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Florida’s growth boom comes with a hidden cost: Energy, agriculture, and common sense · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  On in the grip of oppression.
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  I fought for my liberty.
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  I paid with the blood of my people.
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  Freedom has never been free.
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  Now my doors always open.
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  To dreamers and prisons.
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  When I'm attacked I protect and deeper.
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  Because my name is America.
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  Hey, hello, everyone, and welcome.
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  This is Karen Schoen.
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  You are listening to the Prism of America's Education, brought to you on the America Outloud.news network.
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  Folks, today's show is really going to be a lot about Florida politics, because everybody is talking about how wonderful Florida is.
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  And it's wonderful for certain things, not for others.
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  But they don't take into consideration a lot of the challenges that we have, especially those people that are coming from other states because you're so used to that tight grip that even a little looseness, you feel like, oh my goodness, look at all this freedom.
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  Well, we have a lot of challenges, and one of my issues is we keep on saying we don't want to vote for rhinos, and yet who are we voting for?
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  Rhinos.
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  Doesn't make sense.
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  We say we want to improve our schools, so we build new buildings.
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  How does that help the kids learn?
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  They're still graduating, uh, and they can't read, write, and do math.
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  And now we have introduced AI, and our uh candidate that seems to be the front runner, although I really don't know.
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  Uh that we'll talk about later.
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  But Byron Donald's wants to put AI in the schools, and I am very much opposed to that.
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  Technology is a wonderful thing, but it's a tool to help you learn.
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  It should not be your lifestyle where everything that you do must come with some approval of a handheld device.
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  And this is a big problem that I see as we are progressing.
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  Well, we're very fortunate to have Ryan Kennedy from the Florida Citizens Alliance, a wonderful organization that's totally focused on bringing quality education, and especially through homeschooling to our kids because folks uh hate to say this as a former teacher, but the children that have been homeschooled are far superior in their knowledge and abilities and skills than those that are going to public school.
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  So we have to make the changes because nobody else is going to do that.
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  And Ryan has been running to Tallahassee and also to DC to be part of group that are trying to help people understand what AI is really all about and how we really don't want this technology as our lifestyle.
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  Ryan, thank you so much for joining me today.
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  It's always wonderful to find out what the alliance is up to and what bills we have to pay attention to.
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  So thank you.
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  Yes, thank you.
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  Thank you, Karen, for having me on.
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  And yes, as you mentioned, uh, I was uh fortunate enough to be invited by uh two organizations, uh, you know, in fighting for good policy related to children's access to AI.
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  Um, and and like you said, doing it the right way in the sense that making sure kids have foundational skills before they're introduced to something that quite frankly can do their thinking for them if if they so want to with AI, and so the two groups at the national level invited me up to DC last week.
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  We actually were there.
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  We had the largest gathering of parents that had kids that uh had been affected by AI.
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  Their children have been affected by AI in the country's history.
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  There were 60 plus parents there, and uh, and so you know it was great to be up there working on that policy, but now we have a fight here in Florida.
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  Um we are we are discussing how to navigate forward with AI, and the governor DeSantis has called a special session on that topic.
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  Uh he wants to pass the AI Bill of Rights.
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  It didn't get done at the end of the last session, but we believe that this is important and needs to be passed.
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  I couldn't agree more, and it cannot be allowed to take over, giving kids uh iPads or having them sit in front of a computer all day.
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  That becomes the teacher, and that interaction is never real.
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  And also, Ryan, we have to remember who programmed these programs, who created them.
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  Do we have the same values that they have?
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  Who knows?
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  We have no idea of knowing.
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  So you are correct.
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  We have to give the kids and make sure that they have the skills before they sit down at a computer, and they should be using the computer to maybe enhance their work that they have already done, not do their work for them.
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  Yep, no doubt.
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  And one of the things I always tell uh people when I'm on a show being interviewed is you know, the studies, recent studies on AI, and you know, one of them is 93% of parents are concerned about AI being used in a classroom or at their child school.
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  So that that's a high number.
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  That's a bipartisan number.
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  93%.
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  Uh, you know, when do you see 93% of people agreeing on something nowadays?
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  You you don't.
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  Um, another one, 77% of voters prefer a candidate who protects minors over one who wants no AI restrictions again.
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  That's 77%.
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  That's well over a supermajority, and so these two statistics paint a picture, which is that most people want this.
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  This is a there's a very bipartisan issue because we understand and have always respected that children are our most precious gift, and we need to make sure they're raised the right way, and we need to make sure that they have skill sets to critically think and be able to make decisions, and AI should be used as a chance to uh enhance their skill set, not make it worse.
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  Yes, and folks, let's remember what is AI mean, it's artificial intelligence, it's not real intelligence, it's somebody else's that they are putting that value on your child.
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  Intelligence.
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  It's not real intelligence.
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  It's somebody else's that they are putting that value on your child.
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  You don't want your child to rely on something that is artificial, not real.
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  You don't want your child to rely on something that is artificial, not real.
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  You want them to rely on facts.
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  You want them to rely on facts, and the only way they're gonna get them is if you teach how to seek them, how to find them, where they're located, and incorporate those into their work, not something that's artificial.
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  And the only way they're going to get them is if you teach how to seek them, how to find them, where they're located and incorporate those into their work, not something that's artificial.
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  Ryan, what can we look forward to in Tallahassee that during this special session?
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  Are there bills that we should be looking at?
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  Yeah.
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  So uh so far, the governor has called for the special session on and include our uh the the AI Bill of Rights.
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  That was a bill last uh that didn't pass last session, like I said.
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  What was in it was a couple really good things.
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  One is that it restricted uh making sure parents had to allow their children to use AI.
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  That's great.
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  Uh, that's that's across the board, even outside of school.
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  Within the school environments, what it did was even better, which in the sense it created data privacy protections for those students.
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  It made sure parents had to opt your child in to use it first.
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  And it made sure that you know AI can't, I mean, there's been so many cases.
