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This is Daybreak with Jason Jones on 925 Fox News.
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Good morning and welcome back to Daybreak here on 925 Fox News.
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Now, as we are a week away from the elections, you uh I uh talked to him a couple of times here on the show, and we're gonna talk to him again as we uh didn't get a chance to see him last Friday as he was having his own rally on the East Coast.
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We are joined now by your congressional Republican candidate for CD 22, uh Casey Askar.
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Casey, good morning.
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Welcome back to the show, buddy.
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How you doing, man?
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Good morning, Jason.
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Thanks for having me back.
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How's it going, bro?
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Are you out there really hitting this?
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Are you out uh hitting it hard?
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And tell us a little bit about your rally from Friday.
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Oh, yeah, we're pounding the pavement.
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We're we're hitting it hard.
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Um we've got uh we've got a lot of momentum, a lot of energy, a lot of excitement.
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Uh Republicans are are showing up, and uh we need to keep that momentum going.
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Your opponent, Pia Dandia, uh I may have butchered her name, but it doesn't matter.
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Uh she has got a lot of mailers going out.
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You didn't, by the way.
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And it does matter.
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Right?
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I didn't.
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You didn't.
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You didn't butcher her name.
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Doesn't really matter, no.
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Uh, Casey, she's putting out a lot of mail out against you.
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She's talking about your net worth, and she seems to be very some are saying even exaggerating it.
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What do you think is the real story here?
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Why do you think they're focusing on your net worth?
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I mean, that's that's uh the Democrats, the crazy left.
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They they hate success, they hate America, they hate the American dream.
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And uh they're they're socialist communists, and and communists uh you know they want to strip away uh everything from hardworked folks and and and hand it out to uh to everyone and uh and and you know communism has never worked in history.
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But for some reason they seem to not know history.
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That's why they want to get rid of civics in school and and keep you know the same keep trying the same insanity.
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Uh it's it's a hypocrisy.
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I mean the the the the irony here is she's a millionaire herself.
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Uh she lives in a four and a half million dollar home in Palm Beach.
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Right.
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Uh Palm Beach County.
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She's uh she's she's got a stock portfolio worth millions.
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I mean the hypocrisy is just deep.
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Right.
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And tell us about your stock portfolio one more time, Casey.
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I don't trade stock.
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Um I don't trade stock.
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I'm not a stock trader.
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I'm a business guy.
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My I invest in businesses and real tangible assets.
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I I I invest in Main Street, not Wall Street.
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I invest in people.
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Uh man, uh, I I just I just wanted to point that out.
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I knew that answer, but I wanted to make sure everybody else knew that answer as well.
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So what is what is the East Coast, what you know, because here's the deal.
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We're we are pushing hard to get the conservative push out here and Southern Marco, Henry, and those areas here that can hear us in Southwest Florida.
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We're pushing them hard for you, Casey.
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Get out there, make sure you vote.
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We need more conservatives that have ever gone out and voted in a midterm so that we can outweigh what is going on because she put out a poll said you're down by less than a point on the East Coast.
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What are your polls saying compared to her polls?
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Because we all know they're jaded.
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Yeah, um I uh it's it's close.
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It's tight.
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I mean, the uh decision desk has a higher percent chance of winning, uh, but we're running like we're uh like we're running like we're losing.
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We've got a we've got uh we've got a on the pavement till till November uh third and and uh and we've got to come out and win this.
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Look, I mean here's here's here's the here's the two two main takeaways I think for for um for all of our listeners here right now.
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Come on.
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Number one.
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Number one, you've got you've got a major contract, you've got a you've got a socialist who uh uh who's uh a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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Uh not only is she a Harlem school teacher that teaches LGBTQ plus, transgender, um boys and and girls' sports and all that um insanity.
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That's by the way, they've been working very hard to scrub um and now now pretending to come towards the middle.
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Oh, I'm glad you pointed that out.
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I'm so glad you pointed that out.
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They have.
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They have done a really great job, her campaign of trying to scrub that out and trying to make it seem like she's not even a Democrat, trying to make it seem like she hasn't stood up for socialism before.
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I think that's in insane.
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Even the commercial you see sounds it makes her sound like an independent when you know she's a Democrat with an LGBTQ colored star around her name, just so you know.
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Absolutely.
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I mean that they're doing that across the nation with every one of their candidates, uh, not only her, but hers is pretty deep.
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When it turns out that she's a corporate lobbyist, she claims she's against data centers.
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Yet her stock portfolio, which is a beautiful stock portfolio, by the way, is most heavily invested in what?
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Data centers.
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Uh she claims she's against insider trading uh and trading stock in Congress.
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Yet she has a big, beautiful stock portfolio.
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She claims that I'm President Trump's uh mega millionaire buddy, and I'm gonna look out for for millionaires and lower taxes for millionaires.
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No, I want lower taxes for everyone.
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I want lower taxes for the middle class.
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Yet she's a millionaire herself with a beautiful home and a beautiful, uh, beautiful assets.
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She's gonna raise everyone's taxes.
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She's gonna raise taxes on senior citizens.
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And that's that's we know their playbook.
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That's all that's all they've got.
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They've got no real substance, they've got no real policy, it's just um insanity.
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There's no common sense.
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So that's that's that's a major takeaway, is is uh you're gonna have someone who's never built a thing in her life, who's never created a job, who's never signed a payroll check, who has never taken on any personal recourse, or a candidate who is a common sense conservative Republican, uh a str uh uh a strong Christian, by the way, we don't even know what she represents, um and someone who has been creating jobs and turning businesses around and saving businesses.
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You remember uh some of the examples I gave you last time when I was on your show for my entire professional career going back 30 plus years.
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So that that's one big takeaway.
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The other takeaway is um this is very important for all of us to understand, especially Collier and Henry.
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Especially Collier and Henry.
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This is this is a conservative country, right?
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This is America, this is hometown America here.
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Do we want someone who will not denounce the Muslim Brotherhood, who will not denounce Sharia law, who will not denounce care, who is against the Gaza Beach peace plan, okay, and disarming Hamas.
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Do we want that type of radical ideology here in our hometown in Collier County and in Henry County?
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That we're not gonna stand for that.
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That you're right.
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That is that is that that ideology from the other coast can be here on November 3rd if we don't show up and vote.
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Man, I I that's the best way to put it.
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You understand that that's what you'll have pushing into Collier County will be a liberal socialist who wants to get out there and change the way everything you're used to in Southern Collier could be changed immediately.
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There could be massive issues.
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You could have stalling of trying to get things done.
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You're gonna be upset about it.
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And you you know who should be most upset are the ones who don't make it to the polls or don't early vote right now.
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Early voting is open.
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Make your way out there.
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Casey, last question where do you stand on data centers?
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So for me, um, I oppose data centers here in our backyards.
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In our back I I do not want them close to our homes, I don't want them next to our schools, I do not want them near our crops.
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And by the way, this is big farm country here, this new district that stretches all the way from here to Palm Beach to Broward.
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Well, in between, it's agriculture.
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This is the largest ag district east of the Mississippi.
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In fact, they're saying that it's the largest east of California.
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Where do we put data centers if you don't put them in the country or don't put them next to our homes?
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Where do we put them, Casey?
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I I think there's I think there's a lot of rural land that um uh where data centers can go.
