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wvit1001
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« on: 11 24, 14, 10:25:04:AM » Reply

Emails show GOP consultants’ ‘almost paranoid’ mission to circumvent Fla.’s gerrymandering ban



The Republican consultants had to be hush-hush — “almost paranoid” in the words of one — because of their high-stakes mission: Get go-betweens to help circumvent a Florida Constitutional ban on gerrymandering.
The plot was spelled out in a newly released batch of once-secret emails that show how the consultants surreptitiously drew congressional and state legislative maps. They then recruited seemingly independent citizens to submit them in an effort to strengthen the hand of Florida Republicans when the GOP-led Legislature redrew lawmaker districts in 2011.

The year before, Florida voters overwhelmingly amended the state’s constitution to prohibit legislators from drawing legislative and congressional districts that favor or disfavor incumbents or political parties. Citing the new amendments, a coalition of voting-rights and liberal groups called the Fair Districts Coalition sued the Legislature over its maps.

The emails, under court seal until this weekend, played a key role in a recent court victory to force the Legislature to redraw some of Florida’s congressional districts. The correspondence will take center stage in a related case challenging the state Senate maps.
 
The emails also provide a fly-on-the-wall glimpse of how political players used secrecy and deception as they recruited third parties to submit maps, some of which were drawn by Gainesville-based Data Targeting firm, led by political player Pat Bainter.
 
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article4077044.html#storylink=cpy
Truman62
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MAGA Policies bring Misery and Death to America!


« Reply #1 on: 11 24, 14, 10:33:56:AM » Reply

Evil, cheating scum!
 
Byteryder
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ante omnia armari


« Reply #2 on: 11 24, 14, 10:35:35:AM » Reply

Does that Law apply to Democrats too?
sweetwater5s9
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« Reply #3 on: 11 24, 14, 10:37:16:AM » Reply

From the same left-wing rag:

Not all of the plans and maps the consultants discussed became law. The emails, 538 pages worth, don’t explicitly show just what was ultimately approved by legislators.


And, despite the machinations of the consultants, there’s no clear evidence showing the consultants directly influencing lawmakers to circumvent the anti-gerrymandering law. Lawmakers say that, in the end, they made their decisions based on all the public evidence and data they had in front of them.


So even if the consultants used go-betweens, if lawmakers didn’t know about it, then there’s relatively little evidence to show that they had the intention of drawing districts to favor or disfavor incumbents.


Redistricting, which takes place every 10 years after the U.S. census, is designed to make sure that congressional and state legislative seats have an equal number of residents.


But in drawing the districts, the party in power often tries to maximize the strength of its voters.




Yes, Democrats do it as well...

wvit1001
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« Reply #4 on: 11 24, 14, 11:56:09:AM » Reply

so sweaty because your father was a racist old coot does that make it ok for you to be one ?
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« Reply #5 on: 11 24, 14, 12:39:39:PM » Reply

wvit,

In 2010 the Senate used an arcane Senate rule too pass obamacare with a 51 votes, rather than the normal and time honored 60 vote threshold...so do you think that was fair and the gerrymandering is not?   
chuck_curtis
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Let's go Brandon!


« Reply #6 on: 11 24, 14, 01:06:01:PM » Reply

Considering what collectivists won't stop at to advance their agenda, they have no pot to piss in.  They will lie, cheat, deceive, ignore laws, and steal.  All's fair in love and war. 
sweetwater5s9
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« Reply #7 on: 11 24, 14, 01:14:36:PM » Reply

Like Hooty, you are losing it, wvit...   No one cares about your problems with your father or mother.
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