MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
This is good news. They will have to submit emails and draft maps. There is a new constitutional amendment that outlaws districts to be drawn for political gain. I live in a district for the state upper chamber that snakes from downtown Ybor City to St. Pete to Ruskin to Samoset and is less then a quarter a mile wide in the section I live on it's way to pick up New Town in Sarasota. In the 2012 election I was surprised to be on the wrong side of the street for the district I used to be in. Ybor City and Downtown Tampa is 45 minutes away. My state senator lives in Tampa. I get political mail from 3 different state senators from the 2 districts on either side of my less then quarter mile strip and from some dude in Tampa. You can't tell me they needed my vote in Oneco for a minority democrat in Tampa. They don't need a 85% voter sink in down town Tampa for democrats. Democratic minority candidate will do just fine with out my vote up there. I would rather vote for a home town democrat like I used to.
The fight between voting-rights groups such as the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Legislature stems from 2010 constitutional amendments adopted by voters that specify lawmakers couldn't base their decisions when re-drawing congressional and legislative districts on the desire for political gain.
Last year, the Supreme Court tossed out the first version of the Florida Senate's own maps after concluding they unfairly advantaged Republicans. The Fair Districts challengers then sued to overturn the congressional maps. While Democrats made some inroads in both the Legislature and congressional delegations, they remained in the minority in both following the 2012 elections
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Here is the opinion for you legal types:
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2013/sc13-949.pdf
by trkingmomoe on Sat, 12/14/2013 - 12:07am