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Because I will say, uh, we need to compete.
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Okay.
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So AI is the next revolution.
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Uh it's it's the you know, it's the next industrial revolution.
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Um so we have to compete.
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We have to compete against China.
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We can't let China eat our lunch, okay?
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We've got to stay dominant and and we've got to be the strongest country by having the largest economy, the strongest economy, and the strongest military.
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So we've always got to make sure that we're investing in our military and and growing our economy.
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But there are a lot of places.
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There's a lot of places, a lot of communities that want them.
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In Virginia, going far going out west.
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There's a lot of rural land where data centers can go, especially in cooler states, in less humid, less, less hot states.
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Now, if data centers are proposing to come to Florida, the people are going to decide.
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I'm not going to get in the way of what the people want.
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But as far as federal legislation, if people don't want it, I don't want, I don't want to make, I want to make sure that people are not stuck with them in their backyard or near their own.
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Man, I really appreciate you.
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Casey Asgar, Congressional Canada, running for CD 22.
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Get out and vote for him today.
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Easier conservative automatic.
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Casey will talk again before Tuesday, all right?
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Thank you, Jason.
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Have a good one.
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Thanks for having me.
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Welcome back to Dave Rango 925 Fox News, right all along.
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I'm your host, Jason Jones, along with Rob Stevens.
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Well, today at 9 a.m.
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Carter County Government Center, the commissioners will hear the rezoning of the KFC, the vacant lot there at uh on U.S.
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41 and East Naples at Andrews Drive.
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It's been empty for years.
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Well, the owner uh wants to do a mixed-use building, a ground floor Mediterranean restaurant with 30 units upstairs, between 500 and 550 square feet, mostly singles, and has been pitched as workforce housing.
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Yeah, the uh parking solution for said place for uh 30 residents.
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They bought two additional developed residential lots, one behind, one across the street, and uses them for the parking.
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Uh and now the uh, by the way, the Bayshore, the Bayshore Gateway CRA Advisory Board recommended denial and so did the county planning staff.
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They also recommended denial planning commission, approved it anyway, and forwarded.
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The final vote is the commissioner's proposal only.
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It's not approved yet, but these are microunits in a restaurant that do not fit the old fast food pad that's at there right now.
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The help was buying the houses next door and calling their yards parking lots.
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That's not workforce housing, find a creative solution.
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That's basically a commercial project absorbing residential lots uh so the density clears the code.
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Listen, if and I'm I'm gonna put it real simple.
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If the lot was not big enough from jump for workforce housing, and you needed to buy two additional residential lots in order to find parking for those said residents, then it wasn't then it's it's too big for that corner.
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And that's the situation, and I think that's what people are talking about.
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I buy I listen, I love workforce housing, but are you gonna get the nurse at five in a five hundred square foot apartment?
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Are you going to get the firefighter to live in a five hundred square foot apartment?
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Five hundred square feet aren't that big.
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Well, I know that, but I'm saying as far as workforce housing is concerned, it could solve a problem in Collier County.
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We already see uh, I believe it's um uh one of the health systems, I can't remember if it's NCH or one of the other ones in uh Collier County that is building workforce housing to attract uh high-level talent.
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We're talking high-level doctors, uh lab technicians, that sort of thing.
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Uh the problem is is Collier County is in this bubble and it's expensive to live in Collier County, and businesses are having a hard time filling vacancies for entry-level positions at restaurants or stores or things like that.
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And the reason being is because people can't afford to live close to Naples.
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They have to commute in.
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So a majority of the workforce that's working in Naples to serve the Naples population actually commutes from uh I think it's about 15 miles and beyond.
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So we all know how those morning commutes out of Imokaly into Naples are uh and those commutes on 75 can get nice and sticky in the morning too.
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So I think it's great that they're trying to offer solution here.
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I don't see how this could be regulated in such a way.
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If it's being pitched as workforce housing, who gets to manage it?
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Who manages the property?
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Who qualifies the tenants?
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It's being pitched at work as workforce housing.
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It's not going to be workforce housing.
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I I I I don't wanna I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings, but if I have a career and I'm a I'm uh now maybe your uh waitresses or or or servers or I'm sorry, servers, or maybe your your prep cooks that might be looking for a small place that just right out of right out of college might live there.
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But for the most part, a grown adult's not gonna live in a 500 square foot hotel room.
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I've stayed in hotel rooms that are bigger than 500 square feet.
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And when you look at that, you've got to go, wow, that's not very big, and you're gonna expect workforce to live there.
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Work foul workforce is not gonna move in there.
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It's going to be uh less than desirables that slide into this.
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I love workforce.
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The need is real.
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When you take a KFC with a small commercial lot and try to put in 30 units and a restaurant and then change the parking of two additional residential lots, you're doing it wrong.
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Yeah, you have a bit that what you're doing that's is this creates a density problem.
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Right.
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This forces density onto a corridor that neighbors already are finding dangerous.
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Right.
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So you're basically just trying to trade one problem for another.
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And trying to label it as something that it is not.
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Okay, that's fair.
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I'll I'll I'll accept that.
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I love the initiative.
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I don't think this is the answer.
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I uh I love the initiative too.
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Thank you.
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That's where I go with this.
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I think workforce housing is the number one thing we need more than anything in Southwest Florida.
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You're right.
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We need a rent-controlled quality apartment complex or condo complex, however you want to label it, that allows them to have a two-bedroom or a three-bedroom facility at something that's not going to cost them$2,800 a month.
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I think that matters.
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And I'm pretty sure there's a window there.
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I'm pretty sure there's a space for that to happen.
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But when you start talking about 500 square foot units, when's the last time you have you ever lived in a 500 square foot unit in your entire life?
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I haven't.
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Right.
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Right.
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Now I have.
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I lived in when I first moved to Phoenix, I was single and I stayed in the smallest apartment known to my man known in my entire life.
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But you know what the number one mission was for my entire life the second I moved in there?
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Was getting out of there.
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Because it was too small.
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Because it was too small.
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And it's just w it that's the issue.
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These are too small to be called uh workforce housing.
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And I hope uh the the commissioners see it that way.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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What workforce are we trying to house here?
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Are we trying to house his restaurant employees?
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Is that is that what we're trying to do?
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So where are those where are those employees going to come from?
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Right.
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A Mediterranean restaurant?
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Right.
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Are we gonna H1B visa talent to come in and cook and serve food and call your town?
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Right, right.
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So I listen, maybe the employees are gonna live there as well.
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I'm not saying that someone won't rent it.
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And I'm not saying that there isn't somebody screaming at their radio right now, going, I'd love to have a$500 uh apartment.
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I'm paying$1,200 for a one-bedroom right now.
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Great, fantastic.
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I that's fine.
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But what what it does leave, and understand, a a$500 square foot is going to be less than uh probably a thousand a month, maybe less, uh right around a thousand or less, and it's going to become like a weekly hotel that you see on Palm Beach.
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That's what it is.
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Take it or leave it, that's what it's gonna be.
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It's going to be like one of those hotels.
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And next thing you know, in another five years after it's rebuilt, it'll have the questionable people living in it.
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It's not what you want.
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It's don't label it as workforce housing, and don't let this be the the uh poster for workforce housing.
