Associated PressNovember 8, 2022
6min0
Gov. Ron DeSantis demanded this map. Now Republicans stand to gain as many as four House seats.
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Associated PressNovember 8, 2022
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 7, 2016
3min366
The lines have been drawn, the districts renumbered and now the chatter begins about what it all means for some lawmakers’ political futures. All of the seats will be on the ballot in 2016. Even-number districts got a two-year term; odd-number districts got a four-year term. First elected in 2010, Fort Myers Republican Sen. Lizbeth […]
Scott PowersJanuary 7, 2016
2min346
The renumbering of Florida Senate seats is changing timetables on political ambitions. Among the potential changes to partisan matchups is the possibility state Sen. David Simmons might draw a primary challenge from state Rep. Jason Brodeur. Brodeur, a Republican from Sanford, has been contemplating running for Simmons’ seat in 2018 when they’re both term-limited out of […]
Jim RosicaJanuary 6, 2016
2min508
A spokesman for state Sen. Gwen Margolis says she will run for re-election no matter what. The 81-year-old Miami Democrat now represents District 35, the coastal part of northeast Miami-Dade County. Under a new Senate map approved by Circuit Judge George Reynolds, Margolis lives in what will be District 37. But that would put her […]
Jim RosicaJanuary 5, 2016
4min486
3:30 p.m. update: The new, renumbered state Senate district map is now here. Staff from the Florida Senate and Auditor General’s office met Tuesday to assign random numbers to districts in the state’s new Senate District map. Here are the results, with the first number being the district number on the map as adopted by Circuit Judge George […]
Jim RosicaJanuary 4, 2016
3min229
Staff from the Florida Senate and Auditor General’s office will meet Tuesday to assign random numbers to districts in the state’s new Senate District map. Senate President Andy Gardiner announced the meeting in a Monday news release. The random numbering will be done in an open meeting at 9 a.m. in Room 412 of the Capitol Complex’s Knott Building. Staff […]
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterDecember 31, 2015
6min839
A Florida circuit judge has approved a new map for the state’s 40 Senate districts that could shift control away from Republicans. Judge George Reynolds on Wednesday rejected boundaries for the Florida Senate drawn by Sen. Bill Galvano. Instead, Reynolds sided with a map drawn by a coalition of voting rights groups, including the League […]
Jim RosicaDecember 23, 2015
4min337
Florida’s election supervisors are asking the courts to resolve the state Senate redistricting saga by March 15 to protect the “quality and integrity of the (voting) process.” The Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections filed its notice Wednesday with Circuit Judge George Reynolds, who is in the process of deciding how to redraw the state’s 40 […]
Associated PressDecember 16, 20154min175
The state senator in charge of a new political map says that the Senate proposal was not drawn in a way to aid fellow Republicans or incumbents now in office. Sen. Bill Galvano was in charge of the Senate committee that was responsible for drawing a map for state Senate districts. The Bradenton Republican testified […]
Jim RosicaDecember 14, 20156min258
A plaintiffs’ lawyer on Monday squarely set up his boogeyman for this week’s state Senate redistricting trial: Sen. Bill Galvano, the chamber’s redistricting chair, its Republican leader and a future Senate president. “He made all the significant decisions regarding their map,” said attorney David King in his opening statement. “None of the other senators ever saw […]