August 7, 2024 • 20 mins
Nathan is running in the Republican primary for Martin County Commission in District 5. The race is open to ALL county voters since there are no Democrats or third-party candidates running for the seat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm four WJNO dot com. And my election
spotlight is on the Martin County Commission. There are actually
three races, Districts one, three, and five. We're focusing on
five right now with the Republican primary for District five.
But here's the thing. This is open to all registered
voters anywhere in Martin County because there are no other
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candidates in this race except the incumbent and the two
Republican challengers. And we have Bruce Nathan joining us now.
Thank you for coming on with me.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thank you for having me, Joel, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I got that all right, right, oh, desolutely perfect,
right on Fido, all right, And yeah, and that's the thing,
you know, sitting here in West Palm Beach, I've covered
Palm Beach County elections for years, and I know that
the county race is here their district. I don't remember
what the word is for it, but if you live
in this district, you vote in this district. But I
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know Martin's different. So even aside from the whole because
there are no other no NPAs, no Democrats, this is
open to anybody. Of course, we do have another race
in this Commission that that's not the case because there's
a writing candidate. So it can get a little confusing
to some voters that maybe are on the outside looking in.
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But let's talk about Bruce Nathan. The name is familiar,
and I'm not sure if that's just because I see
the see the signs when I drive around Martin County
or have you run for office before?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh? Yeah, I ran for United States Senate in twenty
sixteen against Ruvio and Murphy. I ran as an NPA
back then just to get my fee wet I got.
You know, you get so annoyed with the politicians and
what they say. It's nothing is ever the truth. And
I was just, you know, every time you you you
say the word politician. I even wrote a book called
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Senator Who, And the first part of the book is
can can a regular person? Can a regular guy ever
becoming the Senator of the United States with making regular
salary and everything else. So that's that's that's why I
did that back in the twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I'm just curious though, since you know this is a
Republican primary, and you know, being that you ran and
this is eight years ago, but being that you ran,
as you said, you know, against Senator Rubio in twenty sixteen.
Were you happy to hear he wasn't chosen as Trump's
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VP pick.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, you know, it's kind of funny because I said,
I went to he did a rally back at that time,
right at in Palm Beach Gardens. And and then and
I was there, I was right in the front row.
And at that time he was he was actually a
really never Trumper. He was against Trump and I and
I so was so was the.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Guy he ended up choosing yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But go ahead, so well, you know, but that and
that's true. But the thing is that that I and
stood up and I stood up at that rally. You know,
there was there was only maybe fifty sixty people there,
and and I said, how come you have not endorsed Trump?
Why have you not endorsed Donald Trump? And and really
and that was the only one he could endorse besides
the Democrat. And it was just it was just to me,
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it was kind of reprehensible. And I and actually take
once I got up and said that, they dragged me
out of the room. So I couldn't even say, so
there goes my freedom of speech. I mean, you know,
I wasn't gonna. I was just it was just words
I had, I had no weapons. I was just gonna.
I just wanted to know why. Never I never got
the answer. So never got the answer. But I have
a feeling, you know, there was there was a time
that you know, Ruby was just so against Donald Trump
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that he just didn't want to get involved with Marco
Rubio again. So and then you know, you know, and
so with Jadie Vance. Look, you know, okay, so twenty eighteen,
I ran for governor. But you know, you should go
let's go back to my history a little bit. So
I am a veteran and and I did and I
did sir for nine years in the United States Army
and they went right after nine eleven, and I felt
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it feels important. So why he picked JD. Vance Because
he's a marine, So ex marine, Well, they are always marines.
Once you're a marine, you're always marine. So that's I mean, yeah,
so that's and that's the way it is. But you know,
and my son, now he's an Army ranger. So once
you know, you just became Army rangers just in October,
so after going through West Point. So the idea is
that once you once you're in, You're you're in. You're
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kind of focused on this is your your country. You
have a you have a different mindset, you have a
different outlook on everything in the way it should be.
And who I'm running against right now in Martin County,
there's nobody who's a veteran. In fact, I don't think
I'm I'm the only guy on there that's a that's
a real Trumper. I'm I'm I've been for Trump, you know.
