Florida's GOP Coup: How the RPOF is Silencing America First Leadership... Dave Kalin Speaks Out

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Ah, you're your.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Your first Roger.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Thanks for having me on tonight. I wish it was
on a more joyous kind of conversation, but I was
actually up until last night, I was the chairman for
the Charlotte Charlotte County Republican Executive Committee, which is the
GOP for Charlotte County. In years past, our committee was
pretty much dysfunctional in fighting even invited you to come

(01:36):
over to take a look at what we had. Once
I had been voted in, it was a unanimous vote.
As my chairmanship, we changed the way we did business.
We worked with other local conservative groups. We worked within
the rules of the r pof even though they're ever
getting more stringent, we still found ways to work within
those rules to be more effective at getting quality leaders

(01:59):
into our commit unity as well as drawing people in
for those boots on the ground fundraising other events. But
beyond that, we were working into the community with more
than just fundraising. It was about bringing awareness and getting
families involved. So starting at a young age all the
way up for what we stand for as Republicans here
in Florida. That apparently has ruffled a lot of feathers

(02:21):
and as we're seeing across the state, chairmen are being removed,
and generally it's either MAGA America First folks that are
getting removed or entire executive committees being dismantled, such as
Manatee County. OOO.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Talk about the elephant in the room. Well, folks, it
is Friday. Happy Halloween to you. And yeah, I don't
really dress up for this holiday because it's not my
favorite kind of a demonic thing. But apparently we're gonna
have to deal with the demons today. You know, I'm
an Vandersteel. This is still the war Zone, Steel News.
We're still here. Yeah, still here. So talking about problems

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and why is it that we have problems in Florida.
Florida is supposed to be the free state. Right as
we talk about the free state of Florida, Well, Florida
has long been known as the beacon of freedom. It's
the state that led the nation against lockdowns, mandates, and
election corruption. But beneath this sunshine, that's right, We're not
blowing it up your ass anymore. We're going to tell
you the truth. There is a big quiet storm brewing

(03:24):
inside the Republican Party of Florida. Across the state, County
GOP chairs and executive committees overwhelmingly America First Conservatives. They're
being removed, suspended, or shall we say, replaced by the
state party. That's right, the rpof the Republican Party of Florida,

(03:45):
and in some cases entire county committees have been dissolved
and reinstalled by these Tallahassee insiders. Well, what's happening here
isn't just internal politics. It's completely a total power grab.
It's the establishment readsts and control over the grassroots movement
that made Florida read powerful and free. And tonight today
I should say I'm joined by Dave Kalin. He's a

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lifelong Conservative, a former Charlotte County GOP chair, and a
current candidate or hopefully going to be a candidate again
for Supervisor of Elections. He's got a website up and
we're going to take you there here in a minute.
Dave believes in the same vision of our founding fathers,
the ones that they've built, the same one that I
talk about all the time when I'm on air, when
I'm on X wherever i am, no matter who show.

(04:30):
We have a constitutional republic where truth, transparency, and the
people's voice should be reigning supreme, but it's being masqueraded
as such at the moment while it's being covered up
and ruled by a legislative democracy. Should we say we've
evolved dissolved into socialist democracy soon heading to communism. Dave's
story reveals the pattern of suppression happening inside the rpof

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the name is behind it and why this could be
the most important political battle happening right now in Florida.
Let's get Dave joining me here on the stage, because Dave,
this what I'm learning and what you just told me
off air has got me just sick to my stomach.
And I think this audience is going you know, I
don't know if we're going to go there on all
of this, but it's getting really dicey out there. How

(05:14):
you doing?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Actually I'm doing good. You know.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I was probably better off being left to my quiet
corner of Charlotte County recruiting members to our GOP. But
the rpof leadership has decided to take aim at me
and say, how dare you grow your party and how dare.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
You work with other Conservatives?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And so I started digging and feel it is my
responsibility as a lifelong conservative to fight back with what
we're finding with our leadership, and some of it's very
disturbing as to what I'm finding out there. And it's
not conjecture, it's not word of mouth. These are factual
documents obtainable through the Secretary of State's website.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
So let's talk about this, going to break it down
because a lot has transpired, and I've made no secret
about my position on the Republican Party of Florida. I've
criticized them. I've received phone calls from leadership. At one point,
there was an RC that was closely affiliated. It has
a change of management as of recently, but there was

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an RC that was mistaking claims that I was censored
by the Republican Party of Florida. I've never received any
such letter, notification, nothing. It's just a bunch of bs.
But they like to throw their bully weight around, particularly
when they have their tentacles strangulating or controlling certain RAC
So let's talk about this Florida purge. Right, there's a
turning point. You recently made headlines after being terminated by

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the rpof Okay, you already had submitted your resignation, So
what really happened behind the scenes, Dave, that led to
your removal from the Charlotte County RC.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, so the crux of the whole argument came
down to Rule twenty three. They knew that I was
having Roger Doris. He runs Defend Florida. He also runs
Reclaimed Campaign. Raj is a and as you know, Raj,
he's a lifelong conservative, a very very spiritual Christian man.

