Ep. 5481: Hard lessons for New York coming.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
What do you say that, Steward Ish you played it
for her, you can play it for me. Play it Sham.
Welcome to the Monday edition of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, Jose's in there going what what are you
talking about? Sorry, Humphrey Bogart and maybe one of the

(00:30):
finest films ever, Casablanca, Play it Sham. Anyway, we thank
you for joining us. Hope you had a nice weekend.
Got a little It's just a I was hoping for
more rain than we got yesterday. I'll be the I
will say that's I was hoping that we would have

(00:53):
just a little bit more of the wet stuff. We
desperately need sprain, we really do. We don't need a flood,
We just need some rain for the plants. I mean,
even the deep old hedges are going because they just
don't we don't have enough moisture in the ground. So

(01:14):
but anyway, hope you had a nice weekend. I am,
of course, celebrating my beloved Green Bay Packers defeat of
the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh. Brilliant second half performance by
the Packers I'm told didn't see much of it, woke
up for the fourth quarter and watched just a little

(01:35):
bit of that, and that was that, Yeah, I know
I got you. I got you. We got God's word
here for you. That's where we always start our day.
It is James five point thirteen. Is anyone among you suffering,
let him pray? Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise?

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And here's the thing. You can reverse all of that
because Scripture says one of the best things you could
do when you're really downcast is to praise God anyway,
and one of the best things that you should do
when things are going great is to continue to pray.

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We have this habit of only reaching out to God
in prayer when things are just dreadful. And it clearly
says if you're suffering, pray, But I also think that
the remedy is found for our soul in praying at

(02:43):
all times and in praising at all times. But it's
still not bad advice. It's in the Bible. It's good
stuff there. James five thirteen.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ten past the hour, and this is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, twenty seventh of October, we're
going to polish off the month of October this week,
and if you're not already doing some Christmas shopping, you
are making a mistake. If you are a shopper. Now
not everybody is, and that's fine. But if you do

(03:37):
some gift giving, get after it. I have learned over
the years it is a bad mistake to wait for
whatever it is that you want to buy to go
on sale, because the odds of you getting exactly what
you want in the size, or color, or addition or

(03:59):
what have you dramatically drops as the shopping season goes on. Besides,
I'm a big believer in shopping as you get closer
because it helps your budget. It doesn't it doesn't leave
you in an odd spot financially. On this date in
sixteen eighty two, two months after leaving England, William Penn

(04:20):
arrives at Newcastle, Delaware, what would be seventeen eighty seven,
the first of the Federalist Papers is published in a
New York newspaper. Might have been the last time that
a New York newspaper other than the New York Post
wrote anything useful. But I'm just I mean, that's a

(04:44):
broad statement, I know. Eighteen fifty eight, Theodore Roosevelt twenty sixth.
The US president born in New York City eighteen fifty eight.
We don't think about Teddy Roosevelt being born in the
eighteen fifties. We just don't. I think we just we
forget that the presidents of the early nineteen hundreds were
born in the eighteen hundreds. What a transformation. They oversaw

(05:07):
wheels powered by an engine flight I mean, the Wright
Brothers locomotives. The end of the Wild West. It just crazy.
Eighteen seventy three, Illinois farmer Joseph Glidden applies for a

(05:29):
patent on barbed wire, an innovation that helps the helps
fence the Western planes, enabling large scale farming. Nineteen oh
four of the nation's first rapid transit subway opens in
New York City, and they were promptly held up by
somebody in the subway car. I'm sure. And in two

(05:51):
thousand and two, Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith breaks
the Walter Payton career rushing record of sixteen thousand, seven
hundred and twenty six yards become the nation the NFL's
all time leading rusher. He finished with eighteen, three hundred
and fifty five What a great running back and it.
Smith was played for the Dallas Cowboys his career. What

(06:11):
else should we have? Not much? It's National Civics Day,
National American Beer Day. You ever had a beer? Yep?
Don't like it? Yeah, I've never acquired. I've never tried it.
I've never When I smelled beer, I just was like,

(06:36):
why would you put that in your mouth? It just
smells gross. Now I will cook with it their seafood,
certain types of cheese, dips, and brats, chili as well. No,

(06:58):
I can't do that, No, I reject that. But if
you want to do crack and peel shrimp, crack and
peel shrimp steamed in beer. Alcohol burns off when you
boil it, So the alcohol burns off and you're left
with that weird kind of wheat and barley and malt

(07:21):
kind of thing. I don't know. It just works with
shrimp brought worst and you would maybe use it beer
cheese for pretzels. It's just a whatever. Sixteen minutes past
the appwork come back with something that is extraordinary. Got

(07:51):
quite an interesting selection of big stories in the press
box in just a little bit. So you were under
the weather over the weekend, Huh, Yes, I'm sorry, what
about oh potatoes translation a little bit. Yeah, I was
worried that I was starting to get sick, so I

(08:11):
slip a lot, drink a lot of orange juice and whatnot. Okay,
and what not? What was the what not? No, just
just feeling tired, sore throat, cough and stuff. Okay, So
you drank a lot of orange juice and whatnot. So
what was the what not that you drank? I think
people would want to know, water loft. Are you feeling

(08:33):
better today? Though? Yeah? Feeling good. I mean it's still
a little some in my throat, but I don't know.
I think it was just you stay in that side
of the built room, noire. Okay, this I used the
word extraordinary because that's in the headline. I just this

(08:54):
kind of stuff fascinates me. A twelve hundred years old
loaf of bread. In fact, several loaves of bread carbonized
have been found bearing the image of Jesus in south

(09:16):
central Turkey. The bread dates back to the seventh or
eighth centuries eighty. It's one of five carbonized loaves, the
one that has his literal the and by image, I'm
saying it's a depiction. It's stamped. It's not like a
supernatural thing. It's stamped. And there are of the five loaves,

(09:41):
they all bear some form of Christian symbolism. Now, in
this particular one, Jesus is depicted as a sower or
a farmer. Sower would make a lot of sense. Farmer
would make a lot of sense. And the bread is

(10:04):
likely Communion bread. Now was it carbonized? Like say, what
happened in seventy nine eighty when you know Mount Vesuvius
went off and carbonized food and so forth. It just

(10:25):
the heat from the lava and the volcano just literally
carbonized things and preserve them. At the same time, this
bread is unbelievably preserved. Now it's not edible. When it's carbonized,
it's not edible. Was it done intentionally? Did they do
this to these loaves of bread intentionally with the idea

(10:46):
of preserving them? Were they left over from Communion where
they you know, never used what did some you know,
natural disaster strike. Don't have the answers to that. But
what's interesting is that this is further evidence of a

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the spread of Christianity because we're talking now away from
the traditional Middle East up into Turkey and symbols that
are straight out of the Bible, communion, breaking the loaf

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of bread and taking it in remembrance of him the
I think what also is interesting to me is the
variety of these loaves of bread and the fact that

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you can clearly, if you map this, you can see
the spread of the message of Christ from the first century.
And it amazes me how so many Jewish people missed

(12:18):
it and still do. You had this entire Old Testament,
the Law, and the prophets, and Jesus said, I have
come to fulfill them. I'm the guy. Hello, I'm the guy.

