Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered his State of the State speech on Tuesday morning.
– Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday morning delivered his State of the State speech.
And we do that with having the lowest per capita state tax and lowest per capita state debt burdens amongst all large states. We defied the experts, we buck the elites, we ignored the chatter, we did it our way, the Florida way. And the result is that we are the number one destination for our fellow Americans who are looking for a better life.We don’t make excuses, we don’t complain, we just produce results.
Julie Wappes is the fourth grade teacher at the Sanibel School. She lost everything in her home and in her classroom. They had to have the school take place on the mainland, but because of the rebuilt causeway, a faster recovery has been facilitated and the school is now back open on Sanibel Island. Thank you for your service.
Thanks to action of the Legislature, we enacted a recruitment bonus program to recruit law enforcement officers from other states and that program has surpassed expectations. Joining us today is Officer Mercedes Phillips from the Cape Coral Police Department. She was able to take advantage of this program, received a $5,000 signing bonus this summer, leaving Montgomery County, Maryland, now working in Cape Coral.
We’re also joined by Alicia Farrant. She’s a mother of five who attend Orange County Public Schools. She was a concerned parent, who a year or two ago because she saw that there was inappropriate material in her children’s library and school items that were even pornographic. So she raised the issue. She got a positive result, but she decided to get more involved and this past November, she was elected to the Orange County School Board as a parents’ rights candidate.
We’re also here with Raeanne Champion who fulfills another very important role in the state of Florida. She recently graduated from the the nursing program at Seminole State College. I think as many of you know, there’s a nationwide nursing shortage. And so what we’ve been able to do with the help of the legislature is put record resources into our systems so we can train more Floridians to become nurses. Thank you for what you’re doing. I know everybody appreciates having a great nurse.
Floridians are also harmed by inflation when it comes to the prices of prescription drugs, especially due to pharmacy middlemen. We must bring transparency to the system so that Floridians can save money on their drugs. We need reform of the PBMs! We also need to ensure that our supply of housing is adequate to meet the needs of those in our workforce. Workers who make our economy tick should be able to find a place to live that’s affordable in their general area of their jobs.
We also need to protect the free speech rights and conscience rights of physicians. The medical establishment whiffed an awful lot during COVID and physicians who follow the evidence should not be penalized simply because they buck a stale consensus. We need to increase penalties for fentanyl dealers, especially those who target our children. And to do that we must treat them like the murderers that they are. We must further strengthen our laws against illegal immigration by enhancing employment verification, increasing penalties for human smuggling and further disincentivizing illegal immigration to the state of Florida. Florida is not a sanctuary state and we will uphold the rule of law.
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