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Property taxes top issue for Wimauma man
Lafayette Matthews doesn’t own a home. He’s afraid to.
“I’m scared to get a house, because taxes are so high,” said Matthews, 61, who has made his living the hard way – by picking fruit for more than 20 years.
He says the property tax issue helped bring him to the precinct 913 – at the Wimauma Civic Center – and a wish that candidates he chose will do more for the poor. He’s not sure they will.
“But I hope so,” Matthews said.—Karen Branch-Brioso
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