(12:41):
I'm him, and then he demonstrated it. And yet still
to this day, though Christians have a heart for Israel,
and of course horse the Old Testament, because the Old Testament.

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I've always used the Old Testament as establishing spiritual principles
that the New Testament reveals. But one cannot be embraced
without the other. You can't possibly embrace the New Testament
without an understanding of the Old and the Old Testament
is illuminated and fulfilled in the New Testament. They have
to be together. Anyway, These these loaves of bread, they're

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just they're incredible, They're stamped with these images and these
markers of the Christian faith. All right, twenty seven past
the hour, Let's get to the big stories in the
press box next. We got four of them waiting here
in the Morning show ways looking for the truth. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott on.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Thirty six minutes past the hour. It's the Morning Show.
Good morning friends, how are you Monday? Big stories in
the press box? Social Security benefits will go up two
point eight percent in twenty twenty six. That will affect
about seventy five million Americans in dollars and cents. That

(14:27):
means an extra roughly fifty six dollars a month starting
in January on average. Second big story a billionaire donate
one hundred and thirty million dollars to help pay our troops.
Last time, the October fifteenth paycheck, some of that money

(14:52):
was provided. I don't know what the total payroll is.
But Timothy Melon, who is the eighty three year old
grandson of legendary US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who served
from nineteen twenty one to nineteen thirty two and built

(15:13):
a fortune in banking and industry before the Great Depression.
The family's worth fourteen billion dollars according to Forbes. Timothy's
eighty three years old and resides in Wyoming, just a
very quiet, peaceful life. He had hoped to keep his

(15:34):
name out of it, but his name has been league.
President Trump said he doesn't want publicity prefers that his
name not be mentioned, which is pretty unusual in the
world I come from, and in the world of politics,
you want your name mentioned. But he made the donation,
and while there are conditions that it allowed, it enabled

(15:58):
the government to free up resources elsewhere to pay so
they could accept this money. Just I think that's an
amazing story that we have people that that love to

(16:25):
support our military to that degree. Third big story, arrests
have been made in the heist at the Louver. They
are not naming the suspects, but allegedly at least one
was arrested at the Charles de Gaul airport in Paris

(16:45):
trying to leave the French territory. French media saying two
were arrested. The investigators are very angry about that, strongly
deploy the premature disclosure of this information by informed parties
without do consideration for the investigation. This revelation can only
hinder the efforts of the investigation team mobilized to recover

(17:07):
both stolen jewelry and the group of perpetrators come to America. Pal,
you're mad at the French press, but listen to this.
The guy speaking is a prosecutor working with investigators from
the BRB. What's the BRB. The Brigade for the Repression

(17:33):
of banda tree, that's what it's the Brigade for the
Repression of banditry. Well, okay, then go get them frogs.
And then this little tidbit, the No Kings protests. You
know what, the largest demographic is white females in their forties.

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Psychotherapists are weighing in on this, saying, we're seeing kind
of a group therapy thing playing out, and if you
look at him, they're dressed up in these little inflatable
costumes and all this stuff, and they're he Psychotherapists are
out there saying this is just a group of people
that need a big hug. And so they're finding camaraderie

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in these in these protests, and that's why they look
so silly. People are craving community. This gives them a
place to channel that. Okay, there you go, forty minutes
past the hour. Those are your big stories of the
press box.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott started saying.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
On the theme of the No King's protests. Some interesting
digging here done by the Daily Wire in the two
political parties and raising funds. An analysis of donors listed
by the Democrat National Committee sorry the Democratic in its

(19:17):
most recent federal election filing. The top occupation listed in donors,
What do you think it is? What do you think
the number one occupation is listed among those who gave
money to the DNC teachers. Teachers is on the list,
but it's not number one in fact, and it's not

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so much teachers, professors, CEOs, president, chairman, professor, investor, consultant, physician, attorney, retired,
but number one not employed. Not employed. Now you can
read that a lot of different ways. One way to

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potentially read it is these are people getting money from
the Feds. They're sowing some seed to keep the flow coming.
Because the left Democrats believe in social programs and the
handing out of money, they treat it as if it's

(20:23):
just candy to give away and it's your tax dollars. Now. Conversely,
Republicans the occupations top ten retired, ceo, self employed, chairman, founder, president, homemaker, entrepreneur,
and investor top ten in both parties California, New York, Texas, Illinois.

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This is interesting. Listen to this. The RNC gained most
donations in all four all four of those states. Republicans
gave more money in California, in New York, in Texas,
and in Illinois. Texas doesn't surprise, but those other three states,
they are blue blue. They are bluer than blue, if

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you remember that song back in the late seventies early eighties.
In New York, donors gave two point nine million to
the DNC, four million to the RNC. In California six
million to the DNC, twelve point two million to the RNC.

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That speaks to how people are trying to fight the
wave of progressivism sweeping the left. In Illinois, the Republicans
outpaced Democrats by seven hundred thousand, not a huge number,

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but still. And in Texas one point five million to
the DNC, eleven point seven million to the RNC. But
that makes sense. It's a it's a red, it's a
it's a red state, not as red as Florida, but
it's still red. So if you follow the money, it's interesting.

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Does that play out though in the congressional elections, the midterms.
We'll see, we will see. All right, forty six minutes
past there come back with did you know? Kind of
a news edition?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
And women serving our great nation and our armed services,
those serving communities as law enforcement officers and first responders.
I say you are all essential workers. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer has detailed on X the
Latest on Harjinger sing sadly, we know the name, don't we.
He is that truck driver responsible for the death of

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at least three others. I think it was three that
were killed because of his reckless, illegal effort at making
a U turn on a Florida turnpike and three in

(23:46):
a mini van drove right into the trailer as he
basically jackknifed himself across all ways of travel. It is
a cosmically unsafe thing that he did. And then we
find out he allegedly doesn't speak English, and oh, by

(24:09):
the way, he's in the country illegally now we learn,
according to Uthmeyer, as we continue our investigation into California
and Washington and Hargender sing we learn that Singh failed
as written exam ten times and he took his behind
the wheel training course at a private CDL school in Washington.

