{"id":371923,"date":"2026-08-15T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:04:16","slug":"political-connections-florida-august-14-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371923\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Connections Florida August 14 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has submitted an updated version of the property tax amendment that is set to appear on November&#8217;s ballot, and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer took aim at the amendment in his State of the City address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews.smart.link\/keap967fv?cid=id-app838_m-digital_s-web_cmp-2023-cm-organic-app-promo_c-livestream_mkt-tampa_po-organic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SN_BANNER_APP-LIVE-STREAM_GIF_30968_SC_v02D-1.gif\" class=\"hashed-image\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nUthmeier submits updated version of property tax amendment<\/p>\n<p>Our top story: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has submitted an updated version of the property tax amendment that is set to appear on November&#8217;s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The re-write was ordered by a judge, who deemed the original title and summary were misleading and akin to a political slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News Political Reporter Jason Delgado\u00a0has more on the changes \u2014 and the path forward for property tax reform. Use the video player above to watch the report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VoterGuide_article_banner.jpeg\" alt=\"Your Voter Guide on the Spectrum News App\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\nIn state of city address, Orlando mayor says is he concerned about Amendment 3<\/p>\n<p>Yet another local leader voiced their concerns about Amendment 3 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>That was Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, speaking during his annual State of the City Address.<\/p>\n<p>In his comments, he stated that property taxes cost Orlando property owners about $7 a day, and help fund crucial services.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about what he had to say during his speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/news\/2026\/08\/14\/orlando-mayor-to-deliver-annual-state-of-the-city-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has submitted an updated version of the property tax amendment that is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,139,141,140,2206,275,135,835],"class_list":["post-371923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-political-connections","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371923","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=371923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}