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Early voting is underway right now, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. Here's who DeSantis is backing on your ballot and how I'm voting. Read down the numbered list for the quick answer. If you want the details, read the paragraph under each one.
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1. U.S. Senate: Ashley Moody. DeSantis handpicked her. I'm voting for her too.
DeSantis appointed Moody to the Senate when Marco Rubio left to become Secretary of State. Before that, she was Florida's attorney general. She's up against Angie Nixon, a state representative from Jacksonville who joined the Democratic Socialists of America, the biggest socialist group in the country. And socialism is one step away from communism.
2. U.S. House District 13: Anna Paulina Luna. Trump endorsed. I'm voting for her.
Luna used to be my congresswoman before redistricting. She filed a discharge petition to force a vote on banning members of Congress from trading stocks, and DeSantis backed her on it.
3. U.S. House District 16: Sydney Gruters. Trump endorsed. I'm voting for her.
She's running in my new district, which now reaches up into St. Pete after Florida redrew its maps this year.
4. Governor: Byron Donalds. DeSantis endorsed. I'm voting for him too.
Byron made property taxes his signature issue. In his primary victory speech he said, "Whether Amendment 3 passes or fails we are going to reform property taxes in our state with the goal of eliminating homestead property taxes once and for all." He's running against Democrat David Jolly, who's against your property tax cut and backs parents getting sex changes for their kids without the state stepping in.
5. Attorney General: James Uthmeier. DeSantis endorsed. I'm voting for him too.
Uthmeier was DeSantis's chief of staff before DeSantis appointed him AG and called him a bulldog. When a federal judge tried to derail Alligator Alcatraz, the state's immigration detention center in the Everglades, Uthmeier fought it in court and won.
6. Chief Financial Officer: Blaise Ingoglia. DeSantis endorsed. I'm voting for him too.
Ingoglia's FAFO team digs through city and county budgets and flags anything spent beyond inflation and population growth. So far they've done 22 reviews across 18 counties and exposed more than $3.7 billion in excessive, wasteful spending of your property tax dollars.
7. Agriculture Commissioner: Wilton Simpson. DeSantis endorsed. I'm voting for him too.
Simpson already runs the Florida Department of Agriculture and is leading the charge on the property tax break for farmers in Amendment 2.
8. Florida House District 59: Berny Jacques. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
He's not in my district, but if you live in Largo or Seminole, he's your guy. He's one of the strongest supporters of Amendment 3 in the state. Florida law says local governments can't spend taxpayer money campaigning for or against something on your ballot. When Largo's property tax town hall brought in former state Senator Jeff Brandes, the guy leading the fight against Amendment 3, as its only outside guest, Berny called out the mayor and got himself on the panel. When Seminole sent out an Amendment 3 alert where four of the seven links were from groups against it, Berny threatened to sue and the city pulled them down.
9. Every other congressional and Florida House seat: Vote Republican.
10. Amendment 1, Budget Stabilization Fund. DeSantis is voting NO. I'm voting no.
It raises the cap on Florida's rainy day fund from 10% to 25% of state general revenue and forces the Legislature to put up to $750 million a year into it. The Florida GOP backed it. DeSantis called them out on X and said, "This is a foolish constitutional amendment proposal. We already have a maxed out rainy day fund and have run the largest surpluses in state history." The fund is already maxed out at $5 billion, and the state's sitting on nearly $18 billion in reserves. DeSantis wants that extra money going back to you instead. He wants it used to lower taxes, to give local governments grants so homestead properties can be exempt from local property tax, and once the property tax issue is settled, to get rid of tolls.
11. Amendment 2, Exemption of Tangible Personal Property on Agricultural Land from Taxation. DeSantis is neutral. I'm voting yes.
Florida farmers pay property tax on their land, then pay it again on their tractors, irrigation systems and fencing, and those costs end up in what you pay at the grocery store. Amendment 2 gets rid of the tax on their equipment starting in 2027. It's a property tax cut, so I'm all in.
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👉🏼 12. Amendment 3, Increased Homestead Exemption; Lower Cap on Increases in Non-Homestead Property Assessments. DeSantis is voting YES. I'm voting yes.
This is the biggest property tax cut in Florida history. Your homestead exemption jumps from $50,000 to $150,000 on January 1st, 2027, then to $250,000 in 2028, and adjusts for inflation every year after that. That wipes out the non-school portion of property taxes for about 60% of Florida homestead homeowners. If you rent or own a second home, a rental or a business, the cap on how fast those values can rise drops from 10% a year to 5%. It needs 60% to pass, so local politicians only have to scare 41% of you into voting no. Don't fall for it. If it fails, local property tax collections that already went from $30 billion in 2019 to $60 billion today are on track to hit $84 billion by 2031.
13. Local bonds: I'm voting No on every one.
A bond is the city or county taking out a giant loan and paying it back with interest for up to 30 years, backed by your property taxes. On your ballot, look for the words general obligation bonds, full faith and credit, and ad valorem taxing power. Ad valorem is just the fancy word for property tax. If you see those words, they're asking you to raise your own property taxes. St. Pete wants a $600 million water and sewer bond, even though its general fund has grown $132.9 million since 2019, and its own public works administrator says those projects get paid for anyway through the water and sewer bills people already pay. You'd be paying for the same pipes twice. Miami has a $450 million bond for new police and fire headquarters, and Palm Beach County has a $280 million parks bond. And even if Amendment 3 passes, bond payments are still on the list of things your property taxes have to cover.
14. School tax renewals: I'm voting No on every one.
In counties like Miami-Dade, Broward and Marion, school boards are asking you to continue an extra property tax that's about to run out. On your ballot, it'll say something like shall the school district's ad valorem millage be continued. They'll tell you it's not a new tax. But if you vote no, it expires and your property taxes go down.
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And if I didn't mention a race or a name on your ballot, it's either a local race that's not on my ballot, or I just don't have enough information to make the call myself.
And always remember, when in doubt, vote Republican. I don't care what party you're in, they're a lot better than socialists like Jolly and Nixon.
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