The Federalist By: Joy Pullmann
Republicans may be heading toward a no-confidence vote in Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez after he and other state legislators have spent this spring attempting to neuter policies that make Florida the national pacesetter for effective governance.
This includes efforts to hamper immigration enforcement, protect education waste and indoctrination, undo lawsuit limits, increase taxes, and smear conservatives. The drama includes an attempt to scandalize a charity Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey, supports.
“Florida was very atypical for six years, and then now it’s just going right back into typical mode, which is more like a Texas or an Indiana or a Georgia, a red legislature that, ‘We’re going to do everything we can to bring Walmart’s tax rate to the lowest level imaginable’ and then do absolutely nothing to combat things that affect the quality of life for the desiccating middle class,” says Anthony Sabatini, a Republican former state representative who is now a county commissioner outside Orlando.
Primary battles backdrop the invective-laden, highly publicized spat between the governor and House. Perez is also term-limited and rumored to be readying to run for Miami mayor, an open seat in a Democrat-friendly locale. The current Republican Miami mayor demanded DeSantis reinstitute Covid restrictions and supports high-cost energy…
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