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m glad P} IN .C :"h (II-jmrlunity to V161! with you a tin. Tm- last
time we talked in thin way we were concerned largely with the innuoa arming
out 0! [hr sltduwn dcunmslrwnuns that h; urcnrrod in Talisman-sew and u-larwnorc
in Florida. Sinu' then um -. any people havr OXfIrCiIQd their apps-own .uf lixn
position I muk. Most Floridians were apparently Just uniting [at t:.-. r'mt tI
cxprrss thrir own dI'PEI'HIlICd communal: lhnl a n crchun! is c-mitlml, Ivh .lny
and uruily I run his uwn hunnrsn, tn rlvcl his own canon c-r-s: lml cvrluir.
th wvrv rtwvrvnd to Hm stale by the Few-ml Cunctnuli -n, .mu tun-m rt_ .15
mu he n-uinl-uim-Llf In nl wr arc dulvr ined to '1 mild ain ICfngg-dinn but that
our Sthuuhi ~u~t nvwr he closrd for Urn ,mrp n-r.
Bot "10%? iqwnau-s'howevor i t port-ml. are by no wonn'i lin' nMyxw-uw
in xhn c.- n-dgn. Thvro- wrc .uny wore mrmls In the noveroibmy of am pr ulcv
ul this State lh-m those about which we tnlkrd, :md lhcrr are :-:my inlvrnul
wc-'nv<~r m nur guwrrn- cut-ll lruclurv .vhlch wr .uql rt-patr. Our Sh!"
Road Doinrtw mu, m ,n rliculnr, which agenda urv of uur n ms-y than my
otnvr aguncy at [Mr Sl-IU a! Flunda. and whit: 1;. mrpcny an all I. COICI'OI
o! tbs governor, to the wt malnuter organised and poorly upcrvtud
o: .11 ch- apuctu o: u an and Int-Illa: sown-tat. and I It to
an with you tank: in an! about no.- of the mucus why u don"t p:
In. roads for our my. all specically what I propou to do aunt it.
Before we 0: into tut, though, 10: It ujocc a non yuan:
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.ovornor of Florida is not only
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Tho pinquoo And cortiliootoo Julio ohovod you no by tho-oh of
our" not voluohlo, but I tron-urn thot taunt ovidaco of tho confidonoo
of thooo with who. I work in your moo-oat, and of tho mpoot of tho
oditoro who node thou undo.
In 1955, u oho hoo told you. I on you than mot honors by
both Iy oollooguoo ond tho mongol-o, one! it no in tho: yoo: thot I hot!
o port in loading to puugo tho orid- Iood Codo. A no. gout-nor had jut
can into office, this won his tint oouion of tho bouillon, d tho
dimmiutian of tho loud Donn-on: woo oaiotoriool and troditionol thing.
and vo voro dotoninod to ooo to it thot tooth to built on tho huio of
nood, not of grood. I think thoro nuot ouroly hovo boon ouhotontiol
inprov-onto achieved ovor tho you-o, hut coupqu with who: still nood- to
ho dono thooo inptovononto lodo into inoipificonco.
In Oriondo loot brow/4W2 qtnjm
um Janina-our! pointod out Itrimt dotioionoiol in tho land Deporan
In portioolor I rolorrod to tho foot thot tho Stoto hood Doport-ont oudito
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woro too littlo ond yon:- too Into. I hot! no idoo Wmthoo-m
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Department for the year ending June 30, 1958 hazineuhere is an agency
that spent 150 million dollars of your my, but no audit had been made
had
of its records. we have/several Road Board chair-en since then, sane of
the top personnel has been changed, any of the thoneende of nployees
are no longer with the Road Depart-ant.
Even so, if this audit showed a gooscondition we night not cuplain.
The State Auditor, haunt. says that becauee of the condition of the accounting
records, "I an unable to express an opinion no the overall representations
of the attached financial etateaente." What he eaye. in language, is
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that this depart-eat epent in one year 150 eillion dol [phat he cannot
tell you with aaaurance where that money wee spent, to who. it was paid, whether
or not the law has been followed, or what the condition. financially, o! the
load Deparuant is. 1 cannot review now mm the details of this audit,
but let sue point out one eignificant and illustrative feet; On page 13 the auditor
reports that in 1954 certain shell materials were sold to a fire of road contractors
at a price of $216,000. That $24,000 has neVer been paid. "This account", esya
to
the auditor, use turned over/the Department's basal Division for collection several
years ago. This account vas still unpaid an of June 30, 1958. Yes, and I can
tell you that except for a payment of $500 this account in unpaid today.
p" 7'WBe know whet this means; while the State was running out of money,
while we were borrowing money from trust funde that should not have been
borrowed, while the Road Department was taking the money from acne counties
and lending it to other counties in violation of the Constitutuion and of the
Statutaa pf thia Stata, a In! toad c)tractor vac paraitted to cum
$25,000 of money belonging to tho sun of Plorlda A which tha interest
alone, at legal ratel, would have bteo al-oct 39,000.
To note this offence worse, should he pointed out that that
particular contractor since he first owed thia debt. ha! been paid largo one
of may by the State Road Departnut tro- t;th could have aaaily
vithhald thll oh. ......
