December 10, 2025 • 18 mins
TOP STORIES - State Senate District 11 special election results, new bill aims to lower medication costs, the crazy excuse a Florida man gave police for why he crashed a stolen BMW, Florida Muslim civil rights group announces legal action against Gov. DeSantis, parents meet to address concerns over declining enrollment in Pinellas County schools, and Wander Franco could get a new sexual abuse trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. The special
election to replace Blazing Golia in the State Senate was
held in Hernando County and surrounding areas, and no surprise,
(00:20):
Republican Ralph Massulo Junior has captured the District eleven seat,
but it may have been closer than expected. Massulo saw
some resistance from Democrat ash Marwat, but he ultimately came
out on top fifty three to forty seven percent. So
District eleven covers Hernando, Sumter, Citrus, and a small part
of Pasco County, very conservative area. Misulo is a Lecanto physician.
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He served four terms in the Florida House since twenty sixteen,
and of course, Angolia left to become the Chief Financial
Officer of the state after being appointed to that job
by Governor DeSantis. So if you take a look at
how Trump performed in that district during the president central
election last year, he won it by about forty points.
This time, you had a smaller margin for Basulo Junior
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again winning by about twenty points, so about a twenty
point swing to the left. If you look at there
was a state House race in Palm Beach County. That's
one where the Democrat there won very easily and outperformed
Kamala Harris by quite a bit. That was about a
seventeen percent swing to the left. You had the election
(01:31):
obviously for mayor in Miami that went to the Democrat
for the first time in decades. Yeah, and a significant
swing to the left there. So look, you want to
be careful taking too much away from these off year elections.
But I think common sense would have told you going
into all of this the Democrats of the party out
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of power. And we've seen in the past when Trump
is president, he has a way of energizing the position
in these you know, off year mid term elections, and
so Democrats have some momentum going into twenty twenty six.
You know, if you go back to twenty seventeen and
his first term, the same thing happened. There are a
few off year elections Democrats did very well, and then
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of course in twenty eighteen they went on to win
the House in that midterm elections. Now, whether that happens now,
I mean, there's all these things going on with redistricting.
President Trump announced this week that he's going to go
on a nationwide tourah to try and energize people who
generally don't vote in the midterms to turn out. Now,
that can be a double edged sort because Trump is unpopular.
(02:36):
Some of those local politicians may not want him around.
It depends upon, you know, his poll numbers as of
right now. You know, nationally he's not polling well, but
he's still popular amongst the Republican base. Oh yeah, and
his chief of staff Susie Wiles, said that Trump is
going to essentially be on the ballot. It's going to
be a referendum on Trump in the midterms. That seems
(02:56):
like it's something that Trump wants and it's also something
it seems like Democrats. So how that shakes us out, Yeah,
we'll see. But I think it just it makes common
sense that Democrats are a bit more energized right now
performing well in these off year elections. The challenge, especially
for Democrats here in Florida, is going to be carrying
that over to the midterm elections. In a state where
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they just have not performed well in recent years. I
believe it or not, we're less than a year away.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Florida lawmakers are setting their sites on healthcare reforms and
they're calling this initiative Florida's new frontier in healthcare. So
one of the bills is HB six ninety seven, the
Prescription Reduction Incentives and Competition Enhancement Act. But you know
what that sounds complicated, but you know what it stands for.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What's the actronym? Price? Nice? Love it. I support the bill.
