Welcome friends, A hardy high five to you. Thursday, August twenty ninth. More on that date and mere moments. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty two to twenty six. I'm Preston, He's Jose and it is day thirteen sixteen of America held hostage. Yeah, we welcome you to the Thursday broadcast. This will be our final show of the week, taking a little time tomorrow through Tuesday
back next Wednesday. So we're just going to push away for just a few days and then sort of buckle in for what we expect will be a very very very very busy couple of months. I mean, why wouldn't it be right, We've got an election, we've got the the brunt of storm season coming our way, and we're you know, we're gonna hope for the best, but we do live in a peninsula and the hurricane zone, and storms happen. You know, it's just it's just part of the deal. But we we thank you as always for
joining us. And we start with some scripture. Psalm one thirteen, verse three succinctly says from the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. I think that we can we can take that, and we can almost maybe rephrase it this way without changing one bit of its meaning. From the moment you wake up to the moment you put your head on your pillow and go to sleep at night. The name of the Lord is to be praised. And what I can tell you from life is that doing so changes
your day. It just reorients things, brings perspective, allows you to redirect your own heart and your own mind. I remember a friend years ago who has since gone to be with the Lord. And we would We shared a love of Jesus, God's word, and golf. And and he was a pretty good golfer when he was younger, and he was pretty good as he aged. And and he would in the middle of a round of golf, eighth hole, he'd skull one just top of the ball seventy five yards.
He'd look at me, smile, prayse the Lord. Four holes later, crush a drive down the middle, prist Jesus, and he'd scream it golf course etiquette. Nothing was going to stop him from praising God wherever, whenever. Now, he would not just do that in the middle of a totally inappropriate time. He would he would he's certain not to, you know, cause someone that was about to pot or hit a
golf shot to be distracted. But he would look around, praise the Lord, and he would just And I think of him when I think of a verse like this, because from the moment he put his head upright at the start of a day, to the moment he put his head down to rest at night, he would throughout the day just praise God and redirect his mind. And I think there's remarkable wisdom in that. And you could say that it had its desired effect on me because I remembered it, and I pass it on to you.
Ten past the hour come back with a look inside the American Patriots Almanac. Will take a peek at the program today. A lot of guests. Busy show Thursday usually usually works that way, and we've got some very very important things to share. So but that's kind of normal, right. It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Eleven past the Hour, August twenty ninth, just occurred to me. By the time we come back, it'll be September, do you remember, anyway,
Let's see here seventeen seventy six. Having lost the Battle of Long Island, Patriot troops escape over the East River to Manhattan. That is chronicled in the book seventeen seventy six by David McCullough, and it is a spectacular story and it illustrates a theme that McCullough picks up on.
And I don't know David McCullough's views on God and religion and faith, but he documents in the book seventeen seventy six, how many times God's hand was seen in the birthing of this nation by something as simple as that that right there, the escape over the East River, that was due to a fog that came in out of nowhere at just the right moment, just craziness that
allowed this nation to be born. I believe it was the hand of God, and it's something that we ought to be mindful of as we move forward and forget about God. Eighteen sixty nine, John Wesley Powell Expedition floats out of the Grand Canyon. That's his story. By the way, I've read some of that story. I lived in Arizona. The Grand Canyon. Yeah, that's kind of a thing. Could you imagine being in that canyon and then finally getting out route. Oh my goodness. Nineteen forty four, We move ahead.
August twenty ninth, American troops marched down these Champs Ilessees in Paris and celebration of the city's liberation from the Nazis. You're welcome. Nineteen fifty seven Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and is the longest filibuster by one person in Senate history. Yep, he tried to resurrect himself as a Republican, but he fought against the Civil Rights Bill in fifty
seven for twenty four hours and eighteen minutes. In two thousand and five, Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast, causing massive damage, and we covered that story on this show. It wasn't here, but boy, I remember that storm. Anyway, the big stories today, I might have to even move some things to make room for the volume of them, because you know what, these the stories today are kind of like one of those little toys, those sponge toys
you had when you were a kid. They were little flat cardboard pieces, and it might be a dinosaur or something, and you'd put it in the bathtub and it would it would expand or maybe something else you could relate to tortilla chips. You go to the restaurant, you get the basket of chips and ky So salsa, and next thing you know, you can't eat but one fork of your dinner because those chips just went in your stomach. They just expanded. Right, that's the potential of the big
stories today. The big stories are many, and they're capable of expanding. I don't know how else to put it. We will have to make time though, because Steve Stewart's coming in and in the third hour, doctor Bob McClure will join us from the James Madison Institute. We'll talk about the constitutional amendments, plus new polling that JMI just released at twelve oh one this morning. I had it yesterday,
just saying but I honor embargoes. Some people don't. Those would be people that have a lack of honor and integrity. But I honor embargos. And an embargo means we're sending you this information, but please don't release it until this time. And so I had the information yesterday and I did not discuss it now, did I Nope, not even with myself. Sixteen past the hour, I'm going to tell you about a merchandise opportunity next. It's right over there on my wall.
