At a press briefing last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defended an education-related amendment.
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00:00 I appreciate, sir, that regarding Amendment 4, the measure reads, "This amendment does not require the change of parental notification."
00:10 That's not consent, exactly. You made the point. How deceptive is that?
00:15 A parent needs to provide a notarized letter to the physician.
00:18 That's not what it says. That's not what it says.
00:20 But that is the law, right? And that will remain the law?
00:23 No, that will trump Florida state law on that. They're doing that.
00:27 There's a difference between consent and notification.
00:30 Notification is after the fact. The consent is obviously a conditioned precedent.
00:35 They did that because they know going after parents' rights is a vulnerability.
00:40 And they tested this with millions of dollars to try to get people. So they did that.
00:45 Now, don't be fooled, though. That is severing the parental consent for minors.
00:52 It does it because it's written so broadly to just take out the notification, which is different than consent, is not going to cut it.
01:01 So I think people that look at that and really understand what's at play here will do it.
01:06 But here's what I would also tell Floridians.
01:08 When these things get on the ballot, if it's confusing to you, you're talking about amending the Constitution.
01:15 This is not something that can just be changed willy-nilly.
01:18 If they're confusing you, if they're not defining these terms and they don't define those terms, just vote no on it.
01:25 And that's on any subject matter.
01:27 If they can't provide you something that's clear and concise where you know 100 percent of how this thing is going to be done,
01:35 then it's not something that's worth putting into the Constitution.
01:39 And that's one of the things like we looked at this marijuana.
01:42 The marijuana one is written so broadly, you are not going to be able to restrict where people use it.
01:50 And it's going to cause -- because I think there's some voters that really use it and they like it, whatever.
01:58 Most voters do not use it.
02:00 But there's some that are like, look, if someone wants to do -- but understand, your life will be impacted by this.
02:05 It will change the quality of life in our communities.
02:09 You will smell it when you're walking down a lot of these streets, particularly in our urban areas.
02:14 We've seen what's happened in Denver and some of these other places.
02:17 I think this amendment is the broadest amendment yet.
02:21 And I think it's basically going to green light marijuana usage in all these different parts of the state where we don't want that to happen.
02:30 That is not good for families.
02:32 It's not good for elderly.
02:34 It's not good for creating an environment.
02:37 And here's the thing.
02:39 The state of Florida is doing well.
02:42 We have all these people who will pick up and move to come here.
02:46 There's many more that would like to live here, partially because -- I mean, you saw this, I think, sometimes like some of these pictures speak a thousand words.
02:56 You had videos where these pro-Hamas protesters were shutting down bridges and streets all across this country.
03:05 What happened when they tried to do that in Miami?
03:08 They got their butt dragged off the street like they should have.
03:11 [Applause]
03:18 So let's just be clear about this, and let's just understand that, again, that would be put in the Constitution.
03:25 So someone walking by an elementary school, just sitting there, toking up, like that's somehow okay?
03:31 How is that good for the state of Florida?
03:34 If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
03:37 You know, I have credibility on this because I implemented the medical marijuana amendment.
03:42 It had not really been implemented, even though it had passed previously.
03:46 I did it.
03:47 I implemented it.
03:48 There are people that have these cards.
03:50 You know, some of them do not have really truly debilitating.
03:54 We know how that works.
03:56 That is what's happened.
03:58 But I did that.
03:59 I see these stores in all parts of the state.
04:02 Do we really need to have, like, ten times more of that than we do?
04:07 No, we don't.
04:08 So I would just say, and understand on that amendment too, you know, people aren't putting tens of millions of dollars behind that out of the goodness of their heart.
04:16 They are going to make a lot of money if that amendment passes.
04:19 And so you'd be making some companies very, very rich.
04:23 Thanks, everybody.
04:24 God bless.