June 29, 2026 • 25 mins
A long sit down with another of the Florida Congressional District 2 candidates.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And welcome third hour the Morning Show, with President Scott
literally turning the page to the rundown. Here this morning,
Jose over there in Studio one A. I am here
in Studio one B. It is show fifty six thirty.
But who's counting? I am. I'm gonna quote Rush. I'm
gonna keep doing what I'm doing until I convince all
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of you that I'm right. That's I'm just gonna keep
talking until I convince you that I am right. And
so good to have you with us this morning. I
am joined by one of the candidates for the Republican
nomination for the second congressional district. And for those of
you listening on broadcast radio other than those of you
in South Georgia, this is your congressional district. And it's
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a big one. It is a large one by geography.
And that candidate is Audi Raul and he joins us
here the website Audifo Florida dot com spelled Audie Audi.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How are I am wonderful, Thank you for having me
on my pleasure. We're gonna be here a little bit now.
You are correct, this is a big district. Most people
don't realize this thing runs about about one hundred and
eighty miles east to west from Walton County half of
Walton County all the way to Taylor County, with a
bit portion of Lafayette County. Yeah, community of Day and
everything in between. Some people will say, was there cut
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out or is this part of it? It's all everything. Yes,
it's a huge district. It is the largest land district
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think that there is an opportunity here to form
a pretty strong congressional district between one, two, and three.
Big fan of Jimmy Patronis and District one, huge fan
of Cat Cammick and District three, and now we get
to District two. First, let's give everybody a little snapshot
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because I'm guessing not a lot of people have heard
your name. So who are you? And tell us about
your background.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I'm an old Tallahassee boy and I'm a sixth
generation Floridian. So my Roal family migrated down from South
Carolina in the early eighteen hundreds through Georgia, Leon County,
Jefferson County, Madison County, and then wounded up in the
northern part of Taylor County in a little community called
Shady Grove. My dad was born in a house there
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right off of nineteen in a little community called I Do, Florida.
And literally when you see the sign, you have seen
I do, and there's a sign that says I do.
And he was born in a house right there. And
he grew up in Taylor County and graduated, went into
the military, and got moved around a little bit, ended
up in Jacksonville I was born. Then in nineteen seventy two,
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he brought his family back to Tallahassee, where I was
enrolled in North Florida Christian School in nineteen seventy two,
did the whole ride there thirteen years, graduated in nineteen
eighty five, and then shortly afterwards that year later, I
began my law enforcement career that spanned nearly forty years.
Thank you for serving, Thank you so much. Started with
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the Leon County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Eddie Booone gave me
that first chance, and every time I see him, always
thank him for what he did for me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Just such a great individual.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Then went to TPD did you know twenty plus years
here in the Leon County Tallahassee area, and then ended
up in Walton County in two thousand and nine was
Sheriff Mike Atkinson. I had known him from the Tallisi
Police Department, but he was like a kind of almost
a fourth or fifth generation Walton County person. But he
ended up going back home and ran for sheriff one
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and I went on property with him day one in
two thousand and nine, did about almost seventeen years there
with him, and retired there as chief Deputy. I've graduated
from Florida State univerit well, graduated from Tallass Community College,
graduated from Florida State University, Southern Police Institute, FBI National Academy.
I'm married, four children, one grandchildren. My phone number is
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eight five zero seven nine seven forty five four. But
the best part of that whole bio is that grandchild.
And I always tell people that if I knew grandchildren
were this good, I'd have had them first. Absolutely, they're blessing,
aren't they. They are a blessing, so so blessed, so blessed.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All Right, that's a snapshot of Audie Raul. When we
come to that's the pitch right there. Now, when we
come back, we're going to get to the to what
I think is one of the most important questions, and
I actually posed it to him. This is the only
question he knows. I'm going to ask, why in the
world would you want to do this? And that is
be a member of Congress back with Audie raul It
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is Audi four Florida dot com. So let's let's answer
the question that I ask everybody. I don't care what
office they're running for. It could be dogcatcher because and
you know this politics just stink today. The the the
decision to run for office is a family decision. It
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is not to be taken lightly. We were telling the
young man Gabe, who works with you. You know, growing
old is in for sissies. Neither is running for office.
It is not why'd you do it?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, I am a little bit of an idiot, I
think sometimes for doing this. But to be honest with you,
there there's a that's a big question for me, and
it's it's not a short answer. So we got all
the time the world's not a short answer for me.
So there's when I look at this, this is really
about on a national level and even on a local level. Right,
So first of all, I want to make sure whoever's
in this position understands the culture and the challenges of
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the district. I'm a sixth generation right here in the district.
I've been a public servant. I'm not a politician. I'm
not a political insider. I'm not an attorney. I've been
a public service inside this district for nearly forty years.
So I believe that I have the qualification to understand
the culture and the challenges of the district. On the
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national level, and I'll come back a little bit more
to the local level, but on the national level, and
I've seen this shift to the left over the last
thirty years or so, and I'll talk about that as well.
But what I want to make sure is from on
national levels, I want to make sure that our country
stays grounded in the values that our country was founded on.
