00:01:48.180Paul, former surface warfare officer, running also against Byron and Fishback
00:01:53.860and i guess collins for the in the primary paul you're i think best known talk to us about the
00:02:01.400time we used to have dr latipo on all the time a superstar and governor de santis i mean the
00:02:06.220becoming of the free state of florida started with the response during fauci's pandemic you
00:02:12.220were speaker of the house walk me through what you did in that time how you and latipo worked
00:02:17.080together what'd you do with the governor de santis and how did you guys make this the free
00:02:20.820state of Florida, sir. Yeah, and in this race, I'm the only one that was present during that time,
00:02:26.660and we stopped the lockdown regime, you know, beginning with COVID and obviously during the
00:02:32.420Biden administration and stood up against the coercion to protect people from losing their jobs
00:02:37.280by not wanting to take an experimental shot from crazy things like vaccine passports. I mean,
00:02:43.740we were talking about a brave new world, and it halted here in the free state of Florida,
00:02:48.060And I was there every step of the way with the governor, with Surgeon General Lattipo, to make sure we kept Florida free, leaned into health freedom.
00:02:56.980I've been endorsed by the Stand for Health Freedom organization.
00:03:00.200I'm the only health freedom candidate in this race.
00:03:02.520We don't want health freedom to be something that was a COVID-era issue.
00:03:06.400It needs to be front and center for Republicans going forward, and it will be when I'm governor.
00:03:10.300mr speaker people you know understand it kind of in particular people in florida the great
00:03:18.180fight that you guys had but it started to attract people the free state of florida started to attract
00:03:22.560people from all over the united states to come there particularly from the northeast
00:03:26.700and so many floridians i know when they talk about what they're looking for in leadership
00:03:31.020what they're looking for in governor they love the old original florida right there's a there's
00:03:37.040a bond to folks in the state of florida like there is folks in texas right to texas walk us through
00:03:44.140how do you balance that of of growth particularly what's happening in south florida you've got
00:03:48.320half of wall street looks like it's moving to florida from new york city the other half's
00:03:53.140moving to dallas and i keep telling folks when coming you know i having worked at goldman sachs
00:03:58.120when the financial community starts coming there things just change how do you balance economic
00:04:03.640growth, what you want to accomplish with those people saying, hey, we don't want to lose what
00:04:09.100made Florida so attractive in the first place? Yeah, it's a great question. We're a victim of
00:04:14.360our success. And I've joked if I could build a wall at the Alabama Georgia line and make New York
00:04:18.480pay for it, I would, because we really have such an influx of people that are driving up the cost
00:04:24.480of housing, insurance, taxes, all these things are going through the roof. And it is the number
00:04:29.280one issue for me and my contract with Florida is to eliminate property taxes, lower insurance rates,
00:04:35.300get after these solar farms that are driving up our electric rates and make sure we're establishing
00:04:40.760a proper energy policy in our state to lower electric rates and stopping hyperscale data
00:04:45.940centers that are going to damage our environment and drive up electric rates as well. These
00:04:50.020affordability issues are front and center because of the influx. Now, we still want to have
00:04:54.780prosperity. That means no income tax. That means reducing those property taxes. That means leaning
00:04:59.540into education and these types of things, but balancing the growth by giving more local control.
00:05:04.960When I was speaker, we also invested in the wildlife corridor and land conservation to make
00:05:09.460sure that we preserve a little bit of wild Florida. My grandfather was a dairyman in Pinellas
00:05:14.700County. There's no dairies in Pinellas County anymore, but I'm third generation. My dad grew up
00:05:19.440in FFA and 4-H. And of course, I went to the Navy like you, and that was my path. But we have a
00:05:27.560great state. And part of my Florida first agenda is to leave it better than we found it to make
00:05:31.920sure that we conserve that part of old Florida so that we can enjoy it. I want my kids to fall
00:05:38.400in love with the state that I fell in love with many, many years ago. Let's talk about power.
