Chauncey Gardiner

native Floridian; trusted advisor

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@rodger He’s primed to achieve a one-to-one touchdown to interception ratio

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@MadisonSocial This is truly a high-quality tweet

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

SKATTEBO: Skattebo Football Jaxson, Victory Football
COACH: No, Cam, you can't play with Jaxon
SKATTEBO: Good Skattebo Play Football Skattebo Depth Chart Quarterback
COACH: Cam, he has a concussion, he's not playing football
SKATTEBO: Jealousy Harbaugh

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@Reuters It’s jarring to hear the FIFA Peace Prize awardee speak in terms so bellicose.

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@claireheddles lol

[Anthony Close ☀️ @AnthonyClose]

I don't know who will win this race, but I certainly feel for Josie Tomkow.

With gas prices nearing record levels, her commute from Polk County to SD-14 must cost a pretty penny.

My advice: run in the district you actually live in.

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@FOXSports It’s REAL weird to have audio from the Jets game over video for the Carolina game.

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@Jesusteachings @kaitlancollins Not real familiar with the First Amendment, are you?

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@Reuters lol, truly

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@JenniferHo8769 Greedy profiteers! We should nationalize them!

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

The UT-Austin football photo controversy, which has unmasked a really ugly identitarian subcurrent on the right, is deeply ironic. The right-leaning legal movement—conservatives and libertarians—spent decades fighting to defeat the principle that universities should admit students based on race. Texas was even an important battle in this war! In Fisher v. Texas, the right lost, and the Court let the university keep picking kids based on skin color, in 2013 and 2016.

Flashforward to 2023, and finally, the right wins: After SFFA v. Harvard, the Court says no more race-conscious admissions. Unfortunately for Bo French and his identitarian ilk, preventing universities from advantaging certain minorities does not only and always benefit white students. But this is what race-neutrality looks like: plenty of Asian and Indian overrepresentation.

At some point, if you're against progressive admissions officials privileging certain minorities, and you're also against race-blind policies under which other minorities do well, you are basically just outing your movement as white nationalist and shouldn't complain when you are denounced as such.

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

Fall in Florida. Breathtaking…

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@courtney883 Yeah they need to bail on those- absolutely terrible

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@BrettErickson28 Whatever he does, he'll lie about the results and consequences.

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@TheTNHoller @DesireeReports Feinstein redux

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@JakeSherman @JimRosicaFL Stephen Miller dgaf

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

My biggest takeaway from 18 months discussing Amendment 3 is how few people, including many state elected officials, actually understand how city and county budgets work.

And part of that confusion has been fueled by the FAFO “audits,” which throw out big numbers without enough detail showing what is recurring versus one-time, what belongs to enterprise or restricted funds, what represents capital projects, and what is actually tied to the general fund.

Those distinctions matter.

Ending a one-time capital project doesn’t pay next year’s firefighters. Money sitting in a utility enterprise fund can’t simply be moved over to pay police officers. Eliminating parks, libraries and recreation may still not come close to closing a recurring budget hole.

Just as few people seem to understand what inflation and growth actually do to local budgets. A city serving more residents, employees and businesses while paying higher wages, construction costs, insurance, fuel and equipment costs will spend more nominal dollars over time. That was true before Amendment 3, and it will be true after it.

And restricting property-tax revenue doesn’t magically make the cost of government disappear. Cities and counties can shift costs to fire assessments, stormwater charges and other non-ad valorem fees.

That doesn’t mean local government shouldn’t become more efficient. It absolutely should.

But before Florida fundamentally rewrites how local government is funded, we should at least understand how it is funded today.

Big numbers without context aren’t an audit. And moving a cost from your tax bill to your fee bill isn’t necessarily a tax cut.

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@JasonMBrodsky I’m sure the President will forcefully confront Putin about this

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Hard to overstate how big a failure DOGE was. The government slashed its workforce without meaningfully shrinking the government’s overall footprint. So taxpayers got a less capable bureaucracy while spending billions paying people not to work. It was mostly performance art.

[Chauncey Gardiner @jankyset]

@Reuters @hpschneider LOL- Yeah, he's always shown himself amenable to considering the incontrovertible laws of economics