Constitutional Opinion No. 2026-0857
Case Information
- Content Scored
- DeSantis/Ingoglia Post — "FAFO Audits" / Don't New York Our Florida (Limited Government, Taxpayer Protection)
- Source
- Office of the Governor of Florida / Florida Chief Financial Officer (official government social media)
- Author
- Gov. Ron DeSantis, quoting CFO Blaise Ingoglia
- Publication Date
- 2025-11-11
- Content Type
- Media / Government-Source Commentary
- Opinion Issued
- 2026-07-22
- AFCS Version
- 1.0
Holding
This is government-source commentary again, and its message strikes closer to the framework's fiscal core than the last one — which is why it scores a touch higher despite the same thin, punchy format. Its substance is limited government and the protection of the taxpayer: a warning against importing the high-tax, high-spend, big-government model of New York into Florida, and an endorsement of auditing wasteful spenders to keep government lean and accountable to the people who fund it. It advances the limits on government in the plainest terms — protect the taxpayer, not big government is nearly a paraphrase of the article that warns against the bloated, centralized administrative state, and the FAFO audit initiative is that principle put to work (Article XII). It advances honest money and fiscal stewardship — the discipline that treats the public purse as a trust to be guarded, not a resource to be spent freely (Article X). It defends the taxpayer's property against waste — the citizen's earnings are his own (Article IX). And it rests on the sovereignty of the citizen over his government — leaders serving the taxpayer rather than the apparatus (Article II). The Don't New York Our Florida framing is populist and pointed, but it names a real and coherent contrast between two governing models, one the America-first fiscal tradition squarely favors. What keeps it in the middle of the aligned band is form, not substance: this is a brief endorsement — FAFO audits! — sloganeering more than governing detail, so the Standard credits the unmistakable direction (lean government, guarded taxpayer) while noting it cannot assess the audits' rigor, fairness, or results from a rally cry alone. As commentary it is scored on the 70/30 weighting and carries a Journalistic Integrity assessment reflecting honest but promotional, one-sided advocacy. Tier 1 nets to 74; under the commentary weighting the result is 74 — Mostly America First.
It is the judgment of this Court that Opinion No. 2026-0857 is hereby entered into the record, in accordance with the America First Constitutional Standard. The score stands. The reasoning is published. The record is public.