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Don't let this become the new staple for workforce housing because that's not what it is, and that's not what we need.
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That right there is a band-aid on a gunshot wound, and that is the biggest problem we have right now.
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Housing our workforce, trying to figure out how to get the Collier County workforce to live in Collier.
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Uh because that is a problem.
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That is a real problem facing Collier County.
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I agree 100%.
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And I think what you're seeing is this is a like I said, this is not the right image or the right model.
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Let me use that.
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This isn't the model of what you would want for workforce housing.
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Great in concept.
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Keep it up, Collier.
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We all want workforce housing across the country.
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But let's find the right the right solution.
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Right.
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Where's the builder that's like I'm gonna build 1500 units and make it right for everybody?
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I've made so much money off the back of the taxpayer in Florida, I'm gonna be able to do the right thing.
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Good morning.
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This is Daybreak on 925 Fox News, right all along.
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I'm your host, Jason Jones, along with Rob Stevens.
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On this uh Tuesday morning, we just got done discussing the workforce housing that is before the Carrier County Commissioners.
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That is uh uh 30,500 square foot units above a Mediterranean restaurant with lots across the street and behind the place where residential lots were swooped up to become parking lots uh to fit the Ditsney problem that's going on.
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And I said we need workforce housing.
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I just don't think this is it.
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At 500 square foot units, it's not something I think is right where it goes.
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Now, in the midst of all that, I was getting a text message from Mayor Mike Gibson uh of Bonita Springs, and I asked Mike to come on because Mike also believes that we need workforce housing.
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Mike, do you think what we're mayor I'm sorry, Mayor, good morning, welcome to the show.
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Mayor Gibson, do you believe what what you're seeing with a 3,500 square foot units above a Mediterranean restaurant on a small commercial lot is what we're needing when it comes to workforce housing?
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Yeah, I mean, we need all types of workforce housing.
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Uh you know, you mentioned that it was for north nurses and firemen.
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You know, there's not that many nurses and firemen.
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You know, there's a lot of single people working many other jobs that you know need smaller units like this because it's something they can afford.
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So many of the developers, you know, when they build uh a one bedroom or a um a studio.
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They're still pushing close to$2,000 a lot of these units.
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So if they can scale them back and get cheaper to where we can get, you know, some of these younger kids moving in, you know, that's just like a no-brainer.
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Yeah, what about the fact that I mean they would have to be put in uh better parts of uh the neighborhoods, if you mean if you know you understand what I'm saying?
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Like if you take a 500 square foot unit and it doesn't have any parking security or I mean, understand any kind of amenities.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's just 30 units, no amenities, no reason to live there other than you're above a restaurant and maybe close to your job and it's cheap rent.
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What happens to those in ten years?
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It it just comes down to what you're looking for.
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I mean, that that's why a lot of these places cost so much because they're they're building them as luxury apartments and have you know huge swimming pools and lazy rivers and uh big workout centers.
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Depending on where it's at, if there's gyms around and other things for them to do, I mean, how much time are you really gonna spend in your place?
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This younger crowd, they they love to go out every night and you know hang out with friends and stuff.
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So it's you know, if you're not really in the room that much, it's just a place to go sleep, recharge, and you know, get back to work the next day.
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You know, I think about when I think more than 500 squares.
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When I think when I think workhouse workforce, you know, I think cops, I think nurses, I think teachers, uh, you know, I think uh restaurant workers, I think uh the people that keep the essential part of your uh even the ones that work in city halls and and things like that, these are people that don't make a lot of money but are essential to keeping uh our life running appropriately.
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Uh are we saying that that if they are in workforce and already have a kid that this isn't something you can do?
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Yeah, yeah.
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A single bedroom place isn't gonna be for if you already have a kid.
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Right.
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So I mean some somebody that's you know in a little bit of a problem like a city hall or fire or nurse.
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You know, they need a little bit bigger units, two bedrooms, things like that.
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But they still need 'em on the affordable side.
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Um so so I mean that's just the thing.
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It's like instead of building all these luxury apartments, they they need to build 'em nice, um, and safe.
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You know, but parking's a big thing in unless it's in an area um that has enough stuff around it.
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Uh if it's in a more walkable part of the community, you know, closer to Fifth Ave or downtown Bonita, something like that.
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Right, downtown Benita, right?
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They don't need a car.
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They don't need a car, right.
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They have everything they need within a within a walking distance and it could unless uh they don't work in the area or they don't work within walking distance there, then they do need a car or some kind of way to get back and forth to work.
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Uh public transportation is is nice here, but it's it it's not convenient for everybody.
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Um, you know, the reason I'm I'm I the and I and I've I wanted to bring you on because it wasn't necessarily me wanting to say that I'm I'm all for workforce housing.
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I got to have a conversation one time with a guy named Scott Allen, he's a builder, uh, who really pushed for teacher workforce housing.
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And what I liked about his plan is he was coming up with a way to do one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments that were all basically uh controlled by your income, and half of them had to go to workforce housing uh to guarantee that that program.
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You know, they uh and and I think that's the other side of this.
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What I worry about when you talk about small, little, tiny units, I really think about the fact that these units could become uh susceptible to uh the less savory types of our community living in them.
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Well, and and that that's all in the the management company that's running it.
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You know, they don't really care and they just see you as another dollar coming through the door, there it's you know, it's whatever.
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But you know, if you have a good management team that's always there and sees what's going on, it's it's gonna curb things like that.
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Right.
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And before anybody says my plan is is is I'm saying that there are builders, and and and and mayor agreed or disagreed, there are builders out there that have made millions of dollars, billions of dollars off Floridians.
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Agreed?
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Oh yeah.
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I mean, they wouldn't do it if they pay money.
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Right, right.
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So I believe that these guys could come up with a plan to build something that is for workforce housing.
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And and by the way, I'm not looking at rent control.
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What I'm looking at when it comes to this is I'm looking at looking out for those that work within those communities and have to do, like Rob said, drive all the way to F Lee County when they work in Cawlier County, or have to drive all the way to Bonita when they work in Marco or anything or or that type of matter.
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I'm now I'm not I know Mayor Gibson would say, take bring them all to me.
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Uh I don't know that we we want them all.
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True.
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I would love to be in Bonita.
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Right, right.
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Uh but uh you know, I I that's the only thing I worry about when it comes to this, and I certainly hope we can come up with a solution that really dials that in, Mike.
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Yeah.
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You know, to bring in their employees, and it was going to be one, two, three bedrooms, and so that way, you know, you came in as a single person, but you know, then you met somebody have a family, now you now you move up.
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Um, and and it's just to bridge that gap, and so you're making enough to where you can afford something in the you know outlying areas that cost a lot more.
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We these student housing units they have all set up all around the university, that's the money grab from hell, man.
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I mean, these kids are paying$900 for one room uh and a shared and a shared bathroom and a shared kitchen.
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Uh it's uh it's it's it is the racket beyond all rackets uh when it comes to things is those student housing.
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So, but you know what I thought is that you could actually turn those student housings probably into a solid workforce housing too, uh uh, you know, as a transitional process.
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And I certainly hope FTCU figures that out as well.
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Mayor Gibson, I really appreciate you being on the show, buddy.
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It's great to have you on, man.
