Hi friends, Gene Valentino and welcome back to another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. We’re

with Ryan Kennedy, chief operating officer at Florida Citizens Alliance.

It’s a Florida based oper 501c3 operation. And this is where we get a chance to reach out to folks like uh

Ryan and discuss what’s really important and that’s the future of our nation.

It’s the future of our children and how we’re bringing them through a system of government and education and uh

hopefully having them come in, right, Ryan? And do a better job at replacing us. Yes.

And what we’re doing. Folks, my uh introduction and welcoming to Ryan Kennedy. Thanks for joining joining us, Ryan.

Thank you, Jean, for having me on. I have so many questions to ask you about Florida Citizens Alliance and what

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Give him a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do. Welcome back. We’re with Ryan Kennedy here from the Florida

Citizens Alliance. Uh Ryan, welcome aboard. Uh I’d like you to take the ball and run with this because you and I had

the privilege of meeting at a recent conference uh in MLAN, Virginia. And uh I think what’s um what’s great with

these conferences we end up going to is we meet other people from other walks of life and they enlighten us as you did

with me uh when we met at that conference. Uh what is your job with Florida Citizens Alliance? What are you

doing there? And what is your in your own words, what’s your organization doing?

Yeah. Well, again, thanks for having me on and my I’m the chief operating officer at the Florida Citizens Alliance. So I manage all the day-to-day

operator organization uh everything from our policy work uh to our advocacy efforts to what we do to provide parents

with solutions to to concerns they have related to their children. Our whole organization is focused on u improving

the lives of children here in the state of Florida. Uh we primarily get involved with education policy because children spend most of their time in a school

setting. However, we do get involved in other areas that impact families and impact a child uh you know indirectly

indirectly and so we’re like you mentioned we’re 501c3 and so we’re we are here to to provide solutions and

information to parents and and solutions and information to legislators and folks before you go too far Ryan

let’s give them the website and contact information on you folks hang in with the rest of the story here. We’re

talking about the future of our children and Ryan might be an advocate for some of your concerns. Ryan?

Yep. Go flca.org is our website. Um it’s gooflca.org.

Uh fl.cscitizens.alliance uh is all of our our social media handles and you can uh find me on x ryan kennedy63.

Um so you know always feel free to reach out uh my you can reach out to me through the website or through one of my social media handles.

What is the focus that you’re working on right now? I know since I was in high school and college

this concept of AI has taken taken the lead in the educational system at all levels not to mention business finance

and our environmental concerns on the federal level. Uh What motivates you? What’s what’s what’s your focus?

Yeah. Well, I think the thing related to AI that most people need to understand is that uh your child is already using

it to some degree or another. Children are are are the vast users of AI. Um Chat GPT their own numbers. They’re the

largest um AI provider out there. They say that 80% roughly of their users are 25 and under, which means these are the

youth of our nation that are using this product. Um, when you break it down, one of the most concerning statistics, and it comes from common sense media, is

actually that one-third of children that are using AI would rather talk to AI about a serious issue than a human. That includes their friends, that includes

their pastor, that includes their parents. Um, so that’s very concerning.

and we were when we were looking at some of these surveys and statistics, we knew that we needed to address this area uh head on.

You’ve been involved as COO since 20 26.

You were with the organization for, I’m guessing, about a decade prior, and all I keep hearing about is the need for

agencies like yourself to come in, step in, and police. Um, isn’t this a shame that we have to find ourselves in the

position of policing uh the behavior of what’s uh being presented to our children? Can you expound?

Yes. Yes. And that’s that’s exactly right. And that’s been one of the biggest um uh areas that we’ve done especially when it comes to the area of

AI. AI is quickly being introduced into school districts across Florida and across the nation for that matter. Um, and and there’s a lot of good with AI.

It’s a tool, so it can be used for a lot of good, but there’s also a lot of bad things that can happen with AI. Uh, just

recently, again, kind of breaking news, was the attorney general of Florida put out a lawsuit against Open AI and Sam

Alman for some of those concerns related to children’s safety on on that particular uh platform. And so uh we

know that these uh companies do need some safeguards in place to protect kids just like all uh industries have certain

safeguards and and our children obviously are a special audience in the sense that they’re not adults yet. Um and we want to make sure parents rights

are protected and parents can have a say on whether or not their children can use these products.

