BONUS： Casey DeSantis Breaks Down the Florida Amendments
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First Lady Casey DeSantis is here to tell us the truth about Amendments 3 and 4 in the state of Florida and why you need to vote no on both of them. She is joined by Governor Rick Scott and legislative leaders to fight the pro-life initiatives.
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First Lady Casey DeSantis is here to tell us the truth about Amendments 3 and 4 in the state of
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Florida. If you are a voter in the state of Florida, you have to listen to or watch this.
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Or if you know someone who is, you've got to get the word out because these amendments could
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completely change the culture in Florida for the worse. And these are amendments. And so it is
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serious business. This stuff will be set in concrete. You've got to vote no on both of those.
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And Casey DeSantis is here right now to tell us why.
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First Lady, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. You and Governor DeSantis have been
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traveling the state trying to get the word out about the truth about Amendments 3 and 4.
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There's so much propaganda out there about these. I want to start with Amendment 4 because that has
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to do with abortion. And obviously, this is a huge issue that I talk about that my viewers care a lot
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about. Can you tell us what is really in this amendment? Yeah, I can because you're right.
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There are a lot of paid interests out there that are trying to push a narrative, and a lot of them
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come from Soros-backed groups. I think they're spending over $100 million to try to make people
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believe something that is not true. So when you actually look at the Constitutional Amendment,
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Ali Beth, it's just a couple of sentences. And it's very deceptive, very misleading. There are no
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definitions. And so it's open to interpretation. But what it really means, it boils down to three
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points, one of which it talks about allowing an abortion up until the moment of viability.
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Some would say that that's 26 weeks. But there's a loophole that comes in after it,
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as it says, or deemed necessary to protect a patient's health as determined by a healthcare
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provider. So what that means is it takes the doctor out of the equation because provider
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is not a doctor. And so really, what does that word mean? Well, that's anybody who's working at
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a healthcare facility. So is that a tech? Is that a receptionist? And then here's the one that should
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really upset and make moms very afraid is that they take out the word parental consent and they
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use slippery language to say notification. So in the state of Florida, this would be the only medical
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procedure that a child could undergo without the consent of a parent. So this is very problematic.
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You are talking about abortions up until the moment of birth, taking the doctor out of the equation,
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not allowing parents to have consent. It would replace it with notification. And when you're
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talking about late term abortions, I mean, you're talking about dismemberment when a baby is capable of
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feeling pain. And the other thing that's important about this entire process, these are constitutional
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amendments. This is not something that's done through the legislature. So this is permanent. If this
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gets enacted in our law, it cannot be undone. Wow. Can you tell us a little bit more about who is behind
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this? Well, so I think that there's Soros backed left leaning groups that try to torpedo in and they
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spend a lot of money. I think you have to go back and look. I know specifically where Amendment 3 is
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being funded. But with 4, I mean, it's the same people that have brought you a lot of these other
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amendments. But thanks goodness that you have the governor who stood up and he has been traveling around
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the state and as myself and a lot of people, you know, from the legislature to try to fight this thing
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and to say no. Yeah, it's really sick. The misinformation, disinformation, I should say,
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that I'm seeing specifically surrounding this amendment. You're seeing some people say, well,
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you know, it's not really about abortion. It's really just about miscarriage care or it's protecting
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women's health in case of some kind of emergency. But of course, that's not true because the pro-life
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law, the heartbeat bill that was signed by Governor DeSantis, of course, it protects miscarriage
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care. And of course, it protects women in case of emergency situations. So that's just a complete
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and total lie. Right. Right. No, you're 100 percent right. I think that's well. And the truth is,
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is they're trying to peddle a false narrative so that you don't understand what the current law is.
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And then they're being very squirrely with the language that's in the constitutional amendment. So
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there are PSAs that are running right now on television all across the state of Florida talking
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about the truth of the heartbeat protections. And at the same time, there are ads out there
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talking about what it would mean if this constitutional amendment would pass.
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Let's talk about Amendment 3. Amendment 3 has to do with weed. And I've seen some people
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who are maybe like center, center left, maybe conservative in some ways saying,
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no, this is just giving people the freedom to do what they want to do in their own homes.