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  There was one that just came out at about AI being used in criminal activities, and so it may it make sure that AI can't be telling young uh minors that you know it's okay to to harm themselves, it's okay to arm harm others.
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  Those are some of the common sense restrictions that this bill will put in place, not to get rid of AI, but to make sure that children are protected.
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  So, what I encourage the audience to do is contact the leadership um in in both chambers, you know, the speaker, center president, let them know that you support good guardrails on AI.
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  This is one of the most important things.
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  Uh the more the more AI becomes uh part of our daily lives.
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  I I think it's probably possible that the more information, negative information is going to come out about it, because the reality is is that like you said, a lot of these models are a lot of these companies are are designed by people that don't have the same uh worldview as us.
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  Oh, you're absolutely right.
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  And before your child gets involved, you should learn what they're learning.
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  You're the parent, and you should be the ones that should be able to monitor safely and comfortably so that you know what your child is being taught, where their information is coming from.
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  And sadly, we don't do that.
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  We are allowing the school to become the parent, and that's never a good thing.
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  It does not work, and who knows what values the school is giving to your child.
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  We still have in Florida districts that don't tell their parents if the child wants to change their sex, and we have laws that say they can't do that, but that doesn't matter if the laws are not enforced.
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  And the only way the laws can be enforced is if we pay attention to them and call for them to be enforced.
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  So challenging and looking at what AI is bringing to the child is what you should be doing.
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  And bottom line, we're paying for that, aren't we, Ryan?
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  Yep, yes, correct.
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  No, no, public schools, even public charter schools, all charter schools in Florida are public.
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  All public schools are funded by our taxpayer dollars, about depending on your county, 50% roughly of your property tax goes to school districts.
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  So, you know, this is something we pay for.
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  Um, well, I will I will give a shout out to our attorney general.
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  He he has opened up investigations into open AI, which is the largest uh chat bot AI service in in the country, uh, based on some of the stuff that's gone on.
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  But again, you're right.
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  You you, as parents, you as citizens have to be the ones also calling for um for action to be taken.
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  The thing to do, I believe, is to go to your school board meetings.
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  Um recently at the school board meeting uh in my district, uh they discussed all the wonderful buildings that they're building for the kids.
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  I think that's fabulous.
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  And I think the kids should have a comfortable place to learn, but they're not learning.
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  So what's the point?
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  And that's up to us to monitor what goes in because what goes in is what comes out, and we certainly want to make sure that we are creating the best child possible, your best child possible.
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  So just like everything else, I I tell you when your child comes home from school, don't say go do your homework and then not look at what they're doing.
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  It's so important that you pay attention to what they are doing and what they are saying, isn't it, Ryan?
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  Yes, yes, definitely is.
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  Yes.
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  You I always tell parents, you know, I especially this topic of AI because a lot of parents are unsure of what to make of it.
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  Yes, you got to know what your child is doing.
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  Um, if you just you know, if you just give your child a computer or a smartphone and and let them do what they want, they're gonna they're gonna end up uh involved in bad things.
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  It's statistically, it's proven.
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  Um you have to you have to be on the lookout and especially be on the lookout, even in public schools, because again, you know, the school district, you know, especially they're not there to there be parents and and this and and they shouldn't be parents.
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  That that should be the job of parents.
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  And so um, yes, please pay attention.
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  Okay, so you have homework, folks, it's school time, and that would be the contact, which I will get you the phone numbers of the heads of our Congress.
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  Uh Perez is the speaker of the House and all Britain, Ben All Britain is the president of the Senate, and those are the ones that you should be targeting.
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  And remember, folks, they work for us.
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  But if we don't tell them what to work, they're not gonna do it.
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  So we have to make sure that they are on target, same thing.
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  We all have the same mindset that AI is a tool, not a lifestyle.
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  Ryan, tell everybody where they can find you and the great organization of the Florida Citizens Alliance.
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  Yes.
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  So uh our website is Goflca.org.
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  Um, we we are 501c3 and a C4.
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  We we have a lot of great information here on AI on our website and also our our microschool initiative, um, what we're doing to help kids.
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  You can find us on all the major social media platforms if you use them.
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  So um, but uh the best place to start is go flca.org.
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  Okay, thank you.
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  Okay, thank you.
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  And as always, thank you for your information.
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  And as always, thank you for your information.
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  And let's monitor what's going on in this special session.
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  And let's monitor what's going on in this special session.
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  And uh, since you are going to be in Tallahassee, am I correct?
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  And since you are going to be in Tallahassee, am I correct?
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  Yes.
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  Yes, yes, I will be there, and I will be there until we have a sense for what's gonna happen.
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  Yes, I will be there.
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  And I will be there until we have a sense for what's going to happen.
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  Oh, good.
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  Oh, good.
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  So you'll be able to come back and tell us what's happening and the reception.
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  So you'll be able to come back and tell us what's happening and the reception.
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  And that is uh part of the problem is that we say something and they don't listen.
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  And that is a part of the problem is that we say something and they don't listen.
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  And that's because our voices are not loud enough and strong enough.
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  So we've got to make sure that that's possible.
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  That happens continually.
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  You got to monitor the people that work for you, folks.
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  You can't expect everybody to do everything the way you want if you don't tell them.
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  Thank you so much, Ryan.
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  I appreciate it as always.
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  And uh, we will see you when you come back, folks.
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  Go FLCA.org.
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  It really irks me to listen to all of these newbies who have just moved to Florida, tell us how wonderful Florida is when they really have no clue.
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  They don't speak to Floridians, they don't speak to the people who have been here for the longest of time.
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  They don't speak to the people who are actually working trying to correct some of the mistakes that have been made and some of the bad policies that have been put in place.
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  They're not paying attention.
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  The question that I always ask is if we don't want rhinos, why do we keep on voting for them?
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  And right now, Tallahassee, Florida's Capitol, where our Congress meets, is full of rhinos.