I look, I've known hi about him since nineteen eighty
because when I grew up in New York as a
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Democrat in New York, I had this guy that I
worked for and he was big on buying buildings in
Manhattan and the Five Boroughs. And I've and I became
knowledgeable about what dom Donald Trump was because he wanted
to be just like Donald Trump. And so that's that's
how how early I knew about Donald Trump. So fast
forward then, of course, twenty sixteen, I was all on
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board with Trump. In twenty eighteen, very on board with
Trump running for governor in the state of Florida against
Ron DeSantis. So I mean, and then you know, but
once he tapped Ron DeSantis on the shoulder as being
the guy. Well, I kind of deflated this balloon. So
but but I still never gave up. I tried actually
switching my party from Republican to NPA because there was
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no state law that said I couldn't do that and
stay on the ballot. And then I went to court
in Tallahassee. So me, the physical therapist, went and did
lead practice legal focused on, did a motion, went in
front of a judge against three Tallahassee Divisional Election attorneys,
and the judge actually sided on my side. She said,
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he's right, you've got no law against why he can't
do it. And then they said, Judge, we can't get
him on all the sixty seven ballots. We just can't
do it. It's not possible. So then she had to
side with it with the division of Elections because it
was physically impossible to get me on all the ballots
at that point. So now, not really fast forward today,
I can't do that again. So I can't switch Republican
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to NPA again and have them try and do that.
They've actually switched the law. They've made a new law
that I cannot do that because I brought that in
front of their faces. So that's that's a whole side
note and some of a background. But I don't want
to take up too much time of talking about that
because I'm very dedicated when they start to do something,
and I get very involved with becoming a Martin County
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Commissioner and how I'm going to be able to make
the county better, not only as a veteran and as
a physical therapist, as a doctor of physical therapy, but
I'm also a father of six children. We've all gone
to the public school or who you know have you know?
Oldest ones are doctor, second ones in law school right now.
Third one, as we talked about Brocky's he went to
West Point and he's serving and so and the fourth
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ones just made it to UCF and the fifth and
sixth the jury's out, so you know, but it's five girls,
one boy, and it's it's how you're raising your children
in your county public schooling and that and that's so important,
and and and one and then the biggest thing now
now he picked JD. Vance, which I think is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
JD.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Van's a farmer. Well, I'm a farmer. I've got we
have right now, Nathan's Family Farm and Rescue and Nathan
Family Farm and Rescue in Palm City on off Boat
Ramp Road off Martin Highway. We have over three we
have over three hundred rescued animals on our property at
this very moment, over three hundred, and we take care
of them every day. So I'm a I'm a night
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and day farmer as well as everything else that I've
already mentioned. A full time physical therapist working for a
South Florida orthopedic, so you know, and so that's and
that's what I do. So between running and doing all
these other things, that's it makes it so that I'm
I'm extremely busy, but I can I can handle that.
But the biggest thing for me, Joel number one, if
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I was going to tackle something, you know, it's it's
a development that they're doing. And that's why I jumped in,
because we are over developing our county. You know, it's
a small county. We were meant to be a small county.
I moved here in two thousand to keep it a
small county. And I see that. I see all of
the county commissioners now just just ransacking it, just running
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it down and and all you see all these sites
that were once had lots of animals and open open land,
and it's being developed and it's just not it's just
so against what I believe in. So, I mean, I'm
actually the only environmental, real truly farmer environmental candidate that's
running as well. So because I just believe, you know,
wholeheartedly believe in what I do. You know, because of
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because of having all these animals, and I get we
got another animal every day, we get another some other animal.
We get call from me Maine Society because they can't
take animals anymore because they're overloaded, and they're getting three
quarters of a million dollars from the from the county.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Are are they are? What kinds of all different types
of animals or just.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Dogs, well mostly not the cat because we can allow
farm farm animals. It's farm animals. But although you know,
we do have we got we have seventeen cats, but
they are they're pretty spread out summer barners. You know,
some are really just you know, they're there. We take
care of them. They've been spade or neutered or whatever.
We make sure that they're okay and shots. But the
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idea is that to make sure that the farm animals
are there. So we've got sheep. We got thirty eight sheep,
so I can get in consideration with that. My wife said, well,
you're really a shepherd. I said, okay, I guess I am,
because I'm out there with the sheep every day. So
we got over two hundred and forty five chickens right now,
and we've got goats, lots of ducks, peking ducks. We've
got thirty six ducks, so quail rabbits, so really any
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any people, And people were high in the list on
Google for Nathan Family Farm and Rescue. So people call
us up because they tried to call the Humane Society
and said, oh, they won't take whatever. So we have
and over those chickens, at least sixty five are roosters,
so it's a lot of So it's a lot of
sounds going out of our place all day. So you
can tell I'm not there right now. I'm about to
go into my into schedual therapy and go to work.