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No, it has nothing to do about freedom. This is about one corporation, a mega weed cartel that's
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spending over $140 million to basically hijack our constitutional system to give themselves revenue
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in perpetuity. If it were really about freedom, then why, when they wrote this constitutional amendment,
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did they say you can smoke weed recreationally, but you can only use our product? You can't grow it
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in your home. That's illegal. And by the way, and this is pretty egregious, they gave themselves
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blanket civil and criminal liability in any part of the process. So if you're smoking their product
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or consuming their product, or let's say you get hit by one of the mega weed corporate cartels trucks,
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you can't sue them. You have zero recourse. And so if it were about freedom, they of course would say,
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well, you can grow it in your home. And this is nothing to do. This is backed by one mega weed
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company that has traded on the Canadian Stock Exchange that invested over $140 million. Why?
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They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to get a return on their investment.
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So for them, it's not about the well-being of the people of this state. It's not about the best
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interests of families or the quality of life, because there's no restrictions on public use.
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This is about them and an investment and trying to get money for themselves
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with constitutionally backed revenue stream in perpetuity. It's like a monopoly.
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Tell me if this is correct. The amendment allows for a person to carry up to three ounces of marijuana,
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which is equivalent to over 100 joints on their person at a time. This means street level drug
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dealing would effectively be legalized. Pot would be everywhere. And there would be no way for
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concerned parents to be able to shield their children from exposure to marijuana, the smell
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of marijuana, the effects of marijuana. Is that true? Yeah, a hundred percent. So first of all,
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when you talk about the amount that you can carry on your person, that's three times the amount that
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you can carry on your person in California. And look how well it's worked out for California and some
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of these other states. Then you talk about not being able to escape the smell, right? It's inevitable
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of any of these states where it has been legalized recreationally, where they flee California and New
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York. You can't even walk down a New York city block without smelling marijuana. Again, there are no
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limitations on public usage. So again, a church, a library, a park, going to your kid's little league
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game, waiting in line for universal studios, because this is a constitutional right, the legislature could
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not undo it and law enforcement wouldn't be able to undo it. And then you see the other ramifications
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of what happens in other states where this has been enacted. And you see, um, fatalities on the
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roads go up. You see children consuming things like gummies. I mean, I don't understand why they
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put high levels of THC into gummies and lollipops, but it happens that these kids get ahold of it.
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In California, you saw a 445% increase into the poison control hotline for marijuana related incidents
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involving kids under the age of five. So anywhere this has been tried, it's been failed. And then
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for the people who say, okay, it's freedom. Well, listen, we currently in the state of Florida have
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a regulated medical marijuana market where we have, we, the state has issued more than I think 900,000
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medical marijuana cards. I haven't heard a lot of people complaining about not being able to get one
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of those cards, but it's regulated. It is available in the state of Florida. You can drive down a street,
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you can see a lot of these storefronts, but to do this, when it has been, it has been tried and it
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has failed. And so many other States would be detrimental to the wellbeing of the people of the
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state going forward. And again, it cannot be undone by the legislature. This is a right.
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And we don't have time to get into all of this, but there's also just so much disinformation
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about marijuana out there. A lot of people think it is like the harmless drug and it's really not.
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I mean, you mentioned, you know, traffic fatalities because people are under the influence of weed,
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but also it can increase mental health issues, especially in young people. And as you said,
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when it becomes this ubiquitous, it becomes more accessible to children, to teens. And this has a
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real lifelong detrimental effect on their wellbeing, on their mental health. And so I just, as a mom,
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first of all, I hate smelling weed. I would hate walking to the park and having to smell weed,
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have to see a weed shop on every block for it to be completely unregulated. And then, yeah,
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I worry about its availability and accessibility to young people and how that affects my safety.
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And as you said, I just want everyone to understand this. If this passes, it's not like,
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oh, it would just change with the next, you know, in the next legislative session. No,
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this would be an amendment. And so it would be basically sat in stone, right?