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  So I have asked two very dear friends, Ed Vidal, who works incredibly on anything election integrity, and Cindy Lucas, who has been working with new candidates.
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  And we're going to be talking about some of the things that we're experiencing because what goes on in Florida seems to be filtering through to other states.
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  And we can't allow that to happen without you guys knowing what's going on.
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  So we'll start off with you, Ed.
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  Um, you have been working on election integrity, and we have a big problem in Florida because it seems to me as though we'll get together a really great bill, and then part of it gets passed.
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  And the good part that we really need doesn't get passed.
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  Am I right?
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  Absolutely.
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  And uh I've been fighting this since uh after the 2020 election.
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  I realized that uh it wasn't enough to vote, and I was uh very active as a poll watcher.
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  Uh, but then I joined our local Republican executive committee, and I was named vice chairman of the election integrity subcommittee.
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  And we continued with that until we finally broke away from the REC because we realized that they were not uh committed to election integrity either.
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  And that's what's happening.
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  It's not just the Democrats.
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  I mean, clearly the Democrats uh are not uh supporters of election integrity.
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  So I've heard people say that election integrity should be a nonpartisan issue.
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  It's not the Democrats are committed to no voter ID, they're committed to vote by mail, they're committed to just creating a lot of uh dysfunction around voting.
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  But the sad thing is that the Republicans and Republicans who are otherwise very good, including going all the way up to Governor DeSantis, either don't care or participate in the collusion and in in the in the sordid uh maneuverings that go on.
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  And this week, uh this last weekend for the month of April, we had our monthly lunch meeting of the election integrity brigade in Miami Dade County, and we had a very strong candidate for U.S.
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  Senate.
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  His name is uh you probably know uh Chris Gleason, and he is on election integrity Maven.
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  He has been fighting this, and he is very knowledgeable in computers and data analysis, and he showed us all the evidence that you know that even at the smallest levels, you can't rely on what's coming out of your supervisor of elections.
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  Uh, you can't rely on the Secretary of State.
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  For example, here in Coral Gables, there was an election uh just off on some uh uh amendment ratifications, Coral Gables, which real estate professionals called the new Beverly Hills.
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  Uh, there it there was an election on charter amendments, and it was completely conducted by vote by mail without people asking for vote by mail.
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  According to Florida statute, no voter, registered voter may receive a vote by mail ballot unless he requests it.
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  But in this case, it was sent to everyone, every registered voter, some 37,000.
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  And the problem with that is that that is unlawful, and it opens the door for the for continuing vote by mail.
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  I think we've seen there's a lot of fraud in that vote by mail, and Chris Gleason confirmed that, and I this is something I had seen before, and I had uh uh advised the Secretary of State about it, that there were there are times when during uh an election, all of a sudden a big order for vote by mail ballots, like 100,000, 90,000 are made to happen in the election for county mayor, and I've seen it in other elections, and I've reported it to the Secretary of State Office of Ec of Election Crimes, and they haven't done anything.
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  They are totally paralyzed, they they're just there for the cover, they're not really there to do any uh actual enforcement of election integrity.
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  So essentially we can have the greatest laws in the world, and nobody is there to enforce them.
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  Right, and we don't even have the greatest laws in the world to begin with.
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  So, yeah, it's the it's the Republican establishment's fault.
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  They don't care about it, they're part of the collusion.
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  It it helps them keep track uh control of the Republican Party and keeps all the dissidents, independent-minded conservative grassroots members of the party away.
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  It's just one of the tools that they use.
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  This is the problem that we have, folks.
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  And you made a comment in the beginning that the Republican Party in Florida is virtually useless, and I agree with you because what I have seen is that in special elections, they're no place, so they're out there collecting money, and every day, almost every day, I get an email asking for money, and yet when it comes to an election, nobody's home.
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  Contribute only to the candidate, not to the party.
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  And a couple of examples here in in Miami.
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  Back in March, there was a runoff for the mayor of Miami.
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  There was a runoff for the mayor of Miami.
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  It had been a Republican mayor for around 30 years.
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  It had been a Republican mayor for around 30 years, and the Democrat uh won the election and won it handily.
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  And the Democrat uh won the election and won it handily.
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  And the the local Republican Party helped the Republican Party not at all.
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  And the local Republican Party helped the Republican Party not at all.
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  They didn't do anything for them.
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  They didn't do anything for them.
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  For example, poll watchers on election day.
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  For example, poll watchers on election day.
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  The Democrats had 49 poll watchers in the city of Miami, including the chair chairwoman of the Democrat uh uh party.
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  The Democrats had 49 poll watchers in the city of Miami, including the chair chairwoman of the Democrat uh party in in the county, as well as their former candidate who lost, thankfully, uh, for supervisor of elections.
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  The Republican candidate had one poll watcher, and that was me going around for to like a dozen places.
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  My wife was driving me, and I was covering a dozen places.
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  Here they had four Democrats had 49 in place poll watchers that were there all day.
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  And that was just that was back in December.
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  Now, this week, the Republican executive committee here in Miami Dade County hosted an event to meet Boris Johnson, former prime minister of United Kingdom.
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  Well, let me tell you, well, first of all, the people who went said there was no political anything about it.
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  There was no learning, no lessons to be learned.
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  Boris Johnson is a big loser.
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  He won a big election.
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  People were bouncing back from uh Jeremy Corning and uh and labor.
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  And so he won a big election, and then he squandered his lead.
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  He had to leave, resigned from the premiership with time left on his term because he was so incompetent during COVID.
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  He is a loser.
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  And in fact, in England, they call uh what we call rhinos, they they call Tinos, Tories in name only.
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  And that's what he was.
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  And so to bring in a guy like Boris Johnson to show off and to, you know, whatever, uh, learn from him, uh uh excite the troops.
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  That's ridiculous.
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  That's nothing.
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  It's just it's totally for show.
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  They did it at the Biltmore Hotel and Coral Gables.
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  The REC here is uh a social club, not a political organization.
