The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - #BecauseMiami: C-O-V-O

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

Miami commissioner Sabina Covo has unleashed a mass negative ad campaign against three candidates running against her in District 2...Damian Pardo, Eddy Leal, and James Torres. Well, we have all three respectively joining Billy Corben on the show. Also joining us is Quinn Mitchell, a 15 year old from New Hampshire who has been holding Florida governor Ron DeSantis accountable at his campaign stops. So much so that Quinn has been harassed by DeSantis' goons while trying to ask questions. Plus, Roy almost breaks during the Wheel of Despair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And she does another pledge of allegiance. She's a turning liar, and she's all from here. She's never Christian over to politics here. But it comes to commission for the straight to. I'm not asking you politely. I am telling you, don't for go. I have no idea. Miami Commissioner Sabina Covo and her campaign consultant did not respond to multiple requests for an Irhioan today, Shell. Wow, what do I?

Well, she is the incumbent. She was elected in February in a special election election where she won with 29% of the vote. Now she needs 51% of the vote and she is flailing. That's why. And she doesn't want to come to any place that's going to ask her tough questions. Let me explain this a little bit. Break it down why this is important. It feels I know a little bit provincial, but the city of Miami is the largest municipality in Miami, Dade County, about 500,000 people. And it's divided only into five districts. So there's five commissioners. It is, I think it has the least representation based on

population of any city, major or small in the entire country. And District 2, who she represents, generates over 70% of the revenue of the entire city. That means that they spread the rest of it around to the welfare queens, Joe Corroyo, and Alexia's La Portia and Manny Reyes. Come on, Edo! Come on, Edo! That's basically socialism, Roy.

But here's the thing, this coastal district, which includes coconut grove and brickle and downtown and edgewater, they're basically paying for 70% of the chicanaire, buffunare, and f***ery that is plaguing the city. And Sabina Kovou has, for the, over the last nine months, I mean, when you consider what has happened in Miami, the arrest of a sitting commissioner, the $63.5

million corruption judgment against another commissioner, the sentencing of the mayor's former comms director for molesting a teenage boy in city hall. He's now serving federal prison time and a registered sex offender. The mayor himself being investigated by the FBI for alleged bribery. And what is she done about it? She's just sat there silently and been complicit in all of it. And she is, once again, being endorsed by the Miami-Dade Democrats. And I think this sends a message of treachery to Democrats nationwide that this is going to be a scary election season coming up next year.

I think that it's time to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity because if you keep endorsing mediocre and corrupt candidates, basically going against your own philosophy and ideology and mandate. I've been to Democrats in 2018 now in the state of Florida and it sucks Roy. And if you look at some of the negative ads that Sabina co-owner campaign are putting out I'm holding them up now like Replay and poker here. The Trumpian every accusation is a confession that Republicans have adopted. That's exactly what she's doing here. I mean, she is accusing her opponents of engaging in the corruption and silence and complicity and special interest money that she is actually taking part in.

She is, in fact, the candidate of the special interest, the corrupt commissioners, the Miami Mafia. She is the chosen candidate of that my mmafya and of course which we've talked about last week her campaign consultant is a registered foreign agent of guitar which has been homos headquarters for the last several years and the location from which they launched the terrorist attacks against israel on october seventh if this is who the democrats are going to ally themselves with, they're going to have some serious problems going into 2024.

The number one target of Sabina Kovos negative ad campaign, I call it a negative ad campaign, she hasn't got negative, she's just lying is what it seems, is her challenger Damien Porto, Damien holding up no less than four by my count, negative flyers here attacking you. That amounts to thousands of dollars. I know she's got a lot of money in some of its squirreled away in various political committees and mystery PCs and things, but that's a lot of money going after you. She also has enough money to pull, which means that they probably know something that

at least I don't, which is that you're a real threat to her reelection campaign here. I'd like to start there. Are you flattered that they're, that they're, that they're punching down at you? Absolutely flattered. It's, it's, it's great. I mean, obviously we're doing very well of this amount of, you know, negative activity has headed our way. Absolutely.