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But the idea is that that somebody's out there, you know,
making it so that it's a better place for these animals.
I mean, that's that's that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
One of the things that you have on your first
term Goals and Solutions on your campaign page is to
form a toxic algay task force eliminate the problem. Obviously
we're aware of the toxic algae issue, but we know
that Congressman Brian mass who also is up for reelection
of course Republican, is like yourself. You know, he has
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done a lot on the He's worked hard on this
over the last several terms on the federal front, and
I know that there have been some laws that have passed.
What can the county on its own do, well.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's not even the county, it's me. So after I
ran for in twenty eighteen and lost the Republican race
against Ron, I had gone to the Department of Agriculture
and Nikki freed at that time because you know, it's
funny enough, I thought she was going to be the
better candidate for the DOA and I was totally wrong.
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So she and the reason why is because I had
the total solution. I had well, at that point, I
had fifteen scientists that were throughout our counties in Florida
and in universities that were willing to come on board,
and we'd already formed a task force to make it
so that we could eliminate not only the blue green
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toxicality on the east coast here, but the red tide
that's on the west coast, because it's very synonymous. The
problems are almost exactly the same, but they're just on
one side or the other. So it's looking at everything
at a microcellular level. So one of my degrees, I've
got a degree a minor in biology as well as
physical therapy, as well as a doctor physical therapy as
well as mathematics. So all of these things are all
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if you look at this as the micro cellular level,
they it can be conquered. And the way to do
it is at that level. We can't do it by
throwing money at it from the federal government, by you know,
the Army Corps of engineers coming in and opening closing
the locks. It doesn't work like that. You have to
if you don't look at it from the category of
where they are and why they're surviving, then we can't
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either adjust them. You know, I'm not even saying kill
the bluegreen tossing you have, they're just the way that
it makes them so that they don't want to be
here anymore. That's the way it has to go, because
when you try and kill something, basically, let's say, are
our bacterias that we've tried to kill and kill and
you know that bacterias have become stronger and stronger and
stronger over our lifespan because we've tried to kill them,
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but they just mutate. We can't do it that way.
We can't just let them mutate. We have to make
it so they have to go away on their own terms.
And that's only by looking at at that Michael Sayer level.
It's very interesting how I look at these things, Joel,
as you see, nobody else has ever looked at it
like this. I still have a dozen people that are
in my pocket. If I become Martin County Commissioner, this
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will happen. We will all get together and I don't
need the Martin County Commissioners to get their approval because
they're all voluntary. They're on a voluntary basis, and we
will make sure we get it done because these guys
want some notoriety that that they've conquered this and as
well as doing it on the other side. So it's
going to become not only a Palm Beach County and
Martin County you know solution, as well as the Saint
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Lucy County you know solution for this problem. But going
all the way over to Naples and and those counties
over there and Fort Myers, those those are going to
be the counties that are going to be also saved
from from our solution. So that's that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, let me ask you this question, Bruce, if if
you don't need the permission from the county commission, what's
stopping you from doing it now?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because they won't do it with that's some bravitas. They
want to know that I've got some kind of political
power somewhere. That's why they wanted you know, the Department
Magic Cultured Commissioner on board with this. That's why they
want your governor on board with this, or somebody on
board with this that was going to be able to
take the knowledge that they have really make it work
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and make it into something that could be, you know,
almost a national historical thing, because this is something that's
gone on for decades. You know, as you know this
is this has never been over It's been around for
so long. So that's and that's what they want to do,
and that's what I totally agree. So me just Bruce Nathan,
regular guy, physical therapist, farmer, veteran. It's not going to
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work unless I have a political office.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So back to the what what some people would call
overgrowth or you know, too much development, And that's something
I hear in one of the other races as well
from a candidate there. What's the answer, what's the answer
to it? Because because you know, somebody would tell you
what you know, it's not a one horse town anymore.
Everything everything gets bigger. What do you what do you say?
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What what can be done?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, first of all, we stop all the rezoning. So
because you've if you've you've driven through Martin County, you've
seen all of the rezoning signs that are up everywhere.