(24:32):
The school will be hearing from my office soon. State
and federal investigations found that Singh, identified by DHS as
an illegal, was incorrectly issued a full term CDL by
Washington in twenty twenty three, followed by a non domiciled
CDL from California in twenty twenty four. He can't read

(24:55):
road signs and he doesn't speak the language, allegedly. Last week,
it filed a lawsuit State of Florida with the US
Supreme Court against California and Washington, seeking a declaratory judgment
that there's sanctuary laws which allow illegals to receive CDLs

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are preempted by federal law and constitute of public nuisance.
Uthmeyer has multiple other examples now to HND to the
High Court. As we've seen more and more illegal drivers
from India, though not all but primarily responsible for the
deaths of Americans. I'm curious did he cheat on the

(25:41):
eleventh test. Did they give him the answers or did
they just pass him anyway? If you can't read the language,
how do you pass the test anyway? How do you
ever pass the test? So at some point did they
just say I always taken enough of his money? You know,

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sometimes saying no is the hardest but best thing, And
people are dead because of those those decisions made thousands
of miles away. To allow this man on the roads
driving a truck, it's it's it's incredible. And the trucking

(26:24):
company that hired him, how'd you hire him? How do
you fill out the forms? How did he read the
any disclosures of any contract anything? What did you not notice?
How did Jinda did not speak their language? You didn't?

(26:46):
You didn't dawn on you speaking of foreigners? Another? Did
you know from the news? Uh? Chinese l SAT? That's
the the legal s A t U law school admissions
Chinese l SAT preparation companies have violated the security of
remotely administered exams for years, allowing Chinese national success stolen

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questions and take the place of qualified Americans. The Chai
cooms are getting into US law schools by cheating on
the tests. What difference does it make well? First of all,
this thing really blossomed during COVID. Interesting. That adds another

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layer to the where did COVID originate from? Story here?
Because what the Chinese have been doing is they have
been taking their operatives. They're passing the l L SAT.
They are getting into US colleges and universities under the
auspices of being law students, thereby getting themselves primed for

(27:57):
positions in companies that jeopardize national security. Law schools don't
seem to care enough. You don't say unbelievable, it really
really is. When we come back, we're gonna take a

(28:18):
little minute and talk about some things that the likely
new mayor of New York has said and why it's
relevant not just to New York City, not just to
New Yorkers, but across the country. Second hour of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott coming up next. Oh, here

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we go. It's the second hour, now hour number three.
We've got our good friend sal Nuzo from Consumer's Defense
joining us, and we're gonna deep dive a few topics,
just a few times. We're going to really focus hard
on property tax. There's some very interesting things happening in
the property tax front. Florida's governor wants to eliminate the

(29:10):
property tax, and for some reason, Republicans are fighting him,
most notably the House Speaker, and they're doing it in
a way that is really dirty. And we'll get to
all that, we will unpack it all. But I thought

(29:32):
it was important, you know, I listened to a few minutes.
I want to say. It was Friday. Yep, Friday. I
spent a little time with one of our kids and
his wife and two children and just hung out a
little bit. I played, I did the food grub thing,

(29:54):
the grubub thing. I delivered a little food. It's kind
of my way of Hey, if I drop off some dinner,
can I see the grandkids. Anyway, I was, I was
driving home and I was listening to Mark Levin and
Mark Levin was breaking down his his guess on what's

(30:17):
coming to New York City, and I thought it was interesting.
But I wanted to go back and broadness just a
little bit and go to the debate the other night.
It you know, open open voting, early voting opened up Saturday,
and so they had a debate Friday. You had Mom, Donnie,

(30:41):
Andrew Cuomo's an independent and Republican. Curtis Sliwa. Now, I've
made the argument for pragmatism back back last week, I
think it was maybe the week before, arguing that Sleewood
needs to just step out because he can't win. Now,
the pushback came in an email to me saying, Curtis
sustain in the race for down ballot, that there are

(31:04):
other races down ballot that Republicans can win that could
be instrumental. Fair enough, I still think he needs to
step down and then make the argument to vote for
people to vote for the down ballot. But hey, what's
going to happen is going to happen. But in their debate,
there was some interesting back and forth. Andrew Cuomo says

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I did things, and he's referring to mom Donnie. You've
never had a job, you never accomplished anything. There's a
new reason to believe you merit or qualification for eight
and a half million lives. You never showed up for work,
you missed eighty percent of the vote. Shame on you.
And I guess they're talking about some commission or something
that Mom Donnie's on. He fires back, the issue is

(31:51):
that we've all experienced your experience referring to the impeachment probe,
the alleged sexual misconduct, COVID policies, and so forth. That's fair.
That's fair. But then I gotta I gotta give credit
to Curtis Leewa. Curtis has been at this a while now,
so he's got he's got a little bit of polished

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to him. He said, Zoron your resume could fit on
a cop cocktail napkin, and Andrew your failures could fill
a public school library. Well, okay, but the real issue
here is who is the real Zoron? Mom, Donnie. And

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I'm gonna make the argument that is being made by
others that he is the ultimate wolf and wolf's clothing,
there's no pretending about who he really is. But he's
trying his best to confuse. And I think this is
really going to be instructive for some of you, if

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you have friends in New York, if you interact with
people in New York, or just to just step back
and analyze what's likely to come in New York or
how to kind of figure out this guy. It's ten
past the hour. The hard lessons coming for New York City.
Next the Morning Show with Dresden Scott. New York City.

(33:37):
Zura Mamdani poised to be the Marxist, socialist communist want
to be, but Islamic mayor of New York City. This
is important. There's a viral picture showing him posing with

(33:57):
a smiling Imam named Siria Mahaj. He is an unindicted
co conspirator in the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center
bombing that killed six New Yorkers who urged jihad upon
New York City. He praised him as one of the
leaders of the Muslim community in New York. Just a

(34:20):
great man. He He suggested that Muslims were victims of
nine to eleven. I don't doubt that nine to eleven

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created and has left a pretty pretty large shadow and
stain on Islam in this country. I understand that you'd
have to be stupid not to understand that. And it
gets to why it matters who is zoorn Mom Donnie,

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because he is cozying up to the extreme left. The
stream left is is just all about him, and the
extreme left supports what transgender ism, abortion, LGBTQ lifestyles openly

(35:36):
embracing all of that and all of that is vile
to Islamis. Which is it he's in. If he's engaging
in apostasy, he's a target for Islamis, or is he

(36:03):
engaged in takia. Takia is taught in the Islamic faith,
and I have I have, I have discussed this frequently
over the years. Takia is the belief that lying is
acceptable if it if it advances the cause of Mohammad,

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if it advances the cause of Islam. So you have
to now and and I'm look, I've got sound of
of people that came out of Islam that are Middle
East ethnically that are saying, this guy is engaging in takia.

