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Is Gov. DeSantis Going To Call A Special Session? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Five minutes past the hour show five thousand and thirty two of the Morning Show
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  with President's Got Dave one thousand and six of America held hostage. That is
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  Grant Allen over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B,
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  and I'm joined in studio by Sal Nuzzo, vice president of Policy with
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  the James Madison Institute. I love my friend, Good morning to you.
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  Okay, before we get going on Florida the state legislature, what's going on
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  with the governor and all that? I have to ask you called this You
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  called this debacle in the House yep. Early this year. Yeah, And
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  we were talking offline and I'd given a speech at a group of healthcare policy
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  folks, and when I talked about the issues with the speaker, I said,
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  it is the worst job in American politics right now. And my prediction
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  was Kevin McCarthy doesn't last a year. I didn't say anything to anybody other
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  than that group, and it was kind of a throwaway line because I figured
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  everybody would forget it. Your reasoning was that the margin was so slim,
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  and that concession on any single member getting to file emotion to vacate would come
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  back to bite them the promises that he made, yep. I mean it
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  was up to him to keep him or not, and according to the few,
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  he didn't. Yeah. And I don't know what was in the back
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  rooms and the discussions and what the tenor of an investigation into Hunter Biden would
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  look like in all of those things. But you know, you've mentioned a
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  number of times also about you know, it was maybe the right idea,
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  the bad timing element of it. I came around to think there is no
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  good time, yeah, and so just get it done. And my contention
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  and my problem with this whole process is that they did this without a clear
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  alternative ready to come up and take fervor. And that to me just is
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  a signal to the media, to the left, to everybody who wants to
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  pillary Republicans said, look, this is you know, the Keystone cops with
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  trillions of dollars at stake. I think that's a fair observation. Let me
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  ask you this true or false. Read an opinion piece. It said,
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  when it's all, if you get past all the smoke and mirrors, a
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  group of moderate Republicans, you could even maybe even say illiberal Republicans are out
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  there and they have no interest. They don't care what the voters think.
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  They don't care what their district thinks. They care only what the donor class
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  thinks. And they don't even care if Democrats take back control of the House.
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  Oh sure, and you have some of them that have even talked about
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  like coalitioning with a cohort of Democrats to put somebody over the line who would
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  be, in my opinion, a disaster for the country. I would suggest
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  there's a whole lot of truth to that. I would also suggest that you
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  know, there are on both sides and the moderates in the you know,
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  kind of the coalition. Republicans would suggest that there's even a case where,
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  you know, the far right, as they would like to call them,
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  are holding hostage. I read a piece it said it was I can't remember
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  who wrote it, it was a congressman who said, you know, the
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  far right is holding hostage at the behest of ninety eight point two percent of
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  the Republican caucus. And to me, that's kind of represents a clear seeing
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  things differently than the American people who elected Republicans to until Jim Jordan had two
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  hundred votes and then it wasn't the mainstream at that point supported Jim Jordan.
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  You're absolutely correct, and you know, for better or worse, we have
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  a couple of Republicans in Florida who are artually responsible for that, believe it.
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  Yeah, Carlos samenaz Don in Miami, Rutherford in Jacksonville. And I
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  think there's one other I can't remember who I want to say, Dios Balart
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  Oh yeah, Mario diz Balart Don in Miami. Also, all right,
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  how does Governor DeSantis play this? Well, he has stayed largely out of
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  it, but he's a former congressman. He's a former congressman. He's a
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  Tea Party congressman. He came in in twenty ten. Interestingly enough, the
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  guy who is getting a lot of headlines a good buddy of mine, Byron
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  Donalds, who might you know, actually ascend to the gabble endorse Trump.
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  So DeSantis is kind of in a tight spot in terms of what he comes
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  out with publicly on this one. Sal news O, vice president of policy
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  with the James Madison Institute, my guest, staying with the governor, let's
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  talk about his intersection with what's going on in the Middle East. Sure,
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  a couple of things that are really interesting. And of note, he organized
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  a series of flights to evacuate Floridians. Who how does that work? How
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  does a governor organize flights? I have no idea he is he paying for
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  it on his American Express. I think he worked with some donors or folks
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  who had large planes or companies or something, but I don't want to speak.