Now I want to take a moment though. I mean, some of it is hilarious, almost biblical looking. She's got you here in front of a painting of burning books, accusing you of staying silent on corruption, which is pretty funny, deceptive Damian parto, she calls you pay for play, parto. Would you like to react to some of these accusations here? Absolutely. Yeah, listen, first of all, it couldn't be further from the truth,

but I see a lot of it is pure projection on their part because if there's ever been paid a play, it's Sabina Koval. She's on the payroll of a developer. Her contributions from developers are in the 200,000 range. Lobbyists are in the 40,000 range. So I mean, she's 90% of the time voting with Diaz Laportea and Coroio, and their fundraising links between all three. So, I mean, I feel like the entire thing is just projection on their part of, and she stayed silent.

You know, at that press conference, the moment the Coroio verdict came down, I was the only candidate that went on and called for his resignation and removal. Same with Diaz Laportea, I issued a statement district-wide immediately. She just sat on the dais and didn't say a word during all of that. And in fact, she's supposed to be the investigative journalist, right? The one who was put there to help root out corruption. All she's done is actually just fit right in.

I want to run that clip from the pressor because she's done is actually just fit right in. I want to run that clip from the presser because she's accused you in flyer after flyer about being silent on corruption. Meanwhile, she has served as commissioner during the most corrupt period in the history of Miami since 1997 by my estimation. And meanwhile, a few months ago, there was this press conference,

not only outside City Hall, but directly outside the office of Joe Corralio. And this is what you said there. I'm here to tell you we can do better in the city of Miami. We are currently spending millions of dollars defending his illegal actions, and now we're exposed to over a $60 million verdict. Instead of using community resources for petty vendanderas and ego-driven initiatives, the city of Miami deserves representation that cares about its people and the problems

they struggle with on a daily basis. Today is a day for good people who are afraid to speak up, to speak up. And it's a day for city government to get back to basics and to serving its residents. And let's be clear what we're saying here in no uncertain terms is that we want Joe Corroyo to resign or to be removed from public office. If that silence I'd like you to keep up the quiet. To be clear this was immediately following the $ three and a half million dollar corruption verdict against Joe Corolla for weaponizing city government and violating the constitutional rights of business owners and little havana and coyote show. I know a neighborhood that means a lot to you and in your life and career here in Miami. But don't they stop Sabina covo where wish was she hiding inside the inside city hall

with her bf f Joe Corolla where was she. Listen, never set a word. And if you actually watch those commission meetings and you watch even the budget hearings, you see a camaraderie between Corolla and Corolla, you know, the entire time. That isn't what district two residents of voters were looking for when they elected Sabina Corolla.

That's for sure. And as you mentioned earlier, her voting record on the day is over the last nine months, where she has been eerily, definitely silent on this matter of corruption during FBI investigations, arrests of her fellow commissioners, multi-million dollar lawsuits against not only the commissioners, but the city itself. You've got a district here who is paying most of these criminal defense and civil defense fees as well.

What is your message to the people of district two? If you had 30 seconds right now, what would you tell the people of district two that really distinguishes you from the pack here? It's been the same from day one. I'm someone who has spoken out from the very beginning over 35 years as a public servant and a financial professional. And we must root out corruption. I don't think people understand the linkage between corruption and a lot of our daily problems that start with over development,

traffic, flooding. We've got to deal with that. We've got to stop play to pay. Otherwise, we're never going to progress as a city. I'm committed to doing that and empowering our residents to do better i'd say if this is silence and deception keep it up uh... because uh... it seems like a pretty good message deemian porto is running for city of my any district to thanks for being here

thank you for having me Joining us next from the District 2 city of Miami race is somebody who's new to the negative campaigning here on the part of the covo campaign. Eddie Leal, who ran a pretty close second to Sabina covo during the February special election, where she only won with 29% of the vote. Eddie Leal came in second with about 22% of the vote. Eddie, you did not appear in her TV commercial where she took shots at your challengers, Damien Pardo and James Torres, but here you are in her latest flyer being called the defender of slum lords who put low income residents at risk.