00:05:44.680Dave Walsh, we had as our power energy expert for years. He's now the Department of War in
00:05:48.580the trump administration but dave used to come here all the time to talk about the florida power
00:05:52.920commission and how they had gone kind of woke and gone so much to solar how do you kind of unwind
00:05:58.280all that this whole thing about going to solar where the rates are going and couple that with
00:06:03.660this just maniacal drive by the tech oligarchs to to build these massive data centers i mean we've
00:06:10.720had many citizens from florida come on over the last year talking about fighting their planning
00:06:15.880commission and finding this for these these data centers they just want particularly in rural areas
00:06:20.340where they got this kind of beautiful lovely agricultural uh territory and and land and it's
00:06:25.540been there forever and this is why they fell in love with it but now they're gonna have a massive
00:06:28.700data center how do you work all that to make sure you've got the energy and power to do it
00:06:33.220but you got to get off this woke solar panel uh focus and uh and and at the same time make sure
00:06:40.460that the data centers are not sucking out everything else on the grid?
00:06:45.140Well, I'm a hard no on the data centers as they've been presented
00:06:47.900because they will drive up our grid, and I love Dave Walsh.
00:07:04.500Someone suggested, and as a Navy guy, you'd get it like a naval nuclear carrier.
00:07:09.560put them out in the ocean, plenty of water, plenty of power. Elon Musk has put them in space.
00:07:14.580But with respect to the electric grid that you mentioned, yes, you know, Georgia is lengthening
00:07:19.060the life of coal, natural gas, nuclear plants, and they have a three-year rate freeze. Here in
00:07:25.180Florida, we have the largest increase in U.S. history by FPNL because their shareholders want
00:07:31.500to go all in on the green news scam. That's why you see these solar, they call them farms,
00:07:37.060They're not farms. They're solar fields. Rows and rows of these solar panels, you know, scarring the landscape, buying up our farmland, driving up prices, damaging the environment.
00:07:47.980And more importantly, it doesn't deliver the most efficient electricity to the doorstep.
00:07:52.920I want the cheapest electric, number one, not dependent on China and reliable.
00:07:58.040Solar fails all three criteria. And so we're going to have a strong energy policy.
00:08:02.800This is a big fight with special interests. I fought them before. I fought big tech to protect our kids online.
00:08:08.720They don't want me as governor. They don't want me because I'm opposing data centers and the utilities don't want me because I want them to do well only when we do well, not when they just spend more money on wasteful solar green new scam deals.
00:08:24.040Walk us through this. You were Speaker of the House of Florida, which is a very tough job.
00:08:27.620You've got to wheel and deal. You've got to bring a lot of disparate interests together to move things forward.
00:08:31.660you're not some professor you're not some political science professor at some college you're a guy
00:08:36.780that's actually been in the fight for a while how is it and and i would argue you probably got the
00:08:42.200hardest of all the competitors you've got the hardest no on on the data centers tech bros how
00:08:48.960does that work how does a guy that actually comes out of the practical side of you have to make
00:08:53.360deals you have to accommodate different interests i'm trying to juggle everything how what led you
00:09:39.500It's about the people we serve, putting Florida first.
00:09:42.660The governor described those two years as the biggest, most consequential two years when I led in Florida history.
00:09:47.960It's when we built the free state of Florida.
00:09:49.860And fundamentally, this election is about whether you want to take a risk on somebody with no experience, with no results, with no vision or somebody who helped build the free state of Florida to continue the free state of Florida and strengthen it.
00:10:01.600And I think the answer is obvious. That's why we're hoping that your listeners will vote for us for Paul Renner on August 18th.
00:10:09.640Paul, walk us through. How is this going to play out? Your vision? How is this going to play out over the next couple of weeks?
