social media that the socialists and the communist need our
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Speaker 2: capitalist money to fund their social agenda. So what Mundomie doing,
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Speaker 2: He's grabbing up all the money right as much as
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Speaker 2: he can. Now, what I expect to see is an improvement,
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Speaker 2: so to speak. You'll see a little bit of improvement
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Speaker 2: in New York City because he's grabbing all this money, right,
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Speaker 2: but what are the capitalists doing. They're leaving. So what
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Speaker 2: happens when the money runs out? Everything fails? Look at Venezuela,
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Speaker 2: look at Cuba, all that stuff. My fear is is
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Speaker 2: that Number one, he's probably going to go after the
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Speaker 2: state money. And I think they're already bucking him on that.
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Speaker 2: But thank goodness we have President Trump right now, because
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Speaker 2: he will eventually go after the federal money. And that's
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Speaker 2: a big concern for me because again, he's going to
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Speaker 2: have to constantly pull this capitalist money in order to
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Speaker 2: fund the social agenda.
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Speaker 1: Well, we've watched it happen in California frequently over the
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Speaker 1: last thirty years, where they've needed taxpayer bailouts from the
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Speaker 1: federal government for any number of policy mistakes they've made
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Speaker 1: in their state. So you know the fact that New
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Speaker 1: York is barely pushing him away for now, but for
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Speaker 1: how long? Exactly Monday, on the radio program known as
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Speaker 1: Common Sense Amplified, we do our best to do just
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Speaker 1: that and joining us. Another of the congressional candidates in
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Speaker 1: a somewhat crowded GOP field, Audie Rowl, is with us
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Speaker 1: AUDI for Florida dot COM's website, where you can learn
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Speaker 1: more about his campaign. You were sharing why the decision
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Speaker 1: on running for this office continue.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we talked about the staying true to our
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Speaker 2: values that our country was founded on, our Christian family values,
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Speaker 2: our constitutional values, our capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values,
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Speaker 2: but also affordability. Affordability is huge for Americans. And when
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Speaker 2: I talk about affordability, yes, I talk about bringing down prices,
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Speaker 2: whether it be medical prices or homeowners insurance things like that.
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Speaker 2: But it's also about keeping your money. And I'm a
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Speaker 2: bigger proponent at and reducing taxes as well. Right, I'm
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Speaker 2: a big sign me up for reducing taxes and all
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Speaker 2: that stuff. But you know, inflation is a big problem.
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Speaker 2: But you also have to understand why inflation happens. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of times, and even most of the time,
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Speaker 2: the reason inflation happened is because the government spending. Right,
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Speaker 2: and when the government spends two months, then your your
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Speaker 2: supply demands start to decrease. What happens is your products
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Speaker 2: prices rise, inflation rises, what do our paychecks do? They
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Speaker 2: stay the same. So we have to work on inflation
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Speaker 2: as well. And government spending is a huge problem. And
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Speaker 2: you hear people, candidates, you hear people that are already
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Speaker 2: in office, go, well, we need to we need to,
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Speaker 2: you know, get to Congress and cut spending.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: I don't like that term. And let me tell you,
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Speaker 2: why have you ever known the government to cut spending? Truly,
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Speaker 2: have you ever known them to cut spending? And I'm
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Speaker 2: not talking about a little bill here, a little bill there.
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Speaker 2: The answer is no, I've never known the government to
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Speaker 2: cut spending. When government exists, it will spend. And we
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Speaker 2: just talked about a little bit about the socialism and
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, and the capitalists and and people. Some
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Speaker 2: people will will say, well, you know, we have these
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Speaker 2: capitalist guys that they're greedy. They're greedy people. They're they're
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Speaker 2: they're taking all the money. They operate, you know, by greed.
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Speaker 2: And really, these folks that are the capitalists are creating
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Speaker 2: jobs and helping the economy and building products for us
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Speaker 2: and all kinds of stuff. The United States government is
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Speaker 2: the greediest institution on the planet. The government will spend money,
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Speaker 2: and they're so greedy that when they can't get enough
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Speaker 2: money from taxes and get enough money from us, they
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Speaker 2: print money, or nowadays they create money because they can't
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Speaker 2: print it fast enough.
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Speaker 3: So I can talk about that as well about the government.
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Speaker 2: But my theory is is we need to cut government,
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Speaker 2: and if government doesn't exist, it cannot spend money. So
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Speaker 2: we're looking now with President Trumpeys trying to cut the
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Speaker 2: Department of Education. I'm all about it, but you got
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Speaker 2: to ask yourself, what is the number one function function
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Speaker 2: of government? And the number one function of government is
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Speaker 2: public safety. That's our military, that's our law enforcement, our corrections,
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Speaker 2: our fire our ems, border security, our courts. It's public safety.