I'd like to start off by allowing you to respond to that accusation. So this is a rerun of the past attack that I faced in the past election. And I do appreciate the opportunity to address it. I'll address it again. This attack is knowingly false and by its nature, the family. I actually defended the owner of the property or one of the owners that was trying to obtain ownership control in order to actually make their repairs. The person that we were fighting was a disbarter attorney that now is disbarred. So, to make the accusation that I was or that my client was involved in any of that,

is completely even against the facts of the own article that they cite to. Number two, I think you would agree with me that it's just hard in that community leaders actually studied this issue. Mel Minehart reviewed it and wrote to the sponsors and said, Leo, the accusation that you've lodged against them has no merits. There are no facts to support this. And he asked to be with Droid. They never did. And this is just the same pattern practice earlier this year. I call attention to a park in the Brickle area that was given away to developers. And I was called by her campaign a liar. None of it was addressed in terms of the facts and in terms of the such. And so I tell the elected officials and I tell our residents, like, is that the elected commissioner that you want?

I certainly don't. Because this is another rerun of another attack that had no bases then. It has no bases now. And have you actually read the article that is referring to it? There's none there. It's just not factually correct. Ediliel on the front of this flyer that contains the attack against you and James Torres and Damien Pardo on the back, it says that Sabina Kovow is the only candidate with a comprehensive

plan to fight corruption and clean up city hall, which is news to me, because she's been there for the last nine months during which we've seen an extraordinary amount of buffoonery and illegality. And finally, once and for all, some accountability for a change. But you actually worked inside City Hall. You were the, I think your title was special council to Mayor Francis Suarez.

So you were kind of there during an equally, let's say shady period. So what is your plan for combating corruption? It's very simple. We start with sunshine is the best is infected. The first thing that I'm going to do as your commissioner is that we'll have a discussion item on the agenda that we will publicly discuss how much we've incurred,

defending and prosecuting cases that nobody wants to continue. And I refer to the $65 million judgment against Garillo, the redistricting appeal and the challenges that they've launched against Gabela in order to not have them run in the district one race. So many of the things are money that the taxpayers are incurring, myself included, that we should at least provide an accounting. And that's something that the taxors are incurring, myself included, that we should at least provide an accounting, and that's something that the commissioner at a minimum can do. Number two is, if you try to issue a records request to the City of Miami, you're likely going to get a nice price tag associated

with that records request. So they're going to tell you, oh, well, happy to give you the documents, but it's going to cost you 7-8 grand for us to quote unquote review the documents. I will enact the legislature or ask for legislation to be enacted for this process to be removed because who has that amount of money and are for you to actually obtain any other documents. And it's done in a way to prevent access to documents

that should be otherwise publicly available. Last but not least, I've said it multiple times in many other forms that I've attended, we need to make sure that we have more commissioners. We only have five commissioners to represent in each commission are more than 100,000 people or close to 100,000 people. That is compared to any other city of any size, not proportional to one commissioner to represent that many people. I think it's time for us to revisit that

and it requires a charter amendment and the voters to be able to vote on a charter amendment through a petition process. I think how we start and how we initiate is in concrete steps. Everybody talks about corruption and what can be done. Those are knowing ways that you can start inside on day one and you put it out that for nine months, she hasn't done any of this and she could have certainly done a portion of this right there and none of this happened.

None of it. So it's very disappointing. That's one of the reasons that I'm running because there are steps that can be taken to start at a cleaning house and none of them have been taken. Obviously now they are telling you that they're going to do all sorts of things if you give them the vote. The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again. And that's what's happening here. Loading for her is to get the same result. Don't expect any changes. None of them are going to happen. I feel like that every week I do this show.

What is the definition of insanity? Eddie Leal is running for City of Miami Commissioner District 2, very important position. Good luck to you, sir. Thank you. And finally, running for District 2 in the City of Miami is James Torres, also the target of Sabinecovo's latest negative flyer along

with Damien Pardo and Eddie Leal. And James you and Damien Pardo take up about half of Sabina Kovos TV ad, where kind of the first half is about her and the second half is about how terrible you guys are. It must be very flattering to be taking up that kind of real estate in a very expensive TV ad. Now, unfortunately, we could not find the ad online, which is weird because Sabina Kovos ad from the February campaign during the special election. That's all over the internet.

She seems to be not as proud of this one. So talk to me. Are you flattered that you are living, especially with the cost of living in this town rent free in Sabina Kovos head? I think it's great, but who's paying for it is the bigger question, right? It's the billboard companies that are funding her pack, which is an interesting tip bit because, you know, when you see this commercials is, can you get a different message? I think she's disenfranchising the voters of the

district to be quite honest with you. So, there is a pretty frantic attempt, big money attempt to put LED billboards all over downtown Unbrickel, almost like a time square kind of a situation. I know the neighbors are not happy about it, particularly with the, you know, what I imagine is the light pollution entering into everybody's apartments and places of business. And I'd seems that she killed that, though, at least temporarily. Is that right? That effort?

