Senate Candidate
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
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How are you? All right, Charlie. So I ran for state senate because our government doesn't work well. There's a lot of waste. There's a lot of bloat. And yet the things that you're advocating about going against are what help people. Everybody here is... Everybody's here because they support freedom. Because as you say, we want a freer market, we want a freer place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And yet these policies of destroying the Department of Education, which I'm a teacher for, hurts our ability to take power in the marketplace. It just adds to the few rich people owning all of us. Right now in America, the top 0.01% have an average $600 million of wealth. The bottom half have an average $7,000.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And by showing the Department of Education, the Center for Budget, the Consumer Protection Bureau, that is actively helping those rich people take all of our money. Prove me wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They didn't. No, we have a bad oligarchy. But Trump is increasing our oligarchy. He had Jeff Bezos. He had Tim Cook. He had the richest people on earth who have more money than the bottom half of the country combined sitting right behind him. Hold on a second. And Elon Musk is helping those regulations get destroyed so they can take even more power.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah. Because helping other... Whoa. Helping other people... Excuse me. Helping other people helps us. I'm a teacher. When other people don't match our economy, when they can't participate in it, everybody's hurt by that. So...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You're right. We should help ourselves more.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The bloated Department of Education, you are right. We're spending way too much money on administration. That money needs to be going to funding school meals. That needs to be reducing class sizes. You sound like a Doge advocate, man. No, because Doge is not doing that. By destroying the Department of Education, they're not funding Title I classrooms.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If we funded Title I classrooms with the money that we promised, every single classroom would get a paraprofessional, which would help my students immensely. They are failing. And as you were saying before that Florida is the most equitable state, it's not. The richest students get $2,000 more to their schools every year than the fourth quartile students.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Look, I can't say that because I don't know what those administrators do. I think we have way too much money going to them. Hold on. You're a teacher. Time out. I got to interrupt you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They help us out a lot. I mean, do you think I could manage my classroom? Yes, absolutely. You are wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It could be reduced, but destroying the Department of Education is not the answer, because then you hurt the American economy by not allowing people to build up their human capital.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So here's the problem. The state of Florida introduced a bill. My opponent introduced a bill to provide $7,000 for school choice in Florida. That's government waste. A lot of that money is going to Disney, to cruises. That's increased waste. It's also every dollar that's taken out of the Florida public education system given to private families, 75% of that is going to families.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You're against school choice? 75%—I'm not against school choice as long as we fund education properly, but 75% of the money is going to families that can already afford an education, which means my students are getting $3 billion taken out of their education to go directly to the richest Floridians.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So we need money going to where it's needed, to school meals, to our teachers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So $3 billion is being taken out of the public education system and given directly to the people who can already afford a private education. For what reason? To help people get their private education.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's also the public taxpayer dollars that are put into public money, and they were given back to private individuals rather than going to the public system. It's their own money that's coming back. No, because you're advocating for the rich people stealing our tax dollars. Hold on. It's easy to say, like, the rich people, right? Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The 75% of the money that's going to private education— How do you define rich, by the way? How much money a year is rich? If you can afford a private education, which is anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 a year, you are rich. And 75% of the money going to the private— Wait. And 75% of the money going— Half of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you can afford $40,000, you're richer than most people. Now, 75% of the money that is going from the public education system into the private system is going to those who can already afford private education.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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How many years a teacher has been an educator.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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At will is, what do you mean at will? For what cause? If you're a bad teacher. What do you mean by bad teacher?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, what do you mean by bad teacher?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So for cause, not at will. Yes, we should fire teachers for cause.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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In Hillsborough County alone, we're missing 1,200. See, I reject the premise. Across the state of Florida, there are 5,000 teachers. That's 50,000 students without an educator. You asked me a question. Let me finish.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yes, absolutely. And Florida has the 48th lowest average teacher pay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Because we have a Republican-controlled state for the past 30 years that are increasingly taking away money for teachers. But hold on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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On them passing, not actual outcomes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Because spending that money on helping people. Helps the entire economy. No, wait, wait. Let me finish. Helping people helps the entire economy. How has that worked? When you let people fall through the cracks, it destroys our economy. It's more expensive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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When you take away the Consumer Protection Bureau that helps $16 billion of scams go back to the American people, that helps our economy because then they can take place in the marketplace. What you're advocating for is to reduce the things that push people into the marketplace, to increase the barriers, and to destroy the freedom of our marketplace.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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One second. The federal government spending money based solely on tests hurts people because then we don't get the money going to critical thinking, which your misinformation machine succeeds on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What is a woman? Oh, buddy. All right. So, we define gender as a set of preferences that you have. Excuse... Gender... Gender is a set of preferences that we have. Woman... Woman is a social construct that we've agreed upon. Typically, we imagine womanhood as makeup or whatever. It is... There is a difference between the word woman and being a biological female.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Woman is a social construct that we use. Listen for a second. I'm telling you what it means. Woman is a social construct. We agree on these set of preferences. If I tell you that I'm a man, it's because I want you to know that I like these set of preferences. If I tell you I'm a woman, it's because I want you to know that I agree with these set of preferences. Can men give birth?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Can men or can males? Because males can't. Listen for a second. If you listen to your bio professors, you'd understand there's a difference between biology and what we think about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So you want my kids to not have a teacher? We'll go to the next question. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.