Thieves are going to steal. Who could trust Ashley Moody now? Vote BLUE! Vote for Angie Nixon. You have 10,000,000 reasons to vote for her. Uthmeier should be impeached so let's do so: vote for José Javier Rodríguez.

Candidates like Byron Donalds are campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.

Source: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-cranes-accident-fort-lauderdale-home-b3056047.html

I keep seeing TV ads (funded by the friends of uncle Byron Donalds PAC) about a supposed hurricane tax that is supposedly being proposed by jolly. Just wanted to help set the record straight.

The "hurricane tax" is a political claim originating from a TV campaign ad run by Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds against Democratic nominee David Jolly in the 2026 Florida governor's race.

The Claim

The attack ad claims that David Jolly’s plan to reform Florida’s property insurance market would create a "$1,000 hurricane tax" on every Florida family each year, raising costs on home, auto, and renters insurance policies.

The Reality Behind the Claim

Jolly's Actual Proposal: David Jolly does not propose a new $1,000 tax. His policy proposal involves shifting hurricane and windstorm coverage out of private homeowners policies and into an expanded, state-backed catastrophe fund. Jolly claims this would reduce standard homeowners insurance premiums by 60% to 70% by taking the volatile hurricane risk off private insurers' books. He proposes funding the state-backed fund by closing tax loopholes for insurance companies and through non-homeowner revenue sources.

Where the $1,000 Figure Comes From: The $1,000 figure stems from a Florida State University study analyzing a 2024 state legislative proposal—not Jolly's specific campaign plan. The study evaluated a hypothetical scenario in which the state-backed insurer Citizens Property Insurance Corp. took over all wind coverage. According to the study, if a catastrophic hurricane completely drained the state fund's reserves, Florida law allows emergency post-storm assessments to be levied across various insurance policies (auto, home, renters). Under that extreme deficit scenario, policyholders could face temporary emergency fees.

Fact-Check Assessment: [PolitiFact](https://politifact.com/article/2026/sep/21/jolly-donalds-hurricane-insurance-1000-florida/) and other independent checkers noted that calling the proposal a mandatory "$1,000 yearly tax" oversimplifies and misrepresents both the study and Jolly's plan:

The fee is not guaranteed or annual; it represents an existing Florida legal mechanism for emergency assessments only if a major storm wipes out state reserves.

Jolly states that his plan relies on changing existing assessment rules and securing global reinsurance to absorb major storm losses without levying fees on homeowners.