Happy 4th: Floridians, Please Support the Fair Redistricting State Constitutional Amendment

by Deb Cupples |   Happy Fourth of July.  On this day, I cannot help but think about patriotic duties: one of which is preserving our nation's bedrock principle of one person one vote.

If you're a Floridian, you may have noticed that our congressional and legislative districts were badly gerrymandered.  One result: for the past 10 years, our politicians' essentially have been choosing voters, instead of the other way around.

Please visit Fair Districts for Florida -- and consider downloading, signing, and submitting a petition for a state constitutional amendment that would require fair standards for redistricting. 

It's a NON-PARTISAN group, whose efforts will benefit voters from both parties.  Whichever political party may have control now, that control could be reversed in the future -- thus, denying millions of Florida voters a voice -- unless fair standards are applied to the process now.

Comments

[flowerplough]

RE: one person one vote.

"...once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."

Heinlein, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"

[Deb]

Hi Flowerplough, How are you?

I'm guessing from your response that -- if you are or were a Floridian -- you'd enjoy having districts so gerrymandered (yes, one of them even cuts across the state), so that your party's vote would be so diluted as to ensure that --even if your party were in the majority -- it would never control even one house of the state legislature?

Remember, the unfairly drawn districts can cut both ways.

[Flowerplough]

Gerrymandered districts matter little. It's already over, just takes a while for a representative republic to die. As in the non-Tytler non-quote, once a significant portion of the populace, most of 'em liberal Democrats, feels no shame in voting themselves increasing shares of the public treasury, said treasury will cease to exist, and when the government's broke long enough, it falls apart, or falls prey to Caesar.