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And uh uh anybody who drinks a shower beer and takes us to the gym with us is a f is somebody I love, man.
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So keep up the good work there, Benita.
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All right, go finish your workout, buddy.
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We'll talk again too real soon.
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Uh there we go.
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I uh I just wanted to have that uh uh I you know, that conversation that that I think we need to have the difference in what I see and what other people see, and I'm definitely not trying to uh Well what I want to know is is if we've got to find a way to protect the integrity of what would be considered workforce housing, right?
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Because if all you're if if it's not regulated uh very well, then you are just gonna have these management companies that come in and just keep raising rates and then it's just going to turn into a regular apartment rental.
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So I would like to know what protections would be in place for something that would be zoned as workforce housing, not not necessarily rent control, but you've got to find a way to protect the Tennessee, and you have to find the way to protect the workforce housing concept that stands behind that that's well the workforce housing would involve their their income.
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Their rent couldn't be the true model workforce housing is your rent is not more than 30% of your income.
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But is there s but is there anything that prevents a property manager or an owner from just switching like that with a full building?
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Uh you know, I don't know.
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I I think that's the same.
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That's the question I want to know the answer to.
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I'm not a workforce housing expert.
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I did stay at a Holiday Express once, so I do know a lot.
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Uh uh, that's just a joke.
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But I uh I I think this is something that's been pushed on the back burner for so long, and I just don't want it to become little tiny micro units that don't cater to the workforce that actually already has started the life and maybe is living three families in one unit.
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Uh and I just wouldn't hate that to happen.
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I think we're gonna play with Ryan from Fort Myers.
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Ryan from Fort Myers, good morning, you're on 925 Fox News.
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How are you doing today, Ryan?
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Good morning.
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Ryan, you uh you watch uh NBA basketball?
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No.
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No, no, not at all.
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You're not a big basketball fan?
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Not a big basketball fan, no, not at all.
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Are you uh are you a football fan?
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I used to be.
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Before the NFL went woke, and then I kind of gave it up.
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Right.
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Most of us did.
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Well, sounds like you, Jason.
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Right.
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I'm not sure if that was a stab or a compliment.
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I just went, I don't know.
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I don't know, Rod.
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All right, right.
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Uh yeah, I did the same thing.
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It got too woke.
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I had to walk away from it.
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Uh I've been a Commanders fan or a Redskin fan, whatever you want to call them for so long, but it's just the Redskins.
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They're Redskins.
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They Redskins.
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So hard to watch that.
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It is.
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It just is.
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It's one of those things I just can't do.
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Uh what do you like to do?
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Uh, if it's not sports, what's your jam?
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What gets you excited?
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:55.559
I guess I like to read a lot.
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All right.
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Best book you ever read.
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What's that?
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Best book you ever read.
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Actually, I'm reading uh Army of Dawn right now by Rick Atkinson about World War II.
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It's it's absolutely fascinating.
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Army of Dawn.
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All right, I'm gonna check that out, man.
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I like it.
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World War II history.
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Right.
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I love it.
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I'll check that out too.
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Right.
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I love uh war movies, war books.
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I love all that stuff.
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Political movies, political books, all the stuff I love.
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All right, let's see if we can get you a$50 gift card to Mell's Diner.
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All right, Ryan?
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Sounds good.
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All right, here comes question number one for an associate's degree.
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What U.S.
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space agency runs the nation's space program?
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NASA?
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There you go, my friend.
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An associate's degree and a$50 gift card to Mell's diner's yours.
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Here we go.
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It is now time for a bachelor's.
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What is the official title of Florida's top education official?
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Um Department of Education?
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I have Chairman of Education?
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No idea.
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Ooh, that's very close.
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Commissioner of Education.
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Commissioner, okay.
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Chairman or Commissioner, you gonna take it?
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You gonna take it?
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No, he's not gonna take it.
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Sorry, brother.
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Sorry.
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All right, here we go.
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Question number three.
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Oh, the Commissioner of Education.
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Okay.
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Commissioner, okay.
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Uh what cabinet department was created after September 11th attacks?
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Homeland Security.
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There you go.
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You got yourself a bachelor's.
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Here we go for the masters.
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Which president ordered the atomic bombs and helped end World War II?
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The last good Democrat, Harry Truman.
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How look at this guy.
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You know what?
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I knew he'd get that one.
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You can tell he's watched.
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You've seen it.
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There you go.
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$50 to Mel's Diner.
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A master's in political knowledge is all yours, my friend, with uh locations in Benita Springs, Naples, Fort Myers, and Cape Coral.
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There's home cooked food near you.
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Uh go check out Mel's Diner, all right?
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Thank you.
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All right, you hold on, Ryan.
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I gotta get some information from you.
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Congratulations.
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You now have a master's in the College of Political Knowledge.
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A lot of people message us and want us to get into the amendments, Rob.
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They want to know about the different amendments.
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Now, we've all and most of the ones that text in as they said we already know about amendment three.
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Most people have made their mind up.
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They know where they're gonna roll when it comes to the property tax amendment.
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But where are you on amendment one and amendment two?
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And now amendment one is the rainy day fund, if I'm not mistaken, right?
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The rainy day fund?
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Think so.
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Uh and we're gonna discuss that at 920.
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Uh and we're gonna at 820.
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920.
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I don't know about you, but I'm trying to be at breakfast.
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I'm trying to be at breakfast.
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Uh but uh we're gonna get into that.
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And then you're getting a lot of push from mailers across uh your your mail in your mailbox right now.
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Some are saying it's time to get with, you know, property tax is great, property tax is bad, uh, you know, single member district is good, single member districts are bad, uh the rainy day fund is not needed, the rainy day fund is needed.
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What's amendment to did you figure that out right now?
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I'm pulling up the verbiage right now so I can relay that.
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Uh and uh and these are the things that you have to talk about.
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And and in if you're in Lee County, you do have single member districts for the Lee County Commissioners that's also on your ballot.
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So we want to break these down coming up uh inside the next hour.
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We're gonna kind of get into it.
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This is a 4-1.
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This isn't the the push against it.
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I'll show it to you.
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So yesterday I got a phone call from uh Senator John Jonathan Martin, and uh Senator Martin was telling me that he got a mailer that was uh falsehoods about single member districts.
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So we're gonna get into that mailer with Senator Martin coming up next hour, and we're gonna continue to talk a little bit more about the amendments that are on your ballot, plus any other question that you might have about a candidate or whatnot.
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Just remember, just send them in all week long.
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We're gonna be focusing on those messages because we want to make sure we get the message across to you about what it is that you're curious about.
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Yep, amendment one, budget stabilization fund, amendment two, exemption of tangible personal property on agland.
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Right, on agland, not anybody else.
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Just ag land.
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And then you know what three is.
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Senator Jonathan Martin, single member district, the mailer, where he stands, where we stand all next on 925 Fox News.
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This is Daybreak with Jason Jones on 925 Fox News.
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Good morning and welcome back to Daybreak here on 925 Fox News.
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Now, as we are a week away from the elections, you uh I uh talked to him a couple of times here on the show, and we're gonna talk to him again as we uh didn't get a chance to see him last Friday as he was having his own rally on the East Coast.
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We are joined now by your congressional Republican candidate for CD 22, uh Casey Askar.
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Casey, good morning.
