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Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

Bald Eagles Ep.18 - Guest Congressman Byron Donalds, Running For Florida Governor

Published July 30, 2026 | Video Starts at 49:14

I'm going give you a Corollary. Dog tracks, 10, 10 years ago. Yeah. Horse tracks or so. To me, I have no problem protecting it. I think that's all, well, fine and good. I want to protect those things. What I also want to make sure we do is you don't have the NIMBY wars then say your business is now ineligible. And I think that's totally wrong. I think that's wrong. And I won't stand for stuff like that. (49:14–49:25)

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Asserts intent to protect businesses from being declared ineligible due to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) conflicts.

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“Florida's electric grid right now is about 5 gigawatts of power access.”
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“I moved here at 17 to go to college. I went to FAMU in Tallahassee for three years.”
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“I transferred to fsu, spent three years at fsu, graduated from fsu.”
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“I worked in finance. So my first job out of college...was I started as a bank teller in this community bank called tib bank of the Keys.”
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“I moved into credit. Started in credit analysis, ended up managing the department a year later.”
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“I went and worked in medical settlements and insurance. We had a $4 billion universal life pool that I managed.”
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“I went to work at Wells Fargo Advisors. I became securities License.”
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“When I got elected to Congress, I had to sell the book back to my firm because you can't be a fiduciary while you're in Congress.”
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“I've analyzed every type of business that exists. Everything from a mom and pop to, quite frankly, auto repair shops, strip mall…”
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“I chaired the insurance and Banking subcommittee.”
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“I've had to hire people, fire people in various industries.”
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“When I got there, it was probably about a billion dollars worth of [universal life insurance policies]. And when I left, there was about 4…”
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“Florida's really built a playbook around disaster recovery.”
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“As long as you don't go past [FEMA's 50 rule], your permit should be automatic.”
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“During Hurricane Ian, Fort Myers beach was obliterated, completely destroyed.”
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“We got a company to deliver a perishable truck [to a food pantry during Hurricane Ian].”
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“Lee Health was out of water [during Hurricane Ian].”
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“Your license plate, you essentially rent that from the state, so it's state property.”
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“The shooter that wanted to kill President Trump at the golf club over in Palm Beach, how they tracked him down that fast? These license…”
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“There was a deputy that was killed, I believe it was in Jacksonville. They tracked him down into North Carolina using license plate readers.”
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“We just did a reauthorization of FISA 702, the FISA program.”
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“What we said in the House version was anybody that abuses the system or uses the system intentionally outside of its purpose should be…”
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“Somebody willfully abused the system [702 surveillance].”
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“The scope is for police work. The scope is for apprehending criminals, tracking criminals.”
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“Water management districts are tasked with protecting the aquifer, water releases, floodplain management, etc. That's what our water…”
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“You cannot build a hyperscaler if you don't meet those two criteria.”
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