I mean I see a lot of them more in
South County, but you know if you go through Jensen
Beach you see them there too. But the idea is
to take down all these signs that are saying that
we're going to rezone, not rezone, stop all the growth
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in their tracks. So everything that's supposed to be happening
that they are proposing and whatever that all has to
stop until we can kind of get a grip on
what's going on and where we are really standing and
how much growth do we really want. And most people
are saying, most of the citizens, myself included, are saying,
we have to stop the growth altogether, no growth for
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right now. And so that's why I'm a no growth candidate.
And then people tell me where they tried that back
in the early two thousands or in twenty ten and
it didn't work. Well, you have again, you have to
look at this from a different angle. You can't look
at it from the angle of politics and politicians. You
have to look at it from the angle of a
doctor and curing a problem, cureing the solution. So and
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I'm and then okay, then on top of that, take
the farming and the farmland now we've got We've got
a lot of areas that could potentially be a lot
of farmland now that if we want to call that
farmland growth with agriculture, that that's something that's big again,
Donald Trump jd Vance are huge, are going to be
very huge on the farmlands because they know that in
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our country right now, less than one percent of the
people of our country right now are are farmers, and
almost less than that is that is our farm land
we're losing somewhere near I think it's about two thousand
out acres a day, two thousand acres a day of
farmland to development to developers. And that's not that can't
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that can't go on. It's that doesn't sound big because
of all the United States of America, but it's actually
very huge. So this this has to go on a ride.
That's that's permanent, and Martin County needs to start that
ride to make it so we have more or farmland
in our own county that's producing products that can be
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used for people. And then and then, Joel, you know
what that does. That actually brings in employment and so
and then when they talk about the other talk we
had just last night was that a farm is affordable housing. Well,
then you can start to build out there or near
the farmlands for people who are going to be farmers,
who are going to be able to be custodians of
that land. Well, I mean, what I mean, what a
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what a great idea that I mean, it's all it
all encapsulates each other's that's the forming of the solutions
that I do every day as a as a physical therapist.
So that's all I do. So people come in with problems, Joel,
I can't tell you how much pain people I put
them in every day. Every day I put people in
a lot of pain. But you know what, in thirty days,
forty five days, guess what, they're no more pain. It's
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all done, it's all gone. I feel better. And they're
out the door, and I say, and I want to
tell them, I say, don't come back, get away. So
so you know, that's that's the that's the part of
my business that I like to say. So with physical theraferts,
we don't want to see anymore, you know, get out,
go be a be a regular person and stay stay there.
So you know, but we're always here, have you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We need you, they need this.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So that's that's the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
All right, Bruce, Well, I just have one final question
for you, and you've talked to you know obviously some
of this throughout the interview, but in a nutshell, you know,
the three candidates running. Why should folks ultimately vote Bruce
Nathan as Martin County Commissioner?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, because of the solutions, Because I'm because I'm a
solution based person, because I've seen thousands of people in
my business and being able to make solutions for them,
and I can do that for all of the Martin
County people who are the citizens of Martin County. So
that's that's really, that's that's the basis that I worked
my whole life on. And everybody else can talk about
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having solutions, but have they ever proven it? Have they
have they performed it? Have they made it happen? And
that's and it's it's really based on what I now
call experience, knowledge and solutions a k S. It's my
eks the system. So with experience that I've got throughout
the years that of what I've done to the knowledge
that I've based that I've put together, and I am
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able to make the solutions just like I told you
about the toxicalgy I mean, and that's and that's one
one of the many major things that that I would
go forward with. So it's the solution bases is what
has to happen. So and and people can't just say
I'm going to talk about it because talk is so cheap.
So you have to be active and know how to
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do it, because that's that's the way to do it.
It's it's the knowledge on how to do what you're
going to do, and I've got that knowledge.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
All right, Well, I appreciate you talking to the voters
in Martin County. Again, all registered voters UH in the
county can vote for this uh. I guess it's called
a universal primary, right, the universal Republican primary because there
are no other candidates but the three Republicans running. So again,
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thank you for joining me. Bruce Nathan, candidate for County
Commission District five on WJNO dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Thanks so much, Droll, appreciate the time
Hey, Joel Malcolm four WJNO dot com. And my election
spotlight is on the Martin County Commission. There are actually
three races, Districts one, three, and five. We're focusing on
five right now with the Republican primary for District five.