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Welcome back to the show, buddy.
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How you doing, man?
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Good morning, Jason.
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Thanks for having me back.
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How's it going, bro?
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Are you out there really hitting this?
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Are you out uh hitting it hard?
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And tell us a little bit about your rally from Friday.
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Oh, yeah, we're pounding the pavement.
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We're we're hitting it hard.
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Um we've got uh we've got a lot of momentum, a lot of energy, a lot of excitement.
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Uh Republicans are are showing up, and uh we need to keep that momentum going.
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Your opponent, Pia Dandia, uh I may have butchered her name, but it doesn't matter.
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Uh she has got a lot of mailers going out.
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You didn't, by the way.
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And it does matter.
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Right?
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I didn't.
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You didn't.
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You didn't butcher her name.
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Doesn't really matter, no.
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Uh, Casey, she's putting out a lot of mail out against you.
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She's talking about your net worth, and she seems to be very some are saying even exaggerating it.
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What do you think is the real story here?
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Why do you think they're focusing on your net worth?
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I mean, that's that's uh the Democrats, the crazy left.
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They they hate success, they hate America, they hate the American dream.
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And uh they're they're socialist communists, and and communists uh you know they want to strip away uh everything from hardworked folks and and and hand it out to uh to everyone and uh and and you know communism has never worked in history.
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But for some reason they seem to not know history.
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That's why they want to get rid of civics in school and and keep you know the same keep trying the same insanity.
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Uh it's it's a hypocrisy.
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I mean the the the the irony here is she's a millionaire herself.
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Uh she lives in a four and a half million dollar home in Palm Beach.
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Right.
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Uh Palm Beach County.
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She's uh she's she's got a stock portfolio worth millions.
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I mean the hypocrisy is just deep.
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Right.
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And tell us about your stock portfolio one more time, Casey.
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I don't trade stock.
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Um I don't trade stock.
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I'm not a stock trader.
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I'm a business guy.
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My I invest in businesses and real tangible assets.
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I I I invest in Main Street, not Wall Street.
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I invest in people.
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Uh man, uh, I I just I just wanted to point that out.
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I knew that answer, but I wanted to make sure everybody else knew that answer as well.
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So what is what is the East Coast, what you know, because here's the deal.
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We're we are pushing hard to get the conservative push out here and Southern Marco, Henry, and those areas here that can hear us in Southwest Florida.
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We're pushing them hard for you, Casey.
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Get out there, make sure you vote.
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We need more conservatives that have ever gone out and voted in a midterm so that we can outweigh what is going on because she put out a poll said you're down by less than a point on the East Coast.
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What are your polls saying compared to her polls?
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Because we all know they're jaded.
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Yeah, um I uh it's it's close.
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It's tight.
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I mean, the uh decision desk has a higher percent chance of winning, uh, but we're running like we're uh like we're running like we're losing.
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We've got a we've got uh we've got a on the pavement till till November uh third and and uh and we've got to come out and win this.
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Look, I mean here's here's here's the here's the two two main takeaways I think for for um for all of our listeners here right now.
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Come on.
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Number one.
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Number one, you've got you've got a major contract, you've got a you've got a socialist who uh uh who's uh a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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Uh not only is she a Harlem school teacher that teaches LGBTQ plus, transgender, um boys and and girls' sports and all that um insanity.
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That's by the way, they've been working very hard to scrub um and now now pretending to come towards the middle.
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Oh, I'm glad you pointed that out.
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I'm so glad you pointed that out.
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They have.
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They have done a really great job, her campaign of trying to scrub that out and trying to make it seem like she's not even a Democrat, trying to make it seem like she hasn't stood up for socialism before.
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I think that's in insane.
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Even the commercial you see sounds it makes her sound like an independent when you know she's a Democrat with an LGBTQ colored star around her name, just so you know.
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Absolutely.
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I mean that they're doing that across the nation with every one of their candidates, uh, not only her, but hers is pretty deep.
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When it turns out that she's a corporate lobbyist, she claims she's against data centers.
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Yet her stock portfolio, which is a beautiful stock portfolio, by the way, is most heavily invested in what?
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Data centers.
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Uh she claims she's against insider trading uh and trading stock in Congress.
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Yet she has a big, beautiful stock portfolio.
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She claims that I'm President Trump's uh mega millionaire buddy, and I'm gonna look out for for millionaires and lower taxes for millionaires.
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No, I want lower taxes for everyone.
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I want lower taxes for the middle class.
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Yet she's a millionaire herself with a beautiful home and a beautiful, uh, beautiful assets.
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She's gonna raise everyone's taxes.
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She's gonna raise taxes on senior citizens.
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And that's that's we know their playbook.
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That's all that's all they've got.
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They've got no real substance, they've got no real policy, it's just um insanity.
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There's no common sense.
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So that's that's that's a major takeaway, is is uh you're gonna have someone who's never built a thing in her life, who's never created a job, who's never signed a payroll check, who has never taken on any personal recourse, or a candidate who is a common sense conservative Republican, uh a str uh uh a strong Christian, by the way, we don't even know what she represents, um and someone who has been creating jobs and turning businesses around and saving businesses.
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You remember uh some of the examples I gave you last time when I was on your show for my entire professional career going back 30 plus years.
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So that that's one big takeaway.
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The other takeaway is um this is very important for all of us to understand, especially Collier and Henry.
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Especially Collier and Henry.
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This is this is a conservative country, right?
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This is America, this is hometown America here.
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Do we want someone who will not denounce the Muslim Brotherhood, who will not denounce Sharia law, who will not denounce care, who is against the Gaza Beach peace plan, okay, and disarming Hamas.
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Do we want that type of radical ideology here in our hometown in Collier County and in Henry County?
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That we're not gonna stand for that.
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That you're right.
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That is that is that that ideology from the other coast can be here on November 3rd if we don't show up and vote.
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Man, I I that's the best way to put it.
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You understand that that's what you'll have pushing into Collier County will be a liberal socialist who wants to get out there and change the way everything you're used to in Southern Collier could be changed immediately.
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There could be massive issues.
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You could have stalling of trying to get things done.
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You're gonna be upset about it.
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And you you know who should be most upset are the ones who don't make it to the polls or don't early vote right now.
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Early voting is open.
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Make your way out there.
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Casey, last question where do you stand on data centers?
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So for me, um, I oppose data centers here in our backyards.
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In our back I I do not want them close to our homes, I don't want them next to our schools, I do not want them near our crops.
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And by the way, this is big farm country here, this new district that stretches all the way from here to Palm Beach to Broward.
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Well, in between, it's agriculture.
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This is the largest ag district east of the Mississippi.
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In fact, they're saying that it's the largest east of California.
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Where do we put data centers if you don't put them in the country or don't put them next to our homes?
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Where do we put them, Casey?
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I I think there's I think there's a lot of rural land that um uh where data centers can go.
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Because I will say, uh, we need to compete.
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Okay.
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So AI is the next revolution.
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Uh it's it's the you know, it's the next industrial revolution.
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Um so we have to compete.
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We have to compete against China.
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We can't let China eat our lunch, okay?
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We've got to stay dominant and and we've got to be the strongest country by having the largest economy, the strongest economy, and the strongest military.
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So we've always got to make sure that we're investing in our military and and growing our economy.