I have an original make America Great Again hat, and I'm proud that it's on my studio wall because I agree with the sentiment. I know that for many of you you struggle with with Donald Trump, and there are aspects to to Trump and his personality that I struggle with too. I quite honestly, I think there are things he struggles with. Though we might not ever say it out loud. I mean, don't don't You and I all have personality flaws that we wish we could get better
and get right. But let's set that aside. You know, let's let's set the he without stone, without sin, cast the first stone. Let let's set that aside for a second. I do think there should be an evolution of this to America first, instead of make America great again because it's been demagogued. Let's let's let's just focus on America first. Look out for the interests of this country at citizens as as. I mean, it's the it's the responsibility. That's
that's what you do. That's what every country does. They look out for the interests of their citizens first. Somehow we have been coerced into believing, at least some that we should feel guilty for the blessing of this country, which I don't feel guilty for God's blessing. I never will, because I understand blessing that it sometimes is monetary, it sometimes isn't. It's sometimes found in the joy of waking up,
literally waking up being able to function. That's a blessing. However, I've got the merch, Kamala has got merched that they're peddling, And of course why not fair to say, the enthusiasm, the excitement that has surrounded Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, there's no comparison as far as Joe Biden or even Donald Trump, Okay if you say so. Definitely has a Barack Obama feel to it, because it's an opportunity to
make people proud, to make history. I don't consider it an achievement to elect the first really dumb person to the White House. It's not an achievement to elect somebody that breaks some sort of mythical ceiling. If they're wrong, Barack Obama's half black, whatever, I don't care. I cared about the fact he was wrong because there are plenty of black members of Congress and people in general that I could absolutely entrust this country to. He's just not
one of them. It wasn't because he was half black, it was because he's all wrong. Same thing with Kamala. Now, it's a fair question, are you are you Indian or are you black? Because years ago you were Indian and that's all you talked about is your Indian heritage. Now you're black and your black heritage? What are you? It
doesn't ultimately matter because what she is is wrong. She's wrong about everything, and even now, as we'll illustrate throughout the program, she's assuming policy positions, though still not talking about them very much, that are completely opposite of what she said her entire elected life. It's up to you. Does a leopard change their spots or just hide them? Kamala is not suddenly in favor of the border wall.
She's lying. Kamma's not suddenly in favor of a bunch of things that she's saying that she'll do or support. She's lying, and she's got a record. But if you want to go buy your merchant's out there, I will tell you that I did love one idea here that they're they're they're putting blue dots, blue dots on people's cars. They're selling blue dots. It's a way to paraphrase, to
subtly communicate your support blue dot. I personally know of somebody that during the Biden Harris years when they were running for office, thought of and I think it was a it was actually during the Obama Biden years, they had a card that they would put on someone's windshield that said, hey, I noticed someone vandalized your car and put an Obama Biden sticker on it. Goof off works are really good or words to that effect. I love that.
See that's something fun you can do, you know, print up a car that says, hey, I noticed you have a Harris Walls sticker on your car. Someone vandalized it. I didn't see who, but goof off works great. Twenty minutes after the hour, we will come back with the Big Stories in the press Box next with Vengeance Preston Show with Morning Scott. What alrighty thirty six minutes past
the hour, Big Stories in the press Box. The story isn't that the Supreme Court refused the request of the Biden administration to reinstate the four hundred and seventy five billion dollar student loan payoff program. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked it. Biden's team goes to the Supreme Court. It gets to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees the Eighth Circuit. Kavanaugh said, I'm not going to make the decision by myself, and he referred it to the entire court. The entire
court denied it. No dissents were recorded none. Nine oh, baby, without a ruling, that's a nine to oh. Here's what's significant. Ay, we all know Joe's memory is slipping, right. He's also probably hard of hearing, and I guess he can't read because this is twice now the United States Supreme Court has said you do not have the authority to forgive student loans. Stop it. And what this does is this underscores a point I've been communicating for a long time now.
Democrats don't give a rat's rear end what they do as it relates to the law. They don't care. They do what they're gonna do until they're stopped. But even the Supreme Court hasn't been able to stop Joe on this loan relief thing. He continues to do it, package it in different ways, push it back up, and the Supreme Court says no, no, no. And I want to remind everybody, even Nancy Pelosi said he didn't have the authority to do it. So what is this about. Let's
combine that with the invasion of the southern border. Even though Kamala is now saying that she's gonna build a wall, Axios is pointing out, that's not what you've said your entire life. Even Axios Axios seems to be getting like a breadth of clarity of late. It's almost as if they're having moments like our guest Owen Gerard had back during COVID, where they're like, because there are a bunch of progressives over there, but it's almost as if they're going,
wait what they're lying? Oh really? And then the attitude, Shit, what else are they lying about? It's this little subtle shift I've been watching. But let's connect the two. The Southern border invasion, the opposition to the Save Act that Republicans are trying to get through Congress, which would bring election integrity across the nation. Wire Democrats freaking out over the effort to stop non citizens from voting in elections.
Wire Democrats continuing to push this student loan, student loans, student loan. Look at the ages of the people it effects. Look at the group that this effects. It's about voters. These are efforts to bribe voters. We're going to let you into the country, no questions asked. You just remember us at election day. Just get in there and vote. Just get in there. We're going to end you a fly or teach you how to register. They were doing that. People.
