Well, it was a good run. #America250 💀

Happy Birthday President Trump

This started as a tax debate. It isn’t anymore. For months, we’ve argued about whether property taxes are too high, whether homeowners deserve relief, and whether local governments have grown too comfortable with rising property values. Those are fair questions. But the state’s own Revenue Estimating Conference now projects roughly $11.9 billion in recurring reductions to local government revenue. That shifts the conversation. Because governments that cannot fund themselves eventually have to ask someone else to do it. And when that happens, the debate is no longer about taxes. It’s about who makes the decisions. Who decides whether a sheriff’s budget grows? Who decides whether a fire station stays open? Who decides whether a county can pave roads, maintain parks, or expand services? Today, those decisions are made locally. Tomorrow, they may depend on annual decisions made hundreds of miles away in Tallahassee. Supporters see tax relief. Critics see budget cuts. Both may be missing the bigger story. This isn’t really a debate about taxes anymore. It’s a debate about governance.

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Paula Stark fails to qualify for HD 47, giving Democrats an early win Reporting by @GabrielleRusson #FlaPol flapol.com/4vGD6jj

So many incredible memories from the last two weeks. There were more important ones to me from a family perspective but, as an individual … as a dorky fifth-grader who memorized the line of all the Roman emperors, to the even dorkier high schooler who was President of the Latin Club, to the still dorky man child who publicly recites Marc Antony’s funeral speech on the Ides of March, seeing the Lupa Capitolina in person, and as someone who himself was raised by wolves, this was a bucket-list item marked complete.

This is what happens when the GOP state chair is too distracted running for Congress. Congratulations @EvanPower

Orange County races set after qualifying ends, and there are some familiar faces Reporting by @GabrielleRusson flapol.com/4uw3cEM #FlaPol #QualiWeek

10 candidates qualify for race to succeed @RepWilson in CD 24 Reporting by @JesseScheckner flapol.com/4ovO892 #FlaPol #QualiWeek

Democrats will think this is a victory, but it's not; they made a deal with the Devil decades ago to trade competitive districts for guaranteed minority majority districts. But with VRA gone, they are left with these kind of scraps... @MaxwellFrostFL effectively wins another ...

Four Black candidates - @CongresswomanSC, @HolnessforFL, @unclelukereal1, @iElijahManley - and @DWSTweets round out CD 20 Democratic Primary field Reporting by @JacobOgles flapol.com/4vabjrZ #FlaPol

Four Black candidates - @CongresswomanSC, @HolnessforFL, @unclelukereal1, @iElijahManley - and @DWSTweets round out CD 20 Democratic Primary field Reporting by @JacobOgles flapol.com/4vabjrZ #FlaPol

The sheer chutzpah of @CongresswomanSC running to regain this seat...

Massive field qualifies in race to succeed @ByronDonalds in Congress Reporting by @JacobOgles flapol.com/3Qmtjjr #FlaPol #QualiWeek

Taken too soon.

Joining an exclusive club.

Best news of the day. @RepMaxwellFrost is a fighter. Congrats.

.@MaxwellFrostFL effectively wins another term in Congress Reporting by @JacobOgles #FlaPol flapol.com/43tWF2z

Wrestlemania 2075: Moon Base Alpha

A special needs baby and he still is.