(36:54):
Don't doubt us. I believe he's going to be elected,
and when he is, the exodus out of New York,
in my opinion, will make the exodus during COVID look
like nothing. And don't think people won't leave. The fact

(37:19):
that they won't means they forgot what happened in twenty
twenty twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty two, California, New
York lost over one trillion dollars of money. New York
lost a trillion of wealth by itself. Amazon wanted to

(37:43):
bring twenty five thousand jobs with an average salary of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to New York.
They didn't bring it there. This is going to be
interesting to see because this is going to bring You're

(38:04):
going to see a replacement of New York residents with Islamics. Islamists.
Don't be remotely surprised if you If you hear the
siren call to prayer multiple times a day in New
York City, it will be taken over. It will take

(38:34):
twenty years minimum to root it out. If this happens,
New York City will collapse as you know it. Sixteen
minutes past. All right, it is Monday, and that means

(39:23):
we are one day away, and I'm taking just a
little extra time here for you to be reminded if
you live in Leon County of Darryl Jones's comments. He's

(39:43):
a Leon County School board member works for the county
and in response to someone who posted that teachers that
celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination will likely have their license suspended

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to teach, Daryl Jones posted on his social media the
problem is that the Commission of Education from his lofty
position found it necessary to inform an entire profession that
it should not comment on the murder of a racist, misogynist,
homophobic clansman in negative terms. Someone replied to his post

(40:31):
before he took it down, I'm so glad you're not
an educator. Show me when he was racist, misogynist, or homophobic.
I will wait. Daryl Jones took that down, and I
would contend that like a teacher. Look, this is the
same old thing. You don't have a right to post

(40:52):
certain things and keep your job. Now. You have a
right to post anything you want, but you are not
insulated from the repercussions of post such things. I think
an argument could be made that he should be removed,
and if need be, by the governor of the state
of Florida, no different than stripping a teacher of their license.

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You should not have sway on the children and the
parents of this community and sit on the board of
Education and espouse such ridiculous views because he immediately attacked
students and parents who think Charlie Kirk was an amazing

(41:37):
guy and oh, by the way, he was, He's none
of those things. If there is a racist among the
two of them, it's Daryl, that statement reveals a racist

(41:58):
heart calling him a klansman who says that a misogynist
based on what now? I would love to ask him
on all of these based on what is he a racist?

(42:19):
Let's start looking at all the tapes, based on what
is he a misogynist? Let's look at what he says
all of it? Based on what is the homophobic clansman?
Let's dissect that statement. Let's you show me, Let's listen

(42:39):
to the whole conversation. This is so this smack so
similar to the crap that was dumped on Donald Trump
when he spoke in Charlottesville, Virginia. The good people on
both sides had nothing to do with what they ended

(43:00):
up trying to make it. It had to do with
the honoring of people that served for the Confederacy in
the Civil War. That they have descendants that argue that
you shouldn't be removing these statues and rewriting history. Who's

(43:21):
making the point that there were good people on both sides.
There were wrong about slavery, absolutely, but there were good
people on both sides, but they turned it into a
totally unrelated issue. Daryl Jones is guilty of the exact

(43:43):
same thing, taking conversations and believing things that are cut
up and spliced together. He's never taken the time to
really listen to Charlie Kirk. If he had, he should
really be embarrassed and step down. But the meeting tomorrow
night is for those of you that want to comment.
There will be people commenting. It's at six o'clock at

(44:07):
the Aqualina House Center, which is directly across from TSC
on West Pensacola Street. I encourage you to go let
your voice be heard. Twenty seven minutes after the hour,
Big Stories in the press Box coming up next on
the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Welcome to Themad Radio Network, where we challenge you to
make a difference in your world in a positive way,
improving the lives of others. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Thirty five minutes past the hour, Good morning, and welcome
to the radio program. Dr Joe standing by. We'll join
us in just a couple of minutes. But first, the
Big Stories in the press Box. Yeah, the shutdown is
getting a little ugly. There are those that are getting

(45:21):
a little bit of a wake up call on relying
on the federal government for things. There are also those
who really do rely on the federal government and for
good reason and are going to be in some serious hurt.

(45:41):
They are always in any good situation, there are always
people that take advantage, and there are always people that
are in need. And since so many churches don't do
much to help, and so many nonprofits that are out
there are so top heavy, and so little of the

(46:04):
money that's given gets to the ground. You know, I
get the government stepping in in certain areas, that's what
happens by default. But Democrats are gonna really this, this
is going to hang around their neck because whether they
like it or not, this is all stuck on them.

(46:27):
They're just pretending because the polling is abundantly clear. We
had a mystery billionaire who's no mystery anymore, who paid
one hundred and thirty million dollars of our troops payroll
in the last pay session. That's for that's that's one.
That's that's one paycheck. Now. I don't know what the

(46:50):
total cost of the military payroll is, but Timothy Mellon
eighty three year old grandson and the air of the
melon fortune that came from banking and industry worth about

(47:17):
fourteen billion eighty three year old Timothy Mellon lives in Wyoming,
a very quiet, nondescript life. He gave one hundred and
thirty million dollar gift. He did not want to be
known for the gift, but he did make that gift,
and his name got leaked out and uncovered. I mean,

(47:38):
it's a gift. It wasn't like a loan. It's not
like a payday alone or anything like that. It's just like,
this is where we are, and I want to point
out something at the risk of taking a little extra time.
I listened to Democrats over the last few days talk
about the people that were hurting because of these shutdowns,

(48:03):
people that were furloughed, people not getting paychecks, really hurting people.
And I heard more than one Democrat elected lawmaker to
Congress say the words those hurting people provide great leverage
for us, meaning I'm taking a paycheck and having these

(48:29):
people suffer is really good for our bargaining. Really, you
may think that, but to say that out loud is
just next level stupid. It's being ridiculed all over the internet.

(48:54):
Social Security benefits going to rise two point eight percent
in twenty twenty six. Arrests were made in the heist
at the Loof. At least two, according to French media,
have been caught one at the airport by the Brigade
for the Repression of Bandal Tree. I'm serious, that's what

(49:14):
it's called, the BRB, the Brigade for the Repression of
Bandit Tree. I'm so proud you're working for the Brigade
for the Repression of Bandit Tree. The French gotta love
them and the No King's Protest. The demographic identified as

(49:38):
being the single largest demographic is white females in their forties. Sorry, ladies.
Forty minutes past the out, Doctor Joe standing by next

(50:04):
forty one past the hour, joining me, Doctor Joe camps.
Healthy expectations, Doctor Joe. The good news is FSU football
did not lose this weekend.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Well, I was happy about that. I just didn't have
to think about it. Yeah, I'm just hoping we'll soon
get it back Preston. But you know, I wanted to
remind our listeners that the Medicare those that are on Medicare.
The open enrollment period runs from October fifteenth to December seventh,
and during this time period, adults can enroll in or

(50:39):
actually change their current health insurance plan, So want that
to be clear. You can enroll or you can change
your current health insurance plan.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Unfortunately, just like you're talking about, there'll be slightly few
Medicare advantage plans offered nationwide. And unfortunately, like everything else,
the average premium is forecasted to decrease. So this is
a change one that I'm sure will be beneficial, but unfortunately,

(51:11):
the out of pocket prescription drug crosts will slightly rise,
but the Medicare officials are continuing to negotiate price reductions
and unfortunately, in the government shut down, it will delay
some access to medical services or Medicare services, But by

(51:34):
and large, this is the open enrollment period, and the
good news is is that there'll be a lower then
expected out of pocket prescription drug costs. And as you know,
we've talked about that issue over and over, it just
seems like things just keep getting gloomier in this particular segment.