(07:16):
His path in life is of that of what our
values are, and that is a true constitutional conservative. And
I invited him to come speak at my RAC. It
was a great opportunity for some of his ideas as
well as to share some of our ideas that we
were doing in Charlotte County. We're doing things completely different
than what they used to do. And next thing, you know,

(07:36):
I get a letter from or an email from the
rpof Leadership indicating that if I had him, or Planned
Parenthood or any of these other organizations come speak, it
would be a violation of Rule twenty three.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, if you actually read rule twenty three, it does
not say that.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
It actually says that we cannot endorse them and we
cannot find actually support them. I gave a disclaimer at
the beginning of the meeting that we were doing, neither
that this was for informational purposes. Yet somehow the RPOFF
has turned a edict which there is a process to
create a rule, and it was an edict not part

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of any rule handed down, which I immediately fired back
with an email, and I filed a grievance with that
email stating that this did not fall under RPF rules,
rules of procedure or the County Model Constitution, and therefore,
as chairman of my committee, it was who I had
chose to speak under the rules of procedure my choice,

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and I approved roj had him come to speak, and
subsequently I went and spoke at his meeting, and actually
was at his meeting recruiting people to our committees as
well as other racs, talking about fundraising, micro fundraising, actually
getting involved in your community. It's not just about put
money in a coffer. It's about bringing those boots on
the ground as a party, being super conservative in your

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community and keeping it that way, and you need people
to do that. I guess I rubbed them wrong by
doing what we did, because they filed a grievance then
claimed I used our logo without my board's authority. Oh,
I had my boards full authority and support as well
as the clubs that we do. We actually do advertisements
at our meetings for local businesses, our local clubs. That's

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how we also generate revenue. So in a PowerPoint presentation,
I'm showing these organizations as I have promised them we
would do the advertisements, and yet they held that against me,
and the ultimate verdict was, well, I was warned I
could be thrown out for violating their edict, and therefore
they threw me out.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
So that's where the problem comes in.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
So before okay, so it sounds to me like you're
a model GOP chair and you were trying to unify
everybody under the Republican tent. You know, I'm going to
just pause right there, and I'm going to take us
back to the founding fathers. You know, when we first
you know, the Articles of the Confederation and then the Constitution,
we didn't separate ourselves between Republicans and Democrats. In fact,

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we left the Whigs and the Tories behind when we
came to this country and decided to start over under
God's second Covenant nation, you know, and build what we
have today or what we hope we are operating today,
which we're not clearly operating as a constitutional republic. But
you know, we didn't have this division, and it seems
now that you know, the Republican Party of Florida, like

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the Democrats, this is just another way to divide you.
And they're now using their claims over the logo or
certain rules that are really not even helpful to trying
to unify people just so they can control you. Again,
this is another element of control. Am I off base
in just making this claim here?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
You are spot on with that and what we've been
digging into and finding it is really disturbing what we're
finding out there in some of these records. And to
step back a second, you talked about what are founding
fathers fought for and gave us, and that was a
republic by the people. And our former RAC chair put

(11:09):
us into total chaos. We were shut down for the
entire presidential election season, our office closed.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
It was mayhem.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
My first act as chairman was to put all of
our committees up there for vote to become standing committees,
so no chairman in the future could ever take away
the committees and the work we were doing so a
bit defanged the chairman and his authority, which I think
is one of the things that leads to the testament

(11:38):
of the leadership.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
But I have that it is leadership.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
But at the same time, you need that body there
to be one hundred percent buy in or at least
eighty percent buy in to what you're doing to be
an effective team. And that's what we have here in
Charlotte County. Now what I'm finding out there is I'm
digging through records. I'm finding out that we've got state
committee men that don't don't even live or on record