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A hundred percent. And it's really kind of sick the way that they did this, because if they wanted
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to go through the proper legislative process, they would go through the house and the Senate. They'd
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come to a consensus committee hearings, whatever, but they didn't want to do that. They wanted to find
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an end run around the legislature to cement it in the constitution. That's why they're spending so
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much money. But you bring up a really good point as a mom and the ramifications and adverse effects
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of marijuana are undeniable. You might not see it everywhere. You might have special interests out
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there spending a lot of money to be able to shovel a narrative about how great it is. But I was out
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with our surgeon general and he said, absolutely. You get addicted to this stuff. I mean, it's 25 to 30
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times more potent than what we saw in the 1960s and 1970s. Certainly we see kids who are coming in
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and exhibiting schizophrenia and psychosis. And I mean, you see it. I don't know about you,
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Allie Beth, but I mean, when I was in high school, I remember kids who were like on the football team.
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I mean, they were doing great in school. They were gregarious. I mean, just, and then they went
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down the path of marijuana and that was it. They came in, they were just dirty. Their grades went to
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heck. I mean, they weren't doing athletics anymore. And so when you look at it, can anybody really make
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the argument that this is great for our kids that importing this at mass unregulated, essentially
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across the state is going to be good for the wellbeing of our children? I don't think you can.
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And when I was at a school in Northeast Florida, I remember walking into one of the offices and on the
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wall, they had all of these pamphlets talking about tobacco and harms of tobacco and why you need to
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stop. I mean, at what point in time are we going to start seeing the warnings? Marijuana,
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here's all of the problems that are associated with it because they're there. They might not be
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out in society the way that we know they are, but I mean, this, the evidence and the data it's there.
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We just have to educate our kids and to say that this is now recreational. What is that message send
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to our children? So it's problematic on so many levels, but if people really understood the truth
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and understand too, when you go in Florida to vote on this stuff, you're going to see a summary.
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The summary does not do justice what the actual constitutional amendment says. It doesn't even
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get into the liability protections that I talked to you about. Ultimately, wherever this has been
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tried, it always leads to a black market, which is scary for our kids because, you know, when you
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have a product, you regulate it, you tax it. It's the black market comes in and undercuts that price,
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right? Well, the black market doesn't care if this stuff is clean. It's going to be laced with
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fentanyl. And so people are like, why would these companies give themselves liability protections?
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And police told me, they said, well, you know, we can't differentiate when we're looking at it,
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what's, you know, regulated through these cartels and what's on the black market. People are going
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to die as a result of this. And children too, because that includes, you talked about the
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gummies and the suckers. Those can also be laced with fentanyl. Yes. Yes. A hundred percent. All of
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this stuff. It's just, you know, it's so scary. It's really egregious what they're trying to do. And,
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you know, again, this would open the door. And I think it's the last thing and I'll let you go. I
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know you're busy, but this would really open the door to like, you know, big pharma on steroids. How
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would you ever be able to stop a corporation if they think that they can usurp the legislature to
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spend, you know, $150 million to peddle false narratives to be able to get whatever product they
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want in perpetuity? I mean, the precedent that this sets is, is really bad too. So yes. Well,
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thank you so much for the work that y'all are doing to inform voters about this. I have seen it. Y'all
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have done an excellent job. And so, um, I, well, I do want to ask like, what is the, what is it
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looking like? Which direction do you think these amendments will go? Well, um, you know, I'm going to
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say I'm cautiously optimistic, right? Cause I guess a lot of people, when they look at the election,
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they just, you know, you, you don't really know until, you know, the good thing about Florida is
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that, you know, we'll have our ballots cast and we'll have all of the votes counted at a decent
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hour, like seven or eight o'clock. And like a lot of other States, but, um, I were cautiously
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optimistic that they're both going to fail, but you, you, you just, you don't know. And so that's
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why you got to really push until the very end. I think they're going to be close, but 60% in Florida
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is a big threshold to overcome. And when people, I mean, the commercials are running on four really well
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done because they just, it's two sentences. They go into the language and people are like,
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wait a minute. That's, that's extreme. So we're, we're going to keep working through the finish
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line. So any air cover you can help give us would be awesome. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much.
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Um, I really appreciate that. Everyone who is listening, who can vote in the state of Florida,
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vote no on amendment three and amendment four. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you, Allie Beth. God bless.