That's all I need to be here. Name yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Representative Jennifer Kinkark Johnson of Lakeland is the sponsor, and
it takes aim at an issue that affects a lot
of Americans, the cost of medications and treatments. So what
the bill will do is it will establish a most
Favored Nation pricing model for Florida. It would require drug
manufacturers to report international pricing data to the state, and
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then the Agency for Healthcare Administration use the data to
identify the lowest prices paid for a drug in countries
with comparable economic standards and health systems. And the idea
is essentially to shame them into lowering their prices to
match what they're selling the drugs to other places. Right,
And what you have is you have countries like over
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in Europe, and they have government run health care in
a lot of those places, and they say, you cannot
charge more than this amount for this drug. And I
think it's always pissed Americans off that, you know, you
look around the world and you've got these drugs costing
so much less really in these other.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Countries by like a significant.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Amount to Now we don't have government run health I
mean Medicare, Medicaid, but you know, more generally speaking, we
don't have that here. They can't even negotiate a lot
of those prices federal laws, right exactly. But I think
this is something that a lot of people are going
to be in support of. And then what was interesting
about this, So the lowest price would become the ceiling
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for what insurers, medicaid pharmacies can pay here in Florida,
and then insurers would be expected to pass those savings
onto consumers through lower premiums and reduce cost sharing. It
doesn't say mandated, but it does say that companies would
have to file annual reports showing that the savings were
(05:36):
actually shared. That that's the key part here. It's it's
one thing to get them to uh, you know, pay
less for the drug. It's another thing for us to
benefit from that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know what I'm saying exactly? Otherwise, what's the purpose? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Instead of the pharmaceuticals and you got the insurance companies
making more money, We're going to have more on healthcare
because it looks like there are gonna be some big
votes in Congress, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So we'll talk more about all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And I had to get my annual physical yesterday for
insurance purposes, and I've got some things to say about
that whole experience. Yeah, Yeah, we'll probably do a lot
of that tomorrow. You probably have the best health in
the history of America ever ever, they said cognitive test
for a talk show host.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I am the healthiest they've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There, you go, so a new way to deny that
you're a car thief. A man was arrested after deputy
said he crashed his BMW and that he had allegedly
stolen and how did he get into it? Well, let's
hear what happened at the scene a teleport something.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Where'd you get the car from? I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
She was teleport. Yeah, one moment he's he's standing around.
Next moment he's in a stolen BMW. He has no
idea being me up study.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So the vlitious sheriffs said that it happened because the
owner of the BMW left the door to the car
unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, I'm almost at the point with this story
where the owner of the bm there kind of had
a coming.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean, yeah, especially a nice car like a BMW,
you don't just leave your keys mis car like that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, And he was just out walking the dog apparently,
and just you know, I guess jumped out of the
car real quick to do that and didn't think anybody
would would take the.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Car, and actually nobody to No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, magical get crashed and went one hundred miles an
hour all by herself, and then the guy just teleported
into the driver's seat.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Such a Florida man's story. And that's a new excuse.
I don't think I've heard that one before.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Her.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
He also said that the X men made him do
it too.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
In the police video. Ows, that's a lot going on
with that guy. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Chris Trenkman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
thank you. First we start with today's Stop Stories and
Chris Trenkman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Good morning. The Florida chapter of the Council on American
Islamic Relations CARE has announced a lawsuit against Governor DeSantis,
a day after the governor designated the group as a
foreign terrorist organization. It's the state's largest Muslim civil rights
and advocacy group. They made the announcement at a press
conference in Tampa. CARE members have called Desandis's action unconstitutional
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and defamatory and an Israel first political stunt, and CARE
leadership said that they are taking steps to protect the
Muslim community in all Floridians and that he said that
it's a scapegoat for the ongoing war in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So a couple different things.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Even if you think CARE and certainly the Muslim Brotherhood
aren't a bunch of boy scouts. Foreign terrorist designations come
from the federal level, not states. That's President Trump's job,
really the job of the governor. It's not the first
time the governors tried to to one up President Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
He did it on some of those immigrations.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, immigration enforcement actions the state took recently. So like,
you know, I get DeSantis wants to be president, but
you're not at the moment. Also, it's not the first
time that the DeSantis has followed in Texas's footsteps. You
remember you had Governor Greg Abbott there sending migrants to
blue states and then DeSantis did the whole flight to
(09:35):
Martha's Vineyard Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, right right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And and we've seen this before where sometimes Texas will
take the lead, sometimes Florida will take the lead. But
it seems like both states are always watching each other
to see what they do and then scoreboards. Yeah, exactly right.
To me, it's a headline generating move. I don't know
why now it kind of came out. I don't think
it has anything to do with like Israel and Gaza
or anything like that. I just I feel like it's
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something that is going to get him a lot of attention.
Maybe during the court battle, damaging new information comes out
about care There haven't been allegations about them before. But
in the meantime, you know, they still have their tax
exempt status. They're A five, oh one C three.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Can you take that away?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, no, not not at at at the state level.