00:10:16.420walk us through that your vision for florida let's let's put it in a nutshell why is it different
00:10:21.600from your other opponents and most importantly you've got a turncoat in jolly who i remember
00:10:28.220because we do cold opens as you know as a fan of the show you know from msnbc and he was a major
00:10:34.760contributor msnbc going against the president and governor de santis every single day and also
00:10:40.280he was the biggest cheerleader for Fauci. Walk us through your vision and how this plays out
00:10:46.000in both his primary and then in the general against Jolly. Yeah, well, David, Jolly is
00:10:50.820Charlie Criss 2.0. You can't trust somebody who's, I mean, somebody can change A, one of their
00:10:55.520positions during their life, that happens, but to change every single position on core fundamental
00:11:00.740philosophical belief issues shows you he's a person that just wants to get elected and will
00:11:06.020say anything you want him to say to win. And so I think that's an easy win for me in the general
00:11:11.340election. And when it comes to how we win, we have a contract with Florida, a written document,
00:11:18.620much like the contract with America back in 94. It's comprehensive. It goes through affordability.
00:11:23.640It goes through safety, shorter death penalty appeals. We're not going to let people be on
00:11:27.600death row for 30 plus years. We'll give them three years. Ending human trafficking, public
00:11:31.880corruption, health freedom I mentioned, the environment I mentioned. We're going to lean
00:11:36.220into election integrity. I want Florida to be the gold standard. We can't have anything goes,
00:11:41.960absentee balloting, you lose chain of custody as a former prosecutor. I don't know how many people
00:11:46.200have touched those ballots. We're going to have world-class election integrity. The same is true
00:11:51.020for the Second Amendment. We're going to lean into that. And these types of things, it's a
00:11:54.940comprehensive document on voterenner.com in the first 100 days. Look, everybody tells you they're
00:12:00.920going to do all these things. Politicians use a lot of words. I've got the receipts to prove that
00:12:05.920when I say I'm going to do something, you better take it to the bank. We're going to get it done
00:12:09.680just like I did when I was speaker. We will do these things in the first 100 days. And if they
00:12:14.300don't get it done in the legislative session, we'll be back all summer long with special sessions
00:12:18.280until they do the people's business and put Florida first. There's no doubt in your mind
00:12:24.660you'll be jolly. No doubt in my mind for two reasons, Steve. One is the qualifications,
00:12:30.220head and shoulders. I've got more qualifications than any candidate in this race. And number two,
00:12:35.140there's nothing negative in my background that's going to blow me out of the water.
00:12:38.640And I've also got things I can point to, like educational freedom that's popular on a bipartisan
00:12:42.740basis. I mentioned the environment, taking care of the Everglades, the wildlife corridor,
00:12:47.000making sure you can catch a fish and safely eat that fish here in Florida has bipartisan appeal.
00:12:52.720And other things that we did that really will allow us to win over independents and maybe soft
00:12:59.080Democrats because people want somebody who's going to get things done. And David Jolly will
00:13:03.520reject calls for property tax reform because he's captive to the League of Cities and the
00:13:08.140Democrat Party. That's where they make their money in those big cities. He will refuse to
00:13:12.820support property tax reform. I'm the only candidate who has a plan to eliminate homestead property
00:13:17.720taxes. And that's going to be a winning issue, along with insurance rates. And again, I've done
00:13:21.660it when I was Speaker of major litigation reform to help save the insurance market. And I'll do it
00:13:26.700as governor. Those things will shine during a general election. Where do people go to get more
00:13:33.080information about your campaign and to see if they want to donate or actively help you out as
00:13:38.500a grassroots member? Thanks for asking. VoteRenter.com. You can chip in a little bit. As I
00:13:43.740said, big tech, the utilities, trial lord, none of those folks are supporting me. The big special
00:13:49.040interest wants somebody who will be their puppet. I never have been. I never will be. I'm putting
00:13:53.400Florida first and that threatens them. So vote renter.com that you see up on your screen. That's
00:13:57.860the beginning of the copy of my contract with Florida that you can read and a lot of other
00:14:02.060news and positions we haven't talked about today that are strong, conservative, principled,
00:14:06.980unwavering positions. And I think that's the point I'd leave you with is that I ran to the
00:14:11.800fight when others waited for the fight to come to them in school board races, amendments three and
00:14:15.600four. We had these out of state special interests trying to turn us into something we weren't.
00:14:19.540I joined the governor and none of the other candidates showed up except for a tweet on X
00:41:23.880But to not close these vulnerabilities down for six years after you knew about them is really one of the big travesties of what we're exposing.
00:41:34.680The Trump DOJ, the Trump FBI, the Trump Homeland Security Department, the Trump NSA, the Trump CIA are all now in the process of getting us wise.
00:43:19.300But I just want a few more minutes of your time to take a short commercial break.
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00:44:54.300john somis with us so john you actually caused a firestorm because we know that
00:45:00.360the fbi went after the commander-in-chief as he's fighting overseeing a war to take down the
00:45:06.400caliphate of isis today you've got another blockbuster i noticed in your report that i
00:45:11.600read in detail that there are no whistleblowers ever came forward here's my question or my point
00:45:17.460we don't have a bad apples problem we have a systemic problem when do you think you're doing
00:45:24.100the task force doing a great job and people are assisting you had pulte there for a while
00:45:27.580but we have an issue that has to be addressed and it has to be addressed now for the sovereignty of
00:45:34.320this country and the basically ability of the american citizens which should be paramount
00:45:39.780to make decisions that are executed by the government after they've come to a conclusion
00:45:45.500of who they want to see in office when do you believe we're actually going to first off go
00:45:52.000after the bad apples which must be done it must be prosecuted but then get to the harder work like
00:45:57.420There had to be hundreds, if not thousands, of people inside DHS that knew about Maricopa County or something going on.
00:46:05.920Our nose was rubbed in the fact of when it mattered that it was the safest election in mankind's history.
00:46:12.640And that was a bald-faced lie, and people in authority knew it was a bald-faced lie, and it would have changed the direction of American, therefore, human history.
00:46:20.820It wouldn't have 22 million illegal alien invaders in the country right now.
00:46:52.060Here are the crimes you didn't know about because they were in burn bags or they were hiding in skiffs,
00:46:56.220which the president made possible with this task force and that I'm so grateful for.
00:47:00.300And then the final part is you take all of that and you you get going and then you create prosecutions for those who committed crimes under the color of law.
00:47:08.080And I think that's the process that's there. This morning, Senator Tom Cotton announced he'll get that John Brennan transcript over to the Justice Department.
00:47:15.400That's a good piece of news. You've got the prosecutor.
00:47:18.220Hold on, hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't bury it. Don't bury the lead. Don't bury the lead because you're a profile in Couricius State.
00:47:24.220don't bury the lead senator cotton has agreed to what senator kind of agreed to what he said he's
00:47:29.280going to get a resolution you have to vote it out this is what i was saying i said that's to be
00:47:32.800voted out of the senate they had the request in january they're going to vote it out now that's
00:47:36.520a good thing they'll get that out to the justice department that gets that log jam cleared good
00:47:41.060on senator cotton good on senator thune good on the justice department anyone who intervened
00:47:45.760yesterday they got it done that's the sort of things that gets progress going the fbi has
00:47:50.900created an extraordinary body of evidence for prosecutors. The prosecutors now have got to go
00:47:55.820before the grand jury. They are, I will tell you this, my understanding is that they're securing
00:47:59.980cooperation from some very important witnesses, people that we never would have thought would
00:48:03.700have flipped. They got to now put the case together and get some indictments done soon before more
00:48:09.160statutes expire. And I think that's the process that's underway. And, you know, meanwhile, the
00:48:15.700part that I can contribute, because the president is giving me this extraordinary opportunity,