TALLAHASSEE – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced he will be calling a special session later this month.
In response, DeSantis Watch Communications Director Anders Croy released the following statement:
“After six years in office, it is clear that Governor Ron DeSantis still has no solutions to lower costs and provide relief to working families and seniors suffering under his historic affordability crisis.
“That’s why once again the Governor is resorting to political stunts to distract from his failures of leadership that have allowed his corporate elite donors to grow more wealthy while everyday Floridians struggle to make ends meet.
“Instead of calling a special session focused on lowering costs, Governor DeSantis is bringing legislators back to Tallahassee to act as a rubberstamp for his real agenda of advancing his own political ambitions and attacking the freedoms of Floridians.
“Under the Governor’s ‘Florida Blueprint,’ homeowners are paying five times the national average for property insurance, over half of renters are paying more than 30% of their income for housing, and only two counties have weekly wages higher than the national average, but Ron DeSantis is only focused on playing politics instead of addressing the real issues facing the people he was elected to serve.”
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DeSantis Watch is a project of the Florida Communications and Research Hub, managed by Florida Watch and Progress Florida, dedicated to shining a spotlight on the Governor’s failures of leadership that make all of us less free. Together, we are building a grassroots movement to hold Governor DeSantis accountable and ensure we all have the freedom to live our own version of the American Dream.