Loot year the Road Depart-eotihpendad 8173 Illlion dollars. Tho State
Auditor hi-aalf cannot naka reliable report. 32 the way in which that Iooey
was Ipent. Thousands of uployeae were hired and {itch-hundreds of builders
recain eontnctauautooohilu vet-a bought cad cold, lupplieo cod uteriala
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purchased in great bulk, but no reliable accounting can be calla. pf
under this atata of facts the governor of Plorida hilaalt cannot
know manna: what goes on in the Road Department. At your governor
I ahall inatitute inediately the lutallatlon of an accounting ayatau
which will permit the ministration. tho Last-lawn. and tho people of
Florida to keep a check reign on thin not and vital agency. than we need
road: so badly, who our high-my: arc choked with traffic, when out tootiat
ioduatry haa an anchor aroood ite hack tro- lack of travel tecilitiaa we
cannot afford, and during the adliaietration of Panic pry-t ea shall not
panic, the waste of the road mayo of the State.
(After pegs lo)
A few weeks ago 1 node the ateteoent that in the next two years
we can esve 50 million dollars in the Operation of our govertnent end at
the one tine improve the services rendered to the people. Several of the
other candidates in this race have ridiculed thet state-eat. Severel nevepepers
have expressed meeuent end horror thst such was possible, and have celled on
no to point out where such moneys could be found.
Hell, I have just pointed to one smell illustration deeling with one
contractor involving lithousend dollers, end reason and canon sense tell us
that there are hundreds more such instences. The auditor goes on to report on
page 27 of his audit that "In general, internel control over trsvel expenses
was found to be week." that's en aeoonntent's way of seying that nobody
is checking up on travel expenses, end the travel expenses of the Road Depertnent
elone wt to over 1 nillion dollers each yesr. I think it significant
that in 1958 the travel expeneee were 1/3 higher then they were in 1957. What
the inoreeses heve been since that tine nobody can tell you because there hove
been no audits since thst tine. Private business would never think for One
moment of pernitting travel expenses of 1 million dollars without very
effective controls, and the State Road Department hes no right to tehe your
money which is needed so bedly to build roads and vests it by weak control of
travel expenses.
1: as advised thet lest year over 8 million dollars ves peid in
special consultation fees by the Reed Department, a greet deal of it to out-of-Stete
professional tires. We should establish a policy of enploying tlorids fires
to do the engineering and consultation work that is necessary. ow can we
ever expect to develop the technical proteaeion in Florida it needs to design
its growth if we take from Floridians the privilege of performing the work
they are qualified to do and turn it over to outside fir-a?
I an not convinced, howeVar, that all of the consultation work was
necessary, and feel that perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars can be
saved in that field alone.
I an advised that 13 million dollars has been expended by the Road
Department for legal fees for attorneys scattered around the State, much of
it for work actually done by the attorneys in the Road Department in Tallahassee.
This waste of money, running into millions of collara, is going to be eliminated.
In the welfare field I am advised by the State officials and welfare
recipients alike that there is a great deal of fraud and waste which can be
eliminated by prOper enforcement. The welfare program involves the expenditure
of many millions of dollars annually.
Let's turn our ettention to washings; tor s nonent. At this very
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amen: a drive is being Iede not only to control the electoral process of the
states, but to gain control of our pun}: school systen. It thet drive is
successful the re-perte of our freedon will here been breached. Whoever
controls the school systen of e nation maa its ninds, end whoever
controls its minds controls its destiny.
when washington, J-es Hedison end Benjenin Prenklin end other nen
who framed our Constitution conpleted their lebore they had cerefully m
refrained frn granting to the Federsl Government any power whatsoever over
education Then, to nehe certainty doubly sure, they eubnitted to the
people ten mend-eats, called the Bill of lights, one of which expressly
reserved to the states end the people all powers not delegeted to the United
States. Down through the decedes since that tine es American hes urched
to greetness that reserwetion of powers hes been scrupulously observed.
The drive for control of which I speak is the drive to force
Federal subsidy of the school systen. If we accept the: std in e short
period of tine Hsshington will be telling us whet to teach our children
end how to teech then. Sansone in Unhington, soueone about whose
beckground we know nothing, shout whose norel stenderde we know nothing,
soneone over when we hove no control. eo-eone who ney or ney not believe
in denocrecy, in free enterprise, in self-reliance, will be selecting
our history books end prescribing for our teachers the nethods by which
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Moro input-taut even than our snies ond novice. om uportant
than our deport-onto of state, is entree educational oyotao. Ina-not As long as w"
keep control of that system in our com. ond Stata we con hoop it free-whet
onto thot control hss panned to Uoshiogton, how shall '0 protect our children
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and no state at our gun against sane Alp: Bios? I! thay are successful
in poisoning tho ninds of our childrolor but one year vhat incaieuinhlo and
irretrievohlo d-ago will have been done.
There io no rasson to take such [a rioxrfho roderol cover-cot hes
nothing to for education thst no count bottor provide for ourselves--
vhilo we nointsin tho train at our schools. As your governor I will
provide tho leadership to fight rodent control, on tho one hand, and to
usoro odeqnato support on the State and local lavol, on tho other hand.
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they shall teach. More important even than our armies and osyles, more important than our department of state, is out, free educational system, Max=mak Aa lens sa keep control of that systent in our coungias and State we can keep it free--but once that control has passed to washington, hau shall we protect our children and state of our nation agaiaat some Alger Hiss? If they are successful in poleoning the minds af our childrau .for but one year what incalculable and irretrievable damage will have been done. There is no reason to take auch a ries-The Federal Government has nothing to 00Mer for education that we c.annot better provide for ourselves-while we maintain the freedens of our schools. As your governor I will provide the leadership to fiBat federal control, na the one band, and to assure adequate support $a the State and local level, on the other hand.
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