But here's the thing. This is open to all registered
voters anywhere in Martin County because there are no other
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candidates in this race except the incumbent and the two
Republican challengers. And we have Bruce Nathan joining us now.
Thank you for coming on with me.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thank you for having me, Joel, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I got that all right, right, oh, desolutely perfect,
right on Fido, all right, And yeah, and that's the thing,
you know, sitting here in West Palm Beach, I've covered
Palm Beach County elections for years, and I know that
the county race is here their district. I don't remember
what the word is for it, but if you live
in this district, you vote in this district. But I
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know Martin's different. So even aside from the whole because
there are no other no NPAs, no Democrats, this is
open to anybody. Of course, we do have another race
in this Commission that that's not the case because there's
a writing candidate. So it can get a little confusing
to some voters that maybe are on the outside looking in.
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But let's talk about Bruce Nathan. The name is familiar,
and I'm not sure if that's just because I see
the see the signs when I drive around Martin County
or have you run for office before?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh? Yeah, I ran for United States Senate in twenty
sixteen against Ruvio and Murphy. I ran as an NPA
back then just to get my fee wet I got.
You know, you get so annoyed with the politicians and
what they say. It's nothing is ever the truth. And
I was just, you know, every time you you you
say the word politician. I even wrote a book called
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Senator Who, And the first part of the book is
can can a regular person? Can a regular guy ever
becoming the Senator of the United States with making regular
salary and everything else. So that's that's that's why I
did that back in the twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I'm just curious though, since you know this is a
Republican primary, and you know, being that you ran and
this is eight years ago, but being that you ran,
as you said, you know, against Senator Rubio in twenty sixteen.
Were you happy to hear he wasn't chosen as Trump's
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VP pick.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, you know, it's kind of funny because I said,
I went to he did a rally back at that time,
right at in Palm Beach Gardens. And and then and
I was there, I was right in the front row.
And at that time he was he was actually a
really never Trumper. He was against Trump and I and
I so was so was the.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Guy he ended up choosing yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But go ahead, so well, you know, but that and
that's true. But the thing is that that I and
stood up and I stood up at that rally. You know,
there was there was only maybe fifty sixty people there,
and and I said, how come you have not endorsed Trump?
Why have you not endorsed Donald Trump? And and really
and that was the only one he could endorse besides
the Democrat. And it was just it was just to me,
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it was kind of reprehensible. And I and actually take
once I got up and said that, they dragged me
out of the room. So I couldn't even say, so
there goes my freedom of speech. I mean, you know,
I wasn't gonna. I was just it was just words
I had, I had no weapons. I was just gonna.
I just wanted to know why. Never I never got
the answer. So never got the answer. But I have
a feeling, you know, there was there was a time
that you know, Ruby was just so against Donald Trump
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that he just didn't want to get involved with Marco
Rubio again. So and then you know, you know, and
so with Jadie Vance. Look, you know, okay, so twenty eighteen,
I ran for governor. But you know, you should go
let's go back to my history a little bit. So
I am a veteran and and I did and I
did sir for nine years in the United States Army
and they went right after nine eleven, and I felt
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it feels important. So why he picked JD. Vance Because
he's a marine, So ex marine, Well, they are always marines.
Once you're a marine, you're always marine. So that's I mean, yeah,
so that's and that's the way it is. But you know,
and my son, now he's an Army ranger. So once
you know, you just became Army rangers just in October,
so after going through West Point. So the idea is
that once you once you're in, You're you're in. You're
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kind of focused on this is your your country. You
have a you have a different mindset, you have a
different outlook on everything in the way it should be.
And who I'm running against right now in Martin County,
there's nobody who's a veteran. In fact, I don't think
I'm I'm the only guy on there that's a that's
a real Trumper. I'm I'm I've been for Trump, you know.
