Jeff Brandes

This is Scott Miller and my partner, Greg Fink.

And our special guest today is Jeff Brandes, joining us on The Political Matrix.

Welcome to it.

Welcome to it.

Senator, former Senator Jeff Brandes.

How are you doing these days?

I'm doing great.

Then you go back to that problem where you've got local governments or local sheriffs having to go to Tallahassee to beg for funding.

Look, I thought one of the most interesting things came from fire officials at this press conference because it goes back to something that former State Senator Jeff Brandes brought up Friday morning when I had him on during the 8 o'clock hour.

What you're hearing a lot is that the cost of services and the budgets for local governments has skyrocketed in recent years and it's outpaced inflation.

And one of the points that Jeff made that I thought was really notable was that you're comparing like base inflation to Instead of taking a look at some of the things that local governments have to actually purchase.

Right now, I have former state senator and president of the Florida Policy Project.

Jeff Brandes is with me.

You can check out the Florida Policy Project at floridapolicyproject.org. Jeff, thanks so much for taking a few minutes to come in.

Really appreciate it.

And we know we're just going to pass it on to the renters and to the small businesses that are ultimately going to end up bearing this higher cost, because if we change millage, that's who's going to feel the most.

And in studio with

me, I have president of the Florida Policy Project, former state senator Jeff Brandes.

You can learn more at floridapolicyproject.org. We're talking about Amendment 3, the property tax amendment.

Now, tomorrow in the 8 o'clock hour, we're going to have a really great guest on.

Former Republican State Senator Jeff Brandes is going to be in studio with me.

He has been a critic of the property tax amendment.

The reason I'm having him on, look, selling the benefits of Amendment 3, not difficult.

We don't have to spend a whole hour talking about the benefits of Amendment 3.

To me, the more interesting part is whether or not the case against it has merit.

And so Jeff Brandes is going to be in tomorrow in studio, and he will answer your questions about Amendment 3.

You can ask him anything you want.

Yeah.

Aren't they? Former state senator Jeff Brandes, who we had at seat of the table last night, he's coming to the studio.

He stayed in town, so I said, why don't you come by? We're going to talk about Amendment 3, but a bunch of other stuff, too.

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In studio with us is someone you might recognize if you were at Seed to Table with us last night, former state senator Jeff Brandes joining us.

Man, this has been awesome having you on last night at Seed to Table, getting to know you, even just BSing a little bit off air here and there.

We'll have you both on the show.

Jeff Brandes, Jonathan Martin, thank you.

Two sides, one decision.

Your chance to get it right.

And that's not the easiest to overcome.

It's going to be a tough fight.

Former State Senator Jeff Brandes noted, though, that...

If we even get to the 50% threshold, that is clearly the taxpayers of Florida saying something needs to be done here.

We're gonna be live all three hours, uh, there, um, in North Naples.

And, uh, we're gonna have in the 6:00 hour, uh, we've got, uh, four guests that will be seated with, uh, me moderating, and we've got state senator, former State Senator, uh, Jeff Brandes, who heads up the Vote No coalition, uh, very much against this, and along with him will be Lee County Commissioner David Mollica.

Uh, who is no on this.

And I'm, I cannot say this enough, I'm very thankful, uh, that he's coming to do this.

And I'm very thankful for Mollica to come out to be a part of this on Monday, and a shout-out to him.

I, I really, really respect that.

Uh, on the, uh, yes side, State Senator John Martin, uh, of Lee County, and Collier County Commissioner Hall will be with us as well.

So that is on Monday, uh, at Seed to Table, starting at 5:00.

Both are in favor of Amendment 3.

On the no side, we're gonna have former State Senator Jeff Brandes.

He actually heads up the Vote No coalition.

So there's a guy I expect to be coming in, gun slinging with facts, figures.

Um, you know, this is one of those deals where I, I'm sure he knows that Amendment 3 is pretty damn popular among Republicans in Lee County, uh, and beyond, for anyone, uh, listening or watching anywhere in southwest Florida.

Uh, but Commissioner Mollica is going to come on.

He'll be with, uh, again, that former state senator, Jeff Brandes.

Those two will be on the no side.