Sheriff Grady Judd

But here's what I tell them.

You moved here for warm weather in the winter.

And they go, yeah.

You moved here for lower taxes than you had where you came from.

And they said, yeah.

And I said, and you also moved here because it's safe.

And they said, yeah, that's really why we moved here first.

And I said, well, do me a favor.

Don't vote the way the majority did where you came from.

You'll still have warm weather in the winter, but you won't have lower taxes and you won't have lower crime.

Because the decision makers we elect to the majority of the House, majority of the Senate, the governor.

Your mayors, your city commissioners, and your county commissioners, they are the ones that pass the laws or the rules that determine whether or not you care more for the criminals or more for the law-abiding citizens.

And in Florida, we care more for the law-abiding citizens.

I've got to tell you a funny story.

So we are swearing in a group of deputies.

And then we have their wife, their sister, their mother, their father pin on their badge, right?

So a mother comes up, and she's pinning on the badge of her son, who is now a brand-new deputy.

And I look at him while she's pinning the badge on, and I said, you know, I worked for the sheriff's office before you were born.

And he said, Sheriff, you worked for the sheriff's office before my mama was born.

I thought that was a telling moment in life.