Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
James, before we get started, why don't you take a minute and tell everybody, 31 years old, you can enjoy life, you can travel, you can work hard, you can build a business.
Chapter 2: Why is James Fishback running for governor of Florida?
Why are you running for the governor of Florida at 31 years old?
Patrick, I'm running for Florida governor because my family has been here for four generations and Florida is the best state in the country, hands down. That's why we all live here. I was born right here in Broward County, raised here my entire life.
But if we're the greatest state in the country, why is it so hard for the families who made it the greatest state in the country to afford to live here?
Chapter 3: What challenges do Floridians face regarding housing affordability?
I meet people every single day, including just last night in Sumter County where we held a rally of 100 people.
Chapter 4: How does the H-1B visa policy affect Florida's job market?
I can no longer afford my property tax bill, my homeowner's insurance, my HOA, whatever it may be. I can't get a great paying job. I can't buy a home. That's a real fight. And so I'm in this race to deliver a real plan to make Florida affordable, to make life a little bit easier.
I believe we are the best state in the country, but that has to mean something for the families, the young people, and the seniors who made it the best state in the country. How do you do that? Right off the bat, you end the H-1B scam. No more H-1B workers will be allowed in Florida. Those jobs will go to our recent grads.
We're going to ban Blackstone, private equity, and foreign nationals from buying up single-family homes worldwide. hoarding and cornering the market. So you and your kids and your grandkids, Patrick, they can buy a home. You know why? Because a home is not a nice to have, it is a need to have. If you can't buy a home, can you get married, Pat?
Chapter 5: What is the proposed Mamdani tax and its implications?
If you can't get married, can you have kids? And if you can't have kids? What's the point? We know that as Christians. It's a precondition. And then let's talk about overdevelopment and sprawl in our state. You look at a Google map over the last 15, 20 years, a satellite map, entire communities where citrus groves once stood, where cattle ranchers once herded their lots. Guess what?
Those are now becoming AI data centers, become Section 8 style housing. I believe this is a choice. between old Florida and new Florida. If you want Florida to become the AI data center capital of the world, you can vote for Congressman Byron Donalds. If you want us to become the financial capital, the concrete jungle, vote for Byron Donalds genuinely.
But if you want citrus, ag, tourism, space, if you want a state that we all can be proud of, if you want to protect our Everglades, If you believe that our jobs belong to us, if you believe that we should be able to buy single-family homes, not Chinese nationals, if you believe that Washington, D.C. should send 600,000 Chinese students to our universities, guess what? Here's my plan.
As Florida governor, I'll sign an executive order before the sun sets on my first day to raise tuition on any foreign student. to $1 million a year. $1 million. Foreign student to $1 million. I don't want them in our schools.
Chapter 6: How does the Mamdani tax aim to regulate out-of-state buyers?
Florida taxpayers like you and me, we pay for Florida colleges. We built them. We fund the faculty, staff, and the research. Those should be for our kids. Imagine a young girl right here in Broward County who went to my high school, Boyd H. Anderson. I was one of two white kids in the entire senior class. Imagine her being told, you know what?
Chapter 7: What are the potential economic impacts of the Mamdani tax?
You're not going to be admitted this time around. You're not going to be able to go to the pre-med program at the University of Florida because we had to make room for a student from Shanghai or Mumbai. That's exactly what's happening every single day in our state. And if D.C.
is successful with this deep state U.S.-China trade deal, upwards of 600,000 more foreign students can come to our universities. And Patrick, I'm a big fan of what you've built here. I wanted to make a little bit of news here this morning if I can. Beautiful. Go for it. We all have friends in New York. And I am sorry for their loss that Zoran Mamdani is their mayor. But I want to be very clear.
Three words. Florida is full. We are not a refugee camp for New Yorkers to flee from their problems. That's your mess. Clean it up. I am proud to announce here today exclusively on PBD. that I will pass the Mamdani tax, $50,000 property transaction tax for any out-of-state individual who wants to buy real estate, single-family real estate here in Florida. It's time we put Florida first.
We are full. We took in 800,000 new residents after COVID in just five short years. Crazy idea. Florida needs to put the people who made Florida Florida back at the front of the line. That's what I'm running to do. If you want more New Yorkers, Byron Donalds is your guy. After all, he was born and raised in New York. And within the span of three years moving here, he got himself arrested twice.
Rather interesting. But at the end of the day. I believe that there is a real debate in the Republican Party right now between economic nationalism and economic corporatism. The economy has to work for working people. It has to work for young couples. It cannot exclusively work for the biggest companies. That is my platform. As I ended my campaign video, my name is James Fishback.
I'm running for Florida governor as a fourth-generation Floridian because I believe, Patrick, that Florida is our home, America is our birthright, and no one should ever be able to steal that from us.
I love that.
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Chapter 8: How does James propose to revitalize Florida's citrus industry?
I love the fact that you have bold ideas. You even give an idea about if somebody can fix, was it one of the citrus, what was a problem you said that you would give them a billion dollars? Can you share that idea with the audience as well, please?
Yes. So there is an issue here with citrus screening. I was in Frostproof in Southern Polk County with... Five generations of different citrus growers. And what I found was that there's this greening that came from China about 15 years ago. It is an infection, a disease. And much like COVID, the Republicans and Democrats just pointed the finger and said, it's China's fault.
We're just going to give up. We're just going to give up on citrus in Florida. Citrus used to be 245 million boxes every single season. In the most recent one, it's only 14 million.
million guess what that means fewer jobs fewer local industries fewer local businesses and and a sense of pride in our communities like in highlands county and sebring and frost proof and so what i've said is if you're a scientist anywhere in the world and i mean anywhere you could even be in iran if you're a scientist anywhere in the world and you have discovered the scientific cure to greening the state of florida will pay you one billion dollars cash because guess what florida citrus
could be upwards of a $50 billion industry again, why wouldn't we make a one-time investment to turn places like Moorhaven, Davie, where Citrus Groves once proudly stood, where we employed tens of thousands of young men and women, where we supported local industry and local businesses, when we gave these rural communities all over our state a sense of pride, why don't we put a little bit of investment for them?
That's a good point. And by the way, for a Floridian that may be listening to this saying, hey, that makes sense. I'd like to see that happen. Now, going back to the $50,000 of people coming in. So if you're going to charge somebody that's coming here, you're calling refugees coming from New York here, the Mamdani tax of $50,000. Who does that benefit? What does that do?
Because even if you did that, the people that are leaving, I'd say most of them would be able to pay for it. And I guess if they do, it generates an income for the state.
Tell me the logic behind that idea. Well, the logic is in economics, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome. There is no disincentive right now for New Yorkers to pack up their things, throw in the towel, come to our state and price us out and push us out. And crazy idea.
I believe that our state should work for the people who built our state, who put it on the map, like my grandmother, who was a 20-year English teacher at Plantation High School just about 10 miles southwest of here. So the idea is very simple. create a tax disincentive as opposed to a tax incentive for New Yorkers or any out-of-staters. It's gonna be a property transaction tax. It's $50,000.
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