(51:57):
But nonetheless, Medicare will be able to be excessed, but
some of the services will be shut down with the
government shut down, and like you, I'm hopeful that they
can get things back on track because we need to
move forward. So that's my story this morning, Preston sticking

(52:17):
to it.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
It's going to be interesting to watch how this all
gets navigated, Joe in the coming months and years, because
the healthcare system, as you and I both talked about
and obviously you've experienced for your entire professional career, is
very complex. It is cumbersome, and it's not getting any cheaper.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
It is not getting any cheaper. Access is still becoming
an issue. And when I say access, that means actually
getting the service is delivered. And if you get in
and get a diagnosis, then you've got to go to
the pharmacy and pay exorbitant prices. So something is going
to have to give, Preston, because the medical care costs

(52:58):
is just rising of the roof. So I'm hopeful I'm
out of it right now, but I wish the best
not only for my colleagues, but for our patients as well,
because you can't make it very far without health care.
That's one of the things that's a must. I mean,
I have a friend who used to say, I'm telling
you what you have, not what you want. But we've

(53:20):
got to have access to medical care. So I'm hopeful
that things are going to change in the near future.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Well, you know what this does do, and it might
do it maybe in a backhanded way, Joe, is it
forces people to be more focused on prevention and the
things that you've spent so much time on these segments
talking about the things that are the low hanging fruit
to deal with in your own physical health that can

(53:49):
prevent a lot of complications later in life.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Oh. Absolutely, And we've talked about the number one issue
overweight obesity. It just create numerous problems. And so just
trying to eat right and make sensible decisions and get
some exercise seems to be the culprit. But unfortunately people

(54:12):
don't seem to listen to that. So I tell you,
our stomachs, in our minds are very important parts of
our body. Sometimes we really can't control them. Hey, I
get it. I understand. You got to just have one
more piece of that pumpkin pie. So I understand Press
it's difficult sometimes.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Joe, thanks for the time. This morning, we'll talk.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Hey, you bet present, take care of Thank you.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Doctor Joe Camps with us this morning Healthy Expectations on
the Morning show. All right, this is just these are

(54:57):
the stories that I really enjoy because they offer us
not just a distraction from the but an opportunity to
do some real deep critical thinking. All right, follow me

(55:21):
here for a second. And for those of you knew
to the radio program, I let the Glenn Beck's and
the clay In Bucks and the Sean Hannity's and the
Mark Levins take the really big stuff and go for
three hours about it. I do a different type of

(55:42):
program in that we try to get as many things
to you so that you have an opportunity to look
that up and to do a little investigating and to
think about it in the context of your life and
decide what you think. So well, try to expose you
to as many different stories as possible. But did you

(56:04):
ever see how old were you in nineteen ninety three?
Were you? You were a toddler, right, you were a
little one, was about five, five or six? Okay? Did
you go see Jurassic Park? Not in theaters? Don't I
don't believe. Okay, So the first time you saw it
was on VHS or a DVD, yes, sir, And what

(56:27):
do you remember your reaction?

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Yeah, terrified. You thought it was pretty cool. Though, it
was cool, but you know, the whole t Rex scene.
It got me. Do you remember the line ian Malcolm
Jeff Goldbloom's character where he said, your scientists were so
preoccupied with whether or not they could they never stopped
to think if they should remember that. Oh yeah, and

(56:52):
he was starting to poke holes in what the Jurassic
Park was all about, which was taking DNA that was
preserved in the belly of a mosquito that then was
trapped in ember and taking that DNA extracting it. It

(57:13):
was dino DNA verse. Noah, I can't That wasn't right.
That was more British anyway, you get the thing. Well,
we now have an official Jurassic Park starter kit. Dude,
I'm not kidding. Not a mosquito, not an ember t

(57:37):
rex and all we don't know. Oh boy. Paleontologists and
Argentina have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg. Perfectly preserved,
which means there absolutely has to be genetic material in there.

(57:59):
This isn't miss squito. This is the genetic material of
a dinosaur of some kind. Now they've not disclosed, at
least I have not seen what it may be. It's
you know, it's not uncommon to find, obviously, fossils for

(58:21):
these behemoths, but eggs intact preserved. That is uh incredible.
So you know, everyone's trying to figure out, Okay, what's next.

(58:45):
There's they're clearly going to figure out how I mean
the egg is hard boiled. Basically, it's it's it's it's
solid matter at this point, and the question now becomes

(59:06):
would you Yeah, it's interesting because the article I'm reading
is from Amy Curtis at town Hall. What could possibly
go wrong? Here? We literally have four movies which tell
us what a bad idea this would be. Movies and

(59:28):
books have warned us for years about the dangers of
scientific technological endeavors like this, Yet we seem determined, excuse me,
determined not to learn from that. On one hand, it
would be awesome to see a t rex. On the
other hand, it would be decidedly less awesome to be
eaten by a raptor. What would you do? And so

(01:00:06):
we begin the third hour of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. First time I'm announcing it is show fifty
four eighty one. We're fast approaching show fifty five hundred.
I don't know what to say. I just they said
it wouldn't last. And here we are five four hundred

(01:00:28):
and eighty one shows later, he's ose, I'm Preston, this
is sal News of Consumers Defense. How are you good?

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
And apparently we have faces for radio speak for yourself, brother,
how are you my friend?

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
No, yeah, I got out of TV just in the
nick of time. I'm doing well. I'm I'm I am
puzzled by what we're seeing line up for the next
legislative session. But let's start a here. As you've heard,
we've had the Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins on the program frequently.

