'His Subpoenas Are Justified': Ron DeSantis Defends Audits On Orange County

During a press briefing on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) spoke about recent subpoenas in Orange County, Florida.

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00:00Okay, do we have any questions?

00:01What is your message to Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings who says there's no reason for an audit

00:06because they have an independently elected auditor in Phil Diamond,

00:11and they also said after you came to visit that they opened the doors for you.

00:15So what's your message for that, and also what's your advice that he does with these subpoenas?

00:19Well, the CFO would not have issued the subpoenas if all the questions were answered.

00:24I mean, this is not performative.

00:26He wants answers, and under the law, he's entitled to answers.

00:30And I know that you hadn't seen CFOs necessarily flex this muscle in the past.

00:34This has been part of their authority for a long time.

00:38We then got more authority at the state level through the legislature and the most recent budget.

00:44So the elected representatives have spoken clearly that there's a role for state government to go in here,

00:50to be on the side of taxpayers.

00:53Blaze doesn't answer to the county government.

00:55No one else in state government does, and we want to be able to get the answers that he's entitled to.

01:01So his subpoenas are justified.

01:03Why people were reading off a prepared script, I have no idea.

01:08But that's what was going on, and so he's going to make sure that he gets the answers to this

01:13because ultimately the job of all of this, whether it's us doging our own state universities

01:20or whether it's what Blaze is leading in local government, is you've got to be a voice for the taxpayer,

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