Beam Furr
speaker
37,255 appearances
42 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 3 Mar
Beam Furr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Nov 2025 with 2.
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clean water, wastewater, roads, traffic lights, garbage, all the parks, libraries, animal and mosquito control, and all the people at our Family Success Centers and Human Services, trying to find people food and shelter and homes for those that are down on their luck, trying to help them find something they can get a handle on so they can lift themselves up.
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Thank you to all the Broward County employees who make things happen every single day.
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I get to see government at work.
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And I get to see it at its best.
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Because I get to see it in Broward County.
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We have a good story to tell.
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And I don't get tired of telling it over and over again.
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And this year, get out of here.
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And this year, I've had good reasons to tell it over and over again.
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Because this year has been one long test.
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Almost from the moment I became mayor last year, many of this nation's institutions and norms that we have come to take for granted have been challenged, poked and prodded, kneecapped, and questioned as to their worthiness.
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While civility and compassion, empathy and education seem to have been relegated to the margins, to the seats in the back,
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And we have witnessed government by decree and petulance rather than discussion and persuasion.
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On the federal level, we have been mean to our friends and kind to our enemies.
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We have ignored science and research and encouraged conspiracies and unfounded ideas.
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We have thumbed our noses at the rule of law and unleashed troops in our cities and our counties.
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All of that comes at a cost.
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And it has eroded trust in our government, created resentment between neighbors, and shaken the fundamental foundations of our American democracy.
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It has impacted our standing in the world and damaged the ability of all levels of government to attend to the needs of its citizens.
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In Broward County, the cost has been quite literal.
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