Yeah. I’m I’m beginning to wonder why. I mean, you must go home at night frustrated at times if if if you’re

trying to um uh move the mountain and change uh behavior in the educational

system through your advocacy. But what is going on that the parents are

allowing a school system to manipulate and control the behavior of the children

uh iPhones, iPads or no iPads? What What’s going on that’s giving that

that’s caused you to have to step up to inter intervene?

Yeah. Well, I think originally to your point, it was a lot of this indoctrination, I’ll call it, but it was

it was this ideology being uh driven by um folks who who really uh you know have

an agenda, usually a political agenda, right, to try to um drive a narrative a certain way out of the youth of our

country. And so, you know, it started there and trying to deal with that. uh what it’s morphed into over time is with

a lot of these inventions of these technologies is these technologies have in a lot of cases just sped up that same

uh process and so it’s been it’s been a constant fight and and yes parents a lot of times didn’t know what happened it

really was co that kind of woke a lot of parents up to what was going on in schools and with their children that you know children were spending eight days

uh eight hours a day there and parents didn’t really know what was going on, you know, your pro-life advocacy. I know

your 501c3 uh supports uh a lot of the moral issues that um that um are are are

considered conservative and Republicanbased, but it it reminds me of

what the parents should have been doing uh to police the bad behavior at the school board level. Are you having now

to intervene to check on the credibility of literature in the library that the children have access to or is this

something that still remains in the parents control?

Yeah. So, one of the things that we did very early on as an organization was to strengthen our laws here in Florida to allow parents to be able to view what

was going on in schools. So, we actually got a law passed by then Governor Rick Scott um expanding our textbook adoption

process to make sure uh all all residents uh in in a county could could see what was going on in in schools. And

we did that as transparency, right? Uh to make sure parents were in the driver’s seat, to make sure that everybody knew what was going on. Uh to

your point on on on some of these moral issues, yeah, we don’t we would like the parents to be in driver’s seat, but a

lot of times, especially in the past, they were shut out. Uh now, that’s why we spend a lot of time educating parents, letting them know what options

they have, but also trying to um fix loopholes that still exist within the system.

What’s Where’s this coming from, Brian?

uh the the the fact that you’re doing this is so admirable and I’m grateful you exist and I hope people uh find your

website and uh contribute to your cause, but it’s almost a regret. I mean, why do

you have to do it in the first place? Is this a failing in the system uh of government? Is it the failing of a social moral fabric?

uh is it the advent of technology AI bubbling up in parallel? How how do you view this?

Yeah, I think it originally really stems from a moral obviously direction. I think that uh you know we’ve seen

throughout the decades declining in church attendance and religious uh participation. I think that’s where it all starts originally. But then I think

there was this this trend to to say, “Okay, well, we’re just going to let government institutions decide what

happens with my child.” Uh, you know, they know what’s best. And so it was it was some of that going on too. And then

when you bring in AI and fold in some of these technologies, a lot of this is only just sped up. Um and and it’s and a

lot of these technologies again are used in a lot of cases to help um sometimes bad actors, you know, to be able to to

to continue this indoctrination when you know, for example, um you know, when it comes to to to books in schools. Um you

know, there’s all these online libraries now where kids can check out books from all different kinds of locations. So, you know, those are that’s a good

technology, but also that can have its draw drawbacks too because now that it’s online, um there’s a lot greater access

to the greater internet uh than there was before with going to check out a book physically in a physical library.

I saw from your notes that the uh organization of Florida Citizens Alliance was founded in 2013. Mr. Keith Flo, I think it’s pronounced, and Mr.

Rick Stevens. So, you’ve been around about what 16 years and um uh in the in that period

of time, more recently, President Trump has uh signed off on an executive order

to try to set into motion a framework uh nationwide for folks like you to springboard from. And in at the state

level, you mentioned um Governor Dantis uh recently doing two things on AI in

Florida alone. You want to expound on that?

Yes. So um Governor DeSantis put out an AI bill of rights uh which was largely springboarding off of this concept that

uh parents and children need to be protected. That was based on that executive order Trump signed back in December. um that allowed for uh

students uh states to be able to protect children. Uh the AI bill of rights sadly uh did not pass. However, uh you know,

working with the legislators, we know that uh they understand this is an important issue that needs to be addressed. Um you you even see just

recently um again the attorney general of Florida doing the the lawsuit. you’re you you did there was a data center bill

that was was signed into law this past session um dealing with data centers. So there’s definitely a growing amount of

evidence and the legislators do understand that this issue needs to be addressed and so we’re hopeful next session uh we’re going to get some good results there.