I guess what this would do is that like anyone
who supports the Muslim Brotherhood or care, they wouldn't get
state contracts, employment funds, things like that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But the state has a very limited role.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So uh again, a lot of headlines here and there
will be a court battle now.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I so random, Yeah, no pun intended. I'm not sure
how much I care. Oh, I got it. So I
think they're right, though.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I think Governor Destantus is come on, dam you know
you want to hear no.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that was great, That was so.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was all me. That was all ma. I want
the credit for that one. Take take care, take care,
take care. But yeah, we are radio. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think that he is obviously going to run for president,
and he's going through a series of the sort of
high profile of big publicity type executive orders or policies
or actions that get him a lot of headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And it's it's all part of that process.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Now, whether or not this holds up in court and
whether this is a legit thing that they're you know,
a terrorist group like you said it has absolutely no
bearing on the federal Uh yeah, you know rules on this,
because they're the ones who determine whether you're a foreign
terrorist group.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right, What does Marco Rubio think about this?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
He's a Secretary of State, Like that's where this designation
would come from. Uh if the federal line security, Yeah yeah, right,
But we haven't seen that yet, So we'll see the
federal government follows in Florida and Texas's footsteps. I don't
even know that this is something they're thinking about, to
be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So enrollment is dropped and school capacity is outpacing the
number of children in classrooms, and Panella's County just wrapped
up a series of conversations about what to do about it.
They had a workshop at the Community Workshop yesterday to
try and come up with solutions, and it basically was
a big reality check with a bunch of concerned parents
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giving their input about what's going on across the country.
Student populations are declining. This is not new in Panella's County,
but it's reaching a point where they're going to have
to make some serious decisions about the future of their
facilities because you know, they have to pay the same
power bill the same water bill for a big school,
but if there are only a few students in there,
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they're obviously not going to be able to fund it.
And so there's talk about maybe creating more K through
eight schools and consolidating grade levels. And they're also talking
about just a general problem that they can't control, which
is birth rates. Panella's County's birth rates are way down,
and part of that is because you know, you have
the hurricanes, you have the economy, just affordability issues. I mean,
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there are a lot of reasons why people aren't having
kids in that county, and that contributes to how much
money the schools get because the way the state structures
that you get paid the pupil right, So they're obviously
not in a good situation financially, and it's there's no
real clear solution to it. But the bottom line is
public schools are probably going to contract as far as
the number of schools that have open.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So what's interesting is you have that unfolding in Penells
County and counties all across the state, and like you said, Chris,
really all across the country.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And then you.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Have this expansion of schools of Hope and we haven't
really talked about this issue yet, but essentially, this move
by lawmakers here in Florida allows charter schools to set
up inside public schools and the only requirement for them
to be able to do that is that the campus
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has open space ors under enrolled. So you have a
lot of these schools now that are under enrolled. They
have the space. But one of the issues that a
lot of school districts have, including Hillsboro County, is that
lawmakers are putting the costs associated with the charter schools,
you know, running their their schools inside these public schools
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on the public schools. Right, So there's a mess. Yeah,
there's a big frustration there. And what you have a
lot of school leaders, school board members, superintendents pushing for
is like, if the charter schools are going to set
up shop inside our school, and I don't necessarily have
a problem that if there's open space, then you know,
(14:38):
I can understand that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They want to be though, No, right, they want two things.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They want the charter schools to pick up the tab
on some of this kind of stuff, and also they
want to limit charters to like the same grade level
as the host school. So like you wouldn't want a
charter school with high school students in an elementary.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
School, yeah, or the other way around.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, but you could see how, like the under and
roll and those kinds of things, it's creating all kinds
of different, you know, issues that are popping up. And
what about your school where your son goes.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So, my son's school is overcrowded. It's a K through
eight now. They changed it from an elementary school to
a K through eight a couple of years ago, which
I was really happy about because now I don't have
to worry about him being in a middle school. He's
in the same school he's always been in. But his
school is overcrowded because what happens is kids from the
other schools that that aren't as good they lie about
their address, or they kiss up to the principal or
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somehow they keep letting all these other kids in. So
his school is really overcrowded. And they have a teacher