(12:02):
live where they claim to live, and are involved with
lobbying groups that they're renting from and in order to
be able to vote and get elected as committeemen in
other counties.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And if you start to look at why they're doing this,
it is a power control. So the way the rpof
works is you have the chairman and then you have
your voting body plus all your other board members. But
you have your voting body and those are made up
of your state committeemen and women and your chairmans. Well,
if you can run your own people in other counties
where they don't live and take those seats, you now

(12:36):
have the voting majority to get whatever you want done
on the Rules Committee on Finance. Whatever you want to do,
you've got car blanche because it's your people that you've
put in those positions. And one of those people is
mister Bill Hellmick, the executive director.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
He has a homesteaded house in Leon County, and he
obviously didn't run in Leon County because mister Dave Rama
is the state Committeemen in Leon County who's also head
of Ramba Law Rama Consulting and Florida Supervisors of Election Incorporated.
So now you have a lobbyist sitting at that seat.

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And now just thirty miles away is a house that
Dave Ramba owns that now Bill Helmick is supposedly living
in while his other house is homestead which is his
declared domicile. And he's registered to vote in Madison County
and elected to state Committeemen, yet works in Leon County.

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So when you start to look at all this, it's
a stacking of the deck. You put the people in position,
it's a violation of the rules, it's a violation of
state law because either on the voting side is a
third degree felony or on the smaller side over in
Leon County for filing a false homestead it's a misdemeanor.
Andy O's ten years back taxes.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
So why do we have this rules for THEE not
for me.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
But it goes from there as they dig in and
start finding our state committee man in Leon County, mister
Dave Rahmba, through his corporations, are donating to Democrat campaigns
right over in Palm Beach County as well as other
counties throughout the state during this last election cycle. That's
a direct violation of our pof rule. Why is he

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still sitting in his seat and why does he still
wield so much power?

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, it certainly sounds like rules for THEE and not
for me. And you know that's the part that I
think really rubs everybody wrong in what we see going
on in politics across the country. I mean, I step back.
You know, MAGA has been waiting for indictments and arrests
now for eight years, and we you know, we're starting

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to see something happen, but I'm not getting the I
don't feel confident that we're going to see anybody prosecuted.
And it looks like a giant charade in a giant game.
But what I do see is the fish being kettled
on both sides of the aisle, but most alarming on
the conservative side, because you've got MAGA and America first,
true grassroots, and then you have the Republican Party, which,

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in my humble opinion, the Republicans and the Democrats are
basically one and the same, and they use the label
to Foo fight, fake fight, UFC fight, whatever you want
to call it. It's all k fabe, so that we're
constantly being distracted with a narrative spitting nails over here,
spitting nails over there. But yet nothing changes except that
we're seeing the voter integrity being eroded. We're seeing our

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elections getting stolen down ballot, which is why General Flynn
has been harping now for eight years, local action has
a national impact. But now the tentacles of the Republican
Party are basically violating their own rules and they're coming
in and they're wiping out dutifully elected, duly elected i
should say, Republican Executive Committee chairs and members of the

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RAC and they're literally stripping them out and bullying you
out the door so that they can install their own
puppets to make sure they continue to top down manage
what's happening for the grassroots. And you know, where's the accountability?
How are we going to get it, Dave? Because this
is very frustrating.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, and that's where we were at as a county.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
We said, you know what, let them do whatever they're
going to do up there in Tallahassee, because we can't
fight the fight up there. We realize that, but we're
going to fight the fight here in Charlotte County. So
we took to endorsing candidates in primaries, which the rpof
really hates when you endorse one Republican over another. And
my argument with that is what happens and we see

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here at Charlite.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Weet what they're doing when they replace executive committees. They're
endorsing one Republican over another.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Absolutely, And the issue with this is when you go
back and look at a voter, a candidate that comes up,
and you see they've been a Democrat their whole life,
and they move into an area, switch the party and run.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
For office and oh, I'm a conservative.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Then they get into office and everything they do is
Democrat related. It is very socialist related and it is
not the conservative values that the Republican Party holds. But
then they become so entrenched as the establishment that by
not endorsing in a primary, you're giving the status quo
the green light. Which is why we decided to start

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endorsing in these primaries so that our candidates that are
true conservatives have the best possibility forward in that election.
And in this most recent city election, which is happening
this coming Tuesday here in the city upon Agorda, we
ended up endorsing a candidate, one Republican over another. And

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we didn't just endorse, we explained why we endorsed, what
set that candidate apart. That is why they're scared to
death of Charlotte County's GOP. We've got to get more
GOP leaders on board to say they're done with it
at the local level and take back the rpof to