She killed it temporarily. And let's be honest, I was at the forefront of it where I showed up to the PZAB and also City Hall with over 2,000 signatures on a petition. But the real one that really kind of started getting the ball rolling was myself in my noil aureus as Savino Koval stood silent and didn't say anything until the pressure was on. So in on tended purposes, she received the money, thought about it, and now it's dead for now. And we know how that works, Billy. We know how things work when things are quote unquote dead. Well, especially when you have an election coming up, and then since it was unanimously

voted down, any of the commissioners who voted against it are allowed within the next six months by law to bring it back up again. And I've no doubt this thing will be resuscitated and will pass at least three to two if not four to one when it is reintroduced. So this was really just to save her for this election. I'm thinking to give her some sort of legislative victory so she can claim that, look, I'm helping my constituents and then the special interests ultimately win in the long run. Am I right? You're absolutely right, but here's the caveat today. She's not going to win, right? And I'm going to be at the forefront of this, like I have been front and center for the community

because at the end of the day, you know, she's spending money, hand over fist of special interests to kind of have this legislative win. But, you know, her time is measured and she's not going to be there building at the end of the day. She's not, and that's a fact. She's clearly concerned about you and Damien Pardo and Eddie Leol as evidenced by her TV ad as evidenced by the mailer. I do want to give you an opportunity, however, to respond to the allegation in this negative mailer, which says that James Torres faced multiple criminal charges, including for endangerment of a minor. And it quotes here from a Miami Herald story.

Listen, I've been at the forefront of that question. I think you were present last year. I was very honest and transparent. We're talking about something that occurred 30 years ago, which is really no there there, right? This was a divorce scenario that happened. It was addressed. No charges were given.

At the end of the day, I walked out paying $185 for a window tinting in the state of Arizona. She wants to make an initial because she's grabbing at straws and the voters are quite frankly tired of it. Everyone that I speak to is kind of like, James, we already know this was due to a divorce and nothing happened.

The worst thing that happened is you paid a $185 fight. So Christian over it and her are just grabbing at straws because she knows worth threat. She knows worth threat because we're not gonna be tied into the machine of the corruption of other commissioners that are funding her campaign, Billy. I mean, that's a fact. You mean her campaign is being funded by Joe Corroyo,

by Alex D. Aslibertia, by all the special interests and attorneys and lobbyists who support them? I guess that's what you're getting at. Yeah, man, I mean, it's not what I'm getting at. It's a fact. I mean, look at the campaign reports, look at the PAC reports. And you know, let us also not forget, you know, Ediliel, who's now trying to separate himself from being the mayor's attorney and saying elected official.

You know, he was his wingman, right? And that's why she's probably attacking him. And you know, voters also need to know that as well. You know, you also have Damien Pardo that's been attacked on it. But, you know, the interesting thing about that piece, Billy, is that Pardo was also going with God oil for his festival in Gayeocho. You know, you have to kiss the ring to get any money from Joe God oil.

So, why isn't that being brought up in a way that it should have well that's how it works in the godfather it says here that subena cova was the only candidate with a comprehensive plan to fight corruption and clean up city hall we only have about 30 seconds but what do you plan to do about corruption in city hall I plan to raise my hand and make the community hall by telling everybody that we have always been at the forefront of fighting corruption. I will make sure that when this bill is due of this $63 million dollars, we're not going to pay for it. And that's how we're going to start sending a clear message to everybody else. People laugh when I turn around and say, Vicki Mendes, you're gonna take a vacation. I can't force her to take a vacation,

but it's gonna put her on notice as well as anybody else. And I wanna ask, if you're gonna become giving us information, we're gonna have clear, protective, unwhistleblowers, we're gonna help you. So be front and center, tell us what's going on. Be our eyes and ears. You deserve it, Billy, your kids deserve it, and I deserve it, and I deserve it.

