December 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Governor DeSantis talks special sessions and the 2026 race for governor in a new interview. Florida Politics Publisher Peter Schorsch breaks down what's happening in Tallahassee.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the hotline and bring in the publisher
of Florida Politics, Peter Shore. You can find all of
this work and all of his team supporting at Florida
politics dot com and Peter, it sounds like we have
some special legislative sessions in our future for twenty twenty
six at least, Governor.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Shrining a rooming it for me, and you're twenty twenty six.
I'm trying to enjoy. Uh yeah, we did hear those
horrible words called special session. We're a month out from
the start of the twenty twenty sixth session, which in
an even year starts in January runs to March, as
opposed to odd years when it goes from March to May.
(00:41):
But the governor threw down an interview with the Floridian
Conservative kind of like Republican website and said, hey, if
they don't redistrict, I'm gonna well, he said he's going
to call it special session because I thought it was interesting.
He said, Hey, we're waiting for a court ruling on
the Voting Rights Act before we do the special session,
(01:04):
and that is an interesting wrinkle there, which so number one,
I don't know that they're going to do redistricting through
this next you know, sixty days from January to March.
I guess whatever he's thinking on redistricting is contingent on
whatever the ruling as out of the Supreme Court on
the Voting Rights Act is. I assume it's going to
(01:26):
be of a conservative bent. There's people that are you know,
that are opining on that, and then he's going to
take that because there is this inherent conflict in Florida
between basically, you know, the fair district's amendments would say
you can't do partisan gerremandering, you can't, you know, do
these things, and the idea that you can't you can't
(01:48):
kind of back off from the progress that you've made
for minorities and minority majority districts, meaning like you've you've
drawn a district to try and help black or Hispanic
voters elect someone of that is black or Hispanic, and
those things kind of run into conflict with fair districts,
and so I think, even though this is not a
(02:11):
Florida case, he's looking for some guidance there. So we're
going to go through session and then it looks like
after we get that ruling, we're going to have April
May June or something like that will be interesting because remember,
candidate qualifying is around that time, so they're gonna have
to sandwich this and really quick and get that done.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We're joined by the publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shorsch.
The governor also suggests that he might call a special
session on property taxes, which of course is shaping up
to be the issue for this upcoming legislative session. But
why would we need a special session in addition to
the regular session on property taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Because it's a complex issue. On Monday, the Florida House
passed through four of the eight bills that it has. Basically,
the House is putting together these eight different ideas. Not
all of them go together. Some of them are actually
in conflict, and they're going to push it to the
Senate and say, hey, you pick out which ones we
(03:08):
should put on the ballot. The governor doesn't like those,
he's going to kick it. He might veto those bills
and then draw them back into special session. To me,
it reminds me of Jeb Bush. I think had to
call the Florida Legislature back into special session eight times
to solve the medical malpractice issue. Not even solved, but
(03:30):
to address it. And I just wonder if we're going
to run into a situation where, you know, the House
does what it wants to do, the Senate does what
it wants to do, the governor doesn't like it, and
he just keeps calling them. The legislature goes into session,
gabbles out, and then he turns around and calls them
back into session. Right now, I'm not saying that that's
where it's headed, but like after last year where they
extended for so long, I would not be surprised.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Are you hearing anything new in terms of what the
final property tax proposal might look like? Are we getting
any kind of a consensus among lawmakers as to what
they're trying to do with property taxes, whether it's the
full elimination of them or something short of that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think that I don't want to say consensus because
I don't think that there's that, but I will say
the idea of putting more of the burden on people
that have second or like rental income homes, So like
maybe you get an exemption on your property taxes if
you own your one home, which is what the majority
(04:36):
of us do. You own your one home there's no
property taxes on that. But if you are a you know,
like if you're one of these hedge funds that owns,
you know, several hundred or several thousand rental properties throughout Florida,
you don't get to use that homestead exemption or you
don't get to We're not going to eliminate the taxes
on that. And so there's a little bit I want
(04:56):
to say. If there's anything that I think that's going
to get through, it's the idea that we will keep
property taxes on the second homes, on the vacation homes,
on the rental properties, et cetera. I think that no
matter what, there will be something that it may not
be even we may not even eliminate the burden on
(05:16):
people with their first homes, but we may shift more
of the burden onto the people that are again that
second home, that are rental income or like a hedge
fund owning a series of rental properties.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're joined by the publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shorsch.
Last thing, and this is still tied to that interview
the governor did when it comes to the race for
governor in twenty twenty six. Still not getting behind Byron
Donalds for governor and also still wouldn't commit to backing
Lieutenant Governor J. Collins. If Collins were to enter the race.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's definitely not back being Byron Donalds. That's what's still interesting,
is like that is going to go on and you
and I have talked about it. Wait a second, everything
would fall in line. And if he would just back
Byron Donald's trumpet, back him honestly, like can we just
like I don't how long does Pete hex Seth have
at SECTEF? Maybe that starting to flare up a little bit.
(06:11):
Maybe you put Rohn de Santas in there as a transition.
But I gotta feel bad if I am your lieutenant
governor and you're not going to endorse me to be governor,
then why am I in the number two spot to
begin with? Like what are you saying about me at
that point? And so the J. Collins just the nebulous
(06:32):
nature of what he's going to do. Man, that is
a really bad Hallmark Christmas movie right now, going into
the holidays, all right. The publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shoorschagan,
you can find all of his work, all of his
team's reporting a whole lot more at Florida politics dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Peter really appreciate the update. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Brian. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find
us online at Ryangormanshow dot com
Let's go to the hotline and bring in the publisher
of Florida Politics, Peter Shore. You can find all of
this work and all of his team supporting at Florida
politics dot com and Peter, it sounds like we have
some special legislative sessions in our future for twenty twenty
six at least, Governor.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Shrining a rooming it for me, and you're twenty twenty six.
