Scott PowersApril 19, 2021
7min3290
Just 3 Democrats and 2 Republicans have districts that could easily swing.
Tag: congressional districts
Scott PowersApril 19, 2021Scott PowersOctober 16, 2020
6min1086
GOP gains pushed advantage in Rep. Gus Bilirakis's CD 12 to double digits.
Scott PowersJanuary 11, 2016
3min269
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a bill Monday for a federal fair-districts amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopting many of the anti-gerrymandering provisions voters wrote into the Florida Constitution. Grayson’s bill calls for national restrictions on how states can draw congressional districts. Grayson, a Democrat from Orlando, is running for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat this year, […]
Bill RuftyDecember 3, 2015
2min241
Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross of Lakeland said he can live with the new shape of his 15th Congressional District approved by the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday even though it cuts more of his home county out of his district. Like many Florida members of Congress, Ross’ district boundaries changed when the court certified […]
Mitch PerryDecember 2, 2015
6min415
The Florida Supreme Court gave its blessing gave its blessing Wednesday to a congressional districts map that was picked by Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis back in October. The high court had ruled in July that the Legislature gerrymandered eight of the state’s 27 congressional districts in violation of the 2012 Fair District amendments. […]
Gary FineoutNovember 11, 20155min378
A long-running legal battle over Florida’s political landscape wound up back before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday where several justices sounded skeptical about the changes proposed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The hope is that the court will soon end three years of lawsuits, court hearings and special sessions by finally endorsing a new map […]
Bill RuftySeptember 25, 2015
6min166
Florida Senate Appropriations Chair Tom Lee missed his speaking engagement with the Polk County Tiger Bay Club on Thursday. The Brandon Republican had received a summons to Tallahassee, which Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis wouldn’t allow him to postpone. He was a witness for the judge’s hearings to decide from perhaps as many as seven maps of […]
Associated PressSeptember 13, 2015
3min212
A judge is set to hold a trial later this month to sort out the jumbled mess in Florida’s political landscape over the mapping of state congressional districts. Judge Terry Lewis agreed Friday to give attorneys involved in a three-year legal battle over Florida’s congressional districts until Monday to submit proposed maps. The Florida Supreme […]
Peter SchorschAugust 26, 2015
4min199
State Senator Joe Negron this morning upped the ante in the poker game to be President of the Florida Senate in 2016-18 by releasing the names of his colleagues who have pledged their support to him. Unfortunately for Negron, this latest ploy will likely fall flat. Claiming that he has the support of “Senators who […]
Phil AmmannAugust 20, 2015
3min200
As they say, we have three guarantees in life: birth, death and taxes. Floridians can add one more – both their state House and Senate will do its damnedest to muck up congressional redistricting. And if redrawing political maps for Congress is difficult enough now for the Legislature, Bill Day says just wait; they still […]