(01:01:01):
I'm curious why the interest in getting the new LG
out there as much as he is. Well, I think
one is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
And this is not kind of germane to Florida, but
very few people really recognize and interact with and engage
with their state members, their state House member, their state Senate,
even though, as I frequently state, those are the precise
people you should be engaging with on a regular basis.
But this is part of the kind of narrative that

(01:01:32):
historically in Florida, lieutenant governors who are either interested in
or who have run for the big chair have not
been successful. And there is an element to this that
involves name recognition that involves kind of the lieutenant governor's
responsibilities over the course of the term, and so there
has been a concerted effort to get Lieutenant governor former

(01:01:55):
Senator Jay Collins out there, involve him in some very
public efforts and initiatives, and so that's what we're seeing
as the decision on whether Lieutenant Governor Collins will run
kind of comes into the big picture.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Is Jay Collins going to run? Was he selected to
be the heir apparent? Was he selected to, you know,
just be a good, strong voice on policy with the governor?
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
Well, I think all of that can be true, and
likely a good portion of it is. I think he
was a and is a great candidate that the governor
selected for lieutenant governor. He is aligned with the governor,
He has shown his kind of alignment within his role
in the Senate. Whether or not he was selected specifically

(01:02:42):
to run for governor, I could speculate on that. My
guess is it's more likely than not. And a lot
of that relates to the dynamics with the campaign as
it's unfolded. Who's entered the arena so far. Now, there
was a lot of speculation that the LG was going
to formally announce a few weeks back, and that did

(01:03:06):
not come, And so now I think there's more speculation
on the will he or won't he? And what are
the driving factors behind that now that that did not occur.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
You and I've spent some time over the years talking
about the succession process in the House and the Senate.
Florida's a little unique, a little They've got a lot
of planes stacked up on the runway that have already
been selected for flight. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Yeah, And I do a lot of public speaking around
the country, a lot with policymakers, and even up to
last week, I was in Oklahoma and Arkansas, and that
is likely the most popular question for me when I
say that I'm from Florida, and they're like, what is
it about? How you guys do your speakers and Senate presidents? Like,

(01:03:51):
how does that actually function?

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
So who is on deck after, you know, Ben Albritton
and Danny Perez stepped down because this is their final year.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Correct, this is their final year as leadership in the
Speaker's office and in the Senate President's office. So recently
on the House side, they designated officially had the vote
for designating Sam Garrison, a representative from Clay County out
near Jacksonville, as the next House speaker. It is no
surprise at all. As you had mentioned, he was kind

(01:04:22):
of informally designated right after his first legislative session as
the class kind of gets geared up. On the Senate side,
they designated Jim Boyd as Senate President. No surprise as well.
He's an insurance broker senator out of I believe near
the Tampas Arisota area. I can't remember the district specifically,
but yep.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
How different or similar are they to current leadership.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
On the Senate side. Very similar in their approaches. They're
not going to be ostentatious. They're going to be quiet,
a little bit more quiet than on the House side,
which is traditional. They represent smaller areas on the House side,
Sam Garrison, I think maybe a little bit of a
departure from Danny Perez simply by way of age, demographic,

(01:05:07):
where they're from, who they represent, and whatnot. So I'm
really intrigued in how this is going to play out.
Editorial comment.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
One can only hope ten minutes past the hour more
sal news of Consumer's defense. Next WUFLA. Friends, I promise
you that this session with Salur was going to be

(01:05:34):
a little different. You know, in the months away from
a legislative session, which is the majority of them, obviously,
we try to take on topics and do a little
bit more of a deep dive. And so in this case,
it is the biggest topic probably to be addressed because
it is revolutionary.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Would I would concur with that, I have not. I
I've done a little bit of research and I cannot
find a state that is succeeded in doing what we
could conceivably do in the coming session.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
And that is eliminate property tax Let's talk about the
origination of this or kind of wherever you want to start.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Yeah, So I think it may be helpful to kind
of table set a little bit. So property taxes, if
you're kind of if you don't pay attention to your
trim statements, you get a statement from the property tax
office or the property appraiser's office that shows your property
value how much the taxable value is of that, and
it's a little nuanced, but it's almost certainly less than

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the taxable value is less than what the kind of
actual value is. And then your charge what are called mills,
and it represents like one one thousandth of a cent
of the of the appraised value or taxable value, and
then it's divvied up and so you pay it in
your likely mortgage payment. If you have a mortgage, it's
spread out over the year, so you really it's kind

(01:07:00):
of rolled into your mortgage. If you don't have a mortgage,
you pay it once a year usually I think in November.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Or if you have a mortgage that just excludes the
taxes and insurance, you pay those separately.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Correct, And so I did a quick breakdown for Leon County.
Eight point three to one mills goes to the county
point seventy five to ems, the Children's Services Council, point
three four. The school portion. There are two pieces of that,
the state law and the local law. The state piece
is three point one one, school locally is two point

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twenty four. The city gets four point four, and then
you get the waste management district with a tiny little portion,
So about forty seven percent to the county, twenty eight
percent to the schools, twenty three percent to the city,
and the rest to special districts.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Okay, so that is how our property tax breaks down. Yep,
the governor wants to do what the.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
Governor is stated as a kind of his legacy. He
wants to eliminate all property taxes from Floridians because, as
he has expressed, even if you own your home, if
you have to pay the government anything, and if you
don't pay that they can come and take your home

(01:08:11):
or slap a leen on it, you truly do not
ever own your property in the state of Florida. And
so he has led this charge probably since about December
January of December of last year January of this year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
I have led this charge since March of two thousand
and two.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
And I do understand that because as long as I've
been coming on the show, we have been talking about this,
as property taxes have been reformed, adjusted the formulas, and
so forth, we've talked about everything from truth and taxation
to the exemptions. So yes, absolutely, credit to you for
kind of tip of the spear on the argument.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
The baseline, though, and what it all comes back to,
is that you never do own your own property under
a property tax Systemuely, like the governor has said, if
you do not pay your property taxes to the government,
the government can come and take your property, and so
that is not ownership. And so his charges to be

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the state that completely eliminates property taxes. And as you
could imagine, given the fact that we do not have
a state income tax, there's a dynamic to this that
needs to be unpacked delicately. We're going to start to
unpack all of those things beginning in the next segment.
It's sixteen past the hour, sal new Zoo with US

(01:09:32):
Consumers Defense dot Com. It's a dot com, right, it's
a yeah, yep dot com. Yeah, and you can learn
what that organization does. It's a broad national organization. But
he is still very laser focused on the micro here
in Florida. Sixteen past the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
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Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Fact with sale Neuzo. The property tax and the idea
just think about it now, because in theory, sal if
this extends, does this extend to the landlord, the apartment
complex owner.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Well, and this is where kind of the devil is
in the details piece of this comes into play because
depending on the tax you take and anything that is
proposed would have to buy necessity, go onto the ballot
and ultimately be approved by the voters at a sixty
percent threshold. There are some challenging questions to have to

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unpack as legislators, the governor, we hope work together to
formulate what the path ahead is. That being one of them.
Do you extend this only to homesteaded properties, or if
you own a second home, or if you are an
out of state resident and owns a piece of property,