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  And then the excuse that we get when we lose and we say, What happened?
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  Where was the money?
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  Where is the money that we've been giving you?
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  The excuse that we get is well, he wasn't a strong candidate.
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  I'm sorry, that's not the answer.
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  Uh Cindy, you have been um, you have been interviewing candidates.
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  What experience do you have with some of the well the everybody is pushing Byron Donald's and they're pushing Paul Remer, Jay Collins, three rhinos in a row, and yet we have uh several good candidates, which the to me the problem is going to be there's going to be so many people on the field that the rhino is going to win.
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  That's what they do, isn't it, Cindy?
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  Yes, it is.
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  That's what they're doing in South Carolina, too, with Lindsay Graham.
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  But here's the good news.
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  There was about 600 people that showed up for the fishback event.
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  They were all young, they were all smart, they knew the issues.
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  Right now, I'm going to be sending group text messages out to thank them.
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  I have their telephone numbers.
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  I don't see any other candidate.
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  Yesterday, uh Fishback said he is not going to have any state contracts with Palantir.
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  I'm sorry, but the older people, I guess they're us.
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  They're stupid.
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  The Republican club had renner.
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  I mean, I've got so much information on renner.
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  I don't even know why anybody would vote for him.
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  Byron Donald's Collins.
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  I mean, this is this is very serious.
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  Because they're going to go after our speech.
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  And I don't know if you saw that.
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  They were, it was pretty appalling.
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  That young girl in college down there in Miami, maybe Ed knows.
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  She said something.
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  I mean, I don't even know what she said, but you know, come on, it's the first amendment.
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  What we're fighting is the donor class, and we're fighting the establishment.
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  And you're right.
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  But the money is just so Donald Trump at the inauguration had all the technos there.
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  Palantir is tied to JD Vance.
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  They moved their company to Miami.
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  They're going to have the flock cameras everywhere.
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  We're headed towards, that's what we're headed to.
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  Fishback spoke about it.
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  People sitting there in those chairs, those kids with young babies.
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  I'm talking babies.
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  One girl had two baby twins and was pregnant.
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  They came with their children.
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  They don't want to live like that.
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  They want their freedom.
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  And no one is offering any freedom or conservation for the land and saying no.
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  He said, we're getting rid of BlackRock, we're getting bullied Blackstone.
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  We're going to do something about private equity.
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  I mean, if you in Martin County, I mean, the veterinarians are getting bought up by private equity.
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  They've sold our land.
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  He started out his speech because Chris Collins, who's a very, very good, we have some really good people in Martin County.
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  I'm just telling you, and the city is steward.
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  And Chris Collins, I gave the fish back the envelope talking about Bright Line and the Boondoggle that that is.
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  The train.
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  That would be the train, which we're fighting.
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  Okay.
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  Chris talked to him, and he started the program with, which is true.
• 26:33
  Martin County was the jewel of Florida.
• 26:35
  We don't have, we have a four-story limit.
• 26:38
  Maggie Horcella, who was Janet Reno's sister.
• 26:42
  She was the one that helped write the comprehensive plan many moons ago.
• 26:47
  That is the reason 95 is way west.
• 26:50
  And she kept this county from ever overbuilding.
• 26:54
  We have tremendous land that has been preserved between Jupiter and Stuart.
• 27:01
  That is all done by Nat Reed from Jupiter Island, who finally I'm going to ask you to hold that thought, Ed and Cindy.
• 27:09
  We have to take a break.
• 27:12
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• 27:14
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• 27:25
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• 27:27
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• 27:28
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• 30:10
  Hello everyone.
• 30:11
  Welcome back.
• 30:12
  This is Karen Schoen.
• 30:13
  You're listening to the Prism of America's Education, brought to you on the America Outloud.
• 30:21
  The education is focusing on elections.
• 30:23
  Folks, you must, must, if you live in Florida, vote in the primary.
• 30:28
  We have a bad habit of not voting in the primary and in the primary in Florida is basically where you find the winner.
• 30:36
  The general election usually doesn't make any difference.
• 30:39
  It's the winner of the Republican primary that usually is the winner.
• 30:44
  And we are on a mission, and that is to rid Florida of the herd of rhinos.
• 30:50
  And we have three big rhinos who are running for office.
• 30:54
  Byron Donald who believes in AI and wants to put it in our schools and growth, growth, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow.
• 31:03
  Well, that's real nice, but we have no services to provide for these new people that are coming down.
• 31:09
  So be prepared to sit on the highways for hours to get to some place in 10 minutes.
• 31:15
  We then have Paul Renner, who gave us the Live Local Act, which basically told the developers, you can build wherever you want and tough on tough on the people that live there.
• 31:27
  It's going to be the developers' ball game, your decision.
• 31:31
  He also is not very strong on election integrity.
• 31:36
  There were several great bills that could have been passed, but they didn't go any place.
• 31:40
  He was the speaker of the house.
• 31:43
  And Jay Collins, who is now our lieutenant governor, seems to be after our free speech when he made the comment that said that a person does not have any right to say anything that'll make somebody else feel bad.
• 31:58
  How absurd is that?
• 32:00
  So folks, we have a big deal in Florida.
• 32:03
  And of course, the RPOF Republican Party of Florida is not giving any attention to anybody else other than those guys.
• 32:12
  And so fortunately, both Ed and Cindy have had the opportunity to interview James Fishback, and they're going to tell us their experiences with them.
• 32:24
  Cindy, you were speaking before the break.
• 32:27
  So I'm going to turn it over to you right now.
• 32:29
  Um, Mr.
• 32:30
  Pushback came.
• 32:31
  We had over 600 people.
• 32:34
  It was, I tried to find a venue, and um the restaurants and places like that.
• 32:39
  Once they Googled him, oh no, we can't have them.
• 32:41
  Now mind you.
• 32:43
  They're gonna go out of business.
• 32:44
  They have no these are not busy restaurants.
• 32:47
  So I said, shame on you.
• 32:49
  So these young people stood in line with their babies, and I mean babies in wagons.
• 32:57
  We only had 147 seats that was a packed, literally packed.
• 33:02
  Right now I'm looking at the list.
• 33:04
  I have phone numbers, and I'm contacting them by text.
• 33:07
  I already had one person text me back.
• 33:10
  I have a sheet that's called Young Americans Liberty.
• 33:14
  V A Liberty.org.
• 33:16
  Okay.
• 33:17
  Um, I'm gonna Google that because I didn't even know that existed.
• 33:20
  Their names on that one.
• 33:22
  This campaign is run.
• 33:24
  I can't, I I I've been doing this since Bill Clinton.
• 33:28
  And I can tell you, I have never met so many good young people staffers.
• 33:33
  When I got there, I didn't know they were going to come and set up.
• 33:36
  They set up everything, they were professional, they all thanked me.
• 33:40
  They all came over.
• 33:40
  They were like everybody picked up a phone the last two months, putting this together.
• 33:45
  Everybody called me back.
• 33:47
  I can't.
• 33:48
  I mean, I think the team is just a plus.
• 33:52
  Uh James walked in, uh, introduced himself, thanked me very much, and also thanked me for the fact that I am following him and commenting on X.
• 34:02
  I gave him an envelope about the boondoggle, which is bright line.
• 34:06
  Uh, basically how they go bankrupt and they do all kinds of finagling, then they then they come back again, and it's a big long story.
• 34:15
  So he was very interested in that.
• 34:17
  A local commissioner came from the city of Stewart Chris Collins, and he opened with uh Martin County, which was once the jewel of Florida, because we do not allow anything more than four story heights limit, and that we were always non-growth, which that has changed.
• 34:35
  Okay.
• 34:36
  I'm 100% behind him.
• 34:39
  Uh, you know, I've read all the things, oh, you know, this and that and the other thing.
• 34:43
  I I don't care.
• 34:45
  Uh, he's not a politician, and everybody else is.
• 34:48
  I mean, Byron Donald's.
• 34:49
  I met Byron Donald's many years ago.
• 34:52
  I was asked by somebody on in Naples if he could bring them over, and he did.
• 34:56
  And we walked and talked for him.
• 34:58
  That's not the man that I walked and talked for.
• 35:00
  Walk and talk for.
• 35:01
  I mean, he's corrupt.
• 35:01
  I mean, he's corrupt.
• 35:03
  Um, I also heard about his wife because we have a Hillsdale school here.
• 35:03
  Um, I also heard about his wife because we have a Hillsdale school here.
• 35:07
  Uh, they don't call it Hillsdale, but it's a Hillsdale school, whatever it is, you know, charter school.
• 35:07
  Uh, they don't call it Hillsdale, but it's a Hillsdale school, whatever it is, you know, charter school.
• 35:13
  She basically has a company that goes and sets it up, his wife, and it's a total failure.
• 35:13
  She basically has a company that goes and sets it up, his wife, and it's a total failure.
• 35:19
  And uh, they actually removed her in Martin County.
• 35:19
  And uh they actually removed her in Martin County.
• 35:23
  So that's his wife.
• 35:23
  So that's his wife.
• 35:24
  So they're they're taking money.
• 35:24
  So they're they're taking money.
• 35:26
  I mean, they're taking big money.
• 35:26
  I mean, they're taking big money.
• 35:27
  Paul Renner, and I and I will say this.
• 35:27
  Paul Renner, and I and I will say this.
• 35:30
  He brought in HB, the anti-Semitism bill.
• 35:34
  Okay.
• 35:35
  Ron DeSantis took it over to Israel and signed it.
• 35:38
  Where did it come from?
• 35:39
  It came from the ADL.
• 35:41
  The ADL has gone to every state in the union saying you must have a bill.
• 35:48
  You know, I don't know why.
• 35:49
  Um, but this is the bill that Collins said, and I will quote him exactly.
• 35:55
  You don't have the right to hurt people.
• 35:58
  He said it on a podcast.
• 36:00
  And Tucker Carlson now has gone out and came against them because Tucker Carlson lives in Gasparella Island, and he had fish back on.
• 36:09
  You know, they're one step away from taking our free speech.
• 36:12
  This is happening in Louisiana this morning.
• 36:15
  They they were talking about what's going on there, they're redoing the bill, and they're gonna they're gonna go after people.
• 36:20
  They already did it in with one young girl in college in Miami.
• 36:25
  I don't know what to say.
• 36:26
  I mean, you should go to Open Secrets, WW OpenSecrets.org and look and see who the donors are.
• 36:33
  You can track uh a lot of things is on X, but you need to go there.
• 36:38
  If you're gonna vote, you need to know where they're getting their money from.
• 36:42
  And I would say that's probably the best thing to do.
• 36:45
  Uh that is also the most important thing, folks, because whoever gives them the money are the people that they listen to.
• 36:54
  Yeah, and this is the problem that we have in the great state of Florida, just like the uh Save America Act, where 80% of the people want it passed, and the Congress says no.
• 37:06
  Uh, excuse me.
• 37:07
  Who told you no?
• 37:09
  We told you yes, and we have that same problem in Florida.
• 37:13
  Ed, you also interviewed Fishback.
• 37:17
  Um, and we're very, I know your election integrity.
• 37:21
  So I'm gonna ask you two questions.
• 37:23
  One, how do you feel about the election integrity bill that was just passed?
• 37:27
  And two, what is your take on James Fishback?
• 37:30
  Well, the election integrity bill uh missed a lot of things that we were trying to get in there, and I think it's a consistent pattern of the Republican establishment to ignore election integrity to claim that we're the gold standard, which we're not.
• 37:44
  And and they're really, I think using it for their own uh benefit, and uh I think they're part of the cheating as much as the Democrats are.
• 37:52
  Now, we interviewed Fishback, and I agree with everything that Cindy said about the other candidates, they're all very questionable.
