Rubio won’t back down on taxes for Pruitt

February 28th, 2008 | Category: Florida Politics Blog

Senate President Ken Pruitt has said the Senate does not want to wrangle again by property taxes. But that will not stop House Speaker Marco Rubio from trying.

“I understand whether they don’t want to form out it … it won’t happen,” Rubio said today in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board. "But we have to at least be able to say we tried, that we recognized the circumstances our state

is facing economically, that we understand the challenges and the opportunities that we have and we did everything we could in our moment there to assemble those things happen.

"Ultimately whether the Senate doesn’t want to do it, we’re not going to be angry. We have to accept that’s how a bicameral process works. But I can’t allow those pronouncements to be what sets our agenda."