Crist picks up the phone for property-tax cut
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If you're an
absentee voter, Gov. Charlie Crist could be calling soon.
The "Yes
On 1" campaign is flooding the state beginning Tuesday with recorded phone
messages featuring Crist's latest almost-personal plea for the $9.1 billion
property-tax-relief proposal that will appear on the Jan. 29 ballot.
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"The
system is broken, but you have the power to fix the system and lower property
taxes for all Floridians, guaranteed by law," Crist says in the
announcement.
"The
campaign is in full swing," said campaign spokeswoman Vivian Myrtetus.
Myrtetus said
"hundreds of thousands" of voters should also be receiving campaign
fliers in the next few days.
Myrtetus could
not say how much the mailers and the phone calls will cost.
The brightly
colored fliers blare "Save Our Homes" and "Take It." The
reference is to portability, or allowing homeowners to take their accrued 3
percent annual assessment caps with them when they move.
The proposed
amendment also would double the $25,000 homestead exemption for homes worth
more than $50,000 and cap annual increases for commercial and non-homestead
property at 10 percent.
"This is
something the governor's been talking about since he ran for office," said
Myrtetus.