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own Jean Valentino. Welcome to the

wakeup call, Jean.

Glad to be with you, Jeff. Thanks for

having me.

Like me, you served eight years as a

county commissioner. You know how you

know about how much fun that is. But uh

what made you decide to jump in this

race, Jean?

Well, thanks for having me. First of

all, Jeeoff, I didn’t need the job, as

you know. I wanted the job. It was

literally a calling to step back into

the fray. Uh, I I I’ve been a resident

in this community for over 35 years. Uh,

I’ve been a successful businessman long

before I became county commissioner with

you.

And frankly, I want to give back to the

community and that was the calling. I

see a lot of things. One thing I know

for sure, Donald Trump needs his

backside protected. And with the absence

of Matt Gates, who fell on the sword for

Don for Don Donald Trump, I I plan on

doing the same. The difference between

me and D and Matt Gates might be that um

I know when to use the feather and I

know when to use the chainsaw.

Well, you got to Man, I’ll tell you

what. Sometimes you got to put the glove

the the hand in in a velvet glove, but

it’s got to be iron. It’s got to be

iron. Correct. So, let me ask you

something, Jean. Let’s just wave a magic

wand and say Gene Valentino, you won.

What will be your first three priorities

in Washington DC if you win? Well, let

me split it into two parts. On the

national level, I’m a total supporter of

Donald Trump. I support the MAGA agenda.

Uh the securing of the border comes

first. I was on the phone with a friend

of mine called Tom Hman who’s been a

guest on my Grassroots Truth Cast

podcasts and uh Tom said to me directly,

“Jean, we’re not waiting to the uh

inauguration on the 20th. We’re going

after boots on the ground right now.” He

said, I said, “I couldn’t be happier.”

He said, he even reached out to me and

said, “Listen, you got any former ICE uh

employees or Border Patrol type folks

who are uh demoralized and feeling bad

about the last four years? Have them get

to me. I want to bring them back into

the fray.”

Right on. Well, so on the local level,

what would be your three top priorities?

Well, just on the national level, I

don’t want to make light of the fact

that the b this the wall comes first.

Yes. mass deportations and criminal

actions of import against those illegals

that have been bringing the fentinol and

killing our American citizens, raping

our ladies and uh and taking advantage

of our children in this uh immigration

of all the all the uh uh children we

can’t get our hands on. known right now

on the national level, Jeff, is over

300,000

known terrorists that are in your

backyard and mine and we can’t find

them. That’s number one. On the local

level,

we got a major crisis created by Jimmy

Petronis. It’s one of the reasons I got

in the race.

Okay. He as CFO is head of the um

financial aspects of the state including

the insurance.

The insurance crisis in this state rests

solely in his lap. He has received over

$2 million of funding from insurance

lobbyists for his campaign. And he has

turned around and uh promoted and

supported uh legislation that denies

your right and mine to sue the insurance

companies when they fail to go settle

the claim with you in a timely manner or

deny the claim uh completely. This

insurance crisis is something I know

about. Before I came to town 35 years

ago, Jeff, I used to teach the insurance

licensing course. Oh.

I brought the rookies in through the

insurance department that wanted to be

licensed agents in the state of

Connecticut. I know insurance cold. I

have an insurance solution not only for

the state of Florida, but for the

nation. It will be through the repeal,

the revocation or revision of the

McCarron Ferguson Act going back to the

60s. Okay. There is a solution to this

insurance crisis and you’re talking to

the guy who’s going to deliver it, Gene

Valentino for United States Congress.

Well, Gan, that is an issue and it’s a

it’s a very very important issue at the

state. I I’ve had Michelle Salsman on.

I’ve had Don Gates on. That was a

centerpiece of his platform in in his

successful bid for the state senate. So,

I know that’s a big issue, but I want to

now get to a I mean, I know that’s a

huge issue here locally. I know it going

door to door

through all 50 states, Jeff. The the

state can only go so far. Federal

intervention is now needed to solve the

insurance crisis.

Man, I whatever we could do because I

know this here in Florida, we’re paying

the highest the highest more than

California, more than more than the

Midwest with the tornadoes. But I want

to talk about how we cut spending, Gene.

I mean, I’ve asked every candidate

that’s come on the wakeup call this

question. How do we cut spending in DC

in order to balance our budget and pay

off our $37 trillion national debt? How

do we do it?

Just yesterday on Fox News, from his

lips to God’s ears, uh Ron Johnson said,

“Let’s take the spending back to 2019.

If we go back to the spending level of

2019 based on the current revenue

projections, we will have a balanced

budget.

For the first time in history in about

19 years, going back to Clinton, we have

not had a balanced budget. I don’t care

if it was Democrat or Republican. We

need a balanced budget. The citizens

deserve a balanced budget. You don’t

spend money you don’t have. in just this

last year, right? How many billions of

dollars into Ukraine?