I look, I've known hi about him since nineteen eighty
because when I grew up in New York as a
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Democrat in New York, I had this guy that I
worked for and he was big on buying buildings in
Manhattan and the Five Boroughs. And I've and I became
knowledgeable about what dom Donald Trump was because he wanted
to be just like Donald Trump. And so that's that's
how how early I knew about Donald Trump. So fast
forward then, of course, twenty sixteen, I was all on
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board with Trump. In twenty eighteen, very on board with
Trump running for governor in the state of Florida against
Ron DeSantis. So I mean, and then you know, but
once he tapped Ron DeSantis on the shoulder as being
the guy. Well, I kind of deflated this balloon. So
but but I still never gave up. I tried actually
switching my party from Republican to NPA because there was
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no state law that said I couldn't do that and
stay on the ballot. And then I went to court
in Tallahassee. So me, the physical therapist, went and did
lead practice legal focused on, did a motion, went in
front of a judge against three Tallahassee Divisional Election attorneys,
and the judge actually sided on my side. She said,
(05:49):
he's right, you've got no law against why he can't
do it. And then they said, Judge, we can't get
him on all the sixty seven ballots. We just can't
do it. It's not possible. So then she had to
side with it with the division of Elections because it
was physically impossible to get me on all the ballots
at that point. So now, not really fast forward today,
I can't do that again. So I can't switch Republican
(06:11):
to NPA again and have them try and do that.
They've actually switched the law. They've made a new law
that I cannot do that because I brought that in
front of their faces. So that's that's a whole side
note and some of a background. But I don't want
to take up too much time of talking about that
because I'm very dedicated when they start to do something,
and I get very involved with becoming a Martin County
(06:32):
Commissioner and how I'm going to be able to make
the county better, not only as a veteran and as
a physical therapist, as a doctor of physical therapy, but
I'm also a father of six children. We've all gone
to the public school or who you know have you know?
Oldest ones are doctor, second ones in law school right now.
Third one, as we talked about Brocky's he went to
West Point and he's serving and so and the fourth
(06:54):
ones just made it to UCF and the fifth and
sixth the jury's out, so you know, but it's five girls,
one boy, and it's it's how you're raising your children
in your county public schooling and that and that's so important,
and and and one and then the biggest thing now
now he picked JD. Vance, which I think is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
JD.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Van's a farmer. Well, I'm a farmer. I've got we
have right now, Nathan's Family Farm and Rescue and Nathan
Family Farm and Rescue in Palm City on off Boat
Ramp Road off Martin Highway. We have over three we
have over three hundred rescued animals on our property at
this very moment, over three hundred, and we take care
of them every day. So I'm a I'm a night
(07:34):
and day farmer as well as everything else that I've
already mentioned. A full time physical therapist working for a
South Florida orthopedic, so you know, and so that's and
that's what I do. So between running and doing all
these other things, that's it makes it so that I'm
I'm extremely busy, but I can I can handle that.
But the biggest thing for me, Joel number one, if
(07:56):
I was going to tackle something, you know, it's it's
a development that they're doing. And that's why I jumped in,
because we are over developing our county. You know, it's
a small county. We were meant to be a small county.
I moved here in two thousand to keep it a
small county. And I see that. I see all of
the county commissioners now just just ransacking it, just running
(08:17):
it down and and all you see all these sites
that were once had lots of animals and open open land,
and it's being developed and it's just not it's just
so against what I believe in. So, I mean, I'm
actually the only environmental, real truly farmer environmental candidate that's
running as well. So because I just believe, you know,
wholeheartedly believe in what I do. You know, because of
(08:39):
because of having all these animals, and I get we
got another animal every day, we get another some other animal.
We get call from me Maine Society because they can't
take animals anymore because they're overloaded, and they're getting three
quarters of a million dollars from the from the county.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Are are they are? What kinds of all different types
of animals or just.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Dogs, well mostly not the cat because we can allow
farm farm animals. It's farm animals. But although you know,
we do have we got we have seventeen cats, but
they are they're pretty spread out summer barners. You know,
some are really just you know, they're there. We take
care of them. They've been spade or neutered or whatever.
We make sure that they're okay and shots. But the
(09:19):
idea is that to make sure that the farm animals
are there. So we've got sheep. We got thirty eight sheep,
so I can get in consideration with that. My wife said, well,
you're really a shepherd. I said, okay, I guess I am,
because I'm out there with the sheep every day. So
we got over two hundred and forty five chickens right now,
and we've got goats, lots of ducks, peking ducks. We've
got thirty six ducks, so quail rabbits, so really any
(09:44):
any people, And people were high in the list on
Google for Nathan Family Farm and Rescue. So people call
us up because they tried to call the Humane Society
and said, oh, they won't take whatever. So we have
and over those chickens, at least sixty five are roosters,
so it's a lot of So it's a lot of
sounds going out of our place all day. So you
can tell I'm not there right now. I'm about to
go into my into schedual therapy and go to work.