Your website shows a core team of about 10 people uh with in addition to the two founders. But uh one of the things I re

I I I regret you have to focus on is a is a response a strategy against this

gender ideology attempt in the school system to um

manipulate the the thinking of a youth of the youth in their in their own development. Uh what’s how serious in

Florida is gender ideology being um impacted by intervention or u indoctrination of the school system?

Well, thankfully uh Florida a couple years ago passed uh some pretty strong uh bills related to gender ideology. Uh

we were we were very involved in those bills. One was banning transgender surgeries and transgender treatments.

The other one dealt with this sort of indoctrination in schools of transgenderism.

What I will say um is that uh even with those bills being passed, there still are uh some school districts across the

state that are choosing to ignore it or choosing to um look the other way. Um you know, you do find uh teachers from

time to time that will still talk about this subject. Thankfully, the DOE has been doing a good job enforcing it and bringing um action against those school districts, against those individuals.

However, um again, the way that we look at it is going back to one of your earlier questions about, you know,

what’s what’s the root cause of this. We do believe that there needs to be uh uh some moral upbringing back into the

school system when it comes to children being taught, you know, the western civilizational worldview that we were

all taught on for so long. Um that has for whatever reason um by design, but also by um just I think a lack of effort has gone away.

You’re located in Central Florida.

Yeah, we’re a statewide organization, but we do have members there and we have members in Southwest Florida and we have members um in, you know, our team is spread out throughout the state.

You spread out throughout the nation or other alliances throughout the nation?

So, we work with a number of other organizations nationwide. Um especially on this AI issue in particular, we’ve been working with a lot of organizations

that and the pro-life issue. What I will say, um, we just we just got a huge win, uh, yesterday from the president of the

United States. He signed in an executive order on AI when it comes to making sure AI can’t be used in certain cyber

security type crimes. That’s actually been something that we’ve been sounding the alarm at at the Florida Citizens Alliance is that, you know, AI is being

used to help commit crimes largely obviously from our perspective against children. however, um being committing

crimes nonetheless. And so we were happy that the uh President Trump signed that.

We actually had a coalition out that we were involved with with uh uh 60 plus other conservative leaning

organizations. So we were happy to hear that yesterday.

It seems like you may also have some task forces or teams that get out at the school level. Is that fair to say?

Yes. So, we have uh Kids First teams is what we call them, and they are local community- based organizations. We’re in

uh 20 plus counties throughout the state of Florida. Um, and you know, we cover all the major metropolitan areas within

those counties. Um, and what what they’re designed for is they are local um going out to school district meetings, schoolboard meetings, or going

to the county commission meetings. are going um talking at local events and they’re talking to parents particularly about the issues going on in schools and uh pertaining to children.

Boy, you ought to come out to the panhandle of Florida, which is where we are. I can tell you there are some um

libertarians and rightleleaning individuals in this um in this neck of the woods out here that um they’re at

schoolboard meetings and county commission meetings, city council meetings, and they aren’t shy about

their position on making sure that this gender intervention stuff that’s going

on and uh the uh the actual literacy of the children being impacted by uh what’s

in the library on the library shelves uh is not necessarily what they should

be reading and looking at. And um uh are you encouraging

teams with parents and communities to help save on your resources? Where’s the breakdown on the handoff of your

statewide concept to the local community? Yeah. So, we uh yes, our Kids Source teams are volunteer-based or uh

uh partners of ours. Um we give them resources, uh information, marketing materials, um anything they need uh to

help them succeed in what they’re trying to do. Um we always try to have a good relationship with school board members

so that we can have um success. uh you know uh some of our best teams have been able to influence um the direction of

their schools. So for example, I’ll just say um when it comes to for example in Lee County, we were able to get uh them

to to pass a good strong um optin requiring parents to make sure that the

that they don’t their kids don’t get access to some of these concerning book content. Uh, so we had a very good cordial relationship with that school

board and they were able to get that done.

And put you on the spot here. Can you quantify exactly how impressive this

success story is in other states? Are you able to cookie cutter and copy and paste, so to speak, your concept into

other uh states in the nation? Yeah, I a lot of other organizations have used the same similar concepts. Um and it is

successful because um people tend to have the most influence at the local level. Um and then at the state and then

obviously nationally last because um you know you’re closer to your local officials, right? Uh they live down the street from you, they go to the same

grocery store as you, they go to the same church as you. And so uh you tend to have a lot more influence over those individuals. So yes, uh we encourage as

much to be done as possible at the local level. Um obviously we know uh with certain policies that we have to adjust

and they have to be done at the state or at the federal level and so that’s why we work in some of those areas but um we always want to try to have uh local

community, local individuals um have a say in what happens.