They're handing illegals information on voting, why you can't vote, students, all different kinds of ages. Boy, I'd sure love to get rid of that. Twenty thousand dollars a debt, that fifteen thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars at forty thousand dollars a debt. Hey, let me help you out with that. Votes, votes, voters, bribes. Forty one minutes after the hour, more big stories. Yeah, forty two past the hour. I started to write a
commentary about this. You know, one of the one of the many ways you can conduct a military attack is you just overwhelm the enemy. You launch attacks on multiple fronts, and you leave them having to pick and choose what they're gonna stop. I bring that up because I think it's really important for you to understand. They do it really well. The Democrats engage in war like tactics as they govern. And what does that make the American people,
whether they realize it or not, the enemy? The border, energy regulation, determining what you're going to buy, food production, education, I mean, the list goes on and on, the weakening of our defense. There are you know, there are just so many times you can plug a hole in a dike, then you run out of fingers and toes. Lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit, porn in schools, men parading around as women. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. It's a
never ending attack. And so they throw as much at you as possible. They throw as much at Congress as possible, They throw it much as much at the court system as possible, and they just hope for a bunch of it to get through. It doesn't all have to get through, just enough, and then just start whittling away at things like the Second Amendment, the First Amendment. Censoring speech will tell you what's information and what's not. Will tell you
what's truthful and what's not. We will give a stamp of approval on opinion and thought that we think you should hear and see. Two more big stories along the same lines. Taliban Afghanistan now has banned women from showing their faces and speaking in public. Don't ever talk to me about the virtues of Islam, don't even dare and we surrendered all this. We've sentenced the Afghani people to well, if they want to do something about it, they can really tell me how, Tell me how. And then lastly,
grocery chain, mostly in the Northeast. Northeasterners know it Stop and Shop. They have joined Walmart, CBS and others. They will no longer sell cigarettes. And that interesting. I had no idea that CBS and Walgreen stopped selling cigarettes back almost ten twelve years ago. Some of them, how about that forty six past the hour back with a won't you that to shut up? Story? Next, Remember we told you just in the last segment, I told you the left wants to be the thought police. They want to
be the arbiters. People like Alexander Vinman, John Brennan, Joe Biden, We'll see if Facebook, if Elon Musk stays the course, if some of these outlets make good on their promise to not make the mistake again on censoring. It's not like we're talking about just bizarre, ridiculous stuff. We're talking about the obvious problems with global warming and the fact that it's just countered by real evidence. It's not supported factually,
it just isn't COVID. COVID was the follow up. It was the same playbook as the global warming stuff, but scarier than all of that, is what Merrick Garland said at a press briefing about elections. I want you to listen to these words. Red State caught it. Sorry the federalist. I think our I'm gonna put a little fun on this. I think our prosecutions have made clear what we think about people who try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, which is an essential and fundamental element of
our democracy. Democracy. Right here we go equibble about whether we have fifteen hundred or slightly less than fifteen hundred, but we have made way more than fourteen hundred now prosecutions. We have a substantial number of convictions. The dudes bragging look at us quibbling about fifteen hundred. We have way more than fourteen hundred prosecutions. But he didn't stop there. This is all relative to January sixth, and don't you
dare question an election? I think that's shown to everybody, how seriously we take an effort to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power the last January sixth, the coming January sixth, and every January sixth after that. I want to make clear to anybody who's thinking about interfering with that, they can see what we've done with respect to the January sixth prosecutions, and the Department of Justice will continue to protect our democracy. Do you realize how freaking scary
that is? Paraphrase subtitled don't you even dare say a word questioning an election? We will throw your rear ends so deep into a cell and no one's going to get to contact you ever again. We will make your we will ruin you. That's what he just said. Guy with a big day to poll Richard Barris said, this is what fifty percent of the country heard from Garland. We're going to steal this election, and if you try
to fight it, we'll put you in prison. Garland has attacked any effort to bring voter integrity, calling it burdensome, unnecessary. Voter ID is unnecessary and burdensome. You gotta show ID to get in to see you, boss, gotta show ID to get into the DNC. There's so much at stake in this upcoming election, so much. It is the second hour, fast moving program Thursday. Here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, August twenty ninth. Just a quick reminder, we will be off tomorrow Monday for Labor Day, and then Tuesday back Wednesday, and then we are fast forward ahead to election day. And boy, it is not going to be for sissy's I'll tell you that much. All Right, it's Thursday, that means it's time. Steve Stewart, executive editor of Tealasti Reports, joins us, Good morning, sir, How are you?
Good morning, Preston, I'm good. Following a lot of stories, as always that most often are not on the radar of any other media outlet. Let's start first with the I don't know what to call it. Is it a negotiation? Yet? The Railroad Art District was hammered by the tornado? Right, Yeah, So this is like we talked.
About during the Breast Show. Here is this is a us an interesting conundrum for the city Commission. And I'm gonna it's gonna be interesting to watch because you've got a you've got a landowner six to eight acres over off it's called the Railroad district where you have the quote arts is supposed to be the center of the arts community, right, and these are old buildings that are there that house little shops.
And it's the south side of Gain Street and to the east of or west of Railroad, right exactly, that little right there, yeah, exactly.
But it's become sort of the the high point for the arts community, which is sort of alternative arts.
And so the tornadoes hit it pretty hard.
Now that the gentleman that owns or the family that owns the property, it has been in the family for a long time, okay, and so the tornadoes hit it. None of the buildings were insured, it appears, I mean they were there again it was warehouses, not in the best condition. And now he's he is also a little bit of a developer, the owners of the property, and he's pretty much done supporting the you know, the the cause because he feels like he's getting getting hit from
both sides. He's not doing enough with him and I've done this for this long. I've provided low rent for you in these buildings. And to quote him, he says, I am now a motivated seller.
Okay.
So this is private property that has really been sort of donated to this, to this effort.
And everything's been developed around it.
Well, now if you get down there and look this is so this property is six to eight acres and on the open market is probably worth twenty five to thirty million dollars, okay, and you're looking at multifamily student housing something like that. So now the arts community is obviously in a bind, and so they show up to the community Redevelopment Agency meeting and start telling the city
commissioners what's going on. And again the elected officials they know what is happening because the property owners tried to get the city to buy the property and they're not interested in doing that. But now he's like, hey, I'm going to say he's leverage right, We're going to put another student housing facility here, our multifamily because that's what the that's what the economy is demanding.
And so the CIRA is in this.
Bind of what are we going to do because you've got the arts community, fifteen people showing up telling them how important the arts are.
And so here's an opportunity for the city.
You know, we always hear this talk about developers and how bad they are.
This is how the free market works.
You've got you've got a guy that owns private property that's worth thirty million dollars now for a public purpose. The government can buy that and do whatever they want. They can make that the arts the center of the arts, right.
And so but it's expensive, yeah it is.
And so now the question is is the private property owner that obviously has some inclination to support the arts, are they willing to come off of this value. But even if they come off, it's the CII going to spend fifteen million.
For that twenty million, and what's the return? Well, that is the bigger thing.
And it's so again, and what has happened is the charity that this guy has given the arts community for years now is sort of coming you know, they're they're now seeing coming to the end. It's coming to an end because now they're seeing the value that this guy was providing and what's happened is the development around it, Gain Street, College Town and all that has increased the
value of this property. And so they're going to have an interesting decision to make and it will be it will be interesting to see the different parties talk about this. The vote, so they've sent it to the Citizens Advisory Committee to come back with a proposal.
The vote was four to one.
Mayor Daily wants nothing to do with this, but anyway, they're going to send it back and come back in October with a couple of different options.
That will be interesting to watch. Meaning the Mayor is comfortable with it just going to the open market and whatever happens happens.
