00:00So the question is about removing people. I mean, look, yeah, the Constitution allows the governor to remove under certain criteria, you know, it's not something that I that I do lightly. I mean, people break me the kind of the goods because, you know, I'll go around and people be like, hey, remove this person, remove this person.
00:25Well, it's like you don't like somebody that's not necessarily fitting with the cut. So give me the goods. And so, for example, we've done that. When I became governor, I had promised in the campaign, you know, that we were going to bring accountability for the Parkland failures by the Broward County Sheriff. So we removed the sheriff that and the Senate eventually upheld that. We did the same with some of the supervisors of elections in South Florida. And lo and behold, we now have very, very well run elections. So that was necessary.
00:55And then we have had to do from time to time. And so the question is, is if there's conduct that merits that, well, that goes without saying, you know, we can do that. But I think the intent is, is to get to people the answers.
01:08We expect compliance with these subpoenas and then we'll be able to to go from there. But what I want is for the process, the authority that's been put in place in law, both with CFO and state government to just be respected and honored.
01:25I mean, like, you know, we have these debates. I get it. Look, there can be some friction. I mean, Florida politically now is is like a big red peninsula with some blue dots.
01:34Right. Orlando is one of the blue dots. Gainesville is one of the blue dots. And that's fine.
01:38But the reality is, is when you do debate these things and put this stuff in the law, the ability to conduct these audits, the ability or the actually the mandate for DOT to keep the streets clear of markings or messaging or graffiti.
01:53That's just the people have spoken on that. The lead. I think Broder and his colleagues passed that unanimously in the Florida Senate. I signed it in the law. If I sign it in the law, how could I then say, well, you know, you can do this.
02:07You can do that. Because then you end up having to adjudicate. Well, that message is fine. And that's not what we're doing. We wanted to get out of that business. And I think that's right now some of the local governments who are not necessarily on state roads.
02:19I have to see. I know Key West is coming up. Delray Beach. There may have been one or two others who basically just said, we're not going to comply or whatever. Guys, it's got we're going to get it done.
02:30We're going to follow the law and it's going up. So you can do it the easy way. You can do it the hard way. That's really up to you. I mean, there's obviously certain parts where any time a state does something, you know, there's a there's a desire to kind of virtue signal.
02:44And I think we're seeing that in some of those jurisdictions. But the reality is, is we have this authority. We have the we have the Doge authority. So let's get the facts. Let's let taxpayers know.
02:54So, I mean, I do think just on the face of some of the things Blaze said, you went from what, a billion to a billion six for the for the thing almost almost 600 million increase in the last five years.
03:05Now, there may be folks that will show, hey, that was absolutely necessary. Let's have that debate as Floridians, because what I would say is I would have preferred property tax relief and then mitigating that.
03:19Now, there's like I said, the state government, we've had to put in more money for projects because the costs went up. So I'm not saying that there was no no increases that have been imposed through the inflation.
03:29But that's a significant increase. And especially in counties that haven't had a net population. Orange has had a net population. Broward has not. And yet their budget went up 60 percent. So we just we want to do right by taxpayers.
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