shortage too, so like he doesn't have a real science
teacher like the whole year just they just haven't Yeah,
they haven't replaced anyone. And then there was a teacher
at at his school who passed away, and so that's
created a whole bunch of issues, and then the principal
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resigned in the middle of the year, and a lot
of us think that it's because the job is so stressful. Yeah,
so that's another whole issue with the school. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, there's a concern from critics of this policy that
there's an under reported industry that's developed in the country,
big charter big corporate companies that own charter schools, that
are lobbing the legislature for access to public school facilities
essentially for free. Yeah, exactly, and that the business model. Yes,
business guess what, they passed the law in their favor
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and they're allowed to move into these schools.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And here's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
If the public schools don't want to use them anymore,
they just get to keep it. So they're basically being
handed free real estate for what are for profit organizations.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, and see that that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I can understand, Like, if you've got some underutilized areas
in your school, maybe you know, coming up with some
kind of compromise. This sounds like it needs some adjustments,
this policy. And it used to be you know, when
I was in school, it was all over crowding it
was it was class sizes that were too big and
all of portable.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, yet my son's school had portables too. Yeah, it's
it's But then there are I know, there are schools
in Hillsboro County that are you know, they don't have
enough kids in them, and so that's why they talk
about redistricting, but nobody wants to be redid exactly to
those schools.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, that's a big mess.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So an appeals court and the Dominican Republic ordered a
new trial for Tampa Bay Ray's shortstop Wander Franco, who
was convicted this year sexually abusing a minor and he
received a two year suspended sentence. So the ruling came
after Franco's attorneys had pushed to have his conviction suspended
and then the sentencing overturned. Prosecutors had been seeking a
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five year sentence, and they said after this ruling that
they still think they've got the evidence on this case
and that whether there's a new trial or not isn't
going to make any difference. But the bottom line is
that it's a huge victory yeah Franco, because he's now
in a position where he could get let off right
a bit of a plot twist that appeals Panels said,
there were flaws, there were a missions in the case.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I thought this was slam dunk case, to be quite
honest with you.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean, and you know, when you go back
to what this is all about, he was accused of
having a relationship with a fourteen year old girl with
the blessing of the girl's parents. And you know, it
came after he had signed this eleven year, one hundred
and eighty two million dollar deal with the Rays, and
you know, the impact obviously on the team was significant.
And then the whole situation of just being involved with
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a teenage girl is disturbing. So, you know, a lot
of big questions here. But look, wonder Franco has money,
has influence, and the legal system down there a little
bit different than ours. We'll see if this works out
in his favor. But the bottom line is, I mean,
what a huge turnaround for him, you know, in his
home country.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, Chris Drankman with today's opp stories. Chris, thanks
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Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. The special
election to replace Blazing Golia in the State Senate was
held in Hernando County and surrounding areas, and no surprise,
(00:20):
Republican Ralph Massulo Junior has captured the District eleven seat,
but it may have been closer than expected. Massulo saw
some resistance from Democrat ash Marwat, but he ultimately came
out on top fifty three to forty seven percent. So
District eleven covers Hernando, Sumter, Citrus, and a small part
of Pasco County, very conservative area. Misulo is a Lecanto physician.
(00:44):
He served four terms in the Florida House since twenty sixteen,
and of course, Angolia left to become the Chief Financial
Officer of the state after being appointed to that job
by Governor DeSantis. So if you take a look at
how Trump performed in that district during the president central
election last year, he won it by about forty points.
This time, you had a smaller margin for Basulo Junior
(01:07):
again winning by about twenty points, so about a twenty
point swing to the left. If you look at there
was a state House race in Palm Beach County. That's
one where the Democrat there won very easily and outperformed
Kamala Harris by quite a bit. That was about a
seventeen percent swing to the left. You had the election
(01:31):
obviously for mayor in Miami that went to the Democrat
for the first time in decades. Yeah, and a significant
swing to the left there. So look, you want to
be careful taking too much away from these off year elections.
But I think common sense would have told you going
into all of this the Democrats of the party out
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of power. And we've seen in the past when Trump
is president, he has a way of energizing the position
in these you know, off year mid term elections, and
so Democrats have some momentum going into twenty twenty six.
You know, if you go back to twenty seventeen and
his first term, the same thing happened. There are a
few off year elections Democrats did very well, and then
(02:14):
of course in twenty eighteen they went on to win
the House in that midterm elections. Now, whether that happens now,
I mean, there's all these things going on with redistricting.
President Trump announced this week that he's going to go
on a nationwide tourah to try and energize people who
generally don't vote in the midterms to turn out. Now,
that can be a double edged sort because Trump is unpopular.
(02:36):
Some of those local politicians may not want him around.