Right well, figuring out negotiation between the arts community and this person. Maybe they crook harve out an acre for them or whatever. But anyway, the CRI's gonna get involved and we'll see what happens, all right.
Ten past the hour More with Steve Stewart of Telaser Reports. Remember subscribe Telasker Reports dot com. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. How many years have we been doing this? It's been a minute.
As kids like that said, fourteen, I mean, I mean I first met you like probably fifteen years ago.
Yeah, when the newspaper kind of came out of your you know, our interactions and your decisions to run for office and just sort of poking prod.
And we started printing a newspaper in twenty fourteen, so that's been ten years.
And then we predate that by it bit. Yeah. So yeah, we broke some good stories.
But I wanted to clear up the CRA. Why this is important to general rate taxpayers. The CRA is a geographical area where they get to keep their money, their their property tax money and spend it on things in the CRA. So when they do that, the taxes have to be increased to cover what they're not spending from that.
You know, you're not getting from that c In other words, it'd be nice if, like, for example, Clarna States or Clarin Acres with a CRA, you could just keep your property tax money and spend it on your roads and your law enforcement things like.
Your parks and whatever the case might be. But that's not. So that's why it's important to.
That's why it's important to everyone about what happens with this negotiation.
There's another story that you're covering, and it involves a development and it involves a particular convenience store slash gas station.
Right, My publisher just said that we printed in twenty twelve, So just to let you know.
Thank you very much for that publisher. Yes, so the shadow we figure back in the side, but just a fact check, right.
But yeah, So there's there's a controversy going on the Canopy development with a piece of commercial property that is being permitted in the process of being permitted for a Circle Circle K gas station. Now, before we get to this Circle K gas station, this has come up at the city Commission meeting and it was some revelations at the meeting.
There are homeowners this this gas station could be put probably fifty to.
Sixty feet from some actual residents, and so that's not something that anybody really wants as a gas station that close to your home, especially when it hasn't been built. So when you bought the home, you really didn't know that it was going to be there.
So there's been how'd they get there? How'd they get in other words, how did that subdivision get to that point?
Well, I think what happens is the PUD was developed in terms of where these where you're going to build homes and where you have commercial property. Now in a PUD, you've got commercial property. Describe PUD PUD.
As a plan unit development, which you which is a neighborhood.
Basically you get a set of regulations, zoning regulations in a neighborhood. Well, most of the time on PUDs commercial property you can't build a gas station. But somehow this got approved for a gas station through the Planning Commission and a city commission. So they're a little bit shocked to find out.
Then that happened three years ago.
That happened a number of years ago, and so the city commission was told basically, you guys, approve this, and so now they're a little bit they're a little bit hurt about that. And then now the only thing they can do, only recourse they have is to voluntarily get the developer and the neighborhood and the Circle K Corporation together in a room and say, listen, you know we
need to we need to change this. And so that's what they're going to do, and they've they've put Curtis Richardson as the sort of point on trying to get.
This worked out.
Which so we'll have to see it's It's interesting because we see a lot of this now with the development and neighborhoods, and I think that this process we're we talked about property rights, you know in the previous segment. This is where you start talking about, Yes, you have a property right.
To put commercial you know, commercial.
Venture there, but there's some regulations that you can put in place to keep what goes there. And this is where that's running up against. And so as development moves forward, like there's there's a big brew ha about the the the gas station that is being put at ox Bottom Road and Thomasville Road. And for that one, I think the developer said, if I can't build a gas station on a six lane commercial.
Road, where am I going to build it? It's a great argument.
Well, on the other side of that is do you really want to put a gas station in a neighborhood next to you know, homes. But if you look at some examples there case stores in Colarna States.
You know, I want to talk let's pick up because I think there's an argument to be made that the term convenience store may not apply to some of these types of places anymore. So we'll discuss that next Steve Stewart with us Tellassireports dot Com. I Wanning Show with
Preston Scott. Final segment here Steve Stewart, Executive editor, Tallahassee Reports and Steve, we were talking about circle K, and I think broadly it's it used to be called a convenience store, a store of convenience where you would get some eggs and some milk, and some cold cuts and maybe a loaf of bread and just stuff that, oh, I need this, and you run down the store and you get it, maybe even some fresh fruit. That's just not the case anymore in most of those places, but
there are others. For example, Wah wah is coming into Tallahassee and anyone that's ever been there knows that's not your typical circle K.
Well, and yeah, when you talk about the convenience stores, it's like, you know, circle K's one, he's seven to eleven. And what has happened, I think, is it's become you see, some of these are just where you stop to get gas and you walk in and the model because of whatever, a lot of changes in the economy, trying to find people to work, you know, COVID. These the traditional convenience stores are becoming very transient in the sense that you know, they've got self this is like.
A little story.
You have self checkout, Yeah, and you don't really have a lot of good quote customer service. Well, as you mentioned, you start seeing these there's an opportunity. There's like people you know that are in the business of making money. See, well wait a minute, there may be an opportunity here.
And you start seeing these these new types of delivery systems, the new stores like Ahuahwah that actually employs a number of people, provides you know, custom food, and they're a cut above what you would what you would normally see. And again, this is the free market trying to address a need. And I think that's sort of where we're where we're headed.
But I think it's impacting what a community wants in their neighborhood.
Well, no, it is and a lot of times, and you see this at these convenience stores when you know they're open twenty four hours. People you know that sometimes this is where transit people hang out, you know, and you have these interactions with people stopping and get gas or somebody walking in and you look, you look on the crime incident report, and you see a lot of these convenience stores because of the nature of what they are.
There's not a lot of people there at six in the morning. You know where it is.
You know, when I'm pulling off to a conmedience store and I'm traveling, I'm looking for us something that looks busy, safe, safe, right, Yeah, And so that's what you see with these other, these other developments or these new new type of stores of huah wahs, the busy Bee, the buggies of the world down and it.
And I don't think you should.
I don't think people completely if you don't travel, you don't see this, don't understand what they offer. But I think it's going to be interesting. And there's a while wa being put up right at the corner of Thomasville Road to Maclay, so we'll get a we'll get a taste of that.
