Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida is suing two major textbook publishers he described as pushing “egregious” content in its instructional materials.

What he means by vote my mail, I think, just in my conversations, is the states like California and Nevada and others, where they just send all these ballots out into the ether,” DeSantis said during a news conference.

Florida law requires the publishers to give districts the lowest price they have for products in any state or other district.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that he doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s desire to ban voting by mail applies to Florida. Asked about Trump’s vow on Monday to “lead a movement” to end the use of mail-in ballots, DeSantis said he thought it only applied to states that send mail ballots to all voters.

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, once counsel for Fair Districts, also said the partisan motivation of new maps would be clear in court.

Other states should emulate Florida’s election laws, which have been changed twice following the 2020 election but still allow people to vote by mail, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday. “So, we showed it can be done.

Gov. DeSantis has targeted cities over property tax hikes, but he's also signed budgets that rely on higher property taxes to fund schools.

At the same time, though, DeSantis has approved state budgets that include an increasing reliance on local property taxes. That’s been evident in school district taxes, where the total required local effort has risen $3 billion since the first budget DeSantis signed.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state will appeal — possibly all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court — and predicted Florida will “be vindicated” after a federal Judge knocked down part of Florida’s law restricting books in school libraries.