A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis took to broadcast channels on Monday to bash Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez for usurping his Special Session agenda.
The Governor spoke to Mark Levin and Sean Hannity about his gripes with the GOP supermajority that scuttled his Special Session agenda, gaveled out, and introduced their own product — ironically called the TRUMP Act.
DeSantis, who accused the legislative leadership of “theatrics” and weak legislation that unduly empowered the Department of Agriculture with the immigration enforcement he wants in his office, was in high dudgeon as he claimed a spotlight the men with the gavels simply don’t have.
DeSantis addressed “RINOs,” as Levin called them, with the host singling out Perez of Miami as an example.
He said the legislative product “gutted all the enforcement provisions” DeSantis’ allies’ bills contemplated.
“This is really the SWAMP act,” DeSantis disparaged, regarding the bill running in both sides of the Florida Legislature.
DeSantis said the bill “takes away the Governor’s authority” and says the Department of Agriculture “is not known for immigration enforcement.”
“The reality is the proposals we put forth are very strong,” he said.
DeSantis told Levin that Trump told him that he wants “proposals that are (as) strong as possible,” though Trump notably has yet to weigh in publicly on this issue, even though he spoke at length in Doral on Monday rallying members of Congress.
“The bill that the Legislature proposed mentioned agriculture 23 times. It did not mention deportation one time,” DeSantis said, adding that “liberal journalists that write in Tallahassee” are major proponents of the legislative product, and falsely claiming the Florida Democrats and the ACLU back the bill.
DeSantis averred when asked about the “breakdown of the voting” on the bill, which has advanced through special committees in the House largely on partisan lines, but said some legislators are willing to buck the trend.
“We’ve got a number of strong Republicans that are standing up for strong enforcement, but they’re being pressured by leadership, all the rank and file, to go softer and to gut the enforcement,” DeSantis said.
Levin called the leadership “RINOs” again, which DeSantis used as another cudgel against the “media aligning with Florida legislative leaders.”
Asked about the process, DeSantis complained that allied legislators “weren’t allowed to file bills until (Sunday) night.”
“They’re going to put on their bill. I know a lot of the strong conservative Senators will probably offer amendments, but I think that they’re going to hard wire it to be able to exclude our strong enforcement provisions, our provisions that are holding illegals accountable for registering to vote or cracking down on remittances that illegal laborers are sending back home to that we’ve got a whole host of things that are really, really strong, but I would imagine that they’re probably gonna push back on some of that. And so we’ll see what ends up happening,” DeSantis said.
The Governor urged Floridians to “give their state Senators and state Reps phone calls” to pressure them, even as he’d already last week urged Republican Executive Committees to do that to no avail.
And the host urged his listeners to start a “Levin surge” and pressure legislators in kind.
From there, the television hit followed, with Hannity incredulous that DeSantis was getting resistance for his wish list.
“All these legislators ran bashing Biden for four years,” DeSantis said, saying that legislators were rejecting his call to be a “force multiplier.”
“There’s swampy politics everywhere, and some of these legislative leaders foisted a different bill,” DeSantis added, saying the bill “takes power away from me … the power that I’m currently exercising now.”
DeSantis can use the Florida State Guard, National Guard, and Highway Patrol already, he told Hannity, but the “strong enforcement duties” he sought in his legislative package would make a bigger difference.
The question now: Are Tallahassee Republicans glued to cable news during their time off?
7 comments
MH/Duuuval
January 27, 2025 at 9:38 pm
Seeking to get back into Trump’s favor, Dee will put a half-billion dollars on the tab of Florida citizens.
No amount of money taken from Floridians or anyone else is going to make Susie Wiles thaw.
Trump enjoys the Sisyphean spectacle created.
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Dr Eddison Walters
January 28, 2025 at 6:34 am
It’s Time To End Tax And Spend Policies in Tallahassee: Florida Must Be More Fiscally Responsible And End Tax And Spend Policies To Provide Meaningful Homestead Tax Exemption That Will Lower The Cost Of Housing In Florida
Tax and spend must end in Tallahassee! It is time for fiscal responsibility in Tallahassee. Can anyone in Tallahassee explain why they continue to increase property taxes at such a rapid rate in Florida? Increasing property taxes have become a real burden for the average everyday hardworking Florida resident as the cost of insurance continue to skyrocket. A significant reason why housing costs continue to increase is because property tax and insurance costs continue to skyrocket as property values rise in Florida. The revenues from property taxes have grown from $27,774,755,770 in 2013 to more than double to $56,042,520,793 by 2023, and the legislature keeps raising taxes as values continue to increase so they can spend even more taxpayers’ money while offering little relief to taxpayers. Legislators have also failed to deliver relief from skyrocketing insurance costs. Why do they continue to let property taxes increase when they could provide relief to lower housing costs? Why has insurance continued to grow? It’s time to put Tallahassee on notice. Tallahassee must provide relief for hardworking families by deliver a meaningful homestead exemption and limited property tax increase. Tallahassee must let working families keep more of their own more. Tax and spend policies must end in Tallahassee.
gary budway
January 30, 2025 at 2:13 pm
I fully agree with you and your statements regarding the excessive property tax’s causing very serious problems for all Florida residents. Even with the Homestead Tax rules increasing for the homeowners’ seniors and young families are being taxed out of their homes our elected representatives are on a never-ending spree. Huge amounts of unnecessary spending for projects that private parties should be paying for are being paid by grants from taxpayers.
It no just only state representatives doing this, almost every city, county, appointed water boards, school boards, you name it are involved in the money grab.
HOW ABOUT IT GOVENOR, YOUR TERM ENDS IN TWO YEARS SO DO IT NOW.
Those waiting in the wings to want more power, more money, yes all are even now enacting pay raises for themselves.
Don’t want a tax and spend Democratic majority as they will do it once given power.
We the seniors on fixed incomes can only afford so much before our choice will be only to move to someplace we can afford to both own a home and pay our other expenses(food, medicine, insurances, and doctor bills).
Thank you for allowing me to express my frustration, and freedom of speech.
Paul Hart
January 28, 2025 at 8:11 am
The way Rhonda Santis sucks up the Stand-Up Comedian in Chief is embarrassing.
Moody Blue
January 28, 2025 at 1:52 pm
Welcome to your lame duck era, Tiny D.
MH/Duuuval
January 28, 2025 at 8:42 pm
Dee’s boots are made for quacking.
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