And the voters of District 2. James Torres is running for City of Miami Commission District 2. Good luck to you, sir. Thank you very much. Have a great day. Thanks for the time today. Billy. Roy. Billy Roy was going over to Sanctus. We are back to a fear and flared a men on the campaign trail. I was raped in the middle of a bull reptile zoo.

Somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. But it drugs. It's been another banner week on the DeSantis campaign. So DeSantis is still a distant second place to the former president, Donald Trump. Trump said about 58%. He's polling DeSantis is about 12%. But Nikki Haley now is within striking distance. I mean within the margin of error at about 11%. She's up. So like she is right behind DeSantis and DeSantis is getting all the headlines that he deserves right now. Big New York Times story, how Ron DeSantis lost the internet. It's a really interesting deep dive into what they're calling the meme wars and how DeSantis

employs this troll army on social media that have just been failing left and right and the Trump campaign and their troll army has just been absolutely kicking their asses all over the internet. All that's BS. No, totally, totally BS. So this kind of perennial online campaign that Ron DeSantis has been running was a failure from the get go. You remember on the website formerly known as Twitter is how he launched his campaign with

that just like glitch-ridden interview with Elon Musk, which was just an absolute mess. Do you honestly believe that's credible? What else in the headlines? DeSantis touted his Israel rescue flights, then left Americans stranded in Cyprus. Of course he did. Of course he did.

The only flights that really work out is when he's trying to deport people to Martha's Vineyard from Texas for whatever reason. But the head of this nonprofit project, Dynamo, that is working and partnering with the state to get Israelis out of the war-torn areas. Basically, we'll take you to the United States and instead, left them in Cyprus for days with absolutely

no information, no communication and I mean because Florida and most recently top ally of rondis antis has bashed his response to anti-Semitism and the neo-Nazi's marching in the state and he has now switched his endorsement to Donald Trump. He's a state representative, Randy Fine. Really, he headed the, I think, Jews for DeSantis initiative when DeSantis first ran for office. And this guy, talking about Randy Fine, reminds me of that famous clickhole headline,

heartbreaking colon, the worst person you know, just made a great point. That's what this reminds me of because Randy Fine has been lockstep side by side with DeSantis on the front lines of the idiotic culture wars that have basically helped to not only define his governorship in Florida, but helped to rail his presidential dreams as well. The laws targeting LGBTQ plus people is unconstitutional bill to ban drag and pride events. Another one of his worst hits was the insanely unconstitutional anti-protest bill that granted civil immunity to drivers who

run over protesters with their car, Randi fine introduced the law targeting Disney World that even Trump called stupid, going after one of the state's single largest employers and revenue generators, and fine openly admitted in a quote that is now featured evidence in a major federal First Amendment lawsuit against our state, that they pass that law to target one company, Disney, out of political revenge. So it's kind of like when the worst people in the world kind of turn on each other,

and you're just like, let them eat each other alive. You got damn right, Meatball. A crucial part of our democracy is the peaceful transfer of power. Some people think that Trump's actions on January 6th and beyond violated the key principles of America and the Constitution set forth by our founding fathers. Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power, a key principle that of American democracy that we must uphold? Are you in high school? Yeah. Where do you go to school? You go around here? Vermont, I live in New Hampshire. Oh, okay. So you're from Vermont. Well, thank you for the question.

So here's what I know. If this election is about Biden's failures and our vision for the future, we are going to win. If it's about relitigating things that happened two, three years ago, we're going to lose. That was 15-year-old Quinn Mitchell, a high school student and aspiring journalist from New Hampshire, America's long time first primary state. Over the past two elections, Quinn has gone to more than 85 political events, met over 35 presidential candidates, and asked tough questions of the likes of Chris Christie,