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Speaker 2: Everything else for me is up for debate whether we reduce,
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Speaker 2: restrict or eliminate. There's like fifteen different state departments in
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Speaker 2: the federal government, and every one of them need to
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Speaker 2: be looked at as to can we reduce, restrict or
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Speaker 2: eliminate Except for your public safety, public safety, I will
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Speaker 2: always fully support. I will always do whatever I can
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Speaker 2: to make sure they're not only funded, but they're properly funded,
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Speaker 2: whatever that may be. That's the number one function of government.
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Speaker 2: So we've got to cut government, and I want to
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Speaker 2: see government cut. And if we cut government, what I
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Speaker 2: hope is that government now can't spend whatever it may be.
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Speaker 3: Irs. You know, there's me.
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Speaker 2: You could look at all of them and find something
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Speaker 2: that needs to be Either we can give it back
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Speaker 2: to the American people and let them do it, or
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Speaker 2: we can just eliminate it, eliminate it completely.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Audie, on the fact you're one,
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Speaker 1: You're you're elected, you're one member of Congress. There's a
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Speaker 1: bunch of you. There's only so much. So when someone
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Speaker 1: says I'm going to do this and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: do that, well, you can do that if you get
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Speaker 1: two hundred and some to agree.
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Speaker 3: With you, about five hundred and thirty five.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, but in terms of passing something legislatively, you
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Speaker 1: need a couple hundred plus to do it. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: Now that said, there's kind of a split out there.
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Speaker 1: There are people like Congresswoman Katkamick, who I'm a big
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Speaker 1: fan of, that says I don't do earmark spending. I'm
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Speaker 1: not about trying to bring money back to my district
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Speaker 1: when we don't have the money to bring back we
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Speaker 1: don't have the money. Where are you on district spending?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that there are some spendings within the
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Speaker 2: district that I think are beneficial. Let's say Title I
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Speaker 2: money for education and bringing money for underprivileged kids to
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Speaker 2: get them an extra boost so they can either have
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Speaker 2: school supplies or extra time in a classroom with it.
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Speaker 1: But those aren't ear marks. That's money that just flows through.
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Speaker 1: And two, i'm talking specifically earmarks for the district, such
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Speaker 1: as I want to build this, I want to do that.
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Speaker 1: I need money to do it. We're going to get
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Speaker 1: some money back, we don't have the money. The bottom
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Speaker 1: line is, I'm looking for more members of me personally.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for more members of Congress to say we're broke,
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Speaker 1: we don't have money, we're deficit spending, and we're going
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Speaker 1: in greater debt. We need to stop and reevaluate. To
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Speaker 1: your point, let's cut some government. Well, that's that's the way,
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Speaker 1: and take the money that's coming in and use it
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Speaker 1: more effective efficiently.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing is we're talking about giving money
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Speaker 2: back and right, not just to your marks, but things
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Speaker 2: like stimulus checks.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't like stimulus checks. Yeah, And the
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Speaker 2: reason I don't like stimulus checks is because as the
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Speaker 2: government starts giving you money back. First of all, in
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Speaker 2: order for government to give you your money back, what do.
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Speaker 1: They have to do take it to begin with?
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Speaker 2: They got to take it from you, right, And my
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Speaker 2: issue with stimulus checks is if the government keeps giving
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Speaker 2: us stimulus checks, they will start creating economic classes. They
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Speaker 2: will find they will decide who gets what, how much
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Speaker 2: you get, who gets this, who gets that.
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Speaker 3: They've already done that and they are pretty much doing it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think we've seen with the fraud investigations
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Speaker 1: just in the last few months alone, little waste going
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Speaker 1: on out there.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of waste going on, and we shouldn't
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Speaker 2: and that speaks to DOZE. And well, I'll talk specifically
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Speaker 2: about DOGE. We shouldn't need DOGE, but we do. And
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Speaker 2: the reason we need DOGE is because the government is
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Speaker 2: so greedy, has so much money that they don't know
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Speaker 2: what to do with it.
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Speaker 1: Final two segments with Audi Rowl. It's Audi for Florida
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Speaker 1: dot com, a U d I E for Florida dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's website to learn more. I kind of I kind
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Speaker 1: of prepped you we're in do kind of a lightning
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Speaker 1: round here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you didn't prep me.
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Speaker 1: Now I did. I prepped you in saying we're gonna
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Speaker 1: keep answers short here because I want to get through
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Speaker 1: a few different things. If you get elected. What's on
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Speaker 1: the whiteboard? What's the sticky note list going to start with?