• 38:00
  I think Donald's is a grifter.
• 38:03
  Uh he's raised 50 million dollars.
• 38:06
  He has a lot of bad associations going back to Trayvon Martin and more.
• 38:10
  He made fun of the J6ers.
• 38:13
  He he did he does not think that the 2020 presidential election was rigged or stolen.
• 38:19
  So he has a lot of bad associations.
• 38:21
  But when you come to Fishback, he's a breath of fresh air, and I like that about him.
• 38:26
  But first of all, he's got he may have a residence problem, and that he has not resided in Florida for the last seven years.
• 38:34
  So that's one thing.
• 38:35
  The other thing is we sent talk about election integrity.
• 38:38
  We sent him a pledge uh to to work on election integrity prepared by Defend Florida Dead Monks.
• 38:45
  I think she's from Martin County, and he has not signed it.
• 38:49
  He did not return it.
• 38:50
  Uh, others have Renner returned it.
• 38:53
  So we're we have some questions about Fishbag's commitment to election integrity.
• 38:58
  There's no question that he appeals to a lot of uh young people who who may be facing a crisis of affordability created by the Democrats.
• 39:08
  Uh, and so there uh all the Republicans are in power being blamed now.
• 39:12
  Uh, but one thing to remember we can't, I am not in favor.
• 39:16
  I'm an immigrant to to Florida twice from Cuba once, and then I my family settled up in Chicago.
• 39:22
  I worked in New York for a long time, and now I'm semi-retired, so I'm a double immigrant to Florida, and I don't want to stop all uh newcomers, all development.
• 39:32
  I think there has to be a middle ground where we have new people.
• 39:36
  But one thing you got to realize, especially in Miami, Miami, the Miami uh Port Lauderdale, West Palm Beach metropolitan area is the only metro area in the Sun Belt that goes from here to Texas to Arizona and up to uh South South Carolina and North Carolina that has lost population in the last five years from 2020 to 2025.
• 40:01
  And what's happening is that a lot of people are leaving South Florida because it's gotten so expensive, and they're settling in other parts of Florida, like uh maybe not Martin County, but certainly over Charlotte County, Sarasota County, uh on the Gulf Coast.
• 40:18
  You go up further, maybe the some people are settling in the space coast, but the the population is spreading out.
• 40:26
  But Miami, the Miami Air metro area is becoming very expensive.
• 40:30
  And the people that are moving in are paying cash and they have net worths uh that are many times greater than the people that are selling and uh I think reasonably moving out.
• 40:41
  I I don't live in the same place where I raise my kids because that's too too expensive for me in my retirement.
• 40:47
  So I think there has to be a balance there.
• 40:50
  But going back to Fishback, I think he's he he's he's very I agree that he's got a lot of young enthusiastic supporters, but I'm not sold on him yet.
• 40:59
  I think uh he needs to sign the election integrity pledge that we sent him, and uh uh he has to work out his his uh residential issues because he has not lived in Florida for seven years, and you're right, the donors are are the the big issue, and I think the donors are really where uh Donald's is completely a grifter from what I can tell.
• 41:21
  He's he's totally for all sorts of things.
• 41:24
  He also said that he was in favor of having a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, and when he was challenged on that, he repeated it and he doubled down.
• 41:33
  So I don't think Donald's he's definitely the choice of the establishment in many respects, but I don't think he would be a good choice for Floridians.
• 41:42
  No, I happen to agree with you, and folks don't be fooled and don't take on the always white guilt race issue.
• 41:53
  Oh, yeah, no, no.
• 41:54
  That they're gonna throw that at us, and they have been doing that already.
• 41:58
  Oh my goodness, first black, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 42:00
  Black blah blah blah blah blah.
• 42:02
  No, first qualified.
• 42:02
  No, first qualified.
• 42:05
  Most important is qualification.
• 42:05
  Most important is qualification, most important is your actions, what you have done, the things that you have said.
• 42:08
  Most important is your actions, what you have done, the things that you have said.
• 42:14
  What if it were up to Donald's?
• 42:14
  What if it were up to Donald's?
• 42:16
  I would think we would have data centers on every street corner.
• 42:16
  I would think we would have data centers on every street corner.
• 42:21
  And what was that gonna mean for us?
• 42:21
  And what was that going to mean for us?
• 42:24
  Maybe not on every street corner.
• 42:24
  Maybe not on every street corner.
• 42:25
  We can't just block out data centers.
• 42:25
  We can't just block out data centers.
• 42:27
  I mean, we can require we can regulate them.
• 42:27
  I mean, we can record, we can regulate them, we could require them.
• 42:29
  Require that they bring they have to bring their own electric power so that they don't add to everyone's expense.
• 42:36
  Maine has said no to all data centers.
• 42:39
  When you understand what's going to happen, they're going to have all our information there.
• 42:43
  They're going to use our information.
• 42:45
  This is all about surveillance, a lot of it.
• 42:48
  Palantir moved to Miami for a reason.
• 42:51
  Who gave Palantir?
• 42:53
  I mean, basically, JD Vance works for them.
• 42:55
  Okay.
• 42:55
  I'm not going along with the 2030 plan.
• 42:58
  And it's coming.
• 42:59
  And I can tell you, these developers are not good people.
• 43:03
  They have ruined, ruined Martin County.
• 43:06
  There are local commissioners have gotten paid off.
• 43:10
  All the Palm Beach County put a fence around it.
• 43:14
  Let me explain.
• 43:15
  I had dinner with the next senator who is the president of the Senate.
• 43:20
  I've known him for 30 years.
• 43:22
  And I said to him, you know what?
• 43:24
  He says, it's terrible now.
• 43:26
  And it is.
• 43:27
  It's awful.
• 43:28
  We don't want this.
• 43:29
  We never wanted it.
• 43:30
  They changed the local act so we could, they're forcing it down our throats.
• 43:35
  And we know what commissioners have gotten paid off.