We’re talking with uh Ryan Kennedy, COO of Florida Citizens Alliance. Brian, you’ve obviously explained what you’re

doing at the grassroots level, but what about your testimony at um state or federal legislative sessions? Uh very

interested in what you’re saying to the legislative bodies uh uh before you end

up getting to a friendly governor or a friendly president to support your cause. What is are you getting help from any of the legislative bodies?

Yes. Yes. Uh we have a pretty good track record especially here in the state of Florida to to get stuff done. Uh we we

tend to take the approach of of bringing facts and information to them. We want to be there as a resource. Um we come with solutions. That’s our biggest uh

our biggest approach. And so we’ll put together and if you go to our website you can see some of the ones we did from this last session but information

onepage documents that show uh just a brief breakdown on particular issues and the surveys surrounding it. Um, so in

particular when it came to AI, which was a huge topic this last legislative session, we we worked with a number of

organizations to to pull uh court data on some of these private lawsuits that have happened, surveys, so polling

surveys of of voters. And we worked with uh legislators to try to get uh some policy done. And like I said, we the um

AI bill of rights did pass all the way through to Florida Senate. Um and so we did get some good traction on that and and the same thing at the federal level.

We bring information and facts to to the congressmen and to US senators

and uh can you identify um specific legislative efforts

uh that they’re underway with because of your input?

Yes. So, uh, in particular way related to, um, AI, uh, you know, we were

primarily responsible here in Florida for sounding the alarm on on some of these, uh, criminal activities that have happened with, uh, AI being used in

conjunction to commit some crimes. So, uh, you know, the attorney general, uh, I think took a lot of that info and and

and it got him across the finish line to hopefully get to the point of where he was at. I know his office does a good job at looking at cases as a whole. um

you know when it comes to within Florida you know uh just recently one of the other winds that we’ve had was related

to social media which is very similar in a lot of ways to this AI technology but Florida two years ago passed a very good

social media bill um dealing with social media and making sure kids were protected from a lot of the um predatory

algorithms and some of the predators that lurk on social media. And uh we we brought a lot of information and facts related to that. And that bill was

signed in the law uh and is taken effect. It’s stood up in court. So it’s a it’s a good bill and it’s we’re one of the first in the nation to to do it.

How about these um these criminals who pose as um young kids only to try to

draw in or entice uh a young ch person to uh befriend them and and for the

purpose of something more heinous and illegal? Uh can you put your finger on uh prosecutions and incarcerations uh uh as a result of your efforts? Yeah.

So, we’ve we’ve been able to in Florida um we were able to to get that social media bill passed off of that. We were

actually able to get um essentially a Florida version of the Take It Down Act, which was passed federally, President Trump signing into law, but there was a

Florida version of that just a little bit beforehand that dealt with um people again using uh technology to to poise as

adults and to also use technology to to make minors in um in compromising sexual positions using that kind of technology.

And so thankfully we have a state law about that. Now we have a federal law.

Um and so that was one of the great accomplishments under the Trump administration is the take it down act uh taking effect. And and we know in

Florida there have been um uh prosecutions related to that. And at the federal level there’s there was the first federal prosecution on that just a

little bit ago was announced by the attorney general’s office.

It’s a shame it’s come to this because um really I when I first met you I thought the emphasis would be on school

curriculum. Uh it seems you’re spending a lot of time on policing the bad behavior if not from the teacher uh from wrongdoers around uh the community.

Yeah. Yeah. It is it is sad. Uh we do a lot of work on school curriculum as well. Um but you’re right. Um we’ve

we’ve seen this emphasis on again trying to um you know push a certain agenda on

children uh especially an agenda that’s dangerous. We know statistically uh affects their mental health. Uh we have major mental health crisis rates in our

country and um you know we know statistically pushing sexual content on children very young can cause mental

health harm. Um, and so, you know, yeah, we’ve we’ve responded to that, but we do a lot of work on curriculum. And that’s

actually one of our our other big kind of claim to fames is we were one of the major groups working to get rid of common core here in the state of Florida

and we were able to get that done. Um, and that’s been used as springboard in a number of states to remove common core.

Not all the states have, um, but a number of them have.

What is in your opinion the shortcoming of common core?