Let's broadly kind of back this whole thing out to maybe just for a couple of minutes here Steve broadly looking at what the city and maybe to whatever extent, the county kind of picks and chooses what what they're going to subsidize, what they're going to invest in, what they're going to not invest in, and it's just kind of interesting to see how the thing breaks down.
Yeah, I think you know, one of the things we're running into here in the city in the county is and we've seen this with the progressive elopment of labeling business and jobs basically is bad corrupt developers and doesn't offer good enough jobs. So we're going to vote against it.
So it's really a attack on the private sector. And one of the items on the city commission meeting last week which received no you know, I think you would only know about it if you read Talents reports because it's in our meeting briefs, is there was a vote five oz vote to subsidize a affordable housing development, so four million dollar development. The developer there is actually developer involved here and I believe he's at from out of town.
We're going to do a more in depth story on it and if past five oh, Commissioner Malae, who hates developers calls them corrupt, has found a developer that he likes and that's it, and that's because it is doing this developer is doing something that fits into his ideological profile affordable housing, and the taxpayers are going to subsidize that.
And so I think what happens is when you see things like this, it's.
Not about the developer, it's about an ideology. Because look, you can disagree with maybe how much a developer gets to subsidize if there is a subsidy subsidize a neighborhood on the northeast side, you say, look, we shouldn't be doing this, but to go ahead and stretch that and to make these judgments about a developer being corrupt or we shouldn't be incentivizing developers to build housing.
And again, I'm sorry, Steve, but I just the use of that word to me is slanderous.
Yeah, I agree, and I think that you start you start to see that here.
In this community where they are slandering and they're.
Defaming businesses, and that's that's sort of the progressive approach here. And you look at their Twitter feeds and you look at their social media, and nobody is really responding to it. We are, we address it, but you can see the hypocrisy. Chmistiher Matlowe is I mean, is he's more consumed with having the majority on the City Commission than trying to move the city forward. And you know, hey, and he may and it may happen, and then we'll get to
see what his plan is. But again, commission malow is supported an incentive subsidy for developer, okay, and it's not so he's not against that. He's just against against any project that might he might disagree with. And so he'll have a huge decision with the CI with this this arts area. Right, Why are we supporting that that has no return on investment? Why isn't a nonprofit supporting the arts?
You know? And so we'll you know, again, it'll be.
Good fodder and actually it'll be great information to get out before the election to let people know where they stand on these things.
Interesting because when you look at the things that Commissioner Matt Lowe is personally invested in, he's a businessman. He's a very successful businessman, and I'm happy for him because he's employing people. And yet he seems to find evil in others that are trying to do in different ways and forms. What he has done.
The local media in this community has allowed him to basically brand and law enforcement and the business community is being corrupt, and that's a shame.
Perhaps the good commissioner would be wise to spend maybe a little more time just kind of looking at his own business and what happens there. Steve. Good to see you, Thank you President. Oh the fun doesn't stop here. Find more on his vlog wufla FM dot com. Keyword Preston all right, thirty six minutes after the hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott could be with you this morning. Big stories in the press box, and they are they're large.
Supreme Court refusing to in state the student loan package that was nearly half a trillion dollars that Joe Biden wanted to push out. This is the second time the United States Supreme Court has said no. And what's fascinating to me. The Eighth Circuit said no and paused it because they knew it was going to get appealed. So the Biden administration rushes this to the United States Supreme Court.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred the application to the full Court, which denied it with zero dissents, meaning not one single member of the activist wing of the bench believes that Joe Biden has authority to do this, and he keeps doing it. He just keeps doing it. It's illegal, it's unconstitutional. You don't have the authorities stop it. He won't. People between the southern border and trying to pay off loans at the expense of all of us that people willingly
signed on the dotted line, they they signed. No one made anybody's take a loan out, no one was made to and yet they continue. Why because it buys them votes the Southern border invasion. Why because if they can get five hundred thousand illegal votes, they'll win. If they can get two hundred thousand illegal votes properly dispersed, they'll win. If the polling is even remotely accurate, and Kamala Harris in the lead in swing states, if it's Zach, they're
gonna win. But they have to win by cheating. Sorry, I know that that really rubs some people wrong. But there was cheating in twenty twenty enough to win probably, But I can't say that for sure. I can say there was cheating that I know. There are too many questions. Will that never mind? I got to stop there. Kamala Harris now wants a border wall. Isn't that the thing that she said was a medieval plan to appease some dude's ego. Now she says she's in favor of it.
Let me tell you what she's in favor of. She's in favor of letting the parts to the wall rust and sit unconstructed. She's not building a wall more unlying. In just a moment, Democrats, this is connected to the Southern Border Wire Democrats, quoting town Hall and Katie pavlichs Wire Democrats freaking out over Republicans' efforts to stop illegal aliens from voting. That should be as bipartisan as it gets.
We do not want to allow non citizens to vote, No matter what you think about an illegal immigrant status in this country, dreamers, whatever, they're not citizens. They can't vote. Democrats are absolutely going nuts. They're threatening that what is sacred to them. They're threatening to shut down the government to keep the Save Act from happening, which is nothing more than keeping non citizens from voting. Why are they
so intent on allowing non citizens to vote? Hello? McFly, McFly, think Afghanistan new law keeping women from showing their face and speaking in public. Yeah, that's worked out. Well, you stop that. Jose's over there, should be ashamed of yourself. And the grocery store chain Stop and Shop. They're not going to sell heaters anymore. Huh. I didn't know CVS and Walgreens stopped selling SIGs, but that's the case. Forty one passed the hour. I just have to share what's
coming next? All right, forty two past the hour? This is really this is so telling. You probably don't know a whole lot about the Senate race of Montana's John Tester. He's a Democrat nominee, and he's running against his worst enemy, his worst nightmare, Tim Sheehey, former Navy seal Republican running in Montana. Tim's got some game back. In twenty twenty, John Tester tweeted this out. My friend Kamala Harris is a proven fighter and an excellent pick for Vice president.
As VP, I'm confident she will continue to fight for working families across the country. Look forward to supporting her and Joe Biden in November. That's what he posted. In August of twenty twenty, here's what he says. Now, I'm not going to endorse for the president, and I'll tell you why two reasons. Number one, I'm focused on my race, and number two, folks have wanted to nationalize this race. This isn't about national politics. This is about Montana. He's
not endorsing you did in twenty twenty. It was okay in twenty twenty. Here's what Tim, she said on in response John Tester skipping Kamala Harris's DNC coronation will not hide the fact he launched her political career by recruiting her to the US Senate and votes with her radical agenda ninety five percent of the time, Mike drop. Tim Wall's facing more accusations of lying. Let's add it up now.
When he first ran for Congress, he touted on his website that he received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce in nineteen ninety three for his work with a business community. Problem is that, in a letter received November one, two thousand and six, when he was running for office, then president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce wrote, and I quote, we researched this matter and confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from
the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. I'm not going to draw a conclusion about your intentions by including this line and your biography. However, we respectfully request that you remove any reference to our organization, as it could be considered an endorsement of your candidacy. It should be pointed out, however, that the US Chamber of Commerce has endorsed your opponent. When hasn't him Walls lied about his background? That's the
bigger question. It's no longer about when has he It's about when has any everything he says has been inflated, manipulated or just flat made up. Don't doubt me, and I will get to this more next week. He is the first real, true example of a Manchurian candidate this country has seen, and I will give you evidence of that next week. On this program we come back road trip idea and an invitation to help raise some funds
for a good cause. Little golf tournament coming up that you can sign up for that and more still to come. Forty six minutes after the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston's. There are two times of the year where there are a gazillion opportunities play a little golf and raise some money for charities and good causes. Obviously, the
spring is one and the fall is the other. I personally love the fall because you don't have the pollen and the pollen in the air, but anytime I can tee it up and play golf, I'm all about it. So I try to make you aware of things that I think are worth supporting, and one is Baby Ruth Baseball. The Baby Ruth Baseball Alumni Foundation for the area is holding its fundraising golf tournament on October fourteenth at Golden Eagle, and so they're signing up players teams to support the event.
And the October fourteenth event will be a one o'clock shotgun start, six o'clock dinner, tournament, awards, Hall of Fame inductions as well. It's a pretty big deal and only costs you buck twenty five to play one hundred and twenty five bucks. Team sponsorship is five hundred. If you want to just go to the dinner, that's twenty bucks. But yeah, and they've got sponsor opportunities and just they'll accept donations. If you want some information, Babe Ruth Alumni
Foundation at gmail dot com. And again that's Babe Ruth Alumni Foundation at gmail dot com. You can also follow them on Facebook learn more there or TLBR Alumni dot com is the website where I'm sure you can get some information about the golf tournament as well, so just a little shout out to those who like to play little golf. There'll be in a coming up the end of September that I will be taking part into help raise some funds for Team Challenge, one of our clients
at Ease Tree Service. Tell you more about that in the days to come as well. We're gonna do it again. We're gonna give you a suggestion for a roadie and a stop along the way wherever you're traveling across the fruited Plain. We've got an idea for you. Now, obviously this is this is a shotgun approach. We just we we look at the entire country and dig try to find some spots that are literally off the beaten path as well as on and a lot of these come from Unique America. It's a book that I got off
Amazon dot Com that is just spectacular. It's a tiny little it's like a I don't know, it's maybe a five by five books six by six, and it's it's a hardback and it's strange, unusual and just playing fun a trip through America. And we take you now to Shoshone, Idaho. Did you know about the Shoshone Ice Caves? It's a natural wonder, amazing unusual. You'll find ice here in the middle of the summer. Wooden bridge leads through the cave to a natural dead end wall where the ice is
extra thick. It's the big payoff out of season ice. And there is a website dedicated to it Shoshonececaves dot com. One of the natural wonders of the world, it says, and it'll it'll give you the history of the place. Let you play in your adventure. And I mean when they've got a website dedicated I'm thinking, okay, this is because it's only got one page. My book only one page. But they've got a website, they've got some YouTube videos
of some news reports on it. They professionally guided cave tours. Thirty foot high, ten ton statue of chief was Shocky, noted chief of the Shoshone tribe. They've got the large green dinosaur, cleverly named Dino. Dino the dinosaur famous with young visitors. So if you're looking for something kind of fun, it's on Highway seventy five, Shoshone, Idaho. Bet you didn't know about it, but you know what, here's the thing. I bet somebody's gonna email me and said they've been there,
we come back. Doctor Bob McClure, the James Madison Institute, my guest on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Here we go a third hour. Go figure, time flies when you're having so much fun? And boy are we having fun. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is Show fifty two twenty six. That's Hose over there in Studio one. I am here in Studio one. B enjoining me in studio is the head of the James Madison Institute. Doctor Bob McClure joins us, and sir, how are you. I'm
doing great, Preston, how are you, sir? Good? You're looking at some results. They're pretty hard looking at some things. Yeah, yeah, I want to get to that, But first I want to start unpacking. I'd promised our listeners that we would go through just quickly the constitutional amendments that are on the ballot. First, let's just back up a second. I, for one, am really grateful that we've at least moved
it to sixty percent plus, But are you satisfied? I feel like it's still too easy to change our kind institution.
Oh yeah, the state of Florida has a really unique history of its constitution. We are in our state you can change the constitution more and more ways, in more different ways than any other state in the country, and so it's fascinating to watch, but it's also a little frightening. I mean, we've had over about one hundred and forty four times we've amended our constitution in our nation's in our state's history, which is crazy, and so it is concerning.
I'm glad the threshold is sixty percent. Even for good things. I think there has to be a sense of a people showing up to vote and make a difference. But b it can't simply be a fifty plus one. And in our state, you see, we have seen preston a lot of out of state money come in to drive and we're seeing it, particularly in two amendments this year, to drive turnout, particularly during presidential election years, which this one is. And Jami's done some polling on that. We
can talk about that later. But yes, I think the State of Florida needs to look really, really hard because this is our state's constitution.
Right, the governing document.
Right, this is the governing document. So this is and yet we can amend it in more ways than any other.
State in the country. Amendment one partisan elections for school board members. I mean everything's partisan.
It is it is, and certainly you and I living in this town know that to be true better than many folks.
It is.
I think a push particularly in some counties that may be a.
Little bit more red, like a Collier.
County, are down in and around Naples, Polk County, where Lakeland is, some counties in the western Panhandle to you know, there's so much debate taking place for school boards currently today, and you know, whether it's curriculum or you know, teacher pay or evaluations, the list goes on, and so there's a push there to say, all right, where do you stand on this from a party affiliation, and then there can be a real debate as opposed to running as
nonpartisan and you kind of obfuscate your way to victory.
Obviously, everything we're going to talk about here, folks, can be found on the JMI website and you just go there and you'll find information. There's things like amendment to the right to fish and hunt. You know, I, on one hand, am like, you know, some of this stuff just doesn't belong in the Constitution. But it just doesn't matter at this point. You're ideologically almost driven to have to take a stand on certain issues one way or the other. Your thoughts on Amendment two.
Yeah, I mean what I mean, You're absolutely right, that's the great debate. I mean, we at the James Madison Institute believe in limited government in free markets. So there is an answer that says, I'm voting no on all of these because they do not belong in the Constitution. But then two years ago, I think it was two years ago, you know, there was an amendment on the ballot that it would require a sixty percent or sixty five percent passage rate to ever impose an income tax.
In the state of Florida.
So am I going to vote no on that simply out of principle because I don't want that in the constitution. You know, you and I may not be around in twenty years, and so who knows who will be governing the state of Florida.
Then, So those are the kinds of things.
And so to the point of this right to hunt and fish, The bottom line is other states, lots of blue and some purples, have imposed some limitations on citizens' abilities to hunt and fish at state parks and different places like that. And when I say state parks, I'm not talking about you know, just you know, your neighborhood park.
I'm talking about you know, different places around the state that have thousands of acres where people can draw lots and get get in a lottery to deer hunter designated locations. All right, Right, So, so is that something to oppose because in twenty years, are we going to have a state government that really wants to put limits on hunting and fishing. I mean, that's that is the struggle here.
We're going to get to the big ones next. Don't leave us, Doctor Bob McClure with us from JMI on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA. All right, the big ones that everyone will be voting on. And and I know, doctor McClure, I personally am am
probably fighting against the prevailing current. But Amendment three, the personal recreational use of marijuana, obviously, I don't think it belongs in the Constitution in any way, shape or form, right, But your thoughts.
There, We're not the first state to look at this, and other states have actually passed at Washington State, Colorado.
What have we seen as results.
Well, this is what we're seeing, you know, JMI. This is not, you know, an issue that JMI handles traditionally, But what we are seeing is an increase in petty crime in those states. We are seeing an increase in as a gateway drug so that you then moved to other drugs. You know, we already have a massive fetanol crisis in this country. Legalizing marijuana for recreational use, this is i' McClure talking. I think is a dangerous precedent based on the data that we have in other states.
Now at JMI and if you go to James Madison dot org you can get our amendment guide. We say, if you vote pro, this is what you're gonna get. If you vote con this is what you're gonna get. It is a nonpartisan, down the line discussion, but as a husband and a father, and as someone who has seen the data from these other states, it is very concerning and I personally will will not be voting for the legal legalization of marijuana for recreational use. And there's
tons of money behind it. Uh, there has been a huge industry. It is a huge industry. There's tons of money that has that has come in from out of state.
Uh.
There has lately been some pushback by a number of folks, particularly in central and South Florida, who are opposing it.
Uh.
It's polling. We've done some polling. It's pulling in the low sixties right now, but it was actually polling in the mid to high sixties earlier. So the discussion, the question is will it hit that sixty percent threshold threshold?
And the answer is, we'll see. There's no doubting that legalizing it will make it more readily available. Just as legal alcohol makes it more readily available for teenagers and for people that are minors, the same thing's going to happen with this. Let's let's switch and talk about amendment for just p I could say one more thing about there. I do understand the question of you know, felt, you know, small time felon, these small time misdemeanors, just wearing you know,
our police force and all. But the way to address those.
Issues, you know, a sixteen year old, because JMI has worked on you know, criminal rehabilitation, a sixteen eighteen year old, even a twenty one year old, he gets busted for some marijuana, it's still paying for it at forty I get that. I get that we all have family members and friends who are still paying for stuff stupid decisions they made as youngsters. But this is not the way to address that. There are other ways to address those issues.
Amendment four. Just quickly, I want to thank you. Your team made an adjustment in your voter's guide or I don't want to say voter's guide, but in your briefing on the amendments. Yeah, because the Amendment four is as it states at the very beginning, no restrictions on abortion right. There are no time restrictions, there are no any other thing. It's full of ambiguity. I guess I'm just shocked that the State Supreme Court allowed it to go on the ballot.
Well, I'm very shocked that the State Supreme Court allowed it to go on the ballot, given their history of decision making in this particular area.
Again, JMI doesn't.
Focus on social issues, but if you want to learn about the amendment, you can go to James Madison dot org to look at the pros and the cons. The challenge they is it is so general, Preston, Uh, that viability and the ability of a doctor to make a decision is there.
There really are no limits there. We're not even defining doctor or healthcare.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not. So that is the challenge there with this. I think you know, whether you're pro choice in pro life, and I know you have listeners on both sides of this issue. We all have family members and friends on both sides of this issue. Again, just like Amendment three, Amendment four is not the way
to address this particular issue. It is so general and so broad, it's going to create chaos and it's going to create more trouble and angst and anger on both sides because they're just gonna be in court all the time trying to sort this all out. So for that reason, uh, you know, again, it's polling very similar to the marijuana one in the low sixties.
It's gonna be We'll have to see what happens there. More with doctor Bob McClure. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute, an embargoed poll. I bragged about the fact that I honored the embargoed. Well, do congratulations for doing the right thing. That's kind of credit for that. Yeah, you get credit for not robbing the bank too, right. I mean, we're gonna have it's low hanging fruit these days. Tell me about the poll. Jam.
I did a poll a couple of weeks ago where we uh and it was a legitimate field poll, surveying thousands of people in the state of Florida, and we covered everything from the presidential election to the issues that most concerned Floridians to even interesting things like do you prefer the Atlantic or the Gulf? I mean, it was just really really different kinds of things because our state is so diverse and there are so many people moving here a day.
Can I ask you a question from a methodology standpoint, did you throw in questions like Atlantic golf to just kind of take the temperature down a little bit in the polling and let people know this isn't an adversarial thing. We just want to know what you think about a myriad of topic.
Absolutely, that's absolutely one reason we did that, because people are so skeptical of polls and people don't want to give out information, which I totally understand. You know how many spam calls do we get a day on our phone? Right?
So, uh, but it was fascinating to watch the the Why'd you do it?
Because we wanted to know what the issues were that Floridians care about, okay, And we wanted to know legitimately where Governor Scott was in his race, and where Donald Trump was in his race, and and at the and and Kamala Harris. So we you know, we're all about finding out the truth. And you mean Senator Scott, what did I say, Governor? Yeah, Senator Scott, Yeah, they do. My apologies happens to me. Yeah, So we're all about
finding out the truth for the state of Florida. And in the the data also allows us to move policy at JMI that positively affects Floridians. So, for example, one of the things is we have universal school choice. How many parents actually know what that means and whether.
They can use it or not? Okay?
And so what we found was it was about sixty percent new, It was about seventy percent that knew that we had it, but only about fifty five percent new. Like, what does this mean for me and my children. And so there's an education component that comes with Florida now having universal school choice. So that's one example. The other example is what are the issues that matter most of Floridians. It is the economy, it is housing affordability. Those are
the two most important issues. There are other issues, immigration matters, those kinds of things, but the two biggest ones are the economy and housing affordability, which are closely linked, right inflation, being able to afford kind of one's version of the American dream. And so they were polling in the seventies in terms of the economy and being able to afford a house, buy a house, keep a house, pay for a house. So those are the two top issues. And
then you look at the Senate race. In the president's race, Rick Scott is running about three to four percent ahead of his opponent.
That's all currently.
Yeah, that's interesting, But in Florida, Preston, you know, you think about it. Barack Obama won Florida twice, Rick Scott won Florida twice and then one at a third time for the US Senate. Rohnda Santis won it once, Trump won it in twenty sixteen. Once in every one of those races, the difference was less than one percent out of six seven eight million votes cast. So in Florida, if you're up three to four percent, Trump is up currently four to five in Florida.
That is that's a shall we say a bloodbath? Is it too soon? Can say that?
So in Florida, because it's really, I mean, Florida is trending red. It is moving more deeply read and you can see it on policy.
Voter registration, voter registration.
One of my favorite people, Susan McManus, one of my favorite political scientists from University South Florida. Great lady who's now retired, about ten years ago, said the Republican Party was in danger of becoming a third party behind Democrats.
And no Party Affiliation MPAs.
Now the Republican Party, to your point, is a million registrations ahead of the Democrats, and it's actually the Democratic Party in Florida that is in danger of becoming a third party behind NPA MPa is a huge registration, huge vote here in Florida. All to say, Rick Scott's up three to four points, Donald Trump's up four to five here in the state. In recent history, that is considered trouncing your opponent here in Florida.
Interesting. Thanks as always, Thanks for having me my friend, doctor Bob McClure back with us next month and every month thereafter. We will always have things to talk about. No shortage twenty eight past the hour. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Getting a lot of feedback our visit with doctor Bob McLure, a lot of people saying and yeah, the amendment process is way too easy. Imagine what would have happened if the Florida Chamber hadn't
pushed the sixty percent threshold. You can argue that we need to make it tougher. I don't know if we'll get there, but we can. We can certainly try. They're certainly legislative things that need to happen. But again it goes back to the argument there are things that are in the Constitution that just shouldn't be there, that those are things that should be handled by the legislative process. And when you put it in the constitution, ask the pregnant pigs. It's in there, and it's likely not going
to leave. And when you look at the number of times we've amended the US Constitution and compare it to what's happened inside the state. It's horrifying, it really is. Anyway, the big stories in the press box this morning, Supreme Court not reinstating the student loan relief program. To me the big story, there is no dissent. Brett Kavanaugh sent it up to the full court. Do you want to consider this? No one said yes, not one of the
nine justices. That is a just a slap in the face to Joe Biden, the Department of Education, and everybody that wants taxpayers to pay for everybody else's signature on a loan. It's a stunning rebuke. Kamalin now supports the wall. Is she gonna wear a maga hat? Next? Is Kamala gonna put on a maga hat? I mean She's carrying around a bunch of Donald Trump's proposals. All of a sudden.
Democrats are going ballistic trying to stop the Save Act, which would prevent illegals from voting in the election and future elections. It makes sense if you ask, I would say it would poll at better than eighty percent. Should non citizens be allowed to vote in our country's elections? I predict eighty percent would say no. To that simply framed question, just like that, should people that are not citizens of this country be allowed to vote in these elections?
But yet Democrats are fighting it. Why it goes back to the loan program. They want to give money away to buy votes. They want to get people into the country to buy votes. Look who lets you in? We did Democrats, Hey us, we did it. So they're going nuts trying to stop any change in who is eligible to vote, anything that shores that up, that leaves no wiggle rumor ambiguity. You got to be a citizen. I mean, really, is that too much to ask Afghanistan? Yeah, this worked
out well. They're now banning women from allowing their face to be seen in public. They are banning women from speaking in public, and they are wagging their finger at anyone who dares judge them for that. I'm not judging them for that. I'm just telling you that's what you get with Islam. Forty minutes past the hour