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Speaker 3: I would say the VA, the VA is a is
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Speaker 3: A is a big issue for.
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Speaker 1: Me because we have military installations in the district or why.
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Speaker 2: No, this this would be more of a national issue,
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Speaker 2: not just something within the district. So when I look
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Speaker 2: at the VA and I and I hear all the problems,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sure there are some success stories with the VA,
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Speaker 2: but I hear more about problems. And when I look
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Speaker 2: at the VA, what I see is the biggest socialist
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Speaker 2: program within the federal government. When you look at it,
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Speaker 2: it runs like a single payer. It's really a single provider.
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Speaker 2: You you, they tell you where to go, who you're
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Speaker 2: going to see, what time it's going to happen, if
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Speaker 2: it's going to happen, and even if it is going
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Speaker 2: to happen, and it almost seems like the punishment is
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Speaker 2: the process right and hopefully you'll just go away. So
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Speaker 2: it to me, it's a it's a huge socialist program.
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Speaker 2: And the reason it's a socialist program is because in
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Speaker 2: the world of freedom, you have choices. And I believe
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Speaker 2: in choices, whatever it may be, not just the VA,
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Speaker 2: but especially the VA. I believe in choices, and a
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Speaker 2: service member should have the choice, their choice. If a
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Speaker 2: service member has a doctor that they feel very comfortable with,
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Speaker 2: that is in Montacettle, Florida, or it's in Marianna or Uniac,
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter where. If they feel comfortable with that doctor
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Speaker 2: providing service, they should be able to go to that
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Speaker 2: doctor without without any issues. You can get on Medicaid
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Speaker 2: and have choices of doctors. A serviceman going through the
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Speaker 2: VA has to wait and has to be told what
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Speaker 2: to do and when to do it. It's ridiculous. I
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Speaker 2: would prefer to completely eliminate the VA totally.
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Speaker 3: Again. Cut government.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say that fits the idea
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Speaker 1: of cutting government.
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Speaker 2: Cut cut government, and be done with it. Just absolutely
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Speaker 2: be done with it. There was a suggestion one time
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Speaker 2: about putting clinics in every county. No, that's more government.
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Speaker 2: We don't need more government. We need choices. And I
18:46
Speaker 2: want to see, our service member have choices, their own
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Speaker 2: choices wherever that may be. I don't care if they
18:50
Speaker 2: want to fly to Atlanta if they feel comfortable and
18:53
Speaker 2: say I want to go to Atlanta, or I want
18:55
Speaker 2: to go to a Texas town because I know a
18:58
Speaker 2: specific doctor that wants to help me. Okay, well fly
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Speaker 2: to Texas. Do what you want to do. But that's
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Speaker 2: not the way this is working with the VA. So
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Speaker 2: to me, the VA again, it's the biggest socialist program
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Speaker 2: within the federal government.
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Speaker 1: The Save Act. Obviously the House is done, it's part yep,
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Speaker 1: dying in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: So I just put this out on social media and
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Speaker 2: I said, the world is not eligible to vote in
19:19
Speaker 2: our elections. That is what the socialists and the communists want.
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Speaker 2: They want the world to be able to vote in
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Speaker 2: our election. And my belief is it is because they
19:27
Speaker 2: can't find enough American citizens to vote for them. So
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Speaker 2: why hasn't the Save Act been passed? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There apparently is not some unity within the Senate leadership.
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Speaker 2: That's a leadership problem, yep, absolute leadership. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what the big guys doing things.
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Speaker 1: I also think it's a failure of the Republican Party
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Speaker 1: to message properly, because they ought to be just using that.
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Speaker 1: Since the majority of this country believes in the Save Act,
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Speaker 1: you got to be using it.
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Speaker 2: And it's sad that we even have to talk about this.
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Speaker 2: We have to talk about you have to be an
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Speaker 2: American citizen to vote in this election. That's how far
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Speaker 2: left we've gone. And it's even worse that anybody who
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Speaker 2: would hold this up or vote against that. It truly
20:08
Speaker 2: is probably one of the most, if not the single,
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Speaker 2: most Unamerican thing somebody can do, to say, now, you
20:13
Speaker 2: don't need to be American.
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Speaker 1: If I said that enough, If I said.
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Speaker 3: Audi, say it again, Man, say it again.
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Speaker 1: You said earlier something about the the fact that you've
20:33
Speaker 1: been here, that you know this area, you've served in
20:37
Speaker 1: this area for nearly forty years, four decades. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: the culture and the challenges define both.
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Speaker 2: So culture is what you do consistently, right, that's the
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Speaker 2: definition of my definitition.
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Speaker 1: What's the called culture of the district? Though, you said
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Speaker 1: the culture of the district and the challenges of the district,
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Speaker 1: what are they?