The shortcoming really comes down to uh it’s it’s focused on a only certain set of students can really learn from common core.

Um and so when when it comes to reading for example a lot of uh ways that we I was taught reading and and you probably

were taught reading is by phonics, right? So you would, you know, you would learn the sounds which would then encompass the word uh itself and that’s

how you would read. Um they switched to what’s called site reading um in common core which they showed a picture and then they said this is the word that

corresponds with this picture and that only goes so far because when it comes to certain words um you know phonics

tends to work better. Another thing that phonics helps with is dyslexia. people, children that suffer from dyslexia tend to learn better with phonics than they

do with site reading. And so it, like I said, it really only um Common Core really only works for certain students.

And you have to fit within this box in order to make it work. Um, with math, learning what’s called math facts first, which is the building blocks. So your

your multiplication, division, those sorts of things are building blocks to then work on higher levels of math. And common core again doesn’t follow that same uh pathway.

We see a lot of the um educational system drifting towards home homeschooling and um chartered school

systems. Uh how do you intervene in those environments?

Yes. So one of the biggest uh programs we have outside of our policy work is related to what we call our microschool

initiative. And this is where we actually help parents who want to make that leap um start one room schoolh

houses, co-ops, hybrid models for their children. Um and so we we help uh walk through with parents on how to do that.

Um we don’t particularly push a certain um curriculum except in the sense that we we do um we do favor uh

classicalbased education and Christian-based education. However, we don’t tell you you have to use X, Y, or Z provider to do that. Um, we’re we use

consultants across the state uh to help us in that. We’ve started over 20 schools in Florida in two years uh

serving over 500 students. So, we’re very pleased about that and we we plan to grow that number exponentially this year.

It’s amazing how education has changed in just a few decades. Uh, so Ryan Kennedy turns around with Florida

Citizens Alliance and hires a guy like me to come in and sell the heck out of Florida Citizens Alliance. Where do you place me and what would you like me to do for you if I came on to help you out?

Well, I would say, you know, uh, uh, spread the words to your friends. Um, you know, help, uh, help, uh, let people

know about what we’re doing. Um, you know, we we offer a lot of services and we offer a lot of good and we’ve gotten

a lot of good stuff done in Florida that um a lot of children have benefited from. Uh, we have the statistics, we

have the numbers, we know again that education is improving in our state. It’s it’s improved quite a bit.

um uh the the like you said homeschooling and private schooling all those things have expanded and taken off and that and we believe that that’s

going to have a a net positive effect on children in the long run. So you know these are all great things that we can um point to.

Do you get down into the testing arena for example helping the system with uh SATs or the equivalency

exams? Uh do you engage with the local school boards in any way like that? Yes, actually in fact we’ve uh we have gotten

very involved in testing and recommending certain uh testing um capacities. One of the things that SAT

and ACT did um about five or eight years ago was they switched to a common core

model. Um and so what we’ve suggested um is you should take a look at the CLT which is the classical learning test. Uh

it’s a great uh program. It’s actually been authorized in Florida to to um to act as a replacement to this SAT and

ACT. All univers all public universities in Florida are required to take it for admission and a number of other states

do for that matter as well. Um you know all your big universities across the nation take it. So, we highly encourage

people to use that uh test curriculum because again it’s not common core compliant uh and then it aligns with what we’re doing here in Florida, which

is we don’t have a common core um curriculum.

Interesting. Ryan, where are where’s your organization now and where are you going as you see it in the next three to five years?

Yeah. Well, so right now we are on like I said an exponential growth. We want to try to expand our microschool initiative

across uh you know every single county in Florida and we do that through our ambassadors or consultants. So we want

to have an a consultant in every region of Florida. So we’re looking for one in the panhandle. We’re looking for one um

in northeast Florida and those particular areas if you know people in that area that are listening. But we also are doing a lot of legislative work

as well. We’d like to see some good strong safeguards on AI. We hope that will get past this session and we’ll

probably need to start addressing in the next couple of years school grades. um school grades are a num an issue especially with the upcoming governor’s

race and uh potentially new go uh new governor in Florida that the new governor will have an opportunity to

address the school grading system and make it transparent for parents so they know what school grade their actual

school grades are and we also on that issue we also want to help the school district school districts get a number

of resources on the back of of certain grades um that they get. And so we want schools to succeed. We want every child to

succeed whether they’re in public school or home school or private school. So that’s our goal and that’s what we want.

Do you see any um are you exposed in any way to uh violence or abuse of children?

uh not from the teacher presumably, but do you do you see that the teacher

reaching out to you looking for help uh with the issues related to abuse at home of the child?

Well, what I would say is that um that’s not an area where we’ve had a lot of teachers reach out to us, but that is an

important area. Um we know that children do do have that happen in Florida. I know Governor Dantis uh was working with

their faith uh um uh department uh to to address some of those issues of neglect

and those sorts of things. We we do we do think and it’s very imperative that children um you know try to stay within

the home as much as they can as as long as they’re not in a as long as they’re in a safe environment. um because we know statistically that children who are

with their families um and who have a strong family have the best are set up the best way for success. So uh you know

that’s an area that we’re looking at more heavily get involved with and if there are people that want to reach out to us about that please do. You

mentioned uh something that I think is critical and that’s your team-spirited approach allows you to uh expand more

geometrically not only throughout Florida but throughout the rest of the nation. Uh throw your phone number and website out there again. How do they reach you?

Yes. So uh our our our office line is 239-671-5733. Uh our website is gooflca.org.

So it’s gooflca.org.

uh you can uh go to our website, you can click on u my uh bio and you’ll be able to connect with me through there. Uh we

have a an admin email line that you can reach out to and like I said I gave you the office line. So those are all ways to get a hold of us

and and your donations is your primary source of funding. Is there any special federal or state funding?

Yes. No. No, we are completely donor driven and we we do that primarily because we we don’t want to be handicapped in how we can use our funds.

Uh a lot of these grant programs um do handicap what organizations can do. We know especially under administrations

that don’t see eye to eye with us that they use those grants to to bully organizations into doing things a certain way. And so we are donor driven

and we are 501c3 so you get a tax write off uh to to to help us with you know

creating policy working with parents getting the educational environments and working with local school districts all

that what we do is 501c3. So you can help us uh tremendously by giving us a donation if you have. A a donation could

also be in terms of work or in kind in trade somehow. Uh this is a very

interesting point because as you’re trying to expand out into the communities uh you can offer a quid

proquo in terms of maybe a tax credit for them if they’re donating time and

effort and resources in communities that you otherwise were not invested in yet. Is that fair enough?

Yeah. I mean a lot of PE individuals uh donate their time to us, volunteer with us. Um you know, we we do a lot of work

with, for example, college students who uh so if you have a college student that needs a community service hours or an

internship, we have opportunities for those. Um you know, we do a lot of again with community service hours. Bright Futures, for example, requires uh you to

have certain amount of hours to get the scholarship in Florida. Uh because we’re a nonprofit, your child can spend their time working with us.

Very interesting. You have uh in a very concise way uh done in a halfhour interview what often comes out in an

hour to an hour and a half on some other interviews I’ve had. Uh, I really appreciate your uh, articulation, Ryan

Kennedy, with the Florida Citizens Alliance. Uh, any uh, general comments going forward in the next few years? Uh,

as I asked earlier and, um, any final comments you’d like to make wrapping up your thoughts? Yeah, I think within the next few years, we have a great

opportunity with um leadership change at at all levels within Florida to to really push some good uh policy

initiatives that we’ve uh you know need to do, especially with schools. I think within the next few years, you’re going

to see a lot of of movement when it comes to how schools are funded in Florida. uh especially with the tax uh

we didn’t get into that but the tax system changes that are going to be on the ballot uh coming up um but even off of that with the increase of private

school and homeschooling um this is all changing the way that kids are learning and how they’re learning and so there will be I think a number of things

within the next few years that deal with that that we’ll need people to stay vigilant on and and lastly again I just want to thank Eugene for allowing me to

be on and again if you guys are any of your listeners are interested in helping both in time or in monetarily, uh please

go to our website. Uh we’ll appreciate any help that you can give.

And that website again, go flca.org. Goca.org.

Yeah. Goitizenalliance.org.

Excellent. And uh you know the thing I picked up that I think is most interesting is that um under your

guidance and structure uh they can follow a regiment in helping out at the local level uh that um that’s consistent

with the uh mission and the policies of Florida Citizens Alliance.

Ryan Kennedy, thank you for joining me here today. I really appreciate your effort.

Thank you, Jean. and thank all of you for joining me on another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truthcast.

Really enjoyed this episode with Ryan Kennedy of Florida Citizens Alliance.

Again, give them a call or contact the website. A lot of information there.

This is the last leg in the outreach that we’ve been looking for and it took a noteworthy group like this. Uh, hope

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