Remarks by Anthony Rodriguez
927 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 38
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“It's been moved and seconded, yes. That's it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay. Five you. I'll entertain a motion on five you. It's been moved by Commissioner Gonzalez, seconded by Commissioner Gilbert. And Senator Garcia, you are, okay. Clerk, please call the roll.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right, so I'm going to before we get into 2nd reading items, I'm going to pull some out of order from the police. I'm going to pull up. As I understand some folks are here for this and may have to go. I'm going to pull 11, a 14. 11, a 15, 11, a 16, 11, a 17 and 11, a 20, which are the charter review ballots. And I have some pooling commissioner site. I'm going to go ahead and take them up, I guess, one by one. Let's see how I try this. So, Commissioner from District 4, you're one of the pooling commissioners. Okay.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay. So, I'll take a vote on each one. And D7, Commissioner from District 7, you're recognized on 11A14. Regalado?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“We're going to get to all of them. I'm going to even try to get to Kelly Tractor, I promise.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“11A14, yes. It's a charter review ballot recommendations from the task force.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'll go back to 11A14 in just a second. 11A15, Commissioner, Vice Chairman, you're the one pooling commissioner on 11A15. You're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“You're recognized. The administration and or the attorneys are recognized to respond on 11A15 what this item seeks to do.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Do you guys want to actually acknowledge and say no?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“You're still an attorney, man. No matter what, you can't take the lawyer out of you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right, Commissioner Regalado, you're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have moved on, yeah. You're not a- No, I'm not pulling. You're not a pulling commissioner, okay. So all right, with that, I have a motion by Commissioner Cohen-Higgins. On 11A15, I have a second by Commissioner Lopez. All in favor signify by saying aye.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“All opposed nay. No. Show item 11A15 passed with one no vote. All right, now back on 11A14, Commissioner from District 7, you're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right. I get it. I'm going to not say what I wanted to say.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, I mean, that's a great talking point, but we get paid $6,000 a year. And I'm happy to exempt myself from it moving forward. But what's right is right. And this is supposed to be a part-time job, and it's full-time, overtime, and all the times. So I don't know. I mean, it's a great for campaign and all that. But the reality is, you know, it's not realistic. So we're the largest county in the state of Florida. We have a 1617 billion dollar budget. We do. It's not 13 or 14 with 16, $17 billion. We have paid $6,000 a year. Uh, commissioner, I'm going to recognize you first because you're…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Commissioner Bermudez, you're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah. And on that note, before I recognize commissioner Gilbert, thank you Dennis for, for leading the efforts in this charter review task force. That is a good point. Uh, and the vice chair, I believe the vice chair was redondo, right? That's correct. My appointment, uh, speaker designate for the Florida house. So both very busy folks and you all gave your time in addition to all of the other charter review task force members that, uh, participated. So thank you all for, for your time on this. Uh, this is something that we do every several years and it's very important for our county. So…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“No. The ones we're discussing are now. There was a question about term limits being extended, and that will be on the ballot in 2028. All of these are going to be on the ballot this year.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner. I got Lopez and then Senator Garcia.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right. Commissioner, well, the Vice Chair. No?”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“So I want to call a vote. But here's the problem to Commissioner Bermudez's point. about sound bites. And unfortunately, those that report the sound bite often don't do due diligence. They don't put in the work. For lack of better terms, they're often lazy. You know, it's easy. Yeah, I'm talking about, he's one of the ones I'm talking about. Here's the thing. It's easy to say that, that this shouldn't apply to me. I would support it, but the reality is that before my time on the board, I don't know, four years ago or so, there was an item on this board that passed to increase benefits to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“all right anyone else see none clerk uh actually all in favor signify by saying aye aye all opposed nay show the item pass with a couple nays but show the item pass all right you got them all right 11 a 16 i got commissioner from district 4 and commissioner from district 8. commissioner from district 4 you recognized just a novel”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026
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“Commissioner from District 8, you're recognized.”
Board of County Commissioners · Jul 21, 2026