There is a battle brewing within the Florida GOP after Senator Rick Scott indirectly called out Governor Ron DeSantis as Scott raised alarm bells about Florida being last in the nation economically. So we're going to first look at what Senator Scott had to say. He posted [00:00:18] this, he said, unfortunately, this morning's jobs numbers confirm what I've been sounding the alarm on for months and what many Florida families are already feeling. Florida is falling behind on jobs. We're losing tens of thousands of jobs every month and our unemployment is [00:00:33] behind the national average again. Something needs to change, there needs to be a relentless focus on growing our economy, recruiting more job creators and getting Florida back to work. All right, so Ron DeSantis has not commented on the jobs report as of yet. He has been [00:00:51] very busy though. Instead, he has been busy. looking at all the districts in his state and figuring out how he can gain them a little bit to his benefit. And he's been trying to jam through this new map and now he has to fight it in court. And you can tell because he posted [00:01:06] this on, I think on X, he says sign sealed and delivered and there's a picture of his new big beautiful map. And that's what we're dealing with across this entire country. It's so exhausting, so. Despite DeSantis' seeming disinterest in this topic, it does sound important [00:01:24] to me and probably to you. So let's dive into the details of what Rick Scott was even talking about. So while unemployment is up across the country versus the same time last year, Florida is the only state to see an increase from December to January, ticking up by another 0.2%. to [00:01:43] 4.5 % unemployment again, and gains were made in a few areas, but the majority of prominent industry sectors saw losses with the hardest hit being financial services, construction, and hospitality. Overall, Florida's unemployment rate is up by a total of 1 % versus last year, [00:02:01] and it has seen its jobless rate increase in five consecutive reports growing from 3.7 % in July to its current figure. And also Florida's jobless numbers are notably impacted by the closure of Spirit Airlines, so sad, which erased 04,800 positions from the state. While Spirit [00:02:23] has struggled to avoid shuddering for years, the rising jet fuel costs driven by Trump's war on Iran proved to be the final nail in the coffin. That's fun, leaving the company with no remaining way out of bankruptcy. It's just like the irony that this Trump war is what [00:02:39] finally did Spirit Airlines in. I don't know, it's really hard to mourn Spirit Airlines because it really was just like a terrible airline. But the reality is when these things go down, jobs are impacted, right? People lose their livelihoods because even a struggling airline [00:02:54] is still paying their existing workers something to be there. This is, I fear this is going to be something that we're we just get more used to. And we're gonna be talking about it later on the show in a different story. But Brett, this is like these numbers, this reporting, [00:03:12] it's all kind of all over the place because they don't have good people doing reporting anymore. But what are your thoughts on this? Yeah, there's a lot of different aspects of this. So I would say that what's great about being a senator is you can throw shade at the governor because you don't really have any You're one one hundredth of the voting populace [00:03:33] of the Senate. uh And you're one of two senators from that state. So you're not directly responsible for a lot of stuff that ends up getting back to your state. uh Yes, you can do carve outs and stuff. So you really the only thing you're doing is announcing your direct responsibility [00:03:51] for like getting concessions from federal budgets to open stuff in your state. And you can yell at the governor all you want, you can throw him shade cuz he's the one who's gonna get the flack when this state isn't doing well. And DeSantis, they're both rizzless limp wieners. [00:04:07] Like one of them Rick Scott looks like the bat boy on the cover of Weekly World News. And he's responsible for essentially, or his company's responsible for the biggest medic like proven settled Medicare fraud case in history. um And DeSantis tried to run for president [00:04:23] and just like ended up not having it. So um I like watching, I'm from California through and through and so we're just generally better than Florida. It's not as hot. um We have actual waves in the water. You don't have these giant red algae things because it's basically like [00:04:43] orca pee that makes the water so hot, I don't know. But yeah, I'm not a big huge fan of Florida, God bless them. But I love to see these two fight and I'm here for it. I think it's hilarious. Yeah, that was a lot of hate for Florida, but I'm not also gonna defend [00:05:01] Florida, not in defense of like California is obviously better than Florida. It's just better. But the water is not as cold in Florida, like the Atlantic and the Gulf. Yeah, I understand that. And listen, I will complain about it here a lot, but we do have genuinely better weather. [00:05:19] My wife's from Florida, every time she's like, wanna go back, she steps outside and she's like, that's right, it's too hot here. I do like a thunderstorm when the heat breaks, but good God, I do not wanna earn it with sitting in what feels like 700 degree water air. Yeah, [00:05:37] and this is a tangent, but my cousin's getting married in Florida this year in August. And I'm like, God, I live in Texas, it's already hot here, I get it. But you're gonna make me go to Florida in August? I don't. Like move your wedding, like when I got married in Texas, [00:05:55] I put it in November so that my Canadian cousins wouldn't melt once they got here. But like make us all go to Florida, that's fine, in August.