That is, our Christian family values, our constitutional values, our
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capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values. They're all under attacked,
every one of them. They're under attacked from socialism, from communism,
from woke ideology. This needs to be the socialism, communism,
and woke ideology needs to be eradicated from our culture.
And especially when I talk about communism. So when I
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was in high school, we had a class called Americanism
Versus Communism, and we actually had a book called The
Naked Communist and it's written by Cleon Skalzer. And I
learned all about communism, learned about collectivism or they want
to destroy the family, control private property.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
All that stuff. And I actually still have the book.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I found it when I sided to run, I went
back and looked for it and found it. But as
I sat in that class, and I don't remember, you
know everything about the class, but but I do remember
thinking to myself, well, thank goodness, that's over there. Thank
goodness that I don't have to worry about this. It's
nice learning about it. But but it's it's over there,
it's way across there. So it's actually a little weird
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or a little odd for me to to to talk
about communism right here at front and center with our country.
But it is real, it is happening. There's a there's
a mission creep uh, there's a movement too to change
our company, change our country.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, I was just going to read a headline to you, mom,
Donnie backed socialists look to take New York Playbook nationwide
after primary victories.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So let's talk about that. So Mandamie is a great thing.
And first let me let me say this. I am
so proud a way our our founding fathers created our
country not just for our our constitution, republic, but they
have allowed the states to work into tanly of each other. Right, so,
as long as the state's not violating federal law, a
state can do what they want. And Governor's stantis said
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it brilliant. One time somebody asked him, said, how do
you come up with your policies for Florida? How do
you come up with all this? He says, what's easy.
I look at New York, I look at California, I
look at Oregon and Washington, and I just do the opposite. Yeah, right,
So what I feel like is going to happen. And
Mndomie's a great thing. Mndomie does not want to balance
his budget. What he wants to do is grow his budget.
What he wants his more city services. That's what he wants.
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And I've said this as well. I've put it on
social media that the socialists and the communist need our
capitalist money to fund their social agenda. So what Mundomie doing,
He's grabbing up all the money right as much as
he can. Now, what I expect to see is an improvement,
so to speak. You'll see a little bit of improvement
in New York City because he's grabbing all this money, right,
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but what are the capitalists doing. They're leaving. So what
happens when the money runs out? Everything fails? Look at Venezuela,
look at Cuba, all that stuff. My fear is is
that Number one, he's probably going to go after the
state money. And I think they're already bucking him on that.
But thank goodness we have President Trump right now, because
he will eventually go after the federal money. And that's
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a big concern for me because again, he's going to
have to constantly pull this capitalist money in order to
fund the social agenda.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, we've watched it happen in California frequently over the
last thirty years, where they've needed taxpayer bailouts from the
federal government for any number of policy mistakes they've made
in their state. So you know the fact that New
York is barely pushing him away for now, but for
how long? Exactly Monday, on the radio program known as
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Common Sense Amplified, we do our best to do just
that and joining us. Another of the congressional candidates in
a somewhat crowded GOP field, Audie Rowl, is with us
AUDI for Florida dot COM's website, where you can learn
more about his campaign. You were sharing why the decision
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on running for this office continue.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, so we talked about the staying true to our
values that our country was founded on, our Christian family values,
our constitutional values, our capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values,
but also affordability. Affordability is huge for Americans. And when
I talk about affordability, yes, I talk about bringing down prices,
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whether it be medical prices or homeowners insurance things like that.
But it's also about keeping your money. And I'm a
bigger proponent at and reducing taxes as well. Right, I'm
a big sign me up for reducing taxes and all
that stuff. But you know, inflation is a big problem.
But you also have to understand why inflation happens. And
a lot of times, and even most of the time,
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the reason inflation happened is because the government spending. Right,
and when the government spends two months, then your your
supply demands start to decrease. What happens is your products
prices rise, inflation rises, what do our paychecks do? They
stay the same. So we have to work on inflation
as well. And government spending is a huge problem. And
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you hear people, candidates, you hear people that are already
in office, go, well, we need to we need to,
you know, get to Congress and cut spending.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't like that term. And let me tell you,
why have you ever known the government to cut spending? Truly,
have you ever known them to cut spending? And I'm
not talking about a little bill here, a little bill there.
The answer is no, I've never known the government to
cut spending. When government exists, it will spend. And we
just talked about a little bit about the socialism and
all that stuff, and the capitalists and and people. Some
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people will will say, well, you know, we have these
capitalist guys that they're greedy. They're greedy people. They're they're
they're taking all the money. They operate, you know, by greed.
And really, these folks that are the capitalists are creating
jobs and helping the economy and building products for us
and all kinds of stuff. The United States government is
the greediest institution on the planet. The government will spend money,
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and they're so greedy that when they can't get enough
money from taxes and get enough money from us, they
print money, or nowadays they create money because they can't
print it fast enough.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So I can talk about that as well about the government.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
But my theory is is we need to cut government,
and if government doesn't exist, it cannot spend money. So
we're looking now with President Trumpeys trying to cut the
Department of Education. I'm all about it, but you got
to ask yourself, what is the number one function function
of government? And the number one function of government is
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public safety. That's our military, that's our law enforcement, our corrections,
our fire our ems, border security, our courts. It's public safety.
Everything else for me is up for debate whether we reduce,
restrict or eliminate. There's like fifteen different state departments in
the federal government, and every one of them need to
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be looked at as to can we reduce, restrict or
eliminate Except for your public safety, public safety, I will
always fully support. I will always do whatever I can
to make sure they're not only funded, but they're properly funded,
whatever that may be. That's the number one function of government.
So we've got to cut government, and I want to
see government cut. And if we cut government, what I
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hope is that government now can't spend whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Irs. You know, there's me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You could look at all of them and find something
that needs to be Either we can give it back
to the American people and let them do it, or
we can just eliminate it, eliminate it completely.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What are your thoughts, Audie, on the fact you're one,
You're you're elected, you're one member of Congress. There's a
bunch of you. There's only so much. So when someone
says I'm going to do this and I'm going to
do that, well, you can do that if you get
two hundred and some to agree.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
With you, about five hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But yeah, but in terms of passing something legislatively, you
need a couple hundred plus to do it. Oh yeah,
Now that said, there's kind of a split out there.
There are people like Congresswoman Katkamick, who I'm a big
fan of, that says I don't do earmark spending. I'm
not about trying to bring money back to my district
when we don't have the money to bring back we
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don't have the money. Where are you on district spending?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, I think that there are some spendings within the
district that I think are beneficial. Let's say Title I
money for education and bringing money for underprivileged kids to
get them an extra boost so they can either have
school supplies or extra time in a classroom with it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But those aren't ear marks. That's money that just flows through.
And two, i'm talking specifically earmarks for the district, such
as I want to build this, I want to do that.
I need money to do it. We're going to get
some money back, we don't have the money. The bottom
line is, I'm looking for more members of me personally.
I'm looking for more members of Congress to say we're broke,
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we don't have money, we're deficit spending, and we're going
in greater debt. We need to stop and reevaluate. To
your point, let's cut some government. Well, that's that's the way,
and take the money that's coming in and use it
more effective efficiently.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And the other thing is we're talking about giving money
back and right, not just to your marks, but things
like stimulus checks.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't I don't like stimulus checks. Yeah, And the
reason I don't like stimulus checks is because as the
government starts giving you money back. First of all, in
order for government to give you your money back, what do.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
They have to do take it to begin with?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They got to take it from you, right, And my
issue with stimulus checks is if the government keeps giving
us stimulus checks, they will start creating economic classes. They
will find they will decide who gets what, how much
you get, who gets this, who gets that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
They've already done that and they are pretty much doing it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah. And I think we've seen with the fraud investigations
just in the last few months alone, little waste going
on out there.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's a lot of waste going on, and we shouldn't
and that speaks to DOZE. And well, I'll talk specifically
about DOGE. We shouldn't need DOGE, but we do. And
the reason we need DOGE is because the government is
so greedy, has so much money that they don't know
what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Final two segments with Audi Rowl. It's Audi for Florida
dot com, a U d I E for Florida dot com.
That's website to learn more. I kind of I kind
of prepped you we're in do kind of a lightning
round here.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah. Yeah, you didn't prep me.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Now I did. I prepped you in saying we're gonna
keep answers short here because I want to get through
a few different things. If you get elected. What's on
the whiteboard? What's the sticky note list going to start with?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I would say the VA, the VA is a is
A is a big issue for.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Me because we have military installations in the district or why.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, this this would be more of a national issue,
not just something within the district. So when I look
at the VA and I and I hear all the problems,
and I'm sure there are some success stories with the VA,
but I hear more about problems. And when I look
at the VA, what I see is the biggest socialist
program within the federal government. When you look at it,
it runs like a single payer. It's really a single provider.
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You you, they tell you where to go, who you're
going to see, what time it's going to happen, if
it's going to happen, and even if it is going
to happen, and it almost seems like the punishment is
the process right and hopefully you'll just go away. So
it to me, it's a it's a huge socialist program.
And the reason it's a socialist program is because in
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the world of freedom, you have choices. And I believe
in choices, whatever it may be, not just the VA,
but especially the VA. I believe in choices, and a
service member should have the choice, their choice. If a
service member has a doctor that they feel very comfortable with,
that is in Montacettle, Florida, or it's in Marianna or Uniac,
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doesn't matter where. If they feel comfortable with that doctor
providing service, they should be able to go to that
doctor without without any issues. You can get on Medicaid
and have choices of doctors. A serviceman going through the
VA has to wait and has to be told what
to do and when to do it. It's ridiculous. I
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would prefer to completely eliminate the VA totally.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Again. Cut government.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, I was going to say that fits the idea
of cutting government.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Cut cut government, and be done with it. Just absolutely
be done with it. There was a suggestion one time
about putting clinics in every county. No, that's more government.
We don't need more government. We need choices. And I
want to see, our service member have choices, their own
choices wherever that may be. I don't care if they
want to fly to Atlanta if they feel comfortable and
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say I want to go to Atlanta, or I want
to go to a Texas town because I know a
specific doctor that wants to help me. Okay, well fly
to Texas. Do what you want to do. But that's
not the way this is working with the VA. So
to me, the VA again, it's the biggest socialist program
within the federal government.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The Save Act. Obviously the House is done, it's part yep,
dying in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So I just put this out on social media and
I said, the world is not eligible to vote in
our elections. That is what the socialists and the communists want.
They want the world to be able to vote in
our election. And my belief is it is because they
can't find enough American citizens to vote for them. So
why hasn't the Save Act been passed? I don't know.
There apparently is not some unity within the Senate leadership.
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That's a leadership problem, yep, absolute leadership. I don't know
what the big guys doing things.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I also think it's a failure of the Republican Party
to message properly, because they ought to be just using that.
Since the majority of this country believes in the Save Act,
you got to be using it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And it's sad that we even have to talk about this.
We have to talk about you have to be an
American citizen to vote in this election. That's how far
left we've gone. And it's even worse that anybody who
would hold this up or vote against that. It truly
is probably one of the most, if not the single,
most Unamerican thing somebody can do, to say, now, you
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don't need to be American.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Final segment here with Audi raul Audiff Florida dot Com.
If I said that enough, If I said.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Audi, say it again, Man, say it again.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You said earlier something about the the fact that you've
been here, that you know this area, you've served in
this area for nearly forty years, four decades. You mentioned
the culture and the challenges define both.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So culture is what you do consistently, right, that's the
definition of my definitition.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What's the called culture of the district? Though, you said
the culture of the district and the challenges of the district,
what are they?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So the culture of the district is who we are
as as people with in the second Congressional district, right,
and this is a very rural county, a rural district,
right except for some of the coastline, as as as
as Florida is as well. Most people don't realize that
Florida is a rural state except for the coastline. So
we talk a lot about blue collar families, people that
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again that when inflation rises, our paychecks, as I say,
our paychecks don't rise. Uh, we live paycheck to paycheck.
We're farmers. Were people that really just trying to trying
to provide for our family. And we're simple folks. So
that you know, the culture is something that that I
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fully understand. I've actually had an opportunity as well to
live in This is such a big district, right, And
if you understand the Apalachicola River, that's where the time
zone changes. I call it the Great Wall of China
because everybody living in the Eastern time zone don't really
know what's going on in the in the Central time zone,
and people in the Central time zone don't know what's
going on over in the Eastern time zone. But I
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had the unique opportunity to live really on both sides
of that for extended amount of time, and so I
think that gives me a little bit better understanding as
far as the challenges goes. As always, I look at
jobs right and not just the And let me say
this when I talk about jobs, what I don't want
is I don't want my children or my grandchildren to
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have to go to another state to find a job.
In fact, I really don't even one go to another
part of Florida to find a job. They should be
able to find a job here. And we need to
really be aggressive and bringing jobs here, not just the
high tech manufacturing job or the AI development job, but
trade jobs. We need trade jobs, and people I think
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sometimes don't understand how a trade job makes your life
so much easier. Because when you need an air conditioning
guy at nine o'clock at night on a very hot night,
you need one. You don't need to wait till monday.
And when you need a plumber on a Saturday, you
don't need to wait till monday. And so having those
type of jobs and bringing those jobs here, encouraging those jobs,
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funding those jobs, to the training and all that stuff
that goes with it, I think it's very important. So
those are you know, some of the things that I think,
especially with the challenges of the district. You know, we
saw in Taylor County with Buckeye or Georgia Pacific shut
down in literally a day, five hundred jobs lost, nothing
to replace it, So how are we going to do that?
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I think the other thing too, is is another challenge
is going to be property tax reform, right, homestead property tax.
So I use a county like Liberty County, probably the
smallest county in the state, and this is a little
bit of my number and what somebody else told me,
but it's something like eighty five to ninety percent of
all land in Liberty County is owned by the state
federal government. So what does that mean there's no tax
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base on that. Now, when you look at property homestead
property reform, and if that passes, I'm full support of it,
absolutely full support of it. But if property tax goes through,
you've got to figure ninety five ninety eight percent all
homes in Liberty County or Homesteady. So now, how are
they going to fund public safety? How are they going
to build roads? Yes, ab able to do schools because
that's a different tax. But those are some challenges and
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that's a lot of districts. I mean a lot of counties.
In this sixteen counties, I say that three are economically stable.
That's leon Bay and Walton very economically stable. The other
thirteen counties are not right. They struggle economically. They need jobs,
they need infrastructure, they need those kind of things. So
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those are some of the big challenges facing this district
is the rural counties are going to need some assistance.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Thanks for coming in today.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Audi Rowl. It's Audiff Florida dot Com is the website
if you want to learn more Congressional district to candidate
for the GOP here On The Morning Show with Preston
Scott
And welcome third hour the Morning Show, with President Scott
literally turning the page to the rundown. Here this morning,
Jose over there in Studio one A. I am here
in Studio one B. It is show fifty six thirty.
But who's counting? I am. I'm gonna quote Rush. I'm
gonna keep doing what I'm doing until I convince all
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of you that I'm right. That's I'm just gonna keep
talking until I convince you that I am right. And
so good to have you with us this morning. I
am joined by one of the candidates for the Republican
nomination for the second congressional district. And for those of
you listening on broadcast radio other than those of you
in South Georgia, this is your congressional district. And it's
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a big one. It is a large one by geography.
And that candidate is Audi Raul and he joins us
here the website Audifo Florida dot com spelled Audie Audi.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How are I am wonderful, Thank you for having me
on my pleasure. We're gonna be here a little bit now.
You are correct, this is a big district. Most people
don't realize this thing runs about about one hundred and
eighty miles east to west from Walton County half of
Walton County all the way to Taylor County, with a
bit portion of Lafayette County. Yeah, community of Day and
everything in between. Some people will say, was there cut
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out or is this part of it? It's all everything. Yes,
it's a huge district. It is the largest land district
in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think that there is an opportunity here to form
a pretty strong congressional district between one, two, and three.
Big fan of Jimmy Patronis and District one, huge fan
of Cat Cammick and District three, and now we get
to District two. First, let's give everybody a little snapshot
(01:48):
because I'm guessing not a lot of people have heard
your name. So who are you? And tell us about
your background.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I'm an old Tallahassee boy and I'm a sixth
generation Floridian. So my Roal family migrated down from South
Carolina in the early eighteen hundreds through Georgia, Leon County,
Jefferson County, Madison County, and then wounded up in the
northern part of Taylor County in a little community called
Shady Grove. My dad was born in a house there
(02:15):
right off of nineteen in a little community called I Do, Florida.
And literally when you see the sign, you have seen
I do, and there's a sign that says I do.
And he was born in a house right there. And
he grew up in Taylor County and graduated, went into
the military, and got moved around a little bit, ended
up in Jacksonville I was born. Then in nineteen seventy two,
(02:36):
he brought his family back to Tallahassee, where I was
enrolled in North Florida Christian School in nineteen seventy two,
did the whole ride there thirteen years, graduated in nineteen
eighty five, and then shortly afterwards that year later, I
began my law enforcement career that spanned nearly forty years.
Thank you for serving, Thank you so much. Started with
(02:56):
the Leon County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Eddie Booone gave me
that first chance, and every time I see him, always
thank him for what he did for me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Just such a great individual.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Then went to TPD did you know twenty plus years
here in the Leon County Tallahassee area, and then ended
up in Walton County in two thousand and nine was
Sheriff Mike Atkinson. I had known him from the Tallisi
Police Department, but he was like a kind of almost
a fourth or fifth generation Walton County person. But he
ended up going back home and ran for sheriff one
(03:29):
and I went on property with him day one in
two thousand and nine, did about almost seventeen years there
with him, and retired there as chief Deputy. I've graduated
from Florida State univerit well, graduated from Tallass Community College,
graduated from Florida State University, Southern Police Institute, FBI National Academy.
I'm married, four children, one grandchildren. My phone number is
(03:53):
eight five zero seven nine seven forty five four. But
the best part of that whole bio is that grandchild.
And I always tell people that if I knew grandchildren
were this good, I'd have had them first. Absolutely, they're blessing,
aren't they. They are a blessing, so so blessed, so blessed.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
All Right, that's a snapshot of Audie Raul. When we
come to that's the pitch right there. Now, when we
come back, we're going to get to the to what
I think is one of the most important questions, and
I actually posed it to him. This is the only
question he knows. I'm going to ask, why in the
world would you want to do this? And that is
be a member of Congress back with Audie raul It
(04:36):
is Audi four Florida dot com. So let's let's answer
the question that I ask everybody. I don't care what
office they're running for. It could be dogcatcher because and
you know this politics just stink today. The the the
decision to run for office is a family decision. It
(04:59):
is not to be taken lightly. We were telling the
young man Gabe, who works with you. You know, growing
old is in for sissies. Neither is running for office.
It is not why'd you do it?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, I am a little bit of an idiot, I
think sometimes for doing this. But to be honest with you,
there there's a that's a big question for me, and
it's it's not a short answer. So we got all
the time the world's not a short answer for me.
So there's when I look at this, this is really
about on a national level and even on a local level. Right,
So first of all, I want to make sure whoever's
in this position understands the culture and the challenges of
(05:33):
the district. I'm a sixth generation right here in the district.
I've been a public servant. I'm not a politician. I'm
not a political insider. I'm not an attorney. I've been
a public service inside this district for nearly forty years.
So I believe that I have the qualification to understand
the culture and the challenges of the district. On the
(05:54):
national level, and I'll come back a little bit more
to the local level, but on the national level, and
I've seen this shift to the left over the last
thirty years or so, and I'll talk about that as well.
But what I want to make sure is from on
national levels, I want to make sure that our country
stays grounded in the values that our country was founded on.
That is, our Christian family values, our constitutional values, our
(06:17):
capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values. They're all under attacked,
every one of them. They're under attacked from socialism, from communism,
from woke ideology. This needs to be the socialism, communism,
and woke ideology needs to be eradicated from our culture.
And especially when I talk about communism. So when I
(06:40):
was in high school, we had a class called Americanism
Versus Communism, and we actually had a book called The
Naked Communist and it's written by Cleon Skalzer. And I
learned all about communism, learned about collectivism or they want
to destroy the family, control private property.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
All that stuff. And I actually still have the book.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I found it when I sided to run, I went
back and looked for it and found it. But as
I sat in that class, and I don't remember, you
know everything about the class, but but I do remember
thinking to myself, well, thank goodness, that's over there. Thank
goodness that I don't have to worry about this. It's
nice learning about it. But but it's it's over there,
it's way across there. So it's actually a little weird
(07:19):
or a little odd for me to to to talk
about communism right here at front and center with our country.
But it is real, it is happening. There's a there's
a mission creep uh, there's a movement too to change
our company, change our country.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, I was just going to read a headline to you, mom,
Donnie backed socialists look to take New York Playbook nationwide
after primary victories.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So let's talk about that. So Mandamie is a great thing.
And first let me let me say this. I am
so proud a way our our founding fathers created our
country not just for our our constitution, republic, but they
have allowed the states to work into tanly of each other. Right, so,
as long as the state's not violating federal law, a
state can do what they want. And Governor's stantis said
(08:07):
it brilliant. One time somebody asked him, said, how do
you come up with your policies for Florida? How do
you come up with all this? He says, what's easy.
I look at New York, I look at California, I
look at Oregon and Washington, and I just do the opposite. Yeah, right,
So what I feel like is going to happen. And
Mndomie's a great thing. Mndomie does not want to balance
his budget. What he wants to do is grow his budget.
What he wants his more city services. That's what he wants.
(08:28):
And I've said this as well. I've put it on
social media that the socialists and the communist need our
capitalist money to fund their social agenda. So what Mundomie doing,
He's grabbing up all the money right as much as
he can. Now, what I expect to see is an improvement,
so to speak. You'll see a little bit of improvement
in New York City because he's grabbing all this money, right,
(08:50):
but what are the capitalists doing. They're leaving. So what
happens when the money runs out? Everything fails? Look at Venezuela,
look at Cuba, all that stuff. My fear is is
that Number one, he's probably going to go after the
state money. And I think they're already bucking him on that.
But thank goodness we have President Trump right now, because
he will eventually go after the federal money. And that's
(09:11):
a big concern for me because again, he's going to
have to constantly pull this capitalist money in order to
fund the social agenda.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, we've watched it happen in California frequently over the
last thirty years, where they've needed taxpayer bailouts from the
federal government for any number of policy mistakes they've made
in their state. So you know the fact that New
York is barely pushing him away for now, but for
how long? Exactly Monday, on the radio program known as
(09:41):
Common Sense Amplified, we do our best to do just
that and joining us. Another of the congressional candidates in
a somewhat crowded GOP field, Audie Rowl, is with us
AUDI for Florida dot COM's website, where you can learn
more about his campaign. You were sharing why the decision
(10:02):
on running for this office continue.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, so we talked about the staying true to our
values that our country was founded on, our Christian family values,
our constitutional values, our capitalist values, and our constitutional republic values,
but also affordability. Affordability is huge for Americans. And when
I talk about affordability, yes, I talk about bringing down prices,
(10:26):
whether it be medical prices or homeowners insurance things like that.
But it's also about keeping your money. And I'm a
bigger proponent at and reducing taxes as well. Right, I'm
a big sign me up for reducing taxes and all
that stuff. But you know, inflation is a big problem.
But you also have to understand why inflation happens. And
a lot of times, and even most of the time,
(10:48):
the reason inflation happened is because the government spending. Right,
and when the government spends two months, then your your
supply demands start to decrease. What happens is your products
prices rise, inflation rises, what do our paychecks do? They
stay the same. So we have to work on inflation
as well. And government spending is a huge problem. And
(11:09):
you hear people, candidates, you hear people that are already
in office, go, well, we need to we need to,
you know, get to Congress and cut spending.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't like that term. And let me tell you,
why have you ever known the government to cut spending? Truly,
have you ever known them to cut spending? And I'm
not talking about a little bill here, a little bill there.
The answer is no, I've never known the government to
cut spending. When government exists, it will spend. And we
just talked about a little bit about the socialism and
all that stuff, and the capitalists and and people. Some
(11:39):
people will will say, well, you know, we have these
capitalist guys that they're greedy. They're greedy people. They're they're
they're taking all the money. They operate, you know, by greed.
And really, these folks that are the capitalists are creating
jobs and helping the economy and building products for us
and all kinds of stuff. The United States government is
the greediest institution on the planet. The government will spend money,
(12:03):
and they're so greedy that when they can't get enough
money from taxes and get enough money from us, they
print money, or nowadays they create money because they can't
print it fast enough.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So I can talk about that as well about the government.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
But my theory is is we need to cut government,
and if government doesn't exist, it cannot spend money. So
we're looking now with President Trumpeys trying to cut the
Department of Education. I'm all about it, but you got
to ask yourself, what is the number one function function
of government? And the number one function of government is
(12:38):
public safety. That's our military, that's our law enforcement, our corrections,
our fire our ems, border security, our courts. It's public safety.
Everything else for me is up for debate whether we reduce,
restrict or eliminate. There's like fifteen different state departments in
the federal government, and every one of them need to
(13:00):
be looked at as to can we reduce, restrict or
eliminate Except for your public safety, public safety, I will
always fully support. I will always do whatever I can
to make sure they're not only funded, but they're properly funded,
whatever that may be. That's the number one function of government.
So we've got to cut government, and I want to
see government cut. And if we cut government, what I
(13:24):
hope is that government now can't spend whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Irs. You know, there's me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You could look at all of them and find something
that needs to be Either we can give it back
to the American people and let them do it, or
we can just eliminate it, eliminate it completely.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What are your thoughts, Audie, on the fact you're one,
You're you're elected, you're one member of Congress. There's a
bunch of you. There's only so much. So when someone
says I'm going to do this and I'm going to
do that, well, you can do that if you get
two hundred and some to agree.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
With you, about five hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But yeah, but in terms of passing something legislatively, you
need a couple hundred plus to do it. Oh yeah,
Now that said, there's kind of a split out there.
There are people like Congresswoman Katkamick, who I'm a big
fan of, that says I don't do earmark spending. I'm
not about trying to bring money back to my district
when we don't have the money to bring back we
(14:17):
don't have the money. Where are you on district spending?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Well, I think that there are some spendings within the
district that I think are beneficial. Let's say Title I
money for education and bringing money for underprivileged kids to
get them an extra boost so they can either have
school supplies or extra time in a classroom with it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But those aren't ear marks. That's money that just flows through.
And two, i'm talking specifically earmarks for the district, such
as I want to build this, I want to do that.
I need money to do it. We're going to get
some money back, we don't have the money. The bottom
line is, I'm looking for more members of me personally.
I'm looking for more members of Congress to say we're broke,
(15:06):
we don't have money, we're deficit spending, and we're going
in greater debt. We need to stop and reevaluate. To
your point, let's cut some government. Well, that's that's the way,
and take the money that's coming in and use it
more effective efficiently.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And the other thing is we're talking about giving money
back and right, not just to your marks, but things
like stimulus checks.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't I don't like stimulus checks. Yeah, And the
reason I don't like stimulus checks is because as the
government starts giving you money back. First of all, in
order for government to give you your money back, what do.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
They have to do take it to begin with?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They got to take it from you, right, And my
issue with stimulus checks is if the government keeps giving
us stimulus checks, they will start creating economic classes. They
will find they will decide who gets what, how much
you get, who gets this, who gets that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
They've already done that and they are pretty much doing it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah. And I think we've seen with the fraud investigations
just in the last few months alone, little waste going
on out there.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's a lot of waste going on, and we shouldn't
and that speaks to DOZE. And well, I'll talk specifically
about DOGE. We shouldn't need DOGE, but we do. And
the reason we need DOGE is because the government is
so greedy, has so much money that they don't know
what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Final two segments with Audi Rowl. It's Audi for Florida
dot com, a U d I E for Florida dot com.
That's website to learn more. I kind of I kind
of prepped you we're in do kind of a lightning
round here.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah. Yeah, you didn't prep me.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Now I did. I prepped you in saying we're gonna
keep answers short here because I want to get through
a few different things. If you get elected. What's on
the whiteboard? What's the sticky note list going to start with?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I would say the VA, the VA is a is
A is a big issue for.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Me because we have military installations in the district or why.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, this this would be more of a national issue,
not just something within the district. So when I look
at the VA and I and I hear all the problems,
and I'm sure there are some success stories with the VA,
but I hear more about problems. And when I look
at the VA, what I see is the biggest socialist
program within the federal government. When you look at it,
it runs like a single payer. It's really a single provider.
(17:18):
You you, they tell you where to go, who you're
going to see, what time it's going to happen, if
it's going to happen, and even if it is going
to happen, and it almost seems like the punishment is
the process right and hopefully you'll just go away. So
it to me, it's a it's a huge socialist program.
And the reason it's a socialist program is because in
(17:38):
the world of freedom, you have choices. And I believe
in choices, whatever it may be, not just the VA,
but especially the VA. I believe in choices, and a
service member should have the choice, their choice. If a
service member has a doctor that they feel very comfortable with,
that is in Montacettle, Florida, or it's in Marianna or Uniac,
(18:01):
doesn't matter where. If they feel comfortable with that doctor
providing service, they should be able to go to that
doctor without without any issues. You can get on Medicaid
and have choices of doctors. A serviceman going through the
VA has to wait and has to be told what
to do and when to do it. It's ridiculous. I
(18:23):
would prefer to completely eliminate the VA totally.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Again. Cut government.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, I was going to say that fits the idea
of cutting government.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Cut cut government, and be done with it. Just absolutely
be done with it. There was a suggestion one time
about putting clinics in every county. No, that's more government.
We don't need more government. We need choices. And I
want to see, our service member have choices, their own
choices wherever that may be. I don't care if they
want to fly to Atlanta if they feel comfortable and
(18:53):
say I want to go to Atlanta, or I want
to go to a Texas town because I know a
specific doctor that wants to help me. Okay, well fly
to Texas. Do what you want to do. But that's
not the way this is working with the VA. So
to me, the VA again, it's the biggest socialist program
within the federal government.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The Save Act. Obviously the House is done, it's part yep,
dying in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So I just put this out on social media and
I said, the world is not eligible to vote in
our elections. That is what the socialists and the communists want.
They want the world to be able to vote in
our election. And my belief is it is because they
can't find enough American citizens to vote for them. So
why hasn't the Save Act been passed? I don't know.
There apparently is not some unity within the Senate leadership.
(19:39):
That's a leadership problem, yep, absolute leadership. I don't know
what the big guys doing things.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I also think it's a failure of the Republican Party
to message properly, because they ought to be just using that.
Since the majority of this country believes in the Save Act,
you got to be using it.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
And it's sad that we even have to talk about this.
We have to talk about you have to be an
American citizen to vote in this election. That's how far
left we've gone. And it's even worse that anybody who
would hold this up or vote against that. It truly
is probably one of the most, if not the single,
most Unamerican thing somebody can do, to say, now, you
(20:13):
don't need to be American.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Final segment here with Audi raul Audiff Florida dot Com.
If I said that enough, If I said.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Audi, say it again, Man, say it again.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You said earlier something about the the fact that you've
been here, that you know this area, you've served in
this area for nearly forty years, four decades. You mentioned
the culture and the challenges define both.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So culture is what you do consistently, right, that's the
definition of my definitition.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What's the called culture of the district? Though, you said
the culture of the district and the challenges of the district,
what are they?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So the culture of the district is who we are
as as people with in the second Congressional district, right,
and this is a very rural county, a rural district,
right except for some of the coastline, as as as
as Florida is as well. Most people don't realize that
Florida is a rural state except for the coastline. So
we talk a lot about blue collar families, people that
(21:19):
again that when inflation rises, our paychecks, as I say,
our paychecks don't rise. Uh, we live paycheck to paycheck.
We're farmers. Were people that really just trying to trying
to provide for our family. And we're simple folks. So
that you know, the culture is something that that I
(21:40):
fully understand. I've actually had an opportunity as well to
live in This is such a big district, right, And
if you understand the Apalachicola River, that's where the time
zone changes. I call it the Great Wall of China
because everybody living in the Eastern time zone don't really
know what's going on in the in the Central time zone,
and people in the Central time zone don't know what's
going on over in the Eastern time zone. But I
(22:02):
had the unique opportunity to live really on both sides
of that for extended amount of time, and so I
think that gives me a little bit better understanding as
far as the challenges goes. As always, I look at
jobs right and not just the And let me say
this when I talk about jobs, what I don't want
is I don't want my children or my grandchildren to
(22:24):
have to go to another state to find a job.
In fact, I really don't even one go to another
part of Florida to find a job. They should be
able to find a job here. And we need to
really be aggressive and bringing jobs here, not just the
high tech manufacturing job or the AI development job, but
trade jobs. We need trade jobs, and people I think
(22:46):
sometimes don't understand how a trade job makes your life
so much easier. Because when you need an air conditioning
guy at nine o'clock at night on a very hot night,
you need one. You don't need to wait till monday.
And when you need a plumber on a Saturday, you
don't need to wait till monday. And so having those
type of jobs and bringing those jobs here, encouraging those jobs,
(23:11):
funding those jobs, to the training and all that stuff
that goes with it, I think it's very important. So
those are you know, some of the things that I think,
especially with the challenges of the district. You know, we
saw in Taylor County with Buckeye or Georgia Pacific shut
down in literally a day, five hundred jobs lost, nothing
to replace it, So how are we going to do that?
(23:33):
I think the other thing too, is is another challenge
is going to be property tax reform, right, homestead property tax.
So I use a county like Liberty County, probably the
smallest county in the state, and this is a little
bit of my number and what somebody else told me,
but it's something like eighty five to ninety percent of
all land in Liberty County is owned by the state
federal government. So what does that mean there's no tax
(23:55):
base on that. Now, when you look at property homestead
property reform, and if that passes, I'm full support of it,
absolutely full support of it. But if property tax goes through,
you've got to figure ninety five ninety eight percent all
homes in Liberty County or Homesteady. So now, how are
they going to fund public safety? How are they going
to build roads? Yes, ab able to do schools because
that's a different tax. But those are some challenges and
(24:18):
that's a lot of districts. I mean a lot of counties.
In this sixteen counties, I say that three are economically stable.
That's leon Bay and Walton very economically stable. The other
thirteen counties are not right. They struggle economically. They need jobs,
they need infrastructure, they need those kind of things. So
(24:39):
those are some of the big challenges facing this district
is the rural counties are going to need some assistance.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Thanks for coming in today.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Audi Rowl. It's Audiff Florida dot Com is the website
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