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the values that our Constitution spells out that our party
believes in, that Christian value, that morality that we have.
We've got to hold that dear or we're going to
lose it, and we're losing it quickly. We're no longer
the gold standard, unless you like fools.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Gold well, there's a lot of that being passed around
apparently under the RPF some charter. You know, this is
what is so annoying because people don't seem to understand
that the state party right, does the RPF have the
authority to override and dissolve county level Republican committees based

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on their own party's charter.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Based on everything I can read and the rules of
procedure and the county model constitution. With some recent rule
changes over the past two years under mister powers leadership,
they have given them themselves that authority to do so.
It used to be at the local level if their
chairman was not doing his job or her job, they
could be removed at the local level. It is now

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your local level cannot remove you as a chairman. And
that was to protect these implanted chairmen right as well
as give the party heads the authority to remove chairman
like myself, Brevard County and others. When you look at it,
it just reeks of a Democrat playbook. I haven't seen

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this kind of blatant actions since the nineteen thirties when
you look what went on with a third right to
control what people can read, who they could talk to
what they could say.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
We're heading back to that as a party.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I know it seems like a very drastic comment to make,
but they're dictating who we can have speak.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
This is a problem and that is not leadership.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
That's not tutorial exactly. So I mean, this is probably
somewhat of a redundant, maybe even rhetorical question, but what
do you believe is the actual real motive behind these actions?
Is a consolidation of control, election manipulation, or just silencing
magavoid So.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
You knew I had run for a supervisor of elections
last year.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
There were a number of anomalies right down to my
opponent who was appointed actually handling her own ballots in
her race while counting, as well as being behind closed
doors with machines.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Without any supervision. That's a problem.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Unfortunately, Supervisors of Election Incorporated, run by Dave Ramba, also
a lobbyist, pretty much dictate election laws in legislation to
our state legislators. So you now have a private organization
paid for by you, the taxpayer, to keep your elections
non secure.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
I will tell you that was my area of expertise
is security.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
It understanding how machines work, the security of machines, and
there's absolutely nothing secure about our machines, and if people
knew the truth, they'd probably quit voting. Now, I'm not
advocating that, because you have to go out and vote
have your voice heard. However, we need people out there
in the streets screaming about these election machines and what
has been going on with them and the third party

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corporation via systems that manages it all. Why are we
putting our trust in a third party corporation who, by
the way, pretty much every time we have an election,
their system goes down. And in fact, in the twenty
twenty four primary where they are videoing the numbers coming out,
the system goes down, comes up about fifteen minutes later

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and the numbers were completely reversed.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Explain how that happens, Yeah, they were.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
I remember doing an interview with Chris Gleeson and we
talked about the role numbers we all roll reversal or
the number reversal. And it was also Rocky Rochman as well,
who ran over I think it was fourteen or fifteen.
I can't remember the district over there, but those numbers
changed and this is again a massive problem. We watch
it happen on live television in the twenty twenty election

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when the Biden Trumpers were flipping so again, you would
think this would be one of the things that Republican
a Party of Florida would go, you know what, we
are canceling this contract with VR Systems. Why aren't we
canceling the contract.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, you look at the lobbyists who run it. They're
the very people sitting in power. They want to keep
these corporations in power. And it's always the party that's
in control that seems to want to not rock the
boat because they're currently in party and the systems working
for them. You saw in twenty twenty where all the
Republicans were screaming election fraud. Well in twenty twenty four,

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the Democrats are screaming election fraud.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
It goes back and forth. It's been that way for decades.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
We've really got to sit down and look at a responsible,
secure way to fix our election machines. And I actually
support a national requirement that your machines and your equipment
have to meet if you want to participate in federal elections.
It's that simple to create a federal law that they
have to meet that standard. They can't dictate the local elections,

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but at least the machines have to meet a standard,
and they don't.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Each state by state is a joke.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
And once the American people lose confidence in their election systems,
you're left with the ten percent that control the other ninety.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And that's not a republic.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
No, it's not. So let's talk about the shall we say,
the Power network. You've spoken about connections between these guys,
these three key figures, including Evan Power, Bill Helmick and
Dave Ramba, powerful lobbyist and party insider. What if Floridans
need to understand about these relationships? What is it that

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we should all be very, very very concerned about.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
All Right, So I'm going to lay it out for
you here. You've got them up on the screen. On
the far right.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
You've got Evan Power. He's the chairman of the Republican
Party of Florida. He also works for Dave Ramba and
Rama Consulting, which is a lobbying firm. Then you've got
Dave Ramba in the middle, who is the employer for
Evan Power and he runs Ramba Law Rama Consulting. Florida