• 43:37
  Palm Beach County is a disaster.
• 43:40
  And the idea that people like Mel Kay is out there, Karen.
• 43:44
  You ran around talking about Agenda 21.
• 43:46
  This woman, uh, I'm not going to say what she did for her life.
• 43:50
  All of a sudden she shows up and she's on all these stages, you know, with Eric Trump.
• 43:54
  Are you kidding me?
• 43:56
  It's a 15 minute city.
• 43:58
  It's a smart city already.
• 44:00
  It's it's a crime what they have done.
• 44:03
  And the idea that they want to take the water, and this is not me.
• 44:06
  This is define defun, defend rural Florida, John Hallman, who I've known for 30 years.
• 44:12
  Talked to him the other day, they will take that water from up north and drag it down south.
• 44:17
  They're gonna ruin Florida.
• 44:19
  Mega City's coming, the Mormons own more land than ever, and they're building a mega city.
• 44:25
  That's just one.
• 44:26
  I'm sick of it.
• 44:27
  You know, I agree with Fishback.
• 44:29
  Tax the shit.
• 44:30
  I want to tax the people that are coming down here.
• 44:33
  You have more than two houses.
• 44:34
  Why should they have a homestead?
• 44:36
  Well, I want to agree with you there.
• 44:40
  And also you are correct about I'm in North Florida, and Ed, when you said people are moving, people are moving up here as well.
• 44:50
  And I asked my local county commissioners, why do you think people are moving here?
• 44:57
  You have to think before you accept these developments.
• 45:01
  Why are they moving here?
• 45:03
  They're moving here because they want a piece of land, because maybe they want to put a garden in, maybe they don't want to see cement on everything.
• 45:12
  And that is what is happening.
• 45:14
  So the same thing that happened years ago, as the people get rich selling their houses in Miami, they come up north, and north is the panhandle of Florida, and they can buy something and have money left over.
• 45:31
  They can buy it for cash.
• 45:32
  They have no retirement uh that they have to worry about because they'll have no mortgage.
• 45:37
  And I see that happening all the time.
• 45:40
  And what worries me is we have the majority of the natural springs, so we have the purest, cleanest water, and yes, they want to make a pipeline that goes from North Florida to South Florida, so essentially they can steal our water.
• 45:59
  Well, if we want to do that, I have a question, and no one really has been able to answer it.
• 46:07
  I don't understand why Florida's being surrounded, surrounded with water.
• 46:12
  We are a peninsula, folks, and we are surrounded by water.
• 46:16
  Why don't we have desalinization plants?
• 46:19
  We do, but not enough.
• 46:21
  And they are not the problem with them is they are not using the seawater, which would be could be turned into drinking water.
• 46:32
  They're using brackish water, which is uh all of them uses the ocean water.
• 46:40
  They've been that's what they should be using.
• 46:43
  Yes, and if you have one more thing to add though, when you're done.
• 46:46
  Okay, uh, they should be, we should be looking at that, just like what Ed said, if they're gonna build a center, they should be told that part of their feasibility study is to put in the um electricity.
• 47:02
  But I think it's I think they should have to build uh a desalinization plant to go along with it because they're taking the water, and even worse.
• 47:14
  Um, up here, up north, our systems are so antiquated, you can't put some of these developments on top of these antiquated water systems.
• 47:27
  There's not enough water for everybody, and then uh my neighboring community where I used to live, they now have to have times when the water is shut off in Florida, shut off in Florida because they have too many houses and the houses are not connecting, not getting enough water.
• 47:48
  So, water is a big issue.
• 47:50
  We need water for irrigation, we're not getting it.
• 47:52
  We're gonna give it to AI.
• 47:54
  Are we gonna eat AI instead of crops now?
• 47:58
  I mean, this is absurd, and we should be building desalinization plants.
• 48:04
  Or those with the power plants for the uh for the data center.
• 48:08
  Yes, I would think that would be exactly right, especially uh we're having a drought now.
• 48:14
  Did anybody think that we never had one before?
• 48:18
  Does anybody think that we're not gonna have one again?
• 48:20
  Of course we are.
• 48:21
  It's a it's a cycle.
• 48:23
  Our our climate is a cycle.
• 48:25
  So sometimes we have drought, sometimes we have a lot of rain, but we're not doing and we're not managing it properly.
• 48:32
  And uh that leads me to Mac the Welder, who is running for commissioner of agriculture, who absolutely should get that job because he's the only one that's really knowledgeable about agriculture.
• 48:45
  So, folks, we have a lot of digging to do.
• 48:48
  I know Cindy, you wanted to say something.
• 48:50
  So I just wanted to say that Victor was over here.
• 48:53
  He came over from the West Coast to the event with uh James, and he told me that HB 945 was a bill where they were going to police your thoughts.
• 49:00
  Bill where they were going to police your thoughts.
• 49:02
  Oh my gosh.
• 49:02
  Oh my gosh.
• 49:04
  He called, he called them and said you need to pull that bill.
• 49:04
  He called, he called them and said you need to pull that bill.
• 49:07
  Uh let me tell you what it says.
• 49:07
  Uh, let me tell you what it says.
• 49:08
  It's a unit.
• 49:08
  It's a a unit, okay?
• 49:10
  Okay.
• 49:10
  8200 spyware.
• 49:10
  8200 spyware.
• 49:12
  Yeah, they're gonna spy on us for our voice.
• 49:12
  Yeah, they're going to spy on us for our voice.
• 49:15
  So this is something, and he spoke about the data centers.
• 49:15
  So this is something, and he spoke about the data centers.
• 49:18
  We know what they're about.
• 49:18
  We know what they're about.
• 49:20
  I mean, they're not about, I mean, they want to put one out in India.
• 49:20
  I mean, they're not about, I mean, they want to put one out in India.
• 49:24
  I mean, give me a break.
• 49:24
  I mean, give me a break.
• 49:25
  If Maine said no, we're not doing it.
