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In reply to the discussion: This gerrymandering HAS GOT TO STOP! ( The 20 Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts) [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)The mess we are still trying to clean up was created in 1998, an off-year election that ushered Jeb Bush into the FL State House...just in time for the census of 2000 and then the manipulation of the 2000 presidential election. I am haunted by a news clip of an interview with GWB just prior to the election, he was on a plane and was asked about FL...he said, I am not worried about FL, Jeb is taking care of FL.
Voter rolls purged, polling places moved without prior notice, closed without prior notice and no notification as where the voters could go...
the hanging chads crap was just a smoke screen cover for the real voter suppression that went on quietly and behind the scenes. Meanwhile, everything was redistricted in the state, including state legislative districts....Jeb was the first Republican governor to EVER win a second term in FL...now look....2 terms for him, then Crist and now Scott....
I have no respect for anyone who sits out an election...in fact I rather despise them.