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Senate bogs down over racial makeup of redistricting map
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — An attempt to adopt newly fashioned Senate district lines in response to a court order bogged down Tuesday as lawmakers clamored for political information on how the new lines would look and whether they provided enough protection... -
Local senators split on Parent Trigger
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelGee, it was almost like the Old Days, when legislators voted on personal conviction instead of straight party lines. Almost. The 20-20 tie this afternoon in the Florida Senate that at least for now killed the Parent Trigger bill saw local senators split,... -
What’s in a number? In redistricting, a lot of politics
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The debate over re-drawing the Florida Senate's political lines has come down to numbers, but not just racial breakdowns or election returns. The Senate Reapportionment Committee began its second day of debate Wednesday where it left... -
Senate passes redistricting map amid complaints it benefits the GOP
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelUPDATES w/ Florida Democratic Party response By Aaron Deslatte, Tallahassee Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate voted 31-6 Thursday to pass its response to a high-court rebuke of its once-a-decade chore of redistricting, despite objections... -
Florida House takes up re-drawn Senate districts
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – A House panel on Monday put its stamp of approval on a new-look Senate map that would appear to provide less advantage to Republicans and incumbents. The Florida Supreme Court had ordered lawmakers to come back into a 15-day “... -
Senate lawyers blast back at redistricting critics
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate's legal team is shooting back at attacks on the chamber's latest attempt to re-draw its political districts, arguing the criticism from voting-rights groups and the Florida Democratic Party is an attempt to re-... -
Scott names ’stand your ground’ task force
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelGov. Rick Scott today named 15 members of a task force to study possible changes in the state's “stand your ground” law in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Miami teenager who was shot by Neighborhood Watch captain George... -
Supremes take a more skeptical view of redistricting challenge the second time
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – Critics arguing state lawmakers still didn’t get it right when they re-drew Senate districts for the second time ran into a tough crowd Friday: the Florida Supreme Court, charged with reviewing legislators’ handiwork.... -
How Senate redistricting proposals would affect Seminole
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelMike Ertel, the ever-helpful elections supervisor in Seminole County, has looked at the proposed congressional and Senate redistricting maps put out today by the Senate Reapportionment Committee and produced a quick look at how his home county would be... -
Siplin: Lawmakers can’t do away with my district
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — As the politically cantankerous redistricting process cranks up, Senate lawmakers are starting to quarrel over the publicly drawn maps the chamber is reviewing — and they haven't even drawn any lawmaker-submitted maps yet. During... -
Senate advancing a re-tooled property tax amendment for 2012
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Sen. David Simmons is advancing a re-worked and slightly less generous commercial property tax constitutional amendment than the version the Florida Legislature last spring voted to place on the 2012 ballot. The amendment (HJR 381)... -
Here are the real conservatives in Florida
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelThe American Conservative Union, which has long ranked the most and least conservative members of Congress, has set its sights on the Florida Legislature. You can read the full report here. The group based its ranking on how legislators voted on nearly...
Mar 20, 2012
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