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Supervisors of Elections Incorporated, Like I said, he employs Evan Power,
but he also rents a home to the gentleman on
the left, which is Bill Helmick. Bill Helmick is the
executive director of the Republican Party of Florida. He also
is the one filing the bulk of these grievances against
the chairman, and he himself sits on the Grievance Committee.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
So now you want to.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Talk about doubling down on bad actions. He doesn't even
recuse himself from the decision making process. And I will
tell you, mister Mark Cross, who's supposedly the chair of
the Grievance Committee, should be ashamed that he's allowing this
to go on in his committee. But I understand why
he does because if he were to buck the system,

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either mister Helmet or mister Powers or mister Ramba would
make a phone call and mister Cross would be gone.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, this is about controlling everything at the top. You
control the candidates.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Last year, they proposed a bill with the legislature that
would allow the Republican Party to dictate which candidates could
actually claim to be a Republican when running for office,
which would mean you'd have to run as an NPA
if you were a Republican running against somebody that was
an incumbent and they supported you couldn't use your party

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chosen name that you have been registered to vote as
and you have been voting as for decades. Thank god
that bill didn't get passed. But can you believe the
audacity of the people to think they.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Own that name.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah. I am actually going to be approaching our lawmakers
this year to get the law on the U so
the name removed. Because I look at it as it's
a virtue, it's a belief system. It's like calling yourself
a Christian. No church tells another church you can't use
the word Christian church.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
That's right, because it's.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
A value system that's placed in there. That's what Republican
means to me. It's a value system based on constitution
and constitutional values and rule of law. These guys want
to turn it into something else, and.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
It's a shame.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
They're trying to basically treat it like a corporation essentially, right,
I mean, and then they can control what they can control,
the narrative, they can control whatever they want. They can
exclude or include at their own corporate level, which is
exactly what they're doing. It's a very top down maneuver.
It's completely trampling on the grass roots and it's frankly deflationary.

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I mean, at this point, I'll be shocked if we
have record turnout at the polls in twenty twenty six
based on what I see going on inside the R
and c A nationally and then the rpof here in
the state of Florida, which is just atrocious. You've actually
uncovered right that Ramba and his companies have donated to
Democrat candidates who went on to win against Republicans.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
These Beach County Bobby bow.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, and this is a county next door to me, right,
so this is you know, they went on to win
against these Republicans, like you said, right here, right next
door on Palm Beach County. These are direct violations of
RPUF rules. So tell me how can the state party
justify allowing that, you know, action, whether you know, getting
behind Dems while punishing grassroots conservatives like yourself and others.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
I think their argument's going to be, well, that's his business,
he's a lobbyist.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
He has to do it.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Great, go ahead and do it. That's your job. But
then you don't get to be a leader in your party.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Right. It's that simple. It's about being above reproach.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's about removing that era of doubt and living in
exuding those values of the party.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I try to do that. I run multiple businesses here
in Charlotte County, and I will tell you every.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Customer that comes in the door, first they get a
God bless you. Second, they get to hear about the party.
They get to hear about the values of constitutional conservatism.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
You know what. That's one of the benefits of me
being a business owner.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
And if somebody on the left comes in and doesn't
want to hear it, I'll be quiet welcome to come
in and do business. But anybody that will listen, I
am more than happy to put those values out there
and encourage. Despite the craziness that's going on with the RPOF,
I still encourage people to get involved, make a difference,
be that change you want to see, because otherwise these

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guys they win, they take total control.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
So I encourage every single one of our conservative organizations,
whether you're in the FRA, the RLC, a Trump Club,
you name it, any of these groups out there that
are conservative groups we've got to put together one to
make a difference, but two to work to expose the
corruptness that is going on within our own party, within

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our state and within our government. It is scary to
think that Evan was just appointed to the rules Committee
for the RNC at the national level.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, so now they've got these lockdowns on all these
on the state.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Are we going to start locking down every state under
the RNC to what you can do, how you can do,
who you can talk to? And he was just appointed
to the Presidential Candidate Vetting Committee, So now this very
individual is going to have a say in the next
presidential candidate. While his good buddy Bill Helmick in this
last election cycle actually donated to somebody other than Donald

(29:46):
Trump for president.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Wow, that is so freak and shocking. I mean, it
only speaks to the web of influence right. This totally suggests,
Dave that there is a coordinated effort to basically reshape
Florida's political landscape. And what you just said extends into
the national ethos, which is terrifying and really just sort
of reshape everything from red to blue. And they're going

(30:08):
to use internal controls rather than external competition. The grassroots
listening to what we the people want. I mean, look,
we elected President Trump and we want him to do
certain things. And the chorus out there is getting louder
and louder because people are not seeing what they want
to see. The expectations. I'm just going to use what's

(30:28):
going on in terms of, you know, getting accountability out
of the FBI, right, the expectations from Dan Bongino and
Cash Patel when they, you know, were doing their podcasts,
and God bless them, they brought a lot of great information,
but their podcast led us to believe we were going
to see accountability day freaking one. Everybody was willing to
give him a pass for the first three, four, five,
six months. Telsea Gabbert is serving up sirloin and filet

(30:52):
mignon on a regular basis, you know, handing and making
you know, criminal referrals over to the DOJ. But we're
not getting that accountability yet. We're not seeing the teeth.
I want someone's ass on a plate right now, Dave.
And we're getting tired of waiting, and so the chorus
is getting louder. And at the end of the day,
Donald Trump is not Jesus Christ, right, he is one man.
He needs his people to be deaf, loud and deafening,

(31:13):
a roar so loud that even he cannot not hear it,
and he needs to act accordingly, as do all of
these so called public servants. And what you're showing us
is that this is a top down redirection to trample
on the grassroots and to shut the voices down so
that we can be ineffective and we can just say,
thank you, sir, May I have another? You know this
is it's sickening. So let's let's shift this a little bit.

(31:36):
Let's go into faith. Let's go in a little bit
about leadership and constitutional values, because you brought it up
right on your campaign website. You say America's foundation is
built on freedom, human rights, and law and order. How
does what's happening inside the RPOF actually reflect the exact
opposite of those founding principles from where you're sitting?

Speaker 2 (31:53):
All right, Well, I'm first going to start off with
I am not currently running.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I actually left that website up for my twenty twenty
four because it's been a phenomenal platform to create dialogue
with people within our community where we are able to
communicate back and forth through that they see that I'm
out there publicly. I'm getting ready to rebrand that site
and start using that site to start bringing up all

(32:17):
these issues. And that's bringing in the transparency of what's
happening not just at the local level, but at the
state level as well at the federal level, as to
what our leaders and local leaders one are investing in,
two what they're doing, and three are they actually voting
for what you're asking them to vote for what their
community wants. And so I'm going to continue to push that.
I'm going to continue to push the election security. But

(32:42):
with all that being said, I am a man of faith.
I'm also a part time pastor. I believe in our
founding fathers using their faith in God, that they had
somebody to answer for for what they did, and so
their decision making and the way they set up our
form of government with a Republican I get so frustrated

(33:03):
when I hear people say Donald Trump's an existential threat
to democracy. Well, by God, I hope he is, because
the democracy is mob rule. Correct people to understand with
a democracy, if your neighborhood decides they want your house,
and they all vote to take your house, they're taking
your house and you don't have anything to say about it.
That's democracy, right, give a republic. It is a very

(33:26):
controlled mechanism to give government as little power as possible,
but put that power back into the people and their
voice in their desire. Which is why we were set
up as a nation the way we were set up,
because what's good in southwest Florida might not be good
for Philadelphia, might not be good for.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Atlanta or la.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
That is why it was set up the way it was,
so that each area had its representative for what their
community needed. We were at the time, we truly were
a nation of immigrants at that beginning. Everybody was flooding
here to settle it. They had to create some form
of government that worked, and they used faith to guide
those decisions, knowing people are inherently bad and if you

(34:11):
didn't put in God we trust at the beginning of
everything we did, we would run off the rails. And unfortunately,
as you saw through the sixties with the lawsuits and
you can't pray in school, our nation has perpetually gone downhill.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
But you look at the communities that have embraced faith.
I don't care if you go to church, what you do.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
It's about that moral value in a belief that we
have something to answer to. When you believe that, it
changes the way you act. And I ask people, would
you do the same thing if you were alone, that
you would do in public, And if you do things
different alone than you would do in public, that's concerning

