One of Florida’s newest members of Congress says that his new legislative body can take some tips from one of his former ones.
“Our side needs to prove it can govern,” said Rep. Randy Fine during a Sunday appearance on the Fox News Channel.
To that end, Fine points to changes in the Florida House, where he served through November of last year before being elected on Tuesday to represent Florida’s 6th Congressional District.
“Years ago the Florida House was a 61-59 Republican majority. Today it’s 87 to 33. We got there because we showed year after year, decade after decade, that we could put singles and doubles and triples on the field and that we could govern,” Fine said, using a baseball metaphor to make his case.
Fine was a polarizing member of the Republican Caucus, incurring the ire of people on both sides of the aisle.
When Democrats objected to Republican policy moves in past Legislative Sessions, Fine justified it by saying it was “because we can.”
However, Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that other Republicans weren’t thrilled with Fine either, which allegedly led him to consider giving Fine the presidency of Florida Atlantic University.
“He repels people,” DeSantis said. “He’s repelled people in the legislature. They wanted to get him out of the legislature, so they asked me to put him up for Florida Atlantic president, and I did, and the whole board would have resigned rather than making him president, and now he’s going to be in Congress.”
Fine has said DeSantis and his staffers “begged” him to consider the presidency in response.
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