{"id":306283,"date":"2026-06-13T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:30:09","slug":"lawsuit-targets-desantis-property-tax-amendment-wording-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306283\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit targets DeSantis property tax amendment wording | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoping to correct “a litany of misleading statements,” including the title of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax reduction proposal, the South Florida law firm of Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman<\/a> on Thursday morning filed a lawsuit against state officials to clear up some wording on the constitutional amendment<\/a> before the item is placed on the Nov. 3 election ballot.<\/p>\n

Village of Key Biscayne Attorney Chad Friedman, part of that law firm, confirmed that legal action to Islander News.<\/p>\n

He spoke at this past Tuesday night’s Village Council meeting and said they “would challenge the headline and several other parts of the ballot wording,” which includes a strong lean to benefit taxpayers without regard to other consequences, such as eliminating some vital local governmental funding.<\/p>\n

For example, he pointed out that the headline, “Save Our Homes From Excessive Property Taxes<\/a>,” is not neutral, nor is the $250,000 amount it refers to is correct when, in fact, the reduction is maximized at the $150,000 homestead tax break level the first year.<\/p>\n

“We believe it’s unconstitutional from a variety of reasons,” he said.<\/p>\n

When the final wording is approved and, on the ballot, “There are certain things we will be able to do, but not (promote) advocacy against it.”<\/p>\n

Educating the public is the key, something Village Manager Steve Williamson said, “That’s what we intend to do.”<\/p>\n

He said the method of that education will be developed “as we go through our budget hearings.”<\/p>\n

Other organizations, such as the Florida League of Cities<\/a>, also will be supplying the public with educational tools as to the ramifications of the amendment.<\/p>\n

“We just want to provide a fair and accurate ballot question,” Friedman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoping to correct “a litany of misleading statements,” including the title of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax reduction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128032,128040,128035,128033,128037,128036,126,128038,123,125,124,128034,123100,128039],"class_list":["post-306283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-desantis-property-tax-amendment","tag-florida-ballot-amendment-challenge","tag-florida-constitutional-amendment-ballot-wording","tag-florida-property-tax-ballot-2026","tag-florida-property-tax-reduction","tag-homestead-tax-exemption-florida","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-village-attorney","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-save-our-homes-amendment-lawsuit","tag-save-our-homes-from-excessive-property-taxes","tag-weiss-serota-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}