Beto O'Rourke, and even Joe Biden. Our producer, Matt Sullivan, has taken to calling him Little Billy Corbin. Because he's basically known for annoying thin skinned politicians. And so that was a clip from just this past June when Quinn went to a DeSantis event in the town of Hollis, New Hampshire,

and asked the Florida governor a very good question. Quinn DeSantis has gotten a reputation for being, let me be diplomatic awkward in his interactions with the public on the campaign trail for a young man who's now encountered over 35 White House hopefuls. How did you find his bedside manner and his response to your question initially? Um, I mean, I just don't think how he's on the trail and how he's conducting himself in New Hampshire is gonna play for him,

because often you'll find his, you know, never back down officials, they, you know, they like to, you know, control the environment, they don't want any spontaneous encounters, they don't really like any, you know, hard questions. It's just something that's not gonna play in New Hampshire, you know, I state where, you know, hard questions. It's just something that's not going to play in the Hampshire. You know, I state where, you know, retail politics really matters. And that, you know, that question of mine, you just played his answer. I don't think it's

going to play it because he's trying to draw this, you know, fine line of, you know, not condemning what happened on January 6th. It's just extremely hypocritical because he's saying that we shouldn't relitigate, things that happened two or three years ago, when his whole talk was relitigating things when it came to Florida and COVID, an economy. And it's just something that's not going to be playing in Hampshire, where a state that really values

retail politics. Yeah, I mean, you really seem to have dodged the question and it resulted in a brutal daily beast headline, Ron DeSantis is afraid of questions from a 15 year old. I love it. Anyway, I really do. And it really does look, I mean, if there's like a side by side here of you and I in this interview, just so you know, this is like a before and after image right now. I want you to know that this is how it ends up, Quinn. This is how you end up. I just want you to know.

I'm just kidding. I think this kid's got a much better shot than I ever have. I want to be him when I grow up. I will billy carbon. But this was not your last encounter though. To be clear, never back down. This is the pack that is basically running to Santa's campaign and vice versa.

This seems to be one of the greatest lines between, or the blurious line between a pack and a campaign that I've, I've ever seen, they're not even really pretending to be independent entities at all, but to be clear, you have encountered these people and you have not backed down. So what happened next year in your Odyssey with DeSantis through a New Hampshire? Uh, you may like the events that followed that June 27th at home. Yeah, I think you encountered them like every month.

Since, since, since, Oh yeah, I mean, I knew I wanted to encounter him because I wanted to ask the questions that matter. Usually at a DeSantis event, there's gonna be like a woke question five times. It just gets, you know, repetitive and it's not lightning for voters. So I want to ask those questions that he's not getting asked. It's on a lot of people's minds.

Right after that event, I went to a July 4th parade because I, in part, wanted to apologize because Mike, go out this event is to never make a candidate look stupid. In that event, he did look stupid in the eyes of some. I want them to give an answer that I would enlighten some people. And what shocked me is that he was struggling to answer them 30 seconds. And that's really, is a question. His advisor should have been preparing him for months. So I approached the government for the first few times that July 4th parade I was physically blocked by staffers from never back down. We can talk about their little unnatural connection later. I have a whole lot to say about that. And the third time I approached him,

my approach to him is like governor, I'm not kid who asked you that question. I'm sorry for any trouble got you in. He said, oh, I know who you are. And then I was tugged from behind. I was physically surrounded, physically detained, not allowed to move forward at the parade. All for asking a question on January 6th.

Then a month later, you know, this is my monthly DeSantis event. I'm probably not going to be going any others after these, but on August's event, I wanted to ask him a question and you know raised my hand, I asked the question, but you know when I tried to go up to him afterwards, I was again, you know, physically blocked. You know, my mom actually wanted to go see a family friend and she was actually physically blocked because they thought she was going to see DeSantis. It's really bizarre to me because they're just so controlling of the environment. And I've really learned that the staffer had been taking photos of me and posting them

on Snapchat with the caption, you know, on Arcade. I can't believe they're communicating via Snapchat, first of all. But you know, it's bizarre to me. And this unnatural connection and control his pack has over the contain. It's unnatural. And voters are noticing it too. So it's not just not something that's going to play for him. And you know, a state in New Hampshire where we vet our candidates well. And we really noticed them.

I got a bounce. But before we do, I do have one last question for you, because people accuse you. You're a smart, savvy young person, and they say, oh, he's being manipulated by adults or his parents are writing his questions for him. How do you respond to that? You know, to sort of describe that relationship in 2019, I asked a question to then vice president Joe Biden. And on the way over, my dad was like, you should ask a question about, what is this dog's name? And I was like, Dad, no, that's a stupid question. I never asked that.