• 49:25
  If Maine said no, we're not doing it.
• 49:27
  I don't know if you're watching what's going on in Ohio.
• 49:27
  I don't know if you're watching what's going on in Ohio, they're fighting.
• 49:29
  They're fighting a good fight.
• 49:30
  And we shouldn't have them at all.
• 49:32
  We should just say no.
• 49:33
  No, we're not doing it.
• 49:34
  What do we need them for?
• 49:35
  Nobody can give you a correct answer because basically it's Palantir.
• 49:39
  They want them.
• 49:40
  And the other tech companies.
• 49:42
  They're destroying our country.
• 49:44
  Not only are they destroying the country, but they're destroying Florida.
• 49:47
  And it's not going to stop.
• 49:48
  It's going to continue until we put our foot down and we tell Renner Collins and the other jerk.
• 49:54
  What's his name?
• 49:55
  Donald's.
• 49:55
  Donald Collins and missing somebody, Renner.
• 49:58
  God forbid they become, they become the governor.
• 50:01
  And I will say, yes, some of them took money from China, but all of them took money from Israel.
• 50:07
  Big Israel.
• 50:08
  Renner was one of the worst.
• 50:10
  Okay.
• 50:11
  We have somebody running, Aaron Baker, a great guy running against Randy Fine up in the Melbourne area.
• 50:18
  And he's been working on that for a year.
• 50:20
  I think he's going to get defeated because somebody else threw himself in the race.
• 50:24
  We don't need to be taking money and having foreign countries telling us what we can and cannot do in Florida.
• 50:29
  Number one.
• 50:30
  That's number one.
• 50:32
  Because they can't hide it anymore.
• 50:34
  That's why the young people were walking in the door.
• 50:36
  They knew all about it.
• 50:37
  It's all over X.
• 50:39
  You can't, and like I said, Trump has a problem.
• 50:41
  We are going to run out of time.
• 50:43
  And yes, Trump has a problem, and we'll have to come back and discuss it.
• 50:48
  Cindy, I wanted you and Ed to give some parting advice to our listeners so that we can do something about helping the state of Florida get back to what we wanted it to be, which is the free state of Florida.
• 51:06
  So Cindy, what parting words have you got for our audience?
• 51:10
  Do your homework.
• 51:11
  Go to www.opensecrets.org.
• 51:15
  There also is another site, Ballapedia.
• 51:17
  You can look up the bills and the money where they get their money.
• 51:20
  I would absolutely say that's crucial.
• 51:23
  Do your homework.
• 51:24
  Okay.
• 51:24
  That's the most important thing.
• 51:26
  And Ed, what do you mean words did for our listeners?
• 51:31
  Get engaged.
• 51:31
  Show up to vote in the primaries.
• 51:33
  That's something Republicans don't do.
• 51:35
  Be engaged, show up, vote, uh, ask questions of your candidates.
• 51:40
  And for good information on Florida politics, go to www.miamiindependent.com.
• 51:48
  Yes, fabulous.
• 51:50
  Um easy, fabulous information there.
• 51:54
  Great authors, and I'm one of them.
• 51:56
  And I have to put that plug in.
• 51:59
  Um, it is incredible information.
• 52:03
  Miami independent, and you don't have to live in Miami to be able to read what's there.
• 52:08
  But it's very important that you do that.
• 52:10
  And Ed is a contributor and editor as well.
• 52:14
  So I want to thank both of you so much.
• 52:17
  Also, if you are in North Florida in District 2, which I am in, Evan Power, who is the chair of the RPOF, is running for Congress, for Congress, for representative in Congress in DC.
• 52:37
  Yeah, there is no way that he should be receiving anything.
• 52:40
  We have Keith Gross.
• 52:42
  Uh, he is a good young man, also young man.
• 52:47
  Um listen to him.
• 52:49
  There's going to be a debate, and I would suggest that you tune in and listen to that debate.
• 52:55
  There's also Austin uh Rogers.
• 52:59
  Uh, he is a good man also.
• 53:01
  So we have candidates that and again, the bad part is usually when so many candidates are running, the one that is being sponsored by the establishment is the winner.
• 53:15
  And we cannot allow that to happen.
• 53:17
  In Texas, they they require that a primary election be won with a majority.
• 53:23
  So if nobody gets a majority, the top two vote getters go to a runoff.
• 53:27
  And that's the way it used to be in Florida until Governor Bush got rid of it because he said the people weren't turning out anyway.
• 53:36
  But I think that's the way that we should go back to.
• 53:39
  I would agree with you, but finding a group of state representatives who would vote that in will be another challenge.
• 53:47
  So unfortunately, it's the primary folks, and we need our candidate to win.
• 54:03
  He works for Ramba Consulting.
• 54:06
  He's a consultant, and he is also the chair of the RPOF, the corrupt RPOF that is purging grassroots from the RECs, the re executive, the Republican executive committee.
• 54:21
  We must give kudos and a big thank you to Governor DeSantis for redrawing the uh legislative map in Florida based on the new Supreme Court uh ruling and the new demographics of the state of Florida.
• 54:39
  But folks, if we don't vote in the primary, it doesn't matter what map we have, and it's those numbers that count.
• 54:46
  Mathematically, you can't win if you don't vote.
• 54:50
  And voting in the primary is of utmost importance.
• 54:54
  And uh shame on you, Danny Perez, speaker of the House who refused to allow the AI in school bill uh and AI bill to even be heard on the floor.
• 55:07
  Uh shame on you.
• 55:08
  Who are your donors?
• 55:10
  I think that's one we should be looking up.
• 55:12
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• 55:26
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• 55:28
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• 55:30
  I can't stress that enough.
• 55:32
  Have a wonderful week.
• 55:34
  If you live in District 2 in Florida, make sure that you tune into the representative for District 2 debate on Monday night on uh WMB.
• 55:47
  It will be quite interesting, and this will be our chance to see what these candidates are about.
• 55:54
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• 55:56
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