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After spending the last year talking about eliminating or cutting Floridians\u2019 property taxes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that he won\u2019t campaign to help pass an amendment on the ballot that he first proposed.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s because the Legislature didn\u2019t pass his amendment exactly as he wanted it, he said at a Tampa news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the Legislature did wasn\u2019t my proposal,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had a proposal, and I felt an obligation if that were on the ballot, to have to lead the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis said he will vote for it but won\u2019t put his political weight behind the amendment like he would have if his version was on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone asked me to do something, I\u2019m not saying I wouldn\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in terms of leading the effort, in terms of me saying, \u2018Here we go, we\u2019re going to do this, we\u2019re going to do all that,\u2019 you know, I\u2019m not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statements are a dramatic reversal from DeSantis\u2019 rhetoric for the past year, in which he took to Fox News, news conferences and other public events proposing to eliminate Floridians\u2019 property taxes through a constitutional amendment. But he kept his plan a secret until releasing it last month, giving lawmakers just days to vet and study it before a rushed special session.<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 property tax plan would have raised the homestead exemption to $250,000 from the current $50,000 cap. The homestead exemption reduces the taxable value on owner-occupied homes to give Floridians a break on their tax bills.<\/p>\n

The amendment the Legislature approved still does that \u2014 except it doesn\u2019t apply to property taxes that go to schools.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI, for one, can\u2019t support removing billions of dollars from public education today,\u201d said Sen. Jay Trumbull, a Panama City Republican, during the Legislature\u2019s special session.<\/p>\n

To many observers, the Legislature\u2019s plan made the amendment more palatable to voters, at least 60% of whom need to vote for it to become law. Already, the amendment is facing a wave of opposition from anti-tax advocates and local government officials. Last week, a new committee launched to oppose it.<\/p>\n

DeSantis has hardly mentioned the amendment since the Legislature\u2019s action. On Monday, he said he didn\u2019t know if voters would approve the Legislature\u2019s version.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think most people are going to be supportive of it, but I don\u2019t know that,\u201d he said. \u201cI know ours would have passed because we did a lot of research on exactly how to structure it and how to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He said his amendment would have been \u201chistoric\u201d but didn\u2019t say why. The amendment\u2019s ballot summary states that it requires the \u201cfull elimination\u201d of property taxes, but the actual text of the amendment does not do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cOurs was part of a larger vision, and I think it would have really been something that would have been historic,\u201d he said. \u201cThis could lead to that, but you\u2019re going to have to do other things in the future, and I kind of felt like this was the one shot we had to really put us on this pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At a Tampa news conference, the governor complained that the Legislature didn\u2019t pass his amendment exactly as he wanted it. 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