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  I have no idea what the behind the scenes thing was. They did.
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  It evacuated several hundred Floridians out of Israel who were stranded, some actually,
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  I believe a few that were actually in Gaza doing missionary work or medical
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  work, and so he got them out. And of course it speaks to,
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  at least in Florida, the narrative or lack of narrative that the Democrat
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  Party has that they even criticized this, saying he had no right to do
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  it. There was a couple of social media posts that said, this is
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  a federal issue, Ron, you need to stay out of it. And
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  I'm like, tell that to one of the families that just got out.
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  Yeah, And there's an old adage, you know, the best thing you
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  can do in a situation is the right thing. The next best thing is
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  to do the wrong thing. The worst thing is nothing. Yeah, he
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  took the path of doing something yeah, And you know, it made me
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  think about at times where Democrats have done something well or done something good.
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  You see a lot on the right of you know what. I disagree philosophically
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  with his individual but you know, good job, well done. We've said
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  it about the governor of California at times, went not off of it when
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  it's happened. Generally speaking, you see Republicans do that. You cannot see
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  a Democrat standing up for Ronda Santis for anything. And it just kind of
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  speaks to, in my Advanise publicly, Yeah, publicly, it speaks to,
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  in my opinion, the publicly moral bankruptcy of the party in Florida at
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  this point. And look, I'm a small se conservative guy. I'm not
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  always a fan of complete and absolute unchecked power, and the fact that there
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  hasn't been a Democrat party in the state of Florida for the last you know,
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  seven eight years is just kind of you know, I will always hold
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  a little bit of fear in my head of over what could happen with complete
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  and total, absolutely unchecked power that said, the margins just keep growing for
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  the Republican Party in place. Yeah, we're almost at like seven hundred thousand
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  vote registered vote difference. So you know, I don't know who the Dems
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  are going to line up in three Yeah, there's there's no bench at all.
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  I don't imagine any of the statewide elected offices are going to be very
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  competitive. Unlos, something happens. It's like a black Swan event. Before
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  we get to the legislature sanctions against Iran. Yeah, so they are going
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  to call a special session. Initially it was going to be solely to issue
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  or strengthen via resolution the sanctions on I run for state for companies operating within
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  the state of Florida. So going I believe a little bit further now I
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  haven't seen language, but going maybe a little bit further on what the financial
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  transactions are or things along those lines. They're expanding it for Hurricane Idaalia relief
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  and I think a couple of other things. So it's going to happen during
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  one of the interim committee weeks, which are going on now into December twenty
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  one minutes after the hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott SALNWSOH James Madison Institute
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  with me. All right, gope, already, Well, bill filey is
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  not. The deadline for bill filing is in until the first week of January,
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  so what we have is bills kind of trickling in. So it took
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  a look over the weekend. There's about one hundred and fifty two hundred billis
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  in. A bit. Did you and I shape the legislative session at all
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  with our little meeting? Not one bit? All right, yeah, well,
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  let's put it this way, at least at least not on the early
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  filing bills. So you've got about one hundred and fifty two hundred bills and
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  a lot of the what they call relief bills, which are people who have
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  sued and won a judgment against a city, a state, who have sovereign
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  immunity. So if it goes over two hundred thousand dollars, they have to
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  get a relief bill from the legislature. But a number of like substantive policy
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  bills have come through, So I picked a few that I thought would be
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  interesting to talk about, and we can kind of track them see if they
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  get agendaed, if they make a calendar, how they're progressing HB nineteen Rep.