It depends upon, you know, his poll numbers as of
right now. You know, nationally he's not polling well, but
he's still popular amongst the Republican base. Oh yeah, and
his chief of staff Susie Wiles, said that Trump is
going to essentially be on the ballot. It's going to
be a referendum on Trump in the midterms. That seems
(02:56):
like it's something that Trump wants and it's also something
it seems like Democrats. So how that shakes us out, Yeah,
we'll see. But I think it just it makes common
sense that Democrats are a bit more energized right now
performing well in these off year elections. The challenge, especially
for Democrats here in Florida, is going to be carrying
that over to the midterm elections. In a state where
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they just have not performed well in recent years. I
believe it or not, we're less than a year away.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Florida lawmakers are setting their sites on healthcare reforms and
they're calling this initiative Florida's new frontier in healthcare. So
one of the bills is HB six ninety seven, the
Prescription Reduction Incentives and Competition Enhancement Act. But you know
what that sounds complicated, but you know what it stands for.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What's the actronym? Price? Nice? Love it. I support the bill.
That's all I need to be here. Name yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Representative Jennifer Kinkark Johnson of Lakeland is the sponsor, and
it takes aim at an issue that affects a lot
of Americans, the cost of medications and treatments. So what
the bill will do is it will establish a most
Favored Nation pricing model for Florida. It would require drug
manufacturers to report international pricing data to the state, and
(04:11):
then the Agency for Healthcare Administration use the data to
identify the lowest prices paid for a drug in countries
with comparable economic standards and health systems. And the idea
is essentially to shame them into lowering their prices to
match what they're selling the drugs to other places. Right,
And what you have is you have countries like over
(04:32):
in Europe, and they have government run health care in
a lot of those places, and they say, you cannot
charge more than this amount for this drug. And I
think it's always pissed Americans off that, you know, you
look around the world and you've got these drugs costing
so much less really in these other.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Countries by like a significant.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Amount to Now we don't have government run health I
mean Medicare, Medicaid, but you know, more generally speaking, we
don't have that here. They can't even negotiate a lot
of those prices federal laws, right exactly. But I think
this is something that a lot of people are going
to be in support of. And then what was interesting
about this, So the lowest price would become the ceiling
(05:12):
for what insurers, medicaid pharmacies can pay here in Florida,
and then insurers would be expected to pass those savings
onto consumers through lower premiums and reduce cost sharing. It
doesn't say mandated, but it does say that companies would
have to file annual reports showing that the savings were
(05:36):
actually shared. That that's the key part here. It's it's
one thing to get them to uh, you know, pay
less for the drug. It's another thing for us to
benefit from that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know what I'm saying exactly? Otherwise, what's the purpose? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Instead of the pharmaceuticals and you got the insurance companies
making more money, We're going to have more on healthcare
because it looks like there are gonna be some big
votes in Congress, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So we'll talk more about all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And I had to get my annual physical yesterday for
insurance purposes, and I've got some things to say about
that whole experience. Yeah, Yeah, we'll probably do a lot
of that tomorrow. You probably have the best health in
the history of America ever ever, they said cognitive test
for a talk show host.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I am the healthiest they've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There, you go, so a new way to deny that
you're a car thief. A man was arrested after deputy
said he crashed his BMW and that he had allegedly
stolen and how did he get into it? Well, let's
hear what happened at the scene a teleport something.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Where'd you get the car from? I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
She was teleport. Yeah, one moment he's he's standing around.
Next moment he's in a stolen BMW. He has no
idea being me up study.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So the vlitious sheriffs said that it happened because the
owner of the BMW left the door to the car
unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, yeah, I'm almost at the point with this story
where the owner of the bm there kind of had
a coming.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean, yeah, especially a nice car like a BMW,
you don't just leave your keys mis car like that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, And he was just out walking the dog apparently,
and just you know, I guess jumped out of the
car real quick to do that and didn't think anybody
would would take the.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Car, and actually nobody to No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, magical get crashed and went one hundred miles an
hour all by herself, and then the guy just teleported
into the driver's seat.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Such a Florida man's story. And that's a new excuse.