Then I went up to vice president Biden. I asked the question, he was like, do you believe that a Trump should have impeachment Trumps? Biden was a bit shot. And he answered it. And the next day, Lauren Ingram, on the Ingram, was on and she was like, you know, this kid is a plan, obviously, you know,

set up by his, you know, liberal parents. He doesn't have the intellectual capability to ask such a question. The ironic thing being, you know, my dad encouraged me to ask, you know, question about dogs. So that, you know, sort of describes our relationship, but I do owe a lot to my mom for driving me to all these things.

About 50, I can't drive, man. So I owe a lot to her for that. Lauren Ingram doesn't have the intellectual capability to have a television show. So I don't know why she's actually seen that. I don't think she would debate Quinn Mitchell. I'll tell you that right now. Quinn Mitchell, the future governor of New Hampshire. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work.

We appreciate you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on. Don't forget to drunk dial because Miami complaint line 786-505-9842. That's 786-505-9842. Call now because I know you're drinking and driving while you listen to this podcast. Roy, what are the issues on this week's Wheel of Despair? Okay. Are you okay?

I'm, every week. Yeah. We do this wheel of despair a bit. And every week, I leave the studio depressed. Feeling, feeling despair, would you say? Yes. So it's working. Yes, it is.

It's absolutely working. We have aing homeless people Jesus I Already feel it. I already feel it. Yeah insurance Okay, bulldozers. Okay, and don't say jail jail. I just said it. Oh now what now in trouble? Shall we shall we spin wheel Now what? Well that would trouble. Would trouble that? Shall we, shall we spin wheel?

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Headline in Newsweek. BELL RINGS Oh wow, Newsweek. Florida residents. Flee state. I wish. As insurance premiums skyrocket up to nine hundred percent. That's a lot. Yes. According to the US Census Bureau, nearly 300,000 people left Florida in 2022. It's about

like 23,000 people every month, relocating mostly to Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas, because people cannot afford to live here anymore. We are not only the inflation capital of the United States, while inflation is coming down in all 49 states. It is coming up and sky high in the great free state of Florida. We are the most expensive health care state in the union. We spend the least on education and teacher salaries. And we're basically at the top of all the bad lists. And on the bottom of all the good list that you want to be high on, I'd want to be high to, uh, to still live.

But yes, insurance, people cannot afford to ensure their homes. And a lot of people are basically just taking the chance now. They're going uninsured. The problem is if you want to buy a house or you want to get a mortgage, I should say, and you're not paying all cash, you want to buy a house or you want to get a mortgage, I should say, and you're not paying all cash You need to have insurance and it will absolutely more than double Your monthly expenses on housing. So if you got a mortgage payment of $3,000 a month on your house You will be paying at least at least $3,000 a month in insurance on that same house. That's a lot.

It's a lot, Roy. Trust me, as a homeowner, that is something that I really don't want to think of. You're feeling that despair, Roy. You're feeling that despair yet? I'm feeling underwater right before we actually go underwater. Let's spin that wheel.

Oh, yeah. They're out here arresting homeless people. It's been that way. Something about the to die after that one. Really, really just, can you, can you do it again, please, for me? They're out here arresting homeless people. It's been that way.

It's been that way. People listening on the podcast are missing my jazz hands right now, which just sort of adds insult to injury to insult to injury. The headline this week Roy is Miami Beach commission votes to allow the arrest of homeless people who sleep outside and decline shelter. So the city previously had a ban on outdoor sleeping, but that ordinance required police to give someone a warning before they made an arrest. The new ordinance says, f**k that warning. And f**k you, homeless people. We are going to criminalize you for sleeping outside on the earth.

And so there's a lot of reasons Roy that people would decline a shelter. Shelters can be dangerous. People cannot bring some of their personal effects and their items. A lot of people have their entire, all of their worldly possessions in a shopping cart or a bag that might not be allowed into

the shelter, they might not have access to certain medicine or work or things that means by which they make money on the street. There's all kinds of reasons. But now on a highly controversial split vote of four to three at the Miami Beach Commission, now we're going to basically turn people who are down on their lock, who may be dealing with mental illness or addiction, or just can't afford the insurance required to live in their homes because it's going to double their rent or double their mortgage payment or more.

And so now they're going to be criminals is basically what we're going to do. And I think we learned from Jim DeFeedy on last week's show that putting people that don't belong in prison into prison is not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to our system, and it's certainly not helpful for them. Feel it Roy? Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely is a disparate.

