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Ron DeSantis: “They were not willing to go as far as I wanted to last year…”

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Governor DeSantis Highlights Excessive Spending Uncovered by Florida FAFO Audits in Jacksonville

Published | Video Starts at 47:36

So now we have eliminated some of the occupational licensing, which was really just a barrier to entry, but we need to do more, and hopefully the legislature will do. They were not willing to go as far as I wanted to last year on the retrenching of some of this. But it's like, you know, a lot of governors, like, oh, they want as many appointments as possible, like patronage. I don't want that. (47:36–47:42)

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Asserts that the legislature did not fully support his efforts to reduce the number of appointments last year.

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