(10:06):
But the idea is that that somebody's out there, you know,
making it so that it's a better place for these animals.
I mean, that's that's that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
One of the things that you have on your first
term Goals and Solutions on your campaign page is to
form a toxic algay task force eliminate the problem. Obviously
we're aware of the toxic algae issue, but we know
that Congressman Brian mass who also is up for reelection
of course Republican, is like yourself. You know, he has
(10:36):
done a lot on the He's worked hard on this
over the last several terms on the federal front, and
I know that there have been some laws that have passed.
What can the county on its own do, well.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's not even the county, it's me. So after I
ran for in twenty eighteen and lost the Republican race
against Ron, I had gone to the Department of Agriculture
and Nikki freed at that time because you know, it's
funny enough, I thought she was going to be the
better candidate for the DOA and I was totally wrong.
(11:12):
So she and the reason why is because I had
the total solution. I had well, at that point, I
had fifteen scientists that were throughout our counties in Florida
and in universities that were willing to come on board,
and we'd already formed a task force to make it
so that we could eliminate not only the blue green
(11:32):
toxicality on the east coast here, but the red tide
that's on the west coast, because it's very synonymous. The
problems are almost exactly the same, but they're just on
one side or the other. So it's looking at everything
at a microcellular level. So one of my degrees, I've
got a degree a minor in biology as well as
physical therapy, as well as a doctor physical therapy as
well as mathematics. So all of these things are all
(11:56):
if you look at this as the micro cellular level,
they it can be conquered. And the way to do
it is at that level. We can't do it by
throwing money at it from the federal government, by you know,
the Army Corps of engineers coming in and opening closing
the locks. It doesn't work like that. You have to
if you don't look at it from the category of
where they are and why they're surviving, then we can't
(12:18):
either adjust them. You know, I'm not even saying kill
the bluegreen tossing you have, they're just the way that
it makes them so that they don't want to be
here anymore. That's the way it has to go, because
when you try and kill something, basically, let's say, are
our bacterias that we've tried to kill and kill and
you know that bacterias have become stronger and stronger and
stronger over our lifespan because we've tried to kill them,
(12:41):
but they just mutate. We can't do it that way.
We can't just let them mutate. We have to make
it so they have to go away on their own terms.
And that's only by looking at at that Michael Sayer level.
It's very interesting how I look at these things, Joel,
as you see, nobody else has ever looked at it
like this. I still have a dozen people that are
in my pocket. If I become Martin County Commissioner, this
(13:02):
will happen. We will all get together and I don't
need the Martin County Commissioners to get their approval because
they're all voluntary. They're on a voluntary basis, and we
will make sure we get it done because these guys
want some notoriety that that they've conquered this and as
well as doing it on the other side. So it's
going to become not only a Palm Beach County and
Martin County you know solution, as well as the Saint
(13:24):
Lucy County you know solution for this problem. But going
all the way over to Naples and and those counties
over there and Fort Myers, those those are going to
be the counties that are going to be also saved
from from our solution. So that's that's the deal.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, let me ask you this question, Bruce, if if
you don't need the permission from the county commission, what's
stopping you from doing it now?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Because they won't do it with that's some bravitas. They
want to know that I've got some kind of political
power somewhere. That's why they wanted you know, the Department
Magic Cultured Commissioner on board with this. That's why they
want your governor on board with this, or somebody on
board with this that was going to be able to
take the knowledge that they have really make it work
(14:09):
and make it into something that could be, you know,
almost a national historical thing, because this is something that's
gone on for decades. You know, as you know this
is this has never been over It's been around for
so long. So that's and that's what they want to do,
and that's what I totally agree. So me just Bruce Nathan,
regular guy, physical therapist, farmer, veteran. It's not going to
(14:29):
work unless I have a political office.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So back to the what what some people would call
overgrowth or you know, too much development, And that's something
I hear in one of the other races as well
from a candidate there. What's the answer, what's the answer
to it? Because because you know, somebody would tell you
what you know, it's not a one horse town anymore.
Everything everything gets bigger. What do you what do you say?
(14:53):
What what can be done?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, first of all, we stop all the rezoning. So
because you've if you've you've driven through Martin County, you've
seen all of the rezoning signs that are up everywhere.
