Byron Donalds
Role at the time: U.S. representative and Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee, speaking in Orlando as identified by the article.
Statement summary
Donalds argued that rejecting Amendment 3 could prompt property owners to leave Florida and leave local governments with deeper budget cuts than a property-tax reduction would cause.
“If people leave and they’re not paying property taxes at all, that’s another.”
Florida Politics reports direct comments by Byron Donalds in Orlando about Amendment 3. It attributes to him a prediction that rejecting the measure could lead property owners to leave Florida and leave local governments with deeper budget cuts. The article does not establish whether that prediction will occur.
Why we used this label
The case asks whether Donalds's tax-relief approach can protect local services. His statement directly defends the amendment by presenting its defeat as the more damaging alternative for local budgets.