![]() When I became governor, we had, in my election, a few problems in a couple of counties. We’ll have our high school graduates take a citizenship style test, like our naturalized immigrants have to take, and we’re creating a civics boot camp for teachers where they can get a $3,000 bonus if they learn about our country’s foundations. We are not spending tax dollars to teach kids to hate our country or to hate each other, and instead we’re placing a renewed emphasis on American civics in our high schools. This year, under my leadership, the state of Florida banned Critical Race Theory in our K-12 schools. It also says to potential perpetrators in Florida, “If you riot, if you loot, if you engage in mass violence, this is not going to be like Portland where they take your mug shot, slap you on the wrist and put you right back on the street.” In Florida, if you riot, if you loot, if you’re engaging in that type of activity, you’re not getting a slap on the wrist, you’re getting the inside of a jail cell. And just a few months ago, I signed the strongest anti-rioting bill in the country, which effectively prohibits any local government in Florida from defunding the police When the BLM and Antifa riot started breaking out in other parts of the country, I immediately called out The National Guard and I said that is not going to stand in the state of Florida. We’re gonna make Big Tech accountable to individual Floridians. We’re giving individual Floridians the right to hold big tech accountable - that’s in the 11th Circuit because they sued me, but stay tuned. I’ve signed legislation banning sanctuary cities and protecting women’s sports, and under my leadership, Florida was the first state to legislate against Big Tech censorship. Since I became governor in January of 2019, I’ve appointed five constitutionalists to the Florida Supreme Court, transforming the most liberal state Supreme Court in the country into the most conservative Supreme Court in the country. Of the 194,000 jobs created in the state - in the month of September, 84,500 of them came from the state of Florida, over 40 percent of the nation’s jobs for a state with 6.5 percent of the nation’s population. In September, the United States reported gaining 194,000 new jobs for the entire country, and that was viewed as - and I think correctly - as something that was not that great. So, we empower people, we treat them well, we respect the fruits of their labor and the results are we do much more with a lean and efficient government than states like New York and California ever will be able to do. In K through 12 education, Florida right now is ranked number three in education quality by Education Week, and I can tell you New York isn’t even close to that. And yet, if you compare our roads and infrastructure and services, Florida is far, far superior. Florida’s now got about 3 million more people than the state of New York, and yet New York state budget is over twice the size of the budget of the state of Florida. The closest state to Florida in population is the state of New York. ![]() We don’t have a state income tax, and as long as I’m in this chair, we never will. In Florida, we have the lowest per capita tax burden in the United States. Many of you may appreciate this, being from California. And it’s not just on Covid that we’ve been standing out. And that’s what we’ve done and we did what was right, we looked at the data ourselves, and Florida is better for it. In his farewell address, which is well-known for warning about the perils of the military-industrial complex-and that was obviously a very astute observation-Dwight Eisenhower also warned about the increasing prevalence of scientific research intermingling with government money and he talked about there was a danger that public policy could be held captive by a scientific elite, he said the job of a statesman is not to allow policy to be held captive by one faction of society, but to harmonize all the competing interests and to make sure that you’re leading on behalf of the entire country, or, in my case, entire state. I had to look to see what needed to be done to protect the people of my state. They did not elect me to subcontract out leadership to Fauci. When you’re a governor and you get elected, they elect you to make the decisions. We don’t lock people down in the state of Florida, we lift people up. ![]() Over the last year and a half, we’ve stood up to entrenched bureaucrats and the partisan corporate press to keep Florida open and to protect individual Floridians’ right to work to own and operate their own businesses and to make sure that every single child had the right to be in school in person. ![]()
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