Yeah, we’re going to get to that.

That didn’t come through Congress, Jeff.

That was a unilateral effort by by

President Biden and it’s destroyed our

budget process.

Yeah, it really has. Well, we haven’t

had a budget process in a long time.

Everything’s done by continuing

resolution, omnibus bills packed with a

bunch of pork and both part. I mean,

look, I’m a Republican my whole life,

Gene, since I turned 18. Ronald Reagan

was the president. I’m a Republican, but

I’m not a Kool-Aid chugging dummy

Republican. when Republicans are just as

addicted to spending as Democrats.

They’re just not quite as bad and at

least they’re at least they’re honest

about it. But here’s the problem,

though. Here’s the problem. And it’s I

mean, it sounds good. But we’ve got a

trillion dollars a year for defense,

very close to that in the last NDAA.

We’ve got a trillion dollars just on the

on the debt service on the national

debt. And then you’ve got 1.4 for

Medicaid, I’m sorry, Medicare and Social

Security. So, you’ve got very little

wiggle room on all the discretionary

stuff. So, we’re spending about 6

trillion a year. You know this, Jean.

But we’re only taking in 4 to 4.2. So,

how do we really balance it without

cutting someone’s uh rice bowl?

Yeah. Well, like I said, take it back to

209.

There will be some cutbacks,

but how much did we spend in we in 2019?

We spent over 5 trillion in 2019

offset against the current projections

on revenue. We will be at a break even.

Okay. And that’s that’s where I I come

up with house budget. In fact, that’s

one of the committees I want to get on

is budget and finance because I know

this area well. You don’t spend money

you don’t have. That’s the bottom line.

No, I agree with you 100%. Now, that

leads me to kind of, you know, this is

my show so I can ask these questions.

But look, look, I’m 56 years old, Gene.

Look, I worked hard my whole life. Two

jobs, three jobs. I started when I was

14 years old at the commissary in

Yokohama Yakoska, Japan. $2.40 an hour.

Worked my whole life. Now, I’m coming up

on an age within 10 years I’m going to

want my social security. And as I like

to tell Jim, I’m not waiting till 67 or

full retirement. At 62, I’m going to get

my check. So, how do you save social

security, Gene, for someone like me

who’s counting on it, and I don’t want

to be told, well, we’re going to convert

it to an IRA or personal. How do you

save it? Because it’s really bankrupt.

It’s a Ponzi scheme right now.

Well, more of the Ponzi scheme money.

What was that? A Freudian slip.

Well, it was but truthful. You’re you’re

you hit the nail on the head that it’s

why I said it. The fact of the matter is

Social Security has been raided.

Yes. And if you just stop rating it then

the actual actuarial data shows you will

have the acruial uh what’s the unpaid

liabilities that are forthcoming. You’re

whenever you decide to take social

security that money’s got to be there.

That’s the unpaid liability today that

we got to put away as a nest egg. We

didn’t raid that social security

account. The Democrats did.

Right. $200 billion dollars into

Ukraine. Yeah. And I can’t figure out

where that money went. We didn’t even

talk about the vets, but one of the

programs locally, Jeff,

is I’ve just received 26 different um

supporters who’ve joined Gene

Valentino’s Veterans Coalition. These

are people who are on board with me with

the different armed services of this

panhandle, not just Escambia. and the

armed services folks from these

different uh uh uh divisions of our of

our military have stepped up and said

they’re supporting me because I’m

putting a plan in place to pick up where

Jeff Miller and I left off before you

came on as commissioner and when I was

commissioner we Jeff Miller came to me

as congressman and that was the start I

think it was 20 2012 or so for the VA

clinic up on 98. the VA clinic needs to

be that clinic’s there because of me and

Jeff Miller and we got hot with the um

with the uh federal government because

it was a half measure. It was a half

loaf. They did some medical clinic and

outpatient service. We need a full 24/7

urgent care uh emergency room, hospital

beds. Now, you want to merge it with the

other military establishments in the

area for efficiency. Sure, that’s part

of Doge. I’m on board with it. But if

you’re going to tell me that those

veterans have to wait six months to see

a doctor that’s unacceptable

and might commit suicide before they

even come through the door, then that’s

over the top for me. We’re going to fix

that. That’s the veterans are high on my

priority list. In fact, Jesus DJs is

nickname DJ Rivera met with me two days

ago, few days ago in Santa Rosa County.

We were at the Republican club. At the

Republican club, we uh uh heard his

story. Did you know DJ Rivera was in uh

solitary confinement as part of the

January 6th people just a few years ago

and he told his story like a man and

that man was beaten and brutalized and

and he was a patriot.

