Not every local government in Florida wants to cooperate. Let's just be honest with that. But they know the mayors know if they don't, then I can suspend [mayors] and remove them from office [if they don't cooperate with DHS]. And so they don't want to see that. So we have real teeth in our law to ensure that there's compliance with that. So it's a much different situation. (15:56–15:58)
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Asserts that Ron DeSantis has the authority to suspend and remove mayors from office for non-cooperation with DHS.
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