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But there are a lot of places.
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There's a lot of places, a lot of communities that want them.
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In Virginia, going far going out west.
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There's a lot of rural land where data centers can go, especially in cooler states, in less humid, less, less hot states.
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Now, if data centers are proposing to come to Florida, the people are going to decide.
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I'm not going to get in the way of what the people want.
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But as far as federal legislation, if people don't want it, I don't want, I don't want to make, I want to make sure that people are not stuck with them in their backyard or near their own.
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Man, I really appreciate you.
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Casey Asgar, Congressional Canada, running for CD 22.
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Get out and vote for him today.
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Easier conservative automatic.
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Casey will talk again before Tuesday, all right?
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Thank you, Jason.
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Have a good one.
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Thanks for having me.
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Welcome back to Dave Rango 925 Fox News, right all along.
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I'm your host, Jason Jones, along with Rob Stevens.
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Well, today at 9 a.m.
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Carter County Government Center, the commissioners will hear the rezoning of the KFC, the vacant lot there at uh on U.S.
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41 and East Naples at Andrews Drive.
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It's been empty for years.
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Well, the owner uh wants to do a mixed-use building, a ground floor Mediterranean restaurant with 30 units upstairs, between 500 and 550 square feet, mostly singles, and has been pitched as workforce housing.
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Yeah, the uh parking solution for said place for uh 30 residents.
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They bought two additional developed residential lots, one behind, one across the street, and uses them for the parking.
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Uh and now the uh, by the way, the Bayshore, the Bayshore Gateway CRA Advisory Board recommended denial and so did the county planning staff.
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They also recommended denial planning commission, approved it anyway, and forwarded.
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The final vote is the commissioner's proposal only.
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It's not approved yet, but these are microunits in a restaurant that do not fit the old fast food pad that's at there right now.
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The help was buying the houses next door and calling their yards parking lots.
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That's not workforce housing, find a creative solution.
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That's basically a commercial project absorbing residential lots uh so the density clears the code.
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Listen, if and I'm I'm gonna put it real simple.
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If the lot was not big enough from jump for workforce housing, and you needed to buy two additional residential lots in order to find parking for those said residents, then it wasn't then it's it's too big for that corner.
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And that's the situation, and I think that's what people are talking about.
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I buy I listen, I love workforce housing, but are you gonna get the nurse at five in a five hundred square foot apartment?
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Are you going to get the firefighter to live in a five hundred square foot apartment?
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Five hundred square feet aren't that big.
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Well, I know that, but I'm saying as far as workforce housing is concerned, it could solve a problem in Collier County.
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We already see uh, I believe it's um uh one of the health systems, I can't remember if it's NCH or one of the other ones in uh Collier County that is building workforce housing to attract uh high-level talent.
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We're talking high-level doctors, uh lab technicians, that sort of thing.
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Uh the problem is is Collier County is in this bubble and it's expensive to live in Collier County, and businesses are having a hard time filling vacancies for entry-level positions at restaurants or stores or things like that.
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And the reason being is because people can't afford to live close to Naples.
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They have to commute in.
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So a majority of the workforce that's working in Naples to serve the Naples population actually commutes from uh I think it's about 15 miles and beyond.
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So we all know how those morning commutes out of Imokaly into Naples are uh and those commutes on 75 can get nice and sticky in the morning too.
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So I think it's great that they're trying to offer solution here.
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I don't see how this could be regulated in such a way.
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If it's being pitched as workforce housing, who gets to manage it?
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Who manages the property?
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Who qualifies the tenants?
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It's being pitched at work as workforce housing.
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It's not going to be workforce housing.
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I I I I don't wanna I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings, but if I have a career and I'm a I'm uh now maybe your uh waitresses or or or servers or I'm sorry, servers, or maybe your your prep cooks that might be looking for a small place that just right out of right out of college might live there.
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But for the most part, a grown adult's not gonna live in a 500 square foot hotel room.
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I've stayed in hotel rooms that are bigger than 500 square feet.
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And when you look at that, you've got to go, wow, that's not very big, and you're gonna expect workforce to live there.
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Work foul workforce is not gonna move in there.
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It's going to be uh less than desirables that slide into this.
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I love workforce.
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The need is real.
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When you take a KFC with a small commercial lot and try to put in 30 units and a restaurant and then change the parking of two additional residential lots, you're doing it wrong.
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Yeah, you have a bit that what you're doing that's is this creates a density problem.
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Right.
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This forces density onto a corridor that neighbors already are finding dangerous.
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Right.
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So you're basically just trying to trade one problem for another.
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And trying to label it as something that it is not.
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Okay, that's fair.
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I'll I'll I'll accept that.
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I love the initiative.
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I don't think this is the answer.
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I uh I love the initiative too.
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Thank you.
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That's where I go with this.
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I think workforce housing is the number one thing we need more than anything in Southwest Florida.
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You're right.
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We need a rent-controlled quality apartment complex or condo complex, however you want to label it, that allows them to have a two-bedroom or a three-bedroom facility at something that's not going to cost them$2,800 a month.
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I think that matters.
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And I'm pretty sure there's a window there.
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I'm pretty sure there's a space for that to happen.
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But when you start talking about 500 square foot units, when's the last time you have you ever lived in a 500 square foot unit in your entire life?
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I haven't.
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Right.
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Right.
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Now I have.
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I lived in when I first moved to Phoenix, I was single and I stayed in the smallest apartment known to my man known in my entire life.
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But you know what the number one mission was for my entire life the second I moved in there?
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Was getting out of there.
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Because it was too small.
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Because it was too small.
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And it's just w it that's the issue.
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These are too small to be called uh workforce housing.
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And I hope uh the the commissioners see it that way.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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What workforce are we trying to house here?
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Are we trying to house his restaurant employees?
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Is that is that what we're trying to do?
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So where are those where are those employees going to come from?
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Right.
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A Mediterranean restaurant?
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Right.
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Are we gonna H1B visa talent to come in and cook and serve food and call your town?
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Right, right.
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So I listen, maybe the employees are gonna live there as well.
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I'm not saying that someone won't rent it.
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And I'm not saying that there isn't somebody screaming at their radio right now, going, I'd love to have a$500 uh apartment.
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I'm paying$1,200 for a one-bedroom right now.
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Great, fantastic.
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I that's fine.
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But what what it does leave, and understand, a a$500 square foot is going to be less than uh probably a thousand a month, maybe less, uh right around a thousand or less, and it's going to become like a weekly hotel that you see on Palm Beach.
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That's what it is.
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Take it or leave it, that's what it's gonna be.
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It's going to be like one of those hotels.
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And next thing you know, in another five years after it's rebuilt, it'll have the questionable people living in it.
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It's not what you want.
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It's don't label it as workforce housing, and don't let this be the the uh poster for workforce housing.
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Don't let this become the new staple for workforce housing because that's not what it is, and that's not what we need.
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That right there is a band-aid on a gunshot wound, and that is the biggest problem we have right now.
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Housing our workforce, trying to figure out how to get the Collier County workforce to live in Collier.
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Uh because that is a problem.
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That is a real problem facing Collier County.
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I agree 100%.
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And I think what you're seeing is this is a like I said, this is not the right image or the right model.
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Let me use that.
