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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 02:35 PM Nov 2014

Emails Reveal How GOP Consultants Secretly Gerrymandered Florida

....newly released emails published Sunday shed light on the lengths those political consultants went to tweak the state's congressional districts in favor of the GOP despite a gerrymandering ban.

The emails, which were obtained by the Naples Daily News and the Miami Herald, detail how "paranoid" consultants with the GOP consulting firm Data Targeting kept their efforts to redraw some of the state's congressional maps under wraps. Earlier this month the Florida Supreme Court ordered that the documents, which were a part of the original lawsuit accused Republicans of manipulating Florida's political map, must be unsealed. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas upheld that order on Friday, according to the Naples Daily News.

One exchange showed that the consultants discussed a map proposal that would kick longtime U.S. Rep. Bill Young (R-FL), who died last November, out of his seat.

"If you have to have a minority-majority seat, this does it," Anthony Pedicini, a Tampa-based political consultant, wrote of a redistricting plan that he said would also "retire Bill Young," according to the Naples Daily News.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/emails-detail-florida-gop-gerrymandering-effort
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/politics/see-the-exclusive-redistricting-documents-map-florida_58588708

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Emails Reveal How GOP Consultants Secretly Gerrymandered Florida (Original Post) kpete Nov 2014 OP
Ooo Faux pas Nov 2014 #1
Gee, being that redistricting is illegal in FL louis-t Nov 2014 #2
Won't happen unless the Justice Department gets involved RockaFowler Nov 2014 #3
And people wonder why the GOP widened its majority in the House. Octafish Nov 2014 #4

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
2. Gee, being that redistricting is illegal in FL
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 02:56 PM
Nov 2014

the repugs sure spent a lot of time, money and energy trying to redistrict. Think any of them will go to jail for their unconstitutional behavior? Maybe they'll just eventually be forced from office and live off their fat pensions for the rest of their sorry lives.

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
3. Won't happen unless the Justice Department gets involved
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:16 PM
Nov 2014

Bondi won't let this go any further. She's a Republican and wants to help these guys to further her career. It's a real shame!!

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. And people wonder why the GOP widened its majority in the House.
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:50 PM
Nov 2014

Thank you, kpete! The pukes can't win without cheating. They know it and are ashamed of it. When they have to hide what they do, it means they also are guilty of something.

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