Now feel as agreed. Let's spin the wheel. What are those? In the city of Miami, we talked about this actually earlier this year last year on the show. They are absolutely demolition happy at the city. I mean, they will just come and take your home or your business and they will knock that shit down for nothing. They will beg forgiveness, not ask permission. In fact, they won't even beg for, they will not

beg forgiveness. Nor will they ask permission. They will just steal your property and knock at the f*** down. But imminent domain type situation? Not even. Basically they're saying like, oh look, you've been cited here by the code inspector for your window having a crack in it or something not being just right in your home. They're now calling all of those issues in the aftermath of the Champlain Towers tragedy. They're calling all those, those are all life safety issues. This is an unsafe structure.

We're going to knock your house down because you didn't repair your door. So basically worst than any HOA that you've ever seen. The city of Miami is a racketeering organization, Roy, in case we didn't stop Miami Mafia, man. So it is an HOA. It, I mean, it's, it's, yes. You make a, you, you, you goddamn right, meatball.

Make it very good point. But here's the even more screwed up thing. What's happening is Roy is people who buy a house that the previous owners may have had the violations or may have done some illegal construction or may have screwed up. And you didn't even know about it. And may have had no way of knowing about it

because they didn't pull a permit and you didn't know about this, you know, refurbishing or construction or whatever, you're now responsible. So you have homeowners now. Their property has accrued so many violations and late fees and all this stuff from a previous owner or previous owners. It could be from years or even decades ago, but now the city saying like, oh yeah, even though you bought your house 20 years ago and you didn't know about any of this shit, we're gonna come bulldoze your house.

And a woman who bought a very modest single family home in the city of Miami was told at one point by the city of Miami that to bring her home up to code per lovely home it would cost her six point five million dollars. Oh, and then she bought like 20 years ago. That's perfectly fine. She's been living in. There's been no issues, no problems because of code violation before. And the city does not want to help her. That's the thing too. She devotes all of her time to dealing with these issues.

She can't go out and make a living and spend time with her family and enjoy her life. She's got to just deal with the city. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You feeling it, Roy? You feeling it? Yeah, this is a... You live in Broward, what do you care?

Oh yeah, that's true. I kind of feel better now. What are you? What are you? Are we done with the wheel? Are we done? Or do we have to do one? Let's do one more.

Let's do one more. Bruno Moss. Sure. If you say so. Don't say jail. Hey! Happy story. All's well that ends well. Oh, we sure about this. Don't say jail. Hey. Happy story.

All's well that ends well. Are we sure about this? We are. This is happy ending. The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the Don't Say Gay Bill has just been sentenced to prison for COVID-19 relief fraud. Oh, man. As a, as, oh, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo,

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Four months, yes, you're fine. Yeah, still, if it was me, I think that's worthy of another Tadado, I mean. P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P- outside in the city of Miami Beach. That's true. Roy, Billy, thank you for, thank you for, for coping with another week of the Wheel of Despair. I need a drink. I think maybe we need to put that segment on hiatus. I think we need to, I think we need to, I think we need to shell that bit for a bit is what I think. This week's Miami moment, we leave where we began

in a perfect circle here, this cycle of corruption and violence that we live in here and in the city of Miami. This is Miami Commissioner Sabina Covo at the September 29th, 40th anniversary fundraiser for care resource. This is an LGBTQ plus centric nonprofit healthcare organization. It started out as a HIV and AIDS organization back in the 1980s. And she attended apparently to make

some sort of proclamation and what you will see now is a small sampling of her most coherent moments from a rambling and incoherent eight-minute statement. Cocaine's. Ciovio Coba. We cannot have a situation right now within our state. We are not the same. We have not allowed to house situations within our state. We are not equal. We're trying to show the community about,

is that about being different? Is that about being diverse? Happy, being for happiness. And happiness means that we are all the same. We don't need to use the words. We don't need to use any type of different word because people say, oh, because, oh, there's hate, they're using this word. Let's say it. No, no, no. We are the happiness office in the city of Miami, which is this your tool. My second father was part of what happened here. He was part of the way that these people have been coming. And he lunched privacy. And I

acknowledged his privacy and I got into that. I am your advocate. I'm going to continue I am your advocate. I'm going to continue being your advocate. And you will never pass my thoughts.