Corrine Brown's district getting a shake up?

[RattlerGator]

If the Roberts Court was "activist" in the slightest it would have taken the logically pure approach and struck down ObamaCare instead of bending over backwards to defer to the political process. It was, in my opinion, a good brake on the out-of-control judicial activism that has been going on for years -- left, right & otherwise. Make the politicians do their job, and correct their mistakes. We aren't slaves to the federal or state Supreme Courts and they are *both* getting a little too big for their britches.

Corrine's meandering district, by the way, I do believe was initially drawn . . . by the Florida Supreme Court . . . as a crazy, meandering district.

Wasn't it?

So, now the accepted conventional wisdom is that rather than snake down the Saint Johns River the Jacksonville district will spread westward and likely eliminate Gwen Graham's district, put the Tallahassee area into two CDs -- one looking west to Pensacola and one east to Jacksonville. Okay.

I doubt if this "victory" is going to work out the way Democrats suspect.

We're probably going to lose an African American member of Congress in Florida and pick up a Puerto Rican member of Congress from the Orange County / Osceola County area. Hopefully, black people are paying attention. All I know for sure is that an angry Corrine is something to behold.

[finehoe]

Corrine's meandering district, by the way, I do believe was initially drawn . . . by the Florida Supreme Court . . . as a crazy, meandering district.

Wasn't it?

No, it was done by the Florida Legislature after the 1990 U.S. Census.

[Tacachale]

If the Roberts Court was "activist" in the slightest it would have taken the logically pure approach and struck down ObamaCare instead of bending over backwards to defer to the political process. It was, in my opinion, a good brake on the out-of-control judicial activism that has been going on for years -- left, right & otherwise. Make the politicians do their job, and correct their mistakes. We aren't slaves to the federal or state Supreme Courts and they are *both* getting a little too big for their britches.

Corrine's meandering district, by the way, I do believe was initially drawn . . . by the Florida Supreme Court . . . as a crazy, meandering district.

Wasn't it?

So, now the accepted conventional wisdom is that rather than snake down the Saint Johns River the Jacksonville district will spread westward and likely eliminate Gwen Graham's district, put the Tallahassee area into two CDs -- one looking west to Pensacola and one east to Jacksonville. Okay.

I doubt if this "victory" is going to work out the way Democrats suspect.

We're probably going to lose an African American member of Congress in Florida and pick up a Puerto Rican member of Congress from the Orange County / Osceola County area. Hopefully, black people are paying attention. All I know for sure is that an angry Corrine is something to behold.

No, her district was drawn by the legislature as a method of creating several safe republican districts by importing significant portions of democrats from each of them into a single democratic supermajority district.

Yep, Republicans in alliance with minority Democrats disaffected by the lack of black and Hispanic representation under the Democrat purview. at the time. Go figure.