Ep. 5313: Evidence of what was lost as D.O.G.E. keeps up the hard work.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good. I mats and welcome to Monday, February the tenth
on the Morning Show with Prestin Scott's Show fifty three thirteen.
Great to be with you. I'm Preston, He's Oaiah. I
hope you had a wonderful weekend. And we begin with
some scripture. I want you to This is really this
is short. It's Isaiah twenty six to three, and it

(00:28):
says you, Who's who's you? This is God? You God,
keep him, who him, him or her, You, me, them, everybody, everybody.
You keep whoever in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed

(00:55):
on you because He her, whoever trusts in you. It
is so overly simple that I think we maybe sometimes

(01:18):
miss it. We talk about the need to feed your spirit.
Scripture daily, be in God's word in some form or fashion,
to spend some time praying. You don't go a day
without eating food. Usually you don't go, you know, without

(01:41):
drinking water. You need to feed your body, feed your soul,
feed your spirit, feed your mind. But think about this now.
You want peace, if you give this a shot, Just

(02:02):
give it a shot. If you're right now in situations
and circumstances and you have no peace, just spend time
in God's word and in prayer every day, and see
what happens to that lack of peace. Give it a shot.

(02:25):
What do you have to lose? Ten past the hour,
take a peek inside the American Patriots all gonnact next,
and then we will begin to I mean, this is
time to stretch a little bit. Get ready, we're going.
We're going today on the Morning Show with Preston Scott

(02:56):
twelve past the hour, Oh my, showing a little replay
yesterday of what happened at the Caesars Superdome when Donald
Trump got shown saluting during the national anthem. Crowd went
nuts during the Super Bowl nuts and then they would

(03:18):
show Taylor Swift and they booed loudly. I think she
felt a little. Yeah. Anyway, I won't be talking about
the Super Bowl till the end. Well, no, I'll go
ahead and say it. Congratulations Philadelphia Eagle fans. I realized

(03:53):
that those of you listening to the show are probably
not representative of Eagle fans at Philadelphia games. You're probably
good and decent people, as opposed to a lot of
the fans at the games, which are some of the
most vile, disgusting foul mouth fans and all of professional sports.

(04:23):
If you wonder how I really feel. I was willing
to pull for Kansas City to win that game, even
despite Taylor Swift because Philadelphia Eagle fans are the worst
in professional sports. They just are. And it's really it's

(04:45):
a shame, it really is, because it's a well earned
reputation of being just vile. It's not funny, it's sick.
And while I love Jalen Hurts, there's some players on
that team I really love respect that team. And and
you'll lose your offensive coordinator probably. I mean, I don't
know how you don't get Kellen Moore out of there

(05:07):
and uh and get him give him a head coaching
shot somewhere because he's a young guy who's a pretty
good offensive mind. And it just shows you that Jerry
Jones is a fool for letting Mike McCarthy get rid
of him. And I love coach Mack, but he was
wrong in letting go of Kellen Moore. He's a he's
a really smart young man. So Eagles earned it. They're

(05:31):
the best team in football offensively, defensively, got the best
defensive coordinator. Vic Fangio is just he's just good. Just
is he made he made the life miserable for Patrick
Mahomes in that first half. Second half, he changed his
defensive scheme a little bit. I'm quite certain. I didn't
watch the second half at all. I watched some some

(05:52):
of the first half while I was laying down in bed.
I recorded it because I want to watch commercials, but
I also want to see if Vic change the defense
up in the second half. My hunch is he did.
I mean, he was. I think they had a twenty
four nothing lead. My goodness, yeah, you know so. Anyway,

(06:15):
today in history, we've got forebr of the tenth Treaty
of Paris, end seven year War. In seventeen sixty three.
Eighteen sixty one, Jefferson Davis receives word that he has
been chosen to be President of the Confederate States of America.
Nineteen oh three. Teddy Bear has begin appearing in stores

(06:36):
early in the year. Great story behind the Teddy Bear
still called a Teddy Bear named after Teddy Roosevelt, President
of the United States. That's where the bear got its name,
the Teddy Bear. Oh, it's a great story. Glenn Miller
receives first ever gold record selling one point two million

(06:57):
copies of the Chattanooga Chu Chuow. And in nineteen sixty seven,
twenty fifth Amendment dealing with presidential disability and succession is
ratified and promptly ignored with Joe Biden in office. And
what else we got today is National home warranty Day,
National clean out your Computer Day, National cream cheese brownie Day,

(07:21):
National umbrella Day, and National Football hangover Day. I'm not
making any of that up. Sixteen past the hour, it's
the Morning Show. You got long hair, You rock your

(07:49):
head so the hair comes over your face. Twenty two
past the hour. I told jose I would go ahead
and tell this story of history here. Every day, millions
of children cross the country, around the world cuddle up
to their favorite Teddy Bears. So how did the toy

(08:10):
bear become so popular? And how did they become a
Teddy Bear? We credit Teddy Roosevelt, as I mentioned, twenty
sixth president, as well as a political cartoonist and some
resourceful entrepreneurs. In nineteen oh two, Roosevelt, avid outdoorsman, went

(08:30):
on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi. The President was
a very good hunter, but on this particular trip, no
luck for several days never saw bear. Finally, one of
his guides cornered a small black bear, wounded it, tied
it to a tree, then called the President to come
shoot it. Teddy the sportsman resolutely refused. He had eagerly

(08:58):
shot grizzly bears in the Wild War, but he had
no intention of taking unfair advantage of a terrified, trapped animal.
When Washington Post cartoonist Clifford Berryman heard the story, he
drew a picture of the President turning away in disgust
from the idea of shooting the helpless bear. The nation
loved the fact that their president had spared the creature,

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and in no time it became the story of Teddy's Bear.
By early nineteen oh three, two Russian Jewish immigrants named
Morris and Rose Mitcham were making and selling stuffed Teddy
bears in their Brooklyn shop. One of the Mitchtum's original
stuffed bears can be seen in Smithsonian's National Museum of

(09:42):
American History in Washington. About the same time, toy company
Fao Schwartz of New York City began selling plush Teddy
bears made in a German toy factory. A world wide
craze began, which shows no signs of changing more than
a century later. So the Teddy Bear is the story

(10:04):
of Teddy Roosevelt refusing to hunt a bear that was
in essence captured. He insisted on a fair, ethical hunt,
and so because he spared the bear's life, Teddy's Bear
and there you have it. So to this day, it's

(10:25):
an homage to Teddy Roosevelt, who was in some regards
a socialist Republican. He was he leaned towards socialism. But
still a cool story. And yeah, hey, speaking of yesterday,

(10:46):
not yesterday, sorry Friday, during what's the Beef, we had
a young lady call in. I believe it was a
young lady that was complaining about a local playground and
money raised and going to ubber mulch. We now correct
that story that is not accurate. And so I'm guessing that,

(11:09):
with the best of intentions, the parent was trying to
make a point. But unfortunately you didn't get the information.
I heard from the president of the Gilchrist Elementary School PTO,
who sent me a very lengthy note and welcomed the
phone call from any parents that want to know more.

(11:31):
They did exceed the goal of ninety thousand dollars raised.
Seventy five percent of the money goes to new playground equipment,
not mulch. Hear me out. The remaining twenty five percent
is going into the teacher accounts because if you don't
know this, teachers go into their own wallets to provide paper,

(11:52):
construction materials, craft materials, and things for their classrooms. And
so each teacher will get three hundred and twenty dollars
deposited into their teaching accounts each one, and they can
use it how they see fit in their classrooms, which,
by the way, is a my wife used to teach
in the school system and at Florida High and that

(12:16):
money because we used to just fund stuff ourselves. We
would just pay for it. We wouldn't ask our parents
to do it in her classes. We would my wife
and I would. And so what's really cool here is
the remaining seventy five percent of that ninety thousand is
going to playground equipment. Principal Scottie Crow, who by the way,

(12:40):
is outstanding soliciting bids and they're picking out a piece
of new equipment for each of the four playgrounds on campus.
The mulch came as a result of the purchasing of
the equipment required the school to have the district bring

(13:01):
the mulch up to code. It was beaten down and
that's what happens. You have to refresh the mult periodically
to keep it to code. That was provided by the
school district. So it didn't pay for any mulch at all.
That money is going to new equipment that they hoped
to have installed this year for the kids this year
to be able to enjoy. So I'm just letting you

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know that your some of you might have a wrong
understanding and they say that the books are open, you're
welcome to see them, but that that's the process that
the unintended consequence in a very good way of raising
the money was the school district raising the code, having
to bring the codes up. It's sort of it's typical

(13:46):
code work. When you do something in the house, you
do renovation, sometimes you have to update certain things to
new code because you demolished that wall or you rewired
that thing, so now you have to bring all of
it up to code. Same thing. Adding the playground equipment
required the bringing up to code the mulch, so they
didn't pay for that. So I hope that helps, So

(14:08):
I don't mind the beef. That's fine. Maybe a lesson
read those emails that you get sent, because we all
dismiss emails that we probably should read. And maybe not
have your kid call if you don't really know. Twenty
eight minutes after the hour, This Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(14:44):
All right, we're going to do a quick little look
into the big stories here. Anyone surprised that Joe Biden
had his security clearance revoked? Normally ex presidents keep them.
I don't know why. No, I'm serious. I don't care
if it's Republican or Democrat. Ex presidents have no need.

(15:11):
If you feel the need, you know, for example, let's
just say somebody's a foreign policy just they've just they're
an expert, they got it. If you're the new president
and your predecessor had a skill set there and I
want to bring him in and get his opinion, I
can share things with him right there by my choice.

(15:31):
But blanket security clearances for classified in no, no now
factor in. It's Joe, Sweet God almighty, No, But it's
not just Joe. He has revoked the security clearances to

(15:53):
Anthony Blincoln, the former Secretary of State explain this. Why
would Man District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney
General Letitia James have national security clearances? Now, what I
think I'll hear from some of you that know is

(16:14):
that it would be limited security clearances on matters that
were important to the City of New York or the
State of New York because of its economic importance, etc.
I don't care. I don't care. If there's security that

(16:35):
I think they need to be aware of, I'm going
to share it with them. That's why I have an
Attorney general. That's why I have a Homeland Security Director.
That's why I have head of an FBI that shares domestics.
CIA nothing to do with it. We need to get
the CIA back being the CIA international period. End stop there.

(16:57):
That's it. If we're going to have an FBI. I'm
not opposed to the idea. We just need to rein
them in. Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, no more
security clearances. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, attorneys Andrew Weissman,
Mark Zaid, Normisen among those. So he's cleaning some things up.

(17:19):
The last thing I want to touch on here briefly,
and I'm going to upset some of you, and I'm
okay with that because you know I love you. If
you did not know, over the weekend, Boy Scouts of
America adopted its new name, Scouting America. Let's see, in

(17:43):
twenty eighteen, they decided to let girls join Boy Scouts.
They began allowing gay youth openly gay youth in twenty thirteen,
and then they ended the ban on gay adult leaders
in twenty fifteen and decided to adopt a gender neutral name.

(18:07):
Now I've disassociated myself with the organization I used to
MC events and so forth, I will no longer do that.
There are options out there, But I just I want
all of you to understand because some of you are saying, well,
but my Scout troop that I lead is great because

(18:29):
I'm a man and I'm a man's man, and you
know what, that's awesome. But you're affiliated with an organization
that has no problem with allowing gay men to lead them,
and I just want to I want to just remind
you of this. A court ordered payout of two point
four six billion dollars to eighty two thousand former Boy

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Scouts who were sexually abused by officials and volunteers two
point four six billion dollars. I would never take that
chance with my children ever, because they've they've have they

(19:21):
tightened things down or have they opened them up? I
rest my case. I'm sorry. I would not be advising
any of my grandchildren to be part of that program.
There are alternatives that are appropriate and safer that I
would go towards if it were me. But forty two

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past the hour, running late, running late, You'll love what's next.
Some sound you must hear. This is this is something
that you really you just you got to hear it
to believe it. This is in Cali, California, near Bakersfield.

(20:04):
It is Heart Memorial Park the entrance Kern County, California.
They got reports of someone trying to steal the U. S. Flag,
but they weren't trying to steal it. They were trying
to throw it down the ground and replace it with
the Mexican flag. And when law enforcement showed up, here's

(20:25):
what they heard.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
You're not gonna tell me.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
What to do with.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Look at that flag because that flag isn't on the floors,
is it? You can't?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, my people kill you. I'm going to see when
you're heurting me, and you're.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Gonna regret it when you could go, okay, got you
when your kids died, When your kids die, you're squitching
my hand and they already know you don't take me
your We're.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Gonna thank me, thank me, thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Right, I'm not gonna pay.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
My dad's gonna kill you and all your family.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Do you think it's a joke until it's not.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're I already told my dad, Okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Hey do you think it's a joke?

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, cool?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
You're gonna send me free? No, I said, you want
to turn off my car?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Turn off my car? I get that.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's Mexican, lamb.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's Mexican lamb.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
You want to put me in with all?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Okay, I'm gonna let my father kill you. I'm gonna
let my father shake. So yeah, that's Crystal aguill Are,
twenty four years of age, foul mouth. I don't know
if she's here illegally or not, doesn't matter. She's out,

(21:55):
she's gone. I'm deporting her, claiming this is Mexico's land,
threatens to have the officers killed, their families killed, their
children killed. Her people are gonna kill them. Her dad's
gonna kill them because they dare touch her vile, little, profane,

(22:19):
spewing little girl. This is evidence. I wanted to play
that because this is evidence of what we've lost by
not requiring people to assimilate into this country and to
be of like mind of not being a little picky.

(22:43):
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a
nation of settlers and immigrants who agree with the society
that the settlers set up. This is outrageous, believe it
or not. Next hour, I'm gonna share something that's worse. Yeah, yeah,

(23:09):
it's uh forty seven minutes after the hour, it's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I love my audience. I

(24:04):
love you even when you say things like this. This
is great, Dwayne wrote in might just be me, but
your music on the show bites it is just you. No,
I have no idea what people think. Here's what you
need to know, which I've talked about fairly regularly over

(24:27):
the years, especially recent years, as recording companies have become
very difficult, we have to use music that we have
the copyright too, and so we have a production library
that we use that has millions of songs and so

(24:50):
we select music that is representative of the eras of
our audience from the seventies, eighties, nineties to thousands. And
the reason why we can't play songs that you're familiar
with is because recording companies are stupid. You know. All

(25:14):
I need to do is point at Donald Trump's use
of YMCA. Trump uses YMCA. He got permission from the
guy who wrote the song. They said, heck, yeah, you
use it, and it became number one on the Billboard
charts forty plus years after it was released. I don't

(25:36):
think it was number one when it was released. I
think it was top five, maybe the top ten. Village People,
And because he used parts of that song, and of
course it's been used in stadiums for how long now.
And my contention has always been with our company is

(25:57):
they need to make the argument that the playing of
a song on a program like ours for fifteen to
thirty seconds enhances the opportunity for their music to be
heard by some people for the first time ever by
others like, oh man, I remember that great song and

(26:20):
then you go download it and you make money. Dude
that wrote the song for Village People, one of the
artists was like man, I am rolling in royalties like
crazy because people are downloading the song. So yeah, that's
the point of the music selections being very generic and

(26:43):
we try to touch on different styles of music. But
don't blame me. Blame the recording artists and tell them
they're idiots because they would sell more records if they
allowed us to play their stuff. Because I'm not playing
an entire song. I'm playing twenty thirty seconds at the most.
That's if that helps someone by their record, they I'll

(27:05):
be like, heck, yeah, do it. Awesome, But whatever, can't
fix stupid. But as far as your your emails, keep
them coming. Preston at iHeartRadio dot com program I love it.

(27:47):
Good to be with you friends. It's the second hour
of the morning show with Preston Scott. We've got sal
news on next hour. It'll be our final visit before
the session starts, and then he'll be in here each
and every Monday. A legislative update, what's happened, what's happening,
what's likely to happen, the fallout, reverberation, whatever, whatever it

(28:11):
might be. So that's coming up later on in the program.
This is from Laura Logan. This was shared by one
of the research assistants, and I'm just going to post.
I'm just gonna read what she posted, and she's a
to me. She's a very respected independent journalist making sense

(28:32):
of what you're seeing around you from the perspective of
an experienced law enforcement officer specializing in RICO conspiracy cases.
So she's now listing a statement by someone who is
a someone charged with handling RICO cases. Laura. What Musks

(28:58):
Doge Team, Doze Team has uncovered is a money laundering
scheme that shows how the Obama, Hillary Biden DNC conspiracy
to transform America into a Marxist state was financed with
tax payer dollars. What Michael Schellenberger, reporting on Musk's USAID

(29:18):
discovered is establishing the money trail and connection between USAID
and the CIA. Schellenberger one hundred percent correct that the
CIA was behind funding the first impeachment trial of Trump.
When you combine the reporting of Paul Sperry and Schellenberger
with the investigative analysis, explains how they framed Trump as

(29:42):
all the dots connect as it all comes together, Now
you see why the need for the Department of Justice
prosecutors to do a real conspiracy investigation, starting from the
origins of reorganization of NSD by Obama and holder weaponization,
the unmasking of American citizens, the formation of the resistance

(30:04):
movement within the federal government, the manufacturing of evidence of
the Russian hoax, and impeachment trials leading to the bogus
lawfare investigations of Trump. As they're all part of the
plan to enrich themselves their supporter in promoting their leftist
agenda to transform America. It looks complex, but when you
lay out all the overt acts and look at the

(30:25):
evidence of the incestuous relationships of former and current members
of the Department of Justice, the FBI, DNC, the CIA,
their hatred of Trump, all comes together proving a pattern
of organized conspiracy at the highest levels of government. That's

(30:45):
why I wrote two different prosecution investigative theories for the
Department of Justice consideration using three hundred and seventy one
conspiracy statutes of obstruction to defraud the public, the other
u U seeing the election statutes for election interference, which

(31:05):
both theories would lead to the same conclusions identify the
conspirators at the highest levels of government. Of those involved
musk audit of aid also connects the dots to the
Clinton Foundation receiving US AID funds, Hillary Clinton's role, and
the sale of US uranium stockpiles to the Russians and

(31:27):
US tech companies partnerships with Russia, and setting up a
Moscow version of Silicon Valley Center in Skalkovo. All the
FBI investigations in the Clinton never came to fruit, despite
a mountain of evidence, as documented by our friend Peter
Schweitzer by the way the Government of Accountability Institute and

(31:49):
in his book Clinton Cash S. C. Durham and his
Findings found the Deputy FBI Director McCabe restricted the FBI
investigations into Hillary Clinton in closing, if Hillary Clinton has
had been elected president in twenty sixteen, the American public
would never know the extent and scope of how politically
corrupt the system had become, or how close we came

(32:12):
to losing our country. Methinks this is going to lead
to me reaching back out to Peter Schweizer and getting
him back on the program to talk about Clinton Cash
and how all of these revelations of US eight are
confirming his story and his sources. Crazy right, just thought

(32:37):
that was worth sharing ten past the hour. It's only
money though, right. I had a young man come to

(32:59):
the how uninvited. He was a solicitor, and that's fine,
you know, young person got to make a living. And
I've had a couple of them of late and nicest
young man, just polite as can be, handled his business

(33:21):
very very well, easy going, not pressured, but wanted to
check my interest in solar and I just looked at him.
I said, look into my eyes with a big smile
on my face. I said I looked like someone that's
going to be interested in solar and he goes, yeah, no, sir,

(33:43):
I don't think so. And we had a good conversation.
I said, you do realize you're in a neighborhood with
nothing but trees. He said, yeah, that's proving to be
a little difficult. I said, but you know there are
some roofs here that are exposed. I said, but he's said,
you're worried that they're ugly. I said, well they are,
but that's not the issue. He said, well, what is it?

(34:05):
I said. The issue is that it's not efficient. It's
not cost effective. And while there are applications that might
be useful to heat a little water here and there
and help offset a power build. I said, here's the
question you can't answer for me. I said, what's that?
I said, where the panel's going to go in twenty years?

(34:28):
I said, they degrade over time, right, they don't retain
as much over time. They wear out and the batteries
wear out. So we've got batteries and we've got panels.
I said, where those panels going to go? And he
just kind of tipped his head to the side. He said,
I'm not following. I said, it's hazardous waste. I said,

(34:50):
California is learning that lesson right now. I said, I'm
not trying to discourage you from doing your job. I said,
you're you're very polite, and I said you're likable, and
I wish you nothing but the best. I said, but
i'd take your skill sets to another industry because California
is learning right now. I said, feel free to look
this up, and I would advise you to do so

(35:11):
since you're selling solar. California is twenty years ahead. They've
been doing solar for a long time and they're reaping
now a massive problem. They've gotten nowhere to put all
of the solar panels that are going bad is they
have to be replaced every fifteen to twenty five years.
Twenty is the sweet spot. So they've got all of

(35:33):
these solar panels that are having to come off of
homes and be replaced. They don't know where to put them.
They don't biodegrade. They're hazardous material. And now what I said,
for an industry that's allegedly environmentally conscious and friendly, it
sure is unfriendly. I said. It's just I said, I

(35:58):
appreciate what you're doing, but I'm a hard no. And
then I came across this over the weekend. Back in
twenty eleven, the US Department of Energy under Obama spent
one point six billion in loan guarantees to Ivanpass solar

(36:23):
green energy product in California, and it's now on track
to close ten years of federal subsidies. It's closing. Let
me quote the head of Pacific Gas and Electric. They

(36:46):
announced their plans to cancel its agreement fourteen years early,
determining that quote, ending the agreements at this time will
save customers money compared to the cost of keeping them
through twenty thirty nine. It's not cost effective. It's being
described like Cylindra as an energy quote boondoggle. In other words,

(37:13):
we're burning more of our cash sixteen past the hour.
Wait do you hear this member of Congress, ironically from California.

(37:42):
All right, this is tough. This is tough to watch
for a lot of reasons. Now we have pointed out
and the last two stories have pointed to the embarrassment
the shame that Democrats should be feeling right now over

(38:05):
the wasted money in just one sliver of government underneath
the State Department, which remember was run by Hillary Clinton,
which was run by Anthony Blincoln. There's zero doubt that

(38:25):
Clinton operated a pay to play scheme through the Clinton Foundation.
You give money to the Clinton Foundation, you'll find favor
with the United States government. And money was distributed through
the State Department through Usaid, usaid. That's why these countries
are getting these absurd allocations of our tax dollars. That

(38:48):
should be shameful that we're burdening Americans with the rates
of taxation that we are for this to fund this.
But no, no, they are. They are absolutely obsessed with

(39:08):
the narrowing down of government scope, shrinking the size of government,
of these programs being found out. One of our favorite
incompetent souls in this country is Maxine Waters. She's a
member of Congress though she should not be. She's an
embarrassment to the state of California. She's an embarrassment as

(39:31):
a person. Listen to what happens as a security guard
employed by the Department of Education is outside the building
and she's there with her throng of supporters and fellow Democrats.
Listen to what she does to this poor man. Put

(39:51):
them in the eye. Come on, oh your face up,
look at him. Let them see you're in your well,
this is him.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Look at it.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
What's your name? Give me that idea again? So what
I showed you the idea? You do what I showed you?
The'd you let me see the ID again? Will someone
else ask him for the I D? Will you ask
him for he won't let me see it again? You dan?

(40:25):
She's what's her point? What is this crap show she's orchestrating?
First of all, can we set aside the irony of
a Democrat demanding to see I D? Okay, okay, can

(40:49):
we just we'll put that aside. But we have an
elected member of Congress harassing a guy doing his job.

(41:10):
So she's berating this guy. Look at him, look at him,
look at him. He's just doing his job. Some of
the reaction to this video online is amazing. The Democrats
have octagenarians going around town trying to intimidate federal workers

(41:31):
for some reason or another. Absolutely pathetic theater from house
Democrats at the Department of Education down to claiming the
security officer is a modern day police officer in the
Deep South blocking school integration. Again ironic given that it

(41:53):
was Democrats doing all of those things. It was Democrat
George Wallace standing in front of the University of Alabama.
It was Democrat governors and legislatures stopping the integration of
schools and maintaining segregation. It was Democrats. And to any

(42:14):
of you that deny that, you simply don't know the
truth or you're intentionally remaining dumb because those are the facts.
They're uncomfortable and I get that. I've had it happen
in my life where a truth has caused me to
be wrong. I hated it, can't stand it when it

(42:35):
happens I was wrong. I don't like being wrong. But
if you don't think Democrats were the authors of segregation,
the Klan and all of that, you're just wrong and
you're intentionally deluding yourself. But the quote from David Kennett

(43:01):
of Daily Signal, three years ago, Democrats wanted to hear
nothing from parents concerned about their kids' schools. They sent
the FBI after parents. Now they're claiming to represent parents
with the shutdown of the Department of Education, which may
or may not happen. I hope it is. But again

(43:22):
the irony twenty seven past the hour, reset the big
stories in the press box. If I mentioned how much
I love what I do thirty six past the hour,
Big stories in the press box. This morning on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott of Preston's OSEI SALNWZ own

(43:42):
just a little bit with Consumer's defense. Boy. Scouts of
America changed its name over the weekend to be more inclusive,
and I don't I mean, there are options for you
if you are inclined to find an organization that instills

(44:07):
great virtues, values and skills in young men. But I
think it's important to remind yourself of a few things.
And I and I know that for those of you
that are and I know I've got listeners of this program.
They're Scout leaders and I'm sorry, as autonomous as you

(44:33):
are allowed to be, which is somewhat significant and not
lost on me, you are still part of an organization
that is wrong on so many things. That's it's look,

(44:59):
it's an now Scouting America. In twenty thirteen they allowed
gay youth, openly gay youth to join. Well, but they
were gay youth all the time. Yeah, maybe, but it
wasn't openly paraded and made to be normal, because it's not.

(45:27):
Two years later they lifted the ban on gay adult leaders. Well,
but they've always had gay adult leaders press and that's
how they had problems with leaders assaulting young boys. That's
my point. We've now somewhat normalized it, and then three

(45:51):
years after that, we're going to just let girls join
the program. I'm sure the Girl Scouts of America loved that.
It's got its own issues, but I want to say
laser focused here, the gender neutral name. That's their words,
not mine, more of a kind gender neutral name. Okay, Okay,

(46:17):
all right, boss? What do you say? Parents? You rolling
the dice when you put your kids in a program
with leaders that you don't know like the back of
your hand, And it might seem a little harsh, but
it sounds to me not all that dissimilar to saying,

(46:38):
you know, I like being a member of the Ku
Klux Klan because I just love the color white. I'm
not into that other stuff. You know that race is
bigotry thing, but I just I've got this thing. I
like white. I like I like it. You know, forget

(47:00):
about being part of an organization that is racially bigoted, discriminatory, hateful,
and violent. Ah, I like white. So okay, you like
teaching kids how to make a fire awesome? What are
you part of? There are options, There are other organizations

(47:26):
that are focused on what the Boy Scouts used to be.
And just as a final little reminder, two point four
six billion dollar settlement to some eighty two thousand boys

(47:54):
who were assaulted, sexually abused, assaulted allegedly. They're paying the settlement.
The Boy Scouts have agreed to pay the claims. Eighty
two thousand different young men are going, are receiving, or
have received. It's court ordered. This isn't but that's just no.

(48:15):
This is court ordered two point four to six billion.
It had to declare bankruptcy. It reorganized under bankruptcy law. Yeah,
forty one past the hour. Sorry, I know that upsets
some of you.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
That's okay, all right, Consider this.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
A warning, guys. Valentine's Day is Friday. It's not even
a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's a Friday, Fellas. I'm

(49:17):
just telling you right now. I say it every year.
If you've got a sweetheart, that means, if you're married,
you have a sweetheart. Don't you dare forget Valentine's Day.

(49:37):
I don't care how long you've been married. I don't
care how often your sweetheart says, don't spend any money
on me. Eighty two percent of couples in America will
give their significant other a Valentine's Day gift. The average

(49:59):
ex spence is one hundred and seventy nine dollars, with
men spending two fifty eight versus one zero six for women. Now, personally,
if that doesn't include a really big meal at a
nice restaurant, then that number is ridiculous. I get the

(50:20):
occasional extravagant. It's Valentine's Day. It's a special year in
your relationship, an anniversary years something you want to do,
something special that's cool. Spend the cash man, drop the dimes,
that's fine. Thirty three percent may take on Valentine's Day debt.

(50:42):
Thirty eight percent think it's worth it. Fifty six percent
say they will skip the holiday if they could. Forty
three percent who may take on Valentine's Day debt don't
plan to tell their significant other. Many blame inflation. Sixty
one percent say it's harder to afford Valentine's gifts. Well, no, no,

(51:06):
lie there. Twenty eight percent say they'll spend less on
Valentine's Day this year. Separately, forty percent will skip the
holiday to save money. Analyst says no one wants to
look like a cheap skate to their partner, especially in
the early days of a relationship. But here's the thing.
Your partner probably doesn't want you to go into debt
over Valentine's Day. So I underscore that. Now that's said,

(51:32):
you better do something. There better be a card, some flowers.
If you're chocolate givers and enjoy chocolate, some little chocolate
goes a long way. I'm telling you, a box of
chocolates goes a long way. Just don't get the kind
of chocolates that someone has to put their finger in
it to see what it is. And then go no,

(51:56):
make sure it's either labeled the box shows you what
each piece is, or you just get the kind that
are nuts and caramels, or you know what I mean,
it's truffles and you know what each one is. It's
just I'm just telling you, Fellas, I'm doing all I
can to hammer home the point. It matters, she says,

(52:19):
it doesn't matter. It matters. Your sweetheart wants you to
overcome her objections with something. Maybe you make a nice
dinner Friday night. Maybe you rent a movie that you
know she'd love to see and hasn't, and you rent

(52:41):
it and you make arrangements to have a nice meal,
pick up a nice dinner somewhere, bring it home, set
the table. Maybe you send her out to get her
nails done or pedicure, manicure, whatever, But do something, Please
do something. Forty six minutes. I'm going to remind you

(53:06):
off and on through the week. But that's my big reminder.
Constructing a new blog Pete Hesa's town Hall, at least
a portion of it at the Pentagon. Share just a

(53:32):
little bit of that on my blog page. I was
just as I'm writing the blog, I'm just thinking, what
a daunting task. DEI has a thirteen year head start
on him. They've been implementing woke policies since twenty twelve

(53:54):
when Obama got reelected. See, the elections have consequences, and
Obama believes in a small, agile military force. But we
are unable as he left it, and Trump only had

(54:17):
four years to turn it around, and he didn't have
much help. Four years isn't enough to turn it around.
These four years is not enough to turn it around.
We have to elect someone that's going to keep Pete
Hegsath in his post for at least twelve years. We
need to follow Trump with a two term president to
have a shot at getting our military footing back. One

(54:41):
of the stated purposes of Obama's realignment of our military
was to be only able to fight on one front
at a time. That's just patently dumb. I mean, it
renders us so we are protected because of the Second Amendment. China, Russia,

(55:02):
they want no part of the American citizenry because we're
armed and to the teeth. They're not fighting, just the military,
and they know mutual assured destruction is right there for
anyone that wants to go deep and go with nukes.

(55:26):
It It ends badly for everybody in that case, everybody,
So no one wants to go there. They know they
can't fight it out on our continent. They can't. No
one can. There's no country in the world armed like
the citizens of the United States. But Hexas's got it.

(55:47):
Just a brutal job, just a brutal job because he's
not only got a correct DEI and wokeness. Get it out.
And that's gonna be tough because they're gonna go undercover.
They're gonna do what the Kamis did at the end
of the macar The era. They went undercover and joined
the Democrat Party. That's where the communists went. They went
to the Democrat Party. They were closely aligned. They could merge,

(56:09):
blend in. They had their camo right there, the policies,
the beliefs of the party, the philosophies of the left. Anyway,
we had I forget how long it's been, we had
someone on the program. I want to say. His name
is Chris Fisher. Ironic name for a guy who catches

(56:29):
and tags great white sharks and sand sharks. His organization,
I think it's Ocean Search all one word. And if
you go to the website. It's really cool because they
tag these sharks they catch and release, they tag them
and then whenever they surface, their buoys set off a marker,
so we know where they are, we know where they're migrating,

(56:51):
we know where they're traveling. And the largest great white
ever caught has popped up off Florida's coast. M anyway.
It's name Contender, a near fourteen foot, sixteen hundred and

(57:16):
fifty three pound great white off the Georgia Florida border pinged.
It's pinged three times since the beginning of the year.
I think I would cry if I saw a fish
like that, that dwarf that made my boat feel small.

(57:40):
If I were out fishing and I saw something like
that come behind by me, I would I would cry.
I would, yes. Anyway, it causes me to get the
hairs on the back of my neck standing up just
thinking about the size of that thing. That's taller than
a basketball goal from the floor to the top of

(58:01):
the backboard. That's how big that is. Boy Ah, all right, friends,

(58:25):
it is Monday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It is Show fifty three thirteen. He's Jose, I'm Preston
and it's great to be with you, and we are
we are going to prepare you for the legislative session
and joining us from Consumers Defense, where he's the executive
director of sal Nuzzo. Hello, friend, how are you sir?

Speaker 4 (58:45):
Don't you love it that we live in a state
with it's so drama free, you know, the everybody gets
along and it's just a it's it's it's you know, Kumbayah.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Is the governor? Are the heads of the Senate and
the House leadership? Are they all aware of how they
are hurting the Republican brand? And I mean, my email
box on this rift between the two is very evident

(59:17):
that people are siding with Governor desandis not the two
of them.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Yeah, I think one is they're likely aware of the
dynamic that's happening with public perception and the way that
I would kind of differentiate.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
I think if you.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
For those who pay attention very in depth into the
political and policy process in Florida and the legislature and
have done so for a long time, while the degree
of how it's all transpired maybe a little bit surprising,
I don't know that anybody shocked that there was a
little bit of kind of what's gone on.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
I think that is this a case of something that's
been simmering boiling over? Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
And so we've got new legislative leadership, there's a you know,
an open governor's race, along with all the other cabinet positions.
You've got the new administration coming in, and all of
this together, I think is kind of Folks in the
process are not surprised by this. I think, by and large,

(01:00:21):
if you ask any of the you know, tens of
millions of voters or residents outside of the political process,
this may be a bit shocking surprising. And the question
might be, you know, wait, aren't these all Republicans? And
yes they are. And so there is a dynamic at play,
and I think you're probably right that the public perception

(01:00:42):
outside of the legislative policy bubble is likely far more
in favor of the governor's position.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Here. If you do a poll and you put the
names of the leader of the Senate, the House, and
the governor all on one page, I know who's winning
that poll.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
Yeah, And the governor's writing a very good popularity number
in the polling as it stands right now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
He also has the bully pulpit. He has the ability to.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Leverage a whole lot of national media in ways that
the Speaker and Senate President just don't. Now they're getting
a little bit of it, but in the week that
it all kind of blew up, the Governor was on
Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, a whole bunch of those shows,
and so that carries with it some ability to generate.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
But Sally, the only reason the Senate President Ben Albritton
and the House Speaker Danny Perez are getting any attention
is for a negative correct Desantas has how many years
now six years on positives, on building on policy and
things happening.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Yeah, and I think there's an element of that six
year built up political capital that Floridians know and are
comfortable with, and so we gravitate toward that. And so
for individuals, like I said, who don't necessarily pay a
whole lot of attention to the nuts and bolts and

(01:02:12):
the logistics and machinations of how the legislative process works,
that's going to be It's going to carry the day.
We got forty five seconds, So I'm going to ask
the question. Everybody wants to know why hasn't Governor DeSantis
vetoed that immigration bill. And this is a very intriguing
quirk because I had to low, I had to look

(01:02:33):
this up. There is no requirement of a time window
for the legislature to send the bill to the governor.
It says in the constitution whenever practicable. Now there is
a time frame for them to send the budget document,
but not the bill itself. So they have not transmitted
officially the bill to the governor, and therefore he has

(01:02:56):
not had the opportunity to veto it. Now there is
talk about there being some kind of a deal worked
out this week. They may do something where they come
back in on midweek and work out the specifics of
it and do a thing where they send it to him,
he vetos it and immediately they pass something that meets

(01:03:19):
his requirements and move forward. But that is the reason
that he has not vetoed it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
We've got more to come with Sal news Oh, do
not leave us, it's so juicy, we cannot wait more.
On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Look it up
Consumers Defense dot Com and you'll learn about what that

(01:03:47):
group does. His organization. Sal Newso is the executive Director
of Consumers Defense and our guest, our legislative expert, and
a lot of people may have forgotten because obviously immigrant
got the lion's share of the attention. But when the
governor originally asked for the special session, there were some
other things he wanted to have addressed.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Yeah, he wanted a bill on elections, mainly in tightening
up ballot amendment provisions. And then he also wanted the
legislature to come in and kind of tweaked the condo
bills that had been passed in the last couple of
sessions to address some of the side effects of those.
When the legislature came in, and this is a weird

(01:04:30):
quirk of the process, they came in for the special
they gabbled it in, and then they gabbled it out immediately,
so the governor's call.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
There wasn't even time for a breath exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
So the governor's call was completed then, so any of
the bills that were proffered or filed and whatnot were
dead at that point. Then they gabbled in immediately their
own special session, which allowed them to file and take
up their immigration bill, which they called the Tackling and

(01:05:03):
reforming unlawful migration policy. The Trump Act is.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
There have been a lot of different things, and I
don't want to get bogged down on this, but I
just know where the listeners are. There's a lot of
media saying, well, the President weighed in, he talked to
the leadership, and this is his bill. A lot of
people are saying, well, no, it's really not his bill.
He weighed in, but they didn't necessarily do everything, and
FHP certainly had a lot to say about it. What's

(01:05:31):
the story.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Yeah, the governor or the president weighed in on principles
and what he wanted to see from not just Florida,
but any state that's looking to enact something to assist
with their federal immigration policy. What this really hinges on
now is the enforcement mechanism, and that is really the

(01:05:53):
gulf between the governor and the leadership and the legislature.
And what it means is the legislature is looking to
transfer the enforcement of all state immigration policy from the
governor where it's constitutionally kind of stipulated now, to the
Agriculture Commissioner.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Why that is so patently dumb sound, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
I don't pretend to understand kind of the mode of
thought on why You've had a couple of members try
to explain it over the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
It made no sense.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
I have not gotten a satisfactory answer for that in
my opinion and my kind of deduction of what's transpiring.
So the governor is dead set against that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
He is claimed, and he does have a veto proof
veto on this. I mean he's or rather he's got
an override proof majority.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
In the Senate. In the Senate, he does in the House,
they could vote to override, and it looks like there
is enough votes that would override it. On the Senate side,
there weren't enough yes votes on the bill to override
his veto, so the veto would likely stand.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
All right. Speaking of the governor, the governor's talked about
the budget. He's proposed a budget a lot of moving
parts and all of that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
Yeah, and even before the budget proposal from the governor,
one other unique item that the legislature has decided to
take up in this is the existing budget. They went
and overrode one of his line item vetos from the
current budget, and it involves some funding for legislative staffing

(01:07:35):
and things along those lines. But the Speaker has established
some budget working groups that he's empowered to look through
all of the governor's light items from the existing budget
and determine if they're going to host or hold even
more veto overrides votes in the coming weeks or into

(01:07:56):
the run up to the to the main session.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
We got more to talk about relates to the budget
and a whole lot more. We're just warming up. This
is going to be maybe one of the more interesting
sessions because it appears, sadly to be a little bit
more adversarial than we've seen in recent years. More to
come with Sal Newso Consumer's Defense here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott twenty one past the hour, Sal

(01:08:30):
Newso with me from Consumers Defense, before we deep dive
a little bit into the budget proposal from the governor,
because that's where we are right now. The session starts
in March. The status of the kind of shifting chairs
on the deck of the ship.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Here the dominoes, Yeah, they continue to kind of fall
a little bit. So Ashley Moody is officially a United
States Senator. There is an acting Attorney General right now.
The governor has indicated he will appoint James Uthmeier, his
current chief of staff, as attorney General, but he has
not done that yet. I think it likely he wanted

(01:09:08):
James to help get him through this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
He has that clear authority. There's no other steps needed,
no other steps needed. He also indicated that he will
name Jason Wada, who is the current head of the
Agency for Healthcare Administration, as his new chief of staff
when James shifts over into the AG role CFO.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
So Jimmy Patronis won the primary for CD one, so
I believe his resignation is effective at the end of
the month, And so you've got one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Is the election for that seat? Oh? Is it April?

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
It may be April, but I think the resigned to
run rule has a has a quirk in the timing
or something like that. So the governor will have to
appoint someone as CFO as well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Can it Is it safe to say it's likely not
going to be Joe Gruder's.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
I don't necessarily think, I mean, just knowing personalities, I
would be surprised if it were at this point. Okay,
but you do have an indication from both Joe and
another state senator blazing goolia that they both plan to
run for it in two years regardless of who's nominated.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Let's take take a look at the budget itself. Sure,
what stands out.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
So the governor's budget proposal is one hundred and fifteen
point six billion, and what stands out is that's a
sizable reduction from the current year's budget. So you've got
a largely the reductions are going to be in some
federal pass through dollars and things like that, but you
do have a nine hundred million dollar reduction in the

(01:10:39):
general fund revenue. And that's that's sizable.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
But isn't that part of a reflection of a predicted
downturn in revenues that the state was going to receive.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
Yes, you do have the Revenue Estimating Conference, which meets
regularly along with some other forecasting that says, you know,
we've enjoyed a huge urge in revenues because of tourism,
in migration and whatnot, and that's going to slow down.
So the governor is, in my opinion, rightly kind of

(01:11:10):
concentrating on fiscal responsibility, and so you've got the general fund.
He's kind of proposing a nine hundred million dollar decrease there.
He is setting aside eight hundred and thirty million to
pay down some debt the general fund cuts that he's
looking at about seven hundred and forty vacant state positions

(01:11:32):
that they can just eliminate one thing that'll be notable
for Tallahassee reducing the overall state university system spending by
about two hundred million dollars total. But he does make
up for it in some other area. Six hundred and
nine million dollar increase in K twelve schools.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Is that is that pointed in any particular area in
K twelve? It's a good question. I don't know the
answer to that, but I'd be curious if there, if
they're looking at it at being a little bit more
robust in their investment and embrace of vocational it could
be the case.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
I'd have to dive in on the line items there,
along with an additional half a billion dollars to combat
a legal immigration three hundred and sixty some million to
protect the coastlines. But he is increasing some of those
sales tax holidays and some other tax cuts along the way.
He said he wants the business rent tax to go

(01:12:26):
to zero immediately as opposed to the glide path over
several years. So bear in mind this is just a proposal.
The legislature has the authority to submit their own budget
to the governor, which is what they do, so this
is a part of every year's process. The governor submits

(01:12:47):
something it reflects his priorities. The legislature then sends him
something that takes in some of those priorities, doesn't include others.
And given the drama, it's going to be intriguing to see.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
How that all lays out. Do you give some context
to this budget its size?

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Yeah, And this is one where I'm puzzled by some
of the legislative pronouncements about how Florida's government wastes money,
and this is something where I think it's important to
provide some context. Florida has the single leanest state budget

(01:13:25):
in the United States when you look at it per capita,
and so that one hundred and seventeen eighteen billion dollars
in the current year budget. The state of New York,
with about a million and a half fewer residents than
the state of Florida, their state budget is two hundred
and thirty seven billion dollars, so it is more than double,

(01:13:46):
more than double the size of Florida with fewer residents,
and that is an important context as we begin to
pick a part where the government is spending money.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Sal newzo with us from consumers to twenty seven pass.
Come back after the news break and talk more about
the legislative session itself, what we expect to to hear,
see and have voted on runing show with Preston Scott.

(01:14:19):
This is the way my News Radio one hundred point
seven double UFLA. All we need is the required walker
walk guitar there and we'd be rolling on our skates

(01:14:41):
if you have a roller skate.

Speaker 4 (01:14:43):
When I was young, but then took up rollerblading a
little bit more in my teenage years and into college.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
I've roller skated like twice in my life, thinking it
was a ice skate, and it didn't end well for me.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
Now see, I had a grown up in Connecticut. I
had a lot of friends who played hockey in high
school whatnot. In my high school had an amazing hockey team,
both men and women's team. He Yeah, and I could
never ice skate. I tried it a few times and
it was not pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
But you could blade blade, Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
I think it has to do with the sliding part,
where in rollerblading you have a little bit more friction
that helps my coordination.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
All Right, we've talked about the special session sort of
that wasn't so special. We've talked about the budget. But
now we get to the nitty gritty the special sessions.
In the rearview mirror, there may be something coming. But
now we get to the regular session in March. What
are we seeing.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Yeah, and a number of things are already coming out
of bill drafting, getting filed, getting numbered, and so a
couple of things that I think would be helpful to
unpack that speak to a lot of the big picture priorities.
You have a concerted effort to take a look at

(01:16:03):
the property tax kind of issue within the state. And
we've talked about this in the past, where you can
own your home outright, and if you do not pay
your property taxes, the government can put a lean on
your property and therefore, I mean, you really never own it.
And so there's a whole lot of kind of tentacles

(01:16:26):
to this, but one in particular that I think is
important to unpack from Blazing Goolia. He would like to
and he's working with someone in the House on this.
He's looking to file an amendment onto the ballot that
would up the homestead exemption to seventy five thousand dollars

(01:16:46):
of assessed value on the property. On the House side,
Ryan Chamberlain actually has a bill HB. Three point fifty
nine which would up the exemption to one hundred thousand dollars.
It would also a property tax revenue growth at two
percent per year. And one of the things that he's
claiming and he's got, you know, kind of the data

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to back this up is as our in migration and
population surges happen, you have property values going up a
whole lot as individuals move in, and some of that
is not ported in the way that individuals migrating from
county to county can port homestead values. You have local

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governments that have seen their revenues go up a whole lot,
and this is meant to be a check in balance
on local governments, and so they need to be managing
their own budgets effectively and providing the basket of services
that are required and not go off and pursue a

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whole lot of the agenda that they tend to is
there any discussion on unelected groups having the authority to tax,
Not that I've heard late Lee, but we do have
a few weeks to go before before bill filing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
I mean, from a principal standpoint, that just seems to
run a foul of what makes sense to me.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Yeah, Florida has so many I think at one point
it was like over ten thousand special taxing districts that
are in place, and they run from everything like a
Community Reinvestment Act type of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
But all of those are done through an elected body.

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
Well yes, in some cases, but in others there are
just these appointed bodies that are putting like the Children's
Services Council and all of those things. And I would
love to see some clarity and transparency and more accountability
and an effort to kind of rain those in.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
But that's one.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
The other thing that Blazes got though, that I want
to point out, is you have this situation with a
state senator down in the East Coast, Debbie Mayfield. She
was turned she ran, wanted to run for the House
instead of the Senate because you've turned out of the
Senate now, she wanted to run for the Senate. The
state Secretary of state said you're disqualified because of term limits.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
She's challenging that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
So he's pointing to an amendment to clarify term limits
that would close it out after sixteen total years in office.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
And that's it. Four terms in the House and how
many terms in this cuse? Yeah, are the two year
terms two year term.

Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
It's four year terms, but they're staggered and if it
carries over reapportionment, you can get an extra two years
depending on when your term comes up. But sixteen years total.
That would be the amendment. And so I'm paying a
lot of attention to that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Sal Newso with us more to come on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. All right, final segment here Salnuzo

(01:20:02):
with Consumers Defense, and we're kind of teeing up. The
fund starts a month from now, roughly when the legislative
session begins. So we've talked about term limits, We've talked
about homestead exemptions and what they might look like. What
are some other bills floating?

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Yeah, a few fund items that I'm going to be
paying attention to. Senator Nick de Segli has SB four
sixty two directing money from the public, ev charging stations
to a fund that could be used specifically for roads
and infrastructure. And I don't own an EV, so I
didn't even realize this. But at a public charging station,

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a lot of them, you have to pay and it's
like a time period is so that money, a portion
of that would go in to the fund for transportation,
because if you're not paying the gas tax, it's an
important thing because you are using the roads and you're.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
The argument is that you are putting more burden on
the road because the vehicle are infinitely heavier.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Yes, there's a whole host of arguments, and even in
my days a JMI, we wrote about the need to
kind of do this, whether it's on miles traveled or
something along those lines. This would kind of skin that
cat in a different way ballot amendments. So the governor
didn't get his proposal hurt in the special session, but
I do expect this one to come back. He wants

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to tighten up the rules on how signatures are gathered,
who can gather them, where they can be gathered, and
what the role of those individuals and organizations like the
Supreme Court Court are in reviewing the language. And one
in particular thing One thing in particular he wants to
do is close the loophole on foreign nationals who are

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able to give to a ballot amendment process. We had,
I want to say it was thirteen or fourteen million
dollars in foreign money propping up amendments three and four
that would close out that loophole. Interesting from Joe Gruder's
you mentioned him earlier SB five forty six, he wants

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to allow anyone with a medical marijuana card to get
a permit to grow their own to plants per person
out of public view, not accessible by children. But still
an interesting take in how that is laying.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
Out is is there any discussion in committee about just
the public aspect of having to smell that crap?

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
Not that I've gotten wind of unintended lately, but I
could absolutely see that topic coming up, especially given the
fact that we fully expect that amendment to come.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Back in the ballot. Now they're already beginning.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
They're already beginning, which is also kind of prompting the
governor in wanting to make sure that we don't have
a replay of what happened where you have one company
bankrolling and engaging in a lot of potentially troublesome actions
and trying to get the amendment through that. You know,

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I think that the Governor's proposals are kind of aligned
with trying to make sure that this process is transparent
moving into the next cycle.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Lastly, lastly, to appropriately.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
Yeah, Toby Orverdorff file to build a unbanned bump stocks
and the Governor's actually putting on a full push for
a full open carry bill to get to his desk. Now,
the Senate President has claimed law enforcement opposes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
That they don't, only the association does, and there's a distinction.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Well, yes, And I want to be very clear in this,
because I looked it up. The Florida Sheriff's Association has
said recently they do not have a position on anything
right now. They will wait until language comes out and
then they will provide their perspective on it. But historically
they have been against full open carrey.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
But shouldn't it be distinguished that it's the association because
Wayne Ivy says the majority of sheriffs support it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Yes, and Wayne Ivy has said that, and the governor
is also intimated that a large number of actual elected
sheriffs are in favor of this. So I expect this
to come out, and in the context of all of
the drama, it could bubble up a lot more than
it has in prior years.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
But historically Second Amendment issues they go to the Senate
to die. Historically, that is correct. Cannot wait for March.

Speaker 4 (01:24:37):
It's gonna be a far wilder ride than I had anticipated.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
A month or two ago. Thanks for the time, Always
a pleasure. Salderzo with Consumers Defense, our guest forty seven past.

(01:25:08):
All right, we talked earlier about the Philadelphia Eagles. Congratulations
winner of the Super Bowl. I know some of you
that are Eagle fans are probably awesome and wonderful because
you listen to this show. But you know, when I say,
as a rule, worst fans in football, worst fans of

(01:25:29):
professional sports, just ugly and vile, just mean and profane,
and they wear it as a badge of honor at
the stadium, and it should be a you know, a
moniker of embarrassment. And so, I you know, I'm happy
for Jalen Hurts. I'm happy that he's a good dude

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that is a really good football player. And Chiefs got
out coached and they got out played. That wasn't that
really wasn't even a ballgame. So congratulations super Bowl champions.
A deserving team, not a deserving fan base, but a
deserving deserving team. I'm good with that season's over. The

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Draft is in green Bay this year. Green Bay Packers
hosting the NFL Draft in that little town. That's gonna
be hilarious. In case you did not know, for the
Super Bowl, Pringles released two limited time flavors. They had
Pringles Miller Lite Beer canned Chicken flavored chips and they

(01:26:38):
had seven layered Dip. The former had the taste of
roasted chicken with refreshing Miller Lite beer yummy, and the
seven layer cheese, salsa, guacamole, and olives. Okay, I had
their everything bagel chip. I just tried it because I

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looked at it and thought, okay, and it was the
worst thing I've ever put in my mouth. That was
just awful. But in case you're interested, the loaded potato skins,
Pringle is coming to the stores in May. Loaded potato skins.
Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong.
I you know, I credit them for Hey, go for it. Yeah,
try different things. Good for you. If if people want it,

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they'll buy it. Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Yeah Tamar on
the program. Justin Haskins confirmed he will join us. And
by the way, I am going to put on the
Conversations podcast page, my special conversations with Justin, Peter Schweitzer,

(01:27:50):
Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck. Yes, I'm going to do
that special just for you you so along with other
special interviews. You'll get that as well. Big stories in

(01:28:10):
the press box, Trump provoking the security clearances of Joe
Biden and others. Yeah, Boy Scouts of America officially name
change Scouting America offered some thoughts on the gradual but
consistent and persistent move to the left and wokeness by

(01:28:34):
the once venerated Boy Scouts of America no more. Probably
won't talk about them at all unless you hear them
in the news for some reason. Not like we would
know what that would be about. You know, it's not
like they've ever had to pay nearly two and a
half billion dollars in the settlement to victims of sexual assault.

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It's not like at It's a good show today, fast
moving show back tomorrow. Cannot wait. Friends have an awesome
day