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Speaker 2: So the culture of the district is who we are
20:58
Speaker 2: as as people with in the second Congressional district, right,
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Speaker 2: and this is a very rural county, a rural district,
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Speaker 2: right except for some of the coastline, as as as
21:08
Speaker 2: as Florida is as well. Most people don't realize that
21:10
Speaker 2: Florida is a rural state except for the coastline. So
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Speaker 2: we talk a lot about blue collar families, people that
21:19
Speaker 2: again that when inflation rises, our paychecks, as I say,
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Speaker 2: our paychecks don't rise. Uh, we live paycheck to paycheck.
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Speaker 2: We're farmers. Were people that really just trying to trying
21:33
Speaker 2: to provide for our family. And we're simple folks. So
21:37
Speaker 2: that you know, the culture is something that that I
21:40
Speaker 2: fully understand. I've actually had an opportunity as well to
21:44
Speaker 2: live in This is such a big district, right, And
21:48
Speaker 2: if you understand the Apalachicola River, that's where the time
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Speaker 2: zone changes. I call it the Great Wall of China
21:53
Speaker 2: because everybody living in the Eastern time zone don't really
21:56
Speaker 2: know what's going on in the in the Central time zone,
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Speaker 2: and people in the Central time zone don't know what's
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Speaker 2: going on over in the Eastern time zone. But I
22:02
Speaker 2: had the unique opportunity to live really on both sides
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Speaker 2: of that for extended amount of time, and so I
22:08
Speaker 2: think that gives me a little bit better understanding as
22:11
Speaker 2: far as the challenges goes. As always, I look at
22:15
Speaker 2: jobs right and not just the And let me say
22:18
Speaker 2: this when I talk about jobs, what I don't want
22:21
Speaker 2: is I don't want my children or my grandchildren to
22:24
Speaker 2: have to go to another state to find a job.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I really don't even one go to another
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Speaker 2: part of Florida to find a job. They should be
22:30
Speaker 2: able to find a job here. And we need to
22:35
Speaker 2: really be aggressive and bringing jobs here, not just the
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Speaker 2: high tech manufacturing job or the AI development job, but
22:43
Speaker 2: trade jobs. We need trade jobs, and people I think
22:46
Speaker 2: sometimes don't understand how a trade job makes your life
22:50
Speaker 2: so much easier. Because when you need an air conditioning
22:55
Speaker 2: guy at nine o'clock at night on a very hot night,
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Speaker 2: you need one. You don't need to wait till monday.
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Speaker 2: And when you need a plumber on a Saturday, you
23:03
Speaker 2: don't need to wait till monday. And so having those
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Speaker 2: type of jobs and bringing those jobs here, encouraging those jobs,
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Speaker 2: funding those jobs, to the training and all that stuff
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Speaker 2: that goes with it, I think it's very important. So
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Speaker 2: those are you know, some of the things that I think,
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Speaker 2: especially with the challenges of the district. You know, we
23:24
Speaker 2: saw in Taylor County with Buckeye or Georgia Pacific shut
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Speaker 2: down in literally a day, five hundred jobs lost, nothing
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Speaker 2: to replace it, So how are we going to do that?
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Speaker 2: I think the other thing too, is is another challenge
23:35
Speaker 2: is going to be property tax reform, right, homestead property tax.
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Speaker 2: So I use a county like Liberty County, probably the
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Speaker 2: smallest county in the state, and this is a little
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Speaker 2: bit of my number and what somebody else told me,
23:48
Speaker 2: but it's something like eighty five to ninety percent of
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Speaker 2: all land in Liberty County is owned by the state
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Speaker 2: federal government. So what does that mean there's no tax
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Speaker 2: base on that. Now, when you look at property homestead
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Speaker 2: property reform, and if that passes, I'm full support of it,
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Speaker 2: absolutely full support of it. But if property tax goes through,
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Speaker 2: you've got to figure ninety five ninety eight percent all
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Speaker 2: homes in Liberty County or Homesteady. So now, how are
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Speaker 2: they going to fund public safety? How are they going
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Speaker 2: to build roads? Yes, ab able to do schools because
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Speaker 2: that's a different tax. But those are some challenges and
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of districts. I mean a lot of counties.
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Speaker 2: In this sixteen counties, I say that three are economically stable.
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Speaker 2: That's leon Bay and Walton very economically stable. The other
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Speaker 2: thirteen counties are not right. They struggle economically. They need jobs,
24:36
Speaker 2: they need infrastructure, they need those kind of things. So
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Speaker 2: those are some of the big challenges facing this district
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Speaker 2: is the rural counties are going to need some assistance.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in today.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
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