I don't think I've heard that one before.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Her.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
He also said that the X men made him do
it too.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
In the police video. Ows, that's a lot going on
with that guy. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Chris Trenkman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
thank you. First we start with today's Stop Stories and
Chris Trenkman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Good morning. The Florida chapter of the Council on American
Islamic Relations CARE has announced a lawsuit against Governor DeSantis,
a day after the governor designated the group as a
foreign terrorist organization. It's the state's largest Muslim civil rights
and advocacy group. They made the announcement at a press
conference in Tampa. CARE members have called Desandis's action unconstitutional
(08:33):
and defamatory and an Israel first political stunt, and CARE
leadership said that they are taking steps to protect the
Muslim community in all Floridians and that he said that
it's a scapegoat for the ongoing war in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So a couple different things.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Even if you think CARE and certainly the Muslim Brotherhood
aren't a bunch of boy scouts. Foreign terrorist designations come
from the federal level, not states. That's President Trump's job,
really the job of the governor. It's not the first
time the governors tried to to one up President Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
He did it on some of those immigrations.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, immigration enforcement actions the state took recently. So like,
you know, I get DeSantis wants to be president, but
you're not at the moment. Also, it's not the first
time that the DeSantis has followed in Texas's footsteps. You
remember you had Governor Greg Abbott there sending migrants to
blue states and then DeSantis did the whole flight to
(09:35):
Martha's Vineyard Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, right right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And and we've seen this before where sometimes Texas will
take the lead, sometimes Florida will take the lead. But
it seems like both states are always watching each other
to see what they do and then scoreboards. Yeah, exactly right.
To me, it's a headline generating move. I don't know
why now it kind of came out. I don't think
it has anything to do with like Israel and Gaza
or anything like that. I just I feel like it's
(10:01):
something that is going to get him a lot of attention.
Maybe during the court battle, damaging new information comes out
about care There haven't been allegations about them before. But
in the meantime, you know, they still have their tax
exempt status. They're A five, oh one C three.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Can you take that away?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, no, not not at at at the state level.
I guess what this would do is that like anyone
who supports the Muslim Brotherhood or care, they wouldn't get
state contracts, employment funds, things like that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But the state has a very limited role.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So uh again, a lot of headlines here and there
will be a court battle now.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I so random, Yeah, no pun intended. I'm not sure
how much I care. Oh, I got it. So I
think they're right, though.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I think Governor Destantus is come on, dam you know
you want to hear no.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that was great, That was so.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was all me. That was all ma. I want
the credit for that one. Take take care, take care,
take care. But yeah, we are radio. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think that he is obviously going to run for president,
and he's going through a series of the sort of
high profile of big publicity type executive orders or policies
or actions that get him a lot of headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And it's it's all part of that process.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Now, whether or not this holds up in court and
whether this is a legit thing that they're you know,
a terrorist group like you said it has absolutely no
bearing on the federal Uh yeah, you know rules on this,
because they're the ones who determine whether you're a foreign
terrorist group.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right, What does Marco Rubio think about this?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
He's a Secretary of State, Like that's where this designation
would come from. Uh if the federal line security, Yeah yeah, right,
But we haven't seen that yet, So we'll see the
federal government follows in Florida and Texas's footsteps. I don't
even know that this is something they're thinking about, to
be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So enrollment is dropped and school capacity is outpacing the
number of children in classrooms, and Panella's County just wrapped
up a series of conversations about what to do about it.
They had a workshop at the Community Workshop yesterday to
try and come up with solutions, and it basically was
a big reality check with a bunch of concerned parents
(12:20):
giving their input about what's going on across the country.
Student populations are declining. This is not new in Panella's County,
but it's reaching a point where they're going to have
to make some serious decisions about the future of their
facilities because you know, they have to pay the same
power bill the same water bill for a big school,
but if there are only a few students in there,
(12:42):
they're obviously not going to be able to fund it.