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does it extend there? The challenge being at the end
of the day, I would say even conservatives believe in
the strength of local government and believe in the fact
that local government is the closest to the community. They
have a vital role to play right now. If you
were to eliminate property taxes altogether, local governments by and

(01:11:43):
large would be strangled off of the vast majority of
the funding that they get to perform services. Now, to
his credit, the chief Financial Officer is pointing out aggressively
that mainly larger right now local governments around the state,
some big cities, counties, what they have experienced is a

(01:12:07):
massive inflation of revenue because of property tax values inflating
over the last five to seven years.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
And he's making the argument that as a result, since
twenty nineteen, expenditures have gone up fifty percent. And this
is not just Democrat communities, this is Democrat Republican across
the board in Florida. And he said, you know, if
you roll these levels back, this is doable. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
The equation he's used, which is really really smart, is
what's called the Colorado Tabor the taxpayer Bill of Rights equation,
which is you take the population increase the percentage of
that in the county, you take the inflation rate, and
they just use CPI and the two of them together.
If population goes up ten percent and inflation goes up

(01:12:57):
five percent, your baseline for increase should be fifteen percent.
He's pointed out that that baseline of fifteen percent, you've
raised your revenues fifty percent, and therefore you have you're
wasting money. So he's asking the first question, which is
what really should the appropriate level of government revenue at

(01:13:18):
the local level. B. And so whatever we do is
going to have to figure out how those questions get.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
In, how to make local government whole, but also how
to make sure that local governments are doing what they're
supposed to do, not what they want to do exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
And so I think there's going to be an ongoing
debate dialogue within the conservative realm of this. Because in
Florida we don't have a functioning opposition party. Basically Republicans
can pass whatever they want, including onto the ballot, and
so this is where kind of the discussion and debate

(01:13:59):
is kind of trending.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
In our next couple segments, we're going to get into
some of the things that are now starting to bubble
out of the legislature that might be considered opposition or
alternative ideas. I just want to end this segment with
just you know, generally speaking, I would favor homesteaded properties only.
That would be my personal thought on that people that
live in this state. You have to have some safeguards

(01:14:23):
for the to avoid the Letitia Jameses of the world
from taking advantage. But at the same time, I also
think that the what the CFO is doing is dramatically needed,
you know, the a deep dive into local spending.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Oh absolutely, And I you know, I think he's doing
a yeoman's job of pointing out with very good specific
receipts exactly the answer to the question, which is the
first one, which is what really should the focus of
a county government be and how much money do they
need to successfully do that? How much money should could

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this city really need in order to perform the vital
functions and move forward. And I mean he's using all
of the tools in his kind of quiver or in
his toolbox to be able to point out just how
bad the situation has gotten in a number of counties
around the state.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
For many of you listening that own property that you own, well,
you sort of own your property at this point, you
don't really own it. If it's rolled into your p
I t I. You're gonna save a few hundred dollars
a month for most of you. If you're if you're
not paying each month in your mortgage payment, then you're

(01:15:40):
gonna save a lump sum of a few thousand dollars,
give or take.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
Well, and this depends on exactly what's get what gets
put onto the ballot, because you're talking about the results.
If we were just to abolish property taxes altogether, you
do no glide slope. No glide slope, that would be
the case. What the legislature has begun putting forward are
a series of proposals that do reforms but don't do

(01:16:10):
what specifically the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
Governor has called exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
So I think what we want to do is kind
of unpack those and then kind of analyze them independently.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
That's coming up next with sald News Consumer's Defense on
the Morning show with Preston Scott. Here we are on
the radio program Continental Music playing and when mister Salt music,

(01:16:47):
we got to find Corinthian leather chairs somewhere else because
they're not in here and joining us is Sala Newso
from Consumers Defense, all.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
I think about whenever I hear that is the ad
with Ricardo.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Monk you very much fine Corinthian leather.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
Was it the Chrysler le baron, Yes, I'd go sign
Corinthian Leather once owned by John Voight. Now, if you're
a Seinfeld fan, you would have gotten that reference. But
otherwise I'm not. We move on now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
It's not that I'm not a fan. I've just never
seen it. Okay, never watched an episode. I know, I
know even you can get into heaven, Preston. I know, okay,
I know we're talking about property text. For those of
you that are just tuning in the governor wants to
eliminate it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
However, we have a process and the governor cannot automatically
place an amendment on the ballot for voters to consider.
So the House and the Senate have to pass it
on to the ballot or.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Do the citizens' initiative petition.

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
So the House has put forward seven different proposals.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Now they have not been voted on. We have not
gotten to session. So when you say the House, you're
saying individual members of the House have advanced these things.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
Well, they have been put forward as House joint resolutions. Okay,
so because of the procedural thing, it will be a
resolution that then gets passed by the chambers that then
gets put on the ballot and.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
It can be it happens. Yeah, it can be amended,
it could be changed.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
So we've got seven of them that have been put
forward publicly by the House, so you have and we
can kind of walk through them individually.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
So you've got Hjr. Two to five.

Speaker 4 (01:18:24):
This one would eliminate non school taxes for seniors, so
it would exempt residents sixty five and older from the
non school homestead property taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
So if a married couple has one at sixty five
and one at sixty and they're co owners of the property.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
I have not read all of the language of this one,
but I immediately think, oh, I am imagining that as
it works through the committee process, it will attempt.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
To figure out all of those. Ok.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
But it does keep in place the school based taxes.
So if you remember back a couple of segments ago
in Leon County, you've got three point one to one
mills for the state, two point twenty four mills for
the local.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Uh. And so you would, even if.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
You're a senior, continue to pay those and if you don't,
and if you don't, we have the issue that we
have currently status and if you're under sixty five, it's
no reform at all. Number two phase out non school
taxes for everyone, gradually eliminating on homesteaded property over a
ten year period. So what they would do is increase

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the exemption year. Yeah, whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
And that one's HJR Two to three. So again it
would impact everybody if you own a homesteaded property, but
you're still in the realm of school taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Number three new exemption based on assessed value. This one
would replace your current exemption with a new one equal
to twenty five percent of the homes assessed value. That's
two O seven. I was trying to figure out exactly
what that one might do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
Number four Insurance related Exemption. HR two nine creates a
one hundred thousand dollars exemption for nonschool taxes on homesteaded
properties that have property insurance. So those would be likely
the ones with a mortgage because that's where it's required,
and it would probably net in about I'm thinking eighty

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somewhere between eighty and ninety percent of homesteaded properties in
the state.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
We're gonna pause there, We're gonna pick up the others,
and then we're going to get to some maybe observations
of why this is happening. Now sald News with me
here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Now it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Forty one past Salmuso with me from Consumers Defense. All right,
we've got four of the seven YEP, so let's go
to five.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
Improving the portability. With the Save our Homes benefit, you
currently have the ability to port a certain portion of
your tax savings if you buy another home. This would
completely eliminate that cap. So you could have a situation
where someone is moving to a home where they would
not pay property taxes because that cap has been released.

