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Francis Suarez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

Same as regulation, it layers on top of each other. So if you were to be able to strip it down in a mechanical way, right, in an instantaneous way, as opposed to having to fight the structures. In our case, we were very lucky. There was a state statutory vehicle that allowed us to implement the cuts. Otherwise, we'd have to bargain for them in a union process.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

Same as regulation, it layers on top of each other. So if you were to be able to strip it down in a mechanical way, right, in an instantaneous way, as opposed to having to fight the structures. In our case, we were very lucky. There was a state statutory vehicle that allowed us to implement the cuts. Otherwise, we'd have to bargain for them in a union process.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And obviously no one would ever bargain to cut their salaries or never bargain to cut their- Nothing would have happened. Nothing would have happened. We would have been bankrupt. And then a court would have taken us over. We would have looked like a joke. And instead we cut costs and we survived and we thrived, right? Going forward. And by the way, my employees now love me.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And obviously no one would ever bargain to cut their salaries or never bargain to cut their- Nothing would have happened. Nothing would have happened. We would have been bankrupt. And then a court would have taken us over. We would have looked like a joke. And instead we cut costs and we survived and we thrived, right? Going forward. And by the way, my employees now love me.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

They were not happy the first couple of years when we did it. But now they, I don't even have to go to a union interview when I run for office. They just support me right away. You want to be governor? I don't think it's quite that simple. I want to dunk. I wouldn't be able to dunk two. Look, I think that I'm a Republican, for those of you who don't know.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

They were not happy the first couple of years when we did it. But now they, I don't even have to go to a union interview when I run for office. They just support me right away. You want to be governor? I don't think it's quite that simple. I want to dunk. I wouldn't be able to dunk two. Look, I think that I'm a Republican, for those of you who don't know.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And, you know, the president's already weighed in the Republican primary. I respect the president's perspective. I have a good relationship with Congressman Donald. So I think politics is very circumstantial. We've talked about that a lot in the past. So, you know, things sometimes conspire in your favor. Sometimes things don't, right? And I do think it is circumstantial.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And, you know, the president's already weighed in the Republican primary. I respect the president's perspective. I have a good relationship with Congressman Donald. So I think politics is very circumstantial. We've talked about that a lot in the past. So, you know, things sometimes conspire in your favor. Sometimes things don't, right? And I do think it is circumstantial.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

So I think you have to weigh the circumstances. You know, I ran for president because I had a thesis. The thesis was urban voters, Hispanics, and young voters, if they went Republican, would favor the Republican candidate or the Republican candidate would win. And they did. It just wasn't me. Right. It was a different candidate.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

So I think you have to weigh the circumstances. You know, I ran for president because I had a thesis. The thesis was urban voters, Hispanics, and young voters, if they went Republican, would favor the Republican candidate or the Republican candidate would win. And they did. It just wasn't me. Right. It was a different candidate.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

But, you know, the president did a great job on podcasts, right, going on all these podcasts that, you know, the vice president didn't do. And he got young voters and he got urban voters. Look, the Republicans never going to win Philadelphia. Right. Trump lost Philadelphia to Biden by 85 percent, but he lost Philadelphia to Kamala by 75 percent.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

But, you know, the president did a great job on podcasts, right, going on all these podcasts that, you know, the vice president didn't do. And he got young voters and he got urban voters. Look, the Republicans never going to win Philadelphia. Right. Trump lost Philadelphia to Biden by 85 percent, but he lost Philadelphia to Kamala by 75 percent.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And that delta, the 75, 85, that 10 percent delta gave him Pennsylvanian. Yeah, that's the election. Which was such a crucial state, right? Like arguably the winning state. So, you know, Republicans are never going to necessarily win urban votes or the urban population centers throughout America.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

And that delta, the 75, 85, that 10 percent delta gave him Pennsylvanian. Yeah, that's the election. Which was such a crucial state, right? Like arguably the winning state. So, you know, Republicans are never going to necessarily win urban votes or the urban population centers throughout America.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

But you're also seeing, and I think it's important to note, you're seeing Democratic mayors lose across America. London Breed lost in San Francisco. Yeah. Tashara Jones lost in St. Louis. The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, lost.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

But you're also seeing, and I think it's important to note, you're seeing Democratic mayors lose across America. London Breed lost in San Francisco. Yeah. Tashara Jones lost in St. Louis. The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, lost.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

I was a president of the U.S.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

I was a president of the U.S.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

Cities? Take your time. Don't jump to an answer. Okay, I'll say this. I'll tell you a mayor that I like. How about that? Okay. Justin Bibb. Justin Bibb is mayor of Cleveland. We got a couple Cleveland people here? Apparently. There we go. Justin is a good friend. I have a lot of friends that are mayors. I'm a mayor, you know, I love all my mayors because I was president of that institution.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami

Cities? Take your time. Don't jump to an answer. Okay, I'll say this. I'll tell you a mayor that I like. How about that? Okay. Justin Bibb. Justin Bibb is mayor of Cleveland. We got a couple Cleveland people here? Apparently. There we go. Justin is a good friend. I have a lot of friends that are mayors. I'm a mayor, you know, I love all my mayors because I was president of that institution.