Gary Fineout

Reporter with POLITICO covering Florida who also tweets and functions in an evolving multimedia world.

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

A brick from the old FSU student union. Still solid. Still here. My school. My home.

[Jim Rosica @JimRosicaFL]

For the record, I asked Florida House Speaker @Daniel_PerezFL about @GovRonDeSantis and @AGJamesUthmeier complaining on X he had not started impeachment proceedings against state judges, including one in Tallahassee.
He had one short response: "I'm not a big social media guy, but I'll take your word at face value. If that's something that they're calling for, future legislatures can make that decision." (Photo by @alicia_c_devine)

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Collins crew with dystopian look ahead if @ByronDonalds wins GOP primary (think data centers, A.I., pot) complete with an (A.I. generated?) image of Collins battling Donalds to sounds of "Paranoid"... (will note front of old Capitol not accurate but that's a minor detail)

[Collins War Room @CollinsWarRoom]

Our supporters have outdone themselves with this one!

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[Gary Fineout @fineout]

First version -- https://t.co/MBRiNfNHw0

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

It's Day 2 of the special session on property taxes with a final vote expcted later today. Senate President Ben Albritton - who has not spoken to the media since March - is not expected to talk to reporters. The Senate & House yesterday altered @GovRonDeSantis prop tax proposal

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

The Florida Senate votes to send property tax measure to the voters (It is not subject to approval/veto by governor.) The final vote is 30-9

[Mitch Perry @MitchPerry18]

.@SenTomWright is singing a different tune today.
He now says that "I think we need to give the voters the opportunity to vote on" the property tax proposal that the Legislature is considering today to put on the Nov. ballot.

[Ana Goñi-Lessan @goni_lessan]

Sen. Corey Simon, who represents 12 fiscally constrained counties, said this is the hardest vote so far in his tenure in the Senate.

He said he's going to vote yes on the property tax proposal.

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

While property taxes are collected locally the Fla Leg uses those collections as an integral part of the state's school funding formula. The Legislature annually requires districts to collect a certain dollar amount from property taxes in order to receive state matching funds

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Wrap-up from Day 1: Florida Legislature advances DeSantis tax cut plan but splits with him on schools https://t.co/NECIN6WZDR via @POLITICOPro w help from @ALAtterbury

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

The Senate also have an amendment to remove the money for the amendment promotion as well ... they will be voting on it shortly

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Missed this from earlier: The Florida House today removed the $5.5 million that @GovRonDeSantis asked for to promote the property tax amendment to homeowners

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Just to note ... Perez time as speaker is scheduled to end in November and he is leaving the Legislature ... Republicans have already nominated Rep. Sam Garrison to be the next speaker

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Nominated by President Trump as ambassador to Brazil: "Daniel Perez of Florida." https://t.co/n45LgrrrBe

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

House Democratic Leader Jeffries on Perez

[Hakeem Jeffries @hakeemjeffries]

There it is.

The Florida House Speaker traded a gerrymandered congressional map in the middle of the decade for an Ambassadorship.

The culture of corruption is happening in plain sight.

Remember in November.