I mean I see a lot of them more in
South County, but you know if you go through Jensen
Beach you see them there too. But the idea is
to take down all these signs that are saying that
we're going to rezone, not rezone, stop all the growth
(15:18):
in their tracks. So everything that's supposed to be happening
that they are proposing and whatever that all has to
stop until we can kind of get a grip on
what's going on and where we are really standing and
how much growth do we really want. And most people
are saying, most of the citizens, myself included, are saying,
we have to stop the growth altogether, no growth for
(15:39):
right now. And so that's why I'm a no growth candidate.
And then people tell me where they tried that back
in the early two thousands or in twenty ten and
it didn't work. Well, you have again, you have to
look at this from a different angle. You can't look
at it from the angle of politics and politicians. You
have to look at it from the angle of a
doctor and curing a problem, cureing the solution. So and
(16:01):
I'm and then okay, then on top of that, take
the farming and the farmland now we've got We've got
a lot of areas that could potentially be a lot
of farmland now that if we want to call that
farmland growth with agriculture, that that's something that's big again,
Donald Trump jd Vance are huge, are going to be
very huge on the farmlands because they know that in
(16:25):
our country right now, less than one percent of the
people of our country right now are are farmers, and
almost less than that is that is our farm land
we're losing somewhere near I think it's about two thousand
out acres a day, two thousand acres a day of
farmland to development to developers. And that's not that can't
(16:45):
that can't go on. It's that doesn't sound big because
of all the United States of America, but it's actually
very huge. So this this has to go on a ride.
That's that's permanent, and Martin County needs to start that
ride to make it so we have more or farmland
in our own county that's producing products that can be
(17:05):
used for people. And then and then, Joel, you know
what that does. That actually brings in employment and so
and then when they talk about the other talk we
had just last night was that a farm is affordable housing. Well,
then you can start to build out there or near
the farmlands for people who are going to be farmers,
who are going to be able to be custodians of
that land. Well, I mean, what I mean, what a
(17:27):
what a great idea that I mean, it's all it
all encapsulates each other's that's the forming of the solutions
that I do every day as a as a physical therapist.
So that's all I do. So people come in with problems, Joel,
I can't tell you how much pain people I put
them in every day. Every day I put people in
a lot of pain. But you know what, in thirty days,
forty five days, guess what, they're no more pain. It's
(17:50):
all done, it's all gone. I feel better. And they're
out the door, and I say, and I want to
tell them, I say, don't come back, get away. So
so you know, that's that's the that's the part of
my business that I like to say. So with physical theraferts,
we don't want to see anymore, you know, get out,
go be a be a regular person and stay stay there.
So you know, but we're always here, have you.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We need you, they need this.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So that's that's the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
All right, Bruce, Well, I just have one final question
for you, and you've talked to you know obviously some
of this throughout the interview, but in a nutshell, you know,
the three candidates running. Why should folks ultimately vote Bruce
Nathan as Martin County Commissioner?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, because of the solutions, Because I'm because I'm a
solution based person, because I've seen thousands of people in
my business and being able to make solutions for them,
and I can do that for all of the Martin
County people who are the citizens of Martin County. So
that's that's really, that's that's the basis that I worked
my whole life on. And everybody else can talk about
(18:50):
having solutions, but have they ever proven it? Have they
have they performed it? Have they made it happen? And
that's and it's it's really based on what I now
call experience, knowledge and solutions a k S. It's my
eks the system. So with experience that I've got throughout
the years that of what I've done to the knowledge
that I've based that I've put together, and I am
(19:12):
able to make the solutions just like I told you
about the toxicalgy I mean, and that's and that's one
one of the many major things that that I would
go forward with. So it's the solution bases is what
has to happen. So and and people can't just say
I'm going to talk about it because talk is so cheap.
So you have to be active and know how to
(19:35):
do it, because that's that's the way to do it.
It's it's the knowledge on how to do what you're
going to do, and I've got that knowledge.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
All right, Well, I appreciate you talking to the voters
in Martin County. Again, all registered voters UH in the
county can vote for this uh. I guess it's called
a universal primary, right, the universal Republican primary because there
are no other candidates but the three Republicans running. So again,
(20:04):
thank you for joining me. Bruce Nathan, candidate for County
Commission District five on WJNO dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Thanks so much, Droll, appreciate the time
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