Florida

“Had he not been governor of Florida, and even if we had a Republican legislature as a backstop, you know, we would have been much more like New York or California during the pandemic than Florida.”

“Only 14% of the people in state prison in Florida are there for drugs.”

“One of the ways we tried to combat that this past year is we passed a sweeping parents bill of rights, right? To make sure that parents have the, they understand that they have the right to get the entire curriculum.”

“When we passed this bill, there's an extra one and a half million kids who qualify for school choice who didn't qualify before.”

“So we rolled out this program last year we passed called Portraits and Patriotism. And what it does is it's modeled off of the Holocaust Museum where they did the interviews with Holocaust survivors about what it was like to be in concentration camps. And then…”

“I believe that you're going to see massive risks in cybersecurity. I think you're gonna see massive risks in coastal flooding, both of which are two issues that we looked at last year and had some significant movement on.”

“Last year we did a resiliency bill, which put, you know, a billion dollars in for things like coastal infrastructure.”

“We have an 85% law that says, you know, you have to do 85% of your sentence. And really that was a truth in sentencing. Cause people used to do, you know, 30% of their sentence. There are people who want to undo that. And I don't support that.”

“So now if you go to a state college in Florida, they have to offer at least three certifications or technical degrees where they say, if you come and you get this certificate, And you are not working in that field in six months. We'll give you your money back.…”

“So we did an all-payer, all-payer claims database, which I think is the biggest in the country, where we said, let's get, let's tell the patient as granular as possible how much their surgery or procedure is going to cost.”

“So in Florida now, in a comprehensive workforce package, we were able to advocate for a change so that all performance funding, or out of all performance funding, two-thirds will be based on student earnings.”

“Florida and one other state. That's it.”

“New York is two hundred and thirty three billion is their state budget. What do you think Florida is? A hundred and fifteen billion. Ok? And Florida has a zero percent income tax. New York has 10.9 plus the city tax in New York City.”