'Entitled Me To Wield 100% Of The Executive Power': Ron DeSantis Discusses Accomplishments

thank you, thank you very much, thank you Dr. Arn, it's great to be in Hillsdale, it's great to be in Michigan, you know, as the governor of the Free State of Florida, when I want to visit Michiganders in early April, I usually just go to Naples. because I think the entire Midwest is in Southwest Florida, but we're proud to be here flying the flag of free heritage in these United States and it's not something that came about by accident, it's something that took a lot of work, a lot of effort and We Talked a little bit of that in the book in 2018, so four and a half years ago I was elected by 32,000 votes out of over 8 million votes that were cast in the state of Florida, it was less than half of one percent and if If you look at the previous decade in the state of Florida before I became governor, we had one point races Governor President 2010 12 14 16 18 one point and all those marquee races, so when I was getting ready to take office, a lot of people He told me and Not unreasonably, eh, cut your sales.

Don't make waves. Narrowly divided state. in a way that will not be in your best interest and I understood that advice, but I also rejected it. My opinion, my opinion, since I may have received only 50 percent of the votes, but that gave me the right to exercise 100 percent of the

executive

power

and me. I intended to do that, uh, to advance our agenda and deliver for the people of Florida now that they're getting ready to do it before we take office. He kept in mind that being elected chief

executive

of a state is not the same as being elected president. dictator of the state no matter how much the media tries to act as we do, but the reality is that we have been able to be effective in the exercise of this

power

because I understood where the pressure points are, what the limits were. my staff compiled the entire list of all the constitutional, statutory and customary powers of the governor's government.

I had an agenda that I needed to pass a constitutional system that had checks and balances and separation of powers so that we had a good idea of ​​where the pressure points were that we knew how we could use our executive influence. I knew what my powers were vis-à-vis the local government. I have removed people like the Broward Sheriff after Parkland. I eliminated election supervisors. I have fired a prosecutor financed by George Soros. in Tampa, so we knew that not only did we have to substantially comply, but to substantially comply we had to navigate that constitutional system and we had a plan to do that and we executed it.

I also said, I'm not going to do surveys. as the governor of Florida, I can poll this room, and first of all, I can poll this room, ask the question a different way, and get a different result because it depends on the wording, but a poll is an analysis. What a survey doesn't tell you is what the outcome would be if a leader sets a vision, executes that vision, and then delivers results because if you do, you can move people in your direction. direction so that a the leader is not captive to the polls does not respond or does not respond to every problem in public opinion the leader anticipates those things a leader drives public opinion and that is what we set out to do and that is what we we ended up doing.

I also said he could be the best decision maker. You could have great vision. I could do all this or any Governor could do all that, but if there are no people in the administration who share the vision and who are on the ground implementing that Vision. so it's not going to mean much and the reality is that in politics there are people who can be attracted and who are bringing their own agenda to what is happening and I made it very clear if you have any agenda other than the best interests. of Florida State is and the best thing for our agenda, if you have any other agenda, pack your bags and go and we had to fire some people early, but the result has been, and you know, listening to people like Dr.

Arn talk about how Florida does all of this, you know, Matt Spalding has worked through this with our people, they are able to carry out these ideas and really make them stick. We don't do Palace Intrigue, we don't do any drama, actually, no. Let's not talk to the media, we haven't had media leaks for over four years and they get very upset because the way we talk is through our actions, you never know what's going to happen the next day, you never know What announcement are we going to make? We are going to implement, you never know what lever we are going to pull, but that is how we make news by doing substantial things and I think that has served us well.