Yeah. Um Gan, I think on day one Trump

needs to pardon all the nonviolent

people that were that have been wrongly

prosecuted. I want to get to that in a

minute, but I want

Can I take it a step further if I may?

Not only pardon them. I want action when

I’m in Congress to go after the

wrongdoers who put him in jail in the

first place. We need a constitutional

amendment that that creates a felony,

criminal felony for anyone who steps out

of line and uses their weight and force

of office to take political advantage of

their political opponents. Well, there’s

been a lot of place in in government for

that.

Amen to that, Gene. And we, you and I

both know there’s been a lot of that

over the last four years. uh as our

puppet president has been strung along

and and and like a marionette uh led

around. But I want I want to talk just

briefly about Ukraine. So I’m hearing

from you that spot gets shut off. No

more billions to Ukraine, right?

No more billions to Ukraine that you

can’t account for.

It’s got to be part of a national policy

that makes sense and how we def help any

of our neighbors. But full time out.

Yeah.

We got a crisis here in the United

States. Yes. before we pee away money to

all these different countries and

allies, some of whom don’t even

appreciate us anymore.

Yeah. And they don’t pay their share.

And they’re not paying their share at

the UN.

I want Americans taken care of first.

Period.

No, that’s great. Yeah. I I think Gan,

you know about the Triumph Gulf Coast,

1.5 billion, and it’s been

transformational for the for the

counties of the panhandle. Now, you look

at 100 billion. I’ve heard different

estimates between 70 150 that we spent

in Ukraine. Imagine a Triumph Gulf Coast

type fund using that money around the

country. What could we have done? The

jobs we could have created the

infrastructure. It’s just it’s it’s a

waste of money. It’s not our fight and

we need to stop. And I’m glad to hear

you’re going to turn off the spot. Now

we but we’re running short on time. The

clock is my enemy. Jim, that’s my saying

here on this wakeup call. President

Trump has supported has has voiced his

support for deporting millions of

illegal aliens. I am assuming you

support that.

Every part of the MAGA agenda I support.

unequivocally, including the mass

deportation. I do have a compassionate

side of me for that two-year-old and

three-year-old who came over the line.

Yeah. That uh might fall into a special

provision where we take care of those

who really were victims coming over the

line and not part of a fraud. I’ll tell

you the opposite extreme, and I I know

Tom Hman’s on it. We got to go after I’d

rather not even say on the air what we

need to do. But we need to go We just

need to go after those 300 uh thousand

uh illegal terrorists that are in your

neighborhood and mine. We need to get

them out. When’s the next New Orleans

event going to resurface?

Exactly. Well, the Posi Kamatus Act, it

it precludes the use of US military

troops in the country. But I liked

President Trump’s uh definition of that.

He said, “Look, we’re it it’s been an

invasion and it has been at the border.

They’ve opened the gates and we have

been invaded.” So, it will be

interesting to see how that plays out.

But, I love the idea of the wall. I

think we should, you know, the thing

that kills me, Jean, you’re going to I

know this is going to drive you nuts,

too. The Biden administration right now,

they’re selling very expensive uh

materials that were going to be used for

the wall, pennies on the dollar. How

have they been allowed to do that, Gene?

How have they been allowed to do that?

There is executive order that gives the

president uh certain unilateral

authority to do things. It’s a blessing

and a curse. It was a blessing when

Donald Trump used it to get the wall

built.

It’s a curse when Joe Biden took it

down. Right. So, we’ve got that that is

an issue. However, Congress, which is

what my role is going to be, is to step

up and make sure good policies have

clear pathways absolutely

to success.

Bad policies need to be admonished and

put by the wayside. We need to get

behind Donald Trump because there was a

clear mandate from this nation.

Yes.

Anyone impugning that is um a

perpetrator of another fraud. They have

been doing it under the leadership of

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And uh

that’s why I signed a pack a a pledge

for term limits.

I like it.

I will I will run only three terms if

I’m allowed to return. And um uh I I

will stand by that. The the the same

thing applies. We need to really clean

house. It’s not only the elected

official, it’s three or four layers of

staff under them.

Oh god. Yeah. The deep state. We I wish

we had time to talk about that, Jean,

but we are running down on time. This is

Jean Valentino. This has been a great

interview. Jean, tell the listeners how

can they plug into your campaign? How

can they learn about you? What’s your

website? Uh, you got 20 seconds.

Okay. Thank you. Valentino for

Congress.com. Valentino Foongress.com

or my phone. I put it right out there.

850-3842055.

Get on board with our team. This is an

unprecedented election. I look forward

to being your congressman. Lead, follow,

or get the heck out of the way.

I like it. Gene Valentino, thank you for

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