And so there's talk about maybe creating more K through
eight schools and consolidating grade levels. And they're also talking
about just a general problem that they can't control, which
is birth rates. Panella's County's birth rates are way down,
and part of that is because you know, you have
the hurricanes, you have the economy, just affordability issues. I mean,
(13:05):
there are a lot of reasons why people aren't having
kids in that county, and that contributes to how much
money the schools get because the way the state structures
that you get paid the pupil right, So they're obviously
not in a good situation financially, and it's there's no
real clear solution to it. But the bottom line is
public schools are probably going to contract as far as
the number of schools that have open.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
So what's interesting is you have that unfolding in Penells
County and counties all across the state, and like you said, Chris,
really all across the country.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And then you.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Have this expansion of schools of Hope and we haven't
really talked about this issue yet, but essentially, this move
by lawmakers here in Florida allows charter schools to set
up inside public schools and the only requirement for them
to be able to do that is that the campus
(13:54):
has open space ors under enrolled. So you have a
lot of these schools now that are under enrolled. They
have the space. But one of the issues that a
lot of school districts have, including Hillsboro County, is that
lawmakers are putting the costs associated with the charter schools,
you know, running their their schools inside these public schools
(14:18):
on the public schools. Right, So there's a mess. Yeah,
there's a big frustration there. And what you have a
lot of school leaders, school board members, superintendents pushing for
is like, if the charter schools are going to set
up shop inside our school, and I don't necessarily have
a problem that if there's open space, then you know,
(14:38):
I can understand that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They want to be though, No, right, they want two things.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They want the charter schools to pick up the tab
on some of this kind of stuff, and also they
want to limit charters to like the same grade level
as the host school. So like you wouldn't want a
charter school with high school students in an elementary.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
School, yeah, or the other way around.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, but you could see how, like the under and
roll and those kinds of things, it's creating all kinds
of different, you know, issues that are popping up. And
what about your school where your son goes.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So, my son's school is overcrowded. It's a K through
eight now. They changed it from an elementary school to
a K through eight a couple of years ago, which
I was really happy about because now I don't have
to worry about him being in a middle school. He's
in the same school he's always been in. But his
school is overcrowded because what happens is kids from the
other schools that that aren't as good they lie about
their address, or they kiss up to the principal or
(15:28):
somehow they keep letting all these other kids in. So
his school is really overcrowded. And they have a teacher
shortage too, so like he doesn't have a real science
teacher like the whole year just they just haven't Yeah,
they haven't replaced anyone. And then there was a teacher
at at his school who passed away, and so that's
created a whole bunch of issues, and then the principal
(15:49):
resigned in the middle of the year, and a lot
of us think that it's because the job is so stressful. Yeah,
so that's another whole issue with the school. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, there's a concern from critics of this policy that
there's an under reported industry that's developed in the country,
big charter big corporate companies that own charter schools, that
are lobbing the legislature for access to public school facilities
essentially for free. Yeah, exactly, and that the business model. Yes,
business guess what, they passed the law in their favor
(16:18):
and they're allowed to move into these schools.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And here's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
If the public schools don't want to use them anymore,
they just get to keep it. So they're basically being
handed free real estate for what are for profit organizations.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, and see that that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I can understand, Like, if you've got some underutilized areas
in your school, maybe you know, coming up with some
kind of compromise. This sounds like it needs some adjustments,
this policy. And it used to be you know, when
I was in school, it was all over crowding it
was it was class sizes that were too big and
all of portable.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, yet my son's school had portables too. Yeah, it's
it's But then there are I know, there are schools
in Hillsboro County that are you know, they don't have
enough kids in them, and so that's why they talk
about redistricting, but nobody wants to be redid exactly to
those schools.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, that's a big mess.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So an appeals court and the Dominican Republic ordered a
new trial for Tampa Bay Ray's shortstop Wander Franco, who
was convicted this year sexually abusing a minor and he
received a two year suspended sentence. So the ruling came
after Franco's attorneys had pushed to have his conviction suspended
and then the sentencing overturned. Prosecutors had been seeking a
(17:22):
five year sentence, and they said after this ruling that
they still think they've got the evidence on this case
and that whether there's a new trial or not isn't
going to make any difference. But the bottom line is
that it's a huge victory yeah Franco, because he's now
in a position where he could get let off right
a bit of a plot twist that appeals Panels said,
there were flaws, there were a missions in the case.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I thought this was slam dunk case, to be quite
honest with you.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean, and you know, when you go back
to what this is all about, he was accused of
having a relationship with a fourteen year old girl with
the blessing of the girl's parents. And you know, it
came after he had signed this eleven year, one hundred
and eighty two million dollar deal with the Rays, and
you know, the impact obviously on the team was significant.
And then the whole situation of just being involved with
(18:10):
a teenage girl is disturbing. So, you know, a lot
of big questions here. But look, wonder Franco has money,
has influence, and the legal system down there a little
bit different than ours. We'll see if this works out
in his favor. But the bottom line is, I mean,
what a huge turnaround for him, you know, in his
home country.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, Chris Drankman with today's opp stories. Chris, thanks
so much. Thank you. We a Ryan Gorman Show five
to nine every weekday morning on news radio FLA
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