(01:21:37):
Number six, change the assessed value growth caps, which is
again in the Save our Homes Amendment. With that three percent,
it would modify the limits on how much the assessed
value can increase each year. Yeah, we're getting in the weeds.
And the last one would require a two thirds of
vote by any governing body to increase the millage rate

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in a local government. Now, the challenge with this is
is that this is not what we would call truth
and taxation, because if the assessed values and the taxable
values go up, they can hold the millage rate constant
and still get more money.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Well, that's why there was a change a few years
ago that required them to announce that it was an
increase in taxes when the millage stayed the same, but
the values went up exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
And so what we would call truth and taxation, which
is if an individual is paying more money, they are
being increased in taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
And so this one would not get at that all right, sal,
I'm not the sharpest knife in any drawer of knives.
That said, I don't observe that any of these seven
do anything remotely close to eliminate property.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
Tax I wouldn't go as far as remotely close. None
of them completely get at the governor's request of eliminating
property taxes. Of the seven, a couple of them get
a little bit closer to that goal. I don't think
that any of them do it nearly with the level

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of kind of speed or consistency that is gonna warm
voters' hearts.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Procedurally, what's this all about.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
So Procedurally, any or all of these, if they pass
on to the ballot, would get voted on in the
November twenty sixth election, and they need to.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Pass it to kill them all.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
A sixty percent threshold, as we know, is very hard
to achieve. The question in my head is, all right,
let's just say they pass all seven onto the ballot,
which is what Speaker Pereza said. He said he wants
the voters to choose what happens if what happens if
they select all of them, what happens if they select
two of them then? And what happens if they select

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two that conflict with one another? I e. The over
sixty five and non over sixty five. I'm struggling to
figure out and no one's ever going to accuse me
of being the most brilliant policy or political mind in
the world, but I'm struggling to figure out technically and
procedurally how this occurs as it moves into the ballot

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and then beyond.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
All right, final couple minutes here, let's offer a political
analysis of this, because from my perspective, and this is
just me, I look at this as an effort by
the Florida House Speaker Danny Perez to just torpedo the
idea because he didn't like it from the very beginning.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
It's possible would I would be speculating on that completely.
I was of the opinion that the acrimony and the
challenge of the twenty twenty five legislative session, and I've
said this in our shows in prior months. Yeah, we're
about to enter a major election year for Florida, and

(01:24:54):
I had it in my head. At least my speculation
was I thought the acrimony would sub because everybody really
needs to concentrate on what's ahead in the campaign in
twenty twenty six. I am not so sure that I
was correct in that respect. And this here because the

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governor has come out publicly over the last several days
blasting these proposals as not as basically stating what you did.
They do not get even remotely close to what his
request is. And I just am struggling to see the
political maneuvering on the House and how this works out

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in their favor.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
It doesn't surprise me though, because historically speaking, when one
party becomes a super majority over a period of time,
they just have a tendency to torpedo themselves.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Well, and we've talked about this from a political lens.
When we have a state like this which with such
a like over abundance of Republican concentration, a lot of
members aren't necessarily as concerned about being challenged from the

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opposition party. They're concerned about getting primaried from in this case,
they're right flank, and so that has to factor into
the political maneuvering that's going on with all of these
amendments proposed amendments that they're going to be putting on.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
There. As always, there's so much more to talk about,
but at least we got started.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
We have gotten started. I as a political observer and
a policy wonk. I absolutely love this debate. I think
it is fantastic for the state of Florida. I think
it's something we should all be engaged in. I'm glad
it's happening. It's better than what's happening in Illinois and
New York and New Jersey and so well, maybe not

(01:26:49):
New Jersey. We stand a chance of taking that state back,
but we'll still be better, but it would still be
a ton better. I'd rather be here than in any
other state in the United States, and buck Lot completely agree.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I just hope that people can get rational and big
picture and I think the big win on all of
this is the cfo's response and going across the state
and saying what are you spending money on?

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
Without question, he deserves the up arrows, two thumbs up,
a million percent. That man is a stalwart warrior for
Florida and for taxpayers, and so maybe governor's best appointment.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Thanks so much. Always a pleasure. All right, sald News
with Consumer's Defense back next month with more forty eight
past the hour. Holy smokey's my friend, it's startling. We've
got some thunder rolling around out there. Sweet, get some

(01:27:49):
rain lovely tomorrow. I have no idea, no idea. I
just we're gonna do a show. We're gonna have a
manly minute, We're gonna have money talk, We're gonna have
a Florida Man segment, and a bunch of other stuff.

(01:28:11):
As of now, I book nobody. It's it's just gonna
be you and me. We're just gonna push out the
content tomorrow. Everybody, I think, at one time or another,
has either lived in or visited an apartment where there's
a second, third, fourth level, right, and you go down

(01:28:32):
the stairs and you kind of zip maybe zip down
the stairs and the you know the outdoor, you know
it's outdoors, but it's covered, right, Okay, going down the
stairwells Imagine this can only happen in a few places
in America, and Florida is one of them. Where you
zip down and in the stairwell behind you as you

(01:28:53):
get down is this six foot alligator. It happened or
Land apartment complex five to six foot alligator. Orlando Police
dis responded complex on Lake Deborah Drive last Tuesday night.
When they arrived, they discovered the alligator in the hallway

(01:29:14):
and they threw a blanket over the alligator's face and
dragged it out of the hallway. It was released back
into lake. Man. I'm thinking to myself, well, six foot
alligators become seven, eight foot, nine foot, ten foot, twelve
foot bamous lake man. Come on, man, get rid of
that thing. Take it to the bayou, take put it

(01:29:36):
in the swamp in the Everglades. Don't put that in
some lake in the area. But again, that's only Florida.
Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show on WFLA good visit with Sal Newsoh. I

(01:29:57):
hope you'll learn some things. I think what's at work
with all these proposals is to completely torpedo the property
tax amendment. It's chances if you need sixty percent and
you've got six seven, eight competing measures, not one of

(01:30:18):
them will get sixty percent. It doesn't have a chance.
That just is and the House speaker saying, well, let's
just let Florida's residents decide. No, no, no, that's what
the left does. That's what the left does. The point
of it is to submarine the idea. Remember Danny Perez

(01:30:41):
wanted to reduce sales tax, which would have been unbelievably,
patently stupid, because people who visit our state, tourists from
over all over, help pay for the infrastructure that they
use by paying tax. All right, tomorrow, we'll do it
all over. Have a great day, friends. Stay dry,