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  Saltsman from over in the Panhandle Counting Commission term limits. This is one
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  where the legislatures enacted term limits on school boards. However, what I saw
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  on this was it was going to move forward, and I think it was
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  either on the Senate side there the companion is going to put it on the
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  ballot for as an amendment. Is that a good idea. I'm a term
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  limits guy. I get it. At the same time, I'm concerned at
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  the dilution of knowledge at the local levels, and so you know, I'm
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  not sure I'm on board. Yet another one that was interesting. HB thirty
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  five from Rep. Rudman. We've seen movement in this direction over a few
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  sessions, both from Republicans and Democrats, requiring specific types of businesses to accept
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  cash they can't go cashless. We saw last year the football games. Yeah
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  or yeah exactly. We saw can get me off track, sorry, we
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  saw last year the governor got legislation and signed banning central bank digital currencies.
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  Push to make everything electronic. There is a big threat in that. I
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  think the legislature is seeing that now and trying to kind of push back a
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  little bit. I mean, if for no other reason. If you had
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  an emergency, yeah, and you lose your computer systems, no one can
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  do commerce well. And if you want to get even more conspiratorial or nefarious,
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  like I'm just talking about a power grid shut yeah, the government where
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  you know they can turn off your bank account is yeah, we're we're then
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  in China. That's what they're doing right now. HB for nine from Rep.
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  Cheney. This is one's getting a lot of ink in media because the
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  Left sees it as a way that they can get a little bit of a
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  hold. Changing the employment laws to allow sixteen and seventeen year olds to in
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  fact work forty hour weeks currently in law, I think the max is twenty
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  or thirty or something like that. But allowing high school kids at sixteen and
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  seventeen to hold effectively full time jobs. The Left's coming after it saying,
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  you know, oh, we're going back to child labor and YadA YadA.
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  So take that what you will. But I think it's got some legs to
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  it. Why one is, wouldn't it encourage kids to drop out of school?
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  I don't know that it would. I don't know that any kid who
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  is conceivably looking to drop out is dropping out more so because there is this
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  law on the books. I think what it does is it allows kids who
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  are going to technical or vocational education to get a little bit more under their
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  belt. And you know, I mean, life is what it is.
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  There are some families where you know, that has to you know, be
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  the case. And it's not something I agree with. It's not something I
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  would want my kids pursuing. But you know, I you know, if
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  we're going to allow him to do certain things, we need to be you
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  know, we need to have the ability there. Senate Bill fifty four from
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  Senator Rodriguez, the Expunction Bill, it's come back. It's largely the same
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  as it was last year. It passed unanimously in the Senate, and I
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  believe there was only like one vote in the House that went the other way.
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  The governor vetoed it, and it was there was some thoughts that the
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  governor vetoed it because he wanted to appear stronger on public safety in the presidential
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  campaign. That bill's come back. I imagine that'll go through and we'll I'm
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  going to pay attention because I want to see what the governor would do in
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  you know, March or you know, or whenever it was would be presented
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  to him. Is there any discussion of the full constitutional carry coming back.
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  I have not heard it yet, and I'm not sure in this rate,
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  in this coming year, if it's better to do it on a presidential governor
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  cycle, or it's better to you know, do it in the off year.
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  Okay, quickly, Judicial, well let me let me yeah, we'll
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  go to judicial all next month. We got next month. So Florida has
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  twenty judicial circuits. There's a lot of talk about the fact that those circuits
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  haven't been realigned the boundaries on them in fifty over fifty years. So the
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  Supreme Court is taking on the consideration of realigning those judicial circuits, and it's
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  starting to get a lot of kind of press written about it. JMI testified
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  in favor of realignment in some way, shape or form a couple of weeks
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  ago, and so we're paying attention to this because it has a lot of
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  potential impact down stream. When you think about whether we consolidate districts, expand
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  out districts and things along those lines. How many public defenders and state attorneys
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  and all of those things. So that's an issue that kind of off of
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  the legislative work we're going to be taking a look at as always, thanks
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  for the time, absolutely a pleasure, my friend. We are going to
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  have another session like this in November. Then in December he's going to be
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  back to the eight o'clock seven o'clock Central Hour and we're going to do a
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  five segment preview of the legislative session just to ruin your holidays completely. And
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  that's that's coming up in December. Sal Newsoh with me from the James Madison
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  Institute here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott