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Ron DeSantis: “We kneecapped ESG in the state of Florida.”

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Governor DeSantis Delivers Keynote Address at Yale University Buckley Institute Annual Conference

Published November 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:59

It used to be businesses would focus on returning value to their shareholders. Well, if you're going to engage in leftist activism, we're going to Fight back. So We kneecapped ESG in the state of Florida. We beat Disney and that whole skirmish. And now, you know what? These businesses don't want to mess with the left. They used to be scared of the left. (08:59–09:03)

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Asserts that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives have been significantly reduced in Florida.

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“We now have the lowest per capita debt of any place in the United States.”
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“We're ranked the number one economy in all 50 states three years in a row by both CNBC and by U.S. news & World Report.”
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“We've had more adjusted gross income move in to the state of Florida than has ever moved in to another American state over a similar period…”
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“Universal school choice, 500,000 students on scholarship, 400,000 in charter schools.”
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“50 year low in the crime rate.”
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“When they do the data centers, it takes up as much power as a city of 500,000 people.”
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“Conservative principles and conservative policies work, leftist policies and principles do not work.”
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“Every single parent in Florida can send their kid where any school they want to and they get money for scholarships if it's private.”
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“We have no more automatic deduction of union dues in the state of Florida.”
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“We were the first state to eliminate DEI from our public higher education institutions.”
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“All tenured professors [in Florida] must undergo review once every five years and can be terminated for poor performance.”
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“They were the first school in America to eliminate dei.”
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“I'm the only governor in America that has removed Soros funded prosecutors from office.”
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“We beat Disney and that whole skirmish.”
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“We've retired half of [Florida's debt] on my watch.”
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“No income tax in the state of Florida and the second lowest state tax burden in the country.”
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“We've been ranked number one now public, for 10 years, partially because since I've been governor, we have not allowed one penny of in state…”
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“I have never, since I've been governor, taken a poll about any individual issue.”
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“We were a one point state for 25 years.”
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“When I walked into the governor's office, we had 300,000 more registered Democrats in the state than Republicans.”
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“Today we have 1.4 million more Republicans than Democrats in Florida.”
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“We won Palm Beach, the first Republican to do that in 40 years.”
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“Europe did a mass migration that was legal, that was intentional and it's proven to be disastrous.”
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