I'm trying to enjoy. Uh yeah, we did hear those
horrible words called special session. We're a month out from
the start of the twenty twenty sixth session, which in
an even year starts in January runs to March, as
opposed to odd years when it goes from March to May.
(00:41):
But the governor threw down an interview with the Floridian
Conservative kind of like Republican website and said, hey, if
they don't redistrict, I'm gonna well, he said he's going
to call it special session because I thought it was interesting.
He said, Hey, we're waiting for a court ruling on
the Voting Rights Act before we do the special session,
(01:04):
and that is an interesting wrinkle there, which so number one,
I don't know that they're going to do redistricting through
this next you know, sixty days from January to March.
I guess whatever he's thinking on redistricting is contingent on
whatever the ruling as out of the Supreme Court on
the Voting Rights Act is. I assume it's going to
(01:26):
be of a conservative bent. There's people that are you know,
that are opining on that, and then he's going to
take that because there is this inherent conflict in Florida
between basically, you know, the fair district's amendments would say
you can't do partisan gerremandering, you can't, you know, do
these things, and the idea that you can't you can't
(01:48):
kind of back off from the progress that you've made
for minorities and minority majority districts, meaning like you've you've
drawn a district to try and help black or Hispanic
voters elect someone of that is black or Hispanic, and
those things kind of run into conflict with fair districts,
and so I think, even though this is not a
(02:11):
Florida case, he's looking for some guidance there. So we're
going to go through session and then it looks like
after we get that ruling, we're going to have April
May June or something like that will be interesting because remember,
candidate qualifying is around that time, so they're gonna have
to sandwich this and really quick and get that done.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We're joined by the publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shorsch.
The governor also suggests that he might call a special
session on property taxes, which of course is shaping up
to be the issue for this upcoming legislative session. But
why would we need a special session in addition to
the regular session on property taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Because it's a complex issue. On Monday, the Florida House
passed through four of the eight bills that it has. Basically,
the House is putting together these eight different ideas. Not
all of them go together. Some of them are actually
in conflict, and they're going to push it to the
Senate and say, hey, you pick out which ones we
(03:08):
should put on the ballot. The governor doesn't like those,
he's going to kick it. He might veto those bills
and then draw them back into special session. To me,
it reminds me of Jeb Bush. I think had to
call the Florida Legislature back into special session eight times
to solve the medical malpractice issue. Not even solved, but
(03:30):
to address it. And I just wonder if we're going
to run into a situation where, you know, the House
does what it wants to do, the Senate does what
it wants to do, the governor doesn't like it, and
he just keeps calling them. The legislature goes into session,
gabbles out, and then he turns around and calls them
back into session. Right now, I'm not saying that that's
where it's headed, but like after last year where they
extended for so long, I would not be surprised.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Are you hearing anything new in terms of what the
final property tax proposal might look like? Are we getting
any kind of a consensus among lawmakers as to what
they're trying to do with property taxes, whether it's the
full elimination of them or something short of that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think that I don't want to say consensus because
I don't think that there's that, but I will say
the idea of putting more of the burden on people
that have second or like rental income homes, So like
maybe you get an exemption on your property taxes if
you own your one home, which is what the majority
(04:36):
of us do. You own your one home there's no
property taxes on that. But if you are a you know,
like if you're one of these hedge funds that owns,
you know, several hundred or several thousand rental properties throughout Florida,
you don't get to use that homestead exemption or you
don't get to We're not going to eliminate the taxes
on that. And so there's a little bit I want
(04:56):
to say. If there's anything that I think that's going
to get through, it's the idea that we will keep
property taxes on the second homes, on the vacation homes,
on the rental properties, et cetera. I think that no
matter what, there will be something that it may not
be even we may not even eliminate the burden on
(05:16):
people with their first homes, but we may shift more
of the burden onto the people that are again that
second home, that are rental income or like a hedge
fund owning a series of rental properties.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're joined by the publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shorsch.
Last thing, and this is still tied to that interview
the governor did when it comes to the race for
governor in twenty twenty six. Still not getting behind Byron
Donalds for governor and also still wouldn't commit to backing
Lieutenant Governor J. Collins. If Collins were to enter the race.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's definitely not back being Byron Donalds. That's what's still interesting,
is like that is going to go on and you
and I have talked about it. Wait a second, everything
would fall in line. And if he would just back
Byron Donald's trumpet, back him honestly, like can we just
like I don't how long does Pete hex Seth have
at SECTEF? Maybe that starting to flare up a little bit.
(06:11):
Maybe you put Rohn de Santas in there as a transition.
But I gotta feel bad if I am your lieutenant
governor and you're not going to endorse me to be governor,
then why am I in the number two spot to
begin with? Like what are you saying about me at
that point? And so the J. Collins just the nebulous
(06:32):
nature of what he's going to do. Man, that is
a really bad Hallmark Christmas movie right now, going into
the holidays, all right. The publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Shoorschagan,
you can find all of his work, all of his
team's reporting a whole lot more at Florida politics dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Peter really appreciate the update. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Brian. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find
us online at Ryangormanshow dot com
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