(34:57):
because you should be the same person in both places.
That's how I un til I run my business, I
run my life, and that's how I believe in the politics.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Be that person that is the example. That's what we're
supposed to do, Be the example as leaders.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I'm not going to be quiet, and I'm going to
continue to go after this. And I've had some threats.
I won't get into all those threats. I've now unfortunately
got a full out investigation going on into those. However,
I'm not going to let that deter me because I
put my faith in God that you know what, when
he says, Dave, it's time to go, it's time to go,
I just hope it was doing something righteous.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Well, you know, that's how I live my life. I've
gotten plenty of death threats. Heck, they've sent them to
my children. It's just the way it is. It's the
nature of the beast of doing this kind of work.
You put yourself out there. Charlie Kurk, God rest his soul.
You know, left nothing on the I mean he left
everything on the field. He didn't walk away from a fight,
from a good argument, from a great discussion.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
He was all in.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
And that's where we have to be, to be all
in love the fact that you clearly articulate the difference
between democracy and a constitutional republic, and that you stand
for the need for transparent elections and citizen oversight. So
you know, I don't like to leave my audience feeling
hopeless and helpless, because I think we are the answer.
And we have to recognize who the enemy is. And

(36:18):
the elephant is in the room. It's called the Rhinos,
the Republican in name only, and they are literally rewriting
the rules of engagement to make it a very top
down as and trample on the grass roots. So how
can counties protect their election integrity if the state party itself, right,
the Republican Party of Florida is actually silencing those who

(36:39):
demand total transparency, like the grass roots. How do we
organize and overcome this?

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I encourage everybody to get involved. Whether you sit in
the Democrat Party, an NPA, or the Republican Party, you
have a civic duty to be involved. It's part of
being in a structured society. Show up for canvassing, watch
what they do as their opening ballots. Participate in that system.
Go to your l Anda's that is logistics and accuracy

(37:07):
accuracy testing for our machines.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Show up, be present.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
I couldn't take We normally have one to two people
show up at our inn accounty of two hundred thousand people.
That's sad when you have that few people show up.
We need people to show up to these events. We
need oversight, we need to watch and as you put is,
how do we solve this? What's the solution? I saw
a bumper sticker the other day on a friend's car.

(37:31):
I'm not quite sure where she got it. I'm going
to have to ask her because I like it and
it says we the people are the solution, right, And
that is so true. It is up to us to
get involved, engage, even if it's at the local level.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
It couldn't any many times.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I go into a commissioner's meeting and there's nobody there,
Yet there's a hot topic on the tape. We've got
a local commission race next year, two seats up. We've
got one commissioner that has actually seen the light, fought
against tax increases this year, and yet the other four
on the board have been trying to crucify the man
coming after some crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I encourage people go out and read the report. It
is not what it's being made out to be.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
And I'm not an establishment guy, but here's the guy
trying to do the right thing because he's had his
eyes opened, and now the rest are It's like wolves
going after him. And when you start to look at
the power plays locally, it's who knows who at the top.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
To get into office. So get involved. And I encourage
people run for office.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
If you've never thought about it, if you're an accountant,
you'd be phenomenal at some of these jobs. Looking at
the numbers, community leaders, get involved, run for office.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
I agree, And you know, I think the biggest hurdle is,
you know, these machines that we have voting in the
tabulators that you know, seem to change numbers on the
fly or whatever the program is. And of course stuff
still connected to the Internet, it's not very helpful. So
for the Floridians watching today, the local that you know
that say, you know what can local Republican members and
county racs do to defend themselves against this unlawful interference

(39:08):
from the state party, because again, they're just changing the
rules at the top and they're shoving it down. I mean,
I got to I just wonder is it possible for
the rcs to sort of defect from the state of
the party sort of a thing and say, you know what,
we're we don't want to be a part of this RPF.
We're going to create our own FRA did and they
took a lot of heat. Their Florida Republican Assembly took
a lot of heat for using the logo uh, you know,

(39:30):
and all these other organizations, like you said, raj to
Orsambi's defend Florida. The r po F didn't want anything
to do with these grassroots organizations that were espousing real
conservative values. Instead, they're acting more like Democrat authoritarians and
you know, trying to exclude these people. So, you know,
we I think it's coming down to where we have

(39:52):
to just sort of say, you know what, we're not
going to listen to you and we're going to do
our own thing. Is that what you're you know essentially
what it's coming down, because how do you organize under
an authoritarianumbrella in name only of the rpof.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
With that, I would encourage people to join an organization
that they feel led to join.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Are there constitutional or procedural tools at the county or
state level that can protect that local autonomy within the
rcs within the Republican executive committees?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Unfortunately, when you look at the legal side of things,
the Republican Party of Florida is a private organization, which
is the part that baffles me. How they have the
name Republican tied up for nobody to use.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I was waiting for you to get there, Dave. I'm like,
come on, say it. You're going to say it.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
While they want to be their own organization and break
the rules and do whatever they want without any oversight.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
By God, go ahead and do it. But you don't
get to dictate the name.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Then exactly, it is an.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Ideal, it's a belief system. Allow us to use it,
and that is one of those things that we've got
to get involved. Junior rec be vocal encourage your chairman
to stand apart from the party and dare to be different.
I was told from the beginning, you're going to get

(41:11):
yourself thrown out, and I said, you know what, let
them try, let them throw me out. I ran against
Devin Powers last January, figuring, you know what, what's the
worst that's gonna happen. He's gonna throw me out. He's
going to look like a jerk. Well, he just proved
himself right here. I am. Our board actually met last Thursday.

(41:32):
I was not present because I'm not allowed to be present.
Disgusting the entire body except for one individual, our committeemen
that's been working against us. The entire body voted to
write a letter to the RPOF and they want to
sign it individually, each one of them, demanding my return.
That's a unified organization. Yeah, that's what scares them. So

(41:57):
get involved, get organized, your alliances with real conservatives, not
party names. Real conservatives. Join the FRA, join the RLC,
get involved, make a difference, don't give up, don't be dismayed,
because that's what they want. Here. I am.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
I tossed out.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I could have gone into obscurity and then just run
my life. Nope, got to fight back, that's right. We
don't fight back, then we're complicit, that's right, And I
refuse to comply my way out of tyranny.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
It will never happen.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
It's never worked in the past. No, Wow, Dave Calin,
there's an elephant in the room. It's the Rhinos, the
Republicans in name only, and we are going to have
to call them out and remove them one at a time,
it seems. Thank you so much for the support you've
shown for your fellow you know, Charlotte County residents and
folks that are you know, trying to stand up and

(42:55):
vote their conscience because it's a sometimes it's a lonely
job out there. But you have a lot of support,
and probably a lot more than you know, because a
lot of people are maybe just too timid or tempted
to put their toe on the water even come out
and say anything. But they're cheering you from the sidelines.
And what I hear you saying and what I echo
is don't just stand on the sidelines. Get involved, even
if you're going to go, you know, volunteer to be

(43:16):
a poll watcher, even on the outside, to make sure
there's nobody a candidate for instance, that's within that one
hundred foot marker campaigning as they shouldn't be, you know,
to help keep the just help move the process along.
And I certainly can't thank you enough for your time
today and for standing up and you know, for breaking
the story. And I will keep you in prayers because

(43:37):
what you mentioned off camera is pretty terrifying. But again,
I know you're right with God. So hey, if if
those kind of threats continue, I'm I'm sure you're going
to be well taken care of it. No matter what happens.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Amen, the change you want to see, that's it. Be
the change change we want to see.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
All right, Dave Kalin, thank you so much. Final words
from you.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You know what, God blessed Florida, God bless America. And
hope to God the rhinos get thrown out.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
And hope to God the rhinos get thrown out. Amen
to that. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for
stopping by.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Thank you have a great day.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
All right, folks, that's a wrap. What you see happening
inside the Republican Party of Florida is more than a
political disagreement. Clearly, this is a massive test of integrity.
Just think about it. Just think about what you heard
Dave Ganlan talk about Florida's grassroots movement built this state's
Red Wall, the America first patriots knocking doors. That would
be you guys out there, organizing rallies, boat parades, motorcycle parades,

(44:36):
sign waving, all this stuff, protecting elections. We're not the problem.
We are actually the heart of the Republican Party. Yet
those very few people that are now being you know,
like the Dave Kalin's, they're now being targeted by their
own leadership. This is truly disgusting. If there are pof
if the Republican Party of Florida truly truly stands for freedom, transparency,

(44:59):
and con situtional governance, it must stop silencing its own
patriots and start honoring the will of the people. Dave
Caitlin's story reminds us that true leadership is not about power,
It's about principle, and it's time for Flordians to rise
up once again, not in anger, but in truth and courage.
Attend your local ric meetings. Just go on the website,

(45:20):
google it, search for it, find out when their meeting.
Go to your county commission meetings. Go to your mayoral meetings,
go to your city council meetings. Demand open records, hold
your party leaders accountable. The constitution doesn't defend itself, We
the people must. I'm a Vander Steel. This has been
Steel News. I hope you guys have a great Halloween.

(45:41):
Thanks so much for spending your afternoon with me. God
bless you, God bless Florida, and God bless the great
state or the great country of America. Hope you guys
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