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This isn't the model of what you would want for workforce housing.
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Great in concept.
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Keep it up, Collier.
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We all want workforce housing across the country.
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But let's find the right the right solution.
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Right.
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Where's the builder that's like I'm gonna build 1500 units and make it right for everybody?
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I've made so much money off the back of the taxpayer in Florida, I'm gonna be able to do the right thing.
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On this uh Tuesday morning, we just got done discussing the workforce housing that is before the Carrier County Commissioners.
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That is uh uh 30,500 square foot units above a Mediterranean restaurant with lots across the street and behind the place where residential lots were swooped up to become parking lots uh to fit the Ditsney problem that's going on.
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And I said we need workforce housing.
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I just don't think this is it.
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At 500 square foot units, it's not something I think is right where it goes.
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Now, in the midst of all that, I was getting a text message from Mayor Mike Gibson uh of Bonita Springs, and I asked Mike to come on because Mike also believes that we need workforce housing.
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Mike, do you think what we're mayor I'm sorry, Mayor, good morning, welcome to the show.
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Mayor Gibson, do you believe what what you're seeing with a 3,500 square foot units above a Mediterranean restaurant on a small commercial lot is what we're needing when it comes to workforce housing?
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Yeah, I mean, we need all types of workforce housing.
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Uh you know, you mentioned that it was for north nurses and firemen.
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You know, there's not that many nurses and firemen.
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You know, there's a lot of single people working many other jobs that you know need smaller units like this because it's something they can afford.
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So many of the developers, you know, when they build uh a one bedroom or a um a studio.
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They're still pushing close to$2,000 a lot of these units.
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So if they can scale them back and get cheaper to where we can get, you know, some of these younger kids moving in, you know, that's just like a no-brainer.
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Yeah, what about the fact that I mean they would have to be put in uh better parts of uh the neighborhoods, if you mean if you know you understand what I'm saying?
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Like if you take a 500 square foot unit and it doesn't have any parking security or I mean, understand any kind of amenities.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's just 30 units, no amenities, no reason to live there other than you're above a restaurant and maybe close to your job and it's cheap rent.
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What happens to those in ten years?
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It it just comes down to what you're looking for.
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I mean, that that's why a lot of these places cost so much because they're they're building them as luxury apartments and have you know huge swimming pools and lazy rivers and uh big workout centers.
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Depending on where it's at, if there's gyms around and other things for them to do, I mean, how much time are you really gonna spend in your place?
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This younger crowd, they they love to go out every night and you know hang out with friends and stuff.
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So it's you know, if you're not really in the room that much, it's just a place to go sleep, recharge, and you know, get back to work the next day.
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You know, I think about when I think more than 500 squares.
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When I think when I think workhouse workforce, you know, I think cops, I think nurses, I think teachers, uh, you know, I think uh restaurant workers, I think uh the people that keep the essential part of your uh even the ones that work in city halls and and things like that, these are people that don't make a lot of money but are essential to keeping uh our life running appropriately.
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Uh are we saying that that if they are in workforce and already have a kid that this isn't something you can do?
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Yeah, yeah.
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A single bedroom place isn't gonna be for if you already have a kid.
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Right.
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So I mean some somebody that's you know in a little bit of a problem like a city hall or fire or nurse.
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You know, they need a little bit bigger units, two bedrooms, things like that.
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But they still need 'em on the affordable side.
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Um so so I mean that's just the thing.
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It's like instead of building all these luxury apartments, they they need to build 'em nice, um, and safe.
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You know, but parking's a big thing in unless it's in an area um that has enough stuff around it.
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Uh if it's in a more walkable part of the community, you know, closer to Fifth Ave or downtown Bonita, something like that.
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Right, downtown Benita, right?
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They don't need a car.
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They don't need a car, right.
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They have everything they need within a within a walking distance and it could unless uh they don't work in the area or they don't work within walking distance there, then they do need a car or some kind of way to get back and forth to work.
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Uh public transportation is is nice here, but it's it it's not convenient for everybody.
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Um, you know, the reason I'm I'm I the and I and I've I wanted to bring you on because it wasn't necessarily me wanting to say that I'm I'm all for workforce housing.
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I got to have a conversation one time with a guy named Scott Allen, he's a builder, uh, who really pushed for teacher workforce housing.
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And what I liked about his plan is he was coming up with a way to do one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments that were all basically uh controlled by your income, and half of them had to go to workforce housing uh to guarantee that that program.
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You know, they uh and and I think that's the other side of this.
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What I worry about when you talk about small, little, tiny units, I really think about the fact that these units could become uh susceptible to uh the less savory types of our community living in them.
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Well, and and that that's all in the the management company that's running it.
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You know, they don't really care and they just see you as another dollar coming through the door, there it's you know, it's whatever.
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But you know, if you have a good management team that's always there and sees what's going on, it's it's gonna curb things like that.
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Right.
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And before anybody says my plan is is is I'm saying that there are builders, and and and and mayor agreed or disagreed, there are builders out there that have made millions of dollars, billions of dollars off Floridians.
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Agreed?
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Oh yeah.
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I mean, they wouldn't do it if they pay money.
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Right, right.
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So I believe that these guys could come up with a plan to build something that is for workforce housing.
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And and by the way, I'm not looking at rent control.
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What I'm looking at when it comes to this is I'm looking at looking out for those that work within those communities and have to do, like Rob said, drive all the way to F Lee County when they work in Cawlier County, or have to drive all the way to Bonita when they work in Marco or anything or or that type of matter.
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I'm now I'm not I know Mayor Gibson would say, take bring them all to me.
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Uh I don't know that we we want them all.
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True.
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I would love to be in Bonita.
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Right, right.
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Uh but uh you know, I I that's the only thing I worry about when it comes to this, and I certainly hope we can come up with a solution that really dials that in, Mike.
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Yeah.
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You know, to bring in their employees, and it was going to be one, two, three bedrooms, and so that way, you know, you came in as a single person, but you know, then you met somebody have a family, now you now you move up.
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Um, and and it's just to bridge that gap, and so you're making enough to where you can afford something in the you know outlying areas that cost a lot more.
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We these student housing units they have all set up all around the university, that's the money grab from hell, man.
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I mean, these kids are paying$900 for one room uh and a shared and a shared bathroom and a shared kitchen.
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Uh it's uh it's it's it is the racket beyond all rackets uh when it comes to things is those student housing.
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So, but you know what I thought is that you could actually turn those student housings probably into a solid workforce housing too, uh uh, you know, as a transitional process.
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And I certainly hope FTCU figures that out as well.
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Mayor Gibson, I really appreciate you being on the show, buddy.
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It's great to have you on, man.
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And uh uh anybody who drinks a shower beer and takes us to the gym with us is a f is somebody I love, man.
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So keep up the good work there, Benita.
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All right, go finish your workout, buddy.
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We'll talk again too real soon.
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Uh there we go.
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I uh I just wanted to have that uh uh I you know, that conversation that that I think we need to have the difference in what I see and what other people see, and I'm definitely not trying to uh Well what I want to know is is if we've got to find a way to protect the integrity of what would be considered workforce housing, right?
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Because if all you're if if it's not regulated uh very well, then you are just gonna have these management companies that come in and just keep raising rates and then it's just going to turn into a regular apartment rental.
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So I would like to know what protections would be in place for something that would be zoned as workforce housing, not not necessarily rent control, but you've got to find a way to protect the Tennessee, and you have to find the way to protect the workforce housing concept that stands behind that that's well the workforce housing would involve their their income.
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Their rent couldn't be the true model workforce housing is your rent is not more than 30% of your income.
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But is there s but is there anything that prevents a property manager or an owner from just switching like that with a full building?
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Uh you know, I don't know.
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I I think that's the same.
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That's the question I want to know the answer to.
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I'm not a workforce housing expert.
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I did stay at a Holiday Express once, so I do know a lot.
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Uh uh, that's just a joke.
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But I uh I I think this is something that's been pushed on the back burner for so long, and I just don't want it to become little tiny micro units that don't cater to the workforce that actually already has started the life and maybe is living three families in one unit.
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Uh and I just wouldn't hate that to happen.
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Now, before we jump into the College of Political Knowledge, we got some pretty big things happening around here on 925 Fox News.
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Big, big things happening, man.
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And the Heat, the Miami Heat, right?
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The Heat are home.
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The Miami Heat.
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Uh we want we we just want all of you to know where you can watch and you can listen to the Miami Heat if you're a big basketball fan.
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Uh this is exciting for you.
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Uh and I, for one, uh am not uh tall skinny boys lacking the strength and agility to wrestle.
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That's a basketball player.
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I already said it, College of Political Knowledge.
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They're calling in now.
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I already told them Rob Robb's looking at me like I didn't tell you to call for the College of Political Knowledge.
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I already said.
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There's the full switchboard.
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That's what I like to see Southwest Florida.
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I'm so nervous all the time.
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More daybreak down to the 925 car.
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You have a good show, brother.
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Welcome to the College of Political Knowledge, where we major in facts, not feelings.
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And the only pronouns we care about are we the people.
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Right, all along.
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Here we go.
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Let's go ahead and get our contestant.
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I think we're gonna play with Ryan from Fort Myers.
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Ryan from Fort Myers, good morning, you're on 925 Fox News.
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How are you doing today, Ryan?
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Good morning.
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Ryan, you uh you watch uh NBA basketball?
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No.
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No, no, not at all.
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You're not a big basketball fan?
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Not a big basketball fan, no, not at all.
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Are you uh are you a football fan?
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I used to be.
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Before the NFL went woke, and then I kind of gave it up.
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Right.
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Most of us did.
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Well, sounds like you, Jason.
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Right.
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I'm not sure if that was a stab or a compliment.
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I just went, I don't know.
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I don't know, Rod.
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All right, right.
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Uh yeah, I did the same thing.
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It got too woke.
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I had to walk away from it.
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Uh I've been a Commanders fan or a Redskin fan, whatever you want to call them for so long, but it's just the Redskins.
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They're Redskins.
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They Redskins.
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So hard to watch that.
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It is.
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It just is.
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It's one of those things I just can't do.
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Uh what do you like to do?
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Uh, if it's not sports, what's your jam?
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What gets you excited?
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I guess I like to read a lot.
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All right.
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Best book you ever read.
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What's that?
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Best book you ever read.
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Actually, I'm reading uh Army of Dawn right now by Rick Atkinson about World War II.
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It's it's absolutely fascinating.
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Army of Dawn.
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All right, I'm gonna check that out, man.
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I like it.
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World War II history.
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Right.
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I love it.
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I'll check that out too.
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Right.
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I love uh war movies, war books.
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I love all that stuff.
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Political movies, political books, all the stuff I love.
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All right, let's see if we can get you a$50 gift card to Mell's Diner.
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All right, Ryan?
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Sounds good.
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All right, here comes question number one for an associate's degree.
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What U.S.
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space agency runs the nation's space program?
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NASA?
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There you go, my friend.
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An associate's degree and a$50 gift card to Mell's diner's yours.
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Here we go.
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It is now time for a bachelor's.
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What is the official title of Florida's top education official?
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Um Department of Education?
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I have Chairman of Education?
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No idea.
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Ooh, that's very close.
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Commissioner of Education.
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Commissioner, okay.
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Chairman or Commissioner, you gonna take it?
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You gonna take it?
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No, he's not gonna take it.
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Sorry, brother.
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Sorry.
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All right, here we go.
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Question number three.
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Oh, the Commissioner of Education.
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Okay.
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Commissioner, okay.
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Uh what cabinet department was created after September 11th attacks?
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Homeland Security.
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There you go.
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You got yourself a bachelor's.
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Here we go for the masters.
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Which president ordered the atomic bombs and helped end World War II?
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The last good Democrat, Harry Truman.
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How look at this guy.
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You know what?
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I knew he'd get that one.
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You can tell he's watched.
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You've seen it.
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There you go.
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$50 to Mel's Diner.
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A master's in political knowledge is all yours, my friend, with uh locations in Benita Springs, Naples, Fort Myers, and Cape Coral.
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There's home cooked food near you.
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Uh go check out Mel's Diner, all right?
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Thank you.
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All right, you hold on, Ryan.
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I gotta get some information from you.
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Congratulations.
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You now have a master's in the College of Political Knowledge.
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A lot of people message us and want us to get into the amendments, Rob.
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They want to know about the different amendments.
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Now, we've all and most of the ones that text in as they said we already know about amendment three.
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Most people have made their mind up.
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They know where they're gonna roll when it comes to the property tax amendment.
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But where are you on amendment one and amendment two?
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And now amendment one is the rainy day fund, if I'm not mistaken, right?
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The rainy day fund?
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Think so.
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Uh and we're gonna discuss that at 920.
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Uh and we're gonna at 820.
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920.
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I don't know about you, but I'm trying to be at breakfast.
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I'm trying to be at breakfast.
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Uh but uh we're gonna get into that.
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And then you're getting a lot of push from mailers across uh your your mail in your mailbox right now.
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Some are saying it's time to get with, you know, property tax is great, property tax is bad, uh, you know, single member district is good, single member districts are bad, uh the rainy day fund is not needed, the rainy day fund is needed.
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What's amendment to did you figure that out right now?
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I'm pulling up the verbiage right now so I can relay that.
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Uh and uh and these are the things that you have to talk about.
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And and in if you're in Lee County, you do have single member districts for the Lee County Commissioners that's also on your ballot.
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So we want to break these down coming up uh inside the next hour.
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We're gonna kind of get into it.
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This is a 4-1.
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This isn't the the push against it.
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I'll show it to you.
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So yesterday I got a phone call from uh Senator John Jonathan Martin, and uh Senator Martin was telling me that he got a mailer that was uh falsehoods about single member districts.
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So we're gonna get into that mailer with Senator Martin coming up next hour, and we're gonna continue to talk a little bit more about the amendments that are on your ballot, plus any other question that you might have about a candidate or whatnot.
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Just remember, just send them in all week long.
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We're gonna be focusing on those messages because we want to make sure we get the message across to you about what it is that you're curious about.
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Yep, amendment one, budget stabilization fund, amendment two, exemption of tangible personal property on agland.
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Right, on agland, not anybody else.
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Just ag land.
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And then you know what three is.
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Senator Jonathan